Through the mother's perspective, Meng Chao saw countless organisms that looked like algae and mollusks squirming slowly between the folds that rose and fell like raging waves. They were struggling desperately.
They were like the marine creatures that had just landed on land when all living things on Earth were germinating. Their forms were rather primitive and crude.
But amidst the primitive, crude, and inefficient organs, some very delicate, complicated, and fierce organs would pop up out of nowhere.
For example, rows of densely packed fangs grew out of their spineless, soft bodies.
It was as if a nautilus had grown strong tentacles and was crawling on the ground like a hermit crab.
Or, they looked like a wriggling carpet of fungi. Their surface was covered with scarlet eyes that emitted intense light.
These creatures were all aberrations that nature could never evolve into.
Meng Chao reckoned that they were the descendants of monsters who had managed to survive the ancient war.
Although the primordial ferocious beasts were not extinct, they had suffered from the intense radiation and serious pollution. Their 'evolutionary roadmap' had been completely disrupted. After thousands of years of staggering evolution, it was already a miracle of life that they could grow into what they were today.
Meng Chao sensed his mother's joy.
It was an incomparably pure joy for this "miracle of life".
For the sake of these clumsy, ugly, but incredibly precious little lives, the 'mother' did not hesitate to spend the spirit energy it had accumulated for hundreds of years to stimulate its tentacles to grow faster and spread them to the places where the deformed creatures gathered.
"Come, throw yourself into my arms!"
Meng Chao sensed that the mother was releasing powerful pheromones to the deformed creatures through the tentacles that crawled out of the ground like sprouts. "I can help you restore your evolutionary map and reorganize your messy gene chains so that you can return to your former appearance and turn into a monster horde that can cover the entire world.
"Then, in the proudest manner, we will roar in the sky, break all the shackles that seal us, and devour the light of billions of stars!"
Pheromones swept across the land like a storm of lightning.
All the deformed creatures shuddered at the same time.
Although tens of millions of years had passed, and they had become unrecognizable freaks.
However, in the deepest part of the broken gene strands, the glory that once dominated the land, broke the sky, and faced the stars a long time ago was still stimulating their nerve endings like an extremely weak but inextinguishable flame.
The deformed creatures turned in the direction of the Mother's sprout.
It shook its body, waved its tentacles, blinked its eyes, and knocked its fangs.
It was as if they were prostrating themselves in worship.
A new neural network was being generated.
After thousands of years, the 'mother' had found the nerve ports of those abnormal creatures again and connected them to their eyes, ears, and other sensory organs. It now had more and more 'sound channels' and 'perspectives'.
Just as the "mother" was raring to go, ready to go all out.
The deformed creatures from all directions were like pilgrims, staggering and gathering towards the area where the "mother" was.
Suddenly, something that no one could have expected happened.
A cluster of sparkling diamond-shaped crystals fell from the sky!
It looked like the military buildings of the ancient people in the Primeval War. They were crystal hedgehogs with sharp edges and thorns all over their surfaces.
But they were larger, more dazzling, and … colder than the military buildings of the ancient people.
The military buildings of the ancient people were translucent. One could vaguely see the crisscrossing tunnels inside. Many ancient people were controlling weapons inside.
The diamond-shaped crystals, however, were emitting flames that were more dazzling than sunlight all the time. They could burn the retinas and the skin of carbon-based creatures.
What was weird was that while it was glowing, it did not give off a scorching feeling. Instead, it gave off a bone-chilling, lifeless feeling.
There was not a single ancient person in it.
The diamond-shaped crystals were like some sort of automatic killing machine that was used to carry out 'cleaning' missions.
Through a preset program, they could search, hunt, and destroy in a fully automatic manner.
They had been hunting deformed creatures on this desolate land for thousands of years.
The moment the diamond-shaped crystals appeared in midair, the deformed creatures felt instinctive fear.
The bioelectricity of extreme fear gathered into a cold tide, making even the 'mother' shudder.
Without waiting for the 'mother' to give an order, the deformed creatures fled in all directions crazily.
But they were all products of the wrong evolution. They did not have much speed or defense.
No matter how they flapped their tentacles, wriggled, or flapped their short and clumsy wings, they could only run several hundred meters away.
The diamond-shaped crystals spun quickly and let out sharp shrieks, like the grim grin of the God of Death.
Rays that could be twisted and entangled at will shot out from the depths of the crystal, like whips made of flames.
Every time the light whip lashed out, it could literally suck the life out of a deformed creature.
All the deformed creatures that were entangled by the whips of light would age and wither at a visible speed.
In just a few seconds, it had turned into a shriveled skeleton, an empty shell, and pale white foam.
The diamond-shaped crystals, however, seemed to have transformed the life of the deformed creatures into pure energy.
Its whips of light grew longer and longer, and the shrieks grew louder and louder. The light on its body became more and more dazzling and dazzling.
In the beginning, there were only seven or eight whips of light that were no more than dozens of meters long, but they continued splitting and extending until there were more than one hundred whips of light. The hunting range covered a circular area of several thousand meters, and it only took dozens of minutes.
All the deformed creatures within the 'mother's' field of vision were transformed into the purest energy by the diamond-shaped crystals.
The 'mother' could clearly sense the threat of death.
It was just like the billions of balls of light that bloomed above its head during the ancient war.
At the moment the diamond-shaped crystals appeared, the 'mother' cut off the nerve connection with all the deformed creatures.
It also quietly retracted the tentacles that had extended out of the ground like tender shoots.
It used spirit energy madly to stimulate its tentacles to secrete a large amount of adhesive liquid.
The adhesive liquid quickly hardened and turned into a form that was good for digging.
Then, all the tentacles swung together in an attempt to escape deeper underground to avoid being hunted by the diamond-shaped crystals.
But at the moment the diamond-shaped crystals descended, they noticed that all the deformed creatures had formed a 'concentric circle' and were worshipping the center of the circle.
From there, it determined that there was definitely something lurking under the center of the circle.
It had devoured so many deformed creatures in one go just to store up war resources so that it could start a war where it would dig three feet underground.
The more than one hundred whips of light from the diamond-shaped crystals returned to its body.
After accumulating strength for a short period of time, it turned into eight whips that were five times thicker and thirty times longer. They shot out at lightning speed and pierced the ground.
The whips of light were like living creatures, and they cut through the ground with an unstoppable force.
Soon, they discovered signs of the 'mother' and chased after it.
The 'mother' charged left and right and searched for every crack underground. Then, like a mollusk that was scared witless, it squeezed its way in without a care for the consequences.
Fortunately, the 'mother' only had the soft tissues and tentacles that surrounded the microbrain left. It had astonishing mobility and invisibility.
The huge body that could not move, including the brain, was still in a state where its life force was cut off and it was in deep hibernation. It was not within the hunting range of the diamond-shaped crystals.
Even so, there were a few times when the whips of light nearly caught up to the microbrain.
It had to cut off its tail to survive and abandon a lot of the limbs and tentacles that it had spent decades growing.
The thrilling chase and dangerous escape were exciting and dangerous, and it did not lose to the ancient war when the monster horde was raging.
Both sides fought against each other for an unknown amount of time, and they had practically used up their last drop of spirit energy.
In the end, the microbrain abandoned 99% of its active tissues.
Then, it risked its life and crawled into the magma underground.
Its surface was completely carbonized to resist the invasion of the high temperature. Only then did it manage to preserve a bit of brain tissue at its core.
The damage dealt to the 'mother' this time was the same as the damage dealt to the space-based orbital weapons during the ancient war.
The environment on the surface was really bad. The creatures were primitive and deformed, and the terrifying diamond-shaped crystals were sweeping around the entire planet.
The last microbrain only had 1% of its active tissues left.
For the time being, it could not even gather enough spirit energy to repair the microbrain.
The 'mother' could only choose to hibernate once more.
It hoped that the cruel era that was incredibly unfriendly to carbon-based intelligent life forms would soon pass.
Meng Chao descended once more, and he seemed to be thinking quietly in the frozen darkness.
"Just what is the diamond-shaped crystal that chased after the 'mother'? Is it a war machine left behind by the ancient people?"
Meng Chao mumbled to himself. "Since the environment on this planet is too bad, it's not suitable for the ancient people to develop their civilization for millions of years or even longer. So, the ancient people left for the time being and left behind these war machines so that they could act as scavengers and get rid of all the monster descendants and all the cells in the 'mother'?"
This seemed to be a logical explanation.
But why was it that after a long time had passed, not only were the monsters' genes not destroyed, they seemed to have fused into the bodies of many of the Other World's intelligent races?
The ancient people had yet to return to the planet, and the diamond-shaped crystal that was acting as the scavengers disappeared.
Was there some sort of story behind this? Or was he wrong, and the diamond-shaped crystal was not left behind by the ancient people? Instead, it had another origin?
No matter what, Meng Chao did not like this sort of cold, lifeless, fully-automatic war machine that tried to "clean" everything.
For some reason, his hatred for the diamond-shaped crystal was even greater than that of the monsters that bared their teeth, had savage faces, tried to devour the land and the galaxy, but were filled with great vitality and showed billions of possibilities to evolve.
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