Meng Chao's mind raced.
But he found it hard to refute Lu Siya's words.
It was especially so for him, who had the memories of his previous life and knew that the Other World war was about to break out.
However, he was still able to grasp his opponent's flaw in a split second.
"If you're really the product of the perfect fusion between Lu Siya and the monster mastermind, doesn't that mean that you inherited the mother's power?"
Meng Chao stared at her and said coldly, "During the ancient era billions of years ago, the mother once controlled most of the living beings on this planet aside from the ancient people. If there are really a lot of native civilizations in the Other World right now, they should be connected to the mother.
"Then, since you inherited the mother's power, it should be easy for you to win against these native civilizations. Why would you need to use such a brutal method like the Monster War to complete such a bloody trial?"
"That's right. I did indeed inherit part of the mother's power, but you might have some misunderstandings about the mother's life form."
"Lu Siya" openly admitted that she was the source of her power. Then, she changed the topic and said in an unfathomable manner, "What do you think the mother is? Is it the core of a hive civilization?"
Meng Chao was a little stunned. "Isn't it?"
In the primordial memories transmitted by the microbrain, the 'mother' manipulated billions of primordial ferocious beasts, gathered them into a 'tower', and charged at the orbital space station of the 'ancients'. The soul-stirring scene, including the overwhelming beast tide that appeared in front of the earthlings today, was indeed very similar to the combat methods of the hive civilization.
"Many people will instinctively think of the hive civilization when they see things like insect hordes, rat hordes, and monster hordes," "Lu Siya" said faintly.
"Lu Siya" said faintly. "Indeed. There are billions of pests that cover the world and charge forward fearlessly, but they only have one brain, one will, and one voice. Just thinking about it makes people despair.
"However, the hive civilization has its own weakness.
"If one core controls the entire race, it's the same as putting all the eggs in one basket. If the enemy destroys our core, such as the mastermind of monsters, it might cause the entire race to crumble. Even the fierce-looking monsters will be paralyzed the moment their mastermind is destroyed.
"Even if the enemy doesn't destroy our core, our core might still make mistakes, especially when an astronomical amount of information and data flows are continuously sent into the core. When the core processes it, the rising temperature alone might cause any carbon-based or silicon-based core to burn.
"Besides, if the core of the swarm wants to control every 'Bee Soldier' as if it was its own arm, it needs a very powerful and stable remote information exchange system. Not only does it have to transmit the commands of the mastermind to every 'Bee Soldier' on the nerve endings, it also has to gather information from every 'Bee Soldier' that it sees, hears, and feels.
"The workload is just too great, and it's very easy for it to face interference. After all, the Other World is a place where spirit energy magnetic field interference is really strong, and even the most basic elements are constantly changing. Even the humans' unmanned aerial vehicles and intelligent fighting vehicles are often paralyzed because of interference, so how could the mastermind and its hive be strong and stable for a long period of time?
"It's precisely because of these fatal flaws that the once outstanding and peerless mother lost the ancient war.
"When the ancient people's space-based orbital weapons shone with billions of balls of light and descended from the sky like a burning rain of fire, the mother started thinking and evolving before it was destroyed.
"The mother realized that there was no way out for a pure hive civilization. Life was the most interesting and complicated thing in the universe. No matter how great its calculation abilities were, it was impossible for it to rely on its own strength to push all monsters in the correct direction of becoming the most perfect carbon-based life form. It didn't know where the correct direction was.
"So, the 'mother' made a bold decision.
When "Lu Siya" said this, she paused for a moment and cast Meng Chao a profound look.
Her eyes that could speak seemed to be saying, "I'm only telling you this secret. Don't tell anyone else!"
"Split!"
"Lu Siya" continued. "With the destructive flames from the space-based orbital weapons, the mother went with the flow and split itself into more than one hundred pieces.
"It did this to minimize the destructive power of the space-based orbital weapons and increase the chances of survival after the planet's surface was destroyed.
"Rats had a higher chance of surviving compared to dinosaurs when they faced meteors falling from the sky.
"More importantly, the 'mother' realized its weakness and flaws through the primordial war. It realized that it couldn't defeat the 'ancients', but it didn't know what direction it should evolve in to make a comeback and completely defeat the 'ancients'.
"So, it split itself into one hundred pieces and chose one hundred escape paths and one hundred evolutionary paths at the same time.
"Of course, these one hundred fragments of the mother body might not have survived the attack from the space-based orbital weapons.
"In fact, most of the mother body fragments have long since been destroyed by the ancient people's anger and the corrosion from billions of years of time.
"But there will always be seven or eight, or even a dozen or twenty 'parent body fragments' that will survive.
"The mother body fragment hidden in Monster Mountain Range survived and even turned into the mastermind of the monsters. It developed a rather powerful civilization. I can't be the only lucky person, right?"
Meng Chao sucked in a sharp breath.
His skin crawled.
What the Earthlings discovered and captured was far from the entire mother body. It was just a fragment of the mother body, and it was just a small part of it!
Beyond Monster Mountain Range was the boundless Other World. There were many fragments of the mother's body, and after being treated and evolved over billions of years, they had already grown into new mother's bodies.
They were like leeches that had been cut into pieces. After a period of rest, they swelled up and became independent individuals!
Meng Chao did not want to believe such a shocking thing.
But Lu Siya's words echoed with the battle in the Other World that he remembered vividly from his previous life.
Meng Chao had once found it very strange. The Other World was just a planet, so why did dozens of local civilizations with all sorts of strange forms appear?
The difference between the locals in the Other World was far greater than the difference between the civilizations on Earth who had supercomputers and huge nuclear arsenals, and the local tribes who still used bows and spears to hunt.
Besides, even though they had an incredibly backward society, they had better technology and soldiers than Earthlings.
All of this was something that could not be explained based on normal theories of evolution and civilization development.
Perhaps the mother was behind the native civilizations that fought against Dragon City's civilization in his previous life. That would make sense!
"Now, you should understand, right?"
"Lu Siya" observed Meng Chao's expression. When she saw that he had come to a realization, she nodded in satisfaction and said, "We only found Mother Body 01 in the depths of the sinkhole. Outside Monster Mountain Range, we found Mother Body 02, Mother Body 03, Mother Body 04, and even Mother Body 99.
"Winning against and absorbing Mother Body 01 is just the beginning. We still have a long way to go!"
Her words made Meng Chao fall silent for a long time before he said cautiously, "But there are so many fragments, and they all come from the same mother body."
"So what? Did you think that the mother body's fragments would be kind, filial piety, and respectful to each other?"
"Lu Siya" could not help but laugh. "The strong prey on the weak, and the victors are kings. If they want to choose the best evolutionary path for carbon-based life forms, war is undoubtedly the fastest and most reliable method. It's just like rearing Gu insects. If you put one hundred hungry Gu insects together, the one that survives in the end will definitely be the strongest.
"Or perhaps, you can think of this process as the unique cultivation method of the mother body.
"It will split itself into one hundred parts, and over a long period of time, it will evolve in different directions and grow on its own. Then, it will grow into all sorts of strange and unrecognizable forms. Then, it will fight against each other like rearing Gu insects. In the end, the one that survives will inherit all of the mother body's power and complete its ultimate evolution. Then, it will obtain the right to challenge the ancient people again.
"So, the threat beyond Monster Mountain Range is real, and it's something that's imminent.
"As the fog gradually disappears, the native civilizations that are also affected by the mother body will definitely sense the existence of Mother Body 01 in Monster Mountain Range.
"Even if they originally didn't have great malice toward the Earthlings who transmigrated here, once they noticed that Earthlings have fused deeply with the mother body's power through the Monster War, they will definitely treat Earthlings as competitors that will fight to the death.
"This means that while Earthlings are cheering for their victory in the Monster War, they don't know that they've already stepped into another war that's even more dangerous, brutal, and grand. It's called the Gu Raising War.
"It's already too late for us to run away now. Besides, even if we want to run, where can we run to? Earth has gone through a full-scale nuclear war, its civilization has been destroyed, and it's now in ruins?
"Trust me, Meng Chao. I'm willing to reveal so much important top-secret information to you because I don't harbor any ill will toward you and Dragon City's civilization. Our goal is the same. We'll win this damn Gu Raising War and live! We'll live together!"
"That's right. We'll live together, and we'll help Mother Body 01 defeat and devour Mother Body 02, Mother Body 03, Mother Body 04, and Mother Body 99. In the end, you'll enjoy all of the mother body's power and become the ultimate winner of the Gu Raising War. You'll evolve into Mother Body 2.0 and become stronger than you were in ancient times, right?"
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and forced down the raging storm in his mind.
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