Were there any carbon-based lifeforms in the world that could eat a large amount of metal?
There did not seem to be any on Earth in the twenty-second century.
But there were similar records in myths and legends.
Meng Chao remembered that during the Earth Open Day organized by Blue Home, he had read a few books from Earth in Dragon City's library.
They recorded the characteristics of the Chiyou race in ancient times.
It was said that the Chiyou race had the bodies of beasts and spoke human languages. They had bronze heads and iron foreheads. They ate sand and stones.
It was also said that Chiyou ate iron and stones. They had a human body and ox hooves. They had four eyes and six hands. Their hair looked like swords, and they had horns on their heads.
These descriptions matched the characteristics of the Turanians.
It was too ridiculous for them to eat iron ores and stones and grow metal heads and limbs.
It made a lot of sense for them to eat Mandala Fruits that contained a large amount of metal and store the liquid metal in their bodies so that they could be activated during battle.
Even though the legends of the Chiyou race were strange and ridiculous, Earthlings were not the original carbon-based lifeforms on Earth and did not evolve naturally.
But if Earthlings were truly not the original carbon-based intelligent race on Earth and did not evolve naturally, but the "ancients" and "mothers" of the Other World, then what if Earthlings were really not the original carbon-based intelligent race on Earth?
At the very least, they were a brand new species created by the interference of the "ancient people" and "mother bodies" on Earth.
Then, perhaps the existence of the Chiyou race was real?
Also, it was possible that they were closely related to the Turan Civilization in an alternate world.
This was not a thought that Meng Chao had on a whim.
He had been thinking about this problem for a long time.
Because as the memories from his previous life gradually became clearer, he suddenly realized that many of the intelligent lifeforms in the Other World were similar to the ancient myths and folklore on Earth.
For example, the elves.
For example, the dwarves.
For example, the skeleton soldiers and vampire monsters.
For example, the lizard-like dragons that had huge wings and could control metal.
He could find similar things in the myths and legends of various regions on Earth.
This included the superhumans, awakening, cultivation, and other concepts in Dragon City. In truth, the ancient eastern civilization had left behind a lot of similar records over a long period of time.
Hence, when the transmigrators built their cultivation system, they unknowingly learned from history and used a lot of ancient words and terms.
Speaking of words and terms, Meng Chao noticed that the languages of the Other World were very similar to the languages on Earth, regardless of whether it was the Turan language used by the high-grade orcs, the Holy Light language used by the Land Illuminated Forever by the Holy Light, or the Frost language and Abyssal language used by the colder Northland and Great Rift Valley.
Of course, the specific vocabulary and pronunciation were different.
However, there was no essential difference in the entire language system.
With superhumans' advanced analysis and simulation abilities, as well as their ability to control the muscles in their throat and their tongues, after half a month of intensive training, they were pretty close to the truth.
Across the galaxy, on two habitable planets that were billions of lightyears apart, the language framework of intelligent creatures was exactly the same.
This couldn't be a coincidence.
Meng Chao only thought of three possibilities.
Or, when the Earth was first discovered, the "ancients" or the "mother" didn't just throw "human beings", a carbon-based intelligent life, to Earth.
Instead, he projected a variety of carbon-based intelligent lives, including elves, orcs, and dwarves.
Then, they would start a competition on Earth to see which carbon-based intelligent life could best adapt to the ecological system on Earth.
Elves, orcs, and dwarves naturally had powerful inborn talents.
But they had a fatal problem.
They used too much energy.
They had to eat a lot of high-calorie food that contained spirit energy to maintain a strong body and a long lifespan.
Throwing them to Earth was the same as throwing a Tyrannosaurus Rex into a desert.
No matter how fierce a Tyrannosaurus Rex was, it would die.
In the end, they were relatively mediocre in all aspects, but they were also relatively well-rounded. Most importantly, their energy consumption was extremely low. The humans who were able to stubbornly survive in a desolate "spiritual energy desert" like Earth won the final victory in this competition of survival.
The second possibility.
In the beginning, there was no such thing as a human.
There were only elves, orcs, dwarves, liches, and other humanoid carbon-based intelligent life forms.
But on Earth, which lacked resources and spirit energy, the harsh environment forced them to continuously evolve.
They gave up on their long lives, sturdy bones, strong muscles, and the ability to release brainwaves and control souls.
In the end, they evolved into modern Earthlings who only retained their basic functions and reduced their energy consumption to the limit.
Meng Chao was rather inclined toward this possibility.
After all, as Dragon Citizens transmigrated back to the Other World, they received the nourishment of abundant spirit energy and listened to the ancient summoning. Many of them obtained unbelievable power again.
Superhumans who had cultivated could also achieve things like having the bodies of beasts, speaking human languages, and having bronze heads and iron foreheads.
This meant that the difference between Earthlings and the locals of the Other World was not as great as many of the fundamentalists imagined.
The Other World locals could control the power.
Earthlings could also control it.
But while Earthlings lacked resources and spirit energy, they relied on their wisdom and willpower to build the modern scientific building. It was not something that all the locals in the Other World could climb.
The third possibility was that Dragon Citizens were not the first batch of people who transmigrated from Earth to the Other World.
Perhaps there had been more than one complicated space-time wormhole between Earth and the Other World a long time ago.
The locals of the Other World had transmigrated to the historical Earth through the wormhole a long time ago and became the main characters of the myths and legends.
Of course, there was a high possibility that Earthlings had transmigrated to the Other World more than one thousand years ago and injected new blood into the culture, traditions, customs, and even the power system there.
The transmigrator might not be a single person.
It might be a city, a country, or even a continent.
There were often records of cities and civilizations mysteriously disappearing in the ancient books on Earth.
For example, the vanished Ancient Loulan.
Or, the more famous one was the Lost Atlantis.
It was said that this mysterious continent known as the Great Western Continent had long since sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
But no one knew whether Ancient Loulan or Atlantis had transmigrated to the Other World a long time ago and became one with the local civilization there.
In any case, Meng Chao was certain of one thing.
Regardless of whether it was the high-grade orcs or the other intelligent life forms in the Other World, they were not miracles of natural evolution. They were products of genetic modification.
Clearly, no matter how amazing nature was, it was impossible for it to naturally evolve into intelligent life forms that were half man and half cow, half man and half horse, half man and half wild boar, or half man and half elephant.
No, it was not just the Turanians themselves.
Meng Chao was also certain that the Mandala Tree, which supported the entire Turan civilization, was not a natural evolution. It was the product of genetic engineering.
Plants that evolved naturally could not produce fruits that were filled with nutrients and spirit energy every season.
It was also impossible for them to pierce their roots more than one hundred meters underground to absorb the metal elements in the mines.
It was also impossible for them to have such great vitality and reproductive abilities that they could dominate and shape the entire Turan Continent's ecosystem.
Meng Chao's alma mater, Dragon City Agricultural University, used genetic technology to modify similar plants.
They hoped to pierce their roots deep underground in the spirit energy ley lines and mines so that they could automatically absorb resources and turn them into nutrients that the human body could absorb.
But with Dragon City's current genetic technology, it was still too early for them to develop amazing plants that were similar to the Mandala Tree.
Meng Chao did not think that the Turan civilization, which was still in the era of the ancient races, had genetic technology that surpassed Dragon City's.
The Mandala Tree and the high-grade orcs should have the same creator.
The former was created to provide solid material protection for the latter.
Then, there was a problem.
Why did the creator want to modify the Mandala Tree into this?
The Mandala Tree was full of treasures. With just one crop, it could practically support the entire civilization.
But why did it have to bloom once every few years and not bear fruit during that time? Why was it so extreme?
Wasn't it better to bloom once a year, bloom half a year, and bear fruit half a year later?
If that was the case, the high-grade orcs would definitely be alarmed and know that they could not completely rely on the Mandala Tree as their only source of food.
They would also understand the principles of storing, saving, and living within their means.
Of course, the number of high-grade orcs could also be controlled at a perfect level so that they would not exceed the supply limit of the Mandala Fruits.
But the Mandala Tree had to bear fruit for more than ten years or even decades, and then bloom for more than ten years or even decades …
Meng Chao could even imagine it with his toes. Because of that, during the ten years or even decades when the Mandala Tree bore fruit in large quantities, the high-grade orcs would definitely reproduce madly. They would be extravagant, and the concept of population control would not exist at all.
When the Mandala Tree bloomed, they would not be able to harvest anything for more than ten years or even decades. They would have to face countless mouths waiting to be fed and countless muscleheads that only knew how to fight aside from eating and reproducing.
How could they solve their problems?
Only war!
'Since the creator could create something as amazing as the Mandala Tree, it's impossible for him not to know what sort of effect the Mandala Tree's characteristics would bring to the civilization it provides sustenance to.
"So, the creator did it on purpose?
"Deliberately creating a barbarian race that would go crazy and start wars every few years?"
"Who created the Devil's Snare tree and the Turan civilization? Why did they do this?
"Is it really what 'Parent 01' said? Is it another piece of the broken 'Parent 02' of the 'Parent' that suffered the bombardment of space-based orbital weapons?"
Meng Chao had a feeling that as long as he figured out the origin behind the Mandala Tree and the Turan civilization, he would be able to understand it.
He discovered the truth behind the Otherworld War.
Then, they would have hope to take drastic measures to prevent the apocalypse from descending. Dragon City would be destroyed.
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