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In her memories, Lin continued to observe the lives of the aptitude users who came to Mars. After coming here, other than establishing a base, the most important thing was to contact Ershi.
But they couldn't do that, because they found that their communication devices were all malfunctioning.
At first, they thought it was caused by the environment of Mars, saying that there was something like a 'magnetic field' here.
Then, they began to look for places where the 'magnetic field' didn't affect them too much. Because this was in her memories, Lin couldn't tell whether the 'magnetic field' they mentioned actually existed or not, but they were definitely affected by some kind of interference … and the communication devices themselves had many problems.
However, these aptitude users didn't seem to care too much about it.
After all, they had plenty of supplies and didn't encounter any major problems, so the aptitude users were still in a good mood and began to live here. As for the problem of communication, they could try to find a place without any magnetic field, or wait for Ershi's supply aircrafts to arrive and then try to contact him.
Their way of life was very similar to the aircrafts that came here later, which was to create a greenhouse on the ground and grow edible plants.
At the same time, they also had to adapt to the environment here.
At first, they all wore protective suits because they couldn't be sure whether they could adapt or not, but now, many of them had begun to try not to rely on protective suits.
They didn't directly take off their protective suits, but instead turned off some of their protective suits' functions, such as temperature control. By experiencing the feeling of low temperature, they could slowly adapt to this environment.
At the same time, they also had to adapt to low oxygen levels.
Lin felt that although their ability to adapt was related to their bodies, it was the … microorganisms inside their bodies that played the biggest role.
The rock skin Lin found had many of these microorganisms inside it. They weren't part of the rock skin's cells, but they could provide many functions, such as providing oxygen.
Although there was no detailed information about the process of 'creating aptitude users' in her memories. Lin felt that the president had put a lot of these microorganisms inside the aptitude users' bodies, which caused their bodies to change greatly.
Not only were these microorganisms not attacked by the immune system, they would also rapidly change according to the aptitude user's body needs.
For example, if they noticed that the aptitude user's oxygen intake had decreased, they would increase their oxygen production. Lin felt that this was how they cooperated with the aptitude users' lives.
Soon, some of the aptitude users with good physiques adapted to the harsh environment on Mars.
In fact, the normal temperature of Mars was about the same as some of the lower temperatures in Ershi. Lin had seen this from the information she had read, so it wasn't difficult for her to adapt to the temperature.
Also, things like oxygen and pressure were not so easy to get used to.
However. This group of Metahumans was indeed exceptionally talented … Lin believed that they would eventually be able to adapt to this environment, but there was one thing that they couldn't adapt to.
That was when one would starve if there was no food.
Although aptitude users were planting plants, there were very few of them. They mainly relied on the food they brought, and this food would be finished sooner or later.
At that time, they would have to rely on Ershi for food.
Originally, Er Shen would send food and various items to Mars every once in a while for the ability users to live, so they just had to wait for the next batch of items to arrive.
Moreover, the items that were originally scheduled to be sent out for the first time weren't just food and the like. There were also some small transport aircrafts that could allow ability users to send some of the things on Mars back. They wanted to use this to contact Ershi.
But obviously, there was a problem …
After waiting for the items to arrive, the aptitude users found that the items hadn't arrived. Moreover, the landing places of the items were all within a certain range, so they couldn't find those items at all.
At first, they thought that the delivery time might have been delayed for some reason, but they had waited for hundreds of days and nights.
The food reserves that they had brought … were also almost finished.
Naturally, they began to argue. In fact, the aptitude users themselves were divided into 'classes'. The stronger ones would generally look down on the weaker ones. However, they didn't have any reason to fight before, but now it was different.
To seize food. And to reduce the consumption of food, the aptitude users began to fight with each other.
Although there weren't many of them, they were divided into many groups. Each group had about ten aptitude users. Generally speaking, it was a group formed by several of their best friends.
It seemed to be the same situation as the group of escapees later on …
However, the group war between the aptitude users didn't last for too long. Their battles were quite fierce, and basically took place in the small colony they lived in.
Only one group escaped from the colony after a few of their members were killed. The others rarely escaped. They each occupied a few houses in the colony as their 'territory'. They kept attacking the territories of other aptitude users.
At the end of this war, an aptitude user whose teammates were all killed angrily held the idea of perishing together. He blew up the greenhouse in the colony, and the remaining aptitude users completely lost their food.
However, their battle wasn't over yet. In the end, only the most powerful group was left.
This group originally had the largest number of aptitude users. There were a total of nineteen aptitude users, but now there were only ten left.
These ten left the colony that was destroyed in the battle. They brought the last of the resources they obtained from the victory of the battle and slowly moved forward in the vast desert … but it wasn't time for them to perish yet.
They found … a water source.
This was a cave. When they came in, they found that the inside of the cave was quite humid. Soon, they found that there was water in the cave.
They also found that the water had a lot of nutrients. Some of the creatures they brought with them could rapidly grow in the water. Although the greenhouse where they grew was destroyed, there were still a lot of 'seeds' left.
'Seeds' didn't just refer to the seeds of plants. There were also a lot of algae and other microorganisms, as well as the eggs of some creatures. They drank the water here, and at the same time, used the water to raise a lot of creatures.
The excitement from killing a lot of their own kind slowly dissipated because of the stability of life …
At the same time, because the number of males and females was just right, they also began to try to reproduce. They thought that they needed to replenish their numbers and then develop. Sooner or later, they would go back to Ershi to take a look and see why the items hadn't been delivered.
They brought a lot of small armor for the newborn babies. One of the original purposes of sending the aptitude users to Mars was to test whether they could reproduce in this environment.
So, they prepared a lot of infant armor. These armors were considered the most useless things, so they were basically intact in the previous battle. Now, they were very useful …
At first, a newborn baby died because it couldn't adapt to the environment, but the other babies adapted to the environment.
The babies could 'inherit' those special microorganisms from their mothers. Moreover, the aptitude users quickly found that after the babies grew up, their ability to adapt to the environment was stronger than theirs.
There was even a baby that grew the fastest that could completely take off the armor and move for a period of time. This made the aptitude users feel quite surprised.
But this also made them think that they could slowly 'conquer' this world!
The situation after that … was very simple.
The number of babies grew more and more, and there was enough food. Because the speed of those edible things in the water was much faster than the aptitude users.
Moreover, the aptitude users' physical strength was very good. Continuous reproduction wasn't a big problem. Under their care, the babies grew bigger and bigger, adapting to life in this world.
However, the aptitude users grew older and older. Although their physical strength was strengthened a lot, their lifespan didn't seem to have been strengthened. Instead, it was shorter than the normal Ershi residents.
They told their offspring to find a way to return to Ershi and see what was going on …
The first batch of offspring received education, so their intelligence and behavior were about the same as the first aptitude users. However, there seemed to be more and more problems later on. The first batch of offspring didn't give much education to the next batch of offspring …
That was why Lin found that after the second and third generation, the babies became less and less educated. It wasn't that they didn't know how to educate, but they simply didn't want to. Instead, they ran out of the cave to explore and only returned after a long time. Later on, they even … let the babies eat the things in the water by themselves, not helping to feed them.
Therefore, after several generations, the babies didn't inherit the knowledge of the previous generation, and their behavior became more and more like wild creatures.
Slowly, they became completely wild. They didn't like to stand and move, and at the same time, they forgot about Ershi.
Lin felt that this phenomenon of not wanting to be educated might be caused by the microorganisms …
Although their knowledge had disappeared, their physical strength was getting stronger. The babies born in the later generations didn't need to wear any protective clothing at all. They could directly resist the environment here, and their skin became like stone statues.
This was also related to the microorganisms in their bodies. Lin felt that these microorganisms had modified the aptitude users' circulatory system, turning them from 'Ershi residents' into 'Rockskins'.
However, their intelligence didn't change much. Although there was a lot of 'inbreeding' between them, their intelligence didn't change much. This was because Lin noticed that the brains of the Rockskins she caught were about the same as the residents of Atlan or Mars.
They lived like this for a while, until now …
Now, they were once again exposed to Ershi's mechanical technology …
This seemed to awaken some … memories deep in the Rockskins' minds. (To be continued.)
PS: Thank you ~ Scorching Dawn of the Sky ~ 1888!
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