The California wilderness was quiet at night, and the stars twinkled. In the wild, apart from some bison, there was only a group of gerbils that occasionally walked past the bison's feet.
Reid once again arrived at the underground ecosphere. The birth of this place was an accident. Reid first discovered this place because he was tracking a meteorite that fell from outer space.
He only discovered this place when he was looking for meteorites, a completely enclosed and self-contained place. The fallen meteorite seemed to contain some kind of microorganism, perhaps a type of spores with strong purification abilities.
They quickly adapted to the environment here and began to reproduce here. In the beginning, only single-celled organisms could be found here. But today, in just a few short years, fungal organisms, aquatic arthropods, and so on had evolved here.
How long did it take for paramecia to evolve into the first fish on Earth? A million years or two million years? Reid shook his head. He really couldn't bear to destroy this place.
He could feel the rapid evolution of the creatures here. Maybe he could really see the supernatural evolution of a civilized ecosphere.
But today, both Dum and Susan had been opposing the preservation of this ecosphere, especially Dum. Reid said, "If it doesn't work, we'll hand it over to the country!"
Dum scoffed. "Hand it over to the country? Let a group of guys who are slower to react and think more about politics manage this place? That'll probably be an even more terrifying disaster. Have you seen too much Men in Black? Or do you really think the government has a police detective codenamed [J]? "
Destroying this place was the best explanation for Earth. If a group of unknown species suddenly rushed to the surface one day and competed with humans and Earth's original creatures for dominance on Earth … Then Reid, who started this evolutionary crisis, would be the culprit.
Reid wasn't someone who wouldn't listen to advice. In fact, he had just been hot-headed all these years. He had been blinded by the possibility of winning the Nobel Prize in Biology.
But in today's argument with Dum, Reid realized that he seemed to have drilled into a dead end. He sighed and looked at the drugs in his hand. One was a growth drug, and the other was a lock-in drug.
Even if I have to destroy this place, at least let me try the ability of these drugs. Fortunately, after studying for so long. Reid had already made a decision. He unsealed the growth drug.
… …
Captain Skulu and his crew used the shapeshifting characteristics of the Skulu to transform themselves into the native creatures here, some kind of small rodent (gerbil). Then, he followed Reid into the underground ecosystem.
This was an attempt to evolve the biosphere in a semi-closed state. The captain was relieved. If that was the case, then it was understandable. It seemed that although Earth's civilization was very advanced, and even an ordinary student could conduct an experiment on the evolution of the ecosystem, it had not yet reached the state of a deity-level civilization that made people despair.
It seemed that the Earth civilization was still at the level of a level-1 civilization in some aspects of science, but some of its technologies had already reached the level of the Skrulls. This was a civilization that was developing by leaps and bounds! Captain Skulu made his own judgment, but it was hard to say whether it was right or wrong.
It should be said that Susan's "Men in Black" seriously deviated the Captain's train of thought. Until now, he still felt that it was a documentary.
However, even if it was just a semi-closed ecosystem evolution study, the captain felt that the civilization level of this planet was very high. Especially when the gerbil they had transformed into approached the underground pond, they saw those arthropod-like creatures that looked like the larvae of the Alien facehuggers.
The Skrulls were so scared that they almost changed back into their original forms. The adjutant whispered to the captain in a trembling voice, "Alien … Alien! I see it, I see it! That's the larvae of the Alien! "
The captain was also shocked. "How is that possible?! Shouldn't these things be dead? The New Star Army had clearly exterminated all the aberrations. Even if there were some remaining Aliens, they were expelled into the negative space to fight the Zergs. Why are there still these things here?! "
Aliens were famous in the universe. These things were difficult to kill and could survive in a vacuum. Their only purpose was to reproduce and kill. It was unknown whether this thing had evolved naturally or was created by some mad scientist. But it had caused great harm to the universe for thousands of years.
The Skrulls had been tortured by the Aliens, and several Alien invasions and Zerg invasions had almost disintegrated the empire. So although this was already a part of history, many Skrulls still couldn't forget this part of history.
Especially the alien. In the study of the Skulu people, this was a creature that they had to learn. They had also issued a kill order. Any Skrulls who saw the Alien and its larvae had the obligation to kill them. If they didn't have the ability to kill them, then they had to report to the imperial army, and the army would go and encircle them.
And what did the captain see on Earth now? The scientific design of a student's graduation thesis actually included raising Aliens? The captain didn't believe that the people on Earth didn't know about Aliens, because this thing was very well-known in the universe. Since this civilization had communicated with so many alien civilizations (misled by the Men in Black movie), then they must know about Aliens. This was listed as the most dangerous creature in the universe.
And knowing the danger of Aliens, they still raised facehuggers. What were these indigenous people trying to do? The captain suddenly felt that Earth was more dangerous than he had imagined.
He was a little hesitant. Should he kill these three indigenous people and take their identities to live on Earth? Anyway, he absolutely wouldn't dare to become Reid and continue to raise facehuggers. Raising this thing was no different from courting death.
Reid didn't know that his own little pet had made a group of battle-hardened Skrulls tremble in fear. Of course, Reid also knew about Aliens, but he only knew about them from Hollywood movies.
The Alien series was very popular on Earth, and it was a very good monster movie. However, if there really were Aliens in the universe, and it wasn't a scriptwriter's fabrication, then how did the person who came up with this monster know about Aliens? This was a mystery.
However, Reid didn't know how complicated all this was, because he was about to start using the Growth Potion. Dr. Reid put on protective clothing and a mask, and activated the fully enclosed door in the dark.
He turned the originally semi-enclosed space into a completely enclosed space. Reid stood outside the enclosed space and put the potion into the vaporization device. After vaporizing the potion and mixing it into the air of the enclosed space, the creatures inside began to evolve faster.
Originally, they had turned into gerbils and wanted to come in and see what was going on, especially to carefully observe the living habits of these three indigenous people, so that they could smoothly replace them after they were killed.
They had just been scared by the Aliens' facehuggers and hadn't recovered from their shock. Reid suddenly completely closed the place, not giving them time to react at all.
Then, the Growth Potion was put in. Putting the Growth Potion here was like dropping cold water into a pot of hot oil. In an instant, the entire ecosystem was in an uproar. Some fungi and plants began to change at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The arthropods in the water that looked like facehuggers also became agitated and squeaked.
An arthropod's tentacle happened to be in the middle of the group of gerbils. The gerbils that the Skrulls had turned into instantly thought of the terrifying image of Aliens in those historical documentaries. Even the facehuggers were extremely ferocious.
They had now become gerbils and were powerless to resist the facehuggers. In this fright, the first Skrull returned to his Skrull form. He pointed at these arthropods in horror and said, "Face … facehuggers! They're active! They're reaching adulthood and starting to reproduce! "
Fear was contagious. The first Skrull returned to his form, followed by the second, the third, and the fourth. In the end, all the Skrulls could not maintain their transformed forms.
Reid, who had been standing outside the enclosed door and observing the situation inside through a small window, suddenly froze.
What was going on? Was the effect of his Growth Potion so good? Now that these creatures had gone through hundreds of millions of years of evolution, had humanoid creatures appeared? And it seemed that they were intelligent creatures.
Just as Reid was in a daze, the humanoid creatures seemed to start to feel extremely uncomfortable inside the closed door. They began to scratch themselves frantically.
Reid continued to stand outside the enclosed door and look at these humanoid creatures. He hadn't realized that he had begun to make contact with the first kind.
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