With such an ability that was close to "immortality", Li Yao's people occupied the entire planet almost overnight.
As far as the eye could see, between the volcanoes and the swamps, above the valleys and the oceans, there were black, bizarre-shaped life forms everywhere. They were assembling and disassembling themselves like intelligent building blocks, creating all kinds of indescribable things.
They ran, they hissed, they swam, and they flew. They formed themselves into enormous spiral drills and drilled into the ground to explore the crystals of the sun — the precious ores. Countless beetles vibrated the heating bladders in their abdomens to smelt the ores and strengthen the bodies of their compatriots.
Even the abominable fungi were conquered by them and "domesticated" into something similar to crops. They grew according to their will and helped them transform the harsh environment of the planet.
Li Yao fused, or rather swallowed, more and more beetles. His body became bigger and bigger, and the glittering patterns on the surface of his body could also form more brilliant patterns to transmit more information to each other. While his ability to sense his companions was strengthened, his self-awareness was also strengthened.
Finally, when the living space between different "large groups" was squeezed to the limit and the next step of convergence had to be carried out, a civil war broke out.
It might not be appropriate to call it a "civil war". It was just a competition, a test for the choice of "the next form of survival".
At this moment, Li Yao was like a giant crab that was shining with oil. A tail full of thorns was waving behind him. Although his movement speed was not fast, his attack speed was absolutely astonishing.
The companions that he was interested in, on the other hand, were in the form of wolves and cheetahs. Their bodies were streamlined, agile, agile, and swift.
They both received each other's pheromones and agreed to fuse with each other.
The only problem was who should be the foundation of the new form after the fusion and whose features should be retained more.
The two life forms made of countless beetles flashed the patterns on their shells crazily, showing the superiority of their structure to the other party. But no matter how they flashed, the other party was unmoved.
Then, they could only fight.
Li Yao waved his pincers and pinched the other party's foreleg hard.
In the next second, his perspective changed to that of the other party. He leaped lightly into the air, attempting to jump behind the previous Li Yao.
But in the next second, his consciousness was pulled out again. Like an omniscient and omnipotent existence, he calmly watched the fight in mid-air.
The 'consciousness' of a bee civilization was something that could not be described to an individual civilization.
It was just like how even the most brilliant language artist would not be able to describe tens of thousands of different colors to a naturally blind person.
The fight lasted only a dozen minutes.
Seeing that the "Jackal" was about to win, it tore apart the opponent's pincers and dug a large hole in the front of the opponent's body.
However, the opponent suddenly waved its tail, and a crystal deep inside the tail was activated to the maximum and shot out a scorching mystic ray, disintegrating its core structure immediately!
The unexpected killing move ended the battle. The jackals and wolves collapsed and turned into countless beetles that were hissing and waving their short legs. Before they could turn around, they were swallowed by the giant crab.
Li Yao felt that he was stronger and wiser, and he could see his destiny more clearly.
The genetic information deep inside the opponent's genes was transmitted to his mind like spluttering electric arcs, allowing him to unlock more and more complicated structures.
He could not wait to try the brand-new structures.
It did not matter even if he failed.
After all, he was not going to die.
In the years that followed, Li Yao and his compatriots had been modifying the planet crazily.
They were no longer satisfied with the forms of beasts such as the giant crab or the jackal. They needed more advanced and complicated structures to improve the efficiency of their utilization of all the resources on the planet.
Countless structures that were already enormous in the beginning were put together again, constituting gargantuan structures that were similar to "smelting factories" and "mining systems".
Countless beetles piled up into skyscrapers that rose to the sky. Of course, the buildings that looked like skyscrapers were mostly narrow and almost solid. Or rather, it would be more appropriate to call them "honeycombs".
Billions of beetles, on the other hand, were gathered together like a black fountain and thrown into the largest volcano on the planet together. With the heat of the magma, an unprecedentedly enormous structure was built. It was a tool for calculation, a biochemical super brain, and … a mainframe.
The calculation was very simple.
If a beetle tried its best to glitter with the stripes on its body and set it to "1", and if it converged its energy and kept itself lackluster and cold, it would be set to "0", it would be the most fundamental calculation unit.
When countless zeros and ones were connected to each other, and the number exceeded the critical point, real wisdom began to awaken.
It was needless to say that every beetle was far more than glittering and lackluster. The different stripes on their bodies, as well as the runes that were glittering, lackluster, and colorful, were all infinitesimal zeros and ones.
In the infinite ocean of zeros and ones, the mainframe finally woke up.
They created the mainframe, and the mainframe, in turn, unlocked more tools and weapons in their gene library and gave them clearer instructions. From this moment on, their "civilization" entered a brand-new phase.
They could build more powerful mining trucks and dig tens of thousands of meters into the crust.
They could build black tents that covered an area of a thousand meters and partly or completely block the sunlight. While they absorbed heat, they could also create a slightly cooler space where they could study the mysteries of the cold life.
They even began to assemble starships ambitiously, which were exactly the starships that their ancestors had brought them to this planet countless generations ago. They planned to imitate their ancestors and spread the fire of the Houyi Clan to more planets.
Of course, the mainframe also swallowed more beetles to expand and strengthen itself, until it was capable of transmitting information to the mother planet thousands of lightyears away.
Sometimes, all the beetles on the planet would temporarily stop their work and bask in the light and warmth of the star under the leadership of the mainframe, enjoying the unparalleled pleasure.
All the beetles would flap their wings and glitter their spots of light. They would also kindly give some beetles to their companions with their information as gifts.
That was their "festival" and "celebration".
They were not ignorant barbarians or cold-blooded machines that only knew how to work. They were highly-evolved civilized people and the wisest of all creatures!
It was just that very few outsiders could comprehend their "civilization".
Bathing in such an "ocean of light", Li Yao gradually understood the true meaning of the "bee colony civilization" and the Houyi Clan's feelings for the sun under the enlightenment of the mainframe.
Everything they had originated from the sun.
One day, they would return to the sun, too.
Every beetle was made of a stream of light from the sun. They, and everything on this planet, were the extension of the sun's life.
Moths darting into the fire were not suicidal, but they had grasped the ultimate integration. Both moths and fire were the projections of the sun, weren't they?
The Houyi Clan was the sun.
As long as the sun existed, the Houyi Clan would never die.
Bathed in the ocean made of the furiously burning fire of the sun, Li Yao was deeply awed by the billions of years of history and could not free himself for a long time.
It was not until the mainframe sent out a devastating message that he was back to himself from the shock.
Li Yao immediately saw that hundreds of meteoroids were tearing apart the sky and diving at the planet with black exhaust flames.
It was almost exactly the same as when their ancestors "landed" on this planet when they colonized it.
Had the mother planet sent reinforcements because they hadn't heard from them for a long time?
However, those meteoroids did not explode in midair. Instead, they moved faster and faster after piercing through the atmosphere, savaging the land like destructive cannonballs.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Boom! The meteoroids hit the ground in deafening explosions, raising blasts hundreds of meters high and smoke almost a thousand meters high.
The powerful blasts destroyed the vulnerable bodies of countless members of the Houyi Clan. The beehives, the factories, and the bases of starships all collapsed into the most basic beetles.
The smoke that lingered for a long time even blocked the sun that the Houyi Clan relied on for their survival and even part of their life!
And when the fierce wind slightly blew away a few of the smoke pillars, revealing the ferocious plants that were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws, a terrifying word appeared in Li Yao's mind.
The Kuafu Clan!
The Kuafu Clan, the Houyi Clan's natural enemy, had been the Houyi Clan's enemy for thousands of years. Although the two clans had vastly different life structures and social systems, they both worshipped and craved the sun.
Therefore, the habitable planet of the Houyi Clan was also the habitable planet of the Kuafu Clan. The only life source of the Houyi Clan was also the only life source of the Kuafu Clan.
The infinite fire of retribution spread to every planet that they could find, and the Kuafu Clan's civilization was even more advanced than the Houyi Clan's. They secured overwhelming victories on most battlefields, forcing the Houyi Clan to flee and look for a new habitat. Li Yao's ancestors were one of such a fugitive army. He didn't expect that the Kuafu Clan would catch up with him so soon.
Neither the Kuafu Clan nor the Houyi Clan had the word "benevolence" in their dictionary. In their eyes, the enemy was an "inhumane alien species" that could only fight to the end without reasoning with them.
"War! War! "
The mainframe immediately transmitted the order to every beetle in every "swarm" of the Houyi Clan.
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