It was truly an incredible interstellar journey!
Li Yao seemed to see countless primeval natives crouching under the tentacles of the Void Hunter, shuddering in fear inside the broken starships. While they were suffering every second in fear, they had to rack their brains to construct new dreams to please the gigantic nightmare creature below their feet and above their heads.
One moment of carelessness, and the starships would be minced by the tentacles. Millions of people would be swallowed by the sucking discs that looked like black holes without leaving anything behind. It was the real annihilation of their souls!
Other than that, the Void Hunter would often travel in the surging tides of the four-dimensional space.
The primeval natives, on the other hand, were clearly not prepared for the blast of the four-dimensional storm.
Although they were protected by the tentacles of the Void Hunter, countless starships would still be damaged every time they passed through the storm of the four-dimensional space. The passengers would be sucked out of the gaps, falling and shattering into pieces in the gaps of time and space, ending up in a fate worse than death.
Even if they returned to the three-dimensional universe safely, countless people would be melted into the starship, resulting in intense explosions. Some of them would suffer from severe sequelae such as mental derangement, as if their souls were still lingering in the terrifying four-dimensional storm despite the return of their bodies!
How dangerous, how humiliating, and how desperate it was!
However, a weak race had struggled all the way from the soulless space tens of thousands of years ago to this day in order to survive. To this place, to the center of the Universe Ocean, to the dawn of dawn, their will and ambitions would not be crushed by any difficulties.
When the Void Hunter and the four-dimensional storm shattered their flesh and blood, leaving them wounded and dying, the purest spiritual energy at the center of the Universe Ocean also gave them the warmest comfort.
The primeval natives devoured and digested the spiritual energy crazily, like a dried sponge that had been thrown into water. They could not wait to absorb all the seawater in the ocean.
In order to survive, they polished every organ in their body with spiritual energy, reorganized the gene strands, modulated the cell structure, and optimized the energy supply efficiency of the mitochondria, causing drastic changes to their internal organs, skin, and brain. Gradually, they adapted to the coldness of the three-dimensional universe and the violence of the four-dimensional space.
In order to survive, their computational abilities soared. Almost every member of the Primeval Race had become a qualified "dream creator", weaving strange and colorful dreams for the Void Hunters.
In order to better instill the dreams into the nerve clusters of the Void Hunter, the primeval race's ability to control brainwaves and telepathy was improving day by day. The neurons in their brains mutated and strengthened nonstop. The neurons gathered in a tiny human brain were even more than the total number of neurons on one enormous tentacle of the Void Hunter.
Of course, even if they were fully prepared, it was unavoidable that many of their brethren would be devoured by the Void Hunters every now and then. But there was no time for sorrow or despair — with the help of psionic energy, the Primeval activated their powerful reproductive ability, wildly expanding their race like rabbits.
Back then, in Cosmic Ocean, most intelligent life forms were as strong as Void Hunters. They had no natural enemies or competitors, and they had a long lifespan and absolute dominance. They didn't have a strong urge to continue their genes, and they would only reproduce once in hundreds or even thousands of years.
Females like the Primeval Race could reproduce when they were 15 or 16 years old. After that, they could reproduce once a year. Every time, they could even have twins or triplets. They were even crazier than cockroaches, rats, and rabbits.
With the help of advanced genes and medical technology, it was easy to produce multiple births and recover quickly after giving birth.
At that time, the reproduction of the race still needed to rely on the bellies of the females, and it was inevitable that they would be restricted to a certain extent. However, when artificial wombs and incubation pool technology were developed one after another, the Primeval Race was completely free from the restrictions of male and female reproduction. As long as they had enough energy and genes, they could produce offspring continuously, thus liberating all women and doubling the combat strength of the entire race.
As long as they were willing and had enough energy, their race could explode exponentially and reproduce to every corner of the infinite universe.
And that was exactly what they did — this group of demons that were about to sweep through the entire Universe Sea!
The Void Hunter was ignorant of all this.
It was not that it did not notice the subtle changes in the bugs attached to its body, and the number of these bugs was increasing.
However, its body was too large, and its perception of the passage of time was different from that of the Primeval Race. It did not realize the danger of the Primeval Race at all. Instead, it felt that the bugs were tickling it more and more. What was wrong with that?
Not long after, the Primeval Race showed another "ability" to the Void Hunter.
The Void Hunter survived by devouring meteorites and asteroids, crushing the crystals contained in them, and digesting and absorbing the energy in the crystals.
However, its body was too large, and its movements were relatively clumsy. In the process of devouring meteorites and asteroids, it was inevitable that it would "melt" and miss a lot of debris of meteorites and asteroids.
These debris still contained a lot of precious energy. Many a little makes a mickle, and sand makes a tower. It was not without its small benefits.
If it were in the past, the Void Hunters would often leave behind large pieces of meteorites and asteroids after devouring for a while and leave just like that.
But right now, the Primeval Race was circling around the site of the Void Hunter's devouring in the small spiritual airship that it had recently produced. It helped the Void Hunter collect the scattered debris carefully and send the debris that contained crystals to its mothership for refinement into the purest crystals of spiritual energy before they were offered to the Void Hunter.
For the Void Hunter, the crystals of spiritual energy that had been artificially purified and had a purity close to 100% were as delicious as dragon liver and phoenix marrow.
The Void Hunter sensed a wonderful taste that was entirely different from the glamorous dream but had the same effect. It was immediately addicted to it and felt that its original way of devouring was boring and tasteless.
Henceforth, the Primeval Race joined the Void Hunter's devouring and digestion process and became "tentacles" in another form of the Void Hunter. They helped the Void Hunter shatter the meteorites, purify the spiritual minerals, and extract the purest crystals of spiritual energy before they delivered them to the suckers of the Void Hunter respectfully.
Of course, in the process, the Primeval Race had to take a slight discount. About 5% to 10% of the spiritual energy fell into the control of the Primeval Race.
The Void Hunter, which had long been served comfortably by the Primeval Race, did not think it was a big deal. In its cognition, the Primeval Race was its tentacles, teeth, flagella in its digestive tract, and even the probiotics inside its body. Who would doubt the probiotics inside its body?
Just like that, the ancestors of the Primeval Race lived the second long ten thousand years under the shelter of the Void Hunter in the dark universe.
In the past ten thousand years, the Void Hunter and the Primeval Race became more and more inseparable. The creature of the primeval universe that was as huge as a god became more and more under the control of the Primeval Race.
Its nerve clusters were constantly analyzed, studied, paralyzed, and corrupted by the dream creators of the Primeval Race. Its wisdom, which was like that of a seven-year-old child, was played by the wise men of the Primeval Race.
Its digestive ability also weakened as the Primeval Race continued to provide the purest crystals of spiritual energy. It did not even bother to wave its tentacles and let the Primeval Race do everything for it.
The Primeval Race even learned to sneak into one of its tentacles, cut off the information transmission between the tentacle and the nerve cluster, and connected it to the mainframe crystal processor of the Primeval Race's starship, thereby controlling the tentacle.
After all, the Void Hunter had so many tentacles, but it did not have a real brain. The neurons around it were pitifully few, and it could not discover such a small trick at all.
Even if it did, chances were that it would praise the loyalty of the Primeval Race and help it get rid of the countless tentacles and the troublesome eating process!
Although it was not unusual for countless people to die every day, the artificial uterus and the large-scale hatching pool technology, together with the fully-automatic education system that Li Yao mentioned just now, could allow ten times more people to be produced incessantly. Then, with the meteorite fragments that the Void Hunter disdained to be refined into metals and components, new starships were formed — real warships — and the black glory of the Primeval Race would be expanded to the ends of every tentacle of the Void Hunter!
The Void Hunter never discovered the ambitions of the Primeval Race.
During that period, the Primeval Race only encountered one life-and-death threat, but it was not the intention of the Void Hunter, but the life cycle of the behemoth had come to an end.
The Void Hunter was a life form that reproduced asexually.
That was obvious. There was no need for such a top predator that dominated the universe to change its genes. Besides, it was rare to run into its own kind in the vast sea of stars. There was no need for it to evolve into a male and a female, or even more genders, just to ask for trouble.
However, the way of reproduction of the Void Hunter brought a lot of trouble to the Primeval Race.
Whenever a Void Hunter sensed that its ten thousand years of life was about to come to an end, it would swallow tremendous meteorites and asteroids crazily under the drive of its instincts and store the overloaded spiritual energy inside its body. Like a gargantuan biological bomb, it would eventually have an earth-shattering explosion.
In the great explosion, the old Void Hunters would be blown to pieces, while their severed limbs would be burnt by the intense psionic reaction, activating a part of their dormant genes. In the end, among the thousands of tentacles that had been thrown far away, the largest few severed limbs would be revived, slowly regrowing other body parts and becoming new Void Hunters.
The process was known as' explosion '.
It was not hard to imagine that for the Primeval Race that parasitized the Void Hunter, it was no different from another destructive natural disaster.
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