"I remember that the skull of a Demonic Halberd Pig is the hardest, right?"
Princess A Xia hid behind Theresa and carefully observed the skull engraved with a strange barcode. She muttered, "It can penetrate the scales and fur on the head and directly engrave the information on the hardest bone. What kind of magic can do this? Also, why would it do this?"
"This is a code, a brand."
Theresa thought for a moment and said, "It's like how a rancher who herds cows and sheep will brand his own brand on the buttocks of the cows, sheep, or horses to mark or count. Of course, this code is more complicated and contains a lot of information. It may also be used for remote control.
"The reason why it was able to pass through the scales and fur and directly imprint itself on the skull was because it was imprinted on the skull before the scales and fur grew out."
"Huh?"
Princess A Xia widened her eyes. "Are you talking about when the Demonic Halberd Pig was just born?"
"No, it was even earlier than that," Theresa said thoughtfully.
Theresa said thoughtfully, "It should be in its embryonic stage. It's not even a brand, but a direct generation through genetic information."
Princess A Xia did not know what "genetic information" was.
However, after spending time with Theresa these days, she often heard some strange nouns from her. Princess A Xia was already used to it.
"So, the Demonic Halberd Pig is a man-made demon and a combat weapon?"
The concept of man-made demons was not unfamiliar on the Emerald Continent. It was not strange that the strange, unpredictable, and heinous demons that the traveling poets talked about would create monsters for killing.
"It's man-made, but the purpose of creating it in the first place was probably not to fight."
Theresa patted the Demonic Halberd Pig's butt and changed the topic. "Sister A Xia, do you know the difference between domestic pigs and wild boars?"
"Well …"
Princess A Xia did not understand why Theresa suddenly brought up this topic.
Moreover, most of the meat eaten by the upper class of the Emerald Continent was beef and mutton. They rarely ate pork. Whether it was domestic pigs or wild boars, if they were not cooked properly, the stench would be too strong.
Princess A Xia shook her head.
"Domestic pigs have narrow shoulders and wide buttocks, forming a triangle from head to tail. Wild boars, on the other hand, have wide shoulders, narrow hips, strong muscles, and are most suitable for sprinting. From head to tail, they form an inverted triangle."
Theresa pointed at the Demonic Halberd Pig and said, "Look at this Demonic Beast. It has tusks, scales, and bone spurs that look like halberds, and looks wild and untamable, but if you observe it carefully, you will notice that it still has narrow shoulders, a wide waist, and a fat butt. This is clearly a product of artificial domestication or even genetic modification. It's just that for some reason, it returned to the wild environment and showed signs of being untamed.
"It's exactly because it's not a biological weapon that it's so clumsy when it's sprinting. It can only walk in a straight line, but it doesn't know how to turn. It's easy for us to destroy it.
"In other words, no matter how hideous and terrifying it was just now, I believe that the purpose of its birth, or rather, 'creation' was to serve as a kind of fat and juicy food."
"Hey, hey, hey!"
This time, Princess A Xia was truly shocked and found it hard to believe. She stammered, "Why? Why did someone create such a ferocious beast as food? Wait. That's not the point. The point is, can food be 'created' too? The food that was created was branded on the skull. Why did they allow it to run around and regain its wildness? "
"Of course, food can be created. If we want to go to the middle of the brilliant stars one day, artificial food and an efficient recycling system will be indispensable technologies."
Theresa looked around and said, "Sister A Xia, you should've noticed that we're not in a vast world but in a magnificent, super-large enclosed structure, like a giant's palace, right?"
Princess A Xia was not a fool. She nodded and said, "Yes. This is probably the underground world. The bards all call the Bloody Battle Demon Sector 'abyss' or 'hell'. Naturally, it's dark and tortuous."
"Then, in such a sunless world, regular crops can't survive. There shouldn't be too many animals, either. It's very difficult to raise pigs and dogs or herd cows and sheep," Theresa said.
"Therefore, most of the food sources, except for the fungi and mosses that do not require sunlight, consume little air, and only need heat to grow, can only be artificially synthesized.
"However, there's a problem with the common artificial food, which is that it tastes awful. It's like eating a candle."
Princess A Xia chuckled.
"Nonsense," she said.
She said, "What kind of food tastes like a candle?"
Theresa curled her lips.
She had eaten a lot of synthetic food that tasted like wax back in the Land of Sins. She had had enough of the bland and boring taste.
"The people who created the Bloody Battle Demon Sector in the past must've found the taste of synthetic food unbearable, too. Therefore, they directly created poultry and livestock with their remarkable technology," Theresa said to herself.
"The life of the Demonic Halberd Pig can't be very long. It can't be more than twenty years old. In other words, even though thousands of years have passed, the 'Automatic Fresh Food Production System' in the Bloody Battle Demon Sector is still functioning. Also, it is highly technologically advanced and operates and maintains on its own without anybody's control.
"However, something … not very good happened in this place before, which made the order go out of control. The delicious food that was created for people's enjoyment escaped and degenerated into the most brutal magical beasts.
"Turning from food into magical beasts certainly didn't happen in a day or two. Chances are that the order of the Bloody Battle Demon Sector collapsed thousands of years ago.
"In any case, if we can find the 'Automatic Fresh Food Production System' that created the Demonic Halberd Pig, we should be able to trace the clues and find the central hub, the control center, the mainframe crystal processor, or the photon processor of the entire Bloody Battle Demon Sector. Chances are that we can even find a starship, or at least a super remote communicator!"
"Theresa, what are you mumbling about?" Princess A Xia pouted. For some reason, she felt that Theresa was a person with a lot of secrets, and she was eager to share the secrets with Theresa.
"Nothing. Let's cut the meat and go now."
Theresa stood straight and looked at the dome where the light sources were arranged neatly. She said confidently, "Let's go find Black Jack and the rest of them. Then, we'll go to the center of the Bloody Battle Demon Sector together!"
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