Time travel to become the guardian AI of a lost civilization

Chapter 309 Gene Seeds
Before the "Light Chaser" civilization collected much information about the "Fire Chaser", the expedition team they sent to the "Dawn Star" home ship that was invaded by mysterious plants encountered a major change.

"Go! This way!"

A soldier captain beckoned the team to follow the direction he pointed, but stopped when entering a pass, and cut off from the soldiers.

I saw that the entire team had lost their previous leisurely posture, and everyone was running around, fearing that they would be overtaken by the "monster" behind them.

What is chasing them is a surging "plant frenzy".

Somehow the translucent plant was stimulated. It changed from the quiet state before, and the fibrous plant seemed to have muscles under the skin, wriggling to move the branches forward.

Their goals are very clear, directed at the entire expedition team.

"Damn it! Why did these things go crazy all of a sudden, without any sign?"

One soldier cursed as he poured flames from a flamethrower on the attacking vegetation.

Burning works well at first, and charred plant debris also works well as a barrier.

But since these plants began to secrete mucus as if they had adapted, the flamethrower was not so effective. Only the instinct of fear of fire still made them slow down when facing the flame.

After the members of the expedition team ran for a certain distance, the soldiers ignited the combustibles that had been prepared, forming a wall of fire, and barely fought for a while.

After marching to the next corner, the expedition team arrived at a special place, where the tall tower covered with vegetation like a world tree is located.

But now the expedition team can no longer enter here to investigate. According to the requirements, their primary goal at this time is to leave here and return to a safe zone.

An accompanying scientist couldn't help cursing: "Why doesn't the repellent work? I can smell the pungent smell through the purification equipment of the protective clothing. Why don't those plants respond at all?"

He didn't get any answers to his questions, and everyone at this time had only one thought, which was to escape from here.

But at this moment, there was a sudden vibration from the ground.

The surface of the home ship is a thick layer of alloy, only the top thin layer is used for beautiful road surface.

Even so, everyone seemed to hear the harsh sound of the alloy being squeezed.

The next moment, a large number of translucent plants shot up from the ground, and even alloys couldn't resist their growth.

"Why... isn't this too powerful? Can creatures actually do this?"

Some people were extremely shocked by this, but it was followed by a sense of despair that filled the whole team. If the opponent could sneak attack from the ground, then they would never be able to escape the pursuit of these plants unless they boarded the departing spaceship.

However, at this moment, an unremarkable solar engineer came out, holding a few unopened bottles of potion in his hand, which was the kind of potion that could attract plants.

Originally, this potion was carried for the "bait plan" that might be needed, and it seems to have played its supposed role at this time.

"I'm going to attract these plants, you guys go!"

"you……"

Just as the soldier leader of the team was about to speak, he saw that the potions had been sealed by the sun engineer, and then his face changed, calling everyone to stay away.

This kind of potion has a very strong adhesion, if they get a little bit contaminated, it is really impossible to escape from the pursuit of these plants.

And the sun engineer also sprinkled all the medicine on himself, and then rushed into the tower.

Seeing this, the soldier captain had no choice but to continue to escape with the team while the plants were attracting attention.

Before leaving, he glanced back at the solar engineer who rushed to the gate of the tower and was about to be engulfed by the frenzy of plants, but saw the face under the protective mask with a strange smile, which seemed to have a hint of nobility.

The next moment his sight was blocked by plants, and he led the entire expedition team in a daze.

It was not until after another life-and-death escape that this group of teams returned to the camp without any danger, and escaped from the "home ship" through the spaceship that had been waiting for a long time.

After that, they were relieved and slumped on the ground in disarray. Only one scientist looked at the equipment with him, showing an incredulous expression.

"We... all have a small amount of that inducer on us. Those plants probably rioted because of this, but when did this leak?"

Compared with the "herbicide" used to repel, this inducer is obviously much more attractive, and even a little bit can make those plants ignore the disgust of the "herbicide".

This effect is good when used as bait, but once it is contaminated on the body, it will be terrible.

They were busy fleeing for their lives before, and none of them realized it, but now that they are out of danger, they can only attribute it to a certain "carelessness".

However, the soldier captain somehow thought of the "sacrificed" solar engineer.

He always felt that he saw some kind of "divinity" in the solar engineer at that moment, and this was too idealistic for him, so he could only dispel this feeling in his heart by reporting on his work.

At this time, the "Song of Dawn" home ship in the most core area also received news of the failure of the expedition.

However, those high-level officials were not so concerned about this matter at this time, because the news brought by the "Guardian" shocked them even more.

"Evolution" is not something difficult to understand. When this theory was passed on by Li Wenyuan, they discovered that their "evolution" was abnormal.

Although life will originate in a primitive "organic ocean", some of the organic matter in it is likely to be their ancestors, but it is absolutely impossible to directly use these primitive organic matter to give birth to complex life.

According to the habits of human beings, the "light-chasing" race should be a life evolved from moth insects. However, in the "light-chasing" species, there are many mammals with functions and organs. Strictly according to biological It is even difficult to define their species in terms of scientific meaning.

Not only that, but the "light-seeking" species has almost no trace of "evolution". Among the fossils they found, they even grew like this tens of millions of years ago. The only difference is the increase in brain volume.

This is also the basis for their "God-given Origin Theory", which they believe that their primitive ancestors are a kind of complex life randomly assembled from organic soup.

The question of "which came first, the chicken or the egg" does not exist in their civilization, because it must be "the soup first".

They saw it as a miracle of life, but now it seems that the truth is not what they imagined.

In the end, it was Li Wenyuan who collected the genetic records left in their data, simulated them hundreds of millions of times in his own virtual world, and came to a conclusion:
"What? Our origin...is 'Fireseeker'?"

The leader of "Chasing the Light" is still a little unbelievable. It is really difficult for him to accept that they are "created" lives, and this will even have a huge impact on their outlook on life.

Li Wenyuan analyzed the huge amount of genetic data, and after countless permutations and combinations by himself, he discovered the relationship between the creatures of the entire "Cradle" galaxy and the "Fire Chaser".

And just as he expected, the method used by the "Fire Chaser" to create the Gaia planet is very unusual.

In his opinion, the "Fire Chaser" is very likely to "manually" create all life on the planet, ranging from single-celled organisms to mammals, and all life in the "Cradle" galaxy was created by them.

"Creating life" is not a simple matter. Even in the Milky Way, it is almost impossible to create a life that has never appeared before. The self-destruction of genes will kill those lives.

However, the "fire chasers" did it. They seem to be a huge gene pool, recording the creation methods of a series of species, even creating a whole galaxy of different lives is not a problem.

There has been no evolution here, and all life is in a basically perfect state at the beginning of its birth.

But in their bodies, the genetic connection with the "fire chaser" still exists even after tens of millions or hundreds of millions of years.

This point of gene will not have any abnormalities in normal times, but if necessary, they will also come in handy.

"'Light Chaser' did not experience 'dimension erosion' because of the 'Fire Chaser' gene. Is it because the amount is not enough, or is it because they have adapted to this universe?"

Li Wenyuan thought about it, and finally thought of a possibility.

"...'Fire Chaser' is impossible to be unaware of the anomaly that happened to them, but is there really nothing they can do about it, and they can only helplessly wait for their own decay?"

He couldn't see the "Cradle" galaxy, but his eyes seemed to have traveled 500 million light-years to get there.

"...Or, the possibility of 'resurrection' has long been buried by them..."

When the leader of "Zhuguang" knew this amazing fact, the people of the entire "Zhuguang" civilization collectively felt a kind of throbbing from the depths of their blood.

The ancient hallucinations appeared and disappeared in front of their eyes. In a trance, the shadow of the "World Tree" became more and more solid, making everyone feel as if they were about to sprout in their bodies.

At this moment, they seemed to have also turned into plants, about to transform into a brand new life.

(End of this chapter)