High Above

  Chapter 244 The Tombstone of Civilization (13)

   "It's a synthetic sugar solution with high calories, suitable for replenishing physical strength... It has a little hallucinogen and sleep aid ingredients. It seems that these giant golden mushrooms use this sugar solution to attract other creatures to 'symbiosis' with them?"

   After being shocked by the initial message of 'alien creature', Ian soon calmed down.

In the previous life on Earth, although intelligent alien creatures have not yet been confirmed, the existence of simple alien life forms has been proved—the light-speed spacecraft project he wanted to participate in was for the purpose of immigration and alien exploration activities for habitable planets .

  However, unlike what many people imagined, this kind of alien frontier mission basically did not have humans on board, and the past were all intelligent robots.

If you think about it carefully, you can know that the empty universe and the poor and empty aliens really need to spend decades throwing human elites to aliens tens of light-years away to do the most basic coolie construction, even if they are elites. Ying himself agrees, and the government and scientific research departments will not let it go. It takes a few generations to barely build an alien building that can almost serve people to live in, and the supporting industries and production buildings after that can basically only be controlled by AI.

  What do you send elites to do when there is no technical content?

  Anyway, after building a hyperspace communication base station, the delay can be reduced within a few hours.

  Since this is the case, it is better to use robots from the beginning, and wait until the development is almost done before letting people pass by.

  Although it is basically hard work, at least you don’t need to be a coolie, and you can carry out some large-scale research operations to investigate the alien life forms of some living planets.

Although the Terra civilization in the pre-epoch is not in the same scientific research tree as the Earth civilization, technology is a tool to achieve the goal. Now that they have reached the point of space development, Ian believes that the other side will definitely try to obtain related alien life information.

   But beyond his expectations, the people of Terra in the pre-epoch were not only doing exploration, they even created the 'alien heterogeneous ecosystem'!

   After all, picking up an alien ecosystem for nothing is really enviable to death!

  The reason why this group of underground relics is so huge is that there may be the needs of the relevant ecological circle? For example, this kind of giant mushroom can only live underground or something...

and…

"According to the records in the silver chip, this large metal-based mushroom from the Obera star field was not obtained by the Terrans on their own initiative, but because something code-named 'Fire' was suspected to be sent by a spaceship. to Terra."

Reminiscing about the metallic sweetness of the fluorescent mushroom liquid in his mouth, Ian thought thoughtfully: "Tinder... There used to be a plan called Tinder on Earth, which was a federation that was waiting to be rebuilt when the ecological balance was almost completely collapsed. The insurance decision made by the board of directors - if human beings cannot restore the earth's ecology that collapsed after the war, they will launch several generation spaceships into the universe while immigrating to the space city. The speed of light travels towards several potentially habitable planets, avoiding the complete extinction of human beings."

   "In other words, it is just a tombstone sent to the universe to commemorate the existence of human beings."

"Although the follow-up ecology was successfully restored and the construction of the ecological space city was also very successful, the Fire Seed Project was cancelled, and was even criticized by later scholars as a dangerous move to expose the gene pool and civilization of earth civilization to possible alien civilizations, but If we really encounter the great risk of genocide or even civilization annihilation... Tinder is the only hope in despair."

  —Civilizations that may exist in the Obra star field, did they make such a choice?

   And the fact that the Terra they chose actually has a native intelligent civilization, I am afraid that those aliens did not think of it.

   This is not important anymore, because Terra also encountered a 'disaster from the sky' that almost wiped out their entire family.

   "Metal-based life."

  Ian heard another movement in the corner of the cave, looked up and found that sometimes the giant golden mushrooms would go to the pool to drink water with their hosts.

  Those hosts include swamp crocodile, steel-clawed mole, and many earth-burrowing giant beetles similar to mole crickets.

This point made the young man realize again: "It seems that Sequoia Base was originally a base for researching the heterogeneous ecological circle of Obera—this is why there are so many metal-based life forms around Nanling and Nanhai. !"

  —Ironshark, Reef-eating Sea Otter, Steel-clawed Mole, Fortification Coral, Sharp-clawed Tiger, Burrowed Giant Beetle, Iron-Bone Swordfish, Swamp Crocodile, and possibly Crystallosaurus…

   All the common monsters in Nanling more or less have some metal elements in them.

  Even, the minehunting jellyfish, a species with extremely sensitive perception and manipulation ability to magnetic field, may also be formed because of the research here!

In addition, the body temperature of metal-based life is very high. Even the temperature in the tropical South China Sea is no different from refreshing and pleasant to them... If the temperature is too low, it will be like the cave here now. All giant golden mushrooms Both Warcraft and Warcraft are in a dormant state that is too lazy to move!

  Alien creatures...Well, it seems that the Terra civilization has obtained a large number of samples of alien creatures, so it can develop so many prototypes of "Warcraft".

and…

   "There is definitely more than one alien ecology."

Thinking firmly in his heart, Ian recalled all kinds of strange things on the continent of Terra, and some of them did not seem to evolve naturally at all, or in other words, even if it was transformed, it was difficult to find the basic body of Warcraft: "Metal-based creatures may be derived from In the ecosystem of the Obera star field, what about the others? There are so many types of monsters, it is absolutely impossible to reproduce only from the Terra and Obera ecosystems."

   "And the ecological circle in the labyrinth is very different from the normal Terra, maybe... is also a type of heterogeneous ecological circle?"

   "Perhaps, in every maze, there is more or less an 'ecology different from Terra', which is why labyrinth species are born?"

   This is just a guess, but the boy believes that this guess is very likely to be true.

   Besides that, Ian was sure of one point.

"It's no wonder that before the disaster of the skyfall, the sublimation skills of the continent of Terra were not strong, or even not perfect at all—it was because there were many alien creatures, and alien modified creatures gathered on Terra, which led to the 'resurrection' The explosive development of sublimation techniques based on the power of Warcraft!"

   "At that time, the sublimation skills were probably just like fitness skills. Only a few people advanced purely by water grinding and high physical fitness brought about by genetic modification.

   So, here comes the problem.

  —The disaster that fell from the sky, is it a natural disaster or a man-made blow?

  —Is this blow related to the plan that caused the intelligent creatures in the Obra ecosystem to choose to use fire to carry the ecosystem?

  Ian stroked the giant golden mushroom in front of him, his eyes drooped, and he murmured in a low voice: "Suoyue..."

  The shattered moon...the broken moon that used to be called 'Looking', but is now broken...

  There, there must have been many lunar space bases where the Terra civilization observed the starry sky.

so…

  —Who was it that shattered the eyes of the Terrans looking at the starry sky?

   "The starry sky that is gradually disappearing in the outer universe must have a great disaster behind it."

  At this moment, the young man felt as if he had discovered a part of the truth hidden in the continent of Terra: "It was the disaster that caused the catastrophe, and it was also the reason why the Obra civilization could only use fire to convey the information of the ecological circle!"

   "In Sequoia Base, there must be relevant information and data preserved!"

  He raised his head, at this moment, Ian was more excited and determined than ever before.

  He looked around the entire cold cave occupied by giant golden mushrooms, looked around this 'small heterogeneous ecosystem', and made up his mind: "No matter what, we must obtain the information in this base—even if we use the power of the sand armor apprentice!"

  What kind of Pyro's special team, what Patrick, what parasites and alien species, no one can stop him!

  He must obtain the truth about the Obra ecosystem and the so-called 'fire' in this base!

   "Ahem!"

   And at this moment, Ian heard coughing behind him.

   Master Gesai woke up.

  (end of this chapter)