The space of the ninth cave is unexpectedly bright, with one meter of dark green liquid covering the ground. The tentacle pipes on the walls of the cave are almost transparent, and the dim light illuminates the entire cave.
The culture tank in the center is extremely huge, in the shape of a staircase, and the height and shape of the back is like a throne standing on top of the bath.
Li Cang took a deep breath, walked through the one meter deep liquid, climbed up the outer wall of the culture tank, and looked down——
That was probably a person.
A human figure about 3 meters tall, with its back, chest, limbs and head all connected by tubular tunnels, was floating in a tank full of self-luminous liquid.
Of course, there is actually no sense of technology.
If I had to describe it, all these pipes, tunnels, tentacles and the like are completely sloppy, more like the root system of a plant.
As if aware of the outside gaze, the human figure in the tank suddenly opened its eyes.
These eyes are full of technology, with an icy blue background mixed with orange-red divergent stripes. They are exactly the same as Dao Mei, but more dazzling, and the brightness is even a bit scorching.
His eyes moved, and he made a stiff muscle movement that looked like a smile on his face. Then he sat up straight, stood up, staggered back dragging the terrifying pipes all over his body, and sat on the throne-like throne at the other end of the culture tank. Against the wall.
"Du Niu?"
"I sent you in."
The two of them each said something, and then each was stunned.
"Yes, I am Du Niu." Du Niu seemed very satisfied with Li Cang's performance, "You could actually guess it was me?"
Li Cang simply sat on the thick outer wall of the culture tank, his legs hanging naturally, and pointed behind him: "It's just a coincidence. I cultivated the giant feet there. In any case, the attributes detected should not be It is the names of others that prompt discovery and naming.”
"Oh, that's quite a coincidence," Du Niu said, "I've been here for a whole year, and I've never seen any alienated species independently cultivated by the survivors. You are an interesting person."
"how about you?"
"Me? Don't count, I can't even be considered a human being..." Du Niu shook off the pipes on his body with a bored expression, "I haven't talked to anyone for a whole year. Do you mind if we talk about the whole process?" Can you be a little more wordy?"
"I wish you could, I'm very curious."
"Curiosity is not necessarily a good thing," Du Niu pointed to himself, "But it doesn't matter. If you are not curious, I will find it very boring."
"Why did you let me in?"
"Oh, man, you said you don't mind," Du Niu rolled his eyes in a rather scary way, with a bit of resentment in his tone: "I may have chosen the wrong person, you are really not a good person to talk to." Object, you never get straight to the point right from the beginning. If you want to keep the story short, you can tell me directly."
In Li Cang's heart, ten thousand grass and mud horses galloped past, and he felt goosebumps all over his body.
Du Niu's neutral voice and the current state made it impossible to tell the gender, but this tone was enough for Li Cang to be sure.
"I want to ask a question," Du Niu said, "What do you think people live for?"
"Food girl...ahem...Food girl?"
"You are really practical, but yes!" Du Niu pointed to the pipes all over his body: "The pipes provide nutrition and metabolize waste; the mouth, the decoration, does not need to eat, speak, or breathe, for a whole year , do you know what it feels like to lie here without having to do anything? I don’t even have sex anymore. I’m so bored that I eat zombies alive to relieve my boredom. I’m so bored that I gave birth to a knife girl. I’m so bored that I used it 'How many birds have come to play on the island..."
Comrades, have you discovered the point?
Explosive amount of information!
"Oh my God!" Li Cang gave a short scream like a girl, and his voice broke: "What are you talking about? You gave birth to... a knife girl??"
Du Niu waved his hand, and the green liquid in the pipes all over his body made a gurgling sound.
"Hey, haven't you ever been a Furui control? Don't you know about Bing Lian? What's the difference between them and you end-of-limb control? What's the fuss about?"
"I can use 'it' to copy all the corpse creatures within the scope of the contract, just like what you see in the culture tank, from scratch."
"But I can't use my own opinions as a reference to make any changes to this process. I'm bored. I'm not satisfied with this. I want to create a new species. For a long time, that's all. All I had was fun and the courage to live.”
"Later, I had a bold idea..."
"As you can see, my little baby Sword Girl was born. Unfortunately, she does not have systematic wisdom. A walking zombie is still a walking zombie. She may not be truly regarded as my daughter..."
"After playing around with her for a while, I finally locked her up, just like the other cloned zombies."
"The 'it' you are talking about..." Li Cang couldn't help but ask before Du Niu took the initiative to say it, "Is it it?"
Du Niu glared at Li Cang angrily for a long time.
"Is it that difficult to talk to me and make me happy? You don't have any manliness at all. You have to eat soft food hard, right?"
"Well..."
"It's it," Du Niu suddenly sighed and pointed at everything around him with his hand: "It, everything, is it. It is a plant, or it can be said to be a plant. The corpse state and plant state shown on my body are In its basic state, it has no such thing as a brain, so it needs a mature and intelligent life to act as a relay host and give itself a relatively free will. It will process its will into an adoptive form through my brain and body. Signal, and then control all the plants in this contract area..."
"It might be a bit strange to say it, right? You want to borrow someone else's thinking ability to control your own body?"
"But that's it. All the alienated plants in the contract area are part of it. Because they are not directly connected physically, it will lose the ability to control these separate parts..."
"It needs them to be obedient, and it also needs me to arrange and copy the walking corpses in the area, control their numbers, and use this to attract more living alienated creatures to settle here, thrive, and seize their vitality to strengthen themselves."
"Well, speaking of it, it has never placed humans in an important position on the table. There are really too few human survivors. The alien beasts on the surrounding ring line and the passing birds and insects carry nutrients that are orders of magnitude higher than humans. Several levels!”
"Don't think about killing it. The answer is no. It is a plant. Its volume is measured in cubic kilometers. It is as big as the island is in your eyes. It also asked me to spread seeds on the surrounding ring line. By the way , those seeds are developing very well, in another year and a half, maybe I can find a suitable brain for myself~"
