Of course, black water is not a natural substance. Just as humans have always wanted to get involved in microbial and viral technology, black water is the crystallization of the biological science of the engineers.
If you trace the biotechnology chain of Black Water, you will find that Black Water is also a derivative, and its source is something that emits a green light and looks like amber. Lin Yue thinks it can be called fluorite.
If you go back further, fluorite will be connected with the birth process of the engineer clan.
Just like there are a large number of murals in ancient human civilizations that imply that the Engineers are the creators, the Engineers also use reliefs, stone sculptures, etc. to express the historical appearance of the incipient period of civilization, and the creator god they worship is a kind of creature with a huge head and an exoskeleton. intelligent creatures.
According to legend, this intelligent creature used fluorite to sacrifice itself, thereby breeding the Engineer family and various creatures on its home planet.
Although the things recorded in reliefs and stone sculptures have passed a long time, the engineers have never stopped searching for the Creator. They pursued archaeological discoveries in space exploration and discovered the existence of fluorite on an abandoned planet.
In subsequent contacts, fluorite showed very strong "corrosive" properties, and engineers who came into contact with the core extract would die within a short period of time. In order to study fluorite, scientists from the engineer family built a laboratory on LV233.
With the advancement of biotechnology, they extracted an unstable organic matter from fluorite. This organic matter can corrode the genetic material that makes up living things, break down DNA into the most basic particles, and give it unimaginable mutation and growth properties. Evolution into a brand new individual.
The engineers are different from humans. Humans show a stronger tendency to attack and combat. Therefore, war has always been the main theme of human history. Even if the goodwill engineers have been trying to guide them with religious power, they cannot change the occurrence of various violent incidents. Similarly, War will accelerate the development of technology and civilization.
The Engineer clan is relatively mild. Their worship of the Creator has led them to form a religion that has been implemented throughout the history of civilization, and the highest belief of this religion is to find the Creator, whether in a theological sense or a scientific sense...
For the scientists of the engineer family who found fluorite, the "Creator" exists in themselves, because the genetic material that constitutes their genes comes from the Creator. However, this argument needs to be based on facts to achieve lofty and great religious significance.
This is different from the blind worship of faith objects in human religions, but it is both rational and fanatical pursuit of truth.
In Lin Yue's view, if one word were used to describe the behavior of engineers and scientists, it would be "paranoia". It is similar to when I see an apple falling from a tree and know that the planet can produce gravity, but it must be captured in a spirit of truth-seeking. Only when we reach the "gravitons" that make up gravity can we prove that gravity really exists.
At the beginning, the engineers used the body as a blueprint, constantly sacrificing themselves, and using fluorite organic matter to evolve all things on a planet with water. However, the continuous sacrifices did not achieve the results they wanted.
Facts that have happened over the long years have proven that this path is not feasible, because the environment of each planet is different, and the expression of genes is also diverse. It is basically impossible to prove the argument that the "Creator" is dormant in everyone's body.
It was on this basis that scientists began to change their thinking and manipulate fluorite organic matter. Through superb science and technology, they diluted and specially strengthened it to create something like black water.
Ingesting a large amount of black water can directly cause death of an organism, but if ingested in small amounts, black water can induce genetic mutation and recombination, forming an independent individual in the host...
In Lin Yue's view, the alien is like an intelligent tumor. Tumor cells only have the biological instinct to erode the host's normal cells and do not have the ability to think. However, the genes corrupted by black water are different. They will mutate and recombine to give birth to new life------that is to say, engineers are placed in the environment suitable for biological reproduction. What is done on the planet is transferred into individual organisms.
When the dangers of black water were proven by the first tribesman to die for this purpose, the engineers turned their attention to those planets that had been seeded and conducted many extermination experiments.
Depending on the amount of black water put in, the changes in the host after infection are also different, but one thing is certain, because the genes of the seeding star come from engineers, and the genes of engineers come from the "Creator", and Fluorite is from the "Creator" civilization Relics, and in some cases, new creatures born after the death of the host have more or less the shadow of the "creator".
This greatly encouraged the engineers' scientists to turn their attention to the object closest to them in evolution--human beings, the earth.
This triggered a debate between science and ethics.
Should we sacrifice humans to achieve the ultimate goal in a religious sense, or should we preserve this close relative civilization?
At this point, all the questions Lin Yue wanted to know were answered.
"Lin, be careful."
Just as he was digesting and absorbing the information revealed by the engineer, Vickers' tone came from the communicator.
He quickly stopped his chaotic thoughts and took a closer look. The part with spiral texture next to the dormant cabin settled, and a structure similar to a weapons rack popped up inside.
The engineer's uninjured hand grabbed a weird-looking gun. Without thinking, Lin Yue suddenly pressed the trigger and shot the engineer through the body amidst David's dissuasion.
Plop!
The 2-meter-tall body fell to the ground, light green blood gurgling.
"You shouldn't have killed him. You ruined the whole plan."
Lin Yue walked to the edge of the platform, smiled at the cyborg with only one head left under the steps, moved the muzzle of the gun over, and pressed his finger on the trigger.
Bang~
Wow~
It sounded like the sound of a bullet shell breaking.
After understanding these two problems, Lin Yue walked to the seat in front of the console, imitated the movements of engineers in historical images and played the recorder, started the navigation system of the spacecraft, and watched a rocket launcher slowly rise in the middle of the platform. The cockpit of the machine.
With deep curiosity, he sat in the cockpit and pressed his fingers on the control panel a few times.
A huge three-dimensional star map flashed out, illuminating the entire room, and the light spots representing star systems continued to rotate around the cockpit.
"Oh, God."
Vickers, who was in front of the circular screen, picked up the coffee on the table and took a sip, then suddenly turned back as if he heard something and looked towards the entrance of the room.
…
Lin Yue stayed in the cockpit of the alien spacecraft for a whole night. When the storm outside was about to subside, he left the spacecraft and walked along the way he came from to where Elizabeth Xiao and others were blocked by the stone door. He climbed up the folding ladder to the wall and traced the outline symbols with his fingers a few times.
The heavy stone door rumbled up, revealing pottery urns one after another. A shining green stone was placed under the sculpture of a human head in the front.
That's what engineers call fluorite, the source of black water.
Lin Yue walked over, and after making sure there was no danger, he threw the fluorite into the portable space, took a photo of the mural recording the intelligent alien (engineer creator), and then took out two reagent bottles, one of which was put in a pottery urn The collected black water was used to contain the earthworm creatures found on the ground, and then left the pyramid and returned to the Prometheus in the landing vehicle.
No wonder David conducted so many genetic experiments, but chose to stop when it came to the Facehugger and the corresponding exoskeleton Perfect Alien. Moreover, when he got the Covenant spacecraft, he took it with him, not the Blackwater specimen, but the Facehugger eggs. Facehuggers can only produce one thing - a perfect alien with an exoskeleton.
Because the perfect body alien is closest to the Creator in the Engineer totem worship!
As a being who compares favorably with engineers and humans, isn't the best way to prove one's ability to trample their "Creator" under their feet?
The storm had subsided and there were no obstacles on the road. When the landing vehicle entered the hangar and parked, Lin Yue threw the sniper rifle to a soldier, entered the air chamber, and took the elevator to the upper space.
As soon as the car door opened, the scene in front of him made his pupils shrink suddenly.
