The half-human, half-monster in front of him sat down on the sofa.
When Shi Wanyun saw the movement of it sitting down, her eyelids couldn't help but twitch again.
When she first saw this monster, it was sitting on such a strange chair, looking at her in this posture.
At this moment, the monster was still looking at her in this posture.
"Shi Wanyun, that's your name, right?" The monster's fangs slowly opened and closed. "Sorry for what happened in my world tree before."
The first words the monster said were to apologize to Shi Wanyun
This not only made Shi Wanyun feel a little stunned, but also shocked the other three people present.
Xu Xin looked at the monster with even more confusion.
Its posture is really low.
Although it is indeed seeking cooperation, it is, after all, a being that is at least several hundred years old, possesses powerful physical abilities and technology, and is a being that comes from another time and space and possesses space-time abilities.
Such a thing could even apologize to Shi Wanyun, who was in her twenties. This was enough to show how humble it was.
Why
"Ah... nothing." Shi Wanyun quickly calmed down her surprise and nodded gently.
The opponent was very strong and so humble, so she couldn't say anything else.
At this time Xu Ying said: "Now, you should tell us what you want to do here. What do you want to get from us?"
"… If I say I'm here to seek refuge with you, what will you do?"
The monster's first words made everyone present look at it with their eyes wide open.
Go to them
Is this some kind of international joke
Alien survivors, join them? !
No... it is not an alien survivor, but a hybrid creature that does not originally exist in this time and space.
Could it be that... it's not easy for it to get along with the alien survivors
Yes...
Originally, it was a prince-like existence. Even though most alien invaders admitted that it was of the same kind, they could only be angry but not speak out.
But in this time and space, it is not the prince.
It's... just a bastard.
"You..." Xu Ying also thought of this and stared at the monster in front of her and asked, "Are you rejected by your side?"
"Rejection..."
The black, fluid-like muscles on the monster's arms rolled like waves.
"I can't say it was rejection, because they never really accepted me from the beginning."
The monster's horrible mouth that was split to the back of its head opened and closed, and began to tell them a story.
In the last dozen years in another time and space, its mental state was very unstable.
It has human genes and alien invader genes. These two genes, which have almost no similarities, were forcibly blended into its body and it was born into this world with the help of a human womb.
Its birth itself symbolizes the pinnacle level of biotechnology of the alien invaders.
It was the first and last successful case.
Before it, all experiments had failed.
After it was born, the experiment was temporarily terminated because the investment was too large and the failure rate was too high.
Moreover, the alien invaders need to observe its growth before considering whether to conduct experiments.
So, it is a very unique existence.
But unfortunately, this experiment was not restarted.
Mixing Earth's human genes with those of alien creatures is a practice advocated by genetic scientists among alien invaders.
This story begins with the first invasion war.
Before the alien invaders completely invaded the earth, some of them had actually come to this water-covered blue planet to explore.
Those beings are called Star Navigators.
They are responsible for searching the universe for planets with abundant resources or life.
If suitable, they will return to the home planet with the coordinates of the planet.
These coordinates will be screened to select the planets most suitable for colonization.
Among them, the planet Earth was not initially favored.
Because this planet is covered with the substances they hate the most.
water.
Water is the source of life for life on Earth, but for them, it is not the source of life at all, and they even hate it.
But the humans on Earth took them by surprise.
The interstellar navigators of alien life have all explored the existence of countless planets, and they basically will not be too surprised no matter what is on these planets.
But the humans on Earth have failed to keep them going.
The first is the technology of the earth.
They were surprised to find that the Earth's technological level had developed to the point where it could explore outer space.
Although it is still in its infancy, those who have experienced this stage know it very well. The technology that has entered this stage has been developing at an ultra-high speed!
According to the course of life on Earth, it took hundreds of millions of years for life to transform from a single-celled life to a multi-celled life.
It also took hundreds of millions of years for reptiles to evolve into mammals.
It took tens of millions of years for humans with advanced intelligence to emerge from mammals.
In fact, the formation of human civilization has only occurred in the last five or six thousand years.
In the past five or six thousand years, science and technology has actually been slowly accumulating and developing.
But at this stage, the development of science and technology is very slow.
Just like there were hundreds of years between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, but there was actually no huge change in human life between the two eras.
The technology at that time could not change our lives very obviously.
But in modern times, after the Industrial Revolution, the speed of technological development began to skyrocket as if nitrogen was turned on!
The First Industrial Revolution, the Second Industrial Revolution, human life has undergone earth-shaking changes time and time again.
And by the era of alien invaders thousands of years ago, the world entered a period of rapid development.
Not to mention hundreds of years, even in a dozen years or even a few years, people's lives will undergo tremendous changes due to the development of science and technology.
Every minute and every second, there are people lamenting the gap between the past and the present.
This stage is called the "fastest stage" of technological development by alien creatures.
With sufficient accumulation and without reaching the bottleneck of technological development due to the demand for material energy, the level of technological development will only get faster and faster until the resources on this planet can no longer meet the demand.
Then, like them, begin exploring the universe.
This process may not take long.
In fact, perhaps it can be achieved in a few hundred years.
In other words, soon, a group of intelligent creatures that can explore the universe like them will be born here!
So they immediately conducted research on humans on Earth.
As a result, another surprising conclusion was reached.
Humans on Earth are particularly outstanding in terms of IQ, and the organ they use to think, called the "brain", is also very amazing.
Although the IQ of humans on Earth is not the highest when compared with other intelligent creatures in the universe, the potential of the human brain is indeed beyond the imagination of alien invaders.
The degree of development of the human brain on Earth... is actually very low.
But even at such a low level, their technological level has already developed to such a level, to the "highest speed stage"!
And humans on Earth, with their extremely underdeveloped brains, almost accomplished this feat.
This incident spread to the mother planet, causing a collective uproar among the alien creatures on the mother planet.
For them, this is simply the most horrifying thing that has ever happened!
On a terrifying planet covered with water, there lives a group of creatures with extraordinary intelligence, huge potential, and extremely terrifying appearance!
In a few hundred years, the technological level of these creatures may reach the level where they can explore the universe!
But they were lucky because they found these horrible creatures before they developed.
Since this group of people is so terrifying and will threaten them, then... before they catch up, they should be completely wiped out!
We cannot allow a species that could threaten their population to continue to survive in this world!
Especially since the appearance of this species is so "ugly", so unsightly, and so terrifying!
If this species looked cute and attractive, they might still struggle, but such an ugly species would not arouse any desire to protect them.
Thus, the plan of "extinction of human beings on earth" was confirmed by an overwhelming vote.
…
The monster in front of him slowly told the story in a somewhat halting human language.
Xu Xin and the other three people present were all horrified when they heard this.
So... Is this the reason why alien invaders invaded the earth
"Just because of this reason, are you going to wipe out all life on Earth?" Wen Guixin gritted her teeth.
"No, not the life on Earth."
The monster corrected.
"Yes, there are only humans on Earth. We... No, they only carried out genocide against humans, not other Earth life forms. Because they have research value, and they would still feel guilty for exterminating a race, so they ordered that they are not allowed to take the initiative to exterminate other Earth races."
This is really a bit ironic.
"So hypocritical." Shi Wanyun sighed softly, "All highly intelligent creatures are like this, aren't they?"
Shi Wanyun's words made the other three people's words stuck in their mouths.
Then he smiled bitterly and shook his head.
This is not very pleasant to hear.
But it is true.
Humans have directly or indirectly caused the extinction of countless species.
But if this kind of thing happens to one's own race, it would be a blood feud.
"I want to hear the continuation of your story." Xu Ying said to the monster.
"good."
The monster's story continued.
…
So, it is the well-known incident of alien creatures invading the earth.
Although the plan was to exterminate the human race on this Earth, at the last moment, it was not actually accomplished.
Because the complex and undeveloped brains of humans on Earth are an extreme temptation to the scientists among them!
It would be such a waste to completely exterminate them!
Although other higher life forms on Earth also have similar structures, for these scientists, the brains of those lower intelligent creatures are completely incomparable to the brains of humans on Earth that scare them!
So... there were those survivors of the war of aggression.
That is, this group of people including Xu Xin and Xu Ying of that time and space.
The main purpose of leaving this group of survivors is not to govern the planet, but to study their brains!
…
"... Did you know about this?" Xu Xin turned to look at Xu Ying, whose expression was a little dazed, and then shook his head.
She didn't need to answer. Just looking at her expression, I knew she had no idea about this.
"… I don't know about this, but… no wonder…"
Xu Ying murmured to herself.
"In the first few years, there was a period of time when a considerable number of our group of survivors disappeared and died. The reason was unknown. Of course, we all thought that they were captured by alien invaders for experiments. Unexpectedly..."
I didn't expect that I actually guessed it right.
"What happened later? Only the first few years?" Wen Guixin asked.
"Later... Later, most people were brainwashed. So that's how it is..." Xu Ying bit her lip lightly, "It turns out that they are studying our human brain..."
"That's right." The monster continued.
…
The more we study the human brain on Earth, the more terrified alien invaders will be.
If the human brain on Earth could unleash its full potential, it would be truly terrifying!
They are so eager for it!
Their original plan was to take some "experimental subjects" away from this terrifying planet covered with water and return to their home planet where survival resources were relatively abundant for research.
But unexpectedly, they discovered a substance on this planet that was beyond their imagination and made them extremely excited.
One of a kind, special crystal!
It was also this crystal that made them, who originally did not want to colonize this horrible planet, endure the discomfort and stay.
…
"… What use is this crystal mine to you?" Xu Ying interrupted and asked.
She knew that the alien invaders had been mining crystal mines. In the initial period, they even mined crystal mines almost crazily. At that time, all the survivors were forced to work as miners, mining day and night.
Many people even died of exhaustion.
"This is the most important part of what I want to tell you this time. But let me finish talking about my own situation first."
The monster's tone became much faster, but still a little stumbling.
"good."
…
Although they stayed for the crystal mines, the biological scientists among the alien invaders did not give up studying the human brain on Earth.
They are still conducting intensive research on the human brain.
Their fear of humans on Earth is innate, so the first thing they did in their research was to brainwash these survivors.
At the same time, they don't want the Earth's human population to flood again. The horrifying birth rate of Earth's human population is also one of the sources of their inner fear.
As a result, they affected the reproductive capacity of these survivors.
…
"Reproductive ability?" Wen Guixin opened her mouth wide enough to fit an egg in it, and looked at Xu Ying with a strange expression, "Have you been... sterilized?"
"What?" Xu Ying glared at Wen Guixin. "How could such a thing happen? I didn't even know it!"
Then she thought for a moment, "But... I see, our chances of having offspring are really low. I thought it was because the alien invaders banned reproduction, or maybe everyone is just like our team and doesn't have the time to have children... So it's eliminated directly from a physiological point of view... Is it food?"
"Food." The monster nodded.
"No wonder the fertility rate is so low..." Xu Ying murmured.
Xu Xin also seemed to realize something.
The reason why the man who came to Area 1 to look for Shi Wanyun showed up less than a day after his son disappeared might be because of this reason.
The fertility of this group of survivors has been affected, and it is very difficult for them to have offspring, so he is so worried about his son.
For example, we would contact each other every night, but this time I couldn’t get in touch with him, so I came here out of worry.
The monster continued to speak.
…
The alien invaders' craze for the human brain doesn't end there.
They want to integrate humans' smart genes into their population!
If they could have such a brain, and fully develop it...
The extent to which their populations benefit is simply unimaginable!
Their first step is to try to fuse the two genes into one organism.
Thus, an experimental plan to create half-human, half-monster creatures was born, and it was strongly supported by the leader of the entire invading army, who even offered his own genes.
After a period of research, their technology gradually matured.
But every time they failed, it was too difficult to merge two completely different genes into one species.
Later they discovered a way to increase their success rate.
Humans are mammals. Only by growing and being born in the mother's womb can they have the healthiest body and the most complete lifespan. Therefore, they need a womb that can give birth to their offspring... the human womb on Earth.
During that period, a large number of female survivors began to disappear.
…
"Finally, I was born."
The monster said.
"And my mother was sent back. Among the survivors, she was considered a hero, but her appearance made them unacceptable, so she was sent back. Moreover, if the plan is restarted, she may be needed."
“So that’s how it is…” Xu Ying sighed.
Then she turned to look at Wen Guixin who was thinking beside her.
The monster also turned its head and opened the two eyes on its face to look at Wen Guixin.
Wen Guixin saw Xu Ying and the monster looking at her, and suddenly woke up from her thoughts and was a little confused: "What are you doing? What are you looking at me for?"
"Sister Gui Xin, actually..." Xu Ying hesitated for a moment, finding it difficult to speak.
At this time, the monster's mouth opened again: "Do you know why I wanted to cooperate with your team in that time and space?"
Xu Xin's eyelids trembled twice, Tong Kong shrank suddenly, and slowly turned his head to look at Wen Guixin beside him.
Shi Wanyun took a breath and her throat rolled.
Wen Guixin's eyes were dull.
"W…what do you mean? W…what do you mean?!"