Suddenly, Xu Xin caught a glimpse of a small, pitch-black head sticking out of a window.
Six or seven eyes were all blinking and staring at this side, looking at him curiously.
Is this the life that the monster just mentioned that he had awakened
Xu Xin's eyes met the little monster.
The other party was not afraid, but instead stuck his head out.
“… Ying!” Coco was not afraid of the little monster that was far away. Instead, she cried out in that direction and waved her little paws.
Xu Xin also waved at it.
The little monster first blinked its eyes, then slowly raised one of its arms, and imitated Xu Xin's movements, waving its hand at him.
There were also several eyes on its waving hand, all of which were open, looking at Xu Xin with curiosity.
"It doesn't seem to be afraid of me." Xu Xin turned his head and looked at the monster.
"Of course, the aesthetics of new life must be established." said the monster, and at the same time, the half-open eyes behind it opened.
The little monster was actually a little afraid of the monster. When it saw the monster open its eyes behind it, it immediately retracted its head.
A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger.
That's not the case.
As a new life, its aesthetic sense has not yet been fully established, so it naturally would not think that Xu Xin's "human appearance" is disgusting or scary, it only has a curious mentality.
Not to mention that this little monster is half human.
The monster has the same aesthetic views as alien invaders because he grew up among them, but this little monster has not been affected.
It may really not have any fear or disgust towards humans.
It's a pity that humans nowadays would feel fear and disgust towards it, after all, its appearance is no different from that of a monster. Even Xu Xin nowadays is not completely accustomed to face-to-face communication with monsters, and it is even more impossible for others to accept it.
But... although the aesthetic tastes of those who have lived for decades have become almost fixed, their next generation does not.
He suddenly thought, if the monster really created a race like it, and if this race was also friendly, then maybe...
Perhaps friendship can be established between the new generation of monsters and the new generation of humans.
Judging from the appearance of the little monster just now, it is actually more human than the monster in front of him.
At least the skin is much smoother and there are fewer eyes, so it doesn't cause so much physical discomfort.
"Are you confident in your plan to create a race?" Xu Xin asked the monster.
"Of course." The monster nodded, and the eyes behind him looked at the window where the little monster was looking out, and said, "It has reached the final stage. In less than a year, the results should be ready."
"Time outside the World Tree?"
"Time inside the World Tree."
"That's really fast."
His idea about racial coexistence just now seemed far away and unrealistic, but it was actually right in front of him.
Given their age, it would be very easy for them to give birth to the next generation.
Especially in this seemingly stable World Tree, the survivors have already spent several months leisurely.
There have even been cases of accidental pregnancy.
At this age, everyone has settled down and it is normal for dry wood to meet fire and do something.
At this moment, another head popped out of the window of the tree house.
"oh… ?"
Xu Xin was a little surprised.
"ah… "
The head just took a look and then shrank back.
It was a human head, but the neck was abnormally long.
And this face also seemed familiar to Xu Xin.
It was the monster woman whose neck could stretch out that Shi Wanyun saw in her memory.
"You finally let them out?"
The monster came here with its genetically mutated humans under it.
After all, it also needs to conduct experiments, and these mutated humans are the source of its human genes.
It said that it would not attack the survivors in the World Tree and the humans in the underground world because it now has these people as raw materials.
"I didn't release all of them. I just released more than 30 of them to help me with the experiment."
"… You only released a few of them? You have at least a thousand people under your command, right?"
There are thousands of people, but these are all survivors who have gone through layers of selection. They are a very large group.
The reason why Xu Xin and the others did not ask it to grant freedom to this group of mutant humans now is because their number is even greater than that of normal people in the World Tree.
At the same time, this group of mutants have a morbid worship of monsters and even alien invaders.
This factor is still too unstable for the current situation.
So they allowed the monster to continue experimenting on these people. Of course, the monster also promised them that it would not harm these people.
"You're probably worried." The monster spread out its two twisted arms that were longer than its legs. "Those humans have undergone genetic mutations and have very strong abilities. Although there's a certain distance between where I am and where you live, it's very easy for some of them to get over there."
Is that so…
That's true, we can't let them out at this stage.
This is indeed a bit dangerous.
That group of people have been brainwashed now, and who knows what they might do.
We must wait until they are able to completely resolve this matter before considering releasing them.
"You really care about us." Xu Xin smiled and shook his head.
"Haha, I'm also thinking about myself." The monster said helplessly, "I will have to manage these people after they are released... I don't want to live with more than a thousand humans on Earth. You might as well let me die."
Too.
Although those mutated humans are different from humans in some aspects, in the eyes of monsters, there is probably no difference.
"Anyway, you should quickly research the anti-brainwashing drug and take them all away this morning." The monster waved his hand.
"You don't need their genes anymore?" Xu Xin asked.
"Basically, the samples have been preserved, and the experiment is coming to an end. They are no longer useful for my experiment. Please do it as soon as possible. Keeping them is not a solution."
"…How did you collect them?" Xu Xin asked the question in his mind.
"Same as you." The monster said, "I have a similar bracelet to yours."
"Is that so?" Xu Xin nodded.
He was not surprised by this.
His rings and bracelets that could hold living things were all made of Changyin.
And Changyin has always been under the control of the monster.
Not only in the underground world, but even before, when he met Chang Yin and had to break through one level after another in the prison-like dungeon, it was all the work of the monster in front of him.
However, Xu Xin had asked it before, and it didn't know what petrified creatures were. The long seal was actually discovered by the first group of survivors. Before that, it didn't know of the existence of the long seal.
When the first group of survivors found Changyin, he was still a normal person, but later he was petrified for unknown reasons.
The monster itself is somewhat unclear about petrification energy.
Xu Xin believed what it said, because if it knew, there would be no need for Chang Yin to preside over the experiments in the underground world.
"The space in the bracelet is large, enough for those people to survive inside, but it's not a long-term solution. Anyway, you should hurry up."
"Okay." Xu Xin nodded, then looked at the window again.
In that room, there was not only that little monster, but also dozens of mutant humans.
No wonder the little monster didn't think he was scary when he poked his head out. Instead, he felt a little curious and even greeted him.
It turns out that it is because there have always been mutant humans around it taking care of it...
Although mutant humans are different from normal people, they still have human appearance.
"By the way, I still don't know your name." Xu Xin turned and said to the monster.
"My name..." The monster's mouth opened to the back of his head, "It's useless for you to know it."
"Why?"
"Because my name is *)%@."
"…?"
“*)%@, that’s my name.”
Well, the language of alien invaders.
Very weird.
but…
"This is... the meaning of 'hope', right?" Xu Xin said with a smile.
"...How do you know?" The monster was stunned.
"I don't know why, but I can understand the language of the alien invaders." Xu Xin said.
Before, in Shi Wanyun's memory, he could understand the language of monsters.
Perhaps it was the legacy left to him by Xu Xin, who had studied the language of the alien invaders.
"Yes, it means hope. Because I am their hope." The monster said with some melancholy, "But in the end they gave up, and that time and space collapsed. Don't call me Hope, it's too weird."
"Then give yourself a name, otherwise I don't know what to call you."
"Um... let me think about it. I've never thought about it."
"Okay, I'm leaving now."
“…嘤!” Coco seemed to no longer be afraid of the monster in front of her. She poked out her little head and waved her claws.
Xu Xin said goodbye to the monster and returned to his villa.
At this time, Li Wenxi was the only one in the villa.
At this time, Li Wenxi was lying on the sofa and had fallen asleep.
After all, it's rest time, it's "night".
"Wen Xi, get up and go to your room to sleep." Xu Xin pinched her cheek.
“Hmm…” Li Wenxi turned over and continued to sleep.
"Really..." Xu Xin shook his head helplessly.
After living in the World Tree for two months, Li Wenxi's sense of crisis, which he had developed in life-and-death situations, has basically disappeared.
He pinched her face, but she was unwilling to wake up. This shows that she has no sense of crisis.
This would be impossible before the World Tree matured.
Well, actually he himself had no right to say anything about Wen Xi.
He felt that his perception of crisis had become dulled.
Otherwise, he would not have done such bold things among the petrified creatures when he went out on Huihui, and he might not have been shot down when he came back.
He picked up Li Wenxi, who was lying on the sofa, and walked towards the bedroom upstairs.
…
When he woke up the next day, Xu Xin walked to the window and opened the blackout curtains.
"Hmm... so bright..." Li Wenxi buried his head in the quilt and said in a muffled voice.
"Are you going down again today?" Xu Xin asked, sitting back on the bed.
“… I can’t go down.”
Li Wenxi slowly stood up from the bed, the quilt slipped off her body, revealing part of her seductive body.
"We have collected a lot of mineral resources during this period. I don't need to go any more for now. I need to rest for a few days." She yawned, "Ah... I'm still so sleepy..."
Then she fell back onto the bed and covered her face with the covers.
Because the quilt was not long enough, her little feet were exposed underneath.
She murmured in a muffled voice: "Good night... Help me draw the curtains..."
“Hmm…” Coco, who was lying on the head of the bed, also echoed.
Xu Xin couldn't help but let a smile appear on his face.
Then, a feeling of worry arose in my heart.
I don’t know how long this peaceful life can last.
But if you want to live peacefully like this forever, maybe you can only...
Drive the alien invaders out of the earth.
…
"Xu Xin, those petrified creatures are almost reaching the edge of Crystal City."
Ji Chaoyang called.
"We should go out and take a look."
Judging from the time, those petrified creatures should be arriving soon.
Xu Xin said: "I will go find that guy right now. He is the one who controls the petrified creatures."
"You went to find it yesterday, what did it say?" Ji Chaoyang asked.
"It said it would hand over control of the petrified creatures to us."
"Well, I hope it doesn't break its promise."
…
The only people who came out of the World Tree were Xu Xin, Ji Chaoyang, and the monster.
At this moment, as soon as they stepped on the ground outside, they could already feel the ground shaking.
The group of petrified creatures has already reached the edge of Crystal City.
The giant beasts standing in a row beside the Crystal City directly made the mutant creatures that were still living outside the Crystal City restless.
However, the group of petrified creatures stopped at the edge of the Crystal City and had no intention of entering the Crystal City.
At the same time, the lake east of Crystal City began to fluctuate again.
A huge anaconda head slowly rose from the center of the lake, and a pair of eyes like the abyss looked over here.
Xu Xin immediately discovered this situation through his map ability. A red dot lit up again in the center of the lake.
"The giant anaconda in the center of the lake has come out." Xu Xin said to Ji Chaoyang and the monster, "However, it seems to be just staring at this side, with no intention of taking action."
"Didn't you speculate that the giant anaconda in the center of the lake was here to protect us? However, it is probably now feeling that it is no match for such a large circle of petrified creatures." Ji Chaoyang said, looking towards the direction of the lake.
The giant anaconda's head was already raised high in the center of the lake; even from three kilometers away, the people could still see the monster's head.
"Has it grown a little bigger?" Xu Xin was slightly surprised.
"I'm not sure, but since it has no intention of coming over, let's put it aside for now." Ji Chaoyang looked at the monster, "It's your turn."
The monster's mouth twitched. "I have restored Changyin's consciousness. You can talk to him. He knows more about petrified creatures than I do. Can you send me back? My experiment is still in progress."
Xu Xin looked at it speechlessly.
No wonder it was a little reluctant when I called it out just now.
"Okay, then you go back first."
"If you have any questions, you can come to me."
The monster went back in a hurry.
It seems that it is at a critical stage of the experiment.
"Okay, let's go take a look."
The two of them easily teleported to the edge of Crystal City through the coordinates next to the World Tree.
Here, countless mutant creatures were already on high alert, baring their teeth at the petrified creatures outside the Crystal City, but they did not dare to rush out.
After all, the sizes of these petrified creatures are really scary, even the insects are not small.
After living in Crystal City for a few days, this group of mutant creatures have noticeably grown in size.
"…Xu Xin?"
At this time, a voice with a hint of confusion and doubt came from the group of giant beasts.
Then, a stone man came out from behind the legs of a giant beast.
"You are... Ji Chaoyang, right? I still remember you."
Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang breathed a sigh of relief.
It seems that Changyin has indeed regained consciousness.
"Changyin, welcome to our territory."
Xu Xin and Ji Chaoyang walked in front of Chang Yin.
Chang Yin was exactly the same as when he met them in the underworld before, without any change at all.
Chang Yin was looking around.
"This is your territory? Why am I here... and why is this tree... so big?"
Chang Yin looked up at the extremely lush crown of the World Tree, with a hint of confusion in his stone eyes.
Behind it, the group of petrified creatures were silent and motionless, like a group of withered statues, which was completely different from the shock caused by their march.
"This is a long story. We also have a lot of things we want to ask you. However, this is not a place for a long discussion. Come with us." Ji Chaoyang said.
Changyin glanced at them, then turned to look at the group of petrified creatures behind him.
He was silent for a few seconds, and finally nodded and said, "Okay."