Chapter 401: Mutated Creatures Falling Like Rain
The High Evolutionary had simulated the appearance of Earth here, creating a region hundreds of miles wide, mimicking Earth's North and South Poles and dividing it into cold, hot, and temperate zones.
Just like Earth, the simulated polar regions here experienced a polar night period lasting up to half a year annually.
Currently, the Arctic region On the Spaceship was shrouded in the coldest, darkest polar night of the year.
The bitter cold of nearly minus one hundred degrees Celsius, the cold wind reaching speeds of four hundred kilometers per hour, and the snow chunks, harder than metal and stone, occasionally swept up by the gale, all turned this place into a dead zone.
Directly Above the North Pole, an energy shield with a diameter of over ten kilometers separated a unique environment. It was a Laboratory covering an area of over ten kilometers, where hundreds of Sovereign in protective suits were constantly busy, shuttling back and forth, transporting various materials, and recording experiment data. On the faces of these Sovereign in the Laboratory, there was no sign of their race's arrogance; everyone's face was numb, like countless heartless machines wound up.
In the central area of the Laboratory, there was a completely enclosed transparent Laboratory. Inside the Laboratory, a strangely shaped giant centrifuge device hung high, facing a large lamp in the Laboratory that resembled a searchlight.
A Sovereign Experimenter carefully placed a guinea pig from a cage into the Laboratory, almost jogging out of the Laboratory and pressing a button to close the Laboratory's heavy hatch.
A female Experimenter with blonde hair and golden eyes, wearing a protective suit and a high ponytail, pressed the machine's start button. A buzzing sound filled the area around the Laboratory; it was the sound of the Spaceship's energy battery continuously supplying energy to the machine.
Buzz buzz buzz—
As the energy indicator lights on the Laboratory machine lit up one by one, the machine's interior began to spin rapidly. The searchlight also lit up with a white light, enveloping the guinea pig used for the experiment.
The guinea pig's body in the white light seemed to have its speed button pressed. Its body trembled continuously, its fur grew wildly all over, its teeth bulged out, and its body size grew from half a foot long to five or six feet long. "MD1479046524 Experiment Subject, experiment failed, archive experiment data, request destruction of Experiment Subject!"
"Request approved! Destruction hatch will open in ten seconds. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two..."
Inside the Laboratory, the guinea pig had now evolved into a rat-person with strong limbs, bulging muscle, a rat head, and blood-red eyes. It was currently clinging to the single-sided transparent laboratory wall, gnawing at the wall with its sharp teeth, trying to escape. It was completely unaware that the smooth floor beneath its feet was slowly opening as the final countdown sounded.
*Shhh!*
The hatch opened. The rat-person, who had gnawed several scratch marks into the wall, didn't even react before its body plummeted downwards. It frantically swung its tail, over four meters long, trying to wrap around something to slow its descent, but the smooth Laboratory was completely empty. The bitter cold wind howled. Before the Experiment Subject rat-person could even land, its body was frozen and solidified into a block of frozen meat. *Crash!* The rat-person ice sculpture smashed onto the Ice Mountain below, its body shattering into dozens of pieces. After confirming the rat-person was eliminated, the hatch in the Laboratory closed again. Simultaneously, multiple probes/sensors in the Laboratory began high-temperature disinfection of the entire Laboratory.
The wall that had been bitten with several scratch marks by the rat-person's sharp teeth also automatically healed.
Five minutes later, a Sovereign Experimenter led a goat into the Laboratory. "Buzz buzz buzz buzz—" As the Laboratory's power supply sound rang out, another round of experiments began.
Looking closely, one would find that there were dozens of such Laboratories, each covering an area of over ten kilometers, throughout the entire Spaceship.
The Main Control Cabin of the Pinnacle Spaceship was also vast. In an area of tens of kilometers, plants and trees were lush green, and a hundred flowers bloomed.
In the palace-like Palace, the luxurious Room, the High Evolutionary was drinking coffee while looking at the light screen in front of him. The light screen displayed a scene of bloody combat!
The Artificial Ocean, hundreds of kilometers wide, was covered with a thick Ice Layer. Dozens of Hulking Man, some wearing only a beast hide around their loins, and some completely naked, were fighting each other bare-handed in the harsh weather of nearly minus one hundred degrees Celsius, harvesting each other's life with fists and teeth.
These Big man had varied appearances. Some had bear heads and were covered in thick white fur, some had grown multiple arms, and some were flesh giants that looked like they had been skinned.
These Big man roared and howled in anger.
These mutated humans, whose genes had been modulated and evolved, had extremely tenacious vitality. The external temperature was extremely low, but the low temperature and gale had no influence on them.
These Big man all possessed great strength. Any casual fist or foot strike on the Ice Layer could smash open an extremely long and deep gap in the Ice Layer, which was several times harder than steel.
They fought each other brutally. A bear-person tightly strangled the neck of a flesh giant from behind, using brute strength to forcefully tear off its head.
Before the bear-person could bring its mouth to the severed neck of the flesh giant to drink its hot blood, the headless flesh giant extended its arms and forcefully embraced the bear-person, performing a back suplex.
The bear-person was slammed hard onto the Ice Layer, while the headless flesh giant exhausted its last trace of vitality and collapsed onto the Ice Layer. In the low temperature of nearly minus one hundred degrees Celsius, it quickly froze into a puddle of frozen meat.
The bear-person shook its head and was about to get up when a black tail stinger directly pierced into its eye sockets, churning its brain matter into a puddle of paste.
The one who succeeded in the sneak attack was an insect-like monster covered in spotted scales. It pounced on the bear-person's corpse and began to gnaw.
Amidst the flying flesh and blood, a grinding mill-sized ice cube crashed down towards its back of the head, knocking it to the Ground.
On the light screen in front of the High Evolutionary, dozens of Big man fought for over half an hour in the low temperature of nearly minus one hundred degrees Celsius, just for a bite to eat. In the end, only one monster resembling a shark, over ten meters long, survived. It bit through the Ice Layer from Underwater, taking away the dozens of frozen meat corpses, along with the remains of the broken rat-person.
The High Evolutionary finished a pot of coffee, reviewed the data from several Laboratories, and looking at those ugly Experiment Subjects, he even lost the interest in drinking coffee.
What he wanted was not killing machines; he wanted to create a perfect race! Undying life, perfect genes, not these violent Defective Product.
Suddenly, the light screen in front of the High Evolutionary flickered, and MODOK's figure suddenly appeared on the screen.
"Dr. Wyndham, something unexpected happened. Those Predator detonated their Spaceship. I need to request another batch of Experiment Subjects!"
In the golden seat, MODOK spread his two small arms, a slightly awkward look on his big head face. After all, just a few hours ago, he had patted his head and guaranteed the High Evolutionary that he would capture that Predator alive, but unexpectedly, he had ended up in such a sorry state.
Regarding MODOK's failure, the High Evolutionary appeared very calm. "I will give you reinforcements, but you don't have many chances with me. Out of consideration for being fellow Earthlings, I will give you one more chance. If you fail, I would be very happy to add a research project on the Quantum Realm to the Spaceship's Laboratory!
I'm very curious to see what effect my gene evolution device will have when superimposed on your body, which has been eroded by the quantum storm!"
After speaking, the High Evolutionary no longer paid attention to MODOK, whose complexion had become extremely unsightly. Instead, he picked up a communicator nearby and began issuing orders.
"Release one-third of the Experiment Subjects!"
Hanging up the communicator, the High Evolutionary pointed a finger, and the light screen in front of him suddenly expanded to hundreds of meters in size. The giant light screen split into hundreds of smaller screens.
The content displayed on the light screens was the scenes happening on the Mining Planet below. These split screens included images of the lonely big head suspended at high altitude, as well as an aerial view of the huge Ring-shaped Sand Pit created by the spaceship explosion on the Ground.
These light screens even showed scenes of the Planet Natives fleeing. In one light screen, the figure of Boss Tang, riding on a pack beast and drinking water from a green skin gourd, clearly appeared. However, the High Evolutionary's attention was not focused on these Natives. With a thought, the light screens in front of him changed, and dozens of split screens were all scenes of Predator, Alien, and those variants fighting.
In one split screen, over a dozen dark Alien were surrounding several mutated spiders in a Pile of Rocks. The two sides engaged in a very short but extremely bloody combat.
Facing over a dozen top predators/hunters who could use invisibility and whose body surface could release high-voltage electrical currents, these large mutated spiders, even with the advantage of the terrain, only managed to hold on for less than thirty breaths before becoming a pile of rotten meat and being dragged away. Near a deserted Mine, two Predator used a group of Natives as a decoy, leading dozens of Alien to ambush over a dozen flesh giants and hundreds of mutated creatures that had come drawn by the scent. "Controlling Alien? Could it be that the Predator Clan's biotechnology has achieved a new breakthrough!" the High Evolutionary muttered to himself as he watched the light screen.
The hatch at the bottom of the Pinnacle Spaceship opened. MODOK, looking disheveled, soon saw the reinforcements the High Evolutionary had given him.
*Rumble*, the Spaceship seemed to be dumping junk outwards, pouring down various mutated creatures whose gene evolution had failed. These brutal variants fell from the sky like black raindrops.
Most of the variants fell from a height of several thousand kilometers and were directly smashed into meat paste, but the surviving variants numbered in the hundreds of thousands, even over a million.
"Let me see if the Alien you control can kill all these Defective Product I created!"
The High Evolutionary's body sat in the Spaceship's Main Control Room, but his soul left his physical body, exited the Spaceship, and flew towards the surface of the abandoned Planet.
This was the High Evolutionary's unique astral projection ability. He could survive indefinitely away from his physical body, and his spirit body possessed the ability of invisibility, which could evade mental scan and astral sense.
The High Evolutionary was eager to know how those Predator controlled Alien, these top predators/hunters. He had also conducted research on Alien, these killing machines.
He had tried to control Alien by changing their genes, but these Alien could devour other species to continuously optimize genes and compensate for their own genetic defect. He had experimented dozens of times, but these top predators/hunters simply could not be controlled.
In his astralization state, the High Evolutionary quickly flew to the Planet Surface. Following the location on the light screen, he found a Dark Iron Blood. He stood close to this Predator, watching him remote command several Alien to kill a flesh giant. Under the strong corrosion and potent poison secreted by these Alien, a flesh giant quickly became a puddle of bubbling meat paste. The High Evolutionary looked almost face-to-face at the jade talisman in the Dark Iron Blood's hand, studying the runes on it. The High Evolutionary could feel an energy feedback forming on the jade stone, sending out a strange pulse signal—
And this kind of energy signal was precisely a fluctuation directed at spirit bodies. If he hadn't been in an astralization state at that moment, he wouldn't have been able to detect this extremely weak fluctuation at all.
"Technology for controlling souls??" The High Evolutionary was somewhat in doubt. Could it be that the Predator Clan's technology had already developed to the point where they could control spirit bodies?
The Dark Iron Blood commanded several Alien to collect the meat paste on the Ground. Two of the Alien then took the flesh and blood and left for a nearby Lair.
The High Evolutionary quietly followed behind those two Alien.
Neither the Alien's combat instinct, which was etched into their genes, nor the scanning system of the Dark Iron Blood's highly technological Predator helmet, managed to detect the astralization High Evolutionary from beginning to end.
As the Priest of the Frog God, Geta seemed truly blessed by the Frog God on this Planet. His shuttle was directly hit by a crab-like, house-sized mutated creature. The shuttle was smashed, and the Pilot was also smashed into a pulp, but he was completely unharmed.
He didn't even get a scratch. Of course, besides the protection of the god, this was also thanks to the personal energy generating force field on his body, which created a barrier for him in times of crisis.
"My money, my money! My money! Ahhhhh!"
Geta struggled to crawl out of the sand. Looking around, his Pack Beast Slave team had all been smashed into puddles of meat paste. Geta didn't even pay attention to the variant falling from the sky and smashing into the Desert. He suddenly pounced in front of a bloody, unrecognizable thing, and with both hands, he pulled out a package from underneath its body.
*Clatter!* A handful of red crystal, the size of fingernails, spilled into his Palm. Geta clenched his Palm tightly. "My money!"
Geta tied up the opening of the damaged package, carried it on his body, and ran towards the next pack beast that had been smashed to death. Although his several hundred-pound body caused the Ground to shake as he ran, his speed was not slow.
If the Slaves who usually served Geta saw this, they would be greatly surprised, as Geta's usual performance in front of them was that of someone who gasped for breath with every step.
Driven by money, Geta soon had seven or eight more packages on his body. Just as he was about to pounce on a starfish that was over ten meters large and was struggling to lift one of its tentacle.
That tentacle suddenly opened its mouthparts full of sharp teeth and bit towards him.
*Pfft!*
Geta raised his hand and fired a gun. The energy gun in his hand, as thick as his forearm, fired an energy beam, directly blasting that starfish tentacle into a mess.
"My money!"
Geta snatched a package from under the starfish and was tying it onto his body when he suddenly felt something wet on his head. He looked up and saw that the giant starfish had stood up at some point, opening its huge mouthparts and leaning down towards him. The dripping liquid was the starfish's saliva.
Geta immediately took off running. The anti-gravity device on the soles of his shoes lifted his massive body, causing the starfish to bite at empty space and chew on sand.
At this time in the Desert, the variants with thick hides and flesh, or extremely strong recovery power, had recovered from their fall from high altitude. Some variants were fighting each other, while most of them were chasing after a certain large, fleshy chunk, wanting to tear off a bite.
Geta ran back desperately, glancing back at the packages he hadn't had time to pick up. His eyes were even straining so hard that blood beads burst out: "My money!"
Tang Song's Refugee team was fortunate not to be hit because a certain unnamed Boss had stirred up a hurricane in the sky, diverting the Landing Site of those mutated creatures.
However, they were targeted by a group of lion, a lion pride with wings.
A horned male lion led four lionesses. This lion pride circled in the air, occasionally roaring and swooping down, apparently seeing them as prey.
*Rip!*
Abad drew his blade and leaped up. The thruster on his feet sprayed out an energy flame, pushing him into a sudden acceleration. He darted under the abdomen of a horned male lion. The blade in his hand was wrapped in a layer of pale blue energy layer, and the battle blade, which was also vibrating at high speed, directly slit open the belly of the male lion, which had a shoulder height of four meters and a pair of vulture wings—
After letting out painful low roars, this horned variant male lion's internal organs instantly spilled onto the Ground from the wound on its belly as it circled! The headless male lion also quickly plummeted towards the Ground, crashing into the Desert.
While Abad was rushing into the sky, several lionesses took the opportunity to swoop down, intending to hunt. Groot, the treant, swung his arms upwards, and dozens of vines, hundreds of meters long, extended from his arms. The vines, as strong as rebar, simultaneously bound several variant lions flying in mid-air.
At the same time, root from Groot's feet spread towards the Ground, firmly grasping the Earth. He single-handedly bound several lions and wrestled with them, pulling these lionesses downwards.
After Abad finished off the horned variant male lion, he raised his battle blade, about to go help, but Rocket Raccoon leaped onto Groot's shoulder, raising the energy gun in his hand—
*Whoosh whoosh whoosh—*
Several thick energy beams were fired, instantly blasting these lions into blood water.
(End of chapter)