The mother planet secretly transformed without telling us

The ninth cave was unexpectedly bright. The ground was covered with a meter-deep green liquid. The tentacle tubes on the four walls of the cave were almost transparent, and the faint light illuminated the entire cave.

The culture tank in the center was particularly huge and stepped. The height and shape of the back were like a throne on the bathtub.

Li Cang took a deep breath, walked through the one-meter-deep effluent, 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 his back, chest, limbs and head all connected by tubular corridors, floating in the self-luminous liquid in the tank.

Of course, there was actually no sense of technology.

If you have to describe it, all these pipes, corridors, tentacles and the like are completely a sloppy painting style, more like the roots of plants.

As if aware of the gaze from outside, the human figure in the tank suddenly opened his eyes.

The eyes were full of technology, with an ice-blue background and orange-red divergent stripes, exactly the same as the sword girl's, but more dazzling, and even a little scorching.

His eyeballs moved, and he slightly squeezed out a stiff muscle movement on his face that looked like a smile, then sat up straight, stood up, and staggered back with the terrifying pipes all over his body, sitting on the wall at the other end of the culture tank that was like a throne.

"Duniu?"

"I sent you in."

The two said one sentence each, and then they were stunned.

"Yes, I'm Du Niu." Du Niu seemed very satisfied with Li Cang's performance, "You actually guessed it was me?"

Li Cang simply sat on the thick outer wall of the culture tank, his legs hanging naturally, pointing behind him: "It's just a coincidence, the giant foot in there was cultivated by me, no matter what, the properties detected should not indicate that the discovery and naming were made by someone else."

"Oh, that's really a coincidence," Du Niu said, "I've been here in a daze for a whole year, and I've never seen an alien species cultivated by the survivors themselves. You are an interesting person."

"What about you?"

"Me? Don't count, I can't even be considered a human being." Du Niu shook the pipes on his body, his expression Very annoyed, "I haven't talked to anyone for a whole year. Do you mind if we talk about the whole process a little more?"

"I'd love to, I'm very curious."

"Curiosity is not necessarily a good thing," Du Niu pointed at himself, "but it doesn't matter. If you're not curious, I'll find it boring."

"Why did you let me in?"

"Hehe, man, you still say you don't mind," Du Niu rolled his eyes in a rather scary way, and there was actually a bit of resentment in his tone like a woman: "I may have chosen the wrong person. You're really not a good person to talk to. How can you get straight to the point right away? If you want to make a long story short, you can just tell me directly."

A thousand horses galloped through Li Cang's heart, and he had goose bumps all over his body.

Du Niu's neutral voice and 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?"

"Eat, drink, and have fun?"

"You are really practical, but, yes!" Du Niu pointed to the tubes all over his body: "Tubes, supply nutrients and metabolize waste; mouth, decoration, no need to eat, talk, or breathe. For a whole year, do you know what it feels like to lie here without doing anything? I don't even have a fucking sex life. I'm so bored that I eat zombies and monsters to relieve my boredom, I'm so bored that I gave birth to a sword girl, and I'm so bored that I use 'it' to sense how many birds came to the island to play."

Comrades, have you found the point?

Explosive amount of information!

"Fuck!" Li Cang screamed like a woman, breaking his voice: "What the hell are you talking about? Giving birth to a sword girl?"

Du Niu waved his hand, and the tubes all over his body made a gurgling sound with green liquid.

"Tsk, haven't you ever been a Furui fan? Don't you know Binglian? What's the difference between them and you limb control fans? What's the big deal?"

"I can use 'it' to copy all the corpse-like creatures within the contract range, just like what you see in the culture tank, from nothing to something."

"But I can't make any changes to this process based on my own opinions. I'm bored. I'm not satisfied with this. I want to create a new species. For a long time, that was my only fun and courage to live."

"Later, I had a bold idea."

"As you can see, my little baby Daomei was born. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the wisdom of the system. The zombies are still zombies. She may not be my daughter in the true sense."

"After playing around with her for a while, I finally locked her up, just like other copied zombies."

"The 'it' you mentioned." Li Cang couldn't help asking before Du Niu took the initiative to say it, "Is it?"

Du Niu stared at Li Cang unhappily for a long time.

"Is it that difficult to talk to me and make me happy? You don't have any manly manners at all. You have to eat for free, right?"

"Uh"

"It is it," Du Niu suddenly sighed, and pointed at everything around him: "It, everything is it, it is a plant, or it can be regarded as a plant. The corpse state and plant state shown on my body are its basic state. It has no brain, so it needs a mature and intelligent life to act as a transit host and give itself a relatively free will. It will process its will into a kind of adoption signal through my brain and my body, and then control all the plants in this contract area."

"It may sound a bit strange, right? To borrow other people'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 there is no direct physical connection, it will lose the ability to control these splits. .”

“It needs them to be obedient, and it also needs me to arrange and replicate the zombies in the area, control the number, and use this to attract more living alien creatures to settle here and reproduce, grab their vitality and strengthen itself.”

“Well, it has never placed humans in an important position on the table. There are really too few human survivors. The strange beasts on the surrounding rings, the birds and insects passing by, the nutrition they carry is several orders of magnitude higher than that of humans!”

“Don’t think about killing it, the answer is no, it is a plant, the volume is calculated in cubic kilometers, it is as big as the island in your eyes, it also asked me to spread seeds on the surrounding rings, by the way, those seeds are developing very well, after another year or so, maybe they can find a suitable brain for themselves~”