Chapter 1649 - 636: The Shameful Abduction

Chapter 1649: Chapter 636: The Shameful Abduction

Back then, Shi Lin attempted to devour the giant reproductive cells of a first-class Mother Empress, making a huge mistake, then he asked Ren Zhong for help, ending up in a state where he was neither human nor ghost, and couldn’t even revert to human form.

Later, Ren Zhong arranged Shi Lin to be placed at the Red Blade First Central Hospital, using all possible means just to barely preserve his life, but couldn’t completely cure him. The collapse of the genetic chain within his cells persisted.

To rebuild his body, the Red Blade Science Academy even utilized the newly developed and extremely costly pre-seed synthesizer, but unfortunately experienced a dismal failure.

Initially, the First Hospital painstakingly helped Shi Lin to gather neuron cells together, then packed this brain pulp into a highly precise cloned body made by the pre-seed synthesizer. Yet, as soon as consciousness was awakened, the new body was led astray by the neuron cells and quickly decayed.

Fortunately, Shi Lin’s consciousness could still remotely control the body encased in a square box. He hurriedly controlled the original form to rush over like a mudslide, swallowing back the cloned body and neuron cells, thus preventing brain death caused by consciousness dispersion.

Afterward, to compensate for the damage caused by the collapse of his genetic chain, the First Medical College had to continuously inject healthy cloned cells derived from previous body samples into his body.

By relying on this method, Shi Lin managed to barely stay alive, albeit growing larger in size.

However, as his physique continued to expand, the demand for healthy cloned cells increased exponentially.

After so many years, each new injection needed a vast amount of cells. Luckily, the Red Blade Clan was strong enough now, otherwise, they truly couldn’t sustain him. Like back in the Viscount Augustus family’s size, Shi Lin alone would have exhausted their resources.

Finally, when Shi Lin’s body size surpassed Yuanjin Star, a change beyond conventional technology occurred.

At the time, Shi Lin’s body began to rapidly collapse, seemingly nearing death.

With the mindset of trying anything in a desperate situation, Ren Zhong threw the remaining ovary of Long Guci to him.

There were voices of opposition within both the Academy and the Senate. Tessis Alson believed this was a great waste; the ovary of a Mother Empress was too precious to gamble on luck.

But Ren Zhong insisted, sometimes you can’t be so utilitarian; even if there’s just a chance, you have to try.

Shi Lin’s life was worth that cost.

After absorbing and digesting the genetic information from Long Guci, something miraculous happened.

The cloned giant reproductive cells Shi Lin devoured earlier came from a first-class Mother Empress that perished in the Three Domains War, not Long Guci.

When the Red Blade Army reached the Pegasus Star System, what self-destructed was Long Guci, but at the time, the army didn’t get a complete sample, only gathering insignificant fragments.

Now, after swallowing the ovary of Long Guci, Shi Lin discovered a profound connection between the two generations of giant reproductive cells.

That first-class Mother Empress who died in the Three Domains War had exchanged genetic information with Long Guci in the early days, somewhat equivalent to being Long Guci’s student.

However, the student wasn’t proficient enough to fully digest many genetic chains from Long Guci in her giant reproductive cells, so they were suppressed as recessive genes.

After Shi Lin devoured the cloned giant reproductive cells, those recessive genes became active, leading to the collapse of his genetic chain.

Now Shi Lin swallowed Long Guci, in a sufficient quantity, which precisely compensated for the defect.

Following this, Shi Lin’s genetic chain collapse didn’t stop immediately, but a self-repair process emerged, achieving a marvelous balance between repair and collapse. Clearly, as a carbon-based life form, when one’s size and mass surpass planetary limits, some extraordinary changes occur, perhaps the Ascendant lineage evolved this way by chance, first birthing a super individual, then gradually developing a new race from it. Back then, Li Yang 38 also had such an opportunity, being a composite race of Ascendants and Spirit Demon Race, but was terminated in its infancy by Ren Zhong, the "Great Filter".

Thereafter, Shi Lin began experimenting with actively disassembling his body into countless pieces, yet managed to maintain complete awareness.

Subsequently, Ren Zhong brought Enwewu to Shi Lin Star’s surface, and Enwewu was truly frightened.

Enwewu prostrated on the ground with extreme reverence.

Finally gathering enough calm, Enwewu informed Ren Zhong, that in its cognition, this planet itself was a truly self-evolved Mother Empress.

The so-called Mother Empress isn’t specifically female, but any being with the ability to autonomously synthesize new gene segments and actively create novel reproductive subunits can be deemed the mother of a race, a Mother Empress.

Then, Shi Lin proposed a brand-new plan to Ren Zhong.

He obtained a set of stem cells for division from Enwewu and went into hiding.

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The main brain of the Hundred Emperors was quietly slumbering.

It had been here nearly six hundred years, and slumbered for five hundred.

The fungal spores it released had long reached the orbit of the Red Water Three Stars, attaching to these biological-based meteorites, using stellar radiation energy to consume the nutrients on the meteorites, conducting highly active carbon-based reactions without air or water, continuously dividing and multiplying.

At this moment, around each biological-based meteorite had already grown a substantial amount of biomembranes. These membranes drifted in space like jellyfish in water, fluttering like flags under the stellar wind.

The ten auxiliary brains of the Hundred Emperors were operating at full power, some sending out information flows to command the division and growth of fungal spores.

Others were exchanging simple information with those fungal membranes to ensure the evolutionary direction of these spores was correct and hadn’t veered off track.

Others were ceaselessly scanning everything in the Red Water Star System to detect if there were any abnormal energy fluctuations.

Further out, the Double-eyed Beast wasn’t idle.

Besides continuing to build the central station, it assisted the Hundred Emperors in scanning the inside and outside of the Red Water Star System, remaining vigilant against the Red Blade Army’s potential counterattack, though it’s a small probability event, being prepared is always wise.

The information retrieval ability of the Double-eyed Beast was inferior to the Hundred Emperors, serving only as a supplementary role.

However, neither the auxiliary brains of the Hundred Emperors nor the Double-eyed Beast noticed, whenever a space meteorite moved to the point where it was shielded from the stellar radiation and information flow storm and lost real-time monitoring, it tremored slightly.

That was Shi Lin relying on Sun Ai’s auxiliary brain to interact with the main body of Sun Ai navigating the Subspace Channel, with Sun Ai’s long-range support, constantly modifying the feedback information from the fungal biomembrane sent back to the Hundred Emperors and the Double-eyed Beast to fabricate false information.

Suddenly, three ring-shaped biological-based space meteorite belts silently accelerated, departing from their orbital path around the star, rushing towards the Hundred Emperors located at the Three Stars gravitational balance point.

The auxiliary brains of the Hundred Emperors failed to detect any anomalies and didn’t sound an alarm.

In the "eyes" of the Double-eyed Beast, everything here was normal too.

The flying speed of the meteorite belt grew faster and appeared beside the slumbering Hundred Emperors quietly after five years.

Then, the meteorite belt quickly reassembled, with the seams between membranes growing and merging like a wound self-healing on a body’s surface.

Shortly, within just two months, with hundreds of thousands of fragmented biological-based meteorites crisscrossing as grid points, a semi-transparent membrane layer firmly encompassed the slumbering Hundred Emperors.

This membrane wasn’t produced by the Hundred Emperors’ fungal kind but was the space membrane the Red Blade Army took pride in!

Moreover, it was Shi Lin’s body.

Following this, under Shi Lin’s covert maneuvering, the space membrane carrying the Hundred Emperors inside began slowly yet steadily accelerating.

By the time the Double-eyed Beast noticed something amiss, the Hundred Emperors, still delightfully sleeping, had already been dragged out of the Red Water Three Stars Star System; its absolute speed surpassed 0.5 times the speed of light and was accelerating ever faster.

The Double-eyed Beast attempted to send information to the Hundred Emperors but received no response. Its information flow was completely interfered with and blocked, precisely the same interference method the Red Blade Army manifested when assassinating Long Guci!

That foolish old creature, the Hundred Emperors, wasn’t aware of what was happening outside, still napping away!

Yet it wasn’t entirely off-the-mark for the Hundred Emperors’ negligence.

In synthesizing these space membranes, Shi Lin extensively employed fluffy human gene fragments from Enwewu.

Fluffy humans were actually reproductive subunits of the Hundred Emperors, tracing the same lineage, sharing the same origin.

In the Hundred Emperors’ auxiliary brains’ instinctive understanding, it was comfortably at home, unaware of the impending threat.

The Double-eyed Beast screamed in the entire Ascendant’s information flow communication network.

"The Hundred Emperors have been kidnapped! Kidnapped! It’s disgraceful!"