Chapter 1019 - 125: Gravity 2

Chapter 1019: Chapter 125: Gravity 2

"Don’t keep staring, be careful of Cthulhu."

Dr. Yuu’s shoulder was suddenly tapped.

Dr. Yuu shuddered violently and turned her head, only to realize that she had returned to reality. She opened her mouth but found she couldn’t open it fully, couldn’t feel her tongue, and her mouth seemed filled with hot wax, the whole person sticky.

"What’s going on, just watching ’Animal World’ can get you ’polluted’."

Gao Gong raised his eyebrows, immediately realizing the other’s current state was the precursor to genetic collapse. He quickly pressed his palm on her forehead, forcibly taking over her body through the connection of a stronger organism to a weaker one. Using the capabilities of a biological computer, he repaired her genetic chain at a microscopic level, like writing code.

It took a full hour before Dr. Yuu recovered her senses. She took a deep breath and looked at Gao Gong, her eyes filled not with fear but with fervor, eagerly asking:

"Has species evolution reached the ultimate, is it ’one’, why didn’t you continue to evolve?"

Gao Gong rolled his eyes and said:

"Miss, have you forgotten that I’m here to digest the ’fruit’? The strange phenomena you just witnessed were just a byproduct of ’digestion.’ It’s like farting before pooping; farting is not the goal, pooping is."

"..."

Dr. Yuu was speechless at Gao Gong’s words, but she persistently asked, "I want to know about that ’one’."

"At Tier 2, the limit of biological energy is 10 million. You will never see that ’one.’ By the way, you only saw my data-simulated body was already half-collapsed. When you truly encounter the ’splendid scenery,’ your head won’t stand a chance. Do you still want to see it?"

"What is ’splendid scenery’?" Dr. Yuu discovered a new term and immediately asked.

"It’s a kind of cosmic evil god, and the ’one’ you mentioned is just a special kind we usually call ’lurking monsters.’

Most cosmic evil gods are information-side life forms, and many don’t even count as ’life’ by definition, possessing only one or two ’life signs.’

The most typical is the ’Memory Mother’ on Gao Gong, a blind, foolish, and muddled existence capable of twisting the technology tree itself!

This type of cosmic evil god is highly adaptable as it only needs to devour information to survive, even in a ’sterile vacuum.’ In essence, it is an ’information environment,’ albeit with minimal information exchange. ℯℯ𝘭.

Thus, in the course of civilization development, cosmic evil gods often scrutinize civilizations.

Because a vital standard of technological advancement is the frequency and amount of ’information exchange.’

For cosmic evil gods, such an environment is a natural feeding ground.

’Splendid scenery’ also is an evil god but a niche biological-side evil god, a result of technology not keeping pace with biological evolution, leading to the species unifying as that ’one.’

Its survival mode is unlike ’information-side evil gods,’ which can survive even in black holes.

It requires much biological information, with intelligent species being the best option.

So, it generally doesn’t move.

It could masquerade as an interstellar space station, continually guiding ships off course into its abdomen.

It might disguise itself as a planet, its true form dormant, retaining only the basic feeding requirement from the biosphere. Influenced by its dream realm, the entire planet would transform into a standard bizarre planet, a Cthulhu realm.

The most formidable is the last kind, masquerading as a genetic code and parasitizing a potentially powerful intelligent species. As this species evolves into a civilization, progressing from Level 1 Civilization, to planet-level civilization, planetary system civilization, star zone level civilization....

After tens of thousands of years, when this biological civilization reaches its developmental apex, covers an entire star system, possesses countless life planets, amasses profound civilization foundations, and is ready to wield the power of the world for ’ascension,’ it erupts!

Millions of planets are polluted with flesh, the ascension process forcibly controlled, and trillions of Tier 3 lives become its nourishment. Using a whole star system as sustenance, it absorbs the essence of a top-level Level 3 civilization and blossoms the most brilliant flower of evolution with endless life, covering the starry universe with its branches and vines.

This is ’splendid scenery’!

And only with the power of civilization ascension can one become the final ’one.’

No other way.

After listening to Gao Gong’s introduction, even as bold and morally indifferent as Dr. Yuu was, she couldn’t help but gasp.

’Splendid scenery,’ is it really that formidable?

It should be known that the most potent civilization in the Robert Star System doesn’t even reach the Level 3 Peak strength. However, conversely, if the Robert Star System produced a Level 3 Peak civilization, what Galen Republic, Mirta Federation, and Void Dwellers would be nothing, easily crushed.

Seeing the fear in her eyes, Gao Gong lightly chuckled and said, "Don’t worry, the chances of ’splendid scenery’ appearing are far lower than ’cosmic evil gods.’ At least in this star system, it doesn’t exist. If it did, advanced civilizations wouldn’t have set up several experimental laboratories here."

Dr. Yuu thought this made sense. She quickly relaxed and left in a hurry, her mind now filled with numerous insights into biological evolution that needed to be recorded.

After she left, Gao Gong let out a long breath, his expression somewhat peculiar, a mix of wonder and slight dread.

He opened the panel, and sure enough, the biological rejection column jumped from single digits to 400,000!

If it weren’t for the 6.0 version of the biological computer, having powerful micromanagement capabilities over the physical body, he would have exploded on the spot.

Nevertheless, Gao Gong felt as if he could explode at any moment.

"Damn, who would have thought that merely digesting a carbon-based fruit almost blew my body apart."

During the digestion process just now, all mechanical plugins in his body melted once.

Fortunately, ’Vajra Alloy’ is durable.

And that’s not even the main point.

Watching Dr. Yuu’s hasty departure, a subtle light flickered in Gao Gong’s eyes.

He had just told a lie.

That the evolution simulated by the Brain-in-a-Vat Virtual Machine wasn’t merely illusion or simulated data.

At the instant of becoming ’one,’ Gao Gong actually sensed a slight change in ’splendid scenery.’

The sensation of endless life blooming almost entranced him.

As the control system of a ’biological computer,’ Gao Gong had one more ace up his sleeve: pulling the plug.

In the scene Dr. Yuu saw, the timeline of evolution was destroyed because he forced a shutdown.

’If just one carbon-based fruit could cause such outrageous results, could fusion mode indirectly stimulate ’splendid scenery’?

Gao Gong glanced at the chaotic laboratory and then at the black market’s illegal building cluster, silently shelving his idea of experimenting with the ’Earth Core Fruit.’

At least on this planet, it’s better not to test ’gravity.’

...

Considering that there might be people like the ’Temple No. 131’ in this interstellar black market, after completing the fruit absorption, Gao Gong did not venture out, quietly waiting instead.

Until a message regarding an appointment came through.

That was the docking time of a smuggling ship.

Gao Gong knew it was time for his appointment with Lolita.