Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

The… source of life for alien invaders?

"This substance is called by them - %\u0026* @."

The monster made a very strange and harsh sound.

"……What?"

Xu Xin and the other three were a little confused for a moment.

"%\u0026* @, this is what they call this substance." The monster said, "I don't know how to say this substance in human language."

"Uh... can you repeat it again?" Xu Ying looked confused.

"%\u0026* @."

"What the hell..." She gave up, "Forget it, can you describe what this thing is? Is it also a liquid?"

"No." The monster shook his head, "It's not a liquid, it's a... solid. A red crystal."

……crystal?

"Just ingesting a crystal of this size can provide an individual with a day's supply."

The monster raised its arm, which was longer than its legs, stretched out its hand with only four fingers, and pinched it with two fingers as black as ink.

About...the size of a fingernail.

"This... this is the first time I've heard of this," Xu Ying felt very curious, "Is this your source of energy? Don't you need to eat?"

"Eat? Do you mean to eat other living things like you earth creatures do? No need..."

The monster shook his head slowly: "They only need to ingest that kind of substance. This is actually the substance that makes up the surface layer of the parent star. This layer of substance conceived and gave birth to their race. It is impossible for them to eat the earth like you. The water contained inside the corpse of a living creature is poisonous to them, and although they won’t die, they will feel uncomfortable.”

What materials make up the surface of a planet? !

Xu Xin clicked his tongue in surprise.

Good guys, their race is eating the planet to reproduce.

"Ah...it turns out you don't eat, no wonder..."

Recalling her own experiences back then, Xu Ying couldn't help complaining: "No wonder the food provided to us was so unpalatable in the first few years when we were captured, and it was dry and sticky like gnawing dry wood. I thought He deliberately abused us..."

"...I don't know about that. I wasn't born yet at that time." The monster's neck twisted, and the "muscles" on its body seemed to move.

"Uh... sure."

"What about you?" Shi Wanyun asked, "Don't you eat? I remember, when I saw you for the first time, you seemed to be... drinking something from a cup."

"Because I'm learning about and experiencing the diet of humans on Earth." The monster cracked his mouth. At the same time, a long and thin tongue in the air stretched out and then retracted. "I also have the taste organ of humans on Earth, the tongue."

Um...the alien invaders don't even have tongues.

Xu Xin was a little ashamed.

It seems that his imagination is still a little poor.

But indeed, from the monster's mouth, we can know that the alien invaders live by gnawing on the "stones" on their home planet, so they don't need a sense of taste at all.

However, since this guy can drink something...

Xu Ying tilted her head and looked at the monster in front of her, "Aren't you afraid of water?"

"...I'm not afraid physically, but before, I felt a little scared mentally, which has something to do with the environment I grew up in." The monster said, "But that was before. In this time and space, I will no longer be afraid I’m scared of this substance that does no harm to me.”

"Then do you need that red crystal as the source of life?" Shi Wanyun asked.

"It may be my source of life, or it may not be." The monster knew everything, "I can also maintain my life by eating like a human being."

I see……

"Okay, then we already know that they need this substance to survive, and then?" Xu Xin asked, "There is no such substance on the earth, so where do they get it? From the 'parent star' Of?"

"That's right, supply from the mother planet."

…

The alien invaders' home planet is very large, and even today's Earth is much smaller than that planet.

On it, there are countless lives that make a living by eating "surface crystals".

Because there is no food chain relationship, the creatures on the "mother planet" do not have so-called natural enemies, so at the beginning of life, life on that planet was extremely prosperous.

And after creatures spread all over the world, even if there is no relationship in the food chain, hostile relationships also appear.

"Territorial consciousness" is a consciousness engraved on the genes of the planet's creatures, similar to the food chain of the earth's creatures.

Because of "territorial disputes", it is natural that lives will inevitably fight against each other.

After a long period of reproduction, a family of alien invaders emerged from among them, successfully evolved superior IQ, and became intelligent life.

Having suppressed other life forms, they have no natural enemies and are "food" everywhere. As a result, their numbers have skyrocketed crazily in the past ten thousand years.

Worldwide.

Their technology also began to show exponential growth.

But the good times didn't last long.

Since the birth of this planet, countless lives have been nurtured. The source of life on the surface and the reserves of crystals are already very rare compared to ancient times.

And this planet has reached the end of its life, and its crust is basically inactive.

This material, which was born due to the movement of the earth's crust, has become a non-renewable resource.

At the same time, scientists have tried their best to study synthesis, but have not developed any alternatives.

And the overexpanded number of alien creatures is consuming this substance at an almost crazy speed.

This is a big problem.

According to the number of alien creatures and the rate of injury increase at that time, the remaining amount of this source of life on the planet, even if all the resources in all the weird places around the world are exhausted, calculated according to the time unit on the earth, even Can't last for five hundred years!

Five hundred years does not seem to be a short period of time, at least the present generation can still live comfortably, but on that planet where technology has developed enough to allow the ruler of the topmost layer to live almost forever, for the ruler of that planet...

Can only live another five hundred years?

This is too scary!

Higher intelligent creatures are always prepared for danger in times of peace.

When the news spread, panic began to spread throughout all the territories on the planet.

The masters of these territories originally wanted to control more resources in their own hands, and when the news came out, they became even crazier.

As a result, the world war that swept the world began.

Territorial wars with high-tech weapons are much more cruel than imagined.

In that war, countless species were wiped out, and the number of alien invaders was once reduced to 2% of its peak.

The very cruel war paralyzed everything in that world.

Fortunately, they have a technological foundation, and it took about a hundred years of Earth time to return to the peak technological level.

Due to the reduction in the number of alien creatures that have experienced world wars, the consumption rate of the "source of life" has been greatly slowed down, allowing them to have more time.

So, all the territories came to an agreement.

Gather global power and focus on space.

They are going to outer space to find resources and the source of life they need for life.

This is the beginning when alien creatures began to colonize and explore space.

At that time, it was already nearly 20,000 years ago based on Earth time units.

That's right, the alien invaders started exploring space 20,000 years ago, before humans on Earth formed civilization, and they were still in the period of primitive humans.

Also 20,000 years ago, the alien invaders experienced a period of ultra-rapid technological development and fell into a technological bottleneck.

In the past 20,000 years, due to the lack of resources and the upper limit of knowledge and understanding, their technology has made almost no progress.

They can only explore aimlessly in the endless universe to find the illusory future of their race, which has reached its end.

Thousands of years ago, they found the Earth. They found this blue planet in the Milky Way that they both love and fear.

At first, they were just afraid of the intelligence of humans on Earth.

At the same time, scientists are madly wanting to study the human brain, because if they have such a huge potential brain, the technological development of their race may be restarted after 20,000 years!

But later, they discovered the most ecstatic substance on the planet.

…

"...Earth's...white crystal?" Xu Xin said softly.

"Yes." The monster nodded, "Crystal on the earth."

"...could it be said that the white crystals on the earth are related to your red crystals?" Xu Ying also asked.

"Yes." The monster nodded.

"This is the first time in the past 20,000 years that their species has discovered a substance related to the 'source of life'."

The weight of this sentence is too heavy!

After twenty thousand years of searching, we finally found the hope for the eternal survival of our race.

The three of them, Xu Xin, could completely feel their ecstasy and excitement at that moment.

But the victims are humans, so there is no need to talk about this matter.

"...Huh? Wait a minute, this incident should have happened not long after the earth was invaded?" Xu Ying suddenly felt something was wrong, "If there is also your source of life on the earth, why did it happen during the three days when I was enslaved?" In a hundred years, won’t more alien creatures immigrate to the earth?”

"For two reasons."

The monster answers Xu Ying's question.

"The first point is that this planet itself is not suitable for their survival. This land is full of terrifying substances that can dissolve them-water, and the air also contains water molecules. It will rain in most areas. Most of the areas here are difficult for them to survive. The earth is equivalent to a planet with a very harsh environment for them."

Well...that's right.

If they don't want to come into contact with water, sea water is okay as long as they don't get close, but if the air is humid, there really is nowhere to hide.

However, what is water to them...

"The second point is the crystal."

The monster continued.

"The bright white crystals on the earth are only similar to the red crystals that are scattered all over the planet at the material level, and cannot be used directly. However, they can transform this crystal, and under certain conditions, they can transform It transforms into red crystal, but this condition does not exist on earth.”

"Oh..." Xu Ying understood immediately, "In other words, you need to transport the white crystal mined from the earth to your home planet?"

"That's right." The monster nodded its disproportionately proportioned head and continued, "After the initial ecstasy, they discovered that the mining efficiency of the white crystal is very low, and the conversion efficiency is not high. With their current technology , probably only...about 500:1."

500:1?

"Can five hundred tons of white crystals be converted into one ton of scarlet crystals?"

"Yes." The monster nodded, "But even so, the earth is still the first planet that they have explored in outer space and has the raw materials that make their life. It can also allow their race to continue for tens of thousands of years."

Tens of thousands of years...

That sounds like a lot, but for the continuation of a species, it's short.

Homo sapiens, the ancestor of human beings, has been around for 250,000 years since its birth, and it will be even longer if we go back to the ancient apes.

In the billions of years of evolution of life on earth, ten thousand years is but a moment.

Not to mention that this group of alien invaders have also been exploring space for 20,000 years.

"Thousands of years are not a lot, but at least it can relieve the increasingly tight resources of the mother star and stabilize their mentality. Moreover, this is only a proven reserve, and there are still many unexplored areas. For example... "

The monster looked at Xu Ying: "For example, the underwater and underground world area where humans on Earth now live."

"Ah!" Xu Ying covered her mouth for a while, and then looked at the monster slightly changed, "Is it really you? Only you found out."

"Yes, only me, because only I have no fear of the ocean. Only I can survive in the humid area near the ocean for a long time." The monster admitted.

"Hmph, after you finish what you want to say, I still have a lot of things to ask you." Xu Ying's voice turned slightly cold when she thought of her experience in the underground world.

"I know everything." The monster said, "In short, this is the main purpose of their colonization of this planet. For them living on their home planet, this place is just a mine with a harsh environment and an experimental site. .So of course they don't continue to increase the number of colonists."

I see……

"The red crystal they are using now is sent from the parent star, and it is a crystal about the size of the space of this tree house."

The monster stretched out a distorted hand and pointed down, and stated the purpose of its trip: "I know the current location of the crystal tree. I am looking for you to cooperate, and I want to use your power... to destroy the crystal tree. That crystal."

Xu Xin's eyes flashed with shock.

But none of the three spoke, but looked at the monster, wanting to hear what it had to say.

"Because of the strategic importance of the earth, that crystal was condensed from almost all the spare resources of the mother planet, which can at least allow these people to survive here for thousands of years. This is why they only need to absorb a little, and they can Enough to meet the needs of the day."

"At the same time, a huge amount of resources have been spent between the earth and the parent star, and a one-way channel has been established to transport materials from the earth to the parent star, but there is no channel for transporting resources from the parent star to the earth, and from the parent star to the earth. It is very difficult, and we still need to cross the sea of ​​stars."

Xu Xin took a deep breath.

He knew what the alien invaders were trying to say.

He said, "You mean, as long as we destroy that red crystal...the alien invaders will lose their source of life and have to...leave the earth."

"Yes. That's what I mean." The monster nodded.

The scene fell silent for a while.

This amount of information can be a bit difficult to digest.

Even a little unreal.

Xu Xin was full of questions and wanted to ask, but before that...

"This...is too important, let's talk about it at the end. I want to make sure first, why...you want to join us and drive away those intruders." He asked, "Because of what? I didn't If you guess wrong, you are in this time and space, but you have always been one of them, otherwise..."

Xu Xin looked at Shi Wanyun: "Otherwise you wouldn't have sent her to find a chance to kill me. So, why did you drive them away?"

"...I am not one of them, I just cooperate with them to realize my experiment."

The monster explained slowly.

"Now, my experiment was discovered by them, and they destroyed my experiment, so there is no need for me to cooperate with them."

"Your experiment?" Xu Xin squinted slightly, feeling something was wrong, "What experiment?"

"An experiment to create a new race of creatures." The monster's eyes opened a lot unconsciously, "I want to create a race that can accept me."

……What?

"The race that can accept you is..." Xu Xin vaguely guessed something, but he couldn't believe it.

"A race of half-earth humans, half-parent planet humans." The monster said unabashedly.

While saying this, its eyes opened, and it could be seen that it was a little excited.

"You are doing this kind of experiment!" Xu Ying stood up abruptly, unbelievable and a little angry, "You are continuing this experiment! You..."

"Ah!" Shi Wanyun suddenly screamed, interrupting Xu Ying's words.

She looked at the monster in surprise, opened and closed her lips slightly, and finally said: "I saw it in your world tree, in the house on No. 5, the capsules all over the wall..."

Both Xu Xin and Xu Ying shrank their pupils sharply.

Both of them had seen that scene in Shi Wanyun's memory.

The capsules hanging on the wall are all half-human and half-monster beings!