With the support of a ninth-level civilization, do you want me to believe in electronic gods?

Chapter 452: Evolving Eggs
The communication channel fell silent.

Chen Fan's words had a great impact on Hongshi beside him, Isa and Gao Yuan in the starship cockpit.

"Release the information disturbance contained in the light stone?"

After a long while, Isa's questioning voice was heard on the communication channel: "As I recall... information disturbance should not be of any benefit to living organisms, right?"

"That's right." Hongshi raised his hand with a complicated expression and swiped it across the empty air, as if he was touching something invisible to the naked eye. "According to Academician Wang's research, even if there is no information disturbance with [pollution], it will still bring unnecessary burden to the thinking organs of organisms."

"Too strong information disturbance can even directly lead to brain death of organisms."

"Not to mention the information disturbances that carry [pollution]. The TE913 research vessel had an accident because of this."

Isa, who was in the starship cockpit, said with a smile, "I remember... We encountered a similar situation in the Varela Star Forest. Only Chen Fan could withstand the powerful information disturbance near the information interference source."

"If that's the case, then why did the giant scorpion do this?"

Isa's voice was full of confusion: "Aren't they worried that the young ones will die due to the information disturbance of the light stone?"

"This……"

"Who knows?" Chen Fan shrugged helplessly and joked, "I'm not a giant scorpion, how would I know what those scorpions are thinking?"

"However, one thing is basically certain. Since the giant scorpion has gone to great lengths to find the light stones and has laid them out in the hatching tower, this controllable information disturbance must be related to the hatching of the larvae!"

"Perhaps, appropriate information disturbance is a necessary condition for the larvae to hatch?" Hongshi frowned and made a guess, "Just like factors such as temperature and humidity?"

“It is a possibility.”

Chen Fan nodded thoughtfully, then raised his hand and scratched his steel skull wrapped in a mechanical exoskeleton: "Come to think of it, the surrounding environment when the larvae hatch should have a significant impact on the organism, right?"

"Like some reptiles, their gender is determined by the temperature during incubation." Chen Fan racked his brains to recall his superficial knowledge of biology.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

"Hongshi, you said..."

He stared at the squirming insect eggs in front of him with wide eyes and swallowed hard: "Is it possible for a race that has lived in a weak information disturbance since childhood to evolve a means of information interference?"

After these words were spoken, even Hongshi could no longer remain calm.

She shook her head, then nodded, and finally gave a vague answer in a very uncertain tone: "This... involves material information technology, it shouldn't be that easy, right?"

"Think about it, even the Human Union hasn't mastered the information interference technology yet..."

Having said that, there was still a hint of sadness between Hongshi's brows.

The universe is so vast, who knows what kind of creatures will evolve - before, who would have thought that a scorpion could evolve the ability to control dimensions? !
"..."

Chen Fan didn't say anything, and the communication channel returned to silence.

"No, that's not right..." Chen Fan's eyes moved slightly, as if he had thought of something, and he shook his head while muttering to himself, "We may have missed a condition..."

"What did you say?" Hongshi subconsciously asked Chen Fan, "What conditions?"

"distance!!"

Chen Fan gave a very brief answer.

next second.

Before Redstone could react, Chen Fan suddenly turned around and, with the help of the individual propulsion system, headed straight into the depths of the incubation tower!

"Hey! Wait a minute!!"

Hongshi shuddered suddenly and quickly followed his footsteps: "Chen Fan! Where do you want to go?!"

"Verify a guess!"

As he spoke, Chen Fan increased his "sinking" speed again!

"Damn it..." Redstone glanced sideways at the investigator starship not far away, then looked at Chen Fan who was gradually disappearing in the depths of the incubation tower, and a rare look of anxiety appeared in his eyes.

She gritted her teeth, gave up chasing Chen Fan, and turned directly to the investigator starship next to her.

Swish!
As soon as the hatch was closed, Redstone eagerly gave orders to the ship's mainframe:
"Mastermind!"

"Lock on Chen Fan's coordinates and catch up with him!!"

……

The speed of the exoskeleton armor is naturally not comparable to that of the investigator starship.

Although Chen Fan set off nearly a minute earlier, the starship caught up with Chen Fan a few seconds later.

To be precise, it was Chen Fan who took the initiative to stop "sinking".

Swish!
The hatch suddenly opened, and Hongshi subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Chen Fan standing safely in front of the insect eggs.

But soon, Hongshi realized a problem - compared with before, the size of the insect eggs in front of him was much larger!
When they first enter the hatching tower, the eggs are just ellipsoids about two meters long and resemble rice grains.

But now, these insect eggs have unknowingly grown into huge monsters more than ten meters long!
As the depth increases, the size of the eggs in the hatching tower also increases, and correspondingly, the size of the hatched giant scorpions will probably also increase! !

The change in the strength of the eggs that Chen Fan had mentioned earlier was displayed very intuitively in front of Hongshi - however, in Chen Fan's initial guess, the eggs at the top of the tower had the highest strength and potential. Hongshi calmed down and manipulated the exoskeleton armor to come to Chen Fan's side.

Before she had time to speak, Chen Fan, who had remained silent, took the lead and told her a piece of news that shocked her heart.

"I looked carefully. The larvae hatched from this egg already have organs that can control dimensions."

Chen Fan's voice was a little hoarse in the communication channel: "If it is allowed to grow freely, it will be able to grow into a 10,000-meter-class giant scorpion that can freely control dimensions."

"Besides...it's not just this one egg."

Chen Fan slowly turned his head and looked at the huge spiral pillars and the countless insect eggs on them: "All the insect eggs in this area are breeding larvae with the same abilities."

"This……"

Hongshi suddenly stopped and followed Chen Fan's gaze to look at the spiral pillars around him.

Looking at the endless spiral column, Hongshi murmured in a difficult voice: "How many insect eggs are there here?"

"This machine preliminarily estimates that this layer of the hatching tower can accommodate 150 spiral columns. Although the size of the eggs has expanded several times compared to before, there are still more than a million eggs attached to each spiral column." One's electronic synthesized voice came over the communication channel, "If all the eggs on this layer are successfully hatched..."

"1.5 million?!" Hongshi finally couldn't help but let out a suppressed exclamation, "And they are all -meter-level giant scorpions that have mastered dimensional technology?!"

She looked around in horror at the spiral columns and densely packed large insect eggs.

At this moment, the fear in her heart almost reached its peak!

What does it mean to have 1.5 million -meter-long giant scorpions?
Not to mention the Xinalo civilization, even the investigator starships and scientific research vessels cannot withstand an encirclement of this scale!

Even a large number of ants can kill an elephant!

What’s more, it is the powerful giant star scorpion!
The most fatal point...

The place they are in now is not the bottom floor of the hatching tower!
There is at least 2000 kilometers of altitude below their feet!!

As if noticing Hongshi's movement of looking deeper into the incubation tower, Chen Fan's voice continued: "Oh, now for the second bad news."

"Compared to before, the information disturbance intensity of this layer has almost doubled. Correspondingly, the giant scorpion eggs have also changed."

"You should know that according to previous dissection information, the proportion of meaningless blocks in the body of a 70-meter-long giant scorpion reached 50%. Now, in this batch of scorpion eggs, the meaningless blocks in the larvae are only %."

"Although we don't know the principle, we can still make a very simple inference - these information disturbances may promote the evolution of scorpion eggs, or... perfection."

"This is similar to the high-dimensional information receiving tower of [Su Zheng]." Chen Fan took a deep breath, "However, the tower built by [Su Zheng] receives signals from broadcasting civilizations. The signal strength at the top of the tower is the highest, and its degree of transformation of organisms is also the strongest; while the giant scorpion hatching tower receives disturbance information from the light stone at the bottom of the tower. Because of this, the closer the insect eggs are to the bottom of the tower, the stronger their potential and degree of evolution!"

"Wait, wait!" Redstone quickly captured the most critical information. "You just said... there are still 50% meaningless blocks in these larvae? Even though they have evolved organs to control dimensions?!"

"Well, this is the third bad news."

Chen Fan nodded silently: "If my speculation is correct, as the information disturbance increases, there may be scorpion eggs with even greater potential below."

"That's what I told you about before... the giant scorpion that has mastered information interference technology."

Hongshi couldn't help but lose his voice.

"Isn't there any good news?"

"That's not the case. Strictly speaking, there is still good news." Under Hongshi's horrified gaze, Chen Fan raised his hand and gently patted the large insect eggs in front of him like patting a watermelon. "Look, this thing is much stronger than we thought."

"Due to their large size and tougher egg shells, I estimate that these large eggs will take longer to hatch."

"Looking at the current situation... this batch of eggs will take quite some time to mature."

"...Next time, remember to put the good news first." Hongshi breathed a long sigh of relief, and his heart, which had been hanging high, instantly fell back to the ground.

She regained her usual calm demeanor and said, "Have you told Academician Wang about this?"

"What was her reaction?"

"According to Academician Wang's character, should we pick some experimental samples?"

Chen Fan turned sideways and reached out to call up a deep blue holographic interface: "I just finished reporting it, but Academician Wang seems to be fully focused on studying the light stone, so he hasn't responded to my message yet."

"Wait a minute."

Chen Fan raised his hand to dispel the holographic interface, turned around and "floated" towards the investigator starship parked behind him: "Let's go to the bottom floor of the incubation tower first."

"I want to see what these giant scorpions can evolve into..."

"and then?"

Redstone, who had received too much information in a short period of time, felt a little dizzy and asked subconsciously.

"Then?" Chen Fan turned around and glanced at Hongshi, seeming to be very surprised by her question. "Collect the light stones as planned, and unplug the activated dark matter transmission pipeline here."

"As the saying goes, we must uproot the grass at its roots."

"Now that we're here, we can't just let these scorpion eggs grow normally, right?"

ps: There should be only one chapter today, I’m having a little writer’s block.

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