Superbase Evolution

Chapter 17: Organisms that Failed to Evolve

"Brother Xiaowu, why are you here?" Cang Yun, who was guarding the warehouse, seemed very surprised to see Lin Shen.

Cang Yun is also an elder in the Lin family. I heard that he is almost eighty years old. When Lin Shen’s parents were still alive, he was already guarding the warehouse gate.

Later, when the eldest sister took charge, Cang Yun was still the one guarding the warehouse door.

I heard from my eldest sister that when our parents were still alive, Cang Yun would often come home and have a drink or two with Lin Shen's father and brag about his affairs. They had a pretty good relationship.

After his parents passed away, Cang Yun rarely came home for dinner.

"Uncle Cang, are there any dead eggs in the warehouse? I want to take a few back." Lin Shen directly stated his purpose.

"The eldest lady hasn't come back in the past few months. Without her signature, the dead eggs have not been transported to the factory for smelting. The number is still quite large." Cang Yun paused, and continued with a strange look: "But Brother Xiaowu, the people of the Lin family have been doing business based on integrity for so many years, and have never done anything to cheat people. Even if there are any difficulties, they are only temporary. If you destroy the golden signboard of the Lin family, it will be difficult to get it back in the future."

Lin Shen was slightly stunned, then he realized that Cang Yun had misunderstood.

Cang Yun must have thought that he wanted to take the dead eggs back to the egg-catching shop and pass them off as good ones to compete with Qi Tianfu.

"Uncle Cang, you're worrying too much. I just want to take a few dead eggs back to make some gadgets." Lin Shen explained casually.

"That's fine, but you can't take too much, and you have to sign for it, otherwise the young lady won't be able to put it into the account when she comes back." Cang Yun said as he took out a bunch of keys, fumbled for a long time before picking out one, opened the door of the warehouse, pushed the door open and led Lin Shen into the warehouse.

Generally speaking, dead eggs are weighed according to their grades, and dead eggs of different grades are piled together. After all, they can only be used as materials.

Cang Yun was very careful. Even the steel-grade dead eggs were arranged neatly. Each dead egg was affixed with a label indicating the type of dead egg, the time of storage, etc.

Lin Shen took a quick look and saw that there were nearly a thousand dead steel-grade eggs, but not so many alloy-grade ones, only about a hundred or so.

Unfortunately, there were no mosaics on these dead eggs, which made Lin Shen a little disappointed.

"Is that all?" Lin Shen looked at Cang Yun and asked.

"The steel-grade ones are all here, and some of the alloy-grade ones are in the small warehouse. There is also a crystal-grade one in the small warehouse. However, the material value of that thing is also very high. Without the signature of the eldest lady, even the third master cannot take it." Cang Yun said.

"Take me to see the remaining alloy-grade dead eggs." Lin Shen said without comment.

Cang Yun didn't say anything more and took Lin Shen to a special small warehouse inside the large warehouse. The small warehouse was like a safe made of alloy. Cang Yun opened several locks before he opened the heavy alloy door.

The metal used to build the small warehouse is not an ordinary alloy, but an alloy-grade base material is added. Although it is not a pure base alloy, its thickness is very terrifying. Even if an ordinary alloy-grade strongman comes in, it is impossible to break open the door of the small warehouse in a short time.

"The hardness and toughness of these alloy-grade dead eggs are both top-notch, both above eighteen. If used to make equipment, they can allow steel-grade mutators to have a slight self-protection or resistance ability when facing alloy creatures. Miss wanted to make a set of scale armor for you before, but unfortunately she didn't find a suitable foundryman, so it was delayed." Cang Yun said, pointing to a row of shelves against the wall.

On the shelves are mutated eggs of different sizes and colors. Most people cannot actually tell the difference between dead eggs and live eggs.

"Are they all here?" Lin Shen took a quick look and was immediately disappointed. He didn't see any mosaics at all. "The alloy-grade ones are all here. The crystal-base one is over there." Cang Yun pointed to the other side and continued, "But you can't take that one now."

Lin Shen turned his head and saw a genetically modified egg that was as red as a sapphire and emitted a hazy glow under the light. It was placed on a special shelf with a glass cover on the outside.

Although it is a dead egg, it is still incredibly beautiful, as if there are countless blue facets inside that are emitting a faint light.

Unfortunately, there is still no mosaic on it.

Lin Shen shook his head and sighed, feeling a little disappointed, but when he thought about it, it made sense. It was not so easy to find a fire-generating egg.

In Lin Shen’s own understanding, the fire is equivalent to the bug of this world, and the abilities of those fires are pseudo-scientific or even anti-scientific.

Any fire ability can be said to be a bug-like existence. If it is really that easy to find, he doesn't need to undergo a mutation at all and can be invincible just by relying on the fire ability.

Just as Lin Shen was disappointed and was about to take the two dead eggs back, his eyes accidentally swept across a corner of the small warehouse, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.

"What is that?" Lin Shenqiang suppressed his inner excitement and pointed at the thing in the corner and asked Cang Yun.

Lin Shen really couldn't tell what it was because it was blocked by mosaic and he couldn't tell what it was at all.

What is certain is that it is not a genetically modified egg. No genetically modified egg is long. That thing is at least three or four meters long, so it definitely cannot be a genetically modified egg.

"Oh, that thing, it's a genetically modified creature similar to a snake." Cang Yun looked in the direction Lin Shen pointed, recalled for a moment and continued: "That thing was brought back by Third Master. Third Master said it should be an alloy creature with the ability to evolve. When it was promoted to a crystal base, it failed and died for some unknown reason."

"When the Third Master found it, it was already wrapped in the figurine, with only its head sticking out. The body was completely solidified. The Third Master broke the figurine apart and got it back. He originally wanted to melt it and make something out of it, but after several attempts, he failed to melt it. He really couldn't use it, so he just left it here."

"Third Master said that this thing should have almost completed the transformation to a crystal base. I don't know why it failed, but the body may have been partially crystallized, so the hardness and toughness are comparable to the crystal base level. I just don't know why it is difficult to melt. If I have the opportunity to go to those bases with ultra-high temperature furnaces in the future, I can try to cast something..."

While listening to Cang Yun talking, Lin Shen walked to the side of the thing and reached out to touch the dead genetically modified creature.

When my fingers touched that thing, I immediately felt a hint of coolness on my fingertips, but it was not cold.

He stretched out his hand and grasped it, and found that although the thing was long, it was not very thick. With the length of Lin Shen's fingers, he could easily hold it.

My fingers slowly stroked its body. The surface was smooth with some fine lines, a bit like mirror-polished metal with fine patterns carved on it.

Cang Yun said that this thing looked like a snake, but Lin Shen felt that it was not that similar. Snakes are usually thick in the middle and thin at both ends. Except for the tail at the very end which is particularly pointed, the rest of this thing's body is almost the same thickness.

Moreover, a snake of this length cannot be so thin. As a mutant creature, the length and thickness of its body are somewhat disproportionate, and it looks a bit like a crudely made extended javelin.

Lin Shen stretched out his hand, grasped the middle part, and lifted it up with a little force.

(End of this chapter)