Ling Cage: I come from Hisakawa

Chapter 133 The Skull-Born Woodpecker

"We'll talk about this later." Bai Jingyu looked at the skull in ASH's arms. "What do you plan to do with him?"

ASH released his grip on the head.

The cranium stretched out its four arms and hugged Ash tightly, like a little octopus.

Da da da! Da da!

Da da da!
The small, sharp teeth on the skull made a series of clanging sounds against the alloy shell of the ASH.

"Like a woodpecker," Bai Jingyu said casually.

ASH replied, "I'll raise him like a normal human child. I want him to go to a school for disabled children so he can start integrating into human society from there."

Hisakawa has no real disabled people.

The so-called school for the disabled is a place where students are disabled people who have been fitted with prosthetics. Most of them have more than just a pair of arms and legs, and some have other strange components on their bodies.

Students with cranial deformities who attend schools for the disabled will not face discrimination because of their appearance.

“That will take a long time.” Bai Jingyu paused for a moment. “But the disaster is about to break out, and we don’t have that much time to wait for him to grow up little by little.”

After thinking for a moment, ASH said, "I can also weaponize it."

“Dragon Bone Village has humanoid bio-weapons made using cranial clones. I can emulate the technology of humanoid bio-weapons and create a more powerful cranial version of bio-weapon.”

"It has a high rank in the mana ecosystem."

"As long as it is infused with enough life essence and bromine mist, its size should grow rapidly, and then it can be used to make a bio-weapon against the Devouring Beast."

Bai Jingyu fell into deep thought.

ASH awaited Bai Jingyu's decision, while letting the cranium crawl all over its body.

After a long pause, Bai Jingyu shook his head: "Don't use him to make weapons yet. We need him to help our higher-dimensional beings, and the prerequisite for this is that he still has self-awareness and can obtain information from the Mana plane."

"Let's train them according to your method for now."

“If Yue Kui could survive for decades during the apocalypse, we don’t actually lack time. Perhaps I was too hasty,” Bai Jingyu said slowly.

ASH nodded slightly.

It caught the crawling skull and held it tightly.

"Giggle, giggle!" The cranium rubbed its face against Ash's body, letting out a happy laugh.

Bai Jingyu said, "Tell Yue Tian about interstellar migration and have him do some psychological work with the people of Dragon Bone Village. Try to get all the people of Dragon Bone Village to migrate to another planet, and then use them to persuade Yue Kui to go to another planet as well."

“Okay.” Ash nodded.

Bai Jingyu gave Lu Sheng a deep look.

Why did the Mana Primal Body conceive this intracranial baby? Was it really to reboot the right brain?
"Interstellar migration?" Bai Yuetian blinked.

The word was so distant to him that it took him two seconds to come to his senses.

"ZK-2501, according to the data, is indeed a good planet."

"The location is outside the solar system, far enough away from Earth, and the disaster has not yet occurred, so there is no need to worry about the vine spores carried by the spacecraft causing a space tragedy halfway through the journey."

Bai Yuetian murmured.

When the disaster struck, many people fled to outer space.

However, many of these people were headed within the solar system, and none of them survived the disaster; they all lost contact with Earth.

Only a few managed to obtain the qualification to colonize relatively distant planets, but they were all wiped out.

Because the spores of the Earth Vine had long been attached to the spaceship, it easily turned all humans into its nutrients while they were in hibernation. In the future, many starship coffins entwined with Earth Vine still float in the vast interstellar space.

In comparison, the ZK-2501 that Bai Jingyu and ASH found was far superior.

Whether it's geographical conditions, time conditions, or natural climate, it's all very suitable for Earthlings to immigrate and seek refuge.

"It does look like a good place."

Bai Yuetian hesitated: "But..."

"I haven't heard of any other colonized planets in the future, not even a little bit. Although it's unlikely, if the Mana ecosystem manages to reach other planets, we might as well stay on Earth."

Earth has a legacy of human technological advancement.

Even if civilization is gone, the survivors can lie on this legacy and endure for many more years.

"The Earth developed over several decades before becoming as dangerous as it is today. In the beginning, the ground was mostly inhabited by bandits and separatist armed groups, and there weren't so many Devouring Beasts."

“With my and Yue Kui’s abilities, we are more than capable of protecting Dragonbone Village,” he said in a low voice.

Bai Yuetian and Bai Yuekui are indeed incredibly powerful in combat. Together, they might not be able to deal with the Mana ecosystem, but they would be more than capable of dealing with the reactionary armed forces that have lost their civilization in the apocalypse.

After hesitating for a while, Bai Yuetian said, "This time there is also the huge variable of parallel universes. Maybe we can really defeat the Mana ecosystem. I want to stay and contribute."

"However, I will tell the other villagers about this and let them choose for themselves."

To Bai Jingyu's surprise, not only was Bai Yuekui, who was still being rescued, unwilling to go to the colony planet, but even Bai Yuetian was unwilling to go.

Bai Jingyu frowned deeply.

He genuinely wanted to send Bai Yuetian and Bai Yuekui away, but he couldn't force them to do so.

After thinking for a few seconds, he said, "Even if the Mana ecosystem catches up with other planets, at least the Devouring Beasts won't emerge from underground. The process of the apocalypse will be much slower there than on Earth. It will be safer there than on Earth."

The Devouring Beasts did not come into existence out of thin air.

Many of the venomous beasts on Earth are remnants from the last mass extinction.

The Devouring Beast is not a perpetual motion machine.

Once they have completed their extinction mission, they will fall into a long period of dormancy because they have not consumed enough life-sustaining substances to maintain normal activities.

When the disaster struck, the ancient Devouring Beasts awoke from their slumber.

Most of them were mutated Devouring Beasts, and there were also some King-level Devouring Beasts, which overwhelmed the humans who had just experienced a long period of geological disasters and internal strife.

As for the colonized planets, even if some of the vine spores were taken, the humans living on the colonized planets would not immediately face annihilation.

Because the spores must first develop inside the human body, then become Mana flowers, which in turn nurture Devouring Beasts. These Devouring Beasts then devour life essence to evolve and finally defeat humanity.
This will take a long time.

Relatively speaking, colonized planets are safer than Earth, unless the Mana ecosystem has already spread to other planets, and those planets are just like Earth.

"By the time the colonies are doomed, Earth may have already defeated the Mana ecosystem and begun providing support to the colonies."

Bai Jingyu said seriously, "Even if Earth fails, the fate of other colonized planets will not be worse than that of Earth."

He sincerely hoped to see Bai Yuetian and Bai Yuekui off.

These two children have worked hard enough; they deserve a rest.

After a two-second silence, Bai Yuetian said, "What you said makes sense, but I need to discuss it with Yue Kui. She's still unconscious, and I can't just abandon her and leave alone."

"Have Heluo and Gene's doctors arrived yet?"

(End of this chapter)