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There was a noise at the door.

Ivan, who was lying on the ground, suddenly perked up—

Does anyone remember me?

Under his hopeful gaze, Klaus rushed in and then hurriedly ran out, clutching the cool lower half of the corona stone.

The door closed again.

Ivan: "..."

outside.

He casually took the corona stone and handed it forward.

The light illuminated the crater-like pit before them—

The ground in front of them looked like half a watermelon, with a piece scooped out with a spoon.

The pit wasn't deep.

But the diameter was ridiculously wide, and the inside was lined with thick dry grass and down, which looked very warm.

At the bottom of the pit, there were dozens of round "stones" about the size of basketballs, with rough surfaces and a grayish-white color, like dozens of marble balls that had not been polished.

"This... looks like some kind of egg?"

Klaus gripped the Newton tightly, as if ready to smash anything that jumped out at any moment.

He stared at the fluffy things for a long time.

Having fed them so many times, he was now extremely familiar with those loud, social creatures—

Screaming Chicken!

Is this their nest?

Previously, in an attempt to scare away tigers and wolves... no, to scare away chickens and snakes, they lured a whole flock of silly birds to the Naga tribe. Now it seems all the big birds have been lured away, leaving only this one nest...

His Adam's apple bobbed up and down slightly.

He seemed to be hallucinating—

Steamed eggs... tea eggs... half the bread and butter of scrambled eggs with tomatoes... the core ingredient of scallion pancakes... the soul of egg drop soup...

"Gurgle..."

The sound of swallowing saliva could be heard from the side.

Turning his head slightly, he saw Ethan's eyes shining: "An egg this big! We'd need a whole bucket to make egg cups! And soft-boiled eggs, toast with egg yolk..."

"..."

That's so unoriginal!

He randomly took out that huge snake shed skin bag and stuffed it onto a pile of eggs.

Decomposition failed!

[Life signs detected.]

Fine.

I tapped the eggshell with any knuckle; it was quite hard, almost as hard as a glass.

"move."

"This is no small project." Klaus picked up one and estimated its weight. "This one weighs at least twenty pounds... Are we going to turn the ship's cabin into an incubator?"

That is indeed Renyi's plan.

In a place like this, nothing is more reassuring than having a flock of poultry that can consistently produce protein.

Besides, these screaming chickens are a bit dry,

They are plentiful, reproduce quickly, are easy to raise, produce warm down feathers, and now it seems... they can even lay eggs!

Moving things is no easy task.

Because I'm afraid of taking too many and them getting crushed, I can only take two at a time.

To prevent the eggs from rolling around in the cabin, Klaus arbitrarily nailed a few wooden lattice blocks in an empty room and laid down feathers and hay.

Just as Ethan was carrying the last two eggs and preparing to step onto the deck, an accident occurred.

Perhaps the vibration during the moving process was too great.

Or perhaps these eggs were simply due to hatch.

"Click."

Ethan froze on the spot.

"Boss...boss, it...it looks like it's cracked!"

I glanced back at random.

Suddenly, a spiderweb-like crack spread rapidly across the grayish-white shells of the two eggs in Ethan's arms.

"Click—click".

Two bald heads poked out from under the eggshell.

With a few sparse yellow hairs on its head and its body soaking wet, its beady eyes, unlike those of a newborn creature, darted around and bypassed Ethan, Klaus, and Siddo, who were right in front of it, before fixing their gaze on the massive [Deep Sea Shadow].

This ship exudes a powerful life force and oppressive aura; in the eyes of someone with negative intelligence, it is indeed a powerful, high-level creature.

So the two newborn cubs made a decision based on instinct—

"Chirp—!!!"

They opened their pointed beaks and let out their first high-pitched, clear cry since birth.

The sound is so loud,

Ethan, who was holding them, was startled and the two eggs fell to the ground and shattered completely.

The two resilient little creatures rolled around on the ground, completely ignoring the mud clinging to their fur, and scrambled towards what they considered their strongest 'mother'—

【Deep Sea Shadow】ran away.

Two wet, gray lumps of flesh waddled along on their short legs, whining pitifully while banging their heads against the hull of the [Deep Sea Shadow] ship.

That stance...

This doesn't look like someone recognizing their mother.

It looks more like a siege.

If the Deepsea Shadow had independent consciousness and could speak, its highly detailed telegrams would probably be echoing throughout the entire jungle by now.

The biomimetic skin on the ship's surface shuddered in disgust.

But the two cubs thought they had received a response, and became even more excited:

"Chirp!!! Chirp chirp chirp!"

Renyi quickly severed the connection with [Deep Sea Shadow], and pinched the bridge of his nose with a headache.

That's understandable, actually.

In the brutal jungle where the strong prey on the weak, the first rule for newborn cubs to survive is to cling to a powerful figure.

And among the creatures present that exhibit life fluctuations, is there any with a larger and thicker thigh than [Deep Sea Shadow]?

No.

"They've taken the boat for their parents..." Ethan looked at the two cubs that couldn't peck at the boat and started running around it, screaming as if they were accusing their mother of not feeding them.

"But this is so noisy!"

Meanwhile, Ren Yi was already deciding in his mind whether to steam or braise it.

But then I thought, sustainable development is the key. If we raise them, we can achieve self-sufficiency in meat, eggs and milk in the future.

It's this noise pollution...

Renyi sighed and silently opened the evolution panel.

The evolutionary paths have always been two distinct lines, and this time was no exception.

On the left is the [Deep Sea Fortress], whose core requirements are a Lv5 or higher armor shell and a large amount of metal.

It looks like it's all armored, like they're going to play a sea tower defense game.

On the right is the [Bio-Mothership], whose core requirements are a biological skeleton of level 5 or higher and a large number of other biological skeletons.

The ship will have many hatching chambers, which is probably similar to the mass production strategy, creating familiars.

The conditions for evolving the [Bio-Mothership] are met, except for needing a little more evolution points.

However, after careful consideration, Renyi and Klaus concluded that, while inheriting existing characteristics, this evolutionary path was not as cost-effective as the [Deep Sea Fortress] path.

Their membership is growing.

With more members, the need for private space and a stable supply of resources becomes a necessity.

Furthermore.

The upper limit of the [Bio-Mothership] path depends on the quality of the biological templates he can obtain, while the lower limit is bottomless.

What he needs to consider is the entire team...

And the survival and development of our compatriots who may enter the [Ocean Era] in large numbers in the future.

For him to develop, he needs a stable and secure rear base.

But after he made his decision, when he took out the [Divine Bone] he had obtained from killing Vanessa to check its attributes,

The pale blue screen on the evolution panel flickered a few times, like an old television with a faulty connection.

[Anomalies detected in the vehicle's core...]

[Vehicle evolution path is being re-examined]

The two branches, 【Deep Sea Fortress】 and 【Bio-Mothership】, were now seemingly forced to the sides by some force, creating a third path.

[Potential Evolutionary Paths:]

【abyss】