pjbooks Chapter 572 Life Expansion
Chapter 572 Life Expansion
"So...they separated from the family at birth?"
Xu Si raised an eyebrow slightly.
He did not stop it.
I simply watched as the new life slowly moved across the ground, eventually stopping at a shallow slope a few hundred feet away, where it began to slowly sink its body into the soft soil, just like a mother.
The whole process took less than half an hour.
Two lives, each occupying a small space, neither disturbing nor connecting with the other.
Xu Si watched in silence for a while, then briefly withdrew his consciousness from the small world and landed on a giant rock at the edge of the valley.
"To hold onto spring."
"Hmm?" The figure that was somewhere between reality and illusion slowly emerged from the dark building.
"You previously said that the Nightmare Clan is a type of mental anomaly?"
Wanliuchun's bare feet hovered an inch above the riverbed, her gaze filled with a hint of surprise.
"Yes. The Nightmare race feeds on dreams, and there is very little physical contact within the group; most communication is done on a mental level. However... they don't really feel any closeness to their own kind. Nightmares are solitary species; even between mothers and offspring, there is only a brief symbiotic period before the young become completely independent."
She paused, as if recalling something, and her eyebrows twitched slightly.
Why are you asking this?
Xu Si briefly described the changes in the small world within his consciousness.
After listening, Wanliu Chun remained silent for a long time. It was the first time she had heard Xu Si talk about his little world, and it seemed to have opened the door to a new world for her.
However, she didn't know whether each Sequence Nine had its own mini-world.
Or is this power solely reserved for Xu Si?
"...Your little world is probably quite different from a naturally evolved world like Earth."
"How so?"
"In the natural world of evolution, the emergence of life is often accompanied by the gradual establishment of ecological niches—first producers, then consumers, and finally decomposers. But your little world... seems to have deviated from this hierarchy."
Xu Si paused for a moment.
His words of persuasion to keep Chun plunged him into a brief period of confusion.
According to Xu Si's understanding, what Wan Liuchun said probably means that the world of natural evolution follows the laws of nature.
His world is not a world of natural evolution, and therefore does not need to follow the laws of nature.
In other words, he can fabricate whatever he wants.
Doesn't this contradict his experiment?
Of course, Wan Liuchun herself was unaware that there was another meaning behind her words.
These are all speculations made by Xu Si based on his understanding of Sequence Nine.
After all, neither he, nor Wanliuchun, nor Jian Shiyi had any experience with Sequence 9.
All of this needs to be verified and experienced by them themselves.
"So you think... my little world doesn't need to follow any so-called rules?"
"I don't know! You can give it a try if you think it's suitable!" Wan Liuchun said with a rare hesitation.
Xu Si's advancement was too rapid, causing her understanding to fall behind, so she didn't want to give Xu Si any advice.
From at least one perspective, Xu Si is better suited to make his own decisions.
Otherwise, his progress wouldn't have been so beyond imagination.
Xu Si's eyebrows twitched slightly.
He turned his head to look at her.
He used to think that letting go was a kind of transformation for the small world, but now he was conflicted.
As he understood it, he naturally possessed supreme authority in his own little world.
It's like buying a bare-bones house; you can either let it fall into disrepair or you can give it a high-end renovation yourself.
"Therefore, intervention itself is also a form of order." This is his understanding.
"Perhaps I can also shape this world according to my own ideas."
As soon as the words left his mouth, Xu Si laughed at himself; he was far too easily swayed.
Admittedly, he prefers that lush, vibrant little world.
Rather than a lifeless, lava-strewn little world, he would still choose to develop his little world in the direction of Earth if he could.
Although it can't be perfect, it's definitely the little world that Xu Si most wants to see.
However, judging from his previous arrangements, Nightmare was clearly not suited to that environment.
Or rather, the small life forms that arise in this small world are naturally more adapted to the evolutionary system of this small world itself.
Xu Si's thoughts lingered in his mind for a moment, but he ultimately did not make a decision immediately.
He didn't rush to reshape the environment of the small world, but continued to extend his perception, quietly watching the two small lives that had sunk into the ground.
A dim, yellowish-green light enveloped the entire planet, and the warm glow seeping from the cracks in the surface intertwined with the pale green fluorescence emanating from the Nightmare, like some kind of unnamed aurora, slowly flowing in a space where time was almost frozen.
He stared at it for a long time.
So long that a third new point of light appeared on that planet—a third life form.
It was separated from the mother of the first nightmare, and its shape was almost exactly the same as the second little life. The only difference was that the pale green glow on its body was slightly brighter than the former two, like a lamp whose brightness had been turned up.
After it was born, it did not stop, did not search for its mother, and did not send any mental signals. It simply began to crawl along the cracks in the ground, not fast, but with a firm direction.
Then, in a valley some distance from the mother and the first offspring, it sank itself into the soil, just like the previous two.
Xu Si's brows twitched slightly.
"...It's only been a few days, and this is the third one."
If the second-generation offspring can continue to divide, his little world might soon become a complete life-bearing planet.
He hadn't expected the small world's own evolutionary system to be so powerful.
When the environment is unsuitable for a nightmare to survive, it stops reproducing; when the environment is suitable for a nightmare to survive, it accelerates its reproduction.
This made Xu Si temporarily abandon his idea of intervening.
He wanted to see just how far the Nightmare's life could expand.
Xu Si's senses were like an invisible spider web, covering the small, dim, grayish-green planet within his body.
Like a patient scholar, he meticulously and tirelessly recorded the birth trajectory of each new life.
The original mother body had settled deep in the soil, and within a radius of three zhang, five new points of light were born one after another.
After separating from their mothers, those newborns all chose to go far away, each occupying a corner and sinking themselves into the dim yellow earth.
"That's the seventh one," Xu Si counted in his mind.
Unfortunately, so far only the first parent organism has been continuously being classified.
The first generation of offspring that split off from him appears to be going through a growth period.
The flow of time inside the small world is not synchronized with the outside world; according to Xu Si's estimation, it operates at a time ratio of approximately ten to one.
Therefore, the growth of those first-generation offspring can be said to be relatively rapid.
This continued until the number of first-generation offspring reached ten.
The first generation of offspring has begun to give birth to the second generation of offspring.
So these creatures actually all have the ability to reproduce.
This is undoubtedly good news.
"It seems best not to intervene for now!"