cosmic hegemony

Chapter 531, Silicon-Based Life

In the empty and dark cosmic void 1200 million light-years between the Sculptor galaxy and the Milky Way, a fleet is constantly jumping in the direction of the Milky Way in the void.

This fleet is not large, only tens of thousands of space battleships, but all space battleships are very advanced, and each space jump can span thousands of light-years.

"There are still about ten years before we can return to the Milky Way. More than 100 years have passed in a flash. I didn't expect the mission to be so smooth. It can be said that the mission was completed without any effort."

Among the many space battleships, Sun Xinyuan, who was in charge of commanding this fleet, looked in the direction of the Milky Way. Across the distant void, the Milky Way was just a bright spot in the dark starry sky.

More than 100 years ago, he was ordered to lead a team to the Sculptor galaxy to steal silicon-based genes. He thought it would be a very difficult task, but who knew it was very simple. After a century-long voyage, he successfully resisted the Sculptor galaxy. Witnessing the prosperity and power of the Sculptor galaxy with his own eyes, he easily completed the task assigned by Li Fu.

Thinking of this mission, Sun Xinyuan's huge consciousness covered a space battleship. In this space battleship, there were strange creatures imprisoned in huge warehouses and special cages. There are various shapes of creatures, but most of them are spherical.

Some creatures are very huge, and there is only one such creature in a huge warehouse, like a huge hill, and for the sake of safety, these huge creatures have been hypnotized by the Yuanli warriors, and they have fallen into a deep depression. in sleep.

Although the size and shape of these creatures are very different, all creatures have one thing in common. These creatures are all silicon-based creatures, and their appearance is all composed of rocks, soil, sand, etc. It looks a bit like cracked land, in pieces, but they will not be scattered on the ground.

These silicon-based organisms are large in size, and they all shrunk into a spherical shape and fell into a deep sleep. The small ones are very restless, rushing left and right, flying up and down in cages, obviously losing their freedom. For them Words are also a very annoying thing.

Most of these strange silicon-based creatures have a large number of tentacles. When sleeping, these tentacles will all shrink, and the entire shape looks like a sphere. As for activities, the tentacles swing in the void , very flexible.

"Keng~Keng~"

A sound of metal knocking sounded in the warehouse where these silicon-based life forms were imprisoned, and suddenly, the originally extremely quiet warehouse began to become lively.

The sleeping spheres that were quietly suspended in the air began to wake up one by one, tentacles stretched out from them, waved in the air at random, and then rushed to the door of the cage, eyes like jewels looked in the direction of the entrance of the passage, looking very excitement and anxiety.

As for those who didn't sleep in the first place, they were even more excited. They hurriedly looked towards the entrance of the passage, as if they were waiting for something.

Some figures flew in lightly, and each of them pushed a lot of metal rods, metal balls, and metal blocks in front of them. For the empire that had already mastered the gravity generation technology, every space battleship The above are all standard configurations, but here, the gravity is not turned on. These carbon-based creatures live in space for a long time and do not like the environment with gravity.

Of course, even if the gravity generator is turned on, these silicon-based organisms can also be generated, but the journey is long. In order to improve the survival rate, the gravity generator is turned off in the warehouse where these silicon-based organisms are held.

Seeing the metal rods, metal balls, and metal blocks in front of these people, these silicon-based creatures were even more excited, waving their tentacles one by one, with longing expressions in their eyes.

"Eat it!"

Shen Chao threw a metal rod into a cage, smiled at these silicon-based creatures, and said that he was one of the many breeders who were responsible for taking care of the diet of these silicon-based creatures.

"It's still strange enough. The favorite food of these silicon-based creatures is metal, all kinds of metals. As long as they are thrown in, they will definitely eat up."

Seeing the strange silicon-based creature in the cage encircle the metal rod with its tentacles, then throw the metal rod into its mouth very directly, then shrink into a ball and start to digest, Shen Chao couldn't help shaking his head Said to the colleagues around him.

"Metal packages are their favorite. These silicon-based life forms that can live in space, metal substances can strengthen their bodies and promote their growth. In order to eat metal, they use asteroids, planets, etc. Hollowed out."

Yang Qiming next to him recalled the scene he saw when he captured these silicon-based life forms. Silicon-based life forms are not common in the Sculptor constellation galaxy. Only a few powerful Level 5 cosmic civilizations have kept some silicon-based life forms in captivity.

In some prosperous galaxies, silicon-based life is everywhere in the void of the entire galaxy. There are super-large silicon-based life that is as large as a planet, and there are groups of small-sized silicon-based life. All silicon-based life Life has a characteristic, like to eat metal.

Large-scale silicon-based life often directly swallows asteroids, meteorites, etc. one by one, and then shrinks into a spherical shape to slowly digest. Asteroids, meteorites, planets, etc. are hollowed out, and the metal elements on them are swallowed up.

"Keng~"

Pieces of metal balls, metal rods, and metal blocks were thrown into the cages one after another. All the silicon-based creatures that got the food were very satisfied. A single prisoner swallowed the metal directly, turned into a ball and began to sleep and digest these at the same time. There are groups of metal detainees, fierce competition among each other, you bite, I bite, these metal balls, metal rods and the like don't seem to have any hardness at all, just like tofu, you can do it very casually Nibble off a chunk.

"These metals are mixed metals specially produced by us according to their preferences. Various metal elements are added to them, and they are still refined. These silicon-based life forms like it the most."

"Compared to eating soil and rocks, and refining the metals in the soil and rocks by ourselves, the metals we feed are the top delicacy for them."

The breeders in charge of feeding this warehouse are chatting and laughing with each other. Most of the silicon-based life forms have low intelligence, rely on instinct to move, and like to eat metal, so it is very simple to raise, and as long as they are full , these silicon-based organisms are very quiet.

Although most silicon-based organisms are relatively large in size, they generally have a diameter of at least ten meters. Even small silicon-based organisms have a diameter of more than one meter.

However, the food intake of these silicon-based organisms is not large. A small metal block that only weighs a few kilograms is enough for a silicon-based organism with a diameter of more than ten meters to digest for a long time.

The size of silicon-based organisms is distinguished by diameter, because most silicon-based organisms have a spherical structure, and this sphere is the main body of silicon-based organisms. As for structures such as tentacles, even if they are broken, they can be rebuilt. After growing out, the size of the main sphere is the main criterion for distinguishing the size.

According to the size of the diameter, silicon-based organisms can be divided into several grades. Micro-silicon-based organisms are less than ten meters in diameter. The number of such silicon-based organisms is very large, and they are often the bottom of the food chain among silicon-based organisms. The food of other large silicon-based organisms, after all, eating soil and rocks can extract metals, and eating other silicon-based organisms can also extract metals.

Above the tiny silicon-based organisms are small silicon-based organisms, generally between ten meters and 100 meters in diameter. This type of silicon-based organisms also belongs to the bottom layer of silicon-based organisms, and is also one of the predation objects of many medium and large silicon-based organisms. , generally gobble up asteroids in groups, or prey on smaller micro silicon-based organisms.

The size of medium-sized silicon-based organisms is very large, with a diameter between 100 meters and 1000 meters. Such a huge size can often directly swallow smaller meteorites, asteroids, etc. at one time. Of course, the most prey Small silicon-based organisms dominate.

Large-scale silicon-based organisms are quite terrifying. Their diameters range from 1000 meters to [-] meters. They look like asteroids in the void of the universe. Their tentacles are very long, and they can easily move asteroids, Meteorites, small and medium-sized silicon-based organisms are captured and devoured.

On top of the large silicon-based organisms, there are also king-level silicon-based organisms. The king-level silicon-based organisms are not only very large in size, but also have a diameter of at least [-] meters. More importantly, once the silicon-based organisms reach the king At the lower level, silicon-based organisms possess intelligence, and are no longer brainless, low-level organisms.

From tiny to large, silicon-based organisms do not have any racial restrictions on each other. No matter what kind of silicon-based organisms, as long as they live long enough and eat enough metal, they can slowly grow into large silicon-based organisms. biology.

However, if you want to grow from a large silicon-based organism, it is not so easy to evolve into a king-level silicon-based organism. Only by devouring a certain combination of metals can you break through and become a king-level organism and evolve wisdom. .

Most of the lifespans of silicon-based organisms are very long, starting at least tens of thousands of years, and often devouring an asteroid with high metal content, rocks, stones, etc. have to sleep for more than ten years to slowly digest, Life is not long.

PS: I don’t know if the spherical silicon-based life design in the universe is reasonable or not,~……~
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