Devil's Playground

Although the time was tight, Lin Yu and Yang Jin were not in a hurry to go out to earn survival points. They first copied the map in the mission hall, and then dragged e to help with the rescue order.

It's a pity that e didn't agree, and just told them bluntly, don't think about w when they rescue.First of all, it is too difficult, not only to have the luck of a blind cat to kill a mouse - Rick only announced the location of the imprisoned administrator, but did not disclose which administrator is imprisoned in each location, but also must be strong enough - The place that can make the highest-level administrators immobilized is something that ordinary people can shake; secondly, it is because of political considerations. If all the four major administrators escape, but the lower-level administrators are wiped out, it will be difficult for them to give public opinion. A confession from the empire will have a bad impact on their status in the empire and their follow-up actions.

"Damn bureaucracy!" King Kwang moaned morosely.

"As a beneficiary, you have no right to complain." E snorted coldly, "Don't be an eyesore in front of me, go back to your room and sleep, I don't want to see you in the combat preparation area by this time tomorrow!"

After finishing speaking, e disappeared in front of them in a flash.

——This time limit is really generous.

Yang Jin complained in his heart, turned around, and left the mission hall with Lin Yu and King Guang.

Back in the resting room, Yang Jin thought they would leave immediately, but unexpectedly, Lin Yu sat on the sofa and studied the map.

"Aren't you leaving?" Yang Jin sat next to Lin Yu and asked suspiciously.

"Haste makes waste." Lin Yu said, "Always think about the route. If you pass by and find that the administrator has been rescued by others, it will be a real waste of time."

"As long as you think it's suitable." Yang Jin shrugged, and turned his gaze to King Guang who was sitting cross-legged on the tea table.

King Guang quickly noticed Yang Jin's gaze, rolled his eyelids in doubt, "Why are you looking at me?"

"I was wondering what your identity is." Yang Jin said.

"I..." King Guang seemed to want to evade the past, but he didn't know what to say. In the end, he could only pouted his lips and told the truth depressedly, "I'm just a descendant of those elders. I don't even have formal citizenship. I didn’t get it, where did I get any identity.”

"I call you Your Highness, but I remember that you don't have an emperor." Yang Jin asked curiously.

"There used to be." The King of Light replied blankly, "When they were living organisms rather than living beings."

"Biological organisms and... living organisms?" Yang Jin repeated in doubt.In his concept, these two words should refer to the same meaning.

"We are no longer creatures, although we still have life." When he said this, the King of Light looked like an old man mourning the years, "almost eternal life."

"Can you tell me something about you?" Yang Jin glanced at Lin Yu, and found that he also pricked up his ears quietly, "For example, what kind of life form are you, and I have always been curious about how to judge your gender."

"We don't have gender anymore." King Guang sighed, "When the body no longer exists, what's the point of gender?"

After sighing, King Guang began to introduce their race.

Described in a way that humans can understand, the King of Light is actually a kind of spiritual body, which is similar to the programs in computers to a certain extent, but the way of existence is more free, and does not depend on a unique body, that is, the King of Light A carrier that is often talked about.

But they are not born in this state.No matter King Guang, E, or even Rick, they were conceived and born from the mother's body like mammals, but their spiritual power was caused by reasons such as extraordinary talents or sudden adventures-in the words of King Guang, it is Soul strength - ten times, hundreds of times or even tens of millions of times higher than normal people.

After many high-spirited people have worked tirelessly and even self-sacrificed, they finally found the way to abandon the bondage of the body and gain new life in the form of an unfettered spiritual body—the so-called life body—to a certain extent, realize the wisdom of life. the chase.

To be precise, this is not immortality in the true sense, they just extend the existence of life to a degree comparable to that of stars.If they encounter a certain accident or accident, they still have the possibility of perishing.But even King Guang, who is not good at concealing things, kept his mouth shut on this matter, resolutely and resolutely refused to tell Yang Jin about the conditions and methods of the death of the living body, and only repeatedly emphasized, "You will never do it!"

Likewise, becoming nearly immortal doesn't come without costs, and one of those costs is the loss of the ability to reproduce.

This also seems to be a theorem in the biological world: the longer the lifespan, the poorer the reproductive capacity of the organism. When the lifespan is almost infinite, the reproductive capacity of the species is also close to zero without limit.

And those who lost their bodies have completely lost the possibility of breeding offspring.

But there is another saying in this world that when God closes a door, he will definitely leave a window.

Although living beings like the King of Light cannot conceive offspring on their own, they once had a physical body after all. Even if they had not reproduced at that time, they would still have collateral relatives.Out of the biological instinct that has not been completely lost, they have been taking care of such offspring, trying to transform them from descendants of biological organisms into descendants of living organisms. The central galaxy mentioned by e and the King of Light before is the main settlement of the descendants of these organisms, and most of the time they themselves are scattered all over the universe, only in specific seasons or when they take on specific positions or when special situations occur. Will be back there.

The bad thing is that soul strength is not an attribute that can be passed on through blood, and one million descendants may not be able to meet the evolutionary conditions.What's even worse is that even today, they haven't been able to find an effective way to allow their descendants to gain strong spiritual power and climb the evolutionary ladder.

In this way, the offspring who are born with ultra-high mental power attributes and can complete the transformation from living organisms to living organisms become extremely precious because of their rarity.

The founders of the empire, that is, the group of oldest life forms have never given up their ambition to let their original race control the power of the empire, even though they themselves have withdrawn from the core of power and lost their status as royal nobles, they can only stand against the elders The title of the academy dictated the development of the empire.Anyway, the last thing they lack is time. After losing their power for entertainment, they can only kill time by nurturing offspring.

Of course, offspring that can evolve smoothly are not like seeds that can germinate as long as they are patiently cultivated, so a more accurate term should be selection-selecting seeds that are expected to germinate, and then gathering them together for the most "scientific" cultivation.

Quantitative changes can accumulate qualitative changes, and in the long river of time, they are not for nothing.

The King of Light is their latest harvest.

Both of King Guang’s parents were descendants of the former royal family (both sides have blood certificates, which can be traced back to before the establishment of the empire according to the family tree), and several elders in the Presbyterian House claimed to be the ancestors of King Guang (the royal family and the nobles have always maintained marriages. , a few of them were originally relatives), the King of Light with such a background was detected to have a soul strength that surpassed that of ordinary life forms, and immediately received the attention of the stars, and was therefore jokingly called by the life forms of other races in the empire. "Your Highness."

King Guang hates this title.

As a living body that is immature both physically and psychologically, its longing way to grow is to rely on strength and hard work to climb to the top step by step, so that the people behind it and those under its feet will be convinced.

like e.

E and King Guang belong to the same species in origin, but the identity of e is not as clear as that of King Light.Before completing the evolution from living organisms to living beings, the House of Elders didn't even know when such a powerful character was born in their own race.It is precisely because of this that there have been rumors within the empire that e is actually a "hybrid hybrid", that is, a hybrid of different intelligent races, and was only raised by King Guang and his race. chosen their race.

e never responds to such rumors, and as its powerful power is gradually revealed and its status rises, such rumors have changed from initial ridicule to envy.For a while, interracial marriage was even popular in the central galaxy, in order to regenerate a powerful "hybrid" like e.

This trend is fleeting, and intermarried aliens soon find that before they can produce evolvable offspring, they must first solve the problem of "giving birth" to offspring.The racial differences in the central galaxy are not mostly ideological like the ethnic differences on Earth. They are really different races, and the gap is as big as humans and dogs.

Humans and orangutans may have a slight chance of producing hairy monkey babies, but injecting dog sperm into a human uterus will not even produce a fertilized egg.The difference in gene chromosomes doomed the union between different races to be futile. The proposal of intermarriage soon disappeared, and the rumors about e being a hybrid also disappeared.

But e's deeds spread, and e himself became an idol that many civilians in the empire wanted to emulate.

"Your country is multiracial?" Yang Jin asked curiously.

"Probably." King Guang nodded, "The central galaxy is a cluster of planets built when the Empire was founded, and it is more like a city on Earth in essence. A planet is a skyscraper, all made of elements. In an ideal state, there is no planetary origin, and the planetary origin cannot be conceived. In terms of administrative structure, our empire is somewhat similar to Earth's country A, except that our citizens and civilians do not live together on the same land, and different races live together. You need to live on different planets. The size and living conditions of a planet depend on the number and capabilities of life forms of that race, and our planet is the largest and best in the central galaxy."

"Civilian and citizen? Is there a difference?"

"Civilians are organisms who have obtained the right of residence for a long time, and citizens are living beings who enjoy all rights." The King of Light replied, "If you two can follow us to the central galaxy as free people, you will probably be civilians... um , in his words, if he is willing to fight once, he may have the possibility of becoming a citizen."