Yang Wei's expression was very angry. "Did you already know?"
Ceng Kang's expression remained calm. "What difference does it make if I knew earlier or later?"
Yang Wei grabbed Ceng Kang's collar and roared, "You bastard! You should've told me when you found out."
Ceng Kang didn't fight back. He looked at him calmly. "If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being useless. You're a biological expert, but you didn't even find out. How dare you ask me?"
"Calm down, you two." Ding Meng scurried down. "What happened?"
He didn't have any enmity towards these two. Yang Wei was a bit arrogant, and Ceng Kang's personality was a bit strange, but these two didn't give him a sense of danger. Moreover, Ceng Kang had repaired his Prototype, so Ding Meng didn't see them as enemies.
Ceng Kang straightened his clothes and sat down on a rock alone.
Yang Wei's anger didn't seem to have subsided. He said angrily, "Ask him yourself."
Jun Ling also walked down and said hesitantly, "Professor, do you know something?
What's the matter with that egg?
Is it the Devouring Royalty? "
Hearing these words, Yang Wei and Ceng Kang both revealed looks of surprise.
Yang Wei said in surprise, "So you know about it too?"
Jun Ling said, "I just heard about it."
Yang Wei explained, "The Devouring Royalty is just its scientific name. As for what kind of monster it is in the forest, no one really knows."
Ding Meng and the others' hearts sank. The example given by Xue Yue Mountain had unfortunately become a cruel reality.
Jun Ling walked to Ceng Kang's side. "Professor, why are there suddenly so many monsters in the core area? There are even more monsters than in the canyon?"
Ceng Kang was silent and didn't answer her. However, Ceng Kang's gaze was focused on the distance.
Following his gaze, Ding Meng saw another person walking down from the starship's connecting cabin. This person was surrounded by many soldiers, and even Ming Bang and Ceng Jia took the initiative to greet this person. It was obvious that this person was a commander of the fleet.
This man was about eighty years old and had a benevolent look. However, he was tall and had a handsome uniform. He looked hale and hearty. In Ding Meng's perception, this person's origin ability aura was quite dense, far surpassing Ming Bang and the other two.
"Who is he?" Ding Meng asked.
"His name is Gao Sun!" Zeng Kang finally answered. "I've been waiting for him."
Ding Meng said, "Oh?
Why are you waiting for him? "
Ceng Kang's eyes flashed with a cold light. "I'll wait for him to come and die!"
Jun Ling was curious. "Professor, you admitted that you are a member of the Golden Shield Alliance, but now you want to deal with them!"
Ding Meng muttered, "With all due respect, Professor, I'm afraid you're no match for him."
"I know!" Zeng Kang said indifferently. "I can't kill him, but the monster can."
Yang Wei couldn't help but say, "I know this guy. His position in the Golden Shield Alliance isn't low. Do you have a grudge against him?"
Zeng Kang's expression was a little absent-minded. He looked into the darkness in the distance, his eyes full of nostalgia. "You don't understand. I shouldn't have been sent here in the first place."
Yang Wei said, "What happened?"
Zeng Kang sighed, which was rare. "I am indeed a member of the Golden Shield Alliance. Thirty years ago, I was already qualified to enter the God's War Star Ring. The Six Great Sects also recruited me, but the higher-ups of the Golden Shield Alliance refused to let me go."
Yang Wei said, "So they sent you here?"
Zeng Kang glanced at him. "Do you think I wanted to come here?"
Yang Wei seemed to understand something. "Could it be that you were forced to come here?"
Zeng Kang gritted his teeth. "They detained my wife and three young daughters and forced me to come here to observe the progress of the mother. At the same time, they promised me that when the mother hatches for the fifth time, they will send someone to take the mother away. At the same time, they will take me away and let our family live on the star ring."
Yang Wei also gritted his teeth. "You knew that after the mother hatches successfully, it is likely that it will be thrown on the star ring, and the consequences will be disastrous. Why did you still agree?"
Zeng Kang said, "You're wrong. This egg is not a pure Devourer Royal. It was found in an interstellar ruin in outer space by the Alliance. After research, it was found that it is a derivative species and is not as scary as the Devourer Royal. If it was really the legendary Devourer Royal, how could we have survived until today?"
Everyone heaved a sigh of relief when they heard his explanation.
Jun Ling could not help but say, "You know that this mother is harmful. Why don't you destroy it and let it grow?"
Zeng Kang sighed. "Because some people in the upper echelons of the Alliance are like this lunatic surnamed Yang. They all want to study its genes and composition, trying to grasp the secrets of its evolution and obtain super powers. When I came more than 20 years ago, the mother had already evolved three times. With the armed forces of Madison, it was impossible to destroy it."
Jun Ling said, "What exactly did it evolve into?"
Yang Wei also sighed. "It is an oviparous creature. Its initial form is an egg. After the first successful incubation, it is not much different from ordinary birds and beasts. However, it can absorb the energy of Divine Stones and prepare for the second incubation. This will take a very long time."
Jun Ling said, "What about the second incubation?"
Yang Wei said, "After the second incubation, it will have the abilities of a psionicist. It can absorb psionic energy in the air, make full use of sunlight, plants, water, and all other energy sources that can be used. At the same time, it will pollute the earth, rivers, mountains, and other natural environments. The first two incubations will take at least 50 years."
Jun Ling exhaled. "What about the third time?"
Yang Wei said, "After the third incubation, it can devour all creatures and convert the energy of these creatures for its own use. Humans, Spirit Bodies, Monsters, Xenomorphs, Demons, Electromagnets, Strange Bodies, Degenerate Bodies, Parasites, and other life forms can be taken for its own. It also has the ability to reproduce in batches in a short period of time. This is why you think that there are so many monsters in the Endless Forest that you can never kill them all."
Jun Ling said, "What about the fourth time?"
Yang Wei shook his head. "I don't know!"
Jun Ling was stunned. "Why?"
Yang Wei said, "There is no information about the fourth time. I don't know, and I can't imagine, because it is beyond my knowledge. Or let me put it this way, just the first three incubations were successful, and it already has no opponents on Madison. If it succeeds the fourth time, I feel that its goal is not as simple as just a planet."
Everyone suddenly felt a chill rush up from the soles of their feet. This reminded them of the description of Xue Yue Mountain. "Every time it successfully evolves, its strength can be said to increase exponentially. The changes are unimaginable. It is even more terrifying than the evolution of the Droplet. The Droplet still needs the accumulation of quantity, but it is a qualitative leap. The Droplet still needs to rely on human technology like starships to wander around, but it does not need anything. It directly crosses the starry sky with its physical body..."
"But it has already hatched for the fifth time?" Jun Ling could not help but ask.
"It has not hatched for the fifth time!"
This time, it was Zeng Kang who took the initiative to speak. "Just now, it was about to hatch for the fourth time. Unfortunately, it was interrupted by us. It was also disturbed, so it went into hiding."
Ding Meng said, "What you mean is that it cannot be disturbed when it is incubating?"
Zeng Kang nodded. "The incubation period of the mother is also when it is at its weakest. If a strong enemy comes during this period, it will be doomed. Therefore, it has bred a large number of monsters to resist external invasions."
Everyone was shocked again. It could produce an army of hundreds of thousands of monsters at its weakest time, and it could even fight against three interceptors. They really did not dare to imagine what kind of terrifying existence the mother would be after it successfully hatched.
Yang Wei frowned and said, "Impossible. It has been dormant for more than twenty years. It can't have only hatched for the fourth time."
Zeng Kang looked at him again as if he was looking at an idiot. "Let me ask you. Even if you came to Madison before me, when you came more than thirty years ago, what did Madison look like?
Did most of the land become a rainforest or a stone plain? "
Yang Wei did not want to admit it. "There were at least three large grasslands outside Health Town, unlike now, there is only one left."
Zeng Kang said, "So you also know that there is only one grassland left. With the mother's pollution ability and reproduction speed, do you think it will take more than thirty years to take down the last three grasslands?
And it can't take more than thirty years? "
"This …" Yang Wei could only scratch his head. "I really did not think about this problem."
Zeng Kang reprimanded him mercilessly. "You didn't think about it, but the facts are in front of you. As long as the mother wants to, Health Town can become a rainforest overnight."
Yang Wei was puzzled. "But the ocean on Madison is not polluted."
Zeng Kang asked, "Let me ask you again. Are these ordinary Devourer Monsters afraid of water?"
Not only were the monsters not afraid of water, but they were also more adapted to fighting in rainstorms and jungles. Zeng Kang said word by word, "The rainforest has not spread to the sea because the mother has no intention of going there. Health Town can exist for twenty years not because the monsters can't fight their way out, but because the mother wants Health Town to exist. This is its true intention."
Jun Ling looked like she was about to speak again, but Ceng Kang seemed to know what she wanted to ask. He took the initiative to say, "I know your parents and ancestors. They even used the bone weapons and prosthetic bodies I made. And I'm not afraid to tell you that the last few of you, even if you add your ancestors, even if you were reborn thousands of people, combined together, you still wouldn't be a match for the Mother. You've seen the Mother's reproductive ability again."
Jun Ling was confused. "Professor, I still don't understand. Since this monster is so scary and has evolved three times, does the Golden Shield Alliance not know about it?"