Chapter 1234: Chapter 642: How Do You Want to Cooperate? (2)
But the genes of the alien invaders are not easy to obtain.
So, it resorted to a risky method. If there were none, it would just take them by force.
It secretly kidnapped many new-generation alien invaders and conducted various experiments on them.
The number of alien invaders has multiplied many times compared to a thousand years ago, and the adult individuals colonizing Earth have less contact with each other.
Because after a millennium, each has their own territory, fulfilling their mining duties. The distances between crystal blocks are relatively large, and Earth’s environment is extremely harsh for them. Generally, no one would visit aimlessly, and they stay within their small groups.
The creature specifically targeted these smaller groups for kidnapping, one group at a time, leaving none behind.
These small groups generally would not contact the outside world except for handing over crystal blocks, and they use a transmission system to do so, so the creature’s experiments remained undiscovered.
It continuously extracted genes and conducted experiments.
Its experiments had been progressing steadily.
And it was about to succeed.
Just at this critical moment, when success was imminent and it wouldn’t matter if it was exposed afterward, a big problem occurred.
Its experiments were discovered.
As for why it was discovered, that blame falls on Xu Xin and his team.
Because Xu Xin’s World Tree made other alien invaders suspicious of it.
How did humans have the seed of the World Tree?
Where did they get their seed from?
The seeds of the World Tree have always been controlled by the alien invaders themselves.
Even though they had granted the mature World Trees to survivors who had been alive since a thousand years ago, they had never given the World Tree seeds to humans.
They themselves would never give the seeds of the World Tree to humans.
Since they wouldn’t do it themselves, the problem must have come from the only other entity besides them that possesses the seeds of the World Tree.
The one who totally enslaved Earth’s humans, a half-human, half-creature being.
...
"To me, this is truly a disaster." The creature sighed, "I really didn’t expect that you would have the seed of the World Tree."
"Ah... this World Tree seed was given to us by you." Xu Ying was initially stunned, then couldn’t help but smile.
"I gave it to you?" The creature’s eyes on its body opened and closed like waves. "When did I ever give you the World Tree seed?"
"Maybe you don’t remember. We found it on the ground after another of your personalities left after a massacre."
"...That actually happened." The creature was very surprised. "It shouldn’t have... hmm... it’s quite possible."
"My personality was very unstable at the time and was also influenced by my other personalities. It might be that after causing a disturbance, due to influence from my other personalities, my conscience recovered somewhat, feeling guilty towards you, and then dropped the World Tree seed before leaving."
"Is that so?" Xu Ying expressed doubt. "Are you not just trying to make yourself look better? We’ve always thought it was unintentionally dropped by you."
"...That’s also a possibility. At that time, I didn’t have space-time abilities and couldn’t store it spatially, so maybe it was unintentionally dropped." The creature said.
...
Because survivors somehow possessed a World Tree, the creature was immediately suspected.
If this World Tree was given to humans by the creature, it would be an enormous joke to the alien invaders’ group.
For fifty years, they had been following the plan told by this creature, planning to enslave humans for scientific research.
If the creature has a problem and stands on the human side, then they would have been fools for fifty years.
It has half the Earth’s human bloodline, and assisting Earth’s humans is a very likely thing to do!
Moreover, if the creature wanted to help humans...
That would be extremely dangerous!
Some of their kind might already have been harmed!
An investigation is needed!
As a result, upon investigation, more than twenty of their fellows were uncontactable.
Thus, the other side of Earth was in an uproar.
The alien invaders collectively demanded an explanation from it, and all kinds of high-tech weapons were aimed at the ten World Trees under its control.
And the World Trees under its control had basically handed over dominance to humans. For example, the World Tree that Shi Wanyun went to was primarily under human control.
These humans were survivors brainwashed during these fifty years, and even though it had conducted appropriate gene modifications on them, they still obeyed the alien invaders, so its World Trees became accessible to any alien invader.
In fact, it was intended to be this way, and it had not set up any extra defenses, after all, its World Trees were filled with humans. The alien invaders would have to be out of their mind to enter a World Tree full of "cockroaches."
Moreover, it had hidden its experiment location very well; normally, it was impossible to discover.
But this time was not normal circumstances.
The alien invaders disregarded that the interior of the World Trees was filled with humans; one by one, they entered the World Trees to search and even employed very high-tech detection devices.
As a result, it was predictable.
It was exposed.
