After Ice Storm's reminder, Meng Chao recalled that Dragon City had similar beings too.
When Dragon City as a whole crossed over from Earth to the Otherworld and barely endured the chaos of the first few years, a civilization's survival instinct drove its citizens to frantically secrete hormones, unleash their fiercest emotions, and nurture new hope amid the despair of floods, earthquakes, viruses, material shortages, and zombie attacks.
Yet after a brand-new generation of Earthlings, conceived entirely in the Otherworld, had gone through ten months of pregnancy and entered the world crying, the rates of congenital deformities and stillbirths among them were more than ten times higher than during the Earth Era.
Among the many congenital deformities, the most common was a highly raised skull and an enormous head, much like the "Big-Headed Monster Infants" from urban legends of the Earth Era.
According to experts and scholars, this was very likely because the Otherworld's soil contained trace elements that were exceedingly scarce on Earth.
Coupled with the Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth constantly permeating the human body's internal organs, limbs, and bones.
It induced the gene chains of human embryos to evolve and mutate at a hundred times their normal speed.
That was how such pitiful and terrifying forms came to be.
In a sense, these Big-Headed Monster Infants were nature's "test subjects."
Nature had pressed the accelerator, constantly testing what they needed to become for Earthlings, who had originally lived in an "environment without Spiritual Energy," to adapt to a new life in the Otherworld's "high-Spiritual-Energy environment."
One could imagine that the overwhelming majority of test subjects, even if they did not die before being squeezed out of the birth canal.
Would often perish within three to five days after birth from suffocation, muscle weakness, malnutrition, and other