Chapter 1940: "Zero"
As for the purpose of doing this...
Meng Chao discovered that the remains of most Big-Headed Monster Infants showed signs of slight liquefaction. Their bodies had been linked head to tail, fused together.
Like ice sculptures that had melted slightly before freezing again into a single mass.
And around their interconnected vertebrae wound bundles of Crystal Lines as fine as hairs.
The scene was almost identical to what he had just seen outside—himself, Lü Siya, and every member of the rescue team bound in place.
He even found quite a few Big-Headed Monster Infant corpses whose skulls bore pitch-black scorch marks spreading from within outward, their brains long since burned to ashes.
So, while they were alive, had these Big-Headed Monster Infants also fallen into the endless nightmare of Infinite Reincarnation, and, as their brain cells ran madly, provided the decision-makers of the Primordial Civilization with an inexhaustible supply of "possible futures"?
Meng Chao swallowed a mouthful of icy, prickling saliva.
He did not know whether these Big-Headed Monster Infants, serving as "human super-computation units," had volunteered, been forced into it, or simply possessed no self-awareness at all. Perhaps they had undergone genetic modulation in the embryonic stage, their limbs weakened to the limit while their brains swelled to the limit, then been sent here the moment they were born, spending their entire lives as some kind of "computational wetware," lost in an inferno of unending collapse and reconstruction.
No matter which possibility it was, it made one's hair stand on end and sent chills down one's spine.
Originally, in the Primordial War between the "ancient humans" and the Primordial Ferocious Beasts, Meng Chao's emotions had always instinctively sided with the former.
Even though the former's Space-Based Orbital Weapon had destroyed Dragon City at the end of