In the cosmic system, what made carbon-based systems interesting was their capacity for evolution.
They could not raise an infinite army at will like machine civilizations, but they could produce an infinite number of troops through explosive growth.
They could not grasp and control everything like information civilizations, but they could absorb everything.
They were even less like energy civilizations, yet they could evolve all kinds of bizarre life energies.
At that moment, aboard the planet-destroying ship, Gao Gong was examining with great interest the spoils of Planet Xianqi—the manipulator behind billions of zombies: the carbon-based corpse monster.
Judging by its shape alone, it closely resembled a red-liquid test subject Gao Gong had possessed long ago. Unlike biological troops, however, it had clearly defined human organs, and every organ looked freshly harvested. Each breath carried pure and powerful vitality.
It could be modified without limit, and its life form could be reset without limit. According to the faction's biological experts, it was practically a born sacred test subject.
More than one biological expert had submitted a proposal, hoping to place it in their own biological project, but Gao Gong had mercilessly rejected them all.
Not only was this "Zombie No. 0" immensely useful to him, but more importantly, aside from him, there was no one in the faction capable of suppressing a fourth-tier species.
At that moment, Memory Worms covered the entire room. The transparent insects fiercely lunged at Zombie No. 0, attempting to transform it into Gao Gong's second body. Yet whenever they crawled onto it, a surge of pure life energy would emerge and fling them away.
Life energy was born from a life form, so in a certain sense, life energy could never be pure.
Yet the life energy on this "corpse monster" seemed not to have