A crimson sky covered the entire planet.
On the earth.
The surging, organic ocean is teeming with all the nutrients necessary for the birth of monsters.
These substances surged into the enormous sacs as the "waves" rolled and rolled.
These sacs are rising and falling rhythmically, and strange life is growing rapidly inside them.
This is a factory.
A monster factory built from flesh and bones.
Inside the sac were monsters being created, pulsating within it, like a giant's heart suspended in the air.
The grotesque, demon-like Precursors stood atop the bone wall beside the nutrient pool, watching as one monster after another burst from their sacs and leaped before them for inspection.
Some Precursors are also discussing the strange events that have recently occurred.
The monsters that recently traveled to that New Star through the wormhole died under very strange circumstances.
Two were inexplicably sent into space, and two others had their limbs suddenly severed.
In addition, the frequency of wormholes is frequently interfered with.
They are almost certain that the creatures there may possess a special kind of hyperspace technology.
"Roar~~~"
The Precursors roared in their own language.
We need even more powerful monsters!
Bang!
Suddenly, a sac burst open, and a gigantic monster over a hundred meters tall stepped onto the wall of bones.
After careful examination, the Precursors quickly dismissed the monster's value.
The ignorant monster, instinctively following orders, leaped from the wall of bones into the nutrient pool. In the enormous waves, the monster, which rendered all of humanity's conventional weapons ineffective, quickly sank and disappeared...
"Dr. Hermann, we now need you to predict the monsters' next moves based on their latest attacks."
In the laboratory shared by Hermann and Newton, Old Pan was speaking.
The protagonist of the story, Hermann, stands in front of his large blackboard covered with formulas, muttering to himself incessantly, seemingly saying nothing.
Zhang Tianyuan, on the other side of the laboratory, observed Newton dissecting the monster.
A day has passed since the monster crisis, and Ning Jihua and Elder Zhou are still holding a discussion.
But from the outside world...
After all four monsters were defeated, the Hong Kong and the Earth seemed to have returned to peace.
Only the people in the Shatterdome Base
I know that the calm is just an illusion.
This attack by the monster completely broke with previous patterns.
Both the frequency and the quantity far exceeded Hermann's predictions.
Previously, PPDC had great confidence in Hermann's predictions because his calculations had always had a high degree of accuracy.
This time, however, it was terribly wrong.
So Old Pan didn't sleep all night. After finishing his own work, he rushed over to meet with Hermann in person to understand the situation.
Zhang Tianyuan was very curious about the fresh monster corpse, so he came to Newton to take a look.
Newton had a strong desire to perform, and seeing that there were important people around him, he even thoughtfully gave Zhang Tianyuan a basic explanation.
He cut a piece of tissue from the fresh monster carcass, put it into the instrument, and fiddled with it, muttering: w.
"Look, how familiar the structure of this gland is, so familiar that I feel like I've seen it somewhere before..."
As he spoke, he turned around and took a slice of gland from the monster specimen behind him, showing it to Zhang Tianyuan.
It has strange stripes on it, like traces of a monster's blood vessels or nerves.
Newton examined and compared this gland with another new gland, then pulled Zhang Tianyuan aside and stated his conclusion. "These two glands are exactly the same; they have the same DNA."
Zhang Tianyuan nodded.
Newton continued, "This means these are cloned organs, but these two cloned organs have appeared on two completely different monsters..."
"What does this mean?" Old Pan suddenly turned his head on the other side.
Newton looked somewhat deranged, his speech quickening. "This means these organs are just parts for the monsters. The aliens on the other side of the wormhole are using all sorts of different components to assemble unique monsters."
"It's like our cars; if you wanted, you could even put a rocket engine in one..."
"And the monsters are mass-produced weapons of those aliens. They change the monsters' 'performance' by constantly replacing parts on them. Perhaps we can use that term."
After listening, Old Pan looked directly at Zhang Tianyuan, wanting to hear his opinion.
After pondering for a while, Zhang Tianyuan decided to believe Newton's statement.
After all, in the movie, both Newton and Hermann's research was reliable.
After seeing Zhang Tianyuan's statement, Old Pan asked Newton to compile this statement into a report and submit it to his office. He would then be responsible for delivering it to the scientific departments of various countries.
Yes, since partnering with the Mutual Aid Society, PPDC's cooperation with various countries has been restored.
Everything was given the green light and passed quickly.
Previously, only Hermann and Newton remained from PPDC's scientific research department, but now they have received new research support.
At this moment, Hermann, who had been immersed in his own world, suddenly spoke up.
"I can't figure it out," he shook his head. "It's impossible to calculate. There's too little data right now, and the patterns are completely different from before."
"The only thing I'm certain of is that this monster deployment, both in terms of quantity and timing, was absolutely not part of their plan."
"This was definitely a last-minute decision!"
Faced with the results given by Hermann, Old Pan was also helpless.
Even Zhang Tianyuan couldn't do anything about it.
It is now clear that his arrival has attracted the attention of the Precursors, and the butterfly effect has disrupted Precursors plans.
Originally, the Precursors were expected to launch their final offensive after New Year's Day 2025, but that's no longer certain.
This change in timing had a profound impact.
Old Pan immediately reported this matter to Ning Jihua.
He tapped the table and immediately gave the order, "It's alright, whether the monster comes or not, we'll proceed according to the original plan."
"Next, you all wait for the right opportunity. When the monster appears, destroy the wormhole when the opportunity arises, while we focus our efforts on restoring production, or at least prepare for it."
With the help of the Mutual Aid Society, Ning Jihua's strategic space has greatly expanded.
In the past, he would never have chosen such a strategy.
Zhang Tianyuan also quickly received Ning Jihua's decision.
He had no objection to the decision; the frequency of monster invasions had been broken, which was indeed a troublesome matter.
But if you really want to be serious, that's really all there is to it.
It simply means the execution of the Plan to Nuke the Wormhole will be postponed.
It's not a big problem.
Now he's more focused on another issue.
Finch
The fifth world has been discovered.