Yuan Tong

Chapter 772 Sowing in the Sunlight

Chapter 1 A Little Mermaid's Movement

No one noticed the movement of a tiny mermaid in the sink, because everyone's attention was focused on the Source Blood cultivation tank in the center of the hall.

When the First Born, Zhuom, connected his consciousness to the two brain cores and released control signals using the brain cores as converters, the red liquid in the cultivation tank suddenly calmed down, no longer even rippling. Its tranquil state seemed less like being controlled and more like losing activity all at once. Lily curiously leaned on the railing, craning her neck to look down: "I don't think this is right... Is Source Blood like this after being controlled?"

"No vital signs detected," Muru frowned, leaning over to examine the situation in the tank. "An abnormal stillness... It's as if the vitality has been suppressed or cut off. Zhuom, did you do this?"

"I don't know what's going on," Zhuom's voice came from mid-air. "I just connected to the brain cores and haven't sent any signals yet."

Hao Ren turned to fiddle with the equipment on the console, though he didn't quite understand the principles behind it. He could only roughly understand its reports: "It seems there's a problem. There's a very strong suppression signal in the lab, blocking the connection between the brain cores and the Source Blood. The Source Blood's own activity is also being suppressed."

Dou Dou remained motionless,趴on the outer wall of the crystal tank, watching the Source Blood cultivation tank. Due to the angle, her line of sight was actually blocked by the floor of the annular platform, so she couldn't see anything. It was just a vague feeling that made her curious about that direction. However, the little girl's curiosity never lasted long. After discovering that there was only a floor in that direction, Dou Dou lost interest, flicked her tail, and went back to the bottom of the water to sleep.

Hao Ren was pulling up the status of various devices in the lab, trying to see which suppressor hadn't been turned off. However, just then, the connection between the brain cores and the Source Blood suddenly recovered completely.

The red liquid in the cultivation tank made a gurgling, low sound, and began to surge slowly again. The red light released from the surface of the two brain cores at the edge of the annular platform echoed the surging frequency of the Source Blood. The light streams connected to the brain cores continued to operate smoothly, and the mental signal readings of Zhuom began to refresh rapidly on the crystal prisms next to them.

"Oh, oh, it seems to be working!" Zhuom shouted happily. "I can feel my spirit filling this place. Those Source Blood are easy to control, just like the ones I've used before!"

Muru congratulated him briefly, then turned to look at Hao Ren on the platform: "What was that just now?"

"Maybe the connection strength between Zhuom and the brain cores wasn't strong enough at the beginning, and some suppressors detected signs of runaway Source Blood and continued to function," Hao Ren scratched his head. "The equipment here is quite complex, and it's all magic-guided devices. I don't quite understand it either."

Vivian stood on tiptoe to look at the Source Blood cultivation tank below the platform, and then at the brain cores not far away: "Anyway, it looks normal now."

Muru gave Hao Ren a strange look: "Such an advanced space station... How could it be entrusted to someone like you to manage?"

"Hey, everything is highly intelligent," Lily, eager to protect her master, jumped out to speak for Hao Ren, then looked at the Source Blood pool below with excitement. "So now we can try to create life, right? Can we make something? Let's start, shall we?"

Zhuom replied briskly, "We can. What do you want?"

Lily rolled her eyes, thinking: "Make a Bahamut, and a Leviathan too... Wuwu?"

Hao Ren covered Lily's mouth and dragged her aside: "We don't need your wild ideas now. Go lie down over there. Zhuom, don't listen to her. Let's test according to plan, starting with assembling single cells, and then assembling multicellular organisms that can live on the planet Tanagoth."

A series of strange gurgling sounds came from the Source Blood cultivation tank. Zhuom, with some unfamiliarity, controlled these primitive life substances and began to create the lives he remembered.

In the following days, everything proceeded smoothly.

Using the *Giant Tortoise Rock*, Hao Ren gradually realized the plans in his mind, with the help of the ship's factory and the assembly workshop on the Crystal Core Research Station.

A newly built facility appeared on the side of the Crystal Core Research Station facing Tanagoth. Its shape resembled a bizarre carapace creature, clinging to the outer shell of the space station. Like the rest of the research station, this facility was made of crystal, and its translucent dome allowed people to vaguely see inside: a vibrant red, full of life. Inside this facility were two modified brain cores, immersed in Source Blood and fixed in the center of the facility by a large number of pipes and light streams. Seen from space, the entire structure looked like a peculiar ruby, with two even more vibrant red cores shining inside.

The will of Zhuom was imported into the brain cores through those light streams, and after complex conversion, it became a signal that could interfere with the real world. The shell of this ruby-like facility was a high-power broadcast antenna, which amplified the signal of the brain cores and then broadcast it to Tanagoth.

This facility was named "The Ark of Life" by Lily. Although her overly broad thinking always caught people off guard, it had to be admitted that her naming skills were the best among everyone.

On the surface of Tanagoth, the supporting receiving and broadcasting systems were also gradually in place.

The main body of this system was the antenna array that had been established long ago. These arrays had been used to eliminate the raging spirits entrenched on the planet, but now that the raging spirits on the planet had returned to the energy cycle, the antenna arrays that had completed their mission were transformed into transmitters capable of broadcasting the will of the First Born. They were essentially precise and high-power electromagnetic broadcasting towers, and their newly loaded programs referenced the Crystal Core Research Station's research results on the First Born: simulating the nerve impulses of the First Born's tentacles.

Through this system, Zhuom's will was finally freed from the constraints of the host. Not only could it smoothly come into contact with the real world, but it could also allow its will to cover the entire planet.

When Tanagoth and the Crystal Core Research Station jointly welcomed a brilliant sunrise, Hao Ren ordered the release of Source Blood containers to the surface of Tanagoth.

He stood on the upper platform of the *Giant Tortoise Rock*, watching this scene. As the sunlight gradually rose from the horizon of Tanagoth, the entire research station was bathed in gold. A part of the outer shell of the Crystal Core Research Station opened silently, and dozens of ellipsoidal crystal containers slowly flew out of the ejection port, dragging long, dazzling halos towards the surface of the planet. Those crystal containers shone with a bright red light, taking away 90% of the Crystal Core Research Station's Source Blood reserves—but soon, more Source Blood would proliferate on the surface of the planet.

There was abundant nutrition there, as well as more reasonable growth signal stimulation from the First Born. A brand-new ecosystem would awaken from the Source Blood, and all of this wouldn't take long.

"It would probably take hundreds of millions of years to complete the normal evolutionary path, but with a blueprint, many things can be created directly, as long as the matching of these species is planned reasonably."

Muru's voice came from the spaceship communicator, and his figure was presented on the holographic projection. Behind Muru was not the background of the Crystal Core Research Station, but a pale golden, precipitous mountain range. At the foot of the mountain range, the shadow of the golden city of Alamanda could be vaguely seen.

The giant was no longer in the space station. Hao Ren had him go to the surface of the planet to assist Zhuom in completing the "sowing," and he also sent him some autonomous machines and arcane servants as assistants. From Muru's expression, the madness and hatred from their first meeting were gone. He stood on the land that was about to be reborn, his face showing a peaceful expression.

Everything was as Hao Ren had hoped: the gardener had returned to his work, and nothing could restore his peace more than this.

"The new ecosystem won't affect Tanagoth's existing creatures, will it?" Hao Ren asked again, still worried.

"Don't worry, Zhuom and I have precisely designed the ecosystem. Species from the two planets will coexist well. We want to let everything be reborn, not eliminate something."

Hao Ren nodded: "That's good. Then we should go back too. I hope we can see this planet more vibrant next time we come."

Muru smiled: "You can look forward to it."