Chapter 121 Laboratory Segment, the Giant Tortoise Rock Table

The four corpses were safely transported to the ship's laboratory and immediately transferred to sealed containers equipped with scanning capabilities. These humanoid beings, as tall as giants in mythological stories, floated in mid-air under the effect of anti-gravity fields, with faint blue halos running across their bodies – this was the equipment scanning their body structures.

"These are what we found, the pilots of the black warship, a giant race," Hao Ren said, pointing to one of the containers, "Apart from skin color and size, they're basically no different from humans. But their bodies are definitely not ordinary. After being submerged in the seabed of Aerym for over ten thousand years, these corpses show no signs of decay. They look like they just died."

Nangong Sanba craned his neck. "Goodness… these guys are really big. No wonder the spaceships they built are so ridiculously huge."

"I remembered that 'bomb' we picked up on the *Zalazaan*," Vivian suddenly nudged Hao Ren's arm. "We thought it was a cannon shell back then, but now, judging by the size of these giants, that thing was probably an explosive bullet… or a small grenade or something?"

Hao Ren thought for a moment. "Could it also be a cluster charge from a submunition?"

Lily poked both of them. "You guys are really full of idle energy researching this stuff at this time."

The data terminal circled around the containers a few times, with a large number of holographic projections flying around it. "All their important organs are duplicated, their bones are rich in metallic components, and the bone plates in their abdominal and thoracic cavities are semi-closed like armor. Their somatic cell strength is extremely high, almost the limit of natural evolution. Frankly, this is an absurdly strong race. This unit even suspects that they are not naturally evolved."

"Why did they destroy Aerym?" Shaki'la looked up at the giants with light red skin, the scales on the lower half of her cheeks shimmering, her tail swaying excitedly in the air. "Who did we offend?"

"I guess it has something to do with the Brain-thing," Hao Ren shrugged. "Terminal, check if they were controlled by a Brain-thing. There should be signs of damage to their brains…"

"Regarding that…" The data terminal's voice became strange. "This unit actually has a slightly different view."

Everyone immediately perked up their ears and widened their eyes, watching as the data terminal opened a new set of holographic projections in the air. "You should prepare yourselves mentally. The following images and the associated associations may affect your appetite."

The holographic projections showed scan images of the giants' heads, with their brain structures clearly visible.

"Does it look a little familiar?" The data terminal waved itself in front of Hao Ren's eyes.

Lily's eyes widened even more, and she suddenly exclaimed, "Their brains…"

"Obvious lesions, the brain is swollen almost to the point of bursting the skull, and there is obvious separation between the brain tissue and the surrounding flesh and blood. Some abnormal structures have appeared in the lower half of the brain tissue, and this should only be the state in the process of the lesion, not the final result," the data terminal said, while starting an evolution program. The skull, hair, skin, and other structures of the giant on the holographic projection were stripped off one by one, revealing only the state of his brain. As the deduction progressed, the shape of this brain began to slowly change. "If this disease continues, then part of their brain structure will engulf, extract, and distort some organs in the chest cavity, and there will also be some unpredictable situations. This unit can only roughly deduce that it will become like this…"

The evolution program ended, and an irregular flesh mass floating in the air was presented to everyone. It had the shape of a brain, and the lower part was a large pile of bizarre tentacle structures.

"Brain-thing…" Hao Ren murmured, "...Vivian, don't bother cooking tonight."

Nangong Sanba also pressed his chest. "Uh, don't make my portion either."

Lily's ears perked up. "Great, great! Bat, save their portions for me!"

Everyone immediately gave this magical husky a strange look, but she was still oblivious. "Why are you looking at me? Eating is the most important thing. We may have to see a lot more disgusting things in the future. If we don't improve our resistance now, we'll starve to death. You guys have no foresight…"

Vivian slapped her forehead. "How does this husky always become like a sage in weird places?"

Izhaks looked at the Brain-thing evolution diagram and was also a little stunned. The great demon had seen a lot in his life, and had experienced being ganged up on by the whole world, but he had never seen such a wonderful "evolution phenomenon." He scratched his big bald head. "Could it be that the Brain-thing is this giant's brain… mutated into?"

"It may be a mutation, or it may be a disease, or it may be something else, such as the brain itself being a parasitic organism parasitizing on this giant body, and after the body dies, they will try to break away and survive on their own," the data terminal swayed left and right in the air. "Don't feel incredible, there is a kind of creature called 'x-blood primordial body', they are still liquid, relying on parasitizing in the bodies of other creatures to survive as blood. The main residents of the Wecatt civilization circle are them. The world is wonderful."

Izhaks was stunned for a long time, muttering to himself: "Nature is really ingenious…"

Lily blinked. "That is to say, these giants actually have no brains and don't think. They are actually 'transportation tools' for these brains?"

"As expected of someone who writes novels, your brain is flexible, but this unit is just making a hypothesis, this possibility is actually not high," the data terminal shook its body. "This unit just checked the genetic factors of the brain and other tissues, and there is a high degree of consistency, so parasitism is ruled out. The giant's brain tissue breaking away and mutating into a Brain-thing should be the result of some kind of mutation. According to the worldview of most intelligent races, this is a terrible mutation, and it is almost impossible to be a natural result. Anyway, this is the biggest imagination I've ever seen…"

"Looking at the mutation of these brain tissues… this should have happened around the time they attacked Aerym," Nangong Sanba guessed. "That is to say, when the giants were still giants, they were just passing by Aerym, but after their brains lost control, they returned to Aerym and went crazy, and after Aerym was destroyed, some surviving giants became Brain-things - the one on Earth should be one."

Hao Ren immediately reacted. "If the Brain-things are all mutated from these giants, then the Brain-thing that appeared in Holletta should be the same!"

"That is to say, this giant race mutated into that big-headed thing?" Vivian immediately understood what Hao Ren meant. These giants were passing by Aerym in a spaceship, and this place is tens of billions of light-years away from Holletta. The Brain-thing that mutated on this ship should not theoretically appear in Holletta, so there is only one possibility: the giant race in other parts of the universe also experienced this terrible thing, so Holletta also has Brain-things!

This time, even the Sea Serpent Queen couldn't bother to study why these giants destroyed Aerym back then. She was already terrified by this horrifying mutation. "What exactly happened to these giants…"

Hao Ren grabbed the data terminal. "I'm going to the laboratory next door to ask the person involved!"

The terminal immediately screamed. "Hey, hey, be gentle! Can you have some professional spirit when using precision equipment!? Hey, you're holding it upside down… dammit, you bumped the second corner from the left of this unit on the door frame!"

After Hao Ren ran out in a hurry with the data terminal, Lily glanced at Vivian. "I feel like the landlord's PDA's symptoms are getting more and more serious."

"It wouldn't be like this if you watched less Korean dramas."

"Is it my fault?"

Because the giant samples were an unexpected discovery, there was no time to make room for them in the main laboratory, so they were placed in the spare laboratory, which was only a wall away from the main laboratory where the Brain-thing was placed. Hao Ren led the data terminal to the next door and casually activated the container tube in the center of the room. The silver-white alloy protective wall outside the container slowly lowered, and Hao Ren saw that the giant brain was still quietly suspended in the container.

"Hey, Big Brain!" Hao Ren did not choose to connect mentally, because it was not necessary this time. "I'll show you something!"

Saying that, he started the data terminal's holographic projection and showed the giant's images from next door to the giant brain.

"Take a look at these. You should recognize them. Are there any acquaintances inside?"

Hao Ren thought that this time the giant brain should have some reaction, at least don't continue to be uncooperative no matter how violent it is like before, but the result was - the latter did not move.

"What's going on?" Hao Ren stepped forward and knocked on the pipe wall. "Is it dead?"

The data terminal started the equipment to check the Brain-thing's state, and suddenly let out a sharp shriek: "It's gone!!"