Chapter 1668: Chapter 648: You Are Free

The Ascendants chose to evolve biologically, a path that effortlessly alters the level of civilization and continuously advances, serving as a shortcut.

But taking shortcuts comes with its own price.

The simplest way to deal with biological entities is through toxic countermeasures, using biological means to eradicate biological threats.

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Rabies is the most terrifying virus encountered by Ren Zhong’s 21st-century humanity in the entirety of civilized history.

This virus is regarded as humanity’s nemesis.

Even though humans possess an immune system as sophisticated as precision instruments, they are still severely constrained by a virus the size of a mite, cleverly adapting to each countermeasure.

It is so fearsome that it causes humans to tremble at its mention.

From certain biological classification perspectives, it doesn’t even qualify as a living organism.

It relies on five groups of genes with simple yet distinct functions: infection, evasion, transfer, reproduction, and repetition, thriving under the strict vigilance of the human immune system, undefeated and indomitable.

Even in the mid-21st century, with advanced medical technology prevailing, and even cancer being conquered, Earth’s humans still haven’t found a way to treat rabies patients after onset.

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As for when it began, it’s unclear, but Bailong frequently feels drowsy and somewhat mentally lethargic.

This is absurd.

As a noble, first-class Mother Empress, Bailong is considered to be at the pinnacle of evolution.

The entity never falls ill, and even if anomalies occur within, Bailong’s super immune system effortlessly obliterates potential threats.

The Mother Empress Ship is the culmination of biological evolution, possessing the capability to compile genes independently; it’s unimaginable what malady could target it.

It’s well known that in the entire Ascendant Mother Empress Ship sequence, only a few exhibit noticeable individual peculiarities, such as the Hundred Emperors.

The Hundred Emperors are notorious for their desire to sleep. To better indulge in laziness, this former War Queen even evolved ten auxiliary brains to handle basic tasks, which now backfires, becoming a laughingstock.

But Bailong isn’t like this; as a newly advanced War Queen less than ten thousand years of age, Bailong harbors ambitions and desires to accumulate achievements, opting not to rest on triumphs like the Hundred Emperors do.

Bailong knows this situation is off-kilter, conducting self-diagnoses repeatedly, but consistently finding nothing amiss.

The entity couldn’t detect any abnormalities internally, boosting the immune system to its maximum load, yet discovering nothing.

After nearly half a month elapsed, Bailong finally identified something peculiar.

The first to falter wasn’t itself, but the smaller, lower-tier space organisms within its Reproductive Subunits army surrounding it.

In truth, the Ascendants haven’t fully embraced a silicon-based evolutionary path. Space-navigating Ascendant creatures typically possess composite body structures.

For instance, a stinger has a solid and excellently sealed silicon-based shell. This silicon shell effectively prevents air and liquid leakage, allowing an internal fully cyclic ecological system to maintain stability.

At the seams of the silicon shell, flexible alloy-composed pipes and tendons form a semi-biological, semi-mechanical structure, containing networks of blood vessels, lymphatic vessels, and neural pathways.

Meanwhile, on the stinger’s back, there’s a backpack-like hive structure. The hive structure is similarly sealed entirely by a silicon-based shell, filled with liquid and dense tubing networks. Across these networks densely populate numerous highly active and efficient Class Leaf Green Bodies, transforming carbon dioxide and water into organic matter and oxygen.

If in radiation-rich regions, Class Leaf Green Bodies rely on the outer photovoltage layer of the silicon shell to absorb external radiation for conversion, bolstering endurance capabilities. In regions far from stars with scant radiation energy, supply primarily depends on internal energy reserves. Once reserves deplete, additional supplements are required, including passive and active supplementation. Passive supplementation resembles the 21st-century airborne refuelers supplying fuel to warplanes; active supplementation bears a biological feeding style.

Overall, despite the stinger’s small size, it truly constitutes a fully enclosed ecological system.

Other space organisms follow suit, harboring production organs, consumption organs, and decomposition organs, alongside silicon-based organs for external closure, equipped with a composite neural network comprising both electrical conduction and neurotransmitter conduction systems.

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