Chapter 431 The Shackles of Life
More than three hundred large sea clams, not one less!
Looking around, there are no less than fifty clams that are over ten years old.
If Su Xia were to look for it by himself, even with the help of a submarine, it would take at least one or two months to find so many clams in this vast ocean.
During this period, you may also encounter some unknown dangers in the ocean.
But now, the big whale roared and brought so many clams directly to Su Xia.
"How is it? Is it a great gift?" the big whale asked proudly, somewhat complacently.
"yes!"
Su Xia nodded seriously.
If this isn't a gift, what is?
The pearls produced by these phantom blue sea clams can be refined into psychic potions, which are enough for Su Xia to become the top creature on this planet, and even cross that threshold and exceed the known limits of this planet!
"I've known these guys are here for a long time, but I'm too lazy to look for them because I can't digest them myself now. So I just keep them here and let them grow slowly." said the big whale.
"Can't digest it?"
Su Xia frowned and asked, "What do you mean? Can't you digest the pearls they produce?"
"Yes." replied the big whale.
"There shouldn't be such a problem." Su Xia said.
"I don't know what's wrong, but I just can't digest it." The big whale was helpless.
According to him, when the Psychic Age first arrived, he was able to absorb a large amount of psychic energy, constantly evolving, and his strength slowly increased, gradually acquiring his current abilities.
You know, before the advent of the Psychic Age, although he was huge in size, he was not this big.
Before that, he was actually only about 100 meters long, and at his largest less than 200 meters.
"At that time, I was still very thin..."
The big whale recalled his past appearance, and there was more emotion in his voice.
Su Xia nodded slightly. He had read the information about the "Moorish Beast" and the "Revengeful Whale". There were some blurry pictures and videos, both in black and white and in color, which vaguely showed the previous appearance of the big whale.
After the advent of psychic power, the size of the giant whale increased dramatically again, expanding to its current size.
"Not only me, but also that annoying electric eel, the sea dragon, the tentacle monster and others have become much bigger after absorbing psychic energy, and they are also smarter than before." said the big whale.
He thought he would continue to evolve endlessly like this until his life came to an end.
But, one day a few years ago, he suddenly found that he could no longer become stronger. It seemed that the power he absorbed had reached a critical point, and no matter how much he absorbed, he could not digest it.
He had swallowed quite a few aquamarine pearls and could absorb as many as he swallowed.
But after that day, he couldn't do it anymore.
"Why is that?"
Hearing this, Su Xia pondered, thinking about the reason for this problem, but he knew very little about it.
His ugly clone has not yet evolved to the level of the big whale, and has not encountered the situation described by the big whale.
"Sarah, do you know?" Su Xia had no choice but to ask Sarah beside her.
"Well, you should know a little bit." Sarah smiled sweetly and nodded.
"What's the reason?" Su Xia asked.
Outside the submarine, the big whale was silent, a little nervous, and waited quietly for Sarah's answer.
Sarah smiled and said, "Captain, according to my records, Zerg creatures, like humans and machines, will face a huge gap when their civilization reaches a certain stage, and it is difficult to cross it."
"You mean... into the starry sky?"
After a brief thought, Su Xia understood what Sarah meant, and also knew the problem with the big whale.
As we all know, marine creatures can grow very large, and the largest ones are countless times larger than elephants on land, such as the blue whale over there.
The most important reason is that marine organisms can rely on the buoyancy of seawater to reduce the bearing capacity of their own bones.
However, the giant whale's body was too huge, more than 300 meters long, so big that it was suffocating. Even though it was a psychic creature and had the support of sea water, it could not grow any further.
If he continues to grow longer, he will be crushed by himself and killed by himself.
"I will be killed by myself?" The big whale was surprised.
"That's right." Su Xia nodded.
"What should I do? Is this how I will be in the future?" The big whale was actually quite satisfied with his own strength. He had basically been indifferent in the past few years. He just ate and slept, and had no other requirements.
It would be fine if there was no solution, but now, Sarah seemed to have a solution to this problem, which made him cheer up and feel vaguely expectant.
It would be best if we could continue to become stronger.
"Sarah, what do you think?"
"Captain, do you know the Kraken?" Sarah asked with a chuckle.
"I know. It's the Zerg's 'Titan-class' life form, a giant beast that can travel in the starry sky." Su Xia nodded. He had heard about it from the octopus monster Haidar before.
Kraken, beyond the sixth level of life.
Those who can travel in the starry sky are almost all Zerg creatures of level eight or nine or even higher. They are extremely large, with their own space inside their bodies, and can carry a large number of other Zerg lives.
They are an important branch of the Zerg's interstellar colonization army, and each one is extremely powerful.
There are many records about Kraken in Hal's materials.
For example, more than two thousand years ago, a huge Kraken suddenly descended on a remote civilized planet in the Imperial Star Domain. After his arrival, a large number of Zerg creatures poured out from the space inside his body and established a Zerg nest stronghold at an extremely fast speed, almost causing the entire planet to be swallowed by insects.
In the end, it was the Imperial Fleet that took action, using a weapon called "Sound Wave of Death" to forcibly kill the Kraken, which had already reached level ten. They also expended a great deal of energy to clean up the remaining low-level Zerg, thus saving the planet.
In addition to the Kraken, the Zerg also have other Titan-level creatures that, after growing to a certain extent, can break through the limitations of the planet and travel into the starry sky, such as Behemoth, Setes, Mogaro, etc.
They have different names, sizes, features, and abilities, but they all have one similar characteristic—they are extremely huge!
Their huge bodies can store enough energy to support their travels in the starry sky.
Even the smallest Titan-class creature is nearly a thousand meters long.
"But I can't grow up anymore." The big whale said miserably. His evolution has stopped and his life level has been limited to the highest level on this planet.
"A Zerg biological breakthrough requires a certain amount of luck." Sarah said with a smile in a gentle voice.
"Is there any way to reduce the element of luck?" Su Xia asked.
"Yes, he needs to keep trying on his own and can't just let things take their course as before. He needs to have a firm belief in evolution." Sarah gave this answer.
"How to try it?" The big whale outside asked impatiently.
“Push the limits.”
"breakthrough?"
"Yes, this is something other than luck, you can think of it as 'hard work'."
Sarah explained: "The universe is much colder and more cruel than the ocean space you are in now. If you are not careful, you may easily encounter a life-and-death crisis. If you want to evolve into a Titan-level creature, you must break through your current limits."
"How can I break through?" The big whale still didn't understand and continued to ask.
"Put the pressure on yourself and test yourself in the most brutal areas of the planet. You can even try to survive on land for a while."
"Land?" The whale was shocked. "I am a marine creature. Wouldn't it be suicide if I went to land? Wouldn't I be crushed?"
"Yes, as a marine creature, you are also seeking death by entering the universe." Sarah smiled slightly, "This is just to activate your desire to survive, hone your survival ability, and stimulate the evolutionary instinct in your body."
"This is too cruel..."
The giant whale was in distress. If he didn't continue to evolve and maintained his current size, it would actually be quite good. He was already the king of the sea anyway, and as long as he didn't run into underwater forces of humans or mechanical races, his life would be in almost no danger.
The Zerg's technology tree is different from that of humans or machines. They climb the flesh and blood technology.
And this technology tree has always been full of blood and cruelty.
The octopus monster Haidar told Su Xia that some creatures would evolve a closed and pressurized shell to isolate themselves from the vacuum in order to enter the starry sky. Others would enter a state of near dormancy when entering space, not reproducing or dividing, to minimize damage to cells from cosmic rays...
"This road is so difficult, no wonder the electric eels and sea dragons are stuck, just like me." The big whale pondered. After listening to Sarah's words, he remembered the past few hundred years.
For a long time, he was fighting against human whaling ships.
At that time, he often faced life-and-death crises, and had a desire to become stronger in his heart. He indeed became stronger and stronger, and became a sea monster feared by countless people.
But after becoming a sea monster, his sense of crisis became less and less, and his evolution gradually stopped.
"It's probably because I live too comfortably." The big whale also understood his own problem.
After figuring it out, he stopped asking.
The next path depends on his own choice; no other creature can help him.
Su Xia remained silent and did not ask about the big whale's choice.
The great whale is also considered a member of the Zerg, and the starry sky is quite cruel to Zerg creatures, and they are in danger of death at any time.
Even if the giant whale really breaks through the shackles of life and becomes another level of existence, Su Xia hopes that he will stay on this planet.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore!" The big whale changed the subject and brought the topic back to Su Xia. "After you return to land, will you be able to extract spiritual energy from the pearl?"
"Yes." Su Xia replied.
"That's good……"
The big whale swung its tail , releasing a huge pressure again. It looked at the many phantom blue clams and said, "You are self-aware. Now that you have lined up, come one by one and spit out your pearls! If there is one missing, Grandpa Whale will kill you!"
"Yes, yes, Grandpa Whale, don't be angry, let's start right away." The leading sea clam felt bitter, but he had to do this under the pressure of the big whale.
The big whale said indifferently: "Grandpa Whale will not take your benefits for nothing. I will leave my scent outside this rift. No other predators will approach this rift in the future. Even the top creatures will give me face!"
Hearing this, the leading clam was delighted and emitted a wave of joyful spiritual fluctuations.
"Thank you, Grandpa Whale!"
The words of the big whale are enough, even if all the pearls are given away this time, it will be worth it.
Their race is really too weak. In the eyes of many predators, they are just moving tonics. This is their innate sorrow.
Although living in this rift in the Far North Sea can avoid most predators, there are always dangerous moments.
Now, the big whale is willing to shelter them, which is like a talisman for them.
Next, these pearl oysters began to spit out their own pearl crystals one by one.
"Put them all in this big net, and I'll collect them all together later."
Su Xia sent out several small robots, carrying a large and fine net, to collect the pearls spit out by the clams.
At the same time, the big whale used its own abilities to drive other marine creatures around it to move around and explore the situation in the area, trying to find a safe place for Su Xia to go ashore.
They all knew that the Mechanical Race would not give up and would definitely send patrol creatures to the Far North Sea.
Ordinary mechanical life forms are indeed unable to survive in severe cold, but this does not include the special mechanical forces of the mechanical race.
More than ten minutes later, the big whale received feedback from the rest of the marine animals.
"Not long ago, mechanical creatures patrolled this area, both on the surface and under the sea. It is not safe here." The big whale said to Su Xia.
"The mechanical race is so powerful now. In fact, there is no safe place on the entire planet." Su Xia had anticipated this. The mechanical race had already known about his appearance in the northern waters , and they would definitely strengthen the defense here.
However, there is a limit to the number of mechanical creatures.
The biggest problem for the current mechanical race is that there are not many resources on this planet, and they cannot consume all of them for Su Xia.
Even if all the exploitable resources on the entire planet were used up, the Mechanoids would not be able to build an army that could control the entire Far North.
"In fact, they failed to achieve a complete blockade in the southern waters before, otherwise I would not have been able to escape, let alone here?" Su Xia was not worried and was very calm.
More than two hours later, more than three hundred sea clams spit out pearls.
Among them, the largest pearl is as big as a small volleyball. It was spit out by the leading giant clam. The spiritual power contained in it is unimaginable.
Su Xia was kind-hearted and did not ask them to spit out all the pearls. She let each of them keep one.
Even so, the total number of pearls reached over two thousand.
"This time, the harvest is even greater than the harvest from the last battle between the two insect nests. After returning, I will immediately extract the medicine and then go into seclusion..."
Su Xia was thinking in his mind that when the retreat was over, even if he couldn't become a top-level creature, he shouldn't be too far away.
The next time I see Mercer, I will pin him down and beat him until he is completely subdued.
After defeating him, you can talk to Mercer about the underground biological experiments in Coral City, especially the subject No. 28.
That cunning experimental subject always gave Su Xia a very dangerous feeling.
In Su Xia's task bar, the task named [Abnormal Out of Control] has always been there, as if waiting for something.
"Even if we defeat Mercer, there's nothing to be proud of." Su Xia was always on the alert. "Mercer is just a scientific research robot, in charge of biological experiments. Scientific research robots are so powerful. How powerful must the other types of robots under that master be..."
