Chapter 531, Silicon-Based Life

In the empty and dark void of 12 million light years between the Sculptor Galaxy and the Milky Way, a fleet is constantly moving towards the Milky Way through space jumps.

This fleet is not large, with only tens of thousands of space battleships, but all of them are very advanced, and each space jump can cross a distance of thousands of light years.

"It will take about ten years to return to the Milky Way. More than 100 years have passed in a flash. I didn't expect the mission to be so smooth. It can be said that the mission was completed without any effort."

Among the many space battleships, Sun Xinyuan, who was in charge of commanding this fleet, looked in the direction of the Milky Way. Across the distant void, the Milky Way was just a bright spot in the dark starry sky.

More than 100 years ago, he was ordered to lead a team to the Sculptor Galaxy to steal silicon-based genes. He thought it would be a very difficult task, but who knew it was very simple. After a hundred years of sailing, he successfully resisted the Sculptor Galaxy and witnessed the prosperity and power of the Sculptor Galaxy. At the same time, he easily completed the task assigned by Li Fu.

Thinking of this mission, Sun Xinyuan's huge consciousness covered a space battleship. In this space battleship, in huge warehouses, special cages were imprisoned with strange creatures. These creatures have various shapes, but most of them are spherical.

Some creatures are very large. There is only one such creature in a huge warehouse, like a huge hill. For safety reasons, these huge creatures have been hypnotized by the Yuanli warriors and fell into a deep sleep.

Although the size, shape, and other differences of these creatures are very huge, all of them have one thing in common, they are all silicon-based creatures, and their appearance is all made of some rocks, soil, sand, etc., which looks a bit like cracked land, piece by piece, but not scattered on the ground.

These silicon-based creatures are large in size, all shrunk into a ball and fell into a deep sleep, while the small ones are very irritable, rushing left and right, flying up and down in the cages, obviously losing their freedom is also a very irritating thing for them.

Most of these strange silicon-based creatures have a large number of tentacles. When sleeping, these tentacles will all shrink up, and the whole shape looks like a ball. As for when they are active, the tentacles swing in the void, which is very flexible.

"Keng~Keng~"

A sound of metal knocking sounded in the warehouse where these silicon-based lives were imprisoned, and suddenly, the originally quiet warehouse began to become lively.

The sleeping spheres that were originally quietly suspended in the air began to wake up, tentacles stretched out from them, waving in the air at will, and then rushed to the door of the cage in a hurry, looking at the direction of the passage with eyes like gems, looking very excited and anxious.

As for those who had not slept originally, they were even more excited, and looked at the passage in a hurry, as if waiting for something.

Some figures flew in lightly, and each of them pushed a large pile of metal rods, metal balls, and metal blocks in front of them. For the empire that has long mastered the gravity generation technology, every space battleship is standard, but here, gravity is not turned on. These carbon-based creatures have lived in space for a long time and do not like the environment with gravity.

Of course, even if the gravity generation device is turned on, these silicon-based creatures can still be generated, but the journey is long. In order to increase the survival rate, the gravity generation device is turned off in the warehouse where these silicon-based creatures are imprisoned.

Seeing the metal rods, metal balls, metal blocks and other things in front of these people, these silicon-based creatures were very excited, waving their tentacles one by one, with eager expressions in their eyes.

"Eat it!"

Shen Chao threw a metal rod into a cage and said to these silicon-based creatures with a smile. He was one of the many breeders who was responsible for taking care of the diet of these silicon-based creatures.

"It's still strange. These silicon-based creatures like to eat metal the most, all kinds of metal. As long as they are thrown in, they will definitely eat it all."

Watching the strange silicon-based creature in the cage circle the metal rod with its tentacles, and then directly throw the metal rod into its mouth, and then shrink into a ball and start digesting it, Shen Chao couldn't help shaking his head and said to his colleagues around him.

"The metal meal is their favorite. These silicon-based life forms that can live in space, metal materials can strengthen their bodies and promote their growth. In order to eat metal, they have hollowed out asteroids and planets."

Yang Qiming next to him recalled the scene he saw when he captured these silicon-based life forms. Silicon-based life forms are not common in the Sculptor Galaxy. There are only a few powerful level 5 cosmic civilizations that have kept some silicon-based life forms in captivity.

In some prosperous galaxies, the entire galaxy's void is full of silicon-based life. There are super-large silicon-based life as large as a planet, and there are also small silicon-based life in groups. All silicon-based life have one characteristic, which is that they like to eat metal.

Large silicon-based life often swallows asteroids, meteorites, etc. directly, and then shrinks into a sphere to slowly digest them. As for small silicon-based life, they hollow out asteroids, meteorites, planets, etc. in groups, and the metal elements on them are swallowed up.

"Keng~"

Pieces of metal balls, metal bars, and metal blocks are thrown into cages. All silicon-based creatures that get food are very satisfied. Some single prisoners swallow the metal directly, turn into a ball, and start to sleep and digest these metals. There are groups of prisoners, and they start a fierce fight with each other, you bite, I bite, these metal balls, metal bars and the like seem to have no hardness at all, like tofu, you can bite off a large piece very casually.

"These metals are mixed metals specially made by us according to their preferences. Various metal elements are added to them, and they are refined. These silicon-based life forms like them the most."

"Compared to eating soil and rocks, and refining the metals in soil and rocks by themselves, the metals we feed them are the top delicacy for them."

The breeders in charge of feeding this warehouse talked and laughed with each other. Most of the silicon-based life forms have low intelligence, rely on instinct to move, and like to eat metals, so it is very simple to raise them, and as long as they are full, these silicon-based creatures are very quiet.

Although most of the silicon-based creatures are relatively large, they are generally at least ten meters in diameter. Even small silicon-based creatures have a diameter of more than one meter.

However, the appetite of these silicon-based creatures is not large. A small piece of metal weighing only a few dozen kilograms is enough for a silicon-based creature with a diameter of more than ten meters to digest for a long time.

The size of silicon-based organisms is distinguished by diameter, because most silicon-based organisms are spherical structures, and this sphere is the main body of silicon-based organisms. As for the tentacles and other structures, even if they are broken, they can grow again. The size of the main sphere is the main criterion for distinguishing the size.

According to the size of the diameter, silicon-based organisms can be divided into several levels. Micro silicon-based organisms have a diameter of less than ten meters. The number of such silicon-based organisms is very large, and they are often at the bottom of the food chain among silicon-based organisms. They are usually the food of other large silicon-based organisms. After all, eating soil and rocks can extract metals, and eating other silicon-based organisms can also extract metals.

Above micro silicon-based organisms are small silicon-based organisms, which are generally between ten and one hundred meters in diameter. This type of silicon-based organism also belongs to the bottom of silicon-based organisms and is one of the prey of many medium and large silicon-based organisms. They usually devour asteroids in groups or prey on smaller micro silicon-based organisms.

The size of medium-sized silicon-based creatures is very large, with a diameter of 100 to 1,000 meters. With such a large size, they can often directly swallow smaller meteorites, asteroids, etc. at one time. Of course, most of them prey on small silicon-based creatures.

Large silicon-based creatures are quite terrifying, with diameters ranging from 1,000 meters to 100,000 meters. They are like asteroids in the void of the universe. Their tentacles are very long and can easily capture and swallow asteroids, meteorites, and small and medium-sized silicon-based creatures.

Above large silicon-based creatures, there are king-level silicon-based creatures. King-level silicon-based creatures are not only very large in size, but also have a diameter of at least 100,000 meters. More importantly, once silicon-based creatures reach the king level, they have wisdom and are no longer brainless and low-level creatures.

From micro to large, there is no racial restriction between silicon-based creatures. No matter which type of silicon-based creature, as long as it lives long enough and swallows enough metal, it can slowly grow into a large silicon-based creature.

However, it is not so easy to grow from a large silicon-based organism to a king-level silicon-based organism. It is necessary to specifically devour a certain combination of metals to break through to become a king-level organism and evolve wisdom.

Most silicon-based organisms have a very long lifespan, at least tens of thousands of years. They often have to sleep for more than ten years to slowly digest an asteroid, rock, stone, etc. with a high metal content. They cannot live a long life.

PS: I don’t know if the spherical silicon-based life design in the universe is reasonable, ~……~