Chapter 1648: Chapter 635: Lurker Shi Lin

Red Water Triple Star System.

As a relatively rare three-star compound system in the Seventh Star Cluster, the environment of the Red Water System is eerily similar to the Centaurus Three Star System that humans from Earth were once so familiar with.

The unique environment of the three stars causes the gravitational environment in the Red Water System to be particularly complex and very unstable.

There was once and only one solid planet located in the habitable zone here, and it also had an atmosphere. This was once the special materials production base of the Ascenders, breeding a peculiar life form that can independently generate gravity-controlling organs.

These organs would be collected and stored in the warehouse of the Mother Empress Ship. If the Mother Empress Ship needed to increase production, requiring the output of many space combat organisms with Gravity Engines, such as stingers, these organs could be piled in like semi-finished mechanical parts, significantly speeding up production.

Of course, space life forms generated by mixing other biological organs are often short-lived and easily die from rejection reactions. But that doesn’t matter at all; lower-tier organisms are cannon fodder anyway, and no one expects them to live long.

If any stinger does manage to make a mark and break the shackles of fate, gaining the power to be promoted, then the Mother Empress Ship can just replace all its organs at that time.

In short, although the Red Water System once had only one planet, it was exceptionally prosperous and barely considered a key area in the Seventh Star Cluster.

In the outer layer of the Red Water System, there used to be a Fold Jump Subspace Channel Central Station, large in scale and with very high traffic.

But now, the former planet is gone, and the central station is also gone. Only the three stars remain, along with a chaotic asteroid belt composed of wreckage torn apart and abandoned at the original location, drifting in between.

The space asteroid belt is expanding and splitting into three parts, heading in three different directions. After several decades of rapid evolution, these biological-based space asteroids will become near-orbit asteroid belts of the three stars.

If given billions or even tens of billions of years, these space asteroids might gradually increase in mass by capturing the plasma streams drifting in stellar winds and eventually transform back into real gaseous asteroids.

Then, these gaseous asteroids will attract each other, collide, and cluster together, turning into liquid or even solid planets, undergoing massive collisions again, and eventually forming a relatively mature but unstable planetary system, similar to the formation of raindrops.

Following that, some unfortunate planets will likely be re-captured by the stars’ gravity, or be torn apart by the complex stellar gravitational force field breaking the Roche limit, only to crash into the stars, repeating the cycle over and over.

This is the law of the universe.

At this moment, there were two outsiders in the Red Water System, namely the Hundred Emperors, the ruler of the Hundred Clusters Star Domain, and a war-type first-class Mother Empress known as the Double-eyed Beast.

With the previous lesson from Long Guci, the first-class Mother Empress also feared being isolated.

Therefore, the Hundred Emperors required the Double-eyed Beast to act as its bodyguard.

The past Hundred Emperors wouldn’t act like this; when it was still a warrior, it only feared having too few and too weak enemies, not enough to consume. But that is now history, and as it transitioned into an administrative type of Mother Empress, today’s Hundred Emperors is no longer the fierce general in the Imperial Fleet who went in and out seven times, so it found itself a reliable bodyguard.

The Double-eyed Beast, as one of the ten war Mother Empress sent to assist the Seventh Star Cluster, has an extraordinary talent for defense. Its shell is extremely tough, and its reproductive subunits are primarily defense-oriented. It also participated in the Three Domains War, serving as the rear guard during the army’s withdrawal, causing significant losses to the Imperial Fleet that attempted to beg while pursuing.

The Hundred Emperors drifted among the three stars, precisely within the gravitational balance point of the star system formed by the three stars. The triple stellar gravity could not exceed its body’s Roche limit.

Then, the Hundred Emperors activated three reproductive organs and began throwing spores outwards. These spores, under the uneven gravitational pull of the three stars, went off in different directions. Over the next several decades of flight, these spores would fall into the orbit of the stars and attach to the previously arrived biological-based space asteroids, rapidly multiplying to create membrane structures, accelerating planetary evolution artificially.

After a few hundred to a thousand years, the Hundred Emperors will send many small and medium-sized reproductive subunits to dismantle and tear apart these rapidly proliferating membrane-like fungal colonies, then release these initially cultivated seeds into various locations within the Seventh Star Cluster through the Subspace Channel.

The Double-eyed Beast stayed near the former central station, extending eight octopus-like long arms. These arms, stretching tens of thousands of kilometers, slowly waved in space.

Masses of biological structures spewed from the discs at the arm tips, then gathered into clusters.

Besides serving as a bodyguard for the Hundred Emperors, the Double-eyed Beast also had the task of rebuilding the transport central station to help the Hundred Emperors transport the fungal membranes cultivated in the Red Water System outwards.

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Time continued to pass slowly.

Everything seemed peaceful.

After the intruders left, it seemed as if the Seventh Star Cluster had returned to its former state.

Although all the planets were taken away, when the Ascenders initially conquered this territory, they had almost destroyed the planets here, so now it’s just another rebuild from scratch.

The main brain of the Hundred Emperors remained conscious for about five years.

During these five years, it first followed the intelligence of the Eye of the Starry Sky throughout. The Eye of the Starry Sky informed it that the Red Blade Army had already jumped into Subspace with those planets and was truly gone.

The Hundred Emperors felt slightly at ease.

Then, the Hundred Emperors focused on optimizing and improving the fungal colonies.

After tens of thousands of iterations, the space fungal colonies most suited to the new environment in the Seventh Star Cluster were officially produced, slowly multiplying as they moved along.

The work of the Double-eyed Beast in the rear also gradually came on track, with the central station beginning to take shape.

The other thirteen first-class Mother Empresses have also joined the subsequent regular forces and began constructing new interstellar Subspace Channels.

The Hundred Emperors calculated the time and set its main brain to a hibernation cycle, selecting the automatic awakening time for eight hundred years later.

Then it transferred regular work to the ten auxiliary brains, and the main brain fell into a deep slumber once again.

In eight hundred years, the central station will be completed. Its original fungus will have transformed from spore form into a large membrane.

Then, together with the Double-eyed Beast, it can casually leave, only leaving the task of cluster construction to the biological instincts of the reproductive subunits destined to be abandoned here.

The Hundred Emperors did not realize, on the surface of a fragment rushing toward the second star of Red Water, an eye quietly opened within the space asteroid belt.

This eye only squinted slightly to peek a glance at the location of the Hundred Emperors and then closed again.

Shi Lin cautiously controlled his body, reducing the metabolism rate within the closed structure of his body to the minimum level.

Gradually, his heart would beat ever so slightly only after several dozens of days.

This biological pulse was to recharge the micro frozen hibernation chamber containing his brain neurons.

He seemed just like a true biological-based meteorite in space.

Shi Lin could vaguely sense the positions of other body parts.

He thought to himself, the first-class Mother Empress indeed is a miraculous biological form, even if its body is shattered into thousands of pieces, it still can, in consciousness, integrate into a whole.

Is this the mystery of information stream thinking?

General Manager, wait for my good news.

Father, I am about to make a contribution.

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