Rules for raising elves [Interstellar Apocalypse]

What are the chances of getting hit in the head by a star coin while walking on the road?

What are the chances of being promoted, raised, and moved to the core area as soon as you wake up?

So it’s not impossible to pick up a perfectly evolved female cub that was “laid from eggs” on an uninhabited garbage planet, right? ! !

Leo looked at this beautiful creature in front of him that was more dazzling than the light of star coins and could not be raised in the core area of ​​​​the empire. He felt dizzy and his ears were "buzzing".

The soul seemed to have been ejected from the body by the other party's light glance. He stared numbly at his sluggish body and said mechanically: "Team, team, team... Captain, did we pick up a live female cub?!!"

I saw that the captain who was always trustworthy and looked like a lump of ice at all times had an almost invisible crack on his handsome face.

He heard the other party's affirmative answer: "Yes, this is a... female cub with a perfect evolutionary level."

As soon as he finished speaking, Leo saw the silly dog ​​Carl beside him, who was so excited that he started running around the spaceship and demolishing the house.

Then the big blue eyes of this little female with beauty that he could not describe in words gradually changed from confusion to——

Dislike it.

Time has to go back to one day ago——

District 640, planet m, the rd interstellar era.

The howling wind picked up the gravel on the ground and splashed it into the air. The sound of wind exploded in the ears like a roaring dragon. The whole sky was shrouded in darkness, and people were about to be blown away. However, the temperature remained high.

"Leo, we're almost there and can't do it without me." Carl, a boy with golden retriever genes, gasped for air and almost spit out his tongue. The sweat in the protective suit was like water.

"The protective clothing is too outdated. This old style is no longer used in the army. It is just a mobile steamer."

The handsome gray-haired boy named "Leo" pursed his chapped lips. In fact, because he was a water beast, his condition was more serious than Carl's. He almost lost the strength to speak, but his eyes were still fixed on him. He picked up the locator in his hand.

The green dots flashed and it felt like we were very close. Although the storm was getting stronger and stronger, we would be there if we persisted just a little longer.

They landed on a garbage star on the edge of the Empire's star field half a month ago. They encountered some strong magnetic interference when they entered the atmosphere. The navigation and control of the spacecraft were all disabled. Amidst the strong sirens, they could only hurriedly bring temporary materials and discard them. The ship made an emergency escape.

There were only six people in their team, and they set out specifically to look for supplies.

The Ninth District is at the very edge of the Empire's star field. It has always been a symbol of poverty and backwardness. Only some mixed-race races with high blood impurities, criminals assigned to them, and interstellar bandits who have escaped from jurisdiction still live in this land of lack of supplies and care.

In this generation, there are many small planets that have been abandoned by the empire and marked as "junk stars". Because they were affected by the war in the past, they are almost rarely inhabited. They are scattered with the wreckage of various warships and have been polluted to varying degrees. They may even become deformed. The lairs of adult zerg and dark beasts are very dangerous, but there are quite a few of them. Many of them have no names and can only be simply named with code names. Orcs generally do not dare to go there at will.

However, such junk planets often also have some undamaged parts of battleships and energy that can be recycled. These things can still be exchanged for some good survival resources and purification agents when taken to the outpost base.

The Evening Star team has been out searching for supplies for quite some time, and this is the last stop. I didn't expect that such a problem would happen as soon as they came in.

The nutrient solution and water currently carried temporarily on the body can last for another three days at most, so the spacecraft must be retrieved to get timely supplies. Moreover, there are also trophies they have collected through hard work on the spacecraft. If they do not find it, This trip back was all in vain.

When the weather was calm the previous week, there was no signal from the spacecraft at all. After the weather changed in the past two days, the interference magnetic field began to weaken, and they actually began to receive signals intermittently.

"What's going on with this junk star? There's nothing! It's all sand and soil, and it's very corrosive. I just repaired the energy gun last month, but it's worn out like this in just a few days!" A two-meter-long strong man like a bear touched the precious energy gun in his hand distressedly. The wind and sand had corroded mottled marks on it, which made him feel distressed. Moreover, this poor place is completely deserted. After walking for several days, there is not even a living person, let alone supplies.

"Tch, can't you just buy a new one? You don't have a chance to be a candidate for a male mate, and you don't want to buy a female, so why don't you spend your money?"

Karl really didn’t understand what Old Xiong was doing all day long. They were in District 9, and there was nothing worth saving money for. He never thought about it so much. If he had money, he would happily buy all kinds of mechanical materials. .

"Who... who said there is no chance! What if I suddenly get lucky one day!" Old Xiong retorted.

Listening to the chatter in the team channel, Caleb frowned slightly, feeling that the already hot weather had become more irritating, and his tone couldn't help but be a bit coercive: "Quiet."

The captain is worthy of being the captain. As soon as he spoke, the others immediately stopped talking.

Caleb Guderian, a man with A-level Finger wolf bloodline genes, has absolute say in this scavenging team.

This man who once served as an all-powerful man in the military is now doing scavenging tasks with them on the garbage planet. It is really embarrassing.

The group of people continued to advance slowly in the wind and sand. Looking down from a high place, in the vast expanse of barren yellow sand, they were as small as ants that could be blown away and buried at any time.

Finally, when I could no longer hold on, the green dot on the locator began to flash crazily.

"It's strange, it's close here, why is there nothing?" Leo said puzzled.

Caleb narrowed his narrow silver eyes slightly, and an instinctive sense of danger made him stop.

"Watch your feet."

The team immediately stood still and turned their attention to the ground.

The ground that was originally covered with yellow sand suddenly disappeared and was replaced by a piece of hard land.

Karl tried to carefully lower the dangling foot to the ground, but the cracks in the ground continued to get bigger and bigger.

Then the whole ground suddenly collapsed.

Just like a dry leaf being suddenly trampled to pieces, the entire ground turned into crispy biscuits, and the entire team just fell along the cracked ground!

The sudden weightlessness brought about a moment of panic. Fortunately, the orc warriors were born with tough bodies and thick skin, so they fell a dozen meters and immediately hit the ground.

"Old bear, get off me! If I were not thrown to death, you would crush me to death!!" Carl cursed and lifted the mountain off his body, got up and spat out a few mouthfuls of sand.

Caleb slowly retracted the steel cable fixed to the wall and had time to look around.

"Count the number of people."

"Yes, Captain!"

There were only six people in their team. After confirming that no one was lost, Leo breathed a sigh of relief, but was attracted by Caleb's fixed gaze looking into the distance, and he also looked over.

"That's, what -" Leo said in disbelief.

Hearing the sound, others suddenly noticed the strange scene in front of them—under the yellow sand of this inconspicuous garbage star, there was actually a strange underground city.

Those buildings have been so weathered that their original appearance cannot be seen, and it can only be seen that they are built of stone. It is rare to see such primitive things in the interstellar era.

Even so, it is much better than the unchanging yellow sand on the surface!

After all, there is a city, which proves that this place has traces of human habitation, and there is a high chance that there are still rags to pick up.

"Oh my God, am I not hallucinating? There is actually a city here?? No, no, no, there are actually trees! How can such a big tree grow in this place!"

Carl jumped up excitedly.

There was still no expression on Caleb's face, "Stay alert, let's go over and take a look."

Weapons were quickly assembled and everyone began to move towards the tree in the center.

Scavenging on a junk planet is inherently dangerous work. More than anything else, what they should worry about most now is that they can't find the spaceship, and then they can only stay here forever.

The closer I got, the stronger the strange feeling became.

"It doesn't look like it can be lived in here." Karl couldn't help but express his doubts.

"Well, it doesn't look like it's a place for orcs, nor does it look like the lair of dark beasts and bugs. Instead, it looks like the residence of ancient humans." Although Leo still had some doubts, he slowly said what was in his heart. guess.

Even though ancient humans have been extinct for hundreds of years.

In the current universe, there are no traces of the ancient humans who evolved from apes and apes, who started the interstellar era.

The Black Tide eventually destroyed this great race.

How great this race was, how pitiful their final ending was.

The effects of the disease were not obvious at first, other than a shortened female lifespan and reduced reproductive success.

But as time went by, terrible symptoms gradually emerged.

The proportion of females among the offspring born through natural reproduction is getting smaller and smaller, and the survival rate is getting smaller and smaller. They will also show degenerative characteristics, ranging from appearance to mental level, and have atavism. Moreover, this disease is rooted in genes. Cannot be cured.

When ancient humans tried to create artificial wombs and change their genetic structure, they got the same result. It was as if the gods had abandoned them and taken back their right to continue creating life.

The extremely low birth rate, the depleted population that was constantly sent out to explore the interstellar space, and the greatly reduced lifespan under the influence of cosmic radiation accelerated their rate of extinction.

Now the new rulers of the empire, the orc race, the Chias, a plant race in strange galaxies, and the Zerg race that live in chaotic galaxies and have greater reproductive capabilities, are all collectively referred to as the "new humans" in the post-interstellar era.

But Kuroshio disease did not end with the disappearance of ancient humans.

The female birth rate of new humans is still very low, and most of them cannot fully evolve into human form, so the continuation of the race still relies mostly on artificial breeding.

Fortunately, the life span of new humans can generally reach two to three hundred years, and their strong physical abilities and recovery abilities have greatly helped them reduce their mortality rate in the interstellar world.

However, artificial breeding still has disadvantages, that is, the cubs born will only be male, and the female will die in the embryonic stage.

Unnaturally bred cubs are also susceptible to the effects of cosmic radiation. If they are not frequently genetically purified, they will be unable to maintain their human form and turn into extremely aggressive and irrational beasts, which are generally called "dark beasts". Either deported to a junk planet or euthanasia.

However, cubs born through natural gestation have certain antibodies to cosmic radiation, which further highlights the importance of natural females.

"Ancient humans..." Karl also felt a little emotional, but it was more because of other things.

Ancient humans had perfectly evolved females.

Nowadays, the only thing closest to this form is the artificial female-like creature. Many males may not be able to meet a natural female in their lifetime, but it is still possible to save money and buy a quasi-female to satisfy their fantasies.

Just then, Caleb made a stop gesture to the team.

"I think we've arrived."