Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 761: White Cockroaches

Up to now, Xiao Yu had completely reconstructed every activity trace of this kind of creature. Xiao Yu did not know where these red creatures came from, but presumably they had evolved from some kind of Earth-era organism. They adapted to the harsh cosmic environment in a short time, so they survived.

They lived within water ice. When there was sunlight, they would regain vitality and carry out activities such as feeding and reproducing offspring. When there was no sunlight, they would temporarily lie dormant. And in order to prevent the situation where all of them died because the water ice on an asteroid was exhausted, they also evolved an extremely effective transfer mechanism combined with the environment. When a collision occurred, they would use those fragments to transfer to other asteroids. If the environment on another asteroid happened to be suitable, then this life would continue to thrive and develop there. If their luck was bad, and the newly arrived asteroid happened to be an arid zone after the water ice had been used up, then they could only die helplessly.

The evolution of a species never shifts according to an individual’s will. Although this transfer method would lead to the death of a large number of these creatures, the entire population could survive. This was the tenacity of life. No matter how harsh the environment, life would always survive in all kinds of unbelievable ways and complete the reproduction of the population.

Xiao Yu knew that here in the Earth asteroid belt, the asteroids that contained water ice would one day completely disappear, and all water ice originating from Earth would be completely evaporated by the Sun. But Xiao Yu was not too worried about the future life of this kind of creature. Because Xiao Yu knew that life was not unchanging. When the environment changed, they would also change themselves to adapt to the environment. When the water ice completely disappeared, perhaps this creature had already evolved to the point where it could survive without water ice at all.

“No matter how hard the environment is, they have never compromised. They are tiny yet powerful. Even Earth’s explosion could not destroy them. This is life, great life.” Xiao Yu murmured to himself, and there seemed to be a bit of special enlightenment in his heart.

Studying the habits of this creature took Xiao Yu three months. Three months later, Xiao Yu left the Earth asteroid belt and headed for the next target, Venus. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

The Jupiter-Moon Collision had a huge impact on Venus. That thick cloud layer on Venus was being gradually stripped away. This would cause its greenhouse effect to weaken, and the surface temperature of the planet would also decrease. The environment would also improve somewhat. And when fragments from Earth carrying seeds of life arrived at Venus, life might take root and flourish here. Xiao Yu placed great hopes on Venus.

The Hope spaceship passed through Venus’s cloud layer, which was still extremely thick, but compared to one hundred thousand years ago had already become much thinner, and arrived at the surface of Venus. The Hope spaceship could survive safely within a distance of fifty thousand kilometers from the Sun’s surface, so the harsh environment on Venus’s surface naturally could not affect the Hope spaceship.

It was still lightning and thunder. Dark clouds were heavy, acid rain raged, and magma flowed. But the intensity was much better than one hundred thousand years ago. The Hope spaceship slowly traveled through such an environment.

Starting the search from the equator, Xiao Yu did not find any trace of life, but Xiao Yu did not give up and instead continued his search action, all the way until he reached Venus’s south polar region.

Polar regions received the least solar radiation energy, so temperatures here were relatively lower compared to other places. This was the case on Earth, and it was the same on Venus. If Earth life could reproduce on Venus, then the polar regions were the best choice. Here, Xiao Yu saw what he had long hoped for, life.

These things had very obvious traces of Earth organisms. One hundred thousand years of evolution had not completely erased this characteristic. Their bodies were not large, about three centimeters long. Their bodies were white, with hard shells and nimble antennae. They undoubtedly belonged to the category of insects. This did not surprise Xiao Yu. Among macroscopic organisms, if there was any kind of organism that could survive in an alien environment, then it must be insects.

This insect’s appearance was somewhat similar to the cockroach of the Earth era, only differing in some details. For example, cockroaches were black while they were white. But Xiao Yu could be certain of one thing, this creature had definitely evolved from cockroaches.

Xiao Yu quickly understood this change. Cockroaches were black, determined by Earth’s environment, but Venus’s environment was different from Earth’s. Here, heat was abundant, even abundant to the point of threatening life. Then what this creature needed to do was absorb as little heat as possible, so they evolved from black shells into white shells.

Xiao Yu discovered that these white cockroaches were living very well here at Venus’s polar region. They had established a vast insect kingdom, and their survival mode was completely different from that of the Earth era. After all, there was no organism called humans here constantly holding slippers and watching them like hawks, ready at any time to deliver a fatal blow.

In his mind, Xiao Yu simulated the entire process of Earth life migrating to Venus. Their predecessors might have only been some eggs hidden in cabinets and wall cracks. Earth’s explosion shattered their peaceful life. They followed their shelters and unfolded a magnificent cosmic voyage, crossing the long journey of tens of millions of kilometers, coming from Earth to Venus. And the cosmic radiation encountered during the journey might have caused some mutations in their genes.

There might have been many cockroach eggs that arrived at Venus, but the vast majority died on the journey because they could not withstand the radiation in interstellar space. Only a small portion of cockroach eggs arrived at Venus alive. And within this small portion, the vast majority also fell in various places on Venus, or died in the high temperatures from friction with Venus’s atmosphere, or died by falling into magma lakes, or died in an acid rain. Of the cockroach eggs that could reach Venus’s polar regions alive, among one hundred million there might not even be one.

Even these lucky ones might not all survive. Because the environment here was too harsh. After they hatched, a large portion died because they could not endure the harshness of the environment. Another kind of cockroach that had mutated during the journey due to interstellar radiation, and whose shell happened to turn white, survived fortunately. In this survival of the fittest, all those unsuitable for the environment died, while those suited to the environment gradually developed and expanded, eventually reaching the present situation. The white cockroach clan flourished on Venus and established a vast population.

This was a magnificent epic. Life ultimately, through this unbelievable method, established its own foothold on Venus.

“Are the setbacks I have suffered greater than theirs?” Xiao Yu silently pondered. “At least, I still have the vast knowledge base accumulated before. I still have the light computer made by a Level 6 peak civilization. I have incomparable massive computing power. As long as you give me enough time, developing a powerful civilization with tens of billions of spaceships is not a difficult matter for me.”

“Little guys, thank you.” Xiao Yu said silently, controlling the Hope spaceship to leave Venus and begin flying toward the Sun.

“This is my homeland.” At this moment, Xiao Yu had an urge to cry. Xiao Yu’s interstellar voyage started from here. One hundred thousand years ago, Xiao Yu prepared his luggage here, like a young man going out to make his fortune, and resolutely boarded the departing train. One hundred thousand years later, when Xiao Yu had nothing and returned here again, his homeland still told Xiao Yu in its unique way how to act when facing setbacks.

“I am Xiao Yu. I am the most outstanding human.” Xiao Yu told himself. “I cannot be worse than some seaweed or some cockroaches. They can rise in adversity and reproduce a vast population again, and so can I. Not only can I do it, I can do better than them.”

Thinking this, Xiao Yu slowly approached the Sun. One hundred thousand years ago, Xiao Yu’s technology only allowed Xiao Yu to look at the Sun from tens of millions of kilometers away with awe. Now, Xiao Yu’s technology allowed Xiao Yu to truly throw himself into the Sun’s embrace without worrying about harming himself.

Xiao Yu stopped at a distance of thirty thousand kilometers from the Sun. The number thirty thousand kilometers was only an approximate number, just like altitude for Earth was only a man-made defined average standard. A distance like thirty thousand kilometers was extremely insignificant for the Sun. Some violent waves on the Sun could reach this height. A large amount of high-energy charged particle streams blew past the Hope like a gale, but no matter how harsh the environment here was, the Hope spaceship stayed here, motionless.

It was too close to the Sun here, so the light was extraordinarily intense, enough to be called an ocean of light. The Hope spaceship had completely hidden within this intense light. No civilization below Level 5 could possibly find Xiao Yu in such an environment.

Within the embrace of the Mother Sun, Xiao Yu needed to think about some things, things crucial to his fate.

Xiao Yu stayed here for a full year. During this year, the Hope spaceship rotated around the Sun at a speed synchronized with the Sun’s rotation, like the Sun’s synchronous moon. After a year, the Hope spaceship finally moved. Under Xiao Yu’s control, the Hope spaceship slowly left the Sun’s surface and began heading toward Titan.

“The solar system gave me my first life. My second life will also begin with the solar system as the starting point…”