Chapter 441: Space-Time Lair

The originally good mood was gone all of a sudden. The originally festive reunion also became heavy. After Ye Nan recounted his encounter in another dimensional universe, he left the crowd and returned to the high tower. Accompanying him was only Iris.

Ye Nan walked into the high tower, sat on the steel throne, looked at Iris who was accompanying him, and said, "How is the situation in the Machine City now?"

"Everyone's enthusiasm is very high. With everyone's cooperation, the entire Machine City has been almost cleaned up. One-tenth of the houses have been replaced with stone houses that everyone is used to, but there is not much food stored." Iris reported.

Because in the original Machine City, humans all lived in the virtual world, the body's demand for food was reduced to the lowest point, so only a little nutrient solution was needed.

The so-called nutrient solution was a liquid food that contained the nutrients and various minerals necessary for the human body. It only needed a small tube to satisfy a human's daily energy consumption. Of course, this energy consumption referred to lying on the ground.

"Smila, what is the technological level of the Space-Time Empire now?" Ye Nan digressed from the conversation with Iris and asked about the Space-Time Empire.

Smila's figure appeared on the screen. "In the year after brother disappeared, we followed the plan left by brother, annexed the Pan Duola planet, and attacked the No. 2 Earth, successfully conquering the No. 2 Earth."

No. 2 Earth was to distinguish the many planets called Earth. The Earth Ye Nan was currently on was No. 1 Earth, the Earth in *The Cabin in the Woods* was No. 2 Earth, the one where the superheroes were was No. 3 Earth, and No. 0 Earth referred to the Earth before Ye Nan traveled through. Of course, others didn't know about the existence of No. 0 Earth.

"By the way, brother, there is also this thing." Smila suddenly became excited. She walked to one end of the screen, gave up a fairly large screen, and then transmitted the picture over.

Only a huge planet-like life form was seen floating next to the Pan Duola planet, just like a twin star.

The body of this life form was composed of constantly wriggling dark red flesh. Looking from the outside, it was like a dark red meat ball.

From the outside, this life form was only one size smaller than the Pan Duola planet. The ten-thousand-meter Noah's Ark was as small as an ant in front of it.

"What is this thing?" Ye Nan looked intently, only to see one alien after another with different shapes and Nemesis crawling out from the surface of the life form, then biting the flesh of the life form and eating on its body.

"Space-Time Lair." Smila said triumphantly. "Brother still remembers that Eva back then? Dr. Matthew gathered all the biological experts in the Space-Time Empire, took Eva's consciousness as the core, mixed the genes of 129,600 life forms, and created this huge life form."

"It is about the same size as the Pan Duola planet, but its interior is hollow. Many of our Space-Time Empire's arsenals are built inside, including Terminator manufacturing factories, alien nests, Nemesis manufacturing factories, etc. Almost all of our Space-Time Empire's factories are built inside."

"Just like this?" Ye Nan looked at this big guy, a little disappointed. He originally thought Smila and the others had come up with a super weapon, but he didn't expect it to be just a base, although this base looked very large.

Seeming to see Ye Nan's disappointment, Smila was a little embarrassed. "This life form was originally intended for war, but when it was designed, problems occurred, leading to defects in this life form."

"It is too big. Moving it is very difficult. In space warfare, it can only be used as an arsenal."

"However, Stark installed many weapons on it, and we can completely treat it as a fortress."

Smila said firmly, her expression sincere and meticulous, making people unable to help but believe her.

"Well, it is indeed very good. You can also count this as a cosmic creature." Ye Nan held his breath, not letting himself laugh out loud.

The Space-Time Lair, just like its name, could really only be used as a lair. Not only was it a lair, but it also had the duty of a mother: Nemesis and aliens all relied on the Space-Time Lair to replenish food.

"Wait." Ye Nan stood up suddenly. "You just said alien nest. Can you control aliens?"

Ripley, as the Alien Queen, had already left. According to reason, there was no way to control these aliens. Producing them would only suffer backlash. However, Smila and the others were not stupid people. Since they did it, they must have thought of a way to control them.

"That is of course." Smila's depression in her heart was swept away, and she became even more triumphant. "Dr. Ashford used the genes left by Ripley to create an alien mother, and then the mother produces aliens and controls them."

"Dr. Ashford? Isn't he an expert in the field of viruses?" Ye Nan asked in surprise. He originally thought it would be Dr. Matthew who conquered the achievements in this area, but he didn't expect it to be Dr. Ashford.

You know, in the Space-Time Empire, there were three chief scientists, namely Stark, an expert in machinery, Ashford, a virus researcher, and Matthew, a biological fanatic.

These three chief scientists, whether in terms of knowledge or research ability, were the best among everyone. However, he had never heard that Dr. Ashford had any ability in the biological field.

"Dr. Ashford is an expert in the field of viruses, and the alien genes are also the alien mother that he can transform through viruses. It has a reproductive ability and erosion ability similar to viruses. It is different from ordinary aliens. It is not just able to spread through facehuggers."

Smila snapped her fingers, and the picture changed. In the picture was a forest.

In the forest, an alien was quietly covering its tracks. It hid on a tree, carefully looking at a beautiful-looking death beast below, for fear of startling it.

Suddenly, the alien jumped down, its claws inserted into the body of a death beast, tearing a hole in the death beast, and bright red blood flowed out from the hole.

"Awoo!" The death beast roared in pain. In just a while, it closed its mouth and rolled on the ground. Strange machine tissue organizations that did not belong to the death beast grew out, hard skulls, rear molars, etc., clearly carrying alien-featured life tissues grew out one after another, and replaced the original death beast's body tissues. In just a while, it grew into an alien with death beast features.

"This is the entire process of aliens infecting creatures, and the virus that plays a role in this process, we call it the alien virus." Smila said.

"Alien virus?" Ye Nan chewed on this word.

"Yes, alien virus. In fact, Dr. Ashford believes that the so-called facehugger is actually an evolutionary form of the virus, so he injected the T-virus into the alien body, and through the reconciliation of other viruses, the alien virus was born."

"We used the alien virus in future simulated wars. This virus, just as Dr. Ashford expected, became a very important weapon."

Smila said everything in one breath, then looked at Iris, and said sourly, "I also want a body."

Smila's sudden jealous tone made Iris smile slightly. "The Terminator's body is actually more perfect than this body."

Smila's face turned red upon hearing this. "I didn't think of that, did I?"

Smila, who had always wanted to become a human, had never thought of using a mechanical body to become her temporary carrier, even though she had temporarily occupied a Terminator's body.

In fact, this is the weakness of intelligent life because they are too rational, so they ignore many things, whether it is the so-called spark of inspiration or other sensibility.

Their thinking is too direct, walking to the dark on one road, not knowing what a turn is. The consequence of this is that when intelligent life pushes existing technology to the peak, it cannot go further.

Just as humans need to rely on machines to do some complicated work, machines must also rely on humans to promote the progress of technology. The two are mutually dependent. This is why the Architect wants to painstakingly weave a lie, weave a virtual world, to confuse humans.

Ye Nan, who was thinking about the role of aliens in the future, heard the conversation between the two and laughed all of a sudden. "Instead of talking here, why not do it now?"

Following Noah's Ark, there were not only humans, but also a considerable number of Terminators. These Terminators could change their appearance.

Smila and Iris were stunned, then looked at each other and smiled. First Smila disappeared, and then Iris plugged her data cable into the port, transmitting all her core programs over. In just a while, the spark of inspiration in Iris's eyes disappeared, leaving behind a mechanical shell without consciousness.

About three minutes later, Smila, dressed in a white princess dress and dressed like a Barbie doll, walked in. As soon as she came in, she threw herself on Ye Nan. "I can finally touch brother."

Smila's hands touched Ye Nan's body, making Ye Nan feel uncomfortable. "Alright, Smila, there will be opportunities in the future. Don't be so excited."

No matter who it is, being touched all over the body, they will feel uncomfortable, even if this person is a beauty.

"Smila is still as cute as before."

Iris walked in from the outside. At this time, her image was almost exactly the same as in the Matrix world.

"You two, don't play around anymore." Ye Nan laughed, pulled them both to his side, one on the left and one on the right, hugging them.

"You are both my little darlings." (To be continued.) ===== CHAPTER 442 =====