I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 687 - 585: Lucia’s Reinforcements

Under the biologists’ dissections, the "cannon" on the back of the vesicle organisms was removed.

Through dissection, the biologists determined this was a channel about two meters in length made of endoskeleton and muscle. It indeed belonged to something that could grow on a biological entity, but no normal biology or naturally existing individual could develop such an organ on its own body.

As for its working principle, it compresses a large lung chamber within the vesicle organism that’s connected to the cannon barrel through muscle contraction, similar to a child shooting paper balls through the nostrils, ejecting vesicles filled with high-temperature corrosive liquid to attack the enemy.

Moreover, the vesicles ejected were not as Chen Xin and his team initially expected, forming as spheres within the body of the vesicle organisms.

They are stored in liquid form within a gland. When it’s time to eject the vesicles, these high-temperature corrosive liquids are injected into the cannon barrel through the gland, which simultaneously secretes a mucus to encase the high-temperature corrosive liquid, hardening upon contact with the air, thus forming the vesicles seen by humans.

"More primitive than we expected, but this thing is not something that could grow through normal biological evolution," a biologist said solemnly, shaking his head as he looked at the completely dissected "cannon" before him. "While animals can evolve glands or organs for spraying, growing into something like this—essentially a cannon barrel, or even an entire body evolving into a cannon—does not exist in nature! This is absolutely the product of biological modification."

"But we haven’t found any traces of artificial inducement!" Another biologist displayed the results of the post-dissection examination of the vesicle organism on a tablet in his hands.

To everyone’s surprise, they did not find any traces of artificial inducement in the vesicle organism’s body, just like the previous results from dissecting the combat organisms.

It seemed as though heaven was playing a huge joke—the vesicle organisms and combat organisms indeed naturally grew into this form.

But Chen Xin, standing nearby, shook his head after hearing the biologist’s words and said, "It’s not necessary to induce growth; genetic compilation can achieve the same effect, and even pheromone inducement can yield similar results.

Moreover, it’s not important how the alien biology achieved this, but the fact that their form is not a result of natural evolution proves they aren’t beasts but a civilization.

We must adjust our strategies in fighting them; we can’t treat alien organisms as mere beasts or animals anymore. Instead, we must consider them as a dangerous interstellar civilization invading us and approach their attacks with more rigor and caution."

"Academician Chen is right. What we should focus on now is not how the alien organisms grew into their current forms, but rather how much trouble their form brings us and how we can counter them!" a researcher agreed with Chen Xin,

In his view, it didn’t matter if the alien organisms naturally grew this way, were genetically modified, or were created through other means. The most important thing was how humans could defeat and eliminate these alien organisms.

Although from a research perspective, exploring how alien organisms evolved into their current forms—whether through natural evolution or human induction—is not meaningless and could even hold great scientific value, perhaps providing a way to defeat the aliens. But for humans now, they can’t afford to waste resources and time on this area.

Of course, confirming that alien organisms didn’t come from natural evolution holds considerable significance for humans, at least changing the human approach from exterminating pests to resisting invasion.

If the alien organisms were mere beasts, humans would approach them with the attitude of getting rid of a termite nest appearing in their backyard.

While a termite infestation might cause a house to collapse, it rarely directly threatens a person’s life, so even if termites appeared in the yard, humans wouldn’t be hurried to address it.

Currently, for humans, although the alien invasion has resolved them to even tear down and rebuild a house to eliminate the termites, they haven’t yet taken immediate action to demolish it, intending instead to arrange everything step by step before proceeding.

But invasion is different. It’s like someone breaking into your home with weapons and torches to kill you and steal your house and possessions.

In such a situation, you’d use all means to resist, to kill the robbers, to safeguard your life and property.

And humanity is now shifting from one mode to the latter mode.

This shift impacts all aspects, with the entire nation and society not merely transitioning to a wartime system with material rationing and other measures, but uniting the entire people, the entire nation, and even the entirety of human civilization to resist the alien organisms to their utmost.

This is most directly reflected by Lucia also joining the battle and dispatching their reinforcements.

Lucia’s condition was indeed terrible before, but with Flame Country’s aid, particularly during those few months when Chen Xin stayed in Lucia, their situation markedly improved.

The newly built shelters provided an excellent and stable living environment for ordinary citizens, the food grown in the greenhouses fed everyone, and the Energy Tower emitted warm and stable energy, offering enough resources to ensure nobody freezes to death or lives in darkness inside the shelter.

With these, Lucia gradually regained vitality.

And this country, often humorously called a fighting nation, indeed has resilience in the face of disaster and challenges. If given hope, they will quickly unleash unimaginable strength.

Just as they once created the fearful Suyia that intimidated the whole world, the recovering Lucia is also showing astonishing strength, rebuilding their country with considerable enthusiasm.

While rebuilding their country, the Lucians didn’t forget their aid from Flame Country during difficult times, and the high levels of both countries have remained in contact.

At the beginning of the alien invasion, the Lucians had asked Flame Country if they needed assistance, and at that time, Flame Country felt able to cope and thus politely declined Lucia’s offer.

But now, when the alien invasion has become a threat to human survival as an interstellar civilization, as members of human civilization, the Lucians have joined the battle.