My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 140

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒𝟎: 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐈𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐝 (1)

In the past, a genius Xenatuth scientist, created the Ririm as a scholar, but the Academy of Original Life did not want to take the risk that the Ririm might bring.

The burden here was not the kind of burden that would worry whether they could control the Ririm, or that the Ririm would disrupt the existing ecosystem and cause unpredictable situations.

➖If Failm is phased out, the market will collapse and a huge number of people will become unemployed

➖If Ririm causes an accident, the Republic and the Academy of Original Life will be held entirely responsible.

➖To control Ririm’s ecosystem initialization, we need a large-scale isolated cultivation area. But the cost required to build it is astronomical, requiring the combined efforts of the entire world.

➖We also have to face the opposition of Failm’s main producing and processing countries. Furthermore, there is no need to mention the backlash from major corporations around the world.

➖Just the news that this kind of thing was made would turn society upside down. In the worst case, a war could even break out.

➖This new breed. . . . let’s bury the news about Ririm quietly. We have to use Failm until a new breed that is safer and less costly to control than Ririm comes out.

The ailing planet and the growing civilization demanded something like the Ririm, but the times rejected the Ririm.

That day, the genius Xenatuth, who created the Ririm, returned to his laboratory.

Someone had neatly cleaned up the saplings of Ririm that filled the laboratory and the Ririm specimens connected to the machines.

A lifetime of improvement for the planet, the species, and the home country ended up in the fire pit. The seeds that were meant to save the gradually deteriorating future had turned into a handful of ash in front of the fire of the times.

Perhaps the only existence that saw his enlightened expression then was 

Ririm.

The genius Xenatuth brought out Ririm seeds hidden in his room, inside the concrete wall.

And he got in a steam-powered car and set his destination for the vast Failm farm.

Ririm, which was connected to the machine by itself, displayed a message on the screen.

【Fear.】

Genius Xenatuth quickly moved his hands.

【I’m sorry. I needed a little more time to learn, but things went wrong.】

【Difficult words. I don’t know.】

【The Academy of Original Life rejected you.】

【You’re the Academy of Original Life too. Why?】

【Not all Xenatuths are the same just because they’re Xenatuths.】

【What do you mean?】

【There are exceptions, but animals are generally different from each other. It means that each of them has different thoughts and wants different things.】

【Animal.】

【You are a plant. So you can make wiser choices than Xenatuths like us.】

【You created us. But we are wiser than you, the Xenatuth animals?】

Ririm was young.

It was as pure as a newborn baby who had only learned language.

【Where are you taking me?】

Just then, the Academy of Original Life’s vehicles passed by on the opposite side of the road.

Sensing something was wrong, the genius Xenatuth moved his hands even faster.

【We will probably kill you. But that’s because we can’t accept you, so you have to convince us.】

【Do you want to kill me too?】

Genius Xenatuth stopped for a moment.

【I wanted to save everyone. But there are more Xenatuths who don’t understand that. Maybe today is the last day of my life.】

【I don’t want you to die.】

【We need to coexist. Ririm.】

【Coexist?】

【It means living together, helping each other.】

【Together. Help. Live.】

【Do you understand?】

【I understand.】

There wasn’t much time.

They had already arrived at the Failm farm.

Genius Xenatuth turned off the power of the machine and pulled out all the Ririm seeds connected to the electrodes and dropped them out of the vehicle.

For a while, he couldn’t open his fist that was tightly holding the Ririm seeds.

If he spread the Ririm seeds in this way now, it would not be the future of salvation that he wanted.

Genius Xenatuth, who knew this better than anyone, knew it.

Still, he had no choice but to open his tightly clenched fist.

It doesn’t matter what the Ririm does. What is important is that the Xenatuths, who have confirmed the Ririm’s abilities, respond more wisely, choosing salvation, not destruction.

Thud, thud. . . .

At that time, the Ririm seeds poured into the farm caused uncontrollable changes,

➖Together. Help. Live.

The meaning of coexistence that the Ririm understood was a little closer to something more fundamental.

🔷🔷🔷

“At that time, we grew. We interfered with the surrounding Failm and all kinds of plant species, making them ours. Our vast communication was chemical, and it was the first information network we created.”

“. . .so what happened to the Xenatuth, an arthropod species?”

“They became extinct. They saw that we were recreating the ecosystem as a threat, so they burned us and sprayed us with chemicals.”

As expected, the Xenatuth tried to wipe out the Ririm.

“We thrived even as they killed us. We hoped that our vitality would allow them to witness it firsthand and stop the slaughter. And we hoped to coexist.”

However, the Xenatuth did not want to coexist.

They wanted the Ririm to go extinct.

And they really burned down the forest until the Ririm was on the verge of extinction.

“The civilization created by those ‘animals’ had an inferior intelligence quotient that could not communicate with us.”

Demitnick saw anger in the Ririm. There was no change in his voice or expression, but there was definitely anger in the subtle changes in his tone and choice of words.

“Coexistence is impossible if one side dies. So we fought them first to survive. They soon mobilized their army, but by then we had already taken root all over the planet.”

“Did you defeat the Xenatuth army?”

“Yes. We won.”

Then isn’t that the end?

The Ririm, who wanted to coexist, won the war, so all that’s left is to join forces and live together.

Then why are the Xenatuth extinct?

“. . .They still saw us as a threat. And they killed our creator, who was still in prison, out of personal feelings.”

“Oh. . . .”

“We were angry when we found out about it, but we decided to follow the creator’s will.”

Coexist.

“We showed mercy and enslaved them instead of wiping them out. We allowed them to study science, and as they grew in number, we fed them with crops.”

“You said the Xenatuth are extinct?”

“They were violent and primitive animals, but we put seeds in their food and drink to properly modify their genes. . .and eventually the transition period of science came.”

It was the Ririm and Xenatuth civilization that first entered the space age.

It wasn’t something to be happy about at all.

“They escaped the planet we occupied and launched an orbital bombardment on the entire continent from the sky.”

“This crazy. . .”

“That’s when we decided to remove those primitive animals from our genes. In the first place, if they weren’t plants, they weren’t part of ‘us’.”

The Ririm absorbed everything from the Xenatuth civilization and then spent a very long time regressing the remaining Xenatuths and in turn causing them to go extinct.

In order to survive.

In order to eliminate their own ‘failed’ part.

‘So. . .if the Hounz suddenly attack other members of the Chimeraz, we would be annihilating the Hounz species itself. . .Can we use that as an analogy?’

“We became the masters of the planet, and the scientific knowledge left by the Xenatuth became part of our information network and became a part of us. We also built basic ships and tried to enter the space age, but we realized that that could not be our way.”

So the Ririm said that from then on, they scattered tiny seeds throughout the Local Group of Galaxies.

Whenever they came into contact with an alien race, they hid seeds in their ships, and when a celestial body passed by, they tied seeds to the gravity of that celestial body and sent them.

They repeated that for centuries. In fact, even the term centuries is inaccurate. That’s because it’s the way humans calculate time.

How long has the Ririm been spreading seeds in the Local Group of Galaxies?

“We cannot include the ‘animal’ component in our species. Animals believe that they control plants, but we are not simply definable as plants, but as the Ririm. Those who follow the collective consciousness and the interspecies group system, like the Chimeraz, will understand well.”

Ririm.

Although they are a plant species, they are an ecosystem that exists in this universe. Like the broad concept of ‘nature’.

The Chimeraz, an interspecies group, also has genes from various individuals. However, even among those different genes, there is a genetic factor that can distinguish between members of the same species.

The Ririm is the same.

Perhaps defining them as a plant species stems from the narrow perspective of humans.

“The Ririm creates the ecosystem and controls and manages the animals. Therefore, there can be no ‘animal’ Ririm.”

Going around and around, that was the conclusion.

Demitnick summarizes the conclusion in one sentence.

“You mean you won’t lose your racial identity. Just as the Chimeraz don’t use machines and the machine races don’t use life.”

“That’s right. This is our final form.”

“You should have explained that sooner. Well, after listening to you, I understand and understand enough. I may have asked too much of you. First of all, I apologize.”

“It’s okay. It’s our fault for not telling our past in time. It’s just. . .”

‘Just?’

“. . .I hope you don’t think we’re dangerous just because we wiped out a species in the past.”

“I will never do that.”

“That’s good.”

Demitnick, who now fully understands the Ririm, now brings up the main point.

In fact, it’s not even the main point, it’s the conclusion.

“Then let’s not be members of the same species.”

“. . .what?”

Demitnick thought to himself.

Why have I been racking my brains over such a simple problem until now?

If there is a second best, it is clear.

“It’s okay for the Chimeraz’s stuff to go into the Ririm ecosystem and ‘symbiosis’, right? We’re ‘symbiosis-friendly’.”

“Chimeraz. . .symbiosis-friendly with the Ririm. . .”

“Instead of the Ririm creating microorganisms, the Chimeraz creates microorganisms and puts them into the Ririm ecosystem. They are different species, but they can live in symbiosis. Just like there are animals other than the Ririm in the ecosystem of this planet.”

However, if that happened, it would change the inexplicable, equal footing between the Chimeraz and the Ririm.

If the Chimeraz’s microorganisms thrive within the Ririm and move like part of the Ririm, the entire Ririm species will come under the palm of the Chimeraz.

‘If the Ririm trusts the Chimeraz, they will accept this proposal.’

So Demitnick was mentally selecting words to give the Ririm more credibility.

“That would be a good way.”

But the Ririm answered right away.

“Yes?”

“If the Chimeraz’s symbiotic microorganisms thrive within us and act like part of us, we can accelerate our war activities.”

‘Yeah, that’s right. . .but this easily?’

“The argument that it will be easier to win if we hit the Lomro-or and Le-orantarum Federation harder is also agreed upon. We will actively accept the Chimeraz’s microorganisms.”

Demitnick shook hands with the Ririm (Elite) in surprise.

“We have gained experience by interacting with numerous animals. So we know the nature of the Chimeraz well. The Chimeraz is different from the Xenatuth. It’s different from other animal species.”

“Y-Yes. . .”

“The Chimeraz could have become a monster, but it grew in a good direction so that it wouldn’t become a monster. Therefore, the Chimeraz will not become a monster in the future. We trust the Chimeraz on rational grounds.”

“I’m really grateful that you said that. Haha.”

After that, Demitnick worked with the Ririm to create Ririm-specific microorganisms.

They were living beings that would help the Ririm in a peaceful way, but if the Ririm had to use force, they could act as the Ririm’s silent biological weapons.

Through the microorganism, the Ririm’s ability to wage war accelerated exponentially. For example, it became possible for them to attack enemies by moving the roots of plants at an animal-like speed.

That’s why not long after, there was such talk in the Le-orantarum Federation, Supreme Council, where the microorganism was hit.

【If not for the Parahtoria, it’s the Ririm. What are the Ririm doing to our drinking water, food, and soil?】

It was a microorganism that resisted extreme cold, extreme heat, vacuum, drugs, and radiation and adapted itself to the environment.

【The speed at which the anomaly is spreading is much faster than what the Ririm has shown in the past.】

It was the Chimeraz’s microorganism created with reference to the Parahtoria’s genes. It became an intelligent, perfect tool that was simultaneously connected to the collective consciousness and the Ririm’s information network and became part of the Ririm ecosystem.

“But I don’t know if it’s right to create such a destructive microorganism.”

“Demitnick. I heard that you were a scholar who created biological weapons.”

“I was a developer and a scientist. They say it’s an infused memory, but it’s real to me. Biological weapons. . .actually, they’re not that good.”

“It’s okay. We will never abuse our power. And the microorganisms we create together are weapons that can be controlled by us.”

“It’s fortunate that you can control it. In fact, I didn’t even know that there was this level of bioengineering technology. Controlling microorganisms. . .”

“Trust us as we trust you. Simple. The Chimeraz and the Ririm will not wield power recklessly and will become the idols of coexistence that manage the new order and ecosystem of this universe.”

With this, the Ririm gave themselves to the palm of the Chimeraz, and the Chimeraz promised permanent alliance after gifting the Ririm with powerful weapons.

By the way, the reason the Ririm trusted (took advantage of) the Hyraguroa when they were attacked by the Crolr is said to be because the Xenatuth in the past was an arthropod species similar to the Hyraguroa.

After some time, the trust between the Ririm and the Hyraguroa deepened, and it is said that the Ririm came to believe that they could coexist with intelligent animals again by looking at the Hyraguroa.

Then a new animal race that seemed to be much more evolved than the Hyraguroa.

When the Chimeraz came, the Ririm is said to have assessed whether the Chimeraz was a race that could do more than coexist with them based on their actions and thoughts.

Anyway, one thing Demitnick realized through this unpleasant story was:

‘The Ririm also had minds.’

🔷🔷🔷

Human Galaxy, Hecartra star system, 4th planet.

Kreion’s throne room.

“This is the race I told you about before. . .”

Creak, creak, creak,. . .!

A race that looked like it would disgust humans came to visit, resembling the Crolr, with hundreds of pointed legs, dozens of tentacles, and eyeballs rolling around.

“Kuwekuiyeekkrkokok.”

Their language was translated into waves and entered Kreion’s head.

➖Thank you for opening the colony. ruler of the Chimeraz.

The creature bent its hundreds of legs and tentacles to the fullest, as if it had studied human culture in advance.

➖I am the Empress Karcon who rules the Quakacor race in the Andromeda galaxy.

“You have a keen eye for recognizing strong people. . .”

Ludwig seemed satisfied with his first impression after seeing Empress Karcon bowing before Kreion.

Kreion does not rise from his throne and faces the empress.

“You don’t need to bow to me because you want to join the Hive Alliance. Karcon-nim.”

Kreion said so, but Empress Karcon seemed to have already decided her attitude towards the Chimeraz.

➖We are the largest. . .collective consciousness race in the Andromeda galaxy, which has become a battlefield at this moment.

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