It has to be said that Xue Qiang's words shocked everyone in the conference room.
Of course, many people are curious as to why that thing works.
In this regard, Xue Qiang also explained that the various interrogation drugs or technical methods first used, because ghosts and human bodies are completely different, either do not work, or have completely different effects.
How can I put this? It's like some poisons will kill humans if they touch them, but other species may not.
Similarly, some things are not harmful to the human body, but may be highly toxic to other species.
It's the same thing.
Originally, according to Xue Qiang's idea, he planned to wait until the Academy of Sciences thoroughly studied the ghost's body and developed a drug similar to truth serum that specifically targets ghosts.
But as a result, one of his subordinates suddenly had a whim and wanted to try what the ghost would look like after eating that thing.
What no one expected was...
After the ghost eats it, its effect is completely different from that of humans. Instead, it shows an effect similar to the truth serum, which is really annoying.
However, this hit and miss made Xue Qiang's job a lot easier, and he immediately asked for a lot of information.
First, ghosts do not have a home planet, let alone concepts such as territory and territory.
This is an existence similar to the nomads in the era of human home planets. The sea of stars is their grassland, and those planets with intelligent creatures are their pastures.
Secondly, they themselves don’t know how many ghosts there are, at least...
The ghost being questioned did not know.
According to what he said, there are many forces, large and small, in the ghost, and within each force, there must be a queen.
The Queen is not only the only female in the force, but also the most powerful ghost.
And these forces, large and small, will even continue to conquer each other, kill each other's queen, and incorporate the ghosts under her command into their own forces.
Third, the three ghosts captured so far, as well as the ghost fleet fighting the first fleet in Sylvie, all belong to the queen named Sarna.
Its sphere of influence spans 180 light years, and there are 68 intelligent civilizations in the area.
As for the military strength, there are a total of 680 ghost battleships. Apart from the 183 that have been destroyed so far, there should be 497 more.
The last point is also the most important point.
That is...
Ghosts eat a lot!
That's right, it's about food intake.
The base lifespan of a ghost is only about 30 years.
Very short, right?
However, with their special body structure and organs that can suck life, they can constantly rely on plundering the life force of other creatures to replenish themselves.
In other words, as long as they are not hungry, their lives are almost eternal.
But there is also a big problem here, and that is what I just said...
The ghost eats too much.
On average, if one absorbs hundreds of years of vitality from a creature, it can only replenish its own vitality for a few months.
Then, a serious problem emerged.
There are a huge number of ghosts. If we rely on this to replenish our vitality, then all the civilizations in the entire Greater Magellanic Galaxy will not be able to support a race of ghosts.
Therefore, the ghost uses a dormant device and only comes out once every ten thousand years. When the civilizations in his pasture have been hunted to less than 10% and can no longer supply sufficient vitality...
The ghost will use the hibernation device and start to sleep.
It wasn't until those civilizations multiplied for tens of thousands of years that they woke up again and started hunting again.
After hearing this, all the big guys attending the meeting were shocked and inexplicable.
There is actually such a form of civilization.
"Minister Xue, what about the origins and reproduction methods of ghosts?"
Soon, after coming back to his senses, someone immediately asked a key question.
Seeing this, everyone looked at Xue Qiang.
After all, they are also very curious about this question.
However, Xue Qiang's answer only had three words.
"have no idea!"
"have no idea?"
"That's right, at least the ghosts we captured don't know how they were born, or the history of ghosts."
Okay, this is a little weird.
It’s okay to say that you don’t know history. It’s a pity that you don’t even know how you were born. Isn’t that weird?
"Everyone, according to the information we have asked so far, this ghost has existed for more than 100,000 years, and during these more than 100,000 years, no new ghost has been born in Sarna's power."
"And the increase in the number of people is only what was plundered after defeating other queens."
What, no offspring has been produced in more than 100,000 years?
In other words, how many ghosts were there more than 100,000 years ago, and how many are still there now?
No, no, including those who died due to the war between ghosts, that is to say...
Is the overall number of the ghost race really constantly decreasing?
Isn't that just a race that will exterminate itself sooner or later?
"Everyone, I know what you are thinking. Regarding the issue of ghost reproduction, the Science Department has some preliminary conclusions. I will let Dean Ling Ruoxuan answer the rest."
Soon, Ling Ruoxuan also stood up.
"According to our physical research on these eight ghosts, we found that there are too many artificial traces in their genes. In other words, this is not a naturally born intelligent race, but artificial!"
"That's not all. Based on the existing data, we can even basically confirm that these eight ghosts are all clones!"
What?
An artificially created creature?
And they are all clones?
What Ling Ruoxuan said was simply more shocking than what Xue Qiang said just now.
"Dean Ling, are you sure?"
"We cannot say it is 100% confirmed, but based on the data we have obtained so far, this is the preliminary conclusion."
Shaking her head, Ling Ruoxuan replied.
"In its genes, we found a large number of artificial splicing traces, as many as hundreds of completely different gene fragments, spliced together in a way that I can't understand."
"And it is precisely because of this that the ghost has many characteristics, such as unparalleled strength, extremely fast speed, special organs that can release black mist, or the ability to absorb life force, etc."
"This is a complete, artificial..."
"monster!"
monster...
No one present would think that Ling Ruoxuan's choice of words was inappropriate.
Isn't this a monster?
Hundreds of different gene fragments were spliced together to form the ghost race.
To say it's a monster is putting it mildly.
So, what kind of civilization created such a race?
What's the purpose?
For a while, the conference room fell into silence again.