“The Lifestream of the Farming World is what sustained this unique world. The plants that grow with the lifestream’s energy were the thing that created the substance it formed.” Transquick said as he asked one of his assistants where ‘that’ machine had been placed in the current instance.
The assistant quickly pointed further south, stating that the machine under the veiled cloth was the thing that the Doc was looking for. “So, upon learning that the lifestream was probably the thing that created us, living beings from plants, we thought that this planet should be ours, not the humans. That thought was further cemented by the now deceased scholars when we later learned that we are the only living things that grew from the ground.”
“The scholar assistants named us as abominations, as demons rather than something of a miracle. Only the scholars knew our worth but if the majority had such perception, we might not be able to live.” Transquick said as he looked at the clothed machinery.
“Then perhaps we decided that we need to craft out a land for ourselves…so that we can call it our home. The northern region was the best choice given how lush it is but the only problem was that there were many dangers lurking within it. But given our nature, the North Scholar decided to shelter us in various hideouts while growing in numbers to kill threats.”
“Soon, we also treated humans as threats since they thought that we were monsters just as how they heard rumours of talking monsters in the south.” He pulled the cloth down and all it revealed was a square metal box. Jin was expecting more but he decided to allow Transquick to continue his monologue.
“Some of the rats thought, maybe it’s because they did not know how it feels to be an animal and my predecessor had somehow managed to concoct a potion through the blood of a unique shapeshifter monster we had killed during our hunts. The only problem with that potion was when the person imbibed it once, the effects would be irreversible.”
“It felt like karma at work when we saw how the humans, terrified of their own people, shapeshifted into another animal. But it got us thinking about how weak minded those humans were and we decided that eradicating them would be the best course of action. Perhaps, those monsters were not the menace to us and rather it was the humans.”
“So we decided to kill them all. But we never realised that those humans played an important factor in the creation of our lives.”
“Hmm… I am guessing it’s something like the third law of Newton erm… there is a certain symmetry in nature.” Jin said and Transquick agreed with what he was trying to imply.
“So we decided to study the lifestream, to see if we can manipulate it to our advantage. To make the story short, the life and death of humans were needed to have a healthy sum of life stream within the Farming World but we found that it was too tedious. Humans needed more time to grow and kill. We do not have the time and the resources to spare for that.”
“If they were ever judged under your international criminal court, their entire race would be eradicated on counts for blatant human massacres.” Kraft was indirectly hinting that Jin was harbouring beings far worse than serial killers.
“Thus, we found the way to fuse human reproduction to our rat race and that was how the Birth Mothers were created. We can skip the lifestream portion but we are not able to skip the consequences of the life and death cycle.” Transquick finally turned on the machine and it lit up to show a woman in stasis within the metal box.
And with a few buttons, machine arms emerged from the sides to take shots of blood from her body. “We have infused a huge amount of lifestream into a human just for experimentation purposes and we found that it gradually changed the human into something different.”
“An entirely new breed, a superhuman. In fact, super is such an understatement that we might as well call them ultrahuman. Able to regenerate not just what we need but also capable of generating additional lifestream energy. It was revolutionary.” Transquick said as he showed Jin his greatest product.
“Oh just in case you are thinking whether I am encasing an ultrahuman in there. You are not wrong or right. It’s a clone cell that somehow managed to look like her. We checked and there was no brain in her at all. There were no other organs except a beating heart. No matter how many times we scanned, no development of peripheral organs was seen. It was filled with just bones and muscles and lots of blood vessels producing a hell lot of lifestream energy.”
“Then the original?”
“Killed. Even the scholars found her too scary an ‘object’ for her to live or be in the wrong hands. Whether it’s in our hands or the humans. The research team concurred but the thing was that the current roster of war generals consumed her flesh before she was incinerated.”
“What are you trying to say?”
“Lots. But to answer your initial question. The fascination for the lifestream energy was to get the Demon Rats out of it and hell, to weaponize as well as you might have already seen in action.” Transquick answered but Jin had way too many queries within his mind, waiting for Transquick to showcase his product in more detail.
And yet the scariest thing happened as the ‘human’ started to move and all the rats who were in the know of this particular artefact were all taken aback by it. Some of them even trembled in fear and that included Transquick since he spent all his life trying to unlock the mystery of this particular project left by his predecessor and this was the first he saw the ‘human’ moving.
“Is it because it was moving because there are humans around? But I have tried that before… unless…” The Doc stared at Jin and he might be the key to this mystery.
