Queen Mother is now three times bigger than yesterday, already over thirty meters long. Eight fierce Tibetan mastiffs guard its side, one of which is still wet, clearly just having given birth.

Taking a cup of cola from the beverage cow, I was delighted to find that this beverage cow was even more useful than I had imagined—it even had thoughtful features like chilling, heating, and producing lots of foam. After drinking a cup of ice-cold soda, I felt instantly refreshed and began casually browsing through Queen Mother’s database, hoping to find a suitable bio-beast to use as a bed. “This jet series bio-beast is pretty good, can be used as a hovercraft or hover jeep, but the lowest level is five. This soft and fluffy one could work too, looks just like a big blanket, but it can secrete acidic corrosive liquid... Damn, isn’t that a function of man-eating plants? And then...”

Just as I was getting a headache from browsing, the AI of Lifeboat 15 suddenly spoke in its utterly emotionless voice: “A beauty-type bio-beast with a touch identical to a real person, also level one, serial number 515888. Although its intelligence is very low and it only understands simple phrases like ‘Yamete’, ‘Kamoshi’, ‘Ikku’, ‘Soko’, ‘Dame’, ‘Atashi no okuni’... it should meet your emergency requirements.”

“Damn it, I want a bio-beast to use as a bed, not as a bed companion! Anyone whose mind goes astray, go find one of those glass doors with pink lights on the street.”

“After Queen Mother’s evolution, it can itself serve as a residential base. Its main control console is shaped very much like a bed on Earth. Would you like to activate this function?”

I was just worrying about not finding a suitable bio-beast for a bed, so when I heard this, I was overjoyed and shouted, “Queen Mother itself can be used as a residential base?” The AI of Lifeboat 15 confirmed this once again. I immediately pulled up Queen Mother’s data, and what I saw made me ecstatic. I had only been thinking about Queen Mother’s ability to produce bio-beasts, and had actually overlooked the fact that it was originally developed as a base for planetary field research.

As the highest crystallization of alien technology, Queen Mother can not only produce all kinds of bio-beasts, but also possesses endless functions itself. There are at least dozens of evolutionary branches in Queen Mother’s evolution list. However, at the moment I only have two choices: to make Queen Mother an underground base, or a mobile base.

The initial choice will determine Queen Mother’s future evolutionary direction. The underground base will be hidden dozens of meters below the surface and control the creatures within a hundred kilometers or so. Its energy and material absorption rate will be more than three times faster than the mobile base, its size and internal space are much larger, its bio-beast output is double that of the mobile base, and its evolution speed is thirty percent faster before level ten. However, the advantages of the mobile base are also obvious. Although its early evolution is slower, in the later stages it can choose the flying base branch, becoming a mobile fortress. I really couldn’t decide which evolutionary direction was better.

“Lifeboat 15! Do you think the underground base is better, or the mobile base?”

When I handed the question to the only one I could consult, the AI of Lifeboat 15 answered me after a full nine minutes of data analysis and simulated reasoning: “I recommend the underground base. There are over a thousand species on this planet classified as extremely dangerous. Queen Mother as a mobile base is too slow in the early stages; the concealment of the underground base will better increase your survival rate. Also, you need to acquire self-protection capabilities as soon as possible.”

“Survival rate!”

Hearing this word, my head immediately started to ache. I roared, “What the hell is so dangerous on this planet? With bio-beasts made by Queen Mother for protection, isn’t that enough to guarantee safety?”

The AI of Lifeboat 15 continued in its bland tone: “This planet was also one of our survey targets. According to my database, there are ultra-powerful beings here equivalent to level twenty-five bio-beasts. Before Queen Mother evolves to level sixteen, your safety cannot be effectively guaranteed. And it will take at least five years for Queen Mother to reach level sixteen.”

“Queen Mother, make me a few based on the appearance of those female relatives of the aliens, I need them to vent my anger!”

“Wasting extra energy to make these useless bio-beasts will reduce your survival rate by fourteen percent!”

“Aliens, screw your mother!”

After cursing to the sky, I finally wisely gave Queen Mother the order to evolve into an underground base, and canceled the production of bio-beasts in the shape of the aliens’ female relatives.

Now swollen to thirty meters long and six or seven meters thick, Queen Mother looked like a giant silkworm. It also had an AI inside like Lifeboat 15, but it had only evolved to level one, so its AI could only respond to my commands and provide bio-beast data for me to browse.

After receiving my evolution command, Queen Mother automatically stopped producing Tibetan mastiffs with built-in barbecue skills and began drilling underground.

“Lifeboat 15, are there any dangers within two hundred kilometers of us?”