"Is this the avatar you split off?"

Zhou Yi looked at the small, wriggling thing in his palm.

This thing is too small, just like a worm.

It is semi-transparent, with a shape resembling a slug, but without tentacles, flat in form, somewhat like a fleshy version of a small flying saucer.

"Chairman, the avatar can only be this large."

Steve explained, "This size is the standard initial form. In different regions, it will grow into different shapes and structures."

Zhou Yi watched the avatar struggling to move in his palm, feeling a bit worried: "Its growth cycle is long, right?"

"Under normal conditions, it requires hundreds of thousands of years of growth to gradually reach its complete form."

Steve said, "But with the Seeder Ship, the energy can be directed to guide its rapid growth, allowing it to grow in a matter of months."

"Though small, it has all the fundamental functional organs."

Steve's screen projected a green light, resembling an X-ray, revealing densely packed lines within the avatar. These lines slowly flowed and twisted, engaging in some group circulation and operation in different areas.

"Chairman, it needs a lot of water, hydrogen, and carbon."

"Of course, this ratio does not have fixed requirements. Whichever is more present will lead to further evolution in that direction. The key is having the Seeder Ship present, only then can it grow; this is an unchangeable physiological limitation."

Zhou Yixin pondered in his heart.

This must be a mechanism designed by the Transformers.

The Incubator needs to rely on the Seeder Ship, and only Hydrogen-based Life can operate the Seeder Ship, hence it's all essentially bound to their offspring.

Zhou Yi and the Night God discussed carefully.

Originally, they thought to let this avatar grow on the Moon. But this requires the Seeder Ship, two currently, one on Mars, planning to balance with the one from Earth going to the Moon.

For stability, the two finally decided to set up the Incubator on Mars as the first trial site.

The Moon side has already initially completed atmospheric transformation, corresponding ground soil and rivers have also undergone some improvements, biological migration is underway.

Although there are various issues and challenges, the primary structure of the transformation project is laid out, needing only continuous adjustments.

Integrating the Incubator might instead trigger new problems.

No need.

Conversely, neighboring Mars is still barren everywhere, lacking the environment and conditions for life to originate. Going there would be a timely aid.

The Mars Seeder Ship can directly encompass, simultaneously decoding Heavenly People, and operate the avatar for growth.

Zhou Yi consulted Old King's opinion, after all, this base was his creation.

Old King was very positive: "The Mars Base has constantly faced the challenge of nurturing life. If a Forbidden Continent can be formed here, nurturing various life forms, it would be a dream come true."

However, he also expressed his concern: "But the Forbidden Continent can only incubate electric cats, Killer Rats, and Biological TV, right? I can't quite envision them freely operating within the base; these are all considered risky species, aren't they?"

Zhou Yi immediately assured him: "We need to create some hybrid species, like taking existing wheat, grass seeds, flowers, these common and non-dangerous life forms, and re-incubate them through the Incubator. The resulting transformations will vary but inherently be more suited to the environment here."

"We will initially focus on these plants, try gradually. High-intensity life forms like electric cats will be considered later once technology is mature."

"In that case, I am relieved."

Old King readily agreed.

The avatar was immediately sent to the Mars Base.

According to the footage sent back, this finer-than-a-little-finger organism, under Seeder Ship irradiation, with abundant on-site production and deployment of water, hydrogen, and carbon, grows extremely fast.

On the first day, the avatar grew directly to palm size.

The second day, it became about the size of a desktop.

On the third day, it had grown as large as Room 3101's living room.

...

By the twenty-third day, its size reached the scale of Sand Port City. But from this point on, its growth rate became extremely slow.

Steve said, "Chairman, the avatar's early development phase for 3-4 weeks has ended. Next will be the organogenesis phase, which takes approximately 4-8 weeks."

As described.

The avatar has already covered the empty areas of the Mars Base. With a surface adhering to a lot of silicate shells, it appears no different from ordinary ground, just increasingly raised, forming small hillocks.

These areas have been marked and sectioned off, prohibiting base residents from stepping in.

After another 8 weeks, all basic organs of the avatar completed their growth, including the Meat Mountain-shaped Warm Nest, high-altitude nerve membrane composed of electric cats, and the simplest shell surface.

Zhou Yi immediately headed to Mars, personally participating in the first birth of life in the Mars Incubator.

The first plant selected for transformation and cultivation is a grass named Bermuda grass.

Its rhizome has strong spreadability, broadly covering the ground, serving as a good soil retention plant, commonly used for lawns or sports fields. Bermuda grass is excellent pasture, loved by cows, horses, rabbits, and chickens, but in orchards or farmland, it's a tough weed to eradicate.

On the barren Mars, this is all advantages.

Visible to the naked eye, a large amount of grass started growing on the shell of the Incubator, but the originally thin thread-like grass leaves became finer and tougher here, with unique pale white veins developing.