Chapter 208: Incredible Biological and Technological Singularities

  Chapter 208 Incredible Biological and Technological Singularities

  ”Hum… um um hum hum…”

  At the entrance of Highway Town.

  Tail, holding a rifle, leaned against the rusty highway sign, leisurely humming a tune that Sisi had never heard before.

  It sounded pretty good.

  ”What are you humming, Awei?”

  Seeing Sisi looking over, Tail’s mouth curled up and said proudly.

  ”The song I heard on the radio!”

  ”Radio?” Sisi was stunned.

  What kind of ancient setting is this.

  Tail said with a sharp look in his eyes: “There is a radio in the reception room on the first floor of the sanatorium. At night, it will play some incomprehensible things, and in the afternoon it will play several repeated singles in a loop. It seems to be the original soundtrack built into the game! I observed it all day before! Alas, Sisi didn’t even find this easter egg!”

  Why should I pay attention to such boring things?

  Sisi looked helplessly at the slowly moving clouds in the sky, sighed lightly and said.

  ”By the way, is it really okay for us to slack off like this every time?”

  Tail glanced at Sisi dissatisfiedly.

  ”What do you mean by slacking off? Didn’t Tail work hard?”

  Sisi reminded.

  ”I heard that deserting while on guard is a death flag.”

  Tail said nonchalantly.

  ”Don’t worry, Tail is agile. As long as Tail is fast enough, death will always be one step slower than Tail!”

  Si: “…”

  The team they are in at the moment is on an inter-provincial highway leading to the east.

  The highway is high, with gentle slopes on both sides. Because it is an inter-provincial highway, there are few buildings nearby. Outside the guardrail are tracts of pine and cypress trees, as well as dead branches, fallen leaves and shrubs dotted in the forest.

  The name of this survivor base is Highway Town, which is a town built on the highway as the name suggests. The only landmark building here is probably the three-story highway sign leaning against Tail’s back. I think this survivor settlement is named after this.

  The survivors here used materials dismantled from scrap cars and wood obtained from felling trees to build a narrow settlement along the highway.

  One advantage of doing this is that you don’t have to worry about your house being soaked in water when it rains, and when wolves and hyenas wander over, they dare not attack people living on the slope from both sides.

  The architectural style here is quite wild, just like the temper of the local residents.

  They don’t usually grow crops, but mainly raise goats as tall as horses. If you have to find the only difference between them and nomads, it’s probably that they won’t move easily, and occasionally they will plant some cash crops such as kamu trees, and sell the rubber and kamu nuts that can be pressed for oil to passing merchants.

  To be honest, Sisi admires the operator of “Wasteland OL” very much, who can make each survivor settlement have a different style. And this different style is not only reflected in the modeling and mapping of the game, but also goes deep into the deeper core.

  These survivors have their own unique culture and customs, and have different moral codes, worldviews and beliefs from others.

  This kind of detail is not even reflected only at the collective level, but also accurate to every person in the collective.

  While they were standing guard, a child in a fur coat was standing under a small tree, as if saying goodbye to something. The man and woman, with their bags on their backs, stood at the door of their house, looking worried at the newly renovated house.

  Not far away, an old man in his fifties was arguing fiercely with a scarred man because they wanted to take away the kamu trees wrapped with hemp ropes and plastic in the field.

  They were like living people.

  Not only do they have their own lives, but the trajectory of their lives is also affected by countless variables, and thus evolved into a tree diagram that breeds countless possibilities, rather than a one-way street that can be seen at a glance.

  This is much better than the sandbox games she has played.

  Even “more awesome” than reality!

  She even wanted to set off immediately, pack her bags and go traveling.

  But then again…

  is this considered as being absent?

  Sisi glanced to the side unconsciously and found that no one was paying attention to them at all.

  Perhaps the other team members didn’t have high hopes for them from the beginning, so I, the Darkest, and another Perception-type friend consciously went out to scout. The

  Battlefield guy with a rifle couldn’t help but wander around in the distance, looking for someone to fight, but the weather was too cold and he couldn’t even find a mutant hyena. The

  Fountain Captain, wearing the only “orange” exoskeleton in the server, always stood in the most stable place to command, and carefully assigned specific tasks to each team member – including the Battlefield guy and I, the Darkest, who were acting as bait outside.

  In general, this team is still relatively reliable, at least more reliable than the Edge guy, the Death Convoy that killed chickens at midnight, and the Devil Convoy. So much

  so that Sisi often wondered what the meaning of staying here with Tail was.

  Glancing at the time on the VM screen, Tail stretched and yawned.

  ”Si, it looks like there won’t be any fights today. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow to show off your skills.”

  ”Awei, please quickly recall that you are actually a girl–”

  A loud explosion suddenly came from the distance, interrupting Sisi’s complaints.

  The two of them looked in the direction where the explosion came from, and simultaneously tightened their weapons in their hands.

  ”The enemy is coming?!” Wei was in high spirits, his eyes shining.

  Sisi glanced at the map and said after a moment of silence.

  ”No… I feel that the sound is quite far away, it’s probably from other teams.”

  At this time, the cursing of the battlefield brother came from a distance, confirming her guess.

  ”Gan! Why didn’t we trigger the plot! Bad review!”

  Unlike the regrets of the players, the survivors in Highway Town were obviously frightened by the explosion. They stopped what they were doing and looked towards the northeast with a look of doubt.

  ”What happened?”

  ”That sound…”

  ”Did something explode?”

  ”Could it be the bone chewers!”

  ”Those damn looters! If I catch them, I’ll definitely tear their heads off!”

  The crowd was talking.

  Standing in the Kamm Tree Garden, Night Owl frowned, and the burn scars on his face were squeezed together. His hands unconsciously fell to his waist, but he quickly retracted them.

  The sound was at least 4 kilometers away from here, and there were large areas of ruins and wasteland in between. It would take some time to get over there.

  The old man who was still arguing with him a second ago also looked sharply at the northeast direction, muttering to himself.

  ”It’s the direction of the battery factory.”

  His name is Hook, and he is 56 years old this year. When he was young, he was a nimble hunter until he was shot in the knee and became the old Hook who grows kamu trees.

  Although he is not an awakener, he has lived to his age, and his rich experience is not inferior to the strength of the genetic level.

  Night Owl looked solemn and asked him.

  ”The group of blacksmiths?”

  Hook closed his eyes and nodded slightly.

  ”It should be… Listen carefully, there are gunshots, and there are quite a few.”

  Night Owl held his breath, listened carefully for a while, and frowned.

  ”At least 40 people.”

  ”At least double.”

  Looking at the trees covering two acres of land, the old man finally sighed as if giving up, and shook his head with a pity.

  ”Go find your father.”

  ”We have to move faster!”

  …

  Outside the west gate of the outpost, not far from the shooting range of the guards, there is a red brick house with only one iron window facing the outpost.

  This is the prison of the outpost, where several prisoners who have just been sent from Changjiu Farm are being held.

  In addition, there is a special “prisoner” being held there.

  In the wooden shed, the four-meter-long Death Claw curled up in the corner.

  It was wrapped with iron chains and ropes made of devil’s wire, and its amber pupils reflected a dangerous light, scanning the people at the door. After

  being looked at by the beast, Xia Yan took a step back unconsciously and nervously grasped the sickle assault rifle in her hand.

  This thing.

  It’s much more dangerous than the crawler!

  ”You, why did you bring this thing near the door of your house?”

  Chu Guang, who was standing next to her, said without thinking.

  ”Of course it’s for research.”

  He was wearing a power armor, and a carbon nano bulletproof vest that he got at the beginning. He was carrying a nitrogen power hammer on his back. He was armed to the teeth. Not to mention

  a mere death claw, even if the queen of the split claw crab stood in front of him, he was confident that he could escape unscathed.

  ”By the way, you don’t have to come with me.”

  ”What nonsense are you talking about? How could I let you come alone for such a dangerous thing?”

  Chu Guang looked at Boss Xia with interest, and couldn’t help wondering when this guy became so brave.

  Is it because of that leg?

  It seems that the money was worth it.

  ”Unbelievable… This is incredible!”

  Muttering to herself, Heya walked forward with a fanatical look on her face, and Chu Guang was so scared that he quickly pulled her back.

  ”Are you crazy?”

  My SSSR card!

  No, it should be the players’ SSSR card!

  ”Crazy? No, it’s the world that’s crazy. I have never seen such an amazing creature!”

  Looking at the lizard with an intoxicated look, Heya continued.

  ”I’ve checked this guy’s DNA. It undoubtedly belongs to the order Lizardia, class Reptilia, phylum Chordata! But it has evolved a mechanism to regulate its own body temperature, which allows it to maintain a high metabolism in winter like mammals. It doesn’t need to hibernate even in winter if it wants to!”

  ”Even Taiga lizards can only maintain a constant body temperature for a period of time during reproduction… Is this really a radiation mutation?”

  Chu Guang didn’t know how to answer this question. After all, he had been in this world for less than a year, and this was the first time he had seen such a terrible monster.

  Yin Fang, who was standing aside, also had an incredible look in his eyes.

  However, he was focusing on something different from Heya. He stared at the black device on the neck of the death claw.

  It looked like a large ring!

  ”It’s really outrageous… The device installed on the back of its head can really connect it with people’s minds?”

  ”That’s indeed the result of the interrogation. Do you want to try it?”

  As he said that, Chu Guang took out a prop shaped like a “headphone with a microphone” and threw it in Yin Fang’s hand.

  After Yin Fang took it, he pondered it in his hand for a while, and soon put it on his head without any instruction.

  Turn on the power.

  Adjust the knob to the maximum!

  A slight electric current sound sounded, just like the brain being electrified.

  But other than that, there seemed to be no other feeling.

  ”How should I use this thing-hiss!”

  The stabbing pain from deep in his mind made Yin Fang cry out in pain, and subconsciously reached out and pressed his hand on his temple.

  However, the pain came quickly and went away quickly. Soon he got used to the stabbing feeling and put his hand down.

  Seeing Yin Fang recover, Chu Guang, who had tried it once, continued.

  ”You can try to give orders to that monster… For example, order it to stand up.”

  Holding the wheat at the corner of his mouth, Yin Fang took a deep breath and stared at the death claw and said.

  ”Stand up!”

  The body trembled, and the death claw lying on the ground, although resisting the order, still dragged its scarred body and slowly stood up from the ground.

  What the hell?

  It really works? !

  Yin Fang was so shocked that he even forgot about his headache and continued to give orders to the microphone at the corner of his mouth.

  ”Get down!”

  Death Claw obediently lay on the ground.

  The expression on his face became more and more shocked. Yin Fang was like he had discovered a new world. He continued to give orders to it with excitement.

  ”Stand up!”

  ”Hop on one foot!”

  ”Draw circles on the ground with your tail! Tsk, this doesn’t work? Then learn to bark like a dog!”

  ”…”

  The Death Claw, who was repeatedly tossed around, gradually showed a painful expression on his face. The neurons in his body were highly active and his brain waves began to become disordered.

  Chu Guang could clearly feel that if it weren’t for the iron chain, this beast would probably have been unable to resist and tore the guy in front of him with one claw!

  But Yin Fang didn’t care about that.

  He just wanted to figure out the limit of this device.

  Almost all the commands that could be tried were tried. Just when Yin Fang was thinking about what other commands he could try, he suddenly felt dizzy, his shoulders shook and he fell backwards.

  Chu Guang gently pushed forward with his left hand, dragged Dr. Yin who was falling backwards, and took off the headset on his head with his other hand.

  ”It’s best not to use this thing continuously… It will not only cause mental burden to the controlled object, but also to the person using this device.”

  Chu Guang had tried this thing once before.

  Rather than mental control, the function of this device is more like a kind of “hypnosis”.

  It does not allow the user to directly control the actions of the controlled person, but through mental pressure, in a way of mental suggestion, it allows the ringed alien to execute a few simple commands.

  For example, hunting.

  Another example is to move forward, backward or run in a certain direction.

  Jumping on one foot can barely be executed, but as for drawing circles on the ground with the tail or barking like a dog, it is impossible to do it.

  This device cannot allow the controlled person to complete commands beyond its cognition, unless it has actively done similar things at some moment in its life before.

  Although this device is amazing, it is still far inferior to the “morphogenetic field” in his shelter.

  Players from the “other world” can directly “soul-transmigrate” clones. Isn’t this much more awesome than indirect PUA and the master’s orders? As long as

  the clones don’t die, the players can keep fighting.

  Unlike this guy.

  If the ring on its neck is broken, it will probably lose control.

  ”Sorry, I was a little too excited. I have never seen this kind of technology…” Yin Fang shook his head and stood up again.

  Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

  ”Technology that even the academy doesn’t know about?”

  Yin Fang said helplessly.

  ”The academy is not omniscient and omnipotent. We also have things that we don’t know much or don’t understand at all.”

  After a pause, he continued.

  ”I should have told you before that in order to facilitate the reconstruction work, we divide the technology into seven levels of FEDCBAS according to the difficulty of reconstruction, and reasonably allocate personnel and budget.”

  Chu Guang nodded.

  ”You did say it once.”

  Yin Fang continued.

  ”In fact, in addition to the seven well-known levels, there is an eighth level outside the system – we call it the singularity.”

  ”Singularity?” Chu Guang frowned and asked, “What does it mean.”

  Yin Fang: “It represents the cutting edge and is the blank space for the future. These technologies are like singularities in calculus, unresolved points on complex functions, an island independent of the set… They are like bottlenecks between us and the future.” ”

  For example, the neutrino channel that you may have never heard of, and the mutants that are rampant in the wasteland… They are all singularities. Although they are immature, they usually have extremely attractive prospects behind them. Once completed, they will foreseeably set off a round of technological revolution. For example, the former corresponds to superluminal travel, and we will be able to reach more distant galaxies faster and cheaper. The latter corresponds to super life with the ability to adapt to all environments.”

  Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.

  ”Of course, the technological revolution mentioned here is based on the premise of social integrity. What we need now is obviously not innovation, but revival. So… the academy doesn’t know much about singularities, and only selectively retains some topics that are worth continuing. The focus of recycling work is still on the mature technologies within the system.”

  Isolated individuals outside the system, even “future technology” that has not been completed before the war.

  To make an inappropriate analogy, it is probably similar to the forbidden magic in fantasy settings?

  Chu Guang can only understand it this way.

  ”I suddenly feel a little curious. Are the clones of the Legion considered singularities?”

  What Chu Guang didn’t expect was that Yin Fang nodded decisively.

  ”Yes, but only half of it. The full name of the entire topic should be ‘Full Life Cycle Adjustable Technology’. If it can be completed, theoretically we can shorten or extend the time of any life cycle of any life, and truly control evolution.”

  ”As long as you want, you can be a child or an adult for your whole life, and you will be immortal at the genetic level. Our race will completely get rid of the backward r strategy and k strategy, no longer accept natural selection, but define itself by self.”

  Heya, who was standing next to him, was stunned on the spot.

  ”Can this be done?”

  ”Who knows?” Yin Fang shrugged, “Maybe, maybe not, everything about the future can only be known in the future.”

  Yin Fang and Heya began an academic discussion on whether this could be achieved. It was obvious that Heya didn’t believe it, saying that such a thing was unheard of.

  Yin Fang sneered at her confident statement.

  ”You are so young… Didn’t your mentor teach you not to jump to conclusions about unknown things?”

  Heya was instantly furious when she heard that Yin Fang actually directed the topic to her mentor.

  Xia Yan was confused throughout the whole process. She couldn’t remember when she started to not understand.

  Chu Guang fell into deep thought.

  He suddenly thought of the recording about the description of “morphogenetic field”.

  After organizing his words for a moment, Chu Guang interrupted the argument between the two and spoke.

  ”If there is a technology that can establish a strong connection between consciousnesses in two different dimensions and transmit information across the boundaries of space and time.”

  ”What the hell is that? Magic?” Yin Fang, who was in the middle of an argument, replied without thinking, and his tone sounded like a mockery.

  But perhaps because he thought that this person was not easy to bully, he immediately closed his mouth again.

  But Chu Guang didn’t take his words to heart.

  Because he thought so too.

  Unheard of things sounded like miracles.

  However, seeing Yin Fang’s reaction, Chu Guang probably understood.

  The technology hidden in Shelter No. 404 has obviously surpassed the academy’s cognition and naturally cannot be within the FEDCBAS classification system.

  There is no doubt that it has reached the realm of “singularity”!

  And it is suspected to be mature…

  Just when Chu Guang was about to talk to Heya about the Torch Church, Xiao Qi’s voice suddenly came from the communication channel.

  ”Master, something happened to your player!”

  Chu Guang was slightly stunned when he heard this. Without time to ask in detail, he immediately closed the mask of his helmet, tapped the front of the tactical eyepiece with his index finger a few times, and switched to the map interface.

  Xia Yan, who was standing nearby, saw Chu Guang’s sudden action, realized something, and hurriedly asked in a low voice.

  ”What happened?”

  Chu Guang, staring at the map, frowned and said in a deep voice.

  ”Something’s going on.”

  Almost as soon as the voice fell, a guard trotted over from a distance.

  Standing in front of Chu Guang, he saluted and said seriously.

  ”Mr. Manager, the team you sent to the battery factory to cover the evacuation of local survivors was attacked by predators!”

  ”I know, I have arranged for someone to go.”

  Chu Guang looked up at the sanatorium, only to see a spare Hummingbird drone soar into the air and quickly disappeared in the northeast.

  Just now, he had mobilized the team that was performing tasks nearby to provide support, and issued a defense mission to the players on the front line.

  Before the reinforcements arrive, you must hold on!

  ”Hold on!”

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  (The next chapter is not finished yet… I should be able to get it done before twelve o’clock. It’s too difficult for a disabled player to play 10,000 a day QAQ)

  (End of this chapter)