Chapter 641: The Big Pie Five Light Years Away

  Chapter 641 The Big Pie Five Light Years Away

  Luo Yu continued to share his experiences in the remaining memories of the Mother Nest on the forum, while Chu Guang learned about the situation of the Mother Nest in the city center from Xiao Yu, who lived on the B4 floor of the shelter.

  Speaking of this, we have to thank Heya.

  By improving the neural connection equipment produced by the black box, she designed a dedicated neural network data exchange interface for Xiao Yu, and connected it to the server in the B6 computer room of the shelter.

  This is equivalent to putting on “virtual reality glasses” for it, allowing it to communicate directly with Xiao Qi with consciousness.

  I have to praise Xiao Yu, this little guy has a very high degree of acceptance of tools invented by humans.

  He Ya had played with the headset that he installed before, and this time he had a lot of fun with the new toy.

  With the assistance of Xiao Yu, Xiao Qi re-modeled and restored the memories it recovered from the Mother Nest.

  In this way, not only Chu Guang, but any interested new and old players can read the long-lost memory of this era through the neural connection device…

  ”Incredible… Such a beautiful planet is only 5 light years away from us!”

  Floating in the boundless void, staring at the planet so close, Heya couldn’t help but sigh in praise.

  A brand new ecosystem!

  A huge, living DNA sample library!

  For an expert engaged in research in this direction, is there anything more exciting than this?

  Chu Guang standing next to her was the same

  , but his feelings were completely different from Heya’s. He was not so professional, but just a little unbelievable –

  this planet is actually alive?

  And it has its own consciousness!

  Judging from all the signs, the evolution process of the creatures living on this planet is completely different from that of the earth.

  Of course, another possibility is not ruled out, that the ecosystem on the earth is the only one in the universe, or that the evolution process of the creatures on each planet is unique.

  After all, before he crossed over, the human civilization of that world had not really walked out of the solar system, and the cognition of the world outside the solar system was still based on countless conjectures and paradoxes.

  The two were connecting to the server of the shelter through virtual reality equipment.

  In fact, Yin Fang was here just now, but that guy used to be an explorer in the academy and was well-informed. He just came here to take a look and left when he found nothing that interested him.

  Compared with an abstract memory, he was more interested in the evolutionary bodies brought back by the players from the city center.

  Those were all living fossils left two centuries ago!

  Not only that, there were also those relics that were originally sealed underground by mutant slime molds!

  The significance of this victory to the alliance can be described as a great geographical discovery!

  He didn’t want to waste a minute outside the laboratory.

  Just as the two were staring at the planet in a trance, Xiao Qi’s voice came from the side.

  ”Master, the memory analysis has been completed!”

  Hearing Xiao Qi’s voice, Chu Guang came back to his senses and asked immediately.

  ”Can you get closer? I want to go up and take a look.”

  ”Although it’s okay to get closer…but if you want to land on that planet, there’s nothing to see on it.”

  Xiao Qi’s voice was a little embarrassed, and he continued in a low voice.

  ”The mother nest only has a vague memory of Gaia. It roughly knows the situation of the planet, but has never lived there… If you want to go up, I can make some maps based on those memory fragments, but the difference from the actual situation may be quite large.”

  After hearing Xiao Qi’s answer, Chu Guang could guess with his feet that the player named Luo Yu had probably complained on the forum that he had taken out the unfinished map to paint a pie.

  As a player, it is impossible not to go up and take a look when you find a new map.

  Without Xiao Qi’s help, he might not even be able to see the “map” when he gets up.

  But Chu Guang has long been accustomed to this.

  Anyway, these guys will push all the inexplicable things they encounter in the game onto him, either because the dog planner has not finished it, or because the dog planner is playing a big game.

  He usually doesn’t bother to explain, and even enjoys his cute little players misunderstanding him like this. After all, sometimes he himself needs to get information in the game through the forum.

  Is it unreasonable that the game in the closed beta stage is not finished?

  This is too reasonable!

  ”… In addition to the planet itself, are there any other contents about Gaia in the memory fragments of the mother nest?” Chu Guang asked. Xiao Qi replied immediately

  .

  ”There are some bits and pieces, mainly about Gaia and the colonists who landed on Gaia. If you want to know, I can sort them out for you.”

  Chu Guang: “Sorry for the trouble.”

  ”Hehe, no trouble, it is Xiao Qi’s honor to serve the master!” A shy voice came lightly, and then a light blue window appeared in front of Chu Guang.

  This message mainly narrates an early contact between human civilization and “Gaia” from the perspective of mutant slime mold.

  Since mutant slime molds do not communicate through sound, the concepts stored in the sea of ​​consciousness of the mother nest are recorded in pure biological information, and there is no corresponding language. However,

  it is fortunate that the alliance has Xiao Yu, a translator who has evolved “voice function”.

  With its help, Xiao Qi converted this abstract memory into a language that humans can understand and understand.

  Seeing Chu Guang watching intently, He Ya, who was floating on the side, also came over curiously.

  Just like the shock that Gaia brought to the human world, after noticing the existence of humans, the omnipotent Gaia was also shocked by this group of aliens.

  He has existed on this planet for countless stellar cycles, and has dominated this planet like a god for countless stellar cycles, but this is the first time he has seen such strange organisms.

  They melt soil and rocks with fire, spread the tempered elements on the ground, call lightning from the temperature comparable to that of stars, and drive everything to revolve around them.

  And the most incredible thing is that these organisms are not under his control!

  This is something he cannot understand.

  Not only can he not control them, he can’t even communicate with them, and they are unaware of his existence, and they kill the fruiting bodies he sent to contact them again and again.

  At first, he thought these colonists were viruses brought by “alien meteorites” or something similar. After all, such things happen occasionally.

  So He used his own abilities to evolve “antibodies” that could exclude these organisms.

  At the beginning, His antibodies did have some effect. The aliens infected by slime mold soon suffered from a series of symptoms such as weakness, coughing, and mental depression.

  However, Chu Guang didn’t even need to guess that with the level of technology in the prosperous era, a small cold of this degree might not even be a threat.

  And things developed just as he thought.

  The colonists quickly developed relevant vaccines through advanced medical technology and analysis and research on local species, and also carried out wide-area disinfection against “the antibodies He designed for humans.”

  This was probably the first direct conflict between Gaia and human civilization. Both sides launched this unprepared war without knowing what the other was.

  After discovering that the virus and bacterial attacks were ineffective, the angry Gaia gradually expanded the scale of the war and began to try to set off some global disasters, deriving some more aggressive fruiting bodies, trying to physically eradicate the expanding colonists.

  Of course, the Human Union would not give up this Feng Shui treasure land that they had finally discovered because of such a small setback. They began to invest more and more resources in the development of the colony, and solved a series of methods used by Gaia.

  What’s interesting is that it was during this process that the scholars of the Human Union finally discovered the existence of “Gaia”!

  The series of disasters that occurred on the planet Gaia were not separated from each other. Everything was controlled by a unified consciousness!

  Biologists of the Human Union proposed this conjecture when comparing the DNA of alien creatures, and the discovery of the mind interference device later confirmed this conjecture!

  From the perspective of the mutant slime mold, it was the first time that humans truly heard His voice and established direct communication with Him.

  ”Mind interference device?!”

  When seeing this part of the information, Heya’s face was full of surprise.

  After a moment of thinking, she muttered to herself again.

  ”The higher the mind of the creature, the richer the information it receives, and the weaker the interference it receives…hiss, so that’s the case!”

  She felt strange when she was studying the information of Shelter No. 117 before.

  The original intention of the mind interference device project was to replace the infrasonic fence used by the colony to drive away alien species. However, according to the intelligence they collected, the alien species in the colony are all fruiting bodies of slime mold.

  They share a unified consciousness, and theoretically they should not be driven away by the mind interference device.

  There is no need to even say “theoretically”. There are large areas of slime mold fruiting bodies in Qingquan City, and the mind interference device is of no use to them at all.

  After all this time, those colonists did not use it to replace the infrasonic fence, but used it to establish diplomatic relations with Gaia?

  Chu Guang did not speak, but thought of another thing.

  That was what Dr. Method mentioned to him in Shelter 101 before.

  During the prosperous era, there was a radical trend of thought that was widely popular in the society of the Human Union.

  That is, about the definition of man.

  Radicals believe that man is a social man, and social man is man, and the Human Union should keep pace with the times. Conservatives believe that man is the unity of social man and natural man, both of which are indispensable, and the laws of ancestors cannot be changed.

  The two sides have wide-ranging disagreements on a series of agendas, including bionic citizenship, the scope of application of cloning technology, and socialized upbringing.

  In this unique era, the emergence of “Gaia” has actually had a certain degree of impact on the human-union society.

  In the past, the Gestalt society that humans could observe in the natural world of the earth was boring and inefficient insects such as ants and bees, but now there is a nearly perfect complete body presented to everyone. In the

  eyes of some people, his existence provides a nearly perfect solution to the differences between radicals and conservatives.

  That is, as long as a Gaia-like thinking Gestalt network is established through the study of Gaia, and the consciousness of every individual in the society is connected into a whole, then all differences will be solved.

  This is Gaia.

  Before humans arrived here, there was not even the concept of conflict, and naturally there would be no differences.

  And it was these people who first established contact with Gaia.

  Most of them were scholars and researchers who took the initiative to apply to migrate from their home planet to the colony, and most of them were fed up with the endless quarrels and the finger-pointing of the Scientific Ethics Committee.

  In the memory left by the mother nest, He held a positive evaluation of these humans who took the initiative to embrace Gaia.

  In His cognition, He did not kill for the sake of killing, but responded to the call of the human “Gaia faction” and came to liberate the suffering organisms on this planet under the guidance of Gaia.

  Of course, this is not a generous and selfless expedition, it is also for His mother.

  According to those humans who sympathize with them, if they do not solve the problem from the root, then the conflict will never end.

  In billions of years of evolution, the word “plunder” has been written into the genes of most species on that planet.

  ”… No wonder that mother nest can accept the believers of the Torch Church.” Chu Guang squeezed out such a sentence from his mouth for a long time.

  Those people have been to Shelter No. 401 and took away the mind interference device and related technologies. Objectively, they have mastered the tools to communicate with the slime mold mother nest.

  And their thoughts and ideas happen to coincide with the “Gaia faction” sympathized by the mutant slime mold, but they are just a little bit more extreme to their own people.

  But what does it matter?

  To give an inappropriate example, the way the mother nest looks at them might be the same as how he looks at Xiaoyu.

  After fighting for so many years, a group of humans who can understand their demands finally emerged. Maybe the DNA that the Torch Church holds was given to them for free by the mother nest in Qingquan City!

  ”Are there any other memories?” After reading this memory to the end, Heya looked eagerly in the direction where Xiaoqi’s voice came from.

  ”No, that’s all He knows.” Xiaoqi replied helplessly.

  Hearing Xiaoqi’s answer, Heya’s expression couldn’t help but bring a little disappointment, but she didn’t force it.

  ”Incredible… This information simply overturned my understanding of mutant slime mold,” Heya touched her nose, and suddenly looked at Chu Guang excitedly, “You know? I have a lot of new ideas in my mind now… Forget it, I can’t tell you clearly, I may have to study in seclusion for a few days.”

  Looking at Heya’s eager expression, Chu Guang estimated that she probably got new inspiration about her research field from this memory.

  That kind of professional thing is indeed beyond his knowledge.

  Without asking in detail what it was, Chu Guang coughed lightly and said.

  ”You can stay in seclusion for as long as you want, but before that, there is one thing I need to ask for your opinion on.”

  Heya raised her eyebrows curiously.

  ”What is it?”

  Chu Guang tried to describe his idea.

  ”I want Xiaoyu to improve the appearance of Qingquan City…”

  In fact, it is more like a brain hole than an idea.

  Just now, when he was peeking at the screen on the forum, he found that Professor Yang was instigating Luoyu to send the millions of cheap descendants he had just picked up to the assembly line to make money.

  To be honest, Chu Guang did not expect this trick, and even Luoyu himself, who was instigated, felt that it was not realistic to do so. After all,

  if this could be done, let alone the game experience of other players, I am afraid that even the game experience of NPCs would be ruined.

  It is better for this plug-in to be in the hands of the group.

  ”Improve the appearance of the city?” Heya was stunned after hearing this, and looked at Chu Guang with confusion, “How else can this be improved?”

  Chu Guang explained patiently.

  ”Currently, Qingquan City is a ruin. If millions of slime mold fruiting bodies can be involved in the reconstruction work, the project that originally took hundreds of years to complete may be shortened to a few years.”

  His request was not high.

  Even if some urban areas of Qingquan City can be restored to a level above livable, it will be of great benefit to the alliance.

  Moreover, if Xiaoyu can make some visible social contributions, it can also reduce the concerns of those wastelanders who don’t understand it.

  Seeing that Heya was stunned for a long time without speaking, Chu Guang added another sentence.

  ”Of course, this is just an immature idea…”

  ”Well… It’s not a question of maturity or immaturity. This idea actually sounds good, but there is a problem,”

  Heya paused for a moment and continued with a subtle expression.

  ”According to our research, the hive consciousness is not as omnipotent as it seems, and to a large extent its control is reflected at the macro level. Take Xia for example, its micro-manipulation ability is stronger than its mother. However, even for that guy, when the number of its fruiting bodies rises to one thousand or even more than ten thousand, it is difficult to specifically manipulate the actions of each fruiting body.”

  ”So it tried the assimilation model, allowing the assimilated fruiting bodies to retain some self-awareness and be able to complete specific actions according to vague instructions. The general view of the institute is that this is an ability that the mutant slime mold has evolved from learning from human society.”

  After a pause, she continued.

  ”Speaking of Xiaoyu, its control over the fruiting bodies in Qingquan City is actually weaker than that of the mother nest it devoured. First of all, it transmits information through the medium of sound. Although the transmission distance and speed are better than the medium of spores, the information entropy is definitely reduced. After the information is transmitted to each fruiting body through the two media of sound and spores, it is difficult to say whether those fruiting bodies can understand those complex commands.”

  ”In other words, if it asks those gnawers to gnaw people, they will definitely understand, but if you want them to move something from one place to another, I’m afraid it will test Xiaoyu’s command art.”

  After listening to Heya’s explanation, Chu Guang felt a little regretful.

  ”Is that so…”

  Seeing Chu Guang’s regretful expression, Heya couldn’t help but add a sentence at the end.

  ”This is just my speculation, and my speculation is not necessarily correct. Moreover, you shouldn’t ask me about this matter, but communicate directly with Xiaoyu. That guy is a natural biologist. Its existence itself is an incredible miracle for us, a singularity isolated from our inherent cognitive horizon.”

  When she said this, she made a joke.

  ”To make a vivid but inappropriate metaphor, those of us who study the mysteries of nature are like magicians, who need to rely on sophisticated magic wands and obscure spells to cast spells.”

  ”But it’s different.”

  ”It’s magic itself!”

  …

  Shelter B6.

  Standing in a pale red ocean, Xiaoyu let out a leisurely sigh.

  The pale red spores rolled like waves, spreading in circles, and finally merged with the black chassis standing in the computer room like a reef.

  It seems that slime molds also have their own troubles.

  Chu Guang, who was sitting at the door of the computer room, took off the virtual reality glasses on his head and placed the glasses on the head of the robot in the shape of a wastebasket.

  Sensing its sadness, Chu Guang did not immediately speak about his own affairs, but asked in a casual tone.

  ”What are you thinking about?”

  The calm thoughts were transmitted along the pale red tentacles to the carbon-based semiconductor in the chassis, and were interpreted by Xiaoqi as human language.

  ”I couldn’t convince Xia.”

  This guy can actually speak.

  However, the information entropy of human language is too low, so it prefers to express itself in its own way. Xiao Qi will translate it for it anyway.

  Chu Guang thought for a moment and said,

  ”You don’t have to feel sad for it. It chose its own destiny and followed its mother to the end. There is nothing perfect in this world. You have done a good job.”

  ”Eh.”

  Xiao Yu murmured softly, and her mood seemed to improve a little.

  As the first human being it saw after waking up, Chu Guang was like a father and mother to it, and it always trusted his words.

  It didn’t understand this feeling at first, but after seeing Xia and the mother nest, it also experienced a little bit of the so-called sense of inheritance.

  Just like Xia inherited its mother’s will.

  Its worldview was basically formed in the society of the alliance. Its cognition of itself is almost the same as that of humans except for the difference in shape.

  After all, shape is the most insignificant thing for it, which has countless fruiting bodies but only one self.

  This is exactly the opposite of humans who are good at using “eye contact” to draw a clear line with their compatriots.

  After a moment of silence, Xiao Yu suddenly asked a strange question.

  ”Am I a human?”

  Chu Guang thought about it and answered truthfully.

  ”Objectively speaking, obviously not.”

  Hearing this, Xiao Yu’s mood was a little lost, but he quickly cheered up and continued to ask.

  ”How can I become a human?”

  Feeling the seriousness and simplicity in this sentence, Chu Guang couldn’t help but smile and said in a gentle tone.

  ”You don’t have to become a human, you are you, you should be able to feel that we have never excluded you.”

  ”Eh!”

  Xiaoyu seemed very satisfied with the answer, and her voice was filled with joy. She excitedly separated a tentacle from the light red ocean and stretched it to Chu Guang’s shoulder to rub his face.

  This is one of its ways to express friendliness.

  It was learned from a guy named Nicole.

  Xiaoqi, who was sitting on Chu Guang’s shoulder, resisted and dodged to the side, protesting with dissatisfaction.

  ”Hey! Don’t get the sticky stuff on me! My head will rust!”

  The figurine that Pai gave to Chu Guang before was the one he liked best among all his avatars.

  Although Ibers had offered a doll that looked very much like it and was a life-size doll some time ago, that guy had his own AI core like Frost and Eclipse, and he didn’t want to use it because it felt weird.

  ”Eh…”

  Xiaoyu cried out in grievance, avoiding Xiaoqi and going around to Chu Guang’s other shoulder.

  The relationship between the two little guys has always been good.

  After all, Xiao Qi often served as Chu Guang’s messenger, and when Luo Yu was offline, Xiao Qi was basically with it.

  Looking at Xiao Qi jumping onto the wastebasket, Chu Guang laughed and didn’t care about Xiao Yu’s close rubbing, because he didn’t have to wash his power armor himself anyway.

  Chu Guang was quite open-minded about new things.

  After all, from a realistic point of view, if the problem could be solved by copying the method of the human network, he wouldn’t have to clean up this mess.

  Moreover, from another perspective, if his brain hole could really be realized, Xiao Yu was simply a planetary-level environmental transformation artifact!

  In the future, if you encounter a planet full of carbon dioxide or other harmful gases that is “just a little bit away from the habitable yellow line”, you can throw Xiao Yu down to take a bite before shooting a colony.

  Inter-galactic communication should not be more difficult than inter-galactic navigation.

  It doesn’t even need to communicate through spores like its ancestor “Gaia”. It is enough to open a microphone with the help of human civilization technology.

  In terms of cost, this is definitely more economical than the conventional “atmospheric transformation project”.

  And its footprints will also follow the alliance’s fleet and ambition to explore new worlds, stepping onto a wider world that its ancestors have never imagined.

  This is a win-win situation!

  Of course, exploring the new world is still too far away for the current alliance, and there are still a lot of troubles in the old world waiting for him to deal with.

  Looking at Xiaoyu who was in a good mood, Chu Guang smiled and put forward his ideas.

  ”I want to ask you a favor.”

  ”Eh!”

  Xiaoyu excitedly nodded his outstretched tentacles, and agreed without asking.

  Chu Guang made a joke.

  ”Don’t you even ask what it is?”

  The light red spores that filled the machine room swayed gently like water plants, as straightforward as the lake water that can see through the bottom of the lake at a glance.

  ”I believe you!”

  (End of this chapter)