Chapter 548 [Life?]

Base equipment room. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On a metal bench, under a super-magnification display.

Roddy controlled a work instrument, and on the metal arm, countless tiny soft tentacles gently decomposed a fine fragment from the specimen on the workbench, and then carefully sent it to the decomposition display.

"Slow down, slow down, yes, don't move...... Gentle and gentle...... Hah!

Luo Di cheered, let out a long breath, and glanced back at Chen Xiaolian who was standing behind him: "What are you doing with this thing?"

"The remains of the E-Guard. Chen Xiaolian's face was very calm: "You analyze it first, and then we will continue to talk about the results." ”

After a few minutes, Roddy's gaze left the solution-filled vessel and turned to look at the instrument display on the workbench.

"What do these numbers mean?" Chen Xiaolian pointed to the contents on the monitor - he couldn't understand them at all.

"Well, I can't explain much with a scumbag like you. Roddy smiled proudly.

"Hey, you can't say that, you copied my answers during the school exam. ”

"That's liberal arts. Luo Di said quickly: "I'll copy you if I'm not interested." ”

After a pause, he stared at the data on the monitor and narrowed his eyes: "Really...... It's interesting. ”

"Don't care about one person, let's talk about it, what is the result?"

"Okay. Roddy nodded, then felt in his pocket, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, but did not light it, but after a dry time, he quickly said: "Simply put, this is a very pure metal life." ”

“...... Speak human words. ”

"We humans and other creatures are carbon-based life, you know? And the legendary metal life is silicon-based. No matter how much you study scum, you are still a writer, and you have read and written so many fantasy science fiction novels, you always know this. ”

“...... Lao Tzu's novel hasn't been updated for a long time. Chen Xiaolian laughed at himself: "You continue." ”

"Well, you can't explain the details, and you don't understand it, but I can only say: from the results of the existing analysis, this thing is completely different from us from the perspective of the structure of life. Our architecture is a carbon chain, and the macromolecular structure is like this, but ...... It's, it's not. ”

Roddy pointed to the monitor and repeated vigorously: "It's not!"

"I still don't understand. ”

Roddy sighed: "Now almost all living things in our world are carbon-based. Let me put it this way, if I take this thing out on the table, then I can win the Nobel Prize in a minute. ”

"So, it's a life that doesn't exist in our world, right?"

"Yes. Roddy said quickly: "To put it simply: it is not made of water and carbon. ”

"Silicon-based life?"

"Not exactly. Luo Di scratched his scalp: "In fact, the so-called silicon-based life is a fantasy, and this fantasy has great flaws. First of all, the chemical reaction of silicon-based life is very slow. That is, if there is such a life, maybe it will take a long, long time to do any action, or it may take hours to blink an eye - if it does have eyes.

There is also a one, silicon is easily oxidized, and the oxidation of silicon will form a solid, that is, it will become ...... Sand. And...... Silicon-based life needs higher temperatures to adapt to its surroundings, and theoretically they need to be at least 200 degrees old to be considered normal. So they may not be able to survive in today's temperature environment. This is also the reason why silicon-based life does not exist on Earth. ”

"In other words, if there is a world of silicon-based life, then that world should be ......"

"It should be a place with low oxygen, or even no oxygen, and super high temperatures. Roddy said quickly.

Chen Xiaolian's eyes lit up!

That world...... Is that so?

"It's a life. Roddy said quickly: "I can be sure of this, the decomposed cells have all the characteristics of life. It's just that in my perception, I can't understand how it works. You know, we exist on different grounds, and our cognition can't be applied to it. ”

Roddy stretched out his finger and swiped it across the screen, and soon, other numbers appeared on the screen.

"Remember the animatronics I got in the dungeon before? The unlucky team that was wiped out by our group, one of them has similar abilities to me, he raised some metal bugs as creatures, I originally thought it was an electronic life, but after taking it back and analyzing it, I was disappointed. It is not a real electronic life, but some electronic devices made with nano-scale technology, but they are made like some insects, but in fact they are just a highly intelligent thing made by nano-scale technology -- although highly intelligent, they are still small things that can be controlled remotely according to the program, and they are not real life.

See, these are the results of the decomposition of the cymbals, and there is a significant difference between them and the fragments of the e-guard you brought back. ”

"Far from it?"

"Farther than the Milky Way to the Sagittarius Galaxy. ”

Roddy shrugged his shoulders: "This electronic guard you brought back, its cells are broken down, and it has many interesting characteristics, such as...... Dissolvable and deformable. ”

"Huh?"

"I've observed that the decomposed cells are constantly changing shape under the monitor, which means that this life can be transformed...... Well, you can understand it as something like Transformers...... Oh no, that's not enough, like that liquid metal man. But more perfect! more powerful!"

"How?"

"They can divide themselves and multiply themselves. At the same time, it is more resistant to high temperatures, and it will not be killed by falling into the steel smelting furnace like the liquid metal people in the movie "Terminator", for them, maybe falling into the steel melting furnace is equivalent to taking a hot bath. ”

"If nothing else, you said that silicon-based life should be slow...... That's not right. Chen Xiaolian smiled bitterly: "I have fought with the electronic guards in Zero City, and their movements are very fast. ”

"I didn't say it was silicon-based life. Roddy shook his head: "Silicon-based life is imagined by us humans, but I didn't say it is." It's an alternative, metal-like thing. It's just that I don't know what kind of substance it is, it's not carbon-based anyway. ”

"So the question now is...... Is there any value in these little things I brought back?"

Roddy smiled.

He smiled strangely: "To others it may be a pile of scrap metal that can be thrown into the smelting furnace, but in my hands, I have a lot of interest to see if I can make some interesting gadgets out of it." By the way, how many of these things did you bring back?"

"Quite a few, half a truck. Chen Xiaolian said.

"Is there something complete? a little more complete. Roddy asked.

"Yes. ”

"That'...... I had a lot of inspiration. This guy's smile made Chen Xiaolian feel a little sneaky, so he heard Luo Di grin and said, "Maybe I can make something, and when I encounter an enemy in the future, it will startle the other party." ”

As he spoke, Roddy shouted, "GM!!"

Soon, a synthesized electronic voice appeared in the room: "I said, I'm not GM, I'm not the doppelganger of the body outside, I'm an independent new existence, please call me the base master." ”

"Alright, Master. Luo Di thought for a moment: "I need some new instruments, a cultivation bin that can be cultivated and decomposed, a larger one is the best, with a high-temperature cultivation environment, the kind that can be automatically adjusted." There is also a need for a more powerful operator station, which is best enclosed and can switch manual functions. Well, there are also instruments that can provide a variety of metal synthesis, preferably with spraying and decomposition capabilities. ”

Roddy snapped out a long list of requests.

The main control of the base listened quietly and replied: "Yes, these requirements can be generated in the base, but it costs energy, let me remind you, you haven't replenished the base for a long time, and we have been consuming it since I took control of the base." ”

Chen Xiaolian suddenly said, "Why does Zero City never need to replenish energy? I haven't heard of any smelting furnaces or anything like that in Zero City. ”

"Because I'm not City Zero. The base master said lightly.

"But I always thought you were the same thing, isn't this base just a small Zero City?"

"It's a small initial program module that has been separated, but it's not complete. City Zero has more complete, or more complete, features. As for me...... I'm still in my formative years, and I'm not yet able to be self-sufficient in energy. ”

"How can I do it?" Chen Xiaolian asked.

"It takes time to grow, or you recharge it so that I can grow quickly, or, find the right world for me to colonize, I can evolve myself, and at the same time I can draw energy from myself, and form a virtuous circle. ”

Chen Xiaolian was silent for a moment and asked, "What does this mean?"

"A separate space for me to colonize. ”

"Isn't this world good?" Chen Xiaolian asked.

"It doesn't match, the world is too big for me at the moment. ”

Luo Di suddenly asked, "Then what about you when you grow up, can you also have powerful functions like Zero City, for example, create some resource space for us to use?"

"Yes. The base master said.

Further explain the meaning of colonization. Chen Xiaolian said coldly: "It's best to give examples of some feasible solutions." ”

"For example, if you enter some low-risk dungeons, the low-danger dungeons, the space is relatively small, and the resistance to the outside world is also low, I can colonize smoothly without causing a reaction from the overworld program, and then devour and occupy the space, so that you can ......"

"Then you can slowly evolve into an existence like Zero City?" Chen Xiaolian asked.

"Yes. ”

"Understood. Chen Xiaolian waved his hand: "I will think about it carefully, and now end the conversation." ”

Luo Di seemed to want to say something, but suddenly found that Chen Xiaolian gave him a strange look, and many years of tacit understanding made Luo Di immediately shut his mouth. (To be continued.) )