Chapter 137: The Crooked Tech Tree
(2nd Update)
After finalizing the order with the French, Albert was in a good mood next, so he was ready to visit the geniuses of the Talester Heavy Weapons R&D Center in the next few days, since Krupp, Porsche and other companies moved to Antwerp, Albert has been giving them the most generous financial support as the big financier behind the scenes, so rich that even the FN company, a state-owned institution, is blushing, and let Seifer sell an old face and come over to ask Albert if he can also support FN company.
In fact, as long as a reasonable explanation can be given for all research that is conducive to the development of the military industry, Albert will give funds, but Albert's condition is that heavy weapons are preferred. And in front of the crown prince who has the golden finger of the traverser, most of the scum who tried to fish in troubled waters were disappointed. It's just that they don't know that the crown prince didn't arrest them and throw them in prison, which is considered a great mercy.
As one of the most low-key princes in the Belgian royal family, Albert always walks privately, and there is no police to escort him all the way, for him with an energy shield, it is enough to have a few trustworthy private military personnel around him, too many obvious arrangements will attract the hateful eyes of some people, especially those militants who have been ruined by Albert's weapons.
Albert's car was a specially designed sedan by BMW, and Albert preferred SUVs to small cars, and given that there was no SUV in this era, Albert had to ask Ferdinand Porsche to develop this thing as soon as possible.
Albert, who has been busy and can't find time to chat with Tianyan, finally had time to have an in-depth communication with him in the cerebral cortex today, "Tianyan, do you say that in addition to the technology tree that we humans have ordered the electronic computer, are there other civilizations that choose some technology trees that we don't know about?" ”
In Albert's view, the human computer just happens to choose the most suitable one among the tens of thousands of branches of the technology tree.
"Absolutely." Tianyan replied without hesitation, "There are hundreds of billions of unknowable civilizations hidden in the stars, even if my master discovers and destroys only a part, just like the dinosaurs who ruled the world in the early days of your earth, they chose the power-based evolution mode, which is also the earliest and primitive technology tree, but this model is very fragile, and, have you heard of biological weapons?" ”
"Biological weapons? Do you mean bacteria, viruses, or anything like that? Albert was no stranger to bacteriological warfare, and during World War II countries had some notorious units dedicated to the development of viruses, and the top echelons of these units were often nourished by other prisoners of war after their defeat and surrender, because their research was favored by the victorious powers.
"It's a miniature biological weapon, lethal and uncontrollable, and it was developed when the Age III humans were still at the early stage of technological development, but they were quickly abandoned."
"Throw it away?" Albert was a little surprised, biological weapons are a kind of weapons of mass destruction that are difficult to control, and now countries around the world are still stepping up research, why did the humanoid creatures of the last era abandon such terrible weapons?
Tianyan seemed to have guessed Albert's thoughts, and he didn't sell Guan Zi to give a direct explanation, "Because they chose a seemingly powerful technology tree in the development of biological weapons, but it is a dead end." And it was pitted by a non-hunting civilization on another star. ”
"Wait." Albert made a pause gesture as he repeatedly said, "You mean to say that the humanoids of the last epoch skewed the tech tree?" Aren't they taking the high-tech route of computer computing like us? And how did this biological weapon come about? ”
Tianyan glanced at Albert, "Pay attention to your words, my Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Did you humans take the high-tech route like them, and did I say that their tech tree only clicked on the computer tech tree? They are a population of double technology tree development. ”
"Dual technology tree development model?" Albert didn't understand what it meant.
"It is to study biology as a necessary purification project for human beings, and at the same time to achieve a technical and revolutionary breakthrough in the field of computers. During the Third Age of Humans, a civilization that we have no record of visiting Earth brought a technological revolution to a humanoid civilization that was already highly technologically advanced at the time. Speaking of which, Tianyan deliberately paused. It's like a storyteller who suddenly sells off at the most critical moment.
Albert was fascinated by the science fiction story told by Tianyan, and he was directly unhappy with Tianyan's pause, "What the hell is it, hurry up." ”
Tianyan cleared his voice and said in a deep voice with a mysterious feeling similar to entering science, "That thing is an element named 115, an element that does not exist on Earth and cannot be copied by human technology now. ”
At this time, Albert was even more puzzled, "The 115 elements of the periodic table? The synthetic thing? ”
"No, it's codenamed Element 115, a strangely radioactive element that can alter the most difficult code chain in the DNA of carbon-based organisms. As a result, organisms irradiated by Element 115 grow indefinitely, and their habits become more brutal, turning biochips into fearless war machines if properly controlled. When the third type of human civilization experimented with this element on the earth creatures at that time, they finally developed a terrifying giant monster that could rival gunpowder weapons. ”
"How tall are these giant monsters?" Albert couldn't help but swallow his saliva, there have also been perverted creatures like Godzilla in science fiction monster movies, and monsters like the one in the Pacific Rim that need to be solved by large mecha are no longer in the category that humans can deal with now.
"It can reach more than 30 meters high, and it is these more perverted monsters that caused the civilization at that time to give up nuclear weapons, through the adjustment of radioactive elements, their skin can become stronger than steel, and ordinary armor-piercing bullets are basically fine when they hit them, even if they are hit by nuclear weapons, they may only hurt those vulnerable parts of the eyes."
"Then why didn't they develop these monsters in the end?" Albert asked impatiently, if such monsters really existed on Earth, how could their bodies be found.
"Because then those civilizations gave up on this biological weapon." Tianyan said, "The reason is very simple, Element 115 is the 'obsolete technology of higher civilizations' that they have obtained after communicating with other civilizations, if they really take the technological dead end of giant biological weapons, then human-like civilizations are really limited to this earth." If you think about it, these giant monsters can only survive on Earth, and cannot migrate to other stars. And later, with the increasing maturity of laser technology, these civilizations were no longer a problem to deal with large biological weapons. ”
"And these monsters are still creatures, if they are creatures, they can't do without life, old age, sickness and death, these monsters are just changed by element 115 and have extended their lifespan, they are afraid of the erosion of deadly bacteria, and they also need oxygen to breathe, they may be able to deal with nuclear weapons, but the thermobaric bombs and insignificant bacteria that deprive all air are the nightmare of these monsters, so after a short period of madness, the third human civilization finally understands that it has been tricked by people from other planets. Mass hunting and destruction of such weapons were carried out. ”
"In the end, the corpses of these monsters were sealed in the frozen seabed of the Arctic, including some small creatures that were not finally executed, and they were also sealed in the undersea base."