Chapter 139: Outliers
A big living person disappeared mysteriously?
The commander-in-chief who received the information from the 998 Soldier Wang Team was anxious and puzzled, and they had clearly seen the beggar going to the library from the surveillance video.
"Report! There is room No. 0364 in the civilian area! ”
The monitor pulled up the surveillance video from the recent past and showed it on the big screen.
Subsequently, the footage in the surveillance video made everyone in the entire hall breathe at the same time.
In one of the kitchens in the Vault, tentacles protrude through holes in the ventilation duct partitions and into the broth being cooked.
And the chefs who were still busy in the kitchen all turned their backs to the broth that was cooking, and they didn't know that there was an extra 'outlier' in the kitchen, and they were even chatting about whether they were a match or not.
This process did not last long, and soon, the broth in the cauldron bottomed out, and the tentacles retracted into the ventilation ducts, and in the follow-up surveillance video, only those who turned around and looked at the chefs in the cauldron with a blank face.
The commander-in-chief then spoke.
"What's the closest team?"
"Team 054."
"Let them go over and check the situation in the kitchen duct as soon as possible, and the teams will be prepared, and the protection of the people will be the first priority, so that that thing will not cause us any major damage."
"Understood."
The level of busyness in the headquarters suddenly increased by ten to fifteen times, and various orders were transmitted to the patrol teams throughout the shelter in an orderly manner, and a battle layout for the kitchen and even the ventilation ducts inside the entire shelter was gradually taking shape efficiently and quickly.
The commander-in-chief opened his mouth again and ordered.
"Send the order down, let the idle team check the ventilation ducts one by one, and catch that thing as soon as possible."
"Yes."
Then there was a new commotion in the vault, but it didn't have much to do with Si anymore, as it had left the ventilation ducts.
Walking into the library as a collector, Si suddenly found himself in a pitch black environment as the door closed.
Generally speaking, the power switch should be turned on, which is the normal operation, but I don't have the consciousness of this, because the collector never uses electric lights.
The environment in the library is very dim, and even with the help of night vision, which is more powerful and sensitive than night vision goggles, the scene seen is blurry, as if suffering from high myopia, objects can only see the general outline, but if you want to read the words on the book clearly, I am afraid it is not possible.
"I really want to read ......"
"But I can't see it."
Si walked back and forth in great distress, and the sound of his legs tapping on the floor as he walked was clearly heard in the library.
"It's not easy to get here......"
“…… I want to read a book...... I really want to read ......."
At the beginning, it was indeed Huo Gu who forced all the gatherers to learn knowledge, but there will always be some individuals who are 'addicted' in learning, and Si is such a typical example.
For it, the closure of the alien school is like an addict cutting off drugs, and it is simply shocking news.
So, under the impetus of this 'addiction', I have done all this today.
Now, I can alleviate my 'addiction' at the moment, but there is such a problem.
"There must be a way...... There must be a way...... It's just that I haven't thought of ...... yet."
"The way must be there......"
Si's thoughts began to drift away, the same thing it had been thinking about how to continue to see books after the Alien School was closed.
"There is light outside the door, but there is no ...... inside"
"If there is a hole in the door......"
"Yes, that's it!"
Determined, Si made up his mind and stepped his fangs against the metal door.
The monomolecular blade was charged, and a small opening was poked out, which was not obvious from the outside, at most equivalent to one-tenth of a millimeter, and it was thanks to this small hole that the light outside the door spilled in.
There is not much light passing through the small holes, and the visible light range is still not visible, but the infrared perspective can.
Si ran towards the collection of books with great interest, and put them in the faint light as if they were fascinated, and even the hunger after using the monomolecular blade was completely forgotten.
As in the previous laboratory, every time he finished reading a page, Si would tear it off with his tentacles and turn it into his own nutrients.
After reading one book, the speed of turning the pages is also very fast, not like reading a book at all, but more like turning a book for the sake of turning a book.
This is all thanks to the memory ability of the collectors, and they can be said to be all of them unforgettable, when someone, something, or something is recorded as 'knowledge', it is basically impossible to forget it, because that 'knowledge' is burned in the genes.
They were carried to the vicinity of the gate, and the piles of books were eaten one by one, in every sense of the word, from 'peaks' to 'hills', and then from 'hills' to 'flats', and the biological energy consumed by the fangs was replenished.
Coming back from the sea of books, Si subconsciously shook his body, and another layer of dander peeled off the shell, which was the excrement of the body after consuming energy.
In the past, collectors living in water did not excrete in this way, they relied on a drainage cavity to collect excrement into this cavity, and then excreted it through running water.
But there is no water on the ground, it is impossible to excrete in this way, and the previous gatherers all died quickly, and no one would think about excreting this aspect on land, so this is the unique ability of Si, which is more adapted to the environment on land than perpetuity.
Perpetually, after the Dasha incident, they regard modifying genes as an extremely dangerous 'taboo' and will never try to touch them if they are not necessary, but Si does not think so, although it still guarantees 'loyalty'.
Si is an anomaly, both in the form of an alien and in the Gatherers.
When the mountains of books turned into a delicious meal in its belly, Si found a hidden corner of the library and spread it down like a detachment.
It's not that there is a loss of strength, it's just that this posture is the most comfortable for the current mind, and it needs to be quiet down and 'digest' the knowledge that has been memorized.
Knowledge is not just something that can be written down, it still needs to be understood, it needs to be integrated, and it needs to draw inferences, only in this way can 'knowledge' really become something that thinks about oneself.
"Introduction to the Microcosm of the World" ......"
"Orbit Calculation and Precautions for Interstellar Voyages" ......"
"One Hundred Algorithms for Astronomical Coordinates" ......"
"It feels so difficult, I've just learned the structure of atoms, isn't there anything more basic?"
"There it is! Simple Physics from Scratch......