Chapter 790: Ascension Mission (I)
"Ask for a batch of metallic hydrogen, this star system has no planets, and lacks construction resources......"
"Wormhole technology is being studied, a large amount of antimatter is needed, and ...... is urgently needed"
"Discover a new alien civilization with ...... coordinates"
"Production Prosperity Announcement, this colony star system solid helium resources are rich accumulation, if you have a need, please contact us......"
"I found a new Hui civilization ruins, but unfortunately it has been eroded into an empty shell by the long years, and its value has plummeted, I hope that more in-depth investigation can find something......"
"Finding a star system with a star gate, the race has added another channel to enter the door world, and now the intelligent species in the star system have been controlled, and the other party is the local force of the gate world, and we are trying to control it physically and psychologically......"
Since the introduction of faster-than-light technology in amoebas, the stars have become quieter, and the star systems colonized by the collectors have become more active.
Courier creatures depart from a star system and travel to a star system close to several light-years in a matter of seconds to broadcast the information, while the collectors in the colonized star will collect the information broadcast by all the messenger creatures, and after the other messenger creatures enter the star system, they will transfer this information to the messenger creatures and let them take to other nearby star systems.
This constitutes a faster-than-light information network.
This is a good thing, making the cohesion of the entire amoeba stronger than before, I don't know how many levels, but it also has disadvantages, if you encounter a memetic virus similar to the destruction of the Hui civilization, the death rate of the amoeba will also be accelerated.
Overall, there are pros and cons.
In a star system, a gatherer stands on a small dirt slope in their traditional posture, gazing at the night stars above their dome, as if they can see through the bright stars in the sky to see the mysterious appearance of the universe hidden beneath the beautiful appearance.
"What are you thinking?"
A piece of information is passed through the life field to the gatherer.
The Gatherer turns his gaze from stargazing into the starry sky and answers questions that ask his kind.
"Thinking about the task."
"There is a need for the task to be considered, the command of the will is absolute, we just have to do it."
The words of the collector who delivered this message were full of incomprehension.
Their tasks are different from those of other colonized star systems, and the content of the tasks is directly ordered by the supreme will of the entire amoeba, unlike others, which are drawn up by the gatherers themselves for the development needs of the race.
Originally, in accordance with the principle of the supremacy and supremacy of the will of the race, the gatherer only needs to follow the content of the task and complete the task, which is a matter of course.
However, there is a problem in this mission, which makes the individual gatherer who is responsible for directing the mission very hesitant.
After being questioned by his kindred, the gatherer asked about his own hesitation. 520
"Yes...... What else can we have if we give up the field of life? ”
"This time, the task given to us by the will is too strange, not to change the genes, but to change the current life form, is to give up the life field, give up the will, and completely become another kind of biological ......"
This quest is labeled 'Ascension' by the High Will, which is rare, and the High Will has never given a specific name to the mission, but this time it was done intentionally, as if to remind the gatherers of the importance of this mission to the Race.
The essence of the task is a kind of transformation, to transform the collector into another kind of life, this is not as simple as simply changing genes, for genes, the collector can change how he wants, there is no psychological burden at all, but the task given by the supreme will requires that it break the original framework of the collectors.
"So you're hesitating?" Individual rhetorical question.
"Yes."
The hesitant gatherer replied dryly.
The clan pondered for a moment, and organized the information to be fed back to the gatherers.
"The will is very clear in the mission, our life form, imprisoned the future of the race, if we want to make great strides forward, we need to break the routine, break the confinement, we are too fragile with the cell as the basic unit, we need to replace another more stable basic unit, and at the same time, the versatility cannot be lost to the current cell ......"
"To put it another way, it means that the population needs a new type of cell."
For a long time, amoeba technology has been restricted by biological cells, and the fundamental reason is that the tolerance range of organic biological cells is too narrow, and the difference between the upper and lower limits is not large.
In the face of high temperatures higher than 100 degrees, collectors will begin to consider the design structure of cooling, and in the face of low temperatures below zero, collectors will begin to consider the structural design of heating.
As a result, the structure of the organism becomes very complex and bloated.
"The will does not want us to just be imprisoned by carbon-based chemistry, there are many forms of life, and the basic units that make up life are also diverse, which can be silicon-based cells at room temperature of 500 degrees, or data packets of programmed life, or even 'cells' composed of subatomic matter of degenerate life."
"As for the abandonment of the life field, the reason is also very simple, because the life field has long been unable to meet the growing needs of the ethnic group for information circulation, and can only be used as a means of covert communication, as well as the ability to change genes."
"One of the most useful points is the ability to change genes, but if the life form is completely changed, this ability to change genes is naturally meaningless, we only need to use the current cell as a template, and add a mechanism similar to the life field to the new cell design that can change the genes inside the cell."
Even if the life field is abandoned, it is not impossible for the gatherers to accept, although the life field has accompanied them for a long time, but in the face of the progress of the race, these are nothing, since it is in the way of the race, it should still be abandoned.
"As I said, it's 'changing' life forms, and you don't understand the tasks given by the will at all, so it's not as simple as changing cells."
The hesitant gatherer replied to his kind, and it was very dissatisfied, because it seemed that the kindred had misunderstood the content of the task, so it went on to add, "This change is a change with us, and according to the idea of will, if it can be successful, the group is the individual, and the individual is the group." ”
If successful, the research direction indicated by the Supreme Will in the mission will allow the gatherers to have multiple brains and bodies, and to be a networked life form, but at the same time they can switch to the individual type.
This appearance is a bit like the Supreme Will, but it is different, and the Supreme Will of Hogu cannot transfer his thinking subject to another body in the air.