Chapter 473: The Future of the Brain Ape

According to the DF-41's design capability, it can carry 10 nuclear warheads, the maximum range announced to the public is 14,000 kilometers, and it can reach the sky over London in 16 minutes at the earliest, and the sky over Washington in 21 minutes.

As for the nearby areas such as New Delhi and Mumbai, it is naturally faster, and it will be absolutely no problem in ten minutes.

Therefore, according to Shen Feng's prediction, in about half an hour, he will be able to know the results of these missiles after they are launched.

Shen Feng sat on the tires and drank water, while several reverent ape cavalry on the side handed over a few apples and other fruits, which were the rations of the ape cavalry.

Without the consumption of human beings, the world where the stone statue is located in the last days is extremely rich, and the cans that can be preserved for a long time alone are enough for the consumption of more than 2,000 brain apes, and it is simply a paradise-like world for them.

Because of this, the life of the brain apes is quite rich, at least fresh fruits can be openly supplied, and they even built several orchards in the center of the city ruins under the leadership of Kwafu.

Shen Feng was not polite, picked up an apple, wiped it on his clothes casually, and put it to his mouth and took a big bite.

Sweet juice with a slight sour taste burst in his mouth and ran down the corners of his mouth.

Shen Feng didn't bother to wipe his mouth, he bit down hard, almost half an apple in two bites, chewing in his mouth, squinting his eyes at the gray tide that was constantly devouring the stone statue in the distance.

At this time, Father Kua also sat down beside Shen Feng, handed over a cigarette and said:

"Got one?"

Shen Feng shook his head:

"I have a lesion in my lungs and I don't dare to smoke."

Father Kua was stunned, although he didn't know what Shen Feng meant by the lesion, but it shouldn't be a good thing.

At that moment, he struck a match, lit a cigarette for himself, took a big puff, narrowed his eyes in satisfaction, spat out a puff of smoke, and said:

"Humans are really fascinating creatures, just the cigarette thing, let us apes look at it, tsk, when in the forest, who would have thought that the leaves could be lit and stuffed into the mouth, you say that the average primate from seeing the forest fire to learning to smoke, how many years does it take to evolve?"

Shen Feng smiled and said:

"The first to start smoking was the Indians, and it was not until the sixteenth century that it spread to Europe, and then when the Indians were gradually slaughtered and wiped out, tobacco also spread all over the world, strictly speaking, the history of human smoking is only a few hundred years, which is still very short."

Kuafu nodded slightly and sighed:

"It's really much shorter than I thought...... But the first one of the brain apes to smoke should be me. ”

Shen Feng turned his head to look at the brain ape wearing an eye patch, and understood that the other party suddenly said this in order to get an answer.

At that moment, he turned his head to look at the gray tide in the distance and said:

"I know what you want to ask...... The problem of reproductive isolation is still unsolvable, because the evolution of the brain ape is a strong mutation, not only the brain structure itself has changed, but also in a process of direct transformation from carbon-based to silicon-based, in fact, we are the same, this transformation is to some extent like a malignant tumor, a kind of lesion, so this trait cannot be inherited...... In other words, although you are able to give birth to offspring with ordinary apes, you have a natural intelligence to isolate you...... This is actually a type of reproductive isolation. ”

Hearing Shen Feng's words, Kuafu's eyes couldn't help but quickly become dim.

He himself was prepared for this result.

In the days since Shen Feng left, Kuafu has been frantically searching for all kinds of books on biology and genetics in the library, and even started from scratch to figure out how the Brain Ape Clan wants to pass on their wisdom.

It's just that the answers he got were all straightforwardly cruel.

The brain ape's wisdom mutation cannot be passed on at all, because it is itself a transformation similar to a disease.

There is only one way to make other apes have great intelligence, and that is time.

After the current enlightenment, it will take hundreds of thousands or even millions of years to re-walk the evolutionary path that Homo sapiens once walked, until it becomes a new intelligent ape.

It's just that the time span of millions of years is too long, which is actually a kind of extinction for the brain ape family.

He also understood the facts that Shen Feng said, and he also knew that if the other party really had a way to help them inherit their wisdom, he should not sit idly by.

Just hearing the savior say these words with his own ears, Rao is Kua's father himself was already mentally prepared, and at this time, the hand holding the cigarette was still trembling, and he could only forcibly control the despair and sadness in his heart.

After taking a few deep breaths, Father Kua turned his head and smiled at Shen Fengqiang:

"Mr. Shen, thank you, I know you should do your best, but there are things in this world that humans can't do...... But please keep this secret secret from the other apes, or I'm afraid they'll go crazy in despair. ”

No matter how high the IQ of these cerebral apes is after obtaining semi-silicon-based brains, no one can bear it when they learn that their race cannot be sustained and everything will eventually turn to dust.

The meaning of their existence has been obliterated.

Then Kuafu took a puff of the cigarette in his hand, directly sucked up the remaining half, and took out a cigarette and lit it, and said with a smile:

"At least then I'll be able to smoke openly, and maybe I'll be able to drink some good wine."

Shen Feng looked at the brain ape in front of him with sadness flashing in his eyes and asked:

"Sorry, the issue of reproductive isolation is completely unsolvable right now...... What's next for you? ”

Father Kua had recovered from the despair and sadness just now, at least on the surface, and looked into the distance with a grin, and said:

"In that case, I am ready to go to the end of the world before everything is completely destroyed, to see the relics of human civilization that were once brilliant, the past that has been submerged in dust and time...... I've heard that there are still mountain gorilla colonies in places like Uganda, so I can also visit these former creatures and be a real primitive ape......"

He was lazily leaning on the wreckage of the vehicle next to him, but he felt a sense of relief.

As the wise man of the Brain Ape Clan, he himself carried the future and hope of the entire race, and at this time he knew that hope did not exist at all, as if he had been pulled out of the bones in an instant.

The corners of Shen Feng's mouth lifted and said:

"It's not completely impossible, the problem of reproductive isolation can't be solved, but your offspring can still have wisdom, and planB will always exist, but I don't know if you can accept it."

Hearing this, Father Kua, who had almost collapsed just now, suddenly sat up straight, looked at Shen Feng with round eyes, and said in a trembling voice:

"Mr. Shen, Savior, please speak! If you can really ...... If you can really ...... I'm willing to do whatever I want! ”

Looking at the ape sage with a solemn face in front of him, Shen Feng no longer sold Guan Zi at this time, and said with the same solemn face:

"Let me ask you a question first, and this question is, what is a brain ape? Is it an ape, or a human? ”

Kuafu's unthinking answer:

"Of course it'......"

It's just that before he finished speaking, he suddenly paused.

This question, if you think about it carefully, is really difficult to answer.

What is a cerebral ape?

From the perspective of intelligence and habits, the brain ape has long since broken away from the ordinary beast apes and evolved into creatures with advanced intelligence.

What they have is a way of thinking and an intelligent civilization inherited from humans.

It's just that if the brain apes are humans, they are completely different from humans in appearance, and in terms of self-awareness, they are still ape cognitions, but they are not those beast-like kindreds, but higher brain apes.

In other words, the cerebral ape is the cerebral ape, and the cerebral ape is the consciousness carried in their semi-silicon-based brains!

Seeing that Father Kua's face was embarrassed, this wise man of the ape clan with extremely high wisdom fell into the logical labyrinth of philosophy at this time, Shen Feng couldn't help but smile slightly.

Then he no longer dwelled on this question, but with a grim face, he said to Kuafu:

"It's hard to say it's hard to plan, it's easy to say it's simple, since the silicon-based brain traits of the brain ape family can't be inherited, and they can't reproduce offspring with high intelligence, then you only need to replace the body that can reproduce intelligent offspring, reproductive isolation technology can't break through, but organ replacement technology is much more mature, and rejection is also not a problem."

Kuafu's whole body was shocked, although he expected the horror of this plan, he was still so shocked that he didn't even notice the cigarette in his hand burning his fingers, and said in a trembling voice:

"You mean...... You mean...... Let the apes give up their identity as apes and change their ......"