Xiao Yun's thinking finally encountered an insurmountable obstacle after going deep into this point. At this time, Xiao Yun changed his thinking and began to think about the scientific and technological development model of human civilization.

For a group-living intelligent civilization like human civilization, the development of science and technology does not need a rule that runs through the entire scientific development, which is fundamentally different from robots. Because people have the ability to associate and speculate, human beings have wisdom, and wisdom allows human beings to choose different solutions when facing different problems. Robots can't be intelligent, so they have to rely on a single rule that can run through the entire development of science to improve technology.

But if we compare the development of robot technology according to the scientific and technological development track of intelligent civilization, this will fall into the previous strange circle: "The reason why robots need a fundamental rule is precisely because they have no intelligence." If robots are intelligent, what else do they need to do with that fundamental rule? ”

The attempt to rely on finding fundamental rules from the track of scientific and technological development of intelligent civilization has once again failed, because the scientific and technological development model of human civilization is not comparable with the scientific and technological development model of robots. So far, Xiao Yun has not made any breakthrough in the question of "what are the fundamental rules".

More than four years have passed, during which General Emmerk and his staff team have made extensive analyses of possible scenarios and developed extremely sophisticated battle plans. What made Xiao Yun feel a little worried was that all the strategies that General Emmerk had formulated were all aimed at that genius. It is clear that General Emak and his team believed. The Robot Group is under the control of that genius. Just study the psychology and conducting style of that genius thoroughly. You can't fail.

In other words, General Emmerk believes that the enemy he will face is a truly intelligent being, and even if it is not human, it belongs to the same category of intelligent life as humans, and he is facing ...... It's not some robot that runs on program logic.

But...... What if these robots don't belong to the genius commander, but have their own independent combat systems? Just like Xiao Yun thought at this moment, those robots didn't rely on that genius to upgrade their technology. Instead, they rely on some method that they have not yet mastered to improve the ...... of technology So what to do? Doesn't this mean that all of General Emerke's arrangements and decisions were wrong from the start?

Xiao Yun once expressed his concern to General Emek, but General Emak said: "Xiao Yun, do you know? If we always hesitate between different choices, it will only lead to insufficient preparation on both sides, and we will inevitably face defeat. Since I chose the assumption that robots rely on geniuses to upgrade their technology and evolve for them, and that they are under the control of geniuses, then I will unswervingly follow this path, and all the strategies I formulate will be based on this assumption. Unless you can find evidence strong enough to falsify this. ”

So Xiao Yun knew that before he thought about that fundamental rule. Any words of persuasion were useless to General Emmerk.

Time was still passing little by little, and the huge fleet led by General Emmerk finally crossed the long journey of nearly nine light years. From the Raqqa system, I came to the side of the Rag 728 system.

The main star of the Lag 728 galaxy is a red dwarf, which is only about 40 percent of the mass of the Sun, but its planetary system is unusually rich, with three rocky planets, a large asteroid belt around it, and a huge gas planet with a mass of four times the mass of Jupiter. The expeditionary fleet stayed at a distance of 100 billion kilometers from Rag 728 Star, and was on guard here.

From this distance, Rag 728 is just a faint speck of light in the sky, and it is impossible to see any details of it with the naked eye, nor can it see the planets within this star system. Although the distance between the expeditionary fleet and it has now narrowed from nearly nine light-years to less than 100 billion kilometers, it is still unknown to the expeditionary fleet.

Before the expeditionary fleet came here, no human civilization had ever arrived here. It is untouched virgin land, like most of the shining stars in the night sky, which one has only seen but not touched.

The expeditionary fleet obviously doesn't venture into this star system without any haphazard attempts. So under the orders of General Emmerk, a large number of probes left the fleet and began to set off for the Lag 728 system, and a large number of astronomical telescopes began to work. General Emak tried to gather enough data before proceeding with the next move.

"We believe that the distance of 100 billion kilometers is the safest, because we have basically determined that there is no functional classification of these robots, and the gap between any two robots is extremely small, that is, there is no kind of special, logistics type of robot used to reserve supplies, which is different from the combat spacecraft of our human civilization, because our combat spacecraft can store many materials, and our combat radius can be greatly expanded. The combat radius of the robots will be severely limited by the reserve materials, resulting in an extremely limited combat radius. So, if those robots are going to attack us, we can just wait here for them to come. ”

The speculation that "all robots are basically the same" was conjectured by Xiao Yun and General Emek's staff team. Xiao Yun believes that if robots will evolve different classifications, and cooperate with each other in strict accordance with their respective division of labor, it will be beyond the scope of program code to bear, that is to say, the "intelligence" of robots is not enough to carry such complex things, and it must be done by artificial intelligence with real self-independent consciousness. In terms of reliability and convenience, a comprehensive, independent and independent robot is also more survivable - at least better than the division of labor and cooperation type of robot.

Xiao Yun's speculation was supported by the staff team and the scientific advisory team, so this point became a public opinion.

The above words are the remarks of an operational staff officer, these words seem to be very reasonable, but Xiao Yun feels that these words are a little ridiculous. The reason is simple...... It's true that those robots can't carry much material due to their size and mass, but just because of that, will their combat radius be limited? Xiao Yun doesn't think so.

Don't forget, the robot itself is also a material...... In the face of the lack of reserves caused by long-range combat, they can completely disassemble the bodies of their own kind to use them as resources to drive their own operation - robots have no sacrifice or death, they have no feelings, and they have no independent self-consciousness, when the program judges that "they should self-destruct and use their own materials to supply the rest of the robots to operate", they will immediately destroy themselves without hesitation - even if this causes their number to be reduced to 10% of the original number, what does it matter?

Let's say the number of robots that the expeditionary fleet can deal with at the same time is ten trillion, and then choose to stay in the distance to wait for work, but what if the number of robots sent by the robot army is as high as two quadrillion? In this way, even if their number is reduced to 10 percent, their number will still be as high as 20 trillion, which is still beyond the limit of what the expeditionary fleet can handle. Therefore, the so-called leisure is actually useless.

In the face of Xiao Yun's rebuttal, General Emek just smiled faintly: "Xiao Yun, you are not a soldier, you can't understand this." War is not a simple numbers game, but a matter of probability, and it is not as precise and absolute as mathematics. So, as long as there is a way to weaken the enemy, try to weaken the enemy, and the weaker the enemy, the more likely we are to win - even if our probability of winning only increases from one percent to two percent, that's a huge improvement, you know? ”

Xiao Yun chose to be silent and stopped talking.

"The same." General Emak sighed and said, "There are high and low probabilities, and at the same time, there are many possible scenarios, and we can only have one choice. So...... What is the only option? I believe...... Any sane commander will choose the one with the greatest probability. ”

Xiao Yun understood General Emek's choice, and it was precisely because of his understanding that many words in Xiao Yun's heart could not be spoken. After hesitating for a while, Xiao Yun finally sighed and said, "Then, General Emek, you have to promise me at least one thing." Before the situation of the Lag 728 galaxy is clearly understood...... Don't act rashly. I haven't figured out how robots evolve themselves, but I have a vague sense of it...... If we act rashly, we are likely to have irreversible consequences. ”

"Xiao Yun, don't worry." General Emak patted Xiao Yun on the shoulder and said, "I know this even if you don't say it." Any one of my decisions could make the difference between life and death for the entire fleet, in this case...... How dare I act rashly? (To be continued.) )