Thus began a journey of war between the robot group and the smallpox virus. This war is completely out of human control, and both sides have something in a broad sense, which can be called "self", they both evolve, and they will adjust their coping strategies based on each other's behavior, and the power of extreme evolution is fully displayed in this large number of supports, and their coping strategies, defense strategies, adjustment strategies even amaze the researchers who stay in front of the surveillance screen.

There are many coping strategies that even scientists find ingenious. It's the perfect coping strategy that even intelligent scientists would have to work so hard to find, but it's now being unfolded between data codes and robots that don't have intelligence or awareness. That's right, that's the power of exhaustive evolution.

This seems to be another way of natural evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest, robots that choose the wrong way to deal with will die, and smallpox viruses that choose the wrong way to deal with them will be in vain, so, after this layer of elimination, the robots that can survive must have the ability to fight against the smallpox virus, and the smallpox virus that can survive must also have extremely strong offensive and lethal capabilities.

But on a global level...... Dink's attempt failed. Because the smallpox virus has not completely wiped out the robot syndicate. Failure to completely destroy the robot group means that the countermeasure is meaningless.

Looking at the robots fighting the smallpox virus on Pluto, Xiao Yun seemed to see humans in ancient times. In the face of various challenges such as predators, natural disasters, epidemics, wars, food shortages, climate change, etc., the growth of human numbers has been severely limited for a long time. Although those natural and man-made disasters have killed many human beings, they have not wiped out human civilization after all. Human civilization has walked out of a smooth road in the midst of these thorns. It has evolved to this point. Evolved to the point where almost any catastrophe can no longer wipe out humanity.

Robots are battling the smallpox virus. Will it follow this evolutionary trajectory?

Xiao Yun didn't know this, but Xiao Yun probably knew the difference between the two. Obviously, the natural and man-made disasters that plagued ancient humans did not escalate themselves, but the smallpox virus was different. Robots may evolve more and more powerfully, but the smallpox virus is also evolving itself. The two will be entangled forever, and they will probably never be able to tell the winner.

"The virus offensive plan failed." Xiao Yun finally announced the news, and in the conference room, Dink. and the team members led by Dink, each with a gloomy expression.

In order to develop the smallpox virus, they don't know how much effort and energy they have expended, but the reality is cruel, and the robot group will not willingly die because Dink's team members worked an extra few extra days. What can't be achieved is what can't be achieved, and no one can change that.

"But I want to...... Dink, and your teammates, don't feel lost and sad about it. Xiao Yun continued, "You should see that the smallpox virus can effectively weaken the combat effectiveness of the robot group, and can greatly reduce the self-reproduction ability of the robot group. In terms of all things considered, the smallpox virus can reduce the capabilities of the robot group by at least 50 percent. Do you know what that means? ”

"This means...... In the future. When our civilization and the robot group officially fight, our army can face half less enemies, we can delay longer, we can greatly reduce losses, we will lose a lot of deaths, and we can reduce the amount of energy and resources we spend. On the other hand, the smallpox virus has greatly increased the probability of our human civilization winning this war. ”

"So, Dink, you're still a hero." Xiao Yun said, "You know what? Because of the birth of the smallpox virus...... The military combat effectiveness of our human civilization has increased by two to three times out of thin air. ”

The weakening of the enemy's combat power is equal to the increase of one's own combat power, which everyone knows very well.

"The next step I will give the order to destroy all the robots on Pluto, and there will be new, pure robots on Pluto. Dink, I ask you to continue to lead the team to improve the smallpox virus - we have accumulated a lot of data during this period of virus attack, and with this data as a backing, I think your new smallpox virus will have a great leap forward. Xiao Yun said, "You must know that for every 0.01 percent increase in the combat power of the smallpox virus, in the future, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of soldiers will escape from the desperate situation of certain death. ”

"I understand." Dink nodded silently.

"Let's talk about the evolutionary trap." As soon as the summary and discussion of the virus attack came to an end, Xiao Yun presided over the meeting and put the topic on another aspect, "Xiao Muhong, can you report on what kind of progress your research has made during the time when I was involved in the smallpox virus?" ”

"There has been some progress, we already have several options, but the exact choice has not yet been decided." "The first option is an evolutionary trap for the robot's energy harvesting device. ”

"Tell me more." Xiao Yun motioned, "The clerk remembers to take notes. ”

Xiao Muhong flipped out a stack of materials, glanced at it roughly, sorted out his thoughts and language, and then said: "The plan is as follows: we have jointly developed a technology with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, the Institute of Power, the Institute of Propulsion, the Institute of Energy and other institutions of the Academy of Sciences, and the technology can show energy conversion efficiency beyond this level at a lower level of science and technology, that is, when the level of science and technology is one, the efficiency of the energy acquisition device can be equivalent to the equipment manufactured when the level of science and technology is two." The technology is far ahead of the original level of technology, but only the original level of technology is needed to manufacture it. ”

To use a simple analogy, that is, Xiao Muhong united with many institutes of the Academy of Sciences to find a method equivalent to "making guns in the feudal era of mankind". How attractive were guns and other thermal weapons to people in the feudal era, and how attractive this method was to robots.

The mission of robots is to reproduce, and in order to reproduce, they must evolve and must have a very high pursuit of technology. And how to judge whether a technology is advanced? The method is simple, just a few key indicators of a technology can be distinguished. So...... The technology developed by Xiao Muhong will inevitably be judged as advanced in the robot evaluation system, and advanced technology will inevitably guide the robot to evolve in the direction of this technology, leading to the large-scale application of this technology by robots.

"But there is a fatal flaw in this energy harvesting device, and that's where the trap lies." Xiao Muhong continued, "Under the low level of application, this technology can bring great benefits to the robot group and greatly improve their energy acquisition efficiency, but when the robot's own technology develops to a certain extent, when they can carry out interstellar voyages, this fatal flaw will be exposed: during the long interstellar voyage, the energy acquisition devices made with this technology will fail due to long-term operation and the impact of interstellar radiation, thus cutting off the energy supply of the robots." Without an energy supply, robots will naturally die. ”

"To put it simply, because of the advanced nature of the technology, robots will inevitably choose to adopt this technology, and once they adopt this technology, once they make a transstellar voyage, they will lose their energy supply due to defects and will never recover. In this way, we have achieved our goal of destroying the robot syndicate. ”

There are several key logical progressions in Xiao Muhong's scheme, the first logic is that the technology is advanced and can greatly improve the energy supply efficiency of the robots, which leads to the second logic, that is: because the technology is advanced, the robot will inevitably adopt the technology, and then lead to the third logic: because the robot will inevitably sail across the star system at a certain stage of development, and because the technology is flawed, once the robot sails across the star system, it will die because of the defect.

These three logics are progressive and without any loopholes, and the logical foundation is extremely solid. Because of this, the scheme is extremely feasible.

Xiao Yun was silent for a moment, and then said: "Xiao Muhong, your plan looks flawless, but I don't know if you have noticed a characteristic exposed by the robot group in the last stage, when we used the smallpox virus to attack the robots?" ”

"Please."

"This characteristic is that once there is an abnormally large number of robot deaths within the group, the exhaustive evolution of the robot group will be opened. Defects in energy harvesting devices can lead to the death of a large number of robots, but ...... What if this mass death caused the robots to start their exhaustive evolution again and find a solution to this flaw? ”

"I don't think what you're talking about is going to bother the program." Xiao Muhong said, "Please also note that robots need a huge amount of material support to carry out exhaustive evolution, that is, exhaustive evolution can only be carried out within the star system. When they are on an interstellar voyage and in an ethereal interstellar environment, they cannot be replenished with supplies, and since there is no material replenishment, how can they carry out exhaustive evolution to solve this shortcoming? (To be continued.) )