The swarm is to be put into war in the future, and the war is not a fight, and the competition is not personal bravery but the command level of both sides, it is like the soul of an army, which determines the victory or defeat of the war.

Therefore, the primary focus of the construction of the swarm is the aspect of the level of command - the construction of the swarm thinking mode.

The traditional groupthink model of the Zerg is that there are only one or a few intelligent individuals such as the main brain and the brain worm.

The advantage of this mode of thinking is that it ensures that the group can achieve a real sense of unity, and the efficiency of action is almost 100%, but the disadvantage is that in addition to the intelligent body, the rest are all mentally retarded people who can only act according to instinct, and when the intelligent body in charge of command dies, the swarm will collapse, and even the basic ability to act will be lost.

Moreover, this wisdom model is just like the monarchy leads to the rise and fall of the country only depends on whether the monarch is virtuous or not, and when the rise and fall of the entire civilization is determined by one or two intelligent bodies, it is equivalent to putting all the eggs in one basket, and once it dies, the whole civilization is finished, and the intelligent body must stare at every insect at all times, which wastes a lot of computing power, and secondly, when encountering force majeure, it will cause a lot of unprovoked losses.

The social insects on the earth, such as ants or bees, are another way of thinking mentioned earlier, that is, the consciousness of the whole group is equivalent to the supra-individual consciousness that is similar to the alayya consciousness that is gathered by countless individual consciousness, similar to cloud computing in the era of big data, the advantage is that it overcomes the disadvantage of the zerg without individual consciousness, and will not lead to the death of an individual and lead to the destruction of the insect swarm, but the disadvantages are equally obvious:

It's too inefficient.

Many people think that ants and bees are highly efficient insects, but this is actually wrong, in fact, because this kind of communist mode of thinking lacks a unified command, and has to unconditionally meet the requirements of the individual, which often leads to a large waste of resources.

When Zhong Heng used to feed the ants, he saw that they often swayed left and right when carrying food, and the work that could be completed in one minute was often delayed by four to five times, and the reason was that different ants left different smell paths, and they all wanted to deviate the whole team according to their own paths, and sometimes there would even be a funny phenomenon like the fable of horses, cows and sheep pulling carts, all of which were working in different directions.

In addition, there will be a phenomenon similar to this when different ants are fighting, obviously an opponent can bite to death with an ant, and it has been bitten half to death, sometimes there will be four or five ants mixed up together and then bite and waste combat power, and even if they are bitten by the opponent in the rear at this time, they will not stop.

In addition, this group has another weakness - cloud computing relies on links between each other, and ant colonies and bee colonies rely on pheromones to generate group consciousness, if the links are broken, what will be the consequences?

The answer is that it is very chaotic, their own people beat their own people, it is more chaotic than after the Zerg lost their dominance, it is very common for ants to be attacked and killed by their peers because of the smell of prey when they hunt, and Zhong Heng tried to break up the ant colony when he was a child, and the simplest way to break up the ant colony is not to spray poison, but to spray ......

Perfume!

Once you spray perfume into the ant hole, sometimes it only takes a little bit to dig it up the next day, and it's all dead, basically from the cannibalism caused by turning each other's faces and not recognizing each other.

Not to mention, if pheromones are faked and some discordant elements are mixed in, refer to certain parasitic insects that can wreak havoc on ant colonies, and the cheating methods of Ultimate, who use loopholes to control ant colonies that are far beyond his control quota.

In this regard, the control mode of the final balance is biased towards the traditional insect colony, but he does not have enough computing power and quota to take into account each individual like the real Zerg master, and once relied on the rumor method to implement indirect control, although the efficiency is higher than the traditional ant colony, it is still very low, and now it is much better after the control mark, but there are still big flaws:

It is impossible for him to mark every individual with the mark of control, although the cost of a single is only 1 evolution fragment, but thinking about the future cosmic war, the number of bugs invested in each battle is hundreds of millions, not to mention how many fragments will be burned, can he still look at every bug?

Therefore, what the final balance needs to do is to combine the advantages of the two.

The main thinking mode of the swarm is still earth-like, because the final balance can only use the genes of social insects, ants, and bees to create the swarm, but he has added many intelligent individuals with special information as the captain to command the battle of a specific team.

Each squad is about 50 to 100 people, and every 10 teams make up a squadron and then have a "squadron leader", and so on, until the final balance is here as the big boss behind the swarm.

In order to prevent the team led by the accidental death of the captain from losing control, the final balance also mixed a lot of spare individuals in the swarm, and usually does not participate in the command, but the original commander will be on top immediately after hanging, and the higher the level, the more spare individuals.

And if they are also hanging, it still doesn't matter, because 1 control 100 is conservative, the actual number is two or three times higher than this, if the captain and the spare tire are hanging, the swarm will automatically merge into the other captains.

In addition, an inadvertent discovery in these days of research has given the final balance the key to improving the intelligence of the bugs.

It all starts with a very common biological instinct – learning sex, even in single-celled organisms like paramecium.

Insects have a very short memory, but they do not prevent them from having the ability to have this concept in junior high school textbooks, a popular comparison is that if you put a grasshopper in a glass box, at first it can see the outside and will jump outward, but because of the glass wall, it will always be bounced back because of the wall, after repeatedly hitting the wall N times, the next time it is thrown into such an environment, unless it is stimulated, the grasshopper will seem to remember the lesson, and will never try to jump and escape again.

The manipulation of the imprint has a magical effect, that is, all the bugs that are marked with it, as long as the imprint is retained for more than a certain period of time, will retain the information in the imprint due to learned sexual behavior and continue to execute, for example, a cockroach has been placed to crawl around the box three times a day at a certain time, and even if it is revoked after the imprint has been manipulated for a period of time, it will retain this behavior.

Coupled with an unexpected discovery, it's incredible, it's simply epic.

While it doesn't get the hang of it, it's a half-way to one of the most complex questions in evolution

- Memory inheritance.

This phenomenon exists in insects, even in some reptiles, they will prey and build nests as soon as they are born, and the technical content required during the period is not lower than that of mammals, but they do not need to rely on their parents like mammals, and they will not degenerate even under captive conditions.

How does it work?

There is a more complicated question behind this than the chicken or the egg - there is always a first time for everything, living things evolve from the lower to the higher, these memories come with evolution rather than at the beginning, some organisms only feed on another single organism, how did the first creatures have these abilities and record them from generation to generation?

In the search for ability, Zhong Heng felt that he might have a discovery that could be thrown out and simply subverted the scientific community.

It all started with a cockroach.

It was used to test the patrol route before building the web of insect swarms, and it received the control mark but did not infect the undead cells, and later mated and left offspring, until finally Heng discovered Ni Duan after hatching a while ago - at that time, he asked Xiao Qian to bring the cockroaches' breeding boxes over because of the matter, but she accidentally knocked them down, causing them to scatter and escape in the small universe.

All of them ran in a chaotic manner, but only one didn't know what was going on, and it ran very regularly, unless it was affected, they all ran in circles, and they didn't stop until they ran three laps - Zhong Heng remembered this kind of trajectory, which was the message left in the control mark!

found that it was insignificant, but the sharp-eyed final balance was like a treasure, and immediately caught the cockroach and compared it with its brothers and sisters, and compared it with its siblings, and compared and analyzed the genetic map, and found that there was indeed a problem:

This cockroach has an extra instinct to run away according to that trajectory in its brain, and the aspect of its genetic map that controls memory inheritance has also changed, and in some places it has a small piece of genetic code more than other cockroaches!

This shows that the learned behavior of the previous generation is retained, and the memory of the organism will be preserved to some extent on the genes of the next generation, and it also shows that evolution is not entirely natural selection, and self-selection can sometimes be applied to genes!

However, judging from the fact that no other cockroaches have such a situation, its probability is very low, and there may not be a single case in tens of thousands.

But this does not prevent the final balance from drawing inferences from the other - don't forget, he has a gene fusion module, relying on the quantum computer and the genetic knowledge in his mind, plus some mathematical tools to reverse the gene map, and then using the matrix core to buy more than 10 times more research time than reality, the final balance has mastered this extremely terrifying ability:

In the past, he could only make bugs evolve physically, but now he can make bugs evolve mentally, and he has acquired the skills that make bugs more than they should under natural development, as if domesticating wolves into dogs.

Combined with physical evolution that expands brain capacity......

Zhong Heng felt that he was playing with fire, and if he continued like this, he could theoretically let insects such as ants and bees evolve into an intelligent race like humans sooner or later, and then maybe even the insect control ability given by the monster giver would not be able to suppress a riot similar to "insect people will never be slaves".

However, these are far away, and even if it can be realized, it will not be a matter of a day or two, anyway, now that the final balance of mastering this "insect training technique" can make the insect swarm under his command continue to upgrade and evolve like a real Zerg.

This not only means that in the future, every insect has a combat ability that is stronger than just acting on primitive instinct and will not greatly waste efficiency, but also means that the number of places that each captain-level insect can control has increased - when the IQ has risen, it is easy to understand the commanding order.

At the same time, the way the swarm distinguishes the same kind has also been changed—or it cannot be called a change, but an upgrade.

Relying only on pheromones, the transmission efficiency is low, it is too easy to be disturbed, not to mention, and even some parasitic insects have the means to imitate or fake pheromones, the evolutionaries in this world have all abilities, and the backbone technology of the adjudication organization is also biochemical technology, will there be a similar method?

People must always think more than your opponent in order to have an advantage in the competition and win the final victory, and it is impossible for the final balance not to consider these, so this is how to deal with it:

The final balance is indirect control over the insect swarm, so there is a bug of insect control on the high-level side that presses him except for some extremely rare psychic abilities, no one can take away his control, don't worry too much, pheromones are only used at the grassroots level below the team leader.

He plans to add moth-accurate olfactory genes to each bug, and use mathematical tools to create a mechanism similar to the changing code in it - to put it simply, there are many kinds of pheromones secreted by the captain, but the difference is very small, except for the final balance of bugs, which are unrecognizable, and will change periodically according to the rules of some mathematical conjecture tools.

At that time, unless, as in the past telegraph code warfare, the other party deciphers his code first before it is possible to disrupt his control in this information battle.

Moreover, even if you win in this regard, or simply disturb the information that is already difficult to understand because the bug's sense of smell has evolved, it is useless, because the final balance still has a backup means:

- When such a problem arises, the way the captain gives orders will change, and it will become like a bee to transmit information through dance, and the bugs receive orders on the "principle of proximity", so will the opponent have time to fake an exact image of the captain to get in?

Even if it's in time, it doesn't matter, because every captain-level bug has a special emblem similar to currency anti-counterfeiting, and the grassroots soldiers will definitely have a certain ability to distinguish after their IQ is improved, and they will not be so easy to fool as a backing.

With so many back-ups, I don't know how many Wallaces are ahead of the opponent in the final balance of war informatization, and, to say some digressions, isn't quantum encryption claimed to be uncrackable? In the future, after entering the interstellar era, he will use the power of Lin Yuxian and others to drum up a biological quantum computer, so that each insect will have one of these things in its body, and upgrade it into gravitational waves or even more advanced telepathic communication with each other:

"Just ask who else in this world can defeat my insect swarm with a trick of the next three rotten, wait to see you on the battlefield with dignity, and then enjoy the overwhelm of being overwhelmed by the sea of worms!"

After spending a while building the "software" of the swarm, the final balance began the next step of building the hardware.

Well, in other words, the Zerg species design that everyone is most interested in.