Chapter 565: They're Sleeping
In addition to the large container compartments used to house the eldest son, there are several large real rooms on the lower level of the station that can be used for daily research work. Samples taken from the eldest son, as well as strange rags collected from other worlds, could be scanned here—Hao Ren finally didn't have to worry about the limited functionality of the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace.
But what everyone is most satisfied with about this place is its architectural style: the style of this building is different from the technological equipment that Hao Ren usually comes into contact with, and its main materials are crystal and a warm and strange "metal", including the real yàn room. The light and elegant clusters of crystalline and curved metal are dizzying, and walking in the crystal nucleus research station is as enjoyable as walking through an art museum. Hao Ren usually complained that Raven 12345 acted unreliable, but this time he had to thank the goddess sister for blowing up the original building module: this new space station is at least much stronger than a coffin.
The two red balls were quickly sent to the real yàn room, and everyone was studying what this thing was. Hao Ren heeded Vivien's advice and ordered a quick full-body scan of the living eldest son in containers 1 and 2, and now he was waiting for the results.
"By the way, what the hell do you guess this is?" Hao Ren waited for boredom and began to talk to Vivian, "It also created the phantom of the Demon King City - is it the organ used by the eldest son to cast spells?" ”
Vivien shook her head slightly, unconsciously tossing a small bat in her hand to relieve her boredom. The two orbs were suspended on a crystal platform not far away. Several beams are now sweeping around the ball, which is the detection device collecting information about the ball and comparing it with the firstborn's scanning progress. The holographic projection in the center of the room shows the progress of the work on containers 1 and 2: the hologram of the eldest son on it is becoming clearer and clearer.
After a while. The number jù terminal suddenly let out a whistle: "Found it!" ”
Hao Ren was overjoyed: "Is there really one?!" ”
The number of terminals controls the holographic projection to zoom in and position the picture, revealing the details in the No. 1 container. The tentacles and nodules of the eldest son appear in the center of the frame, and the most striking of the intertwined tissues is the pulsating faint red light. The number jù terminal pointed to a star-shaped structure between the red lights: "In this position - there is a thick connective skin here, the bioelectric current is strong, and there is a round ball hidden underneath, exactly like the two red balls we have at hand. And there's more than one ...... of this ball."
The number jù terminal said, pulling the hologram a little farther away. As a result, seven or eight shining red dots appeared on the entire scan, and those red dots were all such spherical organs, and they were not evenly distributed.
Lily scratched her head and looked at it for a while: "So a firstborn son can grow so many balls?" So why did Elizabeth find three? ”
"Because of malnutrition. Don't forget that the eldest son of the old Wang family starved to death," Hao Ren switched the screen back, looking curiously at the star-shaped organization that emitted a faint red light, and there were many thinner tentacles extending out around it. All the way to the nearest tissue tumor. And those thinner tentacles are very light in color, and are obviously not the same species as the tentacles used as weapons. And all the star-shaped tissues are wrapped in layers of other tentacles and thick skins, which means that they are very important things for the eldest son, "What do you think this looks like?" ”
"Something like a center," replied the number of terminals, "and according to recent tests, most of the grayish-white tentacles are attached to medium-sized tissue tumors, which have been identified as ganglions of the eldest son. ”
Hao Ren touched his chin and tried to expand his brain. An idea popped up suddenly: "Wait! Do you think this could be the brain of the firstborn? ”
Lily looked at Hao Ren in horror: "Landlord, you have a big brain and there is a ring above your neck, right?" ”
"But it's very likely," Hao Ren shrugged. "This thing has grown into this curiosity, what's wrong with its mind organs, no matter how weird it is? You see, we've been looking for the brain of the firstborn son, but it didn't have it at all - but this thing obviously knows how to think, so its thinking organs should look a little strange. And in any case, this thing has a lot of ganglia connected to it, and it must have something to do with thinking. ”
"It's a valuable conjecture," the number of people confirmed Hao Ren's brain hole, "This creature is so large that it may be difficult for a single brain to command the entire body, and the nutrition cannot keep up...... So it uses a distributed brain structure. But first, you need to test it. ”
Container No. 1 soon received instructions from the terminal, and the container was injected with a thin potion of pale green, and then several bright luminous masses were attached to several tentacles of the eldest son. The tentacles trembled slightly, then calmed down.
Container No. 1's control module severed the connection between one of the star-shaped tissues and other surrounding organs, and then began to input analog signals to it.
"Maybe it's really the brain," the number jù terminal read back the number jù, and even it was a little surprised, "It's a wonderful thing, the firstborn's thought process is actually made up of three very different tissues, ganglia, red balls, and those gray-white nerve fibers, all three things are brains, and they are scattered throughout the body. ”
Lily glanced at Hao Ren in surprise: "That's right!" Landlord, your brain is still precision-guided, huh? ”
"Don't make a fuss, this is called talented, it's different from your reincarnation that doesn't aim to become a second goods," Hao Ren rubbed Lily's head and turned his head to look at the terminal, "Why didn't we see it when we studied the ball in Demon King City last time?" ”
"I didn't think about it last time," the number of jù terminals somersaulted in the air, "tsk, this thing is really interesting...... Well, I roughly understand the thought process of the eldest son. ”
Hao Ren immediately pricked up his ears and listened to the explanation of the number of terminals.
"These spheres are the main thinking organs of the eldest son, and bear seventy percent of the functions of the brain, which can be called the brain nucleus, and there are several of them, and they are distributed in various places in the body of the firstborn; Those medium-sized tissue tumors, the ganglia, are something that boosts and accelerates signals, and perhaps also has a caching function, which is responsible for distributing the instructions from the brain nucleus throughout the body, and because the eldest child is so large, it must have this secondary cache and brainwave amplifier to control its own body; Those gray-white tentacles are not ordinary nerve fibers, they are actually mutations of ganglia, and they also have the ability to perform logical calculations, and their function is to connect several different brains, so that the thinking process of the eldest son can be coordinated - to prevent schizophrenia and brainwave conflict. This whole set of mechanics works in a very strange way, unlike any other intelligent creature known to the machine, but it is a perfect solution to the problems faced by the eldest son due to his large size. And more importantly, they give the firstborn a backup of his mind. The machine thinks that a single brain nucleus can also think, but the execution efficiency will decrease, and there is no way to control all the tentacles, but if part of the brain of the eldest son is offline, it can still survive with the remaining brain structure, and even repair its own offline brain...... The perfect computing machine, it can form a LAN with itself and can also upload and download things between several of its own brains! ”
Lily crossed her fingers to make this logical relationship clear, and was suddenly shocked by her eldest son: "If I have this ability, I still have to worry about writing novels and can't separate the characters!" I can even talk to myself about four-cornered love! ”
Vivien squinted, "It's a pity you're still a single dog." ”
Lily: "Wow your face!" ”
"Can't you be quiet for a few minutes on such a strict occasion?" Hao Ren glared at the two rivals to calm down, and then turned his head to look at the number of terminals, "I understand what you said...... In other words, the eldest son has multiple brains, and these brains are still combined like modules, and those red balls are the main thinking organs - so what is the phantom of the Demon King City? ”
The terminal was silent for a moment, the blue light on the surface surging, and then speculated: "The machine thinks it's its dream." ”
Hao Ren: "? ”
"The spiritual power of the eldest son is strong enough to directly cause natural phenomena, and although it does not reach the point of interfering with reality, it can at least create large-scale illusions," the number of terminals flew over the two spheres, "these two brain nuclei...... Although the Yan zhòng are damaged, they are not dead, they are sleeping and occasionally dreaming. (To be continued......)