The schedule was very tight, and early the next morning, three military low-noise all-terrain off-road vehicles of the joint research team parked at the door of Zhao Yi's house. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The INFO research team is composed of two technical personnel each from the Academy of Sciences and the Federal Center for Military Studies, while five from the Ministry of Security and five from the military each for security work. Since the joint research team was set up under the leadership of the military, the leader of the group was a major of the army, named Jia Xing'an.

As soon as Zhao Yi went downstairs, the door of the all-terrain off-road vehicle was opened from the inside, and Zhao Yi saw that he was still an acquaintance, and Xingtian Town turned out to be the deputy leader of the research team. Zhao Yi couldn't help but slander for a while, whether there was no one in the Ministry of Security or what, just these few people dangled back and forth.

The shock absorption of the off-road vehicle is good, and it is a quiet vehicle, so the degree of sitting in it is almost the same as that of a train, but the noise is much less than that of a train.

Xing Tianzhen said with a smile, "This car is specially designed by the Ordnance Research Institute for the last days, and it is electrically driven, and it can also be silent five meters away in the wild." In other words, we are more likely to be exposed by lowering our voices than we are to be exposed to vehicle noise. ”

Zhao Yi nodded and said, "It's good, this thing is really good, I'll get a whole one when I go back." ”

"Zhao Tianshi, you really lift me, I don't have this ability, but I can help you get a car of the Ministry of Security when I go back, it's not much worse than this." Xing Tianzhen paused, looked up at the car in front of him, and continued, "Zhao Tianshi, this car is full of our own people from the Security Department, I have to remind you, when you get out of the city later, you must be careful of the military people." When necessary, keep one eye on the zombies and one eye behind you, and if you are scattered by the corpses, you'd rather go alone than follow the military. ”

Zhao Yi was surprised, "Are you afraid that they will shoot black guns?" Has the relationship between the Ministry of Security and the military been strained to such an extent? ”

"That's not true, we have a lot of cooperation with the army, and the grassroots officers still have a good impression of the Ministry of Security. The key is that the people they sent out this time are not simple, on the surface they say that they are from the 16th Army, but in fact they are from the Military Intelligence Bureau of the War Commission. The grandson of the MIA is the most insidious, our people have been pitted several times, and no one has been seen alive or dead. However, they were not comfortable, and the people who started were all led by the Shen team to plant lotuses. Xingtian Zhen said ruthlessly.

Zhao Yi nodded, "Don't worry, as long as they dare to come to Yin, I guarantee that they will be worse off than dead." By the way, how are you preparing for the Heavenly Witch Pool? ”

"I don't know the specifics, it seems to be soon, I heard that it was because the effect was not very good last time, so this time I want to make a big one, and it takes a lot of effort to prepare." Xing Tianzhen said, "When the preparations are ready, I will definitely give you a letter, don't talk about it, I'll go to the city gate." ”

Three cars and fourteen people stopped at the city gate, and Jia Xingan briefly said a few precautions. When he said, "As soon as you come out of the city gate, it will be hell, and you must not be left behind, otherwise you will fall into the hands of the homeless people and may be made into jerky," the faces of several scientific researchers were obviously not very good.

Zhuang Wenye, another academician sent by the Academy of Sciences, was a colleague with Zhao Yi and a member of his own camp, so Xing Tianzhen hurriedly comforted him, "Don't worry too much, although human meat tastes good, it's about the same as veal." But survivors are human beings, and as long as there is other food, they will not all eat people. ”

It's okay not to be comforted, but after being comforted, Zhuang Wenye's face turned even paler.

Three vehicles lined up in a column and drove away from the base city to the outskirts of Kyoto City before the catastrophe to find the lonely corpse. Zhao Yi gave the apologetic yaksha a message, and Tian Cheng immediately reined in his breath and followed closely behind the convoy.

Zhao Yi pulled Zhuang Wenye into his car, "Professor Zhuang, you put your heart in your stomach, we all came out of the Academy of Sciences, and I can still make you suffer." By the way, which branch are you from? ”

Zhuang Wenye has seen Zhao Yi's supernatural powers in the selection of academicians, and he trusts him very much, and he is busy thanking him at the moment, "Then it depends on Zhao Tianshi, speaking of which it is normal that Zhao Tianshi has not seen me, I belong to the branch of social sciences, and my main job is at Kyoto United University." ”

Zhao Yi was stunned, he originally thought that his partner would be an academician of the Life Sciences Branch or the Physics and Mathematics Branch, but he didn't expect it to be from the Social Sciences Branch, "This, this, forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, you came out with us to ......"

Zhuang Wenye sighed for a long time, "It's not to explore the social structure of zombies, I thought that the social science branch would be safer in the last days, but I didn't expect it to be more dangerous." In fact, it is better for your science and engineering branch to verify the theory, and the risk is controllable. Our social science class is different, only close observation can the theory be corrected, and if you are not careful, you can't even leave a whole corpse. I just published a paper last week that proposed the hypothesis that intelligent zombies appear and construct social classes in the corpse hordes, and this time to test it. ”

Xing Tianzhen was puzzled, "There is a social class among the zombies, how is this possible?" Even the most evolved corpses are as mental as human babies. We have encountered countless corpses in the past few months, and we have never seen any organized actions of corpses. ”

Zhuang Wenye sighed, "I thought so before, but the war in Shangdu ......"

He seemed to remember something, and suddenly fell silent.

Xing Tianzhen smiled, "You don't have to keep it a secret from me, isn't it just that the frontline war is unfavorable?" If you don't say it, I also know that the internal reference you have read has the first-hand information provided by our sentences. Although the 24th Army has lost a lot of troops in battle, it has never heard of an organized ambush. ”

Zhuang Wenye smiled awkwardly, "Since you know everything, then I don't have to shy away from anything." The key is not in the 24th Army, but in the previous air raids. Remember when a transport plane was shot down? It was dozens of corpses throwing iron weapons at the same time, so that the transport plane could not avoid it. ”

Zhao Yi said, "Professor Zhuang, are you overinterpreting it a bit, it is normal for the corpse to face the target in the air and throw the weapon in his hand, it does not mean that there is a social structure in the zombie, and the monkeys will also hit people with stones together." ”

"But monkeys have a social structure, and monkeys are a hierarchical society. According to my previous speculation, even if the number of corpses increases dramatically now, it will not account for more than 2 per 1,000 corpses in the entire corpse herd. In this ratio, dozens of ambush corpses can gather together, and there is only one explanation, that is, they are deliberately getting closer. Zhuang Wenye explained.

The stone driving in front of him interjected, "Isn't it better to gather together, one shell has been solved in the past, how convenient." ”

Zhuang Wenye sighed again, "If only it were that simple, I suspect that the evolution direction of zombies in the future is similar to that of bee colonies and ant colonies." Have you ever observed bee colonies and ant colonies? Rather than think of a bee colony as a colony, it's better to say that it's a super organism. The queen bee is the brain and reproductive organ of the organism, and the worker bee is the equivalent of the hands and feet of the organism. In the ant colony, a single ant is only equivalent to a neuron, and can only make a simple stress response, and the whole ant colony is intelligent, can divide labor and cooperate, and can think collectively. ”

"You mean that the corpse group is a whole, and the zombies are all organs in it, and as long as the number of corpses is large enough, it can give birth to intelligence beyond human imagination?" Xingtian Town is difficult to tunnel.

Zhuang Wenye shook his head, "I don't know either, so I need to verify it." According to past observations and feedback from the front, even if there is a large cluster below the corpse, it will not produce wisdom, but it is difficult to say above the corpse. Of course, I hope my guess is wrong, otherwise the zombies will be even more difficult to deal with. In fact, according to the cluster effect, when the density of corpses reaches a certain critical point, the unconscious behavior of individuals will constitute the conscious behavior of the group, which may not be the manifestation of collective intelligence.

Taking a step back, the claim of the collective intelligence of the colony is still very controversial. In complex science, there is also a term called 'emergent behavior', which refers to the fact that the behavior of the whole composed of individuals is beyond the sum of the behaviors that can be presented by the individual, which is unpredictable, and cannot be viewed as reductionism in traditional systems engineering. Emergent behavior is also an interpretation of the social model of bee colony and ant colony, and emergent behavior is not limited to biological categories, but can also be explained by backgammon algorithms, cellular automata, etc. ”

Zhao Yi was noncommittal to Zhuang Wenye's assumptions, "The True Solution of the Corpse Dao" is not omnipotent, even if the corpse Dao is at its peak, no one will be able to gather millions of zombies, so the research on the corpse Dao in this area is almost zero, maybe the situation is really as Zhuang Wenye guessed.

The all-terrain off-road vehicle stopped suddenly, and the inertia took Zhuang Wenye forward, almost hitting the front seat, while Zhao Yi and Xing Tianzhen and others sat steadily, and their bodies did not move.

Jia Xing'an's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "A group of corpses was found at nine o'clock ahead, about 1,500 meters away, the number is between 300 and 500, whether there are corpses or not is unknown, everyone is on alert!" ”