The Siyuan space station, the biological research center of the Starlink Academy of Sciences, has a strange large room, surrounded by ultra-silicon glass walls on all sides, and the glass wall is also a display screen, constantly displaying various data and images. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

From the data, it can be seen that the room is filled with hydrogen, methane, ammonia and nitrogen, the density is only 0.7 standard atmospheres, and the temperature is about 190 k, which is equal to minus 83.5 degrees.

Through the glass wall, you can see that a round and fluffy thing the size of a basketball is floating around the room, and the fur is black, white and yellow, mottled and messy, as if it has been soaked in muddy water all day.

The ball has two symmetrical blowholes, one side of which drags two peacock feathers, and the other side of which has a long and narrow ring of leaves. The former blore inhales occasionally, the entire ball expands in a circle, and the air jets out of the other blowhole, and the blades erect like the adjustment plate of a fighter jet's vector vent, directing the air flow to propel the ball forward. In a single breath and a spray, the ball jumps up and down flexibly in this wide, transparent room, not at all affected by zero gravity.

The message on the glass wall reads:

Lab ID: Matt Ball Life 19.

Name: Don 19.

Age: 42 days.

"Its biological age is about five or six years old, its brain matures quickly, and its ability in mathematics and logical thinking has surpassed that of junior high school students, but because the world view is too different, and there are still great obstacles to communication with it, it seems that it is still just a strange creature, not an intelligent life like us."

"The long feather-like band is their sensory organ, which can emit very low-power microwaves, and it should also be the way for them to communicate with each other."

"We're still deciphering its language, which is the microwave code, but because we created it, we have only the simplest memories of our mother tongue left in our genes, and now we rely on low-level neural reflexes to understand its thoughts."

Outside the glass wall, Xiaotang gushed about her latest masterpiece: "I still can't understand how the gaseous planets where they are located evolved such intelligent life, which requires a series of very harsh and accidental conditions. Analyzing their genes, it can be seen that the environment in which they evolved intelligence is very different from the current living environment, and how they are converted between them is also a mystery. ”

"What's even more amazing is that they rely on ultraviolet rays, methane and other substances to synthesize protein and water, and the body is a small furnace for the origin of life. They also use air sacs to absorb certain rock grains and convert them into villi on the body's surface. Villi is actually a polymer conductive fiber that conducts weak electrical signals with each other, which is another sense, and at the same time another way of communication. ”

Professor Xu's suggestion made Xiaotang's thinking suddenly brighten, and she successfully created the Matterball embryo through the cloning project of Matt Ball Life, and then let the embryo give birth to a new Matterball Life through the natural reproduction method of Matt Ball Life. Judging by the naming, she failed only 18 times......

The reproductive mode of Matt ball life is very unique, they are usually asexual, and when it is time to reproduce, they will pair up in pairs to evolve male and female reproductive organs respectively, and the male enters the reproductive organs in the female through the "first feather" to create a fertilized egg. After a female gives birth to her offspring, her reproductive organs degenerate and she returns to her asexual state.

This direction is very similar to the "human liberation" pursued by some perverts on the earth, is this the inevitable direction of the evolution of higher intelligent life?

Xia Ming, who is considered to be the most evolved individual in human beings, felt that he couldn't accept it after thinking about this direction quite worriedly, so he had to change his thinking.

He asked Xiaotang: "This guy who is only 42 days old is already equivalent to five or six years old in human beings?" Isn't it short-lived? ”

"Its growth curve is different from that of humans, it only takes about three months to grow to maturity, and then it is the development process of the brain, but it is ......."

Xiaotang sighed: "Compared with people, it is still very short-lived, the theoretical life limit should be about fifty years, but in fact it should not exceed thirty years." ”

"It's almost the same as a dog", Xia Ming expressed a very casual emotion, and then asked: "How big will it grow in the end?" Is it the same as the ganglia of Matt's Ball bioplanets? ”

"Tang 19 is just difficult to communicate with us, it's not a cat or a dog, and after a while, people may still despise a low-level intelligent life like you."

As if he was defending his own child, Xiaotang also damaged Xia Ming and himself, and then replied: "I estimate that the largest size is one lap larger than now, even if it is inhaled, it is only ...... Let's be the size of a face plate. ”

This body size is much smaller than the ganglia, which are mutants after all.

Xia Ming asked again: "It is cultivated by cloning a fertilized egg, do you still remember the language of your own race, or the worldview of your own race in your head?" ”

"Like people, some of the most basic mother tongues will not be forgotten, and the high-level language is also based on this, and we are creating an analog language, hoping that after it is learned, it can effectively communicate with us human beings, as for the world view, ......"

Xiaotang shook his head: "The environment in which the ontological body lives is completely different from that of humans, and the difference in worldview between them is like a bird in the sky and a fish in the water. ”

"Does that ensure that they'll be obedient to humans? There are some coercive measures to be implanted, and you should understand what we are trying to resurrect this race of life. ”

In a calm tone, Xia Ming revealed the cruel truth of the eternal enslavement of an extraterrestrial civilization that was equal to human beings and even surpassed human beings intellectually.

"It's no longer the original Matt ball life, it's a creation of our human beings. Although they have inherited the elements of primitive thinking, language, and world view, after all, we have cultivated and raised them, and they will only grow and live according to the positioning of human society. I think that obedience and attachment to human beings should be the meaning of their existence. ”

Xiaotang didn't have that kind of thinking of the Virgin, so he said on a case-by-case basis: "You have also tried to find out that although their brain structure is more advanced than that of humans, and their intelligence is higher than that of humans, their consciousness activity is much worse than that of humans. Coupled with the fact that the process of creating cloned fertilized eggs was smooth and did not produce unpredictable mutations like humans, we suspect that the Matt Ball life was originally artificial life, and that some more advanced civilization created them for a specific purpose. ”

Xia Ming was still not at ease: "Let's observe first, but even if you don't doubt the meaning of your survival when you become an adult, and don't resist your relationship with humans, you have to set up thinking shackles, just in case, I have asked Qianyan to make technical preparations in this regard." ”

"I understand, I will focus on monitoring in this regard, and the next step will be to install a neural interface on it, so that it can communicate effectively", Xiaotang looked at Tang 19 in the glass wall, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm not sure, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing that we have reborn this race." ”

Xia Ming said calmly: "We need hundreds of millions of soldiers with advanced thinking and strong intelligence, who can be consumed at will like drones. ”

The information on the glass wall kept changing, and it was soon 82 days. On this day, the room was empty, and a mechanical ball larger than a basin and about half a meter in diameter floated behind Xiaotang, attracting the attention of scientists in the research center.

The ball occasionally pops out of the slender mechanical gimbal arm, and the end of the arm clicks on the bulkhead to push the ball to keep up with Xiaotang. As it rolls, a circle of light in the center flashes with different colored dots of light, as well as ticking electronic sounds, almost the same as those robots in Star Wars.

"No, they're not your fathers, and I'll be angry if you say that to me."

"I only created you, not your biological mother,19 note the difference. I allow you to call me Mother, just as a cultural connection, not for you to confuse the distinction physically. ”

"It's okay, I'm just explaining, I'm not really angry."

"You are different from us, you come from another race of life that has died out, and we created you in the hope that you and your fellow people who will continue to be born in the future will fight with us."

"You will die, you are right, life always exists for a purpose, your purpose is very clear, but we humans are different, we are always looking for the meaning of our existence."

"Have you finished reading In Search of the Meaning of Life? You feel like the kind of ...... Frankl wrote about in the book. Prisoners seeking freedom of will in prison? ”

"What, do you mean us? We humans are criminals like this? It's funny, don't you have the slightest doubt about the meaning of your life? ”

"It's not appropriate to use the analogy of god worship, because in human culture, gods are ultimately meant to be defeated. It seems that you still need to read a few more books to find a more appropriate formulation. ”

Xiaotang floated all the way, talking all the way, she was not talking to herself, every time she spoke, the light band of the ball flickered for a while, accompanied by the electronic sound of beeping and beeping, making scientists feel that the painting style of the research center had suddenly advanced for hundreds of years.

"Oh my God! You really made it! What's it called? Oh, Don 19, can it talk to me? ”

Xiaotang floated all the way to Liluo's laboratory, and looking at the ball, Liluo's eyes were as round as it.

The mechanical ball muttered and flashed for a while, and Xiaotang said: "It hasn't been connected to the network yet, otherwise it can talk to you directly, and the quasi-insurance will scare you at that time." Now it's saying, you look a little lower than me, and it's asking me what to call you. ”

"Inferior ......"

Liluo's forehead was bruised: "This uneducated bad boy! ”

Xiaotang smiled provocatively: "If you have the ability, you can also give birth...... Oh no, make one. ”

"Don't say that this Tang 19 has Xia's genes", Liluo's return was very sharp, Xiaotang was speechless, and then turned to Yuanqiu and said, "No, it's not time yet, I hope you grow up more perfectly, and I'll see you later...... God in God, He has great expectations of you. ”

The ball ticked for a while, and just by looking at the flickering of light, it was nervous and excited.

"Can I really make it?" Liluo looked at Xiaotang's interaction with Yuanqiu and asked with some envy.

Xiaotang nodded: "Well, I hope that all biologists, and even all of them, will join this plan and use the will of Pei to cultivate a new Matt life, so that they can form a complete vassal society in the future." ”

Lillo was excited: "Great! It's so much fun, it's like raising an elf! Where is the information? I'll get started! ”

Xiaotang glanced at her, and then said, "Don't worry, this ...... Although God is a bit crazy, she is still very serious in her attitude towards life, and the kind she has created should only be a little more lively than you. ”

After speaking, she said with some distress: "Am I really such a boring person?" Even you're like an iron ball, okay, don't talk to me about Nietzsche anymore! ”

Xiaotang took the ball Tang 19 to the station rail car, all the way to the legion anchorage base of the Star Alliance Space Army, and entered the battleship simulation training center in the face of the curious eyes of many space officers and soldiers.

"What model of autonomic robot is this?"

Su Yu was supervising the training of the recruits in the training center, and she was also very curious when she saw the mechanical ball next to Xiaotang.

"Spacesuits? Inside is a ...... Matt ball? Oh my God, it's saluting me, isn't it? ”

Su Yuzheng muttered, and the ball tilted towards her forty-five degrees, and the light band flickered softly, making a low and solemn ticking sound.

Xiaotang nodded: "Well, yes, it can understand human language, in fact, their high-level thinking is carried out in Chinese, but it is mixed with some native languages of the Matt ball protos." ”

She looked at Tang 19 with a look of high hope: "I'll let it try it and see if it has any talent in combat." ”

Tang Shijiu turned around sideways, making a ticking sound similar to a complaint, Xiaotang smiled and nodded: "Yes, yes, anyway, for you, it's all a thinking problem, you just need to use your brain to solve it." ”

She said to the stunned Su Yu: "Arrange a simulator for it, don't worry about the rest, it has a neural interface, it will connect by itself, start with the lowest difficulty......"

Tang 19 let out a short howl, and Xiaotang frowned and said, "You want to fly before you run?" Defeat the computer first, and then talk to God...... No, the real person against the thing. ”

Tang 19's light band turned into a vertical axis, and the long electronic sound from high to low could be heard by anyone.

Matt Bioplanet, a space station about the size of a scientific research station hangs over the joint research station, and several warships are suspended from several cantilever arms stretched out.

This is an outpost set up by the Star Alliance Space Force at the scientific research station, for warships cruising to the scientific research station to moor.

On a Morning Star assault ship, the crew asked their superiors, "Captain, is that news true?" New Matt Ball defeated five squadron leaders!? ”

Another crew member said disapprovingly: "Executive Committee Tang personally brought it over for testing, maybe Commander Su deliberately released the water." ”

Natsume Zigui was holding his arms to recuperate, this topic made him interested, he changed to a more comfortable posture and then said: "How dare Captain Su play tricks in front of the Tang Executive Committee, you don't know yet, even Qiu Guan in the fifth star of the sowing ship is just barely tied with it." ”

The two subordinates took a breath, although Qiu Guan did not have a good record in the five consecutive stars of the sowing ship, but he was also the existence of lv3, and he had never played a clone mat ball that was less than three months old?

"Don't worry about our jobs being robbed by the new Matt ball, I'll reveal some inside information to you", Natsume Zigui has now been transferred to the first battle group, commanding the most elite team in the war group, and the news is naturally much better-informed.

"The brain of the new Matt ball is more advanced than our humans, and its ability to think logically, spatial imagination and other advanced thinking is very powerful, which is most suitable for cooperating with silicon-based intelligence, and can even replace computers when necessary. You should understand why the new Matt ball was made above, right? ”

Natsume's words made his subordinates suddenly, why else? Isn't it just to guard against the possibility that the enemy may have a weapon like Dai Shibo? In the previous exercises, they had all seen with their own eyes that they had just developed the Dai wave weapon to paralyze nearly 1,000 drones of Younas in a few minutes, and I heard that the commanders of Younas at that time had green faces that could produce photosynthesis.

Now that humans have been able to crack the drone sea tactics, don't expect your opponent to not crack them, or that their drone sea will be hit. In the case that silicon-based intelligence is no longer reliable, on the one hand, it will study how to prevent and resist the Dai's wave, and on the other hand, it is logical to hit the idea on carbon-based intelligence.

Although the total number of human beings is more than 7 billion, relying on people to play the tactics of the sea of drones is not only costly, but also cannot afford the consumption of the tactics of the sea of drones.

Cloning the life of the Matterball and integrating it into human society as a vassal is naturally the best choice. Although for this new life, it is cannon fodder that has been enslaved and consumed, but after all, they were created by human beings, and whether there is an ethical problem or not is not something that the Star Federation or even the military will consider.

The subordinates were still a little uneasy: "So, they still want to replace us?" ”

"They still can't replace us, at most, let them fly smaller drones like Younas alone, battleship-level weapons, completely hand over to them, it's definitely not safe."

Natsume Zigui said: "The above means that in order to cope with large-scale and protracted wars in the future, in addition to the mothership will use the new Matt ball man to pilot the fighters, the number of crew members of the battleship will also be reduced. The current crew of three will be replaced by a combination of a new Matt ball and a human. ”

"Is the time of the Eggmen finally coming?"

"No, it's the egg man who adds another egg."

The subordinates were spitting out their thoughts in a complicated way, and Natsume Zigui was also in reverie. If this is the case, future warships, at least small ones, will be a lonely world alone. The more advanced human science and technology become, the farther away from each other become, and this trend seems to contain some great truth.

"Actually, that's not bad, having a partner like an elf, who will follow you into battle until the death, should be much happier than getting along with people who are always guessing and wary of each other. Uh, I'm not saying we're ......"

"That's not an elf, that's an egg, just like a human, with thinking, emotions and three views, and the intelligence is higher than yours! I think this direction is dangerous, will there be a thing in the future that 'even if the body type is different, as long as there is true love'? ”

The subordinates were still chatting, and Natsume Zigui was thinking that although what he wanted was a ship girl, it was not unacceptable to start with meat and eggs, and he might have to seriously consider the adoption invitation sent by the Biological Research Center of the Academy of Sciences.

was wandering, the battleship suddenly shook, except for the optical detector, the other detectors frantically called the alarm.

"What's wrong, what's wrong!?"

"Has Planet Matt come to life? Is it anger that its fellow citizens or its people have embarked on the path of human enslavement? ”

The subordinates were still farting, and Natsume Zigui swept the data sent by Pei, and almost jumped: "The space is distorted!" There are black holes! (To be continued.) )