Chapter 365: The Problem of Knowledge
"Excavators to the north...... Crashed? ”
…… The news of the destruction of the Void Ship on the North Continent spread throughout the continent at this moment, and all the Void Folk on the continent received the news.
Although it is necessary to transmit information to the headquarters in the far void, it is very simple to transmit information to other fleets on the mainland, in fact, they have always kept in touch, but the captain has turned off their contact for some unknown reason.
Until the moment of the final crash, a certain virtual citizen sent all the messages, and the fleets on other continents received this message.
And now, the news has sparked a heated discussion......
The dinosaur continent that Lin was concerned about, and the same was true of the virtual people in those aircraft, as if each stereoscopic video playback device was constantly repeating the images transmitted from a distance, showing images of the Inca swarm attacking the hull of the ship, and even the image of them dragging the entire ship to the ground.
"There are animals like this in this place...... Why didn't you find it in the beginning? ”
"They're no ordinary animals! These creatures are perfectly coordinated, they are called 'super-unified groups', and hundreds of years ago, experts have explained the evolutionary possibilities of these creatures! ”
The pompoms that have infiltrated the ship are in a room, listening to the imaginary people who manage the ship stand in front of the repetitive images and discuss.
Lynn discovers that they have indeed never encountered a division of labor species, and that the previous captain was the same, and that the biological knowledge in his head did not include division of labor creatures.
However, there seem to be similar creatures in their distant 'homeland'. But that's probably a more primitive form like ants. The captain hasn't seen it either. Because it has lived on the ship since birth.
Voids use a unit of time that is similar to 'year', and Lynn automatically converts it into a familiar year.
"For example, the great biologist 'Boufalcharus' once said that this organism has a tight structure, and their whole group is like a huge creature, and in the general evolutionary environment, the probability of the emergence of a 'super-unified group' is very low, after the first primitive species were created. It may take hundreds of millions of years for them to evolve into more advanced forms, but once they do, they will be unstoppable! ”
A Void Citizen who had been called a 'Scholar' by the Captain was talking about what he knew, while another Void Citizen next to the Scholar said, "You mean that this creature evolved from something like 'Boboro'?" ”
"Not bad." "This creature is very difficult to deal with, and there are many of them......"
"So what?" The virtual man said with some inappropriateness: "Throw a Type 78 bomb into their group, and everything will be solved, but the ships of the northern excavation team are not equipped with that kind of bomb, and there is an order on it to prohibit random firing, so it will be destroyed." ”
"You haven't watched the footage they've sent back, have you?" "They're just like you and don't take these creatures seriously," the scholar said. ”
"Anyway, do you have a solution?" A third voice of the Void Folk joined in. He is the captain of the fleet on the Dinosaur Continent side, and is called 'Nemo'.
"I've sent a request to the top." The captain said, "Reinforcements should arrive soon." ”
"Blowing up everywhere will only cause senseless damage. There's no way to kill all of these creatures, and maybe they'll evolve stronger, Captain. The scholar said: "I recommend 'Operation Decapitation'. ”
"Decapitation?" The captain asked, "Do they have a leader or something?" ”
"Yes." The scholar said: "According to the prediction of great scientists, there will be a special individual in this 'super-unified group', if the general individual symbolizes the hands and feet of the minions, then this special individual symbolizes the brain, just solve it, just like the primitive creatures on our cue ball also have this kind of dominant individual." ”
"It may command the population through some kind of signal or pheromone, and we can find the location of the brain based on this......"
"Seems like a good idea." The captain said, "Let's do it." ”
…… Lin listened to their discussion from the side, and felt that this group of creatures seemed to be very 'backward', and she didn't even know that the division of labor species was divided into cerebral and non-cerebral systems. Speaking of ants, it is very obvious that they are brainless.
Although the anencephaly system does not have the weakness of the brain, it will reduce intelligence and judgment in the case of large-scale loss of the colony, and some ants will keep circling the ground until they die when they are too far away from the colony to be contacted, and they cannot even tell that they are following the pheromones they left behind when they are scarce.
However, when the colony is large, their intelligence will increase, and they will quickly be able to judge their surroundings and react.
That is to say, the brainless Inca swarm is the most afraid of large-scale bombing damage, but it is not afraid of any 'decapitation' at all.
They've completely reversed the strategy.
Thinking about it, Lin began to pay attention to the pompoms outside, under the crystallized giant ship, the excavation of the Void People continued, they had already built many hemispherical buildings here, but this time the Void People placed some special buildings on the ground.
This kind of building looks like a spire, more than ten meters high, because it is too big, they are all carried by such huge virtual people.
These 'large virtual people' should be called 'virtual people' mechas, they come in a variety of forms, but they are usually about seven meters in shape, and they look almost exactly like the virtual people wearing armor, but they are relatively large.
Inside, too, the virtual people are controlled, but they basically move with six limbs instead of four.
The mechs placed the spire in the center of the excavation site, and a group of virtual people below set up a stereoscopic imaging device underneath and began to debug it.
"In contact......
It seems that they have to go through this troublesome step to send information to the headquarters in the void because they are too far away?
And it seems that their ships can also send it directly, so why go out of here?
"Contacted." The debugging virtual people said: "The message has been sent, waiting for a reply......
Near the debugger, a group of virtual citizens were also looking at the image, all of them looking nervously waiting for the news to arrive.
'Beep! ’
Suddenly, a reply message appeared in the image.
"All the excavators, continuing their excavation activities, have sent reinforcements and started to implement the dangerous clearance program."
At the same time, in the void, Lynn's orbiters were able to see a large number of flying machines flying out of the distant Void Folk base...... (To be continued......)