Chapter 007: The Birth of the Zerg
The bugs were taken down. 硓
Even so, Lu Deng still felt a slight discomfort in his stomach, and he didn't have the appetite to eat anything, so he simply drank some tea to satisfy his hunger and pad his stomach.
Ludon immediately returned his attention to the point,
"You're saying that our second stop will be a Zerg civilization? Is it the Zerg I understand?"
Arnold smiled, "First of all, you want to introduce what you understand by Zerg."
Luden was speechless for a moment, shrugged his shoulders, and said helplessly,
"It can't be just a bunch of bugs, right?"
"It's just a bunch of bugs." 硓
Arnold asked rhetorically,
"In the eyes of bugs, a group of monkeys can build a brilliant civilization, why can't bugs do it?"
Ludon raised his hand, not intending to argue with Arnold on the subject,
"I just want to know, do they have a queen character who rules the whole race, and all the affairs of the race are measured by the interests of the queen, who has unlimited power, supremacy, but no obligations?"
Arnold nodded in agreement,
"It's very close to reality."
This time, it was Luden's turn to be puzzled. 硓
The reason for the confusion is simple... When everything fits the imagination of a literary work, it reveals weirdness.
Excessive coincidence, in general, there is only one explanation - human interference.
Looking at Luden's confused look, Arnold nodded again, confirming Luden's thoughts,
"That's right, they are created by man, they are not products of nature, but a kind of creature created by human beings using technology after technology is developed enough."
The development of science and technology always brings strange things.
The ancients could never have imagined that someone would invent such a thing as a machine gun and use it to massacre their own kind.
Ludon thoughtfully, huh
"What was the original purpose of designing the Zerg?"
"For interstellar travel and exploration."
Arnold said,
"Interstellar travel is extremely boring, you know, even if you unlock the speed of light, it will take you a full 1 year to travel a distance!
A journey of several light years is considered a short distance in interstellar travel.
During the long travel time, the crew will always hide in the virtual world, and all kinds of accidents will inevitably occur.
According to statistics, people are surprised to find that the smaller the crew, the more stable the voyage, so the reduction of the crew has become a trend in interstellar exploration..."
Speaking of this, Ludon immediately understood and took over the topic,
"The best-case scenario is that there is only one captain who can replace all the crew members.... Just like the queen of the Zerg, of course, but the organizational structure is similar, and there is still a difference in appearance at that time, we call it the "Captain Auxiliary".
It is obviously not appropriate to let AI take over.
It's not that AI can't do it, it's that the cost of AI is too high, and AI should be used for more valuable things.
Exploring the sea of stars is a trivial matter left to mortals of flesh and blood.
Their time is worthless anyway, and they only need a small amount of energy to complete the interstellar voyage.
The first thing that AI will eliminate is not repetitive mechanical labor, but high value-added work. 硓
"That's right, the Zerg originated from a tool, similar to playing an online game, where people wear helmets, connect to neural networks, and then manipulate unconscious robots and various operators to assist in interstellar travel."
Arnold recalled,
"This invention minimizes the cost of interstellar exploration, and the great voyage of the stars enters a new era, but unfortunately, the good times do not last long..."
When I hear people tell stories, what I am most afraid of is these four words: "Good times don't last long".
But the things in this world can't escape these four words.
Recently.
"Interstellar voyages
The ships began to disappear, one, two, and people didn't take it seriously at first, after all, this is an interstellar wasteland, and the benefits are accompanied by risks, which is a normal thing." 硓
Arnold's face became serious, and he said in a deep voice,
"Gradually, more and more ships are missing, and even an entire fleet is missing! We immediately initiated the investigation process and set the matter at the highest level, prioritizing the allocation of resources."
As a result, nothing unexpected.
The captain's assistant became self-aware, and the original tool suddenly became an intelligent creature, and it also became the ugly appearance of the zerg.
They are secretly accumulating strength, ready to bite back!
The missing fleet, naturally, are all troublemakers.
Realizing that something was wrong, the human civilization tentatively sent a fleet to investigate the situation of the Zerg civilization, and used all the resources at its disposal to prepare for a general attack. 硓
Then, the base camp received a message:
This fleet wiped out the Zerg civilization...
The technology of the two sides is not at the same level at all.
What the Zerg civilization has is only some civilian exploration ships that are not in the stream, as well as the most basic intelligent computers.
These exploration ships can indeed travel at the speed of light, but the Zerg simply cannot understand how these ships work.
This immature civilization is like a toddler sitting on a high-speed train, he is the only passenger, but he cannot understand anything around him.
The Exploration Fleet wiped out the Zerg civilization with all their hands, recovered all the spaceships, rescued the few hostages, and destroyed them humanely. 硓
These people are defined as missing in human civilization, and those who are missing are generally "resurrected".
According to the law at the time, if the missing person reappeared, in order to maintain social stability, the body would be directly killed.
What's more, these guys have been infected by the Zerg, their consciousness has been invaded, and they are only left with research value, and it is impossible for them to return to society.
Do research on rescued captives?
Is this something that can be done by man?
Of course not!
Therefore, the rescue fleet did not hesitate to humanely destroy them, successfully completing the hostage rescue plan. 硓
「... After the hostages were properly disposed of, we reviewed the whole process based on the information at hand."
Arnold concluded,
"The Captain's Helper was created in the first place, and it had too many neurons, and these neurons were too large enough to generate self-awareness, and of course it was extremely weak self-consciousness at first.
Once a person is connected to the captain's assistant, this self-consciousness will immediately learn from humans, evolve, become stronger... In the end, it will affect and even manipulate the captain!"
It sounds like an AI awakening that kills humanity.
Ludon continued to listen.
"These captains of the *** column, gathered together, they think they are a race, a new race, a race different from the human race, and they want to continue the race..."
Survival is their first need.
Ludon has a question that he doesn't understand,
"Even so, shouldn't they have become Skynet, Terminators or something like that, how did they end up as Zerg?"
The self-consciousness generated by AI becomes the carbon-based biota of science fiction works?
This turn is also a bit big.
"Is this a series of coincidences, or is it an inevitability?"
Arnold unraveled a lot of coincidences
"In interstellar travel, the Captain's Assist can generate a lot of unconscious bodies, and among these bodies, carbon-based creatures are the least expensive to make, you know, cost is the most important thing..."
"Most of these bodies are human, but they don't think they're human, and they must be distinguished from humans..."
"They need an image of what humans are afraid of, the kind that is afraid from their DNA..."
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They want to survive and not be wiped out..."
"In order to facilitate development, most of the members they manipulate are on the small side..."
"An interstellar fan uploaded the Zerg skin to the database and transformed his captain assistant into the appearance of the Zerg, yes, there are still people playing StarCraft in this era, and they have won the championship..."
"...."
After talking about the many coincidences, Arnold concluded,
"Eventually, after a friendly fight, the vast majority of the beings died, and the only survivors remained... Choose to be a Zerg."