Chapter 56: Recovery
The sanctuary of the bacteria race, the large-scale space-time acceleration device that Konstantin called a large space-time acceleration device made by alien intelligence, is actually a microwave oven.
Although Wu Ming had been mentally prepared, it still took several seconds to accept this fact.
It was an old gray household microwave oven, but its users didn't care much about it, the top of the microwave oven shell was full of clumpy stains and rust, the top of the operation panel next to the microwave oven door was a small digital screen, and I don't know why there was an old Nokia mobile phone embedded in the place below, Wu Ming could vaguely see that there were wires connected from the gap between the Nokia mobile phone and the microwave oven shell, At the bottom is a knob to adjust the time and fire, and a few buttons that no longer know where they have fallen, leaving only the groove of the hole.
Wu Ming looked at this microwave oven with a strange shape and looked almost no different from a waste product, and his eyelids twitched: "Is this a telephone oven (tentative)?" ”
If it weren't for the metal ball's repeated confirmation that this was the holy place of their bacterial clan, and the shape of this microwave oven was really imaginative, Wu Ming would probably think of this thing as a discarded household appliance that was about to be sold to a scrap recycling station.
A thing that looks like a discarded household appliance is actually an abnormal object that can produce extraordinary effects, Wu Ming feels that if this continues, sooner or later he and the world will go crazy.
"No movement......" Wu Ming climbed through the window and reached out to open the door of the microwave oven, carefully checking the situation inside, unlike the dirty and dilapidated shell of the microwave oven, the inside of the microwave oven was cleaned very clean, giving people the feeling that it was even a little too clean: "Even the tray placed inside is as clean as new, are you bacteria still responsible for the environmental sanitation in the microwave oven?" ”
The eye-like device in the center of the metal ball swept out a scanning light, and after carefully scanning the inside of the microwave oven, the elegant and easy-going voice came faintly: "Don't look at it, there are no microorganisms and my kindreds in the holy land now, and the interior has been completely cleaned, not only my kindred, but even all the traces of civilization of our clan in the holy land's cities, civilization wonders, large-scale physical experiment sites, launch sites, and large-scale defense systems have also been cleaned up and eliminated......"
The inside of the microwave oven is as clean as if there has never been a bacterial civilization.
What the hell just happened here? Who cleaned up the traces of germs and civilization that inhabited the Holy Land? What was his purpose in doing this? Is he still around? Was the other side so strong that the administrative center of the United Kingdom could not send a distress signal, or was there some other reason why the United Kingdom was unable to broadcast a distress call to all the colonies and expeditions in the outside world?
A large number of doubts swirled in the minds of several people (bacteria).
Konstantin, who was tightly held in his hand by Wu Ming, snorted a little gloatingly: "It seems that those old diehards have been preempted by the masterminds behind the scenes before they have time to start the escape plan. ”
Not only him, but even the high-level leaders of the United Kingdom who know the truth suspect that there is a driving force behind the emergence and development of bacterial civilization, a person who silently observes them behind the scenes, and quietly promotes the sustainable development of their civilization and technology.
From the very beginning, Wu Ming was very strange when he heard the origin of the bacterial family, even if it has the rapid development effect brought about by time acceleration, which can make the bacterial family span millions of years, or even tens of millions of years in a short period of time, the final evolution should be another group of advanced intelligent organisms with complex life structure and large enough brain capacity, rather than bacteria, which are microorganisms with relatively simple life structures.
In fact, the fact that the organisms that evolved with advanced intelligence in the end were a group of microorganisms with simple life structures is enough to explain a big problem.
The life structure of normal bacteria is not enough to support their evolution of higher intelligence, because their brains are ...... Well, these microbes don't have brains at all! If the brain volume is ...... Even brains can't evolve, and even if they are given hundreds of millions of years, these bacteria may not be able to evolve into microorganisms with advanced intelligence.
So there is only one possibility, the bacteria from the period of ignorance and some kind of external human interference, so that they can produce self-awareness and thinking ability even if they do not evolve a sufficiently developed brain, and then under the influence of time acceleration, they learn to cooperate with their companions to hunt, learn to use and make tools, and even learn to pass on experience and skills through communication, the initial gathering place is established, these bacteria begin to move from the wilderness to civilization, and then enjoy such things as grabbing the wonders of civilization......
Ahem, far from the point of view of biology and normal evolution, bacteria themselves do not have all the necessary hardware to evolve higher intelligence, but they do now have wisdom, and even have a whole day thinking about how to have some fun and scourge the world to kill bacteria. The degree of this Arabian Nights can basically be compared to someone telling you that he used IBM5100 to play Monster Hunter World and have a fight.
Your first instinct must be to think that the other person is talking nonsense.
But no matter whether the person who exterminated the bacteria in the Holy Land was the one behind the development of the bacterial civilization, or the other housewife alchemists who passed by, he did not leave any traces worth tracking, and after the metal ball turned around the house three or four times without finding any clues, he finally had to accept the fact that all the high-level leaders of the United Kingdom's administrative center, a large number of compatriots, high-end technicians, and scientific researchers had mysteriously disappeared.
"The kingdom will definitely fall into chaos and division for a while......" The voice from the metal ball was a little worried, and the germs of the medical group did not have time to bask in panic and disbelief: "The huge power vacuum caused by the disappearance of all administrative leaders above the colonies cannot guarantee that there will be no infighting between the major colonies for control of the entire United Kingdom...... Moreover, after losing all kinds of technical and material support from the Holy Land, some newly established colonies will even fall into an even more difficult state than before. ”
The days ahead in the United Kingdom will be very grim, in order to avoid the coming chaos and division more quickly, the United Kingdom medical team discussed the next related matters with Wu Ming, and left in a hurry on the Death Star. And Wu Ming, after going through twists and turns, finally recovered the goal of this urgent mission.