Chapter Twenty-Seven: Vikz's Attention
Blue Feather is a native of frogs, which has been mentioned in several biology lectures on Paradise Island. After many years, he still remembers it vividly.
A frog's eyes cannot see (or cannot see clearly) anything still. Its eyes are completely different from the eyes of humans, cats and dogs, and they are dedicated to looking at moving objects. Static vision is extremely poor and dynamic vision is extremely strong.
Moths and flies that do not move are unresponsive in the eyes of frogs, but as soon as the insect moves, the frog will immediately detect it. Some zoologists once joked that frogs would starve to death if they sat in a pile of dead flies.
The frog's eye also has a special ability, it has four layers of nerve cells, the first of which responds to the contrast of moving targets; The second layer extracts the convex edge of the target; The third layer only sees the perimeter of the target; The fourth layer is only concerned with the light and dark changes of the target's dark leading edge. These four layers of features act as if they were four filters, filtering out the image that the frog wants in milliseconds.
It can instantly identify its favorite flies among the various shapes of flying critters, while the background of the flying critters is not responsive to the frog's eyes. In other words, a zoom camera with a frog's eye is like a long lens, and it can take a picture of everything in front of the lens without missing a beat, and only see the things that are useful to it.
The Void has the ability to devour living beings, transforming them into slaves. As a frog recently, the Void Toad must have possessed similar abilities.
This would explain why they were spotted by the toad, who was caught by the animal's dynamic vision as they moved quickly along the river.
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At this moment, the Void is summoned to the Great Pit.
At the entrance of the cave stood a huge necrotic stone, from which shards of stone splintered continuously, like a sinister judge, and it was daunting.
If the Netherworld really existed in the Runeterra, the Void Cavern was the closest thing to it.
In a rocky cavern underground, all sorts of strange rocks were piled up by void creatures, twisting and turning, and eerie, forming a crude pool. The pool flowed with a disturbingly strange liquid - colloidal void energy wriggled in it like cerebrospinal fluid, formless and substanceless void energy was liquefied, all to supply the energy consumption of a powerful void creature.
Vikz, the Eye of the Void.
At this moment, it is serving as the Supreme Commander of the Void in the Runeterra, directing the Void Swarm to attack the defenses of Shurima's army at the bottom of the Acacia Peninsula. Commanding the endless sea of void worms makes its brain run at a super high capacity, consuming a lot of energy!
The brain is the most energy-hungry "expensive" organ in the body, yet it accounts for only 2% of the body's body weight. However, the energy consumed accounts for 20% of the total consumption of the body. If the cells of the whole body are replaced with brain cells, the energy consumption of living organisms will increase tenfold.
All this energy consumption is only the energy required to maintain the normal functioning of the brain. During intense physical work, the brain can get tired at a rapid rate – if you don't believe it, try a math paper.
Vikz's brain is beyond the comprehension of humans, and as a void creature, its brain takes up most of its body's weight. This can be seen by looking at its body structure, the massive octopus body has long tentacles, each of which has incredibly thick giant nerve cords, in order to send the information analyzed by the disintegration rays to its brain for analysis.
What the Void Eye is doing is acting as a data center and supercomputer for the Void.
A data center is a network of devices that collaborate globally to transmit, accelerate, display, compute, and store data and information on the Internet network infrastructure.
The Void Eyes are the core consciousness of the Void Swarm, which is used to transmit, accelerate, display, calculate, analyze, and store data information on the Swarm network. Many people are unaware of this, and scholars believe that the Void Eyes are living computers used by the Void to analyze and store information, because the Void War is too long ago.
The battle on the front line was not carried out on a large scale, but in Vikz's mind alone, there were the shadows of more than a million Void creatures, the compound eyes of more than three million Void creatures, and more than eight million limbs! These void monsters have their mouths wide open, and Vikz can feel their primordial madness, their mad hatred of life.
Fragments of memories of the frenzied void creatures poured in, and the compound eyes of a million void creatures turned a million images into tens of billions of images, they were the smell of blood in the air, the soldiers hiding in the fortifications, the ascended ones who stood on the front line and led the soldiers. With the help of the channel of the swarm consciousness, these pictures flowed into the giant pit of the void like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, and injected into Vikz's sub-brain!
Viktz's brain is divided into two parts, one is the auxiliary brain used to process a large amount of repetitive data and store memories, and the second part is the main brain used to analyze, research, and think. It's a lot like a combination of a genius brain and a supercomputer. Thankfully, the assistant brain with amazing computing power can't be used to think.
Vikz's 140 trillion brain cells are functioning - a hundred times the brains of ordinary people. A flood of ions flows between synapses, and currents are stirred between neurons............ The cerebrospinal fluid-like void energy in the pool seemed to be boiling, and it was slowly sucked into Vikz's tentacles, and it was transported into the auxiliary brain one by one. It looks like he's replenishing the burned brains.
The Vice-Brains relentlessly sorts through the data, storing valuable information about enemy dynamics, environmental information, and the abilities of the Ascendant, while filtering out the mania of the lower Void creatures. Then the more valuable information is filtered layer by layer, and only the most valuable information is seen by the mastermind.
A void creature from a toad catches Vikz's attention, and the subbrain retrieves the target Vikz is looking for according to the mastermind's command, awakening the resting mastermind.
Vikz is awake from hibernation!
It floated from the pool, viscous liquid void energy leaving behind its waxy skin, keeping Vikz from a trace of water.
Unsurprisingly, the humans who fled when the Void erupted had returned to the bosom of the Void, and Vikz had been patiently waiting—the plan had been waiting for millennia.
Vikz thought: Is this what humans call surprises?
A new knowledge: human beings are surprised when they encounter unexpected events that are beneficial to themselves.