"What's your name?"

"Name? Is it that every one of you humans has that kind of name, I don't, our tribe doesn't have such a thing. ”

"And how do you rely on each member of the group?"

"Genes, of course!"

"We were born from genes, and we will eventually return to the embrace of genes, only genes are unique and eternal!"

……

In the school field, the cold wind was cold, and the words of the red vest prawn, just like the cold wind whistling by, swept through Shen Sen's heart over and over again.

He watched the scene of hundreds of people in the camp being trained in full swing, but what he was thinking about was the conversation with the prawns.

The prawns have no name, which is an unexpected but reasonable answer to a question that Shen Sen first received.

In the movie, the white protagonist named Vikus used to call the red vest Christopher, but Shen Sen didn't care about it at that time, thinking that aliens also had the same way of naming as Westerners.

But when he thinks about it, at that time, he didn't see the two introduce themselves, and before the protagonist first called the prawn Chris, there was a half-time when the two communicated in the way of you and me.

Now it seems that the name of the prawn may have been given by the protagonist for the convenience of being called.

But none of this matters, and this answer is at best only a trivial tip of the veil of prawn civilization.

It took two hours, and in the process, he tried his best to use his psychic broadcasting ability, but the end result was not much different from what he had tried on the prawn pet.

Compared to the little pet, the brain of this alien prawn is more closely guarded.

The encryption from the genetic level had penetrated deep into their minds, and Shen Sen's spiritual energy could not effectively penetrate the dense "firewall" in a short period of time, and have a great impact on it, let alone control them.

But thanks to psionic communication, Shen Sen can ignore language and matter, and communicate with Prawn in the deepest way at the level of brain thinking.

The invisible communication was conducive to resolving the problem, and it also made the alien guest let down a trace of his guard under the invisible effect of psionic energy, and finally developed a little trust in Shen Sen.

And because of this breakthrough, Shen Sen finally got some incredible information from the mouth of the red vest.

One of the most important of these, or just a noun, is genes!

Just as when Shen Sen asked for the name of the red vest, the prawn told Shen Sen's answer.

Their race and civilization were born in genes, and they are strong because of genes, and their genes also determine that most people among the races are only one of the thinking parts.

In a way, the social structure of prawns is similar but not identical to that of ant colonies on Earth.

They have a similar social division of labor, just as the ant colony has the queen ant who is responsible for reproduction, the soldier ant who guards it, and the worker ant who works hard and is responsible for the means of production.

The same is true for the social structure of the prawn population.

But this is only the similarity, and the others are very different.

Among the prawn group, the highest status is indeed the existence called the queen of the group, but she is not like the queen ant, just a simple breeding tool, but the supreme ruler and far-sighted wise man in their civilization.

With a lifespan of thousands of years, comparable to the supercomputing biological brain, in tens of thousands of years of history, generation after generation of "queens" have precisely and effectively controlled the reproduction and survival of the race.

This brings us to the most important thing in their race, the genes, and they are genetically built civilizations.

In their society, the "queen" is not responsible for reproducing offspring, and their reproduction relies mainly on a technique called biological ovaries.

However, this process must ultimately be allowed and controlled by the "Queen".

When the "Queen" thinks that the population needs to be replenished, she will provide different genes and biopheromones from her body to the biological ovaries.

In this way, the offspring of ethnic groups responsible for different divisions of labor are cultivated.

Therefore, according to the human concept of fertility, all prawns can be considered as the offspring of the "queen".

But the difference is that human beings cannot control their births precisely according to their own requirements like the "queen".

For all prawns, their class, intelligence, behavior, social division of labor, and even the knowledge they should have mastered have been determined by the genes and biopheromones provided by the "queen" before they are born.

They themselves do not need to be educated, because as long as they do their jobs well, all the means of subsistence are directly provided by the community.

In the narration of the prawns, Shen Sen finally understood why most of the prawns in District 9 looked like a group of aimless, incapable of discernment, mentally retarded.

Because those prawns are all prawns that have been cultivated in large quantities in their group, similar to the status of "workers".

The red vest himself, on the other hand, has a complete body of knowledge and considerable scientific ability (in the movie, he can make bombs at will, do complex experiments and operate spaceships).

He is also able to make effective decisions autonomously from an individual point of view, and has a high level of intelligence, which is due to the fact that he is a "scholar" in their community.

Of course, in addition to the most special red vests, there are also those prawns with guns, who are only subordinate to the "queen", violent machines and warriors of the race.

In addition, what surprised Shen Sen about the prawns was that there was only one "queen"!

But when needed, such as traveling a dozen light-years away, work from a distance.

However, the queen can provide special genes and pheromones, and the biological ovaries will regenerate a No. 2 queen to manage the prawns that go out on her behalf, and when she returns to the home planet after completing the task, No. 2 will destroy them.

Overall, the Prawn Society is a highly centralized and developed civilization ruled and managed by the queen, with scholars providing technology and advice, warriors protecting the development of the race, and workers as the lowest level to maintain the material and energy needs of civilization.

With its distinctive but extremely developed biological genetic technology, prawns are like a machine composed of countless different parts, each performing its own duties and not surpassing.

He doesn't need education, he doesn't need money, as long as he does his own thing seriously, he will be materially provided and protected by the tribe throughout his life until he dies.

After they die, the corpses will return to the ovaries of the creatures they were born into, and the wisdom and experience attached to the genes and pheromones of the creatures will be collected and analyzed by the queen, and the flesh will be turned into ovarian nutrients for the next generation.

This "machine" has been running like this for tens of thousands of years without any major problems.

But there is no perfect existence in the universe, and as long as the problem exists, sooner or later, one day it will appear.

For example, one day, an important part of the prawn machine was suddenly damaged due to some accident, which often led to unexpected failures and crashes of the machine called "Clan".

And the prawns that appeared in the ninth district are now encountering such an accident!