Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Civilization of the Symbiote

After a video conversation with the Bojiang people, Chen Xi got on a bug car and headed to their city.

The bugcar resembles an oversized caterpillar, and those cilia are the organs that receive electromagnetic signals.

The cabin is a silicon alloy in the body, which is very spacious and intelligent, with air conditioning, beverage machines and other service facilities.

Chen Xi tasted a certain drink that could be drunk by carbon-based organisms, which was not delicious and not difficult to swallow.

The insect car walks through the burrow, not dug now, but the result of a hundred years of infrastructure, and the spider web-like burrows are all over the world.

The inhabited areas of the Bojiang people were originally distributed in various places on the surface, such as jungles, oceans, polar regions...

After being invaded by the Devouring Empire, they moved underground and prepared to resist to the end.

Through the insect car, Chen Xi saw that the pace of life of the Bojiang civilization was very slow, because the speed of the insect car was so slow that it made people anxious.

"Also, through the ecological nervous system, we have entered the hyper-information age early, and you can work anywhere, who wants to live a fast-paced life in this environment? Isn't it just to find yourself uncomfortable? ”

Of course, it was a time of war, and most of the caves had been converted into high-speed electromagnetic trains.

Day said that the insect car is the highest reception standard, Chen Xi respects the customs of the Bojiang civilization, and also wants to see it for a long time.

He hasn't done a bug yet.

In the clean cavity of the creature, Chen Xi quickly read the technical information and physics knowledge of the Bojiang civilization.

It is very primitive, and in more than 2,000 years, it has only developed to the level of picking it up and using it, without in-depth study of its principle.

The original technical route of the Bojiang people is to coexist with the planet's ecology.

Their home planet is home to a variety of creatures with strange abilities, such as mayfly creatures that can levitate and move through the planet's magnetic field, and these mayfly creatures have been cultivated for a long time in a targeted manner, some have become flying machines, and some have become displays growing on fruit trees.

Even, the moment the Bojiang people were born with wisdom, they mastered electromagnetic wave communication through the living conch.

The long-term comfortable life has made the Bojiang people not deeply study the secrets, they only know how to combine and use, and do not know the principles that cause these phenomena.

Of course, the main reason is that the history of civilization is too short, otherwise there will always be people who study these things out of interest.

Before the Devouring Empire brought technology, the 'scientists' of their civilization were biological cultivators: they spent a long time summarizing the laws and cultivating animals, plants, and microorganisms with specific functions.

Biology is mainly silicon-based, supplemented by carbon-based, so the Bojiang people's home planet is full of translucent crystal-like things.

Chen Xi asked the Bojiang people composed of mayfly creatures in the crystal wall: "Your biotechnology has developed to the limit, right?" ”

An alternative projection method, which only projects a Bojiang person, is not unimportant, but to communicate with a high-level individual in the symbiote civilization, that is, to communicate with the entire symbiote.

The former breeder, now the scientist, said: "Dear sir, yes, the development has reached its limit. ”

Unable to penetrate deep into the microscopic world, the biological structure is at the molecular level, which cannot defeat nuclear bombs and high-energy lasers.

"We have cultivated a kind of microorganisms that can absorb light energy and radiant energy, and these microorganisms can quickly release the energy stored in the body and gather it on a crystal to release high-energy lasers, which is the limit of technology."

Plants and animals that absorb radiant energy also have this technology on the side of the Earth Federation, and it has been applied to the ecological remodeling project.

"The light that flickers in the sky from time to time has its share of credit, but more often than not, it is the nuclear missiles that devour people, they are destroying our defense line, the beautiful star ring, the sea of stars."

The scientist expressed regret and hatred, and even Chen Xi felt it, and he continued:

"We're developing physics, but we don't have time."

The man-devouring tire ship is only a month away from the home planet of the Pojans.

They have swallowed up two planets.

Chen Xi sighed: "Yes, there is no time, even if I give you technology, you can't digest it." ”

He checked the information and found that the Bojiang civilization did not have many industrial systems at all, and the only railway industry and nuclear industry were built in a hurry after the war began.

In this way, even if the technology is given, even if the Bojiang people can learn the technology immediately, there is no way to carry out industrial mass production.

After all, they have only developed physics for half a century, and almost from scratch.

Once again, the Space-Time Key fell silent, slowing it down and running out of energy, and it took a long time to build up energy.

If you still have energy, you can open the door and teleport, but you can break your wrist with the devourer.

"Run, leave the seeds of civilization behind, it will take a century for them to devour the planet, enough to leave some seeds."

The scientist was very disappointed: "We don't have the ability to travel on a large scale, and sending a small spacecraft weighing several tons to a galaxy a few light years away is already the limit of what we can do." ”

Chen Xi sighed again: "It's a pity that the Pan-Human Joint Council can't provide effective help. ”

"I'll do my best to help you maintain civilization."

"Do you have a specific escape plan?" He quietly asked the key question.

On the question of who will leave and who will stay, if you are like the human civilization of the old era, you are ruthless and hesitant, then you are civilized and don't save it.

"If it is possible, take away the gene pool of all the organisms in the planetary ecology, and we are one," the scientist said. ”

"We live in symbiosis with nature, conceptually closer to nature than any race, and as long as the genetic material that carries biological information and civilization information can still replicate itself, our civilization will still exist."

"It's better to bring some bio-cultivators with you, they are needed to rebuild the complex ecology."

That's good, you're qualified.

Chen Xi asked suspiciously: "What about the technical data?" What about cultural inheritance? Don't you want to give it up?"

"No, it's all compressed in genetic information, and every Bojiang person, and even some animals, can read it."

"You see, this royal bug car, it likes to drink a kind of juice and often concocts its own pheromones to pass on to the producer."

"DNA data storage technology?" Only then did Chen Xi realize what the real black technology evolved by the Bojiang people was.

One gram of DNA can store 1 million terabytes of data, and an adult has more than 2,000 grams of DNA.

The ability of Bojiang people to quickly read and write genetic material from two completely different biological systems, carbon-based and silicon-based, and retrieve the information they need from them, is definitely a black technology in biology.

It is important to know that organisms are slow to read information about genetic material, and some even take hours.

Even if the pace of life in Bojiang is not fast, they can't stand the speed of the Internet that takes several minutes to load a frame, right?

So, their ecological neural network is high-speed, not a general neural network.

The nerve signaling speed of the modern human brain is only more than 100 meters per second.

Chen Xi thought: These technologies are against the sky, and the Academy of Sciences once wanted to develop biological neural computers, but they abandoned it because the way of reading and writing data was too inefficient or too complicated.

"Well, a biological computer must have it, the spaceship accidentally intruded into the low-light black field, but it was up to them to save their lives."

After thinking for a moment, Chen Xi asked: "How much does this information storage system based on biological genetic material weigh?" ”

Scientists called up a blueprint, and they had already considered such an escape plan: "There are only more than 40 tons, and the genetic material accounts for 10 tons, but we don't have the mature technology to generate nuclear fusion power, nor do we have the engine technology to propel a spacecraft weighing several hundred tons." ”

After speaking, the scientist looked at Chen Xi hopefully.

Ten tons of genetic material, good guys, a quadrillion terabyte of data, you guys are going to move the entire civilization away?

Chen Xi asked: "You don't store these things in the genetic material of memories, do you?" ”

"Yes, ancient trees in nature, animals..., everywhere there are memories of civilization, memories of our ancestors."

The scientist switched to a poet, and the poet chanted:

"Dissolve the self into the world, gather the individuals in the group into rivers and seas, and use death to dissolve each other's barriers and prejudices, you and I are different but only different individuals of the same will."

"Eat me, consume me, and take the information in my flesh and blood into the thinking and intellect of groups and individuals."

A line of small print on the screen: Our digestive organs can read genetic material, and we love raw food.

"Dissolve, let me dissolve among all beings, and if the plague spreads, all living beings will be my compatriots."

"You, and your children born of blood, I give my blood and flesh for eternal life in your flesh today."

(End of chapter)