4.6 Billion Year Symphony of Evolution

"They ... are looking for neural connections."

Scholars are still in a building packed with creatures called 'dust crocodiles'.

Scholars have observed these dust crocodiles for a while, and have some exchanges with them. This group of dust crocodiles, as the scholars believe, is studying anatomy to study the cockroach.

They study almost all parts of the Void Cockroach, the role of all internal organs, and nuclear information, etc., trying to fully understand this swarm creature.

Among these studies, one of the most important tasks is to find 'neural connections'.

Neural connection can be said to be the most important organ of the swarm. It is this organ that connects the "thinking" of the swarm to form a complete consciousness. The swarm can be said to have countless individuals, but only one "brain" biological.

These dust crocodiles think so, as long as they find the neural connection, they can find a way to further study the method of interrupting the overall connection of the swarm, so that the entire swarm will collapse.

However, scholars who have more research on insect swarms think that this is a very difficult thing to do. The thoughts of insect swarms are quite connected ... close, they are not only one or two ways of connection.

Even under completely unconnectable conditions, each armament has the ability to make group actions in coordination with similar actions around it.

These dust crocodiles obviously don't know this, but they haven't even found the nerve-connected organs.

They confirmed the function of most organs in the void cockroach, leaving only some unconfirmed structures, and they also concluded that these unconfirmed structures do not have the function of neural connections.

Then ... the clues were completely interrupted, and the dust crocodiles here were quite nerve-wracking.

"What should we do? It would be nice if there were a few live ones to test ... but now only the corpse can be obtained."

In front of scholars, the leader of the dust crocodile is constantly complaining that it should be accurately called the "research chief". It has been staring at the three-dimensional screen in front of it, which shows the data that the surrounding dust crocodiles studied.

However, these materials are useless, so it seems very distressed.

"Did you come down from the bottom?" Suddenly, the researcher of the dust crocodile turned to look at the scholar: "What are you doing here? See our progress?"

The scholar wondered: "Where is ...?"

"Don't you come down from the bottom? Or are you a wanderer living outside?" Said the researcher of the dust crocodile. "If you look closely, it seems that you are metal ... something, is it a smart machine? Can you help Do we conduct research? "

"Wanderer ..." When the scholar heard the researcher's words, more questions appeared in his mind. Before that, he thought that his mechanical body had a special camouflage function, so that the dust crocodiles regarded themselves as theirs. Same kind, so don't care about it.

But now it seems that this is not the case. The dust crocodile knows that the scholar is foreign, but this kind of foreigner seems normal to the dust crocodile.

"I ... I was just made, there is no memory." The scholar said after thinking about it: "My maker let me travel and explore everywhere, so I am exploring and collecting data everywhere, can you tell me Is this the case here? "

"Really? The machine is really troublesome." The researcher of the dust crocodile seemed to believe it. It said: "Well, there is no progress in the research now. Just ask what you want, and I will tell you."

Scholars think ... The creature like dust crocodile seems to speak well.

So, the researcher answered many questions from the scholars. The scholars first asked the general situation of the mirror world, and thus knew that the world is almost a ... completely wild world.

There are no civilizations in this world, there are crystal jungles and various wildlife everywhere, but there are many ruins of civilization.

Like this ruin, they are remnants of past civilizations.

The number of such ruins is very large, most of them are habitats of wild animals, and they are completely abandoned. As for why this is so?The dust crocodile said that it was caused by a previous tragic war.

However, some ruins still contain some ... high-intelligence creatures, like dust crocodiles, they are the creatures that survived the war ...

They live in these ruins to build small communities, build simple weapons and supplies, resist dangerous wildlife, and strive to live here.

Some creatures have established relatively large groups, so they invade other ruins, thereby occupying more residences and resources, but this is rare. Dust crocodile said that it is very difficult to live here because of danger Too much.

Most races are gathered in the rubble, but a few of them are living around wandering lives. These races are called 'loiters'.

Scholars heard the dust crocodile said that they knew that most of the small sculpture-like creatures it had seen in the crystalline forest before were mostly dangerous, but they were not interested in scholars.

There are also many creatures that unite with each other and trade supplies. It ’s okay to live ... And almost all races are constantly digging up ruins, trying to find some high-tech items from the past civilization to reconstruct, some races dig out With the technology of manufacturing intelligent machinery, it is not surprising that scholars appear.

However, the dust crocodile also said that the scholar is the most intelligent machine it has seen ... It has also seen other intelligent machines before, but it is actually not very intelligent.

Although the current ones can still survive, every race here ... of course including the dust crocodile, they all want to restore the strong civilization of the past, and they recently got a chance.

That opportunity came from ... underground.

It is said that a certain race has dug deep into the ground while digging the ruins, and found a sleeping ancient civilization under the ground.

This ancient civilization is older than all the civilizations it knows, and it is said that this civilization has the most powerful technologies. The secrets of these technologies and the ancient city-states are buried deeper underground. If you want to know, just Something must be done to activate this ancient civilization's guidance system, and it must be guided by the guidance system to be able to go to the ancient civilization's city and obtain their technology.

And to activate the guidance system must use some kind of biological ... body structure.

This creature is the void cockroach of the Inca swarm.

According to the translation of the data from the ancient civilization, this ancient civilization has been at war with this insect creature, so any race that has discovered the ancient civilization must explain in detail all the structures of the body of the void cockroach and translate it into ancient text input In the ancient civilization's guidance system, the guidance system was then activated.

The ancient article specifically pointed out that ... there is a neural connection system in the void cockroach. The most important thing is to unlock the detailed structure of the neural connection system and describe in detail how to break this connection.

In order to activate the guidance system, it is now found that various creatures of ancient civilizations are studying the Void Cockroach, and they have reached an agreement with each other, that is, whoever first unlocks the secret of the Void Cockroach and activates the guidance system, who can get it first The technology of ancient civilization.

Then these races ... including the dust crocodile, are constantly studying the Void Cockroach, but the research has been going on for a long time without progress.

And recently, the dust crocodile also found other problems, that is ... mental abnormality.

They sometimes become in a trance, causing them to ignore the surrounding conditions and even the danger. The researcher thinks that it is caused by something like a tower in the forest.

When the scholar heard this, he remembered that there were dust crocodiles outside who were stabbed to death by crystal grass before, but their companions went through things that they didn't care about ... it seemed to be caused by a twisting device.

But after listening to the general situation, the scholar really didn't expect that ... the starting state actually put a lot of civilized species on the surface of the mirror world.

They may want to observe the situation of each civilization at different stages, so they let these species live a harder life in the ruins of destruction. In fact, this is very much like the situation in many movies, and there are many movies in the virtual people. Demonstrate the sight of the imaginary people struggling to survive in the rubble after the World War.

However, Shijing wanted to make them study the Void Cockroaches so complicated that they actually made ... and also get an ancient civilization or something to study these species, can't they be allowed to study them directly?

"These corpses ..." Thinking, the scholar pointed to the void cockroach corpse next to him: "Where did you get it from?"

"In the vicinity of the discovery point of ancient civilizations," said the researcher of the dust crocodile. "There are still a lot of them, most of them have been taken by other races for research, but I don't see any progress in them."

"How many races are doing research?" The scholar asked.

"There are dozens of them, and found that the species of ancient civilizations are eligible to participate." Ding Crocodile said: "But who originally customized this game ...... Why can't remember?"

"Oh no!"

Suddenly, a scream made the scholar turn his head to look, and saw a hole opened in the ground not far away, and a dust crocodile got out of it.

"What's the matter?" The researcher quickly asked, looking at the dust crocodile in panic. "Could it be that all dangerous creatures invading underground invade?"

"No ... it's the group of creatures!" Said the dust crocodile. "The group of creatures called Rurum, they said that they have successfully researched! They intend to start the guidance system and go to the ancient civilization city!"

"It's ... impossible! Why is it faster than us!" The research growled: "Come on, I'm going to take a look ... you continue to study here!"

As he spoke, he burrowed into the hole, and after half a second the scholar hesitated, he followed it.