Gate of Apocalypse

Chapter 548 [Life?

Base equipment room.

On the metal table, under a ULTIMATE disassembly display.

Roddy manipulated a working instrument, on a metal arm, with countless tiny soft contact angles, gently decomposing a tiny piece of debris from the specimen on the workbench, and carefully sending it under the decomposition display.

“Slow down, slow down, by the way, don't move... be gentle and gentle... ha! All right!”

Roddy cheered, sighed a long time, looked back at Chen Xiao Xiao standing behind him: “What the hell are you? ”

“The remains of an electronic guardian.” Chen Xiaolei's face is very calm: “analyze it first, we'll continue with the results. ”

A few minutes later, Roddy's gaze left the vessel full of solution and turned his head towards the instrument display on the workbench.

“What does this data mean?” Chen Xiaoxiao pointed to what was on the monitor - he couldn't see it at all anyway.

“Well, you can't explain a lot to scum like that.” Roddy laughed proudly.

“Hey, you can't say that. You copied my answers during the school exam. ”

“That's literature.” Roddy Fei Fast Track: “I'm not interested in copying you. ”

After a pause, he stared at the data on the monitor and closed his eyes: “That's... interesting. ”

“Don't worry about one person. Tell me, what is the result? ”

“Okay.” Roddy nodded, then touched his pockets, touched a cigarette in his mouth, but didn't light it, just passing the intoxication, and flew fast: “Simply put, it's a purely metallic life. ”

“… speak human language. ”

“We humans and other creatures belong to carbon-based life, you know that? And the legend is, those metallic lives, they belong to silicon-based life. Even if you learn scum, you're a writer. You've read and written so many fantasy science fiction novels. You know that. ”

“... my novel hasn't been updated in a long time.” Chen Xiaoliang mocked himself: “You go on. ”

“Well, the detail and you can't explain it, and you don't understand it, I can only say that from the results of the analysis available, this thing is completely different from us in terms of the construction of life. Our architecture is carbon chains, and macromolecular structures are, but... it's not. ”

Roddy pointed to the monitor and repeated very hard: "It's not! ”

“Still don't get it. ”

Roddy sighed: "Almost all the creatures in our world are carbon-based now. Let me put it this way, if I take this thing out on the table, I can get the Nobel Prize in minutes. ”

“So it's a life that doesn't exist in our world, right? ”

“Yes,” said Roddy Fly, “the simplest thing to say is that it's not made of water and carbon. ”

“Silicon-based life? ”

“Not exactly.” Roddy grabbed the scalp: “Actually, the so-called silicon-based life is a fantasy, and it's a big flaw. First of all, the chemical reaction of silicon-based life is very slow. That is, if there is such a life, maybe it takes a long, long time to do whatever it takes, maybe it takes hours to do every blink —— if it does have eyes.

There is also a silicon that oxidizes easily, and the oxidation of silicon forms a solid, that is, becomes… sand. And… Silicon-based life requires higher temperatures to adapt to the surrounding environment, and theoretically they need at least 200 degrees to be normal. So they may not be able to survive in our current temperature environment. That's why silicon-based life doesn't exist on Earth. ”

“In other words, if there is a world of silicon-based life, then that world should be…”

“It should be a place with low or even no oxygen and extremely high temperatures.” Roddy Fly Express.

Chen Xiaoliang's eyes shine!

That world... is that so?

“It's a life.” Roddy Flying Fast Track: “I can be sure that the decomposed cells have all the characteristics of life. Just with my cognition, I can't understand how it works. You know, we exist on different foundations, and our cognitions can't be set on it. ”

Roddy sticks out his finger and lines up on the screen, and soon, some other numbers appear on the screen.

“Remember the electron bugs I got in the copy before? The unfortunate team that was wiped out by our group, one of the guys who had similar abilities to me, he had some metal bugs as creatures, and I thought it was an electronic life, but when I got it back and analyzed it, I was disappointed. It's not real electronic life, it's some kind of electronic device made with nanoscale technology, it's just like some bugs, but it's actually just a highly intelligent thing made with nanoscale technology —— a very intelligent thing, but it's still a little thing that can be remotely controlled by the program, and it's not real life.

See, these are the decomposition results of the electron worm, and there's a significant difference between the fragments of the electron guardian that you brought back. ”

“The difference is far? ”

“Farther than the Milky Way to the Horse Galaxy. ”

Rhody shrugged his shoulder: “The electronic guard you brought back, whose cells broke down, had many interesting features, such as… dissolvable and deformable. ”

Eh?

“I observe that the decomposed cells are constantly transforming shapes under the display, which means that this life can be transformed... well, you can understand it as like Transformers... oh no, that's not enough, like a liquid metallic person. But more perfect! More powerful! ”

“What do you mean? ”

“They can self-divide, self-proliferate. At the same time, higher temperatures, like the liquid metallic man in the movie Terminator, don't fall into the steel smelter and get killed. For them, maybe falling into the steel smelter is like taking a hot bath. ”

“Otherwise, you say silicon-based life should be slow… that's not right.” Chen Xiaocai smiled bitterly: “I've dealt with electronic guards in Zero City, and they move quickly. ”

“I didn't say it was silicon-based life.” Roddy shook his head: “Silicone life was conceived by us humans, but I didn't say it was. It's another metal-like life thing. I just don't know what kind of substance it is, it's not carbon-based. ”

“So the question now is... what's the value of these little things I brought back? ”

Rhodey smiled.

He laughed strangely: "It may be a pile of scrap iron for others to throw into the smelter, but it fell into my hands, and I had a lot of interest in seeing if I could make some interesting little things out of them. By the way, how much did you bring back with you? ”

“A lot, half a truck always has.” Chen Xiaolian said.

“Is there anything more complete? Morphologically complete.” Roddy asked.

“Yes.”

“Well... I got a lot of inspiration.” This guy's smile made Chen Xiaoliang feel a little sneaky, so he listened to Roddy hip-hop: “Maybe I can make something. In the future, the copy will meet the enemy and scare the other party. ”

Saying, Roddy shouted, "GM!! ”

Soon, a synthetic electronic voice appeared in the room: "As I said, I am not GM, I am not the identity of the body outside, I am a new independent presence, please call me base master. ”

“Okay, master.” Roddy thought about it: “I need some new instruments, a incubator that can be cultured and decomposed, bigger and better, with a hot growing environment that can be adjusted automatically. There is also a need for a more powerful console with the best enclosed to switch manual functions. Well, there are a number of instruments that can provide a variety of metal synthesis, preferably with spraying and decomposition capabilities. ”

Rhodey said a long list of requirements quickly.

After listening quietly, the base master answered: "Yes, these requirements can be generated in the base, but it takes energy, I remind you that you have not replenished the base for a long time, and we have been consuming it since I took control of the base. ”

Chen Xiaoliang suddenly said: "Why does Zero City never need additional energy? I haven't heard of any smelters or anything in Zero City. ”

'Cause I'm not Zero City. ”Base master said indifferently.

“But I always thought you were the same thing. Isn't this the base, a small zero town? ”

“This is a small, isolated initial program module, but it is incomplete. Zero City has more complete, or better, features. As for me… I am still in the process of growing up and am currently unable to achieve energy self-sufficiency. ”

“How can we do that?” Chen Xiaocao asked.

“It takes time to grow, or you fill me up, to grow fast, or to find the right world for me to colonize, and I can evolve myself, while drawing energy and forming a virtuous circle. ”

Chen Xiaocai silently asked: “Colonization? What's that supposed to mean? ”

“A separate space, let me colonize. ”

“Can't this world work?” Chen Xiaocao asked.

“It doesn't match, the world is too big for me right now. ”

Roddy suddenly asked, "So what happens when you grow up? Can it also have powerful features, like Zero City, such as creating some resource space for us to use? ”

“Yes," said the base master.

“Explain further the meaning of colonization.” Chen Xiaolian Cold Lane: “It would be better to give examples of possible solutions. ”

“For example, you enter some low-risk copy, one that is less dangerous, has less space and less resistance to the outside world, and I can successfully colonize it without causing reactions to the main world program, and then swallow and occupy space, so that...”

“And then you can evolve into a Zero City kind of existence?” Chen Xiaocao asked.

“Yes.”

“Understood.” Chen Xiaocai waved: “I'll think about it carefully and finish the conversation now. ”

Roddy seemed to have something else to say, but all of a sudden, Chen Xiaoliang gave himself a strange look. After years of acquiescence, Roddy immediately closed his mouth.