Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 861 Mechanical Civilization
"You mean to say that this 'hive capital' and Yagunaktor... were built by the same civilization, and that civilization is not the Alpha civilization?" 33 opened his mouth slightly.

Ke Lan didn't answer immediately, but was lost in thought.

According to the memories of the "zombies" on the second floor of Tongtian Tower, Yagunaktor was probably built by a group of "escaped earthlings"... Could it be that the people on that engineering ship not only made Yagunaktor , and also built this "hive capital" on Alpha Planet?
Ke Lan is now even beginning to wonder if this hive capital, the undersea city "No. [-] City" outside, and that uninhabited deserted island with an obviously abnormal flow of time are on Alpha Star...

There is another question that has never been explained-what kind of relationship is there between the group of "fugitives" and the Alpha civilization.

They and the Alpha people, who appeared on this planet first?

Ke Lan knew that it was meaningless to entangle the paradoxes on the timeline at this time. The timelines of all events were already entangled like a mess. Between the group of "fugitives" or the Alpha civilization, at least One of them must have experienced "time travel"...Of course, there is another possibility: that is, the people who have carried out "time travel" are actually people on the ark.

The process of traveling through the wormhole seems to be only one year, but in normal time and space, maybe tens of thousands...even hundreds of millions of years have passed.

At this moment, Ze Luo, who was possessed by Ke Lan, suddenly said: "The language logic of these words is very close to that of the earth civilization. If you give me some time, I should be able to decipher it."

"It's close to the language logic of Earth's civilization?!" Ke Lan was startled, but then nodded in agreement—if this "hive capital" and Yaguna Ketor came from the same escaped engineering ship It makes perfect sense that the characters used by "they" bear the shadow of Earth's civilization.

This can only be said to be "unexpected, reasonable".

"How long will it take to decipher these words?" Ke Lan asked.

During the time Zelo stayed on the ark, he read so much that even some old pedants with white beard and hair could only hold a candle to him.In order to understand the development of human history and society, especially in terms of language and writing, Ze Luo read almost all the documents that Ke Lan and Zofia could get her, plus her terrifying Comprehension ability and calculation ability, the so-called linguistic experts and text experts on the Ark, without the aid of computers, can't decipher a "new text" at a speed comparable to Zero's.

"For about two hours, I need to compare it with the text library in my memory. This process will take a lot of time." Zeluo said, "Of course, if you are lucky, the result will be available in half an hour at the earliest."

"Two hours... OK, then let's explore the industrial area of ​​this 'hive capital' first. It would be great if we can find some other written information during the process."

For an unknown language, the most difficult part of deciphering it is to figure out its logic pattern and grammar. As long as you can overcome the first difficulty, things will go much smoother later... At that time, translate a sentence The time spent on translating a ten-word phrase and translating a document with hundreds or thousands of words is not much different.

Ke Lan was vaguely excited... If he could decipher this kind of writing, he might be able to figure out the secrets of those fugitives.

Although humans know very little about the secrets of Alpha civilization, according to the original exploration process, although the progress is very slow, it is proceeding step by step, and some reasonable and unreasonable things can be more or less logically obtained. Explanation, even that kind of far-fetched explanation... But since the appearance of Yagunaktor, since the appearance of this "engineering ship that escaped from the earth", everything has been messed up.

Their existence is like a fatal BUG that is extremely conspicuous in a whole line of code. Anyone knows that this is a BUG, ​​even beginners in programming can see it, and this BUG is serious enough to make the entire The program crashed... But in this situation, the program actually started to fucking run, and it ran extremely smoothly, as if this BUG was originally an indispensable part of the program.

This is so fucking weird.

"Let's go." Ke Lan took the lead to get off the lifting platform, "To be honest, for this group of...'people' who built Yagunaktor and this 'hive capital', I am even more interested in them. And above the Alpha Civilization."

In addition, there is another question that Ke Lan wants to understand more. Where did the crew on the engineering ship, or their descendants go?Did they become extinct during the long interstellar journey, or were they killed by the Alpha civilization... Or, did they integrate into the Alpha civilization?
"I also feel a little puzzled." 33 walked behind Ke Lan and said, "If the same civilization that built Yagunaktor and the Hive Capital is the same civilization, then the difference in technology generation is simply worse than ours. I originally thought it would be even bigger... The technological level of this hive capital is similar to that of Earth civilization except for the Nino alloy used on the lifting platform. It is impossible to reproduce it, put the two together for comparison, and use the word 'gap' to describe the gap between the two."

The two walked forward along one of the eight main streets. Compared with the chaotic situation on the upper floor, the "industrial area" on this floor was much more organized - with the lifting platform in the center as the base point, eight streets wide More than 50 meters, the main street with transportation tracks on both sides extends radially in all directions, while other secondary passages, like veins on leaves, spread out from these eight main streets, connecting Every corner of the entire industrial area.

The more the two walked in, the more things they saw, the stronger their inner doubts became.

Whether it is processing equipment or transportation vehicles, they all reflect the technological level of the aborigines of the Hive City—the freight trains that move on metal rails, the traction locomotives driven by electromagnetic systems, and the portable generators powered by chemical fuels ... These things tell the two of them all the time that the technological level of this Hive City is almost the same as that of the earth's civilization from the end of the 21th century to the beginning of the [-]st century, and even in many places it is not as good as the humans on the earth.

At the beginning of the 21st century, numerical control equipment has basically spread to every production line in every major industrial country on the earth, but in this factory in the Hive Capital, many of the machinery and equipment still need to be controlled by manpower. 33 even picked up one to adjust it. Precision, caliper-like tool.

"Brilliant and splendid mechanical civilization... But I feel that their technology tree is completely distorted." 33 said to Ke Lan, "We have searched three factories, have you found any intelligent electronic devices?"

"No." Ke Lan shook his head.

"It doesn't make sense... Any civilization will go through such a stage in the development process. Even in the imaginary steampunk world, instruments like the difference engine and the analysis engine have been born. How can this civilization even have a decent machine?" Can’t even make a computer like this?” 33 expressed his doubts.

It can't be said that this civilization has experienced events like the "Omnic Crisis", so it hates this kind of technology, right?
"No... I don't think so." Ke Lan shook his head again, "Have you ever thought that maybe your thinking as an earthling on the ark limits your imagination?"

"Ah? Limit my imagination?" 33 squinted his eyes, "Do you mean the cage of fixed thinking? I seem to have heard of this saying, but I really don't know what it is exactly. Too clear."

"If this civilization hadn't developed intelligent devices like computers, how could my blood just activate the lifting platform? I don't think a mechanical device composed of gears and transmission rods can do this kind of thing, even if it No matter how precise its structure is, if it can’t be done, it can’t be done... So I think, behind this mechanical world, there should be some things that cannot be seen by our vision... Not only this hive city, but also the Alpha Civilization Do you think their structure and principle are similar to those of computers?"

"Hiss... When you put it this way, I really feel a little..." 33 took a breath, "I always thought it was a very normal thing, but it was the most abnormal... Maybe we have seen too many things that cannot The things explained by the level of science and technology of human civilization, that’s why I think those things are reasonable. Now that you have broken it a little bit, I suddenly feel that Alpha civilization is not normal. Their technology trees also seem to be very inclined to The realm of the occult."

"The mysticism in our eyes may be what they think of as 'science'... It's just that there are many things that humans can't see, so they attribute it to the category of mysticism." Ke Lan tapped his temple with his finger, "Suppose Alpha civilization and the civilization that built this hive city, their individual creatures have extremely developed brains, with calculation speed and precision comparable to that of electronic computers, so do you think they still need such things as computers?"

"When you say that, I suddenly feel...it seems really unnecessary." 33 suddenly looked at "Zero" who had transformed into a living armor on Ke Lan's body, "To a certain extent, Zeluo should also be competent. Is it the role of highly intelligent computers?"

"Yes." It was Ze Luo who answered, "I have done a test, and my limit calculation speed is [-] times that of the previous personal computer in Ke Lan's office."

"Four thousand times? Ke Lan, what is the configuration of your machine?" 33 was a little curious.

"The top configuration of the civilian machine, plus some military encryption modules from the black market, but this thing has no bonus to the computing speed, so it can be ignored." Ke Lan said, when he equipped this computer, the Hunting God Hunting Group There are already sufficient funds in his account. In order to maximize his hacking skills, he naturally chooses all the accessories and the best ones available on the market.

"But compared to the core mastermind of the Ark, my calculation speed is far from enough." Ze Luo said again.

"Speaking of which, the core brain of the Ark seems to be a biological computer, right?" 33 looked at Ke Lan, "I remember you mentioned it before."

"The biological computer is the most abnormal..." Ke Lan gestured on his head with the palm of his hand, "Our human brain is only so big that we can do such complicated thinking, and most of the human brains The cells are still dormant, and only a small part is developed... Then you can imagine: a super brain weighing more than ten tons, and all the cells are in an activated state, how much computing power will it have? fear."

"..." 33 nodded silently, then took out an energy bar from his jacket pocket, and bit off half of it, "I think my brain cells are going to be overloaded when discussing this kind of issue with you... Then A kind of super biological computer, I really can't imagine."

"Have you heard of the A-063 relic 'Ring City'?" Ke Lan said, changing the subject.

"I know that a coastal city located on the west coast of China Sea is equivalent to four St. Paul cities on Earth, but the damage is very serious. More than [-]% of the buildings have been completely wiped out, and the remaining one-tenth is the farthest from the coast. In the urban area, there is basically only a piece of foundation left. According to the inference of experts, the 'Ring City' has suffered at least one hundred tsunamis with a level of more than [-] meters in the past tens of thousands of years. In the face of the power of nature , No matter how indestructible a city is, it is difficult to leave anything behind.”

"Then do you know why this city with nothing left can be rated as an A-level relic?" Ke Lan asked.

"I don't know." 33 shook his head, "My understanding of 'Ring City' is limited to what I just said...I am not interested in this ruin, so I haven't studied it in depth."

33 What I just said is a brief introduction to each ruin on the official website of the Ark Ruins Hunter. This information is located under the name, level, and location of the ruins. You can see it at a glance without paying, even if you are an unregistered hunter Ordinary people with certificates can also browse the information in tourist mode.

"The ring city actually has an underground part. Although it is not deep and the area is not as large as the city ruins on the surface, it is very dangerous. A very powerful lone hunter I once knew died there." Ke Lan said .

"What's under the ground?" 33's curiosity was suddenly aroused.

(End of this chapter)