blood plague

Chapter 78
Iger carefully stated his conclusion after thinking for a long time, and he said: "I think the infected body has group wisdom."

Iger knows that this conclusion will greatly subvert everyone's views on infected people. If you want to describe it, this is equivalent to "sun-centered theory" challenging "earth-centered theory", and "evolution theory" replacing "creation theory", which brings about subversive thinking change.

After Iger finished speaking, he stopped. As a result, he waited for several seconds, but none of the surprise, shock, and panic he expected appeared.

Why are these people so calm?Could it be that I didn't explain clearly.

Iger decided to explain this matter a little more thoroughly. He said: "I think that the infected body that caused this blood plague infection, no matter what it is, is a kind of intelligent creature."

After Iger finished speaking, he waited for another two seconds.

At this moment, Joanna asked, "And then?"

Uh... Everyone's reaction didn't seem to be what Iger expected.

This news is not shocking, but now the basic morale of each member of the Gospel team is above +20, and their minds are also very stable, so everyone is surprised by this, but there is no panic or other emotions.

The fact that Iger easily killed more than a dozen infected people today made them feel that no matter what happened, in a word, it was not a big problem.

Iger saw everyone's reaction, thought about it, and felt that he hadn't explained the current situation clearly to everyone.

Iger suddenly remembered that the natural science knowledge of Americans is actually very poor.

He remembered such a wonderful news that more than 30% of American people are not sure whether the earth is round, and this 30% are not all low-level people, but also include many celebrities, various stars, and even There are scientists.

Not long ago, there was an Internet celebrity old man. He was a self-taught rocket engineer. He spent tens of thousands of dollars to make a rocket. He wanted to fly to the sky to see it with his own eyes and prove his decades-long belief that the earth is flat. of.

After the rocket was launched and reached a certain height, it fell as it should because the fuel was exhausted.Tragically, the parachute failed.

In the end, the Internet celebrity uncle gave his life for the "flat earth theory" in front of countless live broadcast viewers.

With this incident at the bottom, Iger felt that it was very necessary for him to popularize the concept of intelligent creatures to everyone.

"Do you know ants and bees?" Iger said, "They are creatures with swarm intelligence. In fact, swarm intelligence is not only possessed by ants and bees. Strictly speaking, all group cooperative creatures have swarm intelligence. Including humans."

"What level do you think the group intelligence of those infected people is?" Father Locke asked a very critical question at this time.

"This is the focus of what I'm going to talk about next." Iger didn't answer this question directly. He decided to use a metaphor that is easier for everyone to understand.

"For example, for example.

For example, we humans captured many huge alien spaceships one day. These spaceships are very huge, and each one is as big as a city.Although we have controlled the power system, the life support system, the command system, the control hub, we have also mastered the communication center.

But we found that with our human intelligence, we can't grasp the operation principle of the communication center at all. After all, our civilization is completely different, and the media for exchanging information may be different.

Therefore, when the fleet flew out of the solar system, the distance between the spaceships was so far that our human communication system could not communicate, so everyone could only do their own thing.

Human society is divided into "individuals" with spacecraft as the unit, and each alien spacecraft has become an isolated island. "

When Iger said this, everyone understood this paragraph, but they didn't know what Iger said had anything to do with the infected.

"Suddenly one day, a genius engineer on a spaceship discovered that although we cannot understand the communication system of aliens, we can use it to transmit information that we can understand.

In the simplest terms, it is 'di' and 'beep', these two different sounds can express all the information of our human beings.

All programs run by our computer are composed of '0' and '1', all the information we want to express can be restored to '0' and '1', and then use the alien communication system to combine 'dips' and '[-]' 'beep' to other ships around.

After receiving the information, other spacecraft can use computers to decode it to read out the content expressed in the received information.

In this way, human beings regained their ability to communicate, and then established a communication network. Those spaceships scattered in every corner of the universe slowly gathered together to form a super fleet that could act jointly under a unified command.

And this spacecraft that can transmit signals is the command tower of this super fleet. "

When Iger said this, Father Locke understood it, and he fell into deep thought, while the others were still listening to Iger's story with relish. They didn't know how this story was related to the current situation.

Iger tapped the wooden table with his right index finger, and said decisively: "The infected body is equivalent to a human being, our body is an independent spaceship, and the screamer is the command tower."

When Iger said this, everyone understood, and now everyone let out a gasp.

After pondering for a while, Father Locke said, "You mean, the collective intelligence of those infected people will become higher and higher as their communication skills improve?"

"Yes. That's what worries me the most," Iger said.

Next, Iger explained the analytical reasons for his conclusion.

"Today, the four of us all experienced symptoms of discomfort after hearing the screamer's cry." Iger said to everyone: "The first thing to rule out is the impact of high-pitched audio on the brain nerves.

It was just a normal, high-pitched human male cry, and it couldn't be louder than a shock bomb.

At a distance of 100 meters, the shock bomb explosion will not have such a strong impact.

So, after excluding the impact of high-intensity audio on the brain, the only answer left is the content of the sound.

I think this voice contains a message similar to a 'mobilization order', all the infected people suddenly sprint collectively, and the latent infected body in our body is also 'activated' at that moment.

Fortunately, we are all immune, and the outbreak of the infected body failed.

However, if there is a person who is on the verge of infection, such as Fran's state that day, he may be instantly infected under the stimulation of this scream. "

"You mean, all four of us are at risk of becoming infected?" Joanna asked worriedly, and she finally understood why Iger asked the four of them to be quarantined as soon as he came back.

"It's not necessarily true, I can't say whether it's good or bad." Iger shook his head and said: "There must be a price to be paid for the infection to trigger this state. Let's not mention the infected person, just those lurking in our body Infected body.

Once the infected body fails to break out, it will definitely face the suppression of the immune system and the loss of troops. From this perspective, it may not be a bad thing for us. "

"To sum up my conclusion again." Iger said after a long sigh: "What we are facing now is a large group of infected people with insect-level swarm intelligence, a 'commander', who will actively move and prey collectively.

It is not ruled out that they will have a more powerful 'command tower', more threatening intelligence, and a larger and larger number of predator groups in the future.

Our living environment is becoming more and more unfriendly. "

　Remember the dialogue between Iger and Father Locke in Chapter 3?

　　Science fiction must look like science fiction, I am not an infinite stream.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)