Planetary Museum

The giant net is overwhelming.

"These...are lasers!"

Yevgeny's reaction was quick, and he guessed the nature of these blue-white rays almost immediately, and then immediately deduced from the distance between these lasers and them the reason why they were in a gravity-free environment, "The whole planet The planet... has almost been hollowed out by you?!"

The intelligent body didn't answer, but just accelerated the speed of the spaceship.

As the distance approached rapidly, the background behind Yevgeny and the two began to gradually become distant, while the scene in front of them began to become clearer and clearer.

The specific situation of those lasers also began to become clear, and Yevgeny could gradually see that the light in front of him was not a single laser, but a laser array composed of many small rays of light.

Such a scene made Yevgeny subconsciously associate it with the etching process of electronic circuits-these lasers must be processing something, but what it is, because of the distance and the interference between light, is still completely unclear.

Wang Youquan was already a little stunned, because of his age, his eyes were sharper than Yevgeny's: "Those things... seem to be spaceships!"

It was indeed a spaceship.As the distance got closer, the two could already see the specific items processed by the laser clearly with the help of a little light from the laser.

They look like a large block of huge stones. These stones have different shapes, but their surfaces are all smooth and dark, as if they are a whole piece of coal under the ground.These lasers continue to process more shapes on the stone. With the processing, more and more floating objects appear near the laser, which are all leftovers or finished products that have been cut.

Whatever it is, after being stripped from the rock formation, it will drift erratically in a weightless environment.

At this time, the intelligent body turned on the lights on the aircraft.

The darkness of the entire space was instantly expelled, and Yevgeny and Wang Youquan heard each other's air-conditioning in an instant.

Unlike what they had imagined before, there was nothing in the darkness. There are all kinds of suspended matter floating around here, and there are all kinds of strange aircraft shuttles in it. Some of them are responsible for recovering some substances, while others are responsible for Handling certain floating objects.But the overall look is a complete chaos, there is no order at all.

"It's like a lot of robots are picking up trash." This is what Wang Youquan said subconsciously. I have to say that it is very vivid. Wang Youquan subconsciously asked again: "Directly use stones to build spaceships? Don't you need to refine them?"

"The interior of the planet is full of metal," Yevgeny replied, "Laser etching is also a refining process. Look over there, there is also a special alloy manufacturing process."

From Yevgeny's point of view, it is even more chaotic than many garbage collections on the earth. The garbage collectors only need to surround the garbage cans, but here... it is simply a huge garbage mountain.And because it is a three-dimensional space, all the "garbage" moves in it at a very slow speed, collides and flips, and those aircraft that pick up garbage seem to be completely mixed with the garbage, rotating in the same posture.

But besides these flowing floating objects, there are more conspicuous and fixed things, which are changing with time and starting to grow continuously.Those things didn't have any shape at all at the beginning, they seemed to be just randomly assembled, larger garbage.But as time goes by, they quickly take on a certain shape.

Although it wasn't quite complete yet, Yevgeny, who had read the relevant information before, had fully recognized what these things were.

"This is your... production workshop?" Although it was hard to imagine, Yevgeny was able to confirm it.

"Yes, it seems that there is a lot of room for you to imagine," Zhiti said modestly, "Compared with noble civilizations, we must be too backward in technology."

If Yevgeny brought such information to the consultation meeting on the earth, 20 out of ten experts would complain about such a production scene-it is simply a catastrophic extensive production site.An excellent and civilized industrial manufacturing site, not to mention the same as the assembly line, or the existing intelligent manufacturing on the earth, is well-organized and full of sense of technology, at least the simplest and concise must be done well...

All people on earth have this basic concept, that is, the more funny the production, the higher the requirements for cleanliness.A clean environment means that various factors in the production process are highly controllable. A clean environment can not only efficiently deliver the necessary raw materials and facilitate the processing environment, but also handle waste and garbage generated during production.

But now, just a few hundred meters around their spacecraft, there are no fewer than tens of thousands of floating objects.The small ones are only the size of their fingers, and the big ones... are even bigger than their flying machines.

Such an environment couldn't even guarantee the basic work vision, and it was so chaotic that it couldn't be more chaotic.

But the current situation is that in such an environment, the prototypes of those huge spaceships have begun to appear, and as time changes, they continue to become clearer.You know, this is not a fast-motion playback, but Yevgeny and the others' real-time viewing.

On the earth, let alone such a huge aircraft, even if it is just an aircraft carrier on the ground, even if it is an ordinary ship, the most advanced manufacturing methods need to be designed first, and then the modules are manufactured in various factories, and finally Assembly and manufacturing... It may take a few weeks for a small ship, and two or three months for a large one. If it is an aircraft carrier, it is not new for some countries to build it for several years.

The bigger and the smaller the output, the higher the complexity of itself, the higher the requirements for processing, and the easier it is for various problems.

But here, those attack ships, each of which is several times larger than an aircraft carrier, seem to have begun to take shape in just ten minutes... This kind of manufacturing speed and feeling is completely different from the industrial production that humans are familiar with. It's not a concept, but more like what Yevgeny knew, the mode of biological production of protein.

Yes, it's a creature.

Yevgeny suddenly understood this.

If you zoom in on the field of vision, the entire planet, the entire dark hollow underground world that surrounds them is simply a huge cell, and these aircraft are like proteins produced spontaneously in the cell.

It's bionics!The intelligent body, perhaps the Federation is also like this, it is simulating the working method of cells for industrial co-ordination...

Each of these processing tools floating freely in the air is like a separate enzyme in the cell. They are only responsible for catalyzing the production of a certain part, and they don’t even look at the number of parts carefully... This is strictly one-to-one industry. Production is not the same thing at all.

After confirming this idea, Yevgeny immediately had a new understanding when he watched the chaotic processing scene again.

For a highly developed intelligence such as an intelligence, chaos is not a factor that can affect production.To put it bluntly, only creatures with simple minds like people on earth have higher psychological needs for tidiness—because the brains of people on earth cannot handle such a complicated environment at all, and the scene around them, ordinary people on earth If you can't even see it, how can you implement overall management?

But for highly intelligent ai and intelligence bodies, this highly chaotic relationship is the source of all efficiency—they hardly need to wait for the entire production process.All parts are produced in one area. If the spacecraft needs to produce [-] million parts, then it can arrange all these [-] million parts to be placed in the same place.

The industrial production method of the people on earth is like numbering the 1234 million parts in sequence, and then installing them in the order of [-]. If there is a mistake in the sequence, the entire production may be stopped and restarted.

Later, the people on earth came up with a standardized process, the essence of which was to split the 100 million parts into one hundred million, and each one million was still produced in this order internally, but the final large part was reassembled. Get this hundred miles to fight.

This production method is like in a jigsaw puzzle game, first mark all the puzzle pieces with numbers, and then put them together in a certain sequence.The biggest advantage of this puzzle method is its strong stability. For people on earth, it doesn’t matter if the speed is slower for an important large-scale project like an aircraft carrier, but the quality and stability must be guaranteed.

But the idea of ​​intelligence body is obviously completely different.

It's also a jigsaw puzzle game, and the alien is a genius child - he randomly scattered the puzzle pieces on the ground, and then put the piece of the puzzle piece in his hand where it should be placed.In the whole process, he not only carried out with one hand, but countless hands.

It can almost be said that the "production" on the intelligent body's side is almost immediately put together by countless flying processing tools after all the raw materials have just been processed.This kind of efficiency is not at the same level as the industrial production ideas of people on earth.

Obviously, the current production mode of intelligence is more suitable for the gravity-free environment of the universe, or the interior of the planet...

Yevgeny could almost imagine that if this scale of production was carried out without distinction in the entire galaxy... what a terrifying number the production speed would reach.He even has a faint worry that if the supply of materials cannot keep up with such production...

Yevgeny seemed to suddenly understand what the intelligence told them to come and visit.

"Are you going to attack?"

The image of the intelligent body's face appeared on the front panel of the aircraft: "It seems that you have understood our laws of war."

"It's not just yours..." It's the same on Earth.

Before going to war, a country is desperately manufacturing war weapons, and it will definitely try to put these weapons into use before spending the last penny in its pocket.The moment Yevgeny learned about this production method, he realized that there was no limit to the production speed in this production mode.As long as the intelligent body is willing, he can expand such a "production workshop" infinitely... and the only factors that restrict him from doing so are two possibilities. One sees that although the rate of production has slowed to a certain extent, military suddenness has increased.Second, that is the mass of the planet itself...

Yevgeny didn't know how big the planet he was on was, but judging from the scene behind him and in front of him, he was clearly at the edge of the planet.But it is still difficult for him to feel the existence of gravity as he did when he first set off. There is only one explanation for this—there is not much mass left in this planet.

Once the mass of this planet is completely exhausted, there must be only war.

"I hope that your civilization can guarantee neutrality," Zhiti said, "If you understand our production method, then you must also understand that I have no choice."

Yes, the intelligence has no choice.If he doesn't start playing, the entire production line will come to a standstill, which to a large extent means that the metabolism of the intelligence-body civilization has been suspended.But his opponent, the Federation Civilization, does not. The Federation has more planets and resources... In the long run, if the intelligent body maintains its current passive defense state, it is destined to be wiped out by the Federation.

Mere peace is unilaterally beneficial to the Federation.

So the intelligence will invite him to come and watch the scene, which is to a large extent telling the search and rescue team that he did not disrespect the civilization of the search and rescue team, but that he has no choice.