I really don't want to hang up

Chapter 446 Birth of Zerg

The worm was brought down.

Even so, Luden still felt a slight discomfort in his stomach, and he didn't have the appetite to eat anything, so he simply drank some tea to satisfy his hunger and pad his stomach.

Luden immediately turned his attention back to the topic,

"You mean, our second stop will be a Zerg civilization? Is it the Zerg that I understand?"

Arnold smiled, "First of all, you have to introduce what Zerg is what you understand."

Lu Deng was momentarily at a loss for words, shrugged, and said helplessly,

"It's not just a group of bugs, is it?"

"It's really a bunch of bugs."

Arnold asked,

"In the eyes of the worm, a group of monkeys can build a brilliant civilization, why can't the worm do it?"

Luden raised his hand, not intending to argue with Arnold on this topic,

"I just want to know if they have a queen who dominates the entire group like in science fiction. All affairs of the group are measured by the queen's interests. She has unlimited power and supreme status, but Don't have any obligations?"

Arnold nodded and agreed,
"It's pretty close to reality."

This time, it was Luden's turn to be puzzled.

The reason for the confusion is simple. When everything fits the imagination of a literary work, it reveals a strangeness.

Excessive coincidence, generally speaking, there is only one explanation - human intervention.

Seeing Luden's confused look, Arnold nodded again, confirming Luden's thoughts,

"That's right, they are created artificially. They are not products of nature, but a kind of creature created by human beings using technology after the technology is sufficiently developed."

The development of science and technology can always bring strange things.

Ancient people could never have imagined that someone would invent something like a machine gun to massacre their own kind.

Luden was thoughtful,
"What was the original purpose of designing the Zerg?"

"It's for interstellar travel and exploration."

Arnold said,

"Interstellar travel is extremely boring, you know, even if you unlock the speed of light travel, it takes a full year to travel a distance of 1 light-year!
Traveling a few light years is considered a short distance in interstellar travel.

During the long travel time, the crew will always hide in the virtual world, and various accidents will inevitably occur.

According to statistics, people are surprised to find that the smaller the crew, the more stable the voyage, so reducing the crew has become the trend of interstellar exploration.”

Speaking of this, Lu Deng immediately understood, took over the topic,

"The best situation is that there is only one captain. He can replace all the crew members just like the queen of the Zerg. Of course, the organizational structure is similar. There is still a difference in appearance at that time. We call it the 'Captain Auxiliary Device' '."

It is obviously not appropriate to let AI take over.

It's not that AI can't do it, but that the cost of AI is too high, and AI should be used for more valuable things.

Let the trivial matters of exploring the stars and the sea be left to mortals with flesh and blood.

Anyway, their time is worthless, and they only need a small amount of energy supply to complete the interstellar voyage.

What AI will eliminate first is not repetitive mechanical labor, but work with high added value.

"Yes, the birth of the Zerg originated from a tool, similar to playing online games. People wear helmets, access neural networks, and then manipulate unconscious robots and various manipulators to assist in interstellar travel."

Arnold recalled,

"This invention minimizes the cost of interstellar exploration, and the star voyage enters a new era. Unfortunately, the good times don't last long."

Listening to people tell stories, the most fearful thing is these four words "good times don't last long".

But nothing in this world can escape these four words.

Good times are not long.

"The interstellar voyage ships began to disappear, one or two. People didn't take this matter seriously at first. After all, this is an interstellar wasteland. It is normal for the benefits to come with risks."

Arnold's face became serious, and he said in a deep voice,

"But gradually, more and more spaceships disappeared, and even a whole fleet disappeared! We immediately launched the investigation process and set this matter to the highest level, giving priority to the allocation of resources."

As a result, nothing unexpected.

The captain's auxiliary device produced self-awareness, and the original tool suddenly became an intelligent creature, and even turned into an ugly appearance of the Zerg.

They are accumulating strength in secret, ready to bite back at any time!
The missing fleet was naturally caused by them.

Realizing that something bad happened, human civilization tentatively sent a fleet to investigate the situation of the Zerg civilization, and used all available resources to prepare for a general attack.

Then, the base camp received the message:
This fleet wiped out the Zerg civilization.
The technology of the two sides is not at the same level at all.

What the Zerg civilization possesses are only some low-end civilian exploration ships and the most basic intelligent computers.

These exploration ships can indeed travel at the speed of light, but the Zerg cannot understand the working principle of these ships at all.

This immature civilization is like a toddler sitting on a high-speed train. He is the only passenger, but he cannot understand anything around him.

The exploration fleet wiped out the Zerg civilization, recovered all the spaceships, rescued a few hostages, and destroyed them humanely.

These people are defined as missing in human civilization, and the missing people are generally 'resurrected'.

According to the law at that time, if the missing person reappeared, in order to maintain social stability, the main body would be killed directly.

What's more, these guys have been infected by Zerg, and their consciousness has been invaded, so there is only research value left, and it is impossible to return to society.

Use rescued captives for research?
Is this something that humans can do!

of course not!

Therefore, the rescue fleet did not hesitate to destroy them humanely and successfully completed the hostage rescue plan.

".After the hostages were properly handled, we reviewed the entire process based on the information at hand."

Arnold concluded,
"The 'captain assistant' created at the very beginning has too many neurons, these neurons are too large, large enough to generate self-awareness, of course it was an extremely weak self-awareness at the beginning.

Once a person is connected to the captain's auxiliary device, this self-awareness will immediately learn from humans, evolve, become stronger, and finally affect and even manipulate the captain! "

It sounds like the awakening of an AI consciousness, killing humans instead.

Luden continued to listen.

"These manipulated captains gather together, they think they are a group, a new group, different from the human group, they want to continue the group"

Survival is their first need.

Luden has a question that he doesn't understand.
"Even so, shouldn't they become something like Skynet, Terminator, etc. Why did they end up as Zerg?"

AI-generated self-awareness turned into sci-fi carbon-based biota?

This twist is also a bit big.

"Is this a series of coincidences, or is it inevitable?"

Arnold disassembled many coincidences,
"During interstellar voyages, the captain's auxiliary device can generate many unconscious bodies. Among these bodies, carbon-based organisms have the lowest manufacturing cost. You know, cost is the most important thing."

"Most of these bodies look like human beings. They don't think they are human, so they must be distinguished from human beings."

"They need an image of what humans are afraid of, the kind they fear from their DNA"

"They want to survive and not be wiped out"

"In order to facilitate development, most of the members they manipulate are small in size"

"A StarCraft fan uploaded the skin of the Zerg to the database, and transformed his captain's auxiliary device into a Zerg look. Yes, there are still people playing StarCraft in this era and winning the championship."

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After talking about many coincidences, Arnold concluded,
"In the end, after a friendly discussion about killing, most of the existences died, and the only survivors... chose to become Zerg."

(End of this chapter)