Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 921 Life is wonderful

The use of negative energy makes the range of the fifth-level civilization very large. Under normal circumstances, its full-fuel range is more than ten times higher than that of the fourth-level civilization. It can be said to be a qualitative leap. Of course, it also depends on the ratio of the ship's weight load to fuel capacity.

Even though humans and the Dayan civilization had not replenished fuel on their way here, the fuel consumed was not much. Given humans' current situation, it would be no problem for them to travel another two or three thousand light years.

Humans don’t know how long the Dayan civilization can last.

Today, the two civilizations are about 7 light years apart and are running parallel to each other.

The two sides sailed in silence without communicating for a long time, but the silence did not last long, because the Daya civilization soon sent another message.

"Red Flame Civilization, come closer!"

"What are you going to do?" Humans immediately sent a question through the Red Flame Civilization's exploration spacecraft.

"It's already come to this, there's no need for us to do this. Given the current situation of our two civilizations, once the microscopic demons really catch up with us, none of us will be able to escape, so it's best for us to communicate directly and work out a countermeasure." The Daya civilization explained.

"You can gather together on your own, but it must not be less than 3 light years away." The human replied, "Also, can you share your plans before you act?"

The Daya civilization should know something about the characteristics of microscopic demons. If they don't figure it out, they will have no way to complain when they are tricked.

The Daya civilization didn't waste any words and sent a message directly: "Although the microscopic demons are powerful, their IQ is not high. They eat lives more out of instinct. The reason why our main civilization fleet and the Xinghai Level 5 Civilization Joint Fleet had no choice but to avoid them was mainly because the microscopic demons broke out too suddenly and they were not prepared at all.

But from our current situation, it is not unsolvable. The microscopic demons crave life, so we can use life to lure them away. Of course, it is not real life. We can use a strong artificial intelligence fleet to disguise it, and when the microscopic demons catch up, we can lead them to another direction. "

The proposal of the Daya civilization seems feasible, but it sounds insincere to humans.

First of all, if the microscopic demons are so easy to lure, wouldn't it be better for humans and the Daya civilization to just run separately? Secondly, the speed of the microscopic demons is a problem. The Daya civilization has never mentioned it, but only said that the microscopic demons may catch up.

You have to know that when humans and the First Fleet of the Daya Civilization turned around and ran away, they were at least 15 light years away from the microscopic demons. If the microscopic demons could catch up with them in a short time even at such a long distance, then no amount of temptation would be of any use.

This luring tactic only works if the microscopic demon takes a long time to catch up.

The human immediately responded with three questions: "How fast are the microscopic demons? Can they really recognize strong artificial intelligence consciousness? Do they really only have the instinct to devour?"

"I don't know the exact speed. The data about microscopic demons we got from the Perseus Community didn't specify their speed. Their mother bodies might be able to recognize them, but even if they can, strong artificial intelligence consciousness bodies are also a delicious dish for them. The third question is that they might have some intelligence, but it's all concentrated in the mother body." "Mother body? Don't they have fermion entities? How much do you know about microscopic demons?"

At this point, there was probably no need for the Dayan civilization to lie, so humans took the opportunity to find out more about the microscopic demons.

The Daya civilization was worthy of having been in the Immortal Community, and knew a lot: "It is not a mother body in the normal sense, not a single microscopic demon is the mother body, but a collective. A single microscopic demon has no wisdom but only instincts, and can't even survive in the universe. Only when many microscopic demons form a group, they have a certain degree of wisdom.

Let's put it this way, their mother body is equivalent to the brain of an entire microscopic demon population, and these rolling microscopic demons are equivalent to its tentacles. Although they are all composed of the same microscopic demon individuals, they have different functions. "

"According to the records of the Perseus Community, the larger the number of microscopic demons, the higher their intelligence, and the larger the range of their extension. The reason why we have not mentioned the movement speed of microscopic demons is that we don't know how fast the extended part of the microscopic demon population can travel. If we are lucky enough to run beyond their extension limit, we can be considered to have escaped."

The human understood the meaning as soon as he heard it, but he still asked another question to confirm his thoughts: "Does this mean that you know the group movement speed of the microscopic demons that make up the main brain?"

"Yes, the speed of light." The Daya civilization explained very straightforwardly: "The way microscopic demons move in the starry sky is that they first extend their extended population as tentacles, like a worm, to build a bridge, and then their group with the main thought function slowly crawls over like an internal tumor. After completing the movement of the main thought group, they extend their bodies in the same way."

With the description of the Dayan civilization, humans gradually came to understand the concept of microscopic demons.

A more vivid metaphor is that the microscopic demon is like a starry octopus. Each of its tentacle has its own instincts and the tentacles swing and strike very quickly, but the individual demons that make up its brain are not so fast. They can only move at the speed of light along their own population. The range of its rapid strike is determined by the number of this microscopic demon group.

The larger the group, the more individuals that make up the demon's 'brain', and the smarter the entire microscopic demon group appears, and the larger its attack range.

Seen this way, the overall image of this microscopic demon becomes much clearer.

As a whole, it looks like a giant starry sky beast with a slow brain and a body as fast as lightning. It is also a combination of a group of microscopic organisms. Each individual has its own instincts. When countless microscopic individuals with only instincts are stacked together in a certain way, a wonderful wisdom emerges.

So is this kind of wisdom a kind of consciousness that imitates intelligent life? Is this the mechanism by which microscopic demons generate wisdom? Devouring intelligent life and self-consciousness?
After gaining some understanding of the microscopic demons, human scientists have their own thoughts.

At the same time, the human also responded again: "So your plan to lure in strong artificial intelligence consciousness is actually useless?"

Daya Civilization: "Don't we have to try our best to survive in this desperate situation? What if we are just a little bit away from escaping the extension range of the microscopic demon?"

It does make sense, maybe because of this action, the extension of the microscopic demon that came through the space turned a corner, and then just because of this turning time, the human and Daya civilization fleets ran out of range!
Humans know that the probability of this happening is very small, but what if? As the Daya civilization said, there is no other good way now, so we can only give it a try.

(End of this chapter)