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Chapter 2118 Void Taming
  Although they did not kill the void creatures immediately, the things left behind by the void creatures that made this operation not a complete success made them realize that this operation was not a harvest for the whole house. It seemed that they also harvested a piece of useful equipment. . The function of the equipment in front of me seems to be to distort the space to a certain extent. After approaching the items left behind that can exist in the material world, the spacecraft entered a relatively long space. In this space, The scope of space is much larger than the normal world. In the normal world, it may take 1km to reach a scale of 1m.

In short, it seems that the area around this crystal-like thing is only a few cubic meters on the outside, but if you enter its interior, you will find that the space it occupies is several thousand meters in diameter. A huge sphere, which means that this is a very powerful space prop, but it is more difficult to move this space prop, and this space prop cannot be used like ordinary space props. Nothing matters but the quality of the items stored inside. Under normal circumstances, if quality cannot be ignored, the value of space props will be greatly reduced.

After all, extremely heavy things are stored in space props. If the quality cannot be ignored, most people will not be able to lift them. But this thing is essentially a mineral-like thing that needs to be processed before it can be used. The simplest processing method is to throw it into a space prop created by a legendary level powerhouse.

Under normal circumstances, space props created by legend-level experts can only store tens of meters of things, which is good. Under the influence of the rules of this world, it is very difficult for space props to store things, and it is also more difficult to create them. Much more.

Therefore, only those who reach the legendary level can create space props on a large scale. Even so, the materials needed to know such things are quite precious.

But now there is a slight exception. That is, after putting this thing into an ordinary space prop, the space it can store is immediately expanded thousands of times. Even thousands of times more matter.

The original storage space was roughly equivalent to a 3×3×3 space prop, but after adding this, the side length immediately increased to several kilometers.

After the storage space is so large, it even has a certain strategic value and can be directly relied on to transport things like spaceships. After storing space props, he also inherits the space props and ignores them. The characteristic of mass, that is to say, the weight of some of the things stored in it, carrying it on the body is only equivalent to the mass of the space prop. This is extremely outrageous. It also made people aware of the value of void creatures. Although these void creatures can bring disaster to people and swallow up the space that people have finally smoothed, the things on them are also valuable, if they can be obtained. , it is completely possible to create super space props. If these things are used on the battlefield or for interstellar navigation, the effect will be simply terrifying. After this kind of super giant transformation, the space props are completely People can be stored in it and live in it.

This is almost equivalent to a palm world, but the size is much smaller than the real palm plane, even so. This also has great significance in interstellar navigation, such as installing space props on a spacecraft that is only a few meters in size.

It is much easier to propel such a spaceship to sail in space at high speeds, and space props can store countless fuels. You don’t have to worry about the fuel consumption of sailing in space at all, and you can continue to accelerate at a super high speed. acceleration.

In this way, the spacecraft can accelerate to a length close to the speed of light in the universe. Although there is no way to break the speed of light under normal circumstances, during the interstellar voyage, the time inside the spacecraft is affected by the theory of relativity, that is, the internal time The flow of time will slow down during this process. For the people inside the spacecraft, they can span extremely long distances in a very short time. Relatively speaking, it can be regarded as an alternative super-light speed.

If you are going to a nearby planet, you can indeed do this. After all, the nearby planet is only a few light-years away from here. Although a voyage takes several years, which is indeed a bit long, it is important to develop a real planet. Space jump technology has been able to travel through the past before, which is already a considerable advantage. And as the use of void creatures becomes more and more in-depth, humans may also be able to control the long-distance space jumps used by void creatures before.

In previous observations, when the void creatures finally escaped, the space jump distance was quite far. If humans can master this technology, maybe they can build space gates between different planets. It is much simpler to build human civilization on it than in space. There, various material resources can be obtained directly from the planet. It is much simpler than having to transport materials from the planet in space.

In this way, with this round of operations, humans can continue to thrive on another planet, and a layer can be built around that planet. Smooth Space Layer The other planet must be further away from where these void creatures gather. By the time the void creatures arrive in that area, large areas of smooth space may have evolved around it.

This discovery has made humans more and more interested in hunting void creatures. At the same time, with close contact with void creatures, humans have gradually gained a relatively intuitive understanding of the physiological structure of this creature, which is commonly seen in nature. It is difficult to describe the physiological structure of void creatures. After all, they are composed of space and have almost no natural matter in the three-dimensional world. Therefore, it is difficult to describe their physiological structure in language that is easy for us to understand. But some metaphors can be made.

The silhouettes of these void creatures are somewhat similar to amoebas. It is in a spherical state under normal conditions, but when it moves, it will transform into a streamlined state like a water drop, and then slide in the space. Do not regard the space as a water flow. The two are different, just because there is a certain The similarity can be compared like this.

When he advances in space, he does not encounter resistance, but after adjusting himself to a specific form, he can use the tension of space to glide.

And in this process, what he paid for was the relatively stable and smooth space in his body. This is equivalent to the universal fuel in the space system. As long as part of the smooth space in the body is consumed, the chaotic space in the outside world can autonomously push them to glide through the space.

And when they need to go somewhere and move at full speed, their speed can exceed the speed of light. In other words, if the evolution level of this kind of void creature is not very low, has no brain, and does not know that there are predators in this world, humans will not be able to catch them at all. As long as they really want to escape, with the current situation of humans The spacecraft was traveling at a tortuous speed, and it was impossible to do anything against these void creatures.

But as said before, their IQ is indeed not high, and they only need humans to create a smooth space. They will be attracted to hunt.   And even after being in danger in this area, they will still return to this area to hunt. After all, smooth space is so important to these void creatures. They first need it for survival. Just like humans will starve to death if they don't eat, these void creatures will also starve to death if they don't prey on smooth space.

Another point is that their various physiological activities need to digest smooth space, just like they need to digest smooth space when moving, and let the chaotic space around them push them forward. This smooth space is also consumed during various physiological activities in their bodies. Their outlines resemble deformed pets, while their bodies resemble cells, like the most primitive single-celled organisms.

They also have a core, and the one that was captured and stuffed into space props for transformation is the dead core. According to scientists' speculation, the previous way for void creatures to escape was to complete a self-division when they were trapped, and then sacrificed half of them and sent the other half away to a very far away place. Here The specific principle is still unclear, and scientists have only put forward a conjecture. This conjecture was confirmed to a certain extent when observing void creatures in the distance.

These void creatures can divide and reproduce like cells. They also have a core similar to a cell nucleus, but it is different from real cells. There is no genetic material stored in this core, and scientists even suspect that these void creatures have no genetic material at all.

their descendants. It does not replicate itself through genetic material. It's a simpler state than that.

According to the observations of astronomers, when these void creatures want to reproduce, they need to undergo considerable transformation, and their volume will expand at least twice as much as before reproduction. At this time, many more structures will appear in their bodies. These structures will consume the smooth space and produce other structures. After assembling them together, you will find that they become the structural core of a new void creature.

This model is not the same as the model of cell self-replication, but more similar to the model of human industrial development. For example, the simplest model is the coal and steel industrial complex. There is no way for a factory to replicate itself. It must combine with other surrounding factories to build a system in order to produce a set of self-replicating devices.

The same is true for these void creatures. Under normal conditions, their own cores cannot complete self-replication. Only when they reproduce, the cores will consume their energy, which is a smooth space, creating one after another that can A factory used to manufacture itself.

This is actually not as magical as we imagined. It is like our own steel factory cannot produce itself, but it can be combined with some mechanical processing plants. Under certain conditions, steel plants can produce new mechanical processing plants step by step, and develop supporting industries based on them step by step. This completes self-replication.

This method of self-replication often means that void creatures themselves are relatively fragile. If they want to reproduce, they must have a stable environment, and no other intruders can disrupt their reproduction process.

This may be caused by imperfect evolution, or it may be due to differences inherent in different life forms.

After confirming this point, Cheng Ying decided to breed this kind of void creature in the future. Nowadays, human beings are already in a relatively rational state. It is impossible for them to hunt enough prey for themselves and feed more animals like primitive people. The tribesmen wiped out many ancient species. If humans had not exterminated so many species in the process of their birth, many of them might have been domesticated by humans, instead of only a few species like now. Several species could be domesticated, and the rest have been lost to history.

In this way, humans can complete the control of void creatures bit by bit. Especially when this kind of void creature reproduces, it has very strict environmental requirements, which leads to the situation that even if this kind of creature is domesticated, it wants to rebel or otherwise In any case, there are enough weaknesses in itself that can be caught by humans. They can be easily exterminated if necessary.

However, there is actually no need to consider these issues now. The reason is that the previous creature was too primitive. Not to mention its IQ, even its instincts were not perfect. In the process of domesticating it, humans even need to find ways to make it Become smarter, otherwise the value of the species would be greatly reduced if it could only carry out the simplest of instructions.

The difficulty of domesticating this creature is actually very low. Humans themselves can make their favorite foods. Therefore, several void creatures were quickly attracted around the spaceship.

The spaceship released a space attack and drove away several space creatures. Only one of them is retained. This is because these void creatures will continue to devour smooth space. If there is only one of them alone, human beings are more efficient in creating smooth space than they are in swallowing it. But if the number is If there is too much, the smooth space will continue to be swallowed up in the process, causing the people in the spacecraft to fall into chaotic space turbulence. After controlling the target's food source, the first step of domestication is basically completed.

…[To be continued]

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