Gods: The Swarm

Han Fei's heart was full of hope, but the first task now was to survive.

He controlled the silicon-based behemoth, slowly crawled out of the solidified magma lake, and began to explore around the planet.

The yellow sand on the planet was flying all over the sky, and the strong wind was like a sharp blade, ruthlessly cutting everything.

However, these wind and sand were no threat to the behemoth.

Its silicon skin was like a solid shield, and each silicon scale was extremely tough, blocking the wind and sand outside and resisting the invasion of the harsh environment.

As time went on, Han Fei gradually became familiar with the body of the behemoth.

He found that although its IQ was not high, the structure of the behemoth's body was extremely strong.

The cell wall or cell membrane constructed with silicon as the skeleton has a much higher stability and strength than the cell structure of carbon-based organisms.

This makes the silicon-based behemoth have a stronger ability to resist pressure and can better adapt to extreme environments such as high temperature and high pressure.

During the long journey of exploration, the silicon-based creatures here have different shapes. Some silicon-based creatures are tiny, like dust, and some are huge, like mountains.

This amazing species diversity far exceeded Han Fei's initial expectations.

Interestingly, most silicon-based creatures are not actively aggressive and are as docile as herbivores.

The ecological chain of the survival of the fittest does not seem to exist on this lonely planet, which is simply contrary to the known evolutionary theory.

Even if the universe is boundless, resources must be limited, and the conservation of energy and matter is the basic law.

With the barrenness of this planet, how can such a large and diverse biological population be maintained for billions of years?

Han Fei held a curious attitude, and after a long observation, he gradually discovered some clues.

In the bodies of these silicon-based creatures, the silicon-based neurons composed of silicon chain structures have formed some mysterious textures that can effectively absorb the ubiquitous radiation energy in the universe.

After some strange conversion, although the radiation energy is not enough to fully meet the growth needs of silicon-based organisms, it also provides an additional source of energy.

After the soul is exhausted, the silicon-based organisms that enter death will naturally disintegrate over time and turn into special minerals containing energy.

The high concentration of energy stored in some organs will even condense into energy crystals.

This kind of special mineral crystal is one of the main food sources for living silicon-based organisms.

It is relying on such a peculiar species characteristic and feedback mechanism that silicon-based organisms can continue to reproduce and evolve on this barren planet.

Even though the evolution of its species is extremely slow, after a large number of sample observations and comparisons, Han Fei is still sure that its evolution is still moving forward steadily.

Not only the bodies of silicon-based organisms, but also their IQ and even soul strength, show obvious population differences.

The more evolved the population is, the more complex the silicon-based neurons in its body are, and the more reasonable and stable the overall structure is.

The texture of the structure is more mysterious, and the absorption efficiency of radiation energy is also higher, which actually presents a prototype similar to a natural magic circle!

The body structure and energy utilization efficiency of highly evolved populations have been greatly improved.

With the improvement of the degree of evolution, the brain structure and neural connection of these creatures will also change, making their intelligence level and soul strength continue to grow.

This evolutionary trend is not only reflected in cognitive ability, learning ability, etc., but also includes advanced psychological characteristics such as sociality.

The size of the body can no longer accurately reflect the combat effectiveness of different populations.

In order to obtain more research samples, Han Fei was besieged by the entire population when he controlled the octopus to capture a small creature.

This means that the consciousness of group cooperation has emerged, and individuals can communicate efficiently.

Han Fei was ecstatic in addition to being astonished.

It's good to be able to communicate!

In the following years, he began to try to establish contact with silicon-based creatures with higher evolution in various ways.

After a long exploration, Han Fei discovered that in the brain-like structure inside the octopus, a certain organ can emit a special wave after trembling and can be sensed by other silicon-based creatures in a resonant way.

After countless attempts, Han Fei finally got effective feedback.

"Can you hear me? I want to communicate!"

The information that was constantly sent out through the body of the giant beast finally paid off.

On this day, a small silicon-based creature responded to him with a series of waves, which seemed to be asking Han Fei's intentions.

"I am not an enemy. We can explore the planet together."

Han Fei, who has rich experience in communicating with the mentally retarded, sincerely sent a very short message to facilitate the other party's understanding.

The small creature paused for a moment, obviously unable to fully understand Han Fei's meaning, but could feel the goodwill he actively released, and then also sent a series of friendly waves.

What surprised Han Fei was that other silicon-based creatures also began to slowly approach him at this time, circling the huge body of the octopus, constantly releasing waves of joy and curiosity, showing their intention to accept Han Fei.

As the communication became more frequent and in-depth, Han Fei was able to confirm that this highly evolved silicon-based biological population had an IQ roughly equal to that of a newborn human baby.

Their thoughts were ignorant and pure, their likes and dislikes were clear, and they did not know how to conceal their emotions.

Their group consciousness is not limited to the size and appearance of the body, but the resonance of consciousness fluctuations.

For silicon-based creatures that cannot achieve consciousness resonance and communicate effectively, they will only be regarded as aliens.

Like humans' views on other primate species, although there is still a sense of discrimination, when they are in urgent need of energy replenishment, they will prey on these aliens.

Han Fei has seen with his own eyes that this group of calf-sized silicon-based creatures, relying on group cooperation, easily hunted several giant beasts over a hundred meters high. After the corpses were broken, the organs containing energy were eaten up.

Such performance has entered the category of social intelligent creatures.

"Can they develop into my subordinate clans and provide me with the power of faith?"

Once Han Fei's thoughts arose, he could not stop it.

Although they are not core clans, they cannot provide Han Fei with pure power of faith and provide firewood for the burning of the divine fire.

But it is at least an additional source of divine power. At least when he condenses the divine power phantom, he does not need to consume the remaining divine power.

Compared with controlling the body of the octopus beast, it is much more convenient to use the divine power phantom to do things, and it can also condense the divine power into divine energy crystals.

With sufficient divine energy crystals, he can construct a divine energy array and even make simple divine energy equipment.

You know, in the study of the Central Academy of Civilization, survival on a desolate planet is a required course.