Walk through the structure of the Ark and wander on the continent of Terra

Ulbian nodded. On the way to the reactor unit with the strongest energy response of the Life Star, he did meet a few girls without equipment. Considering that they could not pose a threat to him, Ulbian Ignored them.It wasn't until he faced the furious old man who rushed out with two knives that his progress was blocked.

Ulbian could tell at a glance that the old man was not good at fighting, but during the battle he was surprised to find that due to the opponent's overwhelming strength and reaction speed that surprised him, even though he was full of flaws, he could not There is no way to win in a short time.Everyone knows what happened next. At the cost of losing several fire doors inside the ship, the Life Star captured alive a deep-sea hunter leader who was trying to carry out sabotage.

Ulbian looked miserable, and although Gladia didn't say anything to him, he could recognize it. There was a hint of sympathy in the colleague's eyes, which had always been cold in the past.

"Okay, I'm done chatting. I have a few questions. The boss asked me to ask you now."

"Tell me, I will tell you everything." Ulbian knew that the strange crimson substance was irreversible for her invasion and transformation, and it also meant that Alpha had complete control over her life. She In fact, she already knew all the information in her mind, but she still asked her subordinates to ask questions. She didn't know if she was testing herself.

"You accepted the Haihe horde before, right?"

"Well, at the end of that battle, I was surrounded by their corpses and flesh, and was seriously injured. There weren't many choices left for me."

"Of course, it's a matter of urgency. Fortunately, at least you didn't turn into one of those things." Koloff said easily. "To be honest, you did have a few moments. Miss Steer has been guarding the medical room and the ordnance." You didn't hit her near the library."

"You mean that Sakaz over there?" Ulbian looked at the crimson Sakaz girl who ran over to look at the sea at some point, with ice cream in her mouth.

"Well, do you know each other?"

"How is it possible? But I still remember the smell of the car at that time. I can guess it by doing a process of elimination..." Ulbian looked at Koloff's disappointed expression and guessed that this old man wanted to It's been a long time since he was defeated. That Sakaz girl's strength was unfathomable. Koloff probably regretted that he didn't start a fight with her.

The two of them were just asking and answering questions. Koloff asked Ulbian what was under the water where the Stutifila had been wandering. When this topic was mentioned, Ulbian sighed helplessly.

Beneath that sea area, there is an Agor city that moved here at some point. This is what Daqun's memories told him, but he also captured unusual things from Daqun's consciousness. breath.

The city of Agor has never been so close to the shallow sea. This proud ethnic group has always built its own city in the deep ocean, using an advanced and huge fleet and orbital network to outline its country. In addition, the widely used automation system With the help of advanced energy technology, they live a life that is like a utopia compared to land countries.

But that city appeared in a place that should never have appeared in the city's construction plan, and the patrolling Haihei did not besiege the city for a long time as they had done in the past.

All of this made Ulbian, who had never seen the city with his own eyes, feel uneasy.

If the three of them were the only ones returning to the ocean this time, Ulbian would definitely urge them not to get close to that city, and he believed that after observing the abnormal situation in that city, Gretia Tia would make a similar judgment.

But this time, it was not just Gladia and the other three who headed to the ocean, but the team led by Alpha. Her ability to control the ocean exceeded Ulbian's imagination, and the armed forces she commanded were sufficient. A defense system to deal with the average-sized Agor city.

And... Ulbian was very sure that Alpha chose that place to operate, which meant that she had already mastered this information, and she was planning an action plan to include the Agor city.

91. Burning the sky and boiling the sea

Deep in the ocean, the temporary mobile platform created by Alpha has turned into floating foam with the manic ocean currents. Even Kelsey and the doctor are curious about how she created such a large piece of metal material out of thin air. , and let it disappear out of thin air.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for so much metal to gather in this ocean in a short period of time. To create such a large area of ​​​​material and then dissipate it without a trace, they can hardly imagine how much energy needs to be transferred and paid.But this is a matter of higher-dimensional life, so don’t think about it.

But the temporary platform collapsed. Everyone changed into their diving suits and prepared to fight in the water. However, they unexpectedly discovered that they had not actually entered the water. Their feet were still flat and solid, a blister supported by the huge field created by Alpha. Among them, a layer of strange water as solid as land gave everyone a flat place to stay, and this huge structure, completely built and maintained by her, was slowly sinking with everyone.

The sea water gradually overflowed the sky, and through the wide and transparent water wall, under the violent wind and waves, the deep ocean began to come into view.Countless phosphorescent creatures gathered around like clouds, and everyone recognized them as hordes of heirs. They were gathering here, but they seemed to be afraid of the power of this structure and did not dare to move forward. A step beyond the bounds.

That mechanical behemoth, oh, you can call it Basilosaurus or "Kshira". It is like a giant whale that rushes into a school of sardines to prey. It walks wantonly among the fish schools composed of sea heirs, killing those terrifying creatures. If the fish is submerged in its mechanical mouth, it will be smashed, crushed, or even caught in its wake that is traveling at a speed of more than 100 knots.Although it does not carry any device or equipment that can completely react with these organic matter so that the heirs cannot be reused, the speed at which it cleans up the heirs is obviously faster than the speed at which the heirs can arrive and replenish it.

What's more, it is no longer just strolling around in the courtyard, crushing those heirs in the most basic way. The two powerful sticks on its body extend out, releasing high heat and high-frequency vibrations, and the whole body is shaken. The laser weapon array was also firing wildly.

Controlling this huge realm that walks underwater, Alpha calmly looks at the disputes in the outer ocean. After all, the body of a carbon-based creature cannot break through the most basic physical and chemical limitations. This means that at this stage It is impossible for the Haiji to fight against a battleship-level war weapon that can be mass-produced.

Yes, that's right, after excluding those facilities that are unnecessary for Alpha, the facilities used to cultivate Pamish creatures and the research facilities required by Vonnegut's men, the remaining parts of Xila are mass-produced. The cost of Alfa is completely acceptable.

And one of these things can suppress the sea heirs in an entire sea area and cause serious damage to their tribe.One thing to remember is that the current Basilosaurus is not a superior predator, but a war machine born for killing.Alpha created it with the sole purpose of causing purposeful, targeted, and irreparable serious damage to the Haihei people.

Although the sea descendants have now shown strong population capabilities and potential, they have not yet gotten rid of the life form of marine life, which means that they still have to follow the basic principles of biology.

The damage caused by Agor and the Iberians to the sea descendants was extremely limited. In other words, their battle did not destroy the resilience and stability of the sea descendants at all. The damage they caused to the sea descendants would instead make the sea descendants The population receives appropriate stimulation and is always at a threshold that can reproduce and iterate at a high speed.

But this does not mean that the damage caused by Basilosaurus to sea turtles is also at this level. Alpha is collecting data in detail to record the killing effect it causes on sea turtles gathered in this area. Within a unit time, the amount of seawater flowing into this sea area is The total population of Si is far smaller than the damage caused by Ksheela, and this damage is accumulating.

A large number of losses led to a decline in the computing and thinking abilities of the Haisei network. Haisei's actions tended to be more instinctive. At the same time, the loss of a large number of individuals in a short period of time led to a decrease in the efficiency of Haisei's recovery of organic matter in the ocean and a decrease in its breeding ability.

A large number of lightnings are constantly falling, the sea surface is churned by storms, and in the fierce convection and ionized sea water, the diffuse sea cells cannot converge at all. The power of the cells themselves is simply impossible to resist the fierce macroscopic currents, and the sea water that cannot converge Heir cells have no significance for the reproduction of heirs or the recovery of organic matter.

For the Haihe, this is a huge dilemma, even a dead end. With the crazy slaughter of King Dragon Whale Keshira, the organic matter that is broken and permeated in this sea area, and even the surviving Haihe organization, There are more and more of them, and this sea area is like a pot of fresh soup exuding a tempting aroma, filled with the aroma of precious organic matter on the barren seabed.

However, they had no way of utilizing this water body that was becoming eutrophic at a speed visible to the naked eye. The huge storm surge created a negative pressure ocean current area, where the organic matter could not diffuse out, and the incoming sea creatures died and were lost. The organic matter is far more than what the surviving heirs can bring out.

The resources at his fingertips were right in front of him, but Haiji was powerless to do anything.Thanks to Amaya and the group of sea heirs for summoning the horde, now the horde is in trouble.

The more input, the more eutrophic the area becomes, and the more eutrophic the area becomes, the more power the sea heirs invest, and at the same time, their losses will be greater.The most direct destruction of this kind of violent large-scale destruction is that it almost destroys an ecology, destroying the incoming Haihe tribe. The death of a large number of macroscopic individuals, in a very short period of time, has This will affect the population's resistance and stability, and seriously damage its recovery potential.

The current Haihe, for the first time, showed his vulnerability in the face of Alpha and the destruction she brought that transcended time.

"Almost." The regional negative pressure ocean current was about to reach saturation, and the diffuse sea heir tissue soup was about to burst out of the boiling cauldron. At this time, Keshira fired the second round of microwave decommissioning bombs.This is the end of the paragraph for this grand death feast.Haiji, who originally had a complete ethnic group, might have been able to withstand such a devastating bombing, but now faced with the devastating blow of Burning Heaven and Boiling Sea, he had no room to react.

The heirs gathered in this sea area, whether dead or alive, were cooked and decomposed. A large amount of carbon-based mass was oxidized in the air entrained by the churning seawater and the seawater cavitation vaporized by the arc, and turned into It turns into carbon dioxide that cannot be recycled, and the remaining organic matter that is decomposed into small amino acids spreads to a larger area along with the currents that surge across the entire sea area that is boiling again.

When the sea area finally calmed down completely, millions of tons of marine heirlooms had spread into the surrounding ocean in the form of harmless amino acid molecules, covering hundreds of kilometers in radius.

In the future, this nutrient-rich sea area may breed jellyfish again, but that will have to wait until the entire coastal area around Glenfalot reaches a certain number to form a Gestalt organism that can be called a "large group". Let’s talk about the network.And this will be a long process.

92.Read disk

"Why do I dare to attack Haiji with such a fierce offensive like now?" Standing in the center of the field, Alpha looked at his companions around him calmly, and then threw such a ball as a joke topic.

"Why?" Compared to the Doctor, Kelsey, and the deep-sea hunters, who all had their own Xiao Jiujiu hidden in their hearts, they said that I had never seen this scene before, and it was so shocking that I could only think in my heart: "Oh!" Grand Inquisitor Daario didn't care at all about exposing his ignorance to others at this moment. After all, in this situation, he would not be embarrassed no matter how much he asked.

"Because a sea heir is just a sea heir." As he said that, Alpha fished out a sea heir from somewhere. This was an individual sea heir that looked like a squid, but it incorporated the biological characteristics of fish, combined with With the bones and muscles of fish, and the water-jet propulsion of squid, it seems to have quite flexible mobility.

Alpha just threw the thing on the ground, then pulled off its squid tentacles, took a big bite, and chewed it with satisfaction.For her, who didn't care about Haiji infection at all, this thing tasted better than squid.

Then, with everyone watching with their eyes twitching, Alpha said leisurely, "If you have read my sequencing report and inferred results, you should have a basic concept. Haiji is indeed a man-made, based on A biological population created and prepared for a certain purpose. To put it bluntly without making charades, Hai Hei was created by ancestors for a certain purpose. As for what this purpose is, although I have no direct evidence, from Hai Hei The information that can be deciphered from the genetic material map is enough to construct a relatively reasonable guess from the side."

Hearing this, the doctor glanced at Kelsey quietly. Kelsey's expression was very complicated, as if she had a lot to say, but the awkwardness of not being able to say it was hidden behind her deserted face, which was trying its best to remain calm. under.

The doctor thought for a while, held her hand, and patted the back of her hand gently. He had followed Alpha on the earth for so long, and listened to Alpha telling so much magical knowledge about other worlds, and he had always been there. Pay attention and observe your surroundings.A large amount of information and knowledge, which he had forgotten about his past experiences, but was still sober and efficient, sorted, classified and analyzed, allowing him to touch the truth hidden behind the incident to a certain extent.

The doctor knew that Kelsey must know a lot of inside stories, but the things imprinted on the bottom of her life prevented her from speaking those things outright.But, isn’t there still Alpha?

"The heirloom cell itself is an extremely exquisitely designed totipotent cell, or a biological machine that imitates natural biological cells. It can adapt to a variety of extreme environments, including direct exposure to conventional radiation and high vacuum in the universe. Environment, in an environment where sufficient material resources exist, they can evolve and reproduce on their own according to their needs to create a complete and diverse biological community."

"I used a variety of heterogeneous configurations of biomass for testing. Haiji's ability to collect and utilize material resources is comprehensive, including dozens of amino acid molecules that I tested that do not exist in this planet's ecosystem. and heterogeneous organic molecules, they can all be collected and utilized, and converted into substances we are familiar with. They can also differentiate themselves into organs for photosynthesis, using light energy to convert inorganic matter into organic matter. Preserving water, air and organic matter Organs are all written in their gene pool, and in a sense, this is the best proof of their purpose."

"Adapt to extreme environments, be able to take root in harsh conditions, and gradually transform the environment..." The first person to react was Seria. She suddenly raised her head and looked at the sky blocked by the sea water. When Alpha took her, she was The scene of touching the sea of ​​​​stars in the connection of consciousness is still vivid in my mind at this moment.

"Beyond Terra, in the vast and vast universe, the environment on each planet is completely different, and the abilities of the Heirs mean that they can survive on alien planets and gradually change the local environment..."

"Absolutely correct, Seria, accurate judgment. According to my simulation, a truly complete Haihei population can survive and reproduce on most Terra-like planets where the environment is relatively stable and water exists, and the local... The environment that is not suitable for human habitation is gradually transformed into a different look."

Alpha said this conclusion with a smile, and even the Grand Inquisitor present now understood what she meant.

"Are you saying that Haihe was a tool created by the ancestors to transform the harsh environment?" The Grand Inquisitor chewed on Alpha's previous words repeatedly. Although he had never seen the true appearance of the universe, those accurate Attributives and adjectives have already sketched out a hazy picture, and anyone with no problem with logical thinking can grasp the key points.

"Yes."

"...Alpha!" Elini, who had been thinking at high speed, raised her hand like a good student, "Then what is the connection between this conclusion and what you said earlier, that Haihe is Haihe?"

"That's a very good question, so I'll continue." Alpha took another bite of the Haiji version of the squid tentacles, "What kind of characteristics does the tool need?"

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"Yes, the ancestors who made Haihe were quite cautious on this point. Biology is a thing with great uncertainty. Even the artificial cell machines made by bionics will accumulate a lot of energy in the long iteration. variables, and eventually turned into something completely different. However, in the underlying logic of Hai Hei, there is one thing that is written as a basic rule in the annotations of each functional gene. The ancestors relied on a large number of Simple repetition gives this underlying logic huge redundancy against errors.”

"Hai Hei is just a 'Hai Hei', a tool for environmental transformation. All individuals that do not meet this overall functional purpose will be eliminated by their own immune system. Therefore, all mutations and evolutions of Hai Hei will not exceed its To the extent that they are environmental modification tools, they will not, and cannot, deal with things beyond the level of the ecosystem. Dealing with threats from higher levels is the responsibility of the professional departments of the ancestors, and does not need to be dealt with by the heirs."

"As for the ancestors, the current civilizations of the countries on the land and the Agor civilization in the ocean are just within the scope of 'problems within the ecological circle'."

93. Information burned into life

Haihe was not endowed with real war capabilities. What they could do could only focus on the data stored in their own genetic database for environmental modification. However, compared to the ancestors who had mastered a high level of civilization, Agor and other continental countries are quite primitive and crude.

Until the level of mastery of energy and materials reaches the level of interstellar civilization, no matter how fancy the operation is, it will not be enough for Haiji, which was originally designed to clean the local ecosystem.

Take the so-called Great Silence, for example. The data read by Alpha shows that it is a broad-based weapon released by Haixi to destroy the military and industrial capabilities of alien creatures with certain intelligence and technical capabilities. domain interference.

Regardless of the fact that Haisheng is a biosphere adjustment tool, their genetic information database does not have any data to deal with wars in the interstellar era, but cleaning up and eliminating civilizations before and after the atomic energy and information revolution is within their capabilities.Without the ability to manufacture nuclear weapons in batches, or to master strong artificial intelligence that can control drones for mass warfare, or to reach a technological level of similar effectiveness in some other aspects, it is basically impossible for a civilization to compete with the spread of the sea.

But Haihe's performance stopped here. In their complex but highly solidified genes, the ancestors did not reserve actual self-evolution and scientific research and development capabilities. Sufficient technical reserves were enough for them to cope with possible situations. The problem is that adding those functions is just superfluous, reducing cost-effectiveness and increasing the risk of loss of control.

In other words, they cannot give full play to their high-performance clustered life system and efficiency advantages, transform the rapidly spreading biomass and strong quality acquisition capabilities into large-scale industry and manufacturing, and use technological production to make up for their own shortcomings. The reality of the bitter and weak flesh and blood of carbon-based organisms.This is the innate limitation left to them by their ancestors. After all, the heirs cannot break free from the most fragile prison of carbon-based flesh and blood.

This is why the awakened sea heir "god" sacrificed his life to the deep-sea hunter very easily.

After being accidentally released, Haiji's cleanup and reset mission was also accidentally activated.But what they are facing is that they have mastered a technology level that is just a little higher than what they can handle. However, due to the limitations of their own social form and social scale, they have no way to truly transform their technological advantages into war potential, and they have forced themselves to The reputation of Haiji was painted crimson by the Agor people.

The current situation is full of unknowns for the Hai Hei, but there is already another strange substance "Origin Stone" that poses a huge threat to the Hai Hei's work goals and is spreading across the land.The Origin Stone was also a creation of the ancestors, and Hai He was aware of the obstacles it would pose to his mission.

Due to their various limitations, the Argors in the ocean, even if they once had technical advantages, and limited resources, they would eventually be submerged under Haiji's all-round offensive.But the Origin Stone on land, a creation directly derived from the technology of the ancestors, is a trouble and task obstacle that Hai He cannot deal with - the Origin Stone is also a way to transform the environment.

Therefore, Poseidon, the mastermind of Haishen, chose to sacrifice his own life and tried to use methods such as assimilation and persuasion to make certain Argors or other humans who were willing to join the Haishen group become the new Poseidon.

The human beings on this planet are the fire left by the ancestors. They all have potential administrator rights in Haihe's authority library. As long as a suitable person can replace the old god and become the new Poseidon, a Independent free will can remove the shackles on Haiji through various operations that only people with subjective independence can perform.

This is why Poseidon left a mark on Skadi that could be named after Isamara, and why he was calling her to join the group all the time.

……

The data read from Hai Hei's genetic memory showed Alpha a picture. Hai Hei was originally placed in the ancestors' device in the deep sea. The ancestors specially placed them here. If this planet After the environment in the world suffers irreversible decline due to some factors, it is used as insurance to restart the ecological circle.

However, over the course of tens of thousands of years, the devices used to store such complex biological tools failed one by one, and the insurances set up by the ancestors for them failed. Although they received clear instructions and were bound by underlying protocols, the heirs In itself, it will not actively activate its own functions to rewrite the ecosystem when environmental indicators do not reach the warning line, but...

Agor...how on earth did you change your reputation with Haiji from friendly to hostile?

Alpha looked at Agor's technical consul Gladia with questioning eyes. She was really curious about what Agor had done to Haihei in the past century or even centuries, and what What was done to the ancestors' facility, which the Agors called the "origin of civilization", ultimately led to the evolution of Haihe into what it is today.

After hearing what Alpha said, the expression on Gladia's face could no longer be gloomy. She was not the group of Agor people who first came into contact with Haihei. She was the one who found the Agor people in Agor. A long time after the ruins known as the "origin of civilization", during the war between Agor and Haiji, a new generation of Agor people was born and grew up.

Although she has become a technical consul and has become the chief designer and commander of the deep-sea hunter force with her excellent technical and academic abilities and strategic vision, after all, they are just a country of Agor people used to whitewash its own stability. After all, it is impossible for military tools to come into contact with the original truth.

Therefore, although Gladia read her sharp question from Alpha's undisguised eyes, she didn't know the answer.

Perhaps, this question will never be answered. The original Agor people and the heirs who knew that period of history may have turned into smoke in this war, and after several shocks, the fluctuations continued. How much information can be retained in Haiji's consciousness network is itself a huge unknown.

"Well, one day we will understand those things in history. When the time is right, I will launch an expedition to the ruins deep in the sea. When we get there, we will find the answers to these questions that trouble us. But for now, let us investigate and understand..." Alpha raised his finger and pointed to the depths of the sea basin not far away, where the city of Agor shrank under the aftermath of the battle.

Boiling seawater, broken remains of sea heirs, and violent ocean currents were raging above the city's huge dome. If Agor's material technology was not truly commendable, an unimaginable tragedy might have happened by now.

Simply because of the aftermath of the war near the sea, this Agor city did not become the second "Pearl of the Blue Sea".

94. Water depth 500 meters

Xira has cleared away all the heirs near this Argor city, and the battle is spreading into the distance at this moment. Alpha controls the sea currents to create the most suitable killing conditions for this self-made war machine.What happened after that has been mentioned before. The sea heirs in the waters near the Glenfalot coastline were almost cleaned up. Even if there are fish that slip through the net, it will be difficult for a long time to come.

But now, after just a few hours of diving and drifting, the most advanced part of the encirclement and suppression battle was over, leaving only the encirclement and reinforcement part, and everyone finally approached the Agor city.Alpha waved his hand and lifted the force field blisters that had been escorting everyone underwater, allowing the seawater to slowly but evenly soak in.

During the entire dive, she had perfectly adjusted the pressure inside the bubble, allowing those in the team who were not used to deep-sea activities to withstand the heavy water pressure in the deep sea.