Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

Overnight, this industry that used to be loved by uncles and grandmothers, and was joked every day as "is it the century of biology again?" suddenly became an industry that occupies a lot of space in the annual reports of national conditions of various countries. The meat and potatoes of research funding skyrocketed a hundredfold.

Although due to the genetic gap, many methods of the Cat League cannot be copied to them as they are, especially those methods that use the unique properties of triple-helix DNA, which can only be used for reference, but countries still hold great enthusiasm Started research work on related technologies.

After Red took charge of the Cat League, thanks to the advancement of technology and a set of free universal medical care, health care, and gene editing bills guaranteed by the state, the average life expectancy of the Jeffreys has reached 790 years, an increase of more than 100 years. years old, even exceeding the upper limit of lifespan thought by the Jeffreys.

The reason why it is estimated is because under the soaring biotechnology, the growth rate of the upper limit of the lifespan of the Jeffreys has greatly exceeded their natural aging speed, which has led to even the oldest old people who have just lived to 720 years old. There is still a gap of 70 years from the average life expectancy predicted according to past laws, let alone the 950+ years estimated by technical means.

As for the Catus, their expected average lifespan has increased to about 1000 years, and the limit lifespan has even reached the level of almost 1200, which is three times that of human beings and four times that of Locke, making them extremely long-lived.

The reason why the growth rate of the Catus people is slow is that on the one hand, there are too few samples and not enough data can be collected. On the other hand, many methods to prolong Jeffrey’s life are learned from the genome of the Catus people , the effect of turning it over is not so obvious.

But it doesn't matter. After successively overcoming the two major technical problems of artificial life and virtual life, the rapid take-off of biotechnology in the following period of time is a matter of course and completely predictable.

With two such advanced tools, why does she not know how to increase their lifespan?

Say no to longevity theory!

"Everyone has started to devote themselves to scientific research." After browsing the information collected by Li through his intelligence network, Hong nodded with great satisfaction, "Very good, it makes sense, the money should be used in this kind of place That's right."

Yes, the sensational result this time was expected by Hong a long time ago—it can even be said that it was precisely because she wanted to shock them that Hong deliberately controlled the degree of information spillover beforehand so that the outside world could not see them All kinds of preparations for this achievement.

Then, wait until the day when the explosive result is completed, and then make this achievement clear to the entire star field with such a big fanfare.

The reason for this is very simple. It is to encourage, or in other words, encourage those organic civilizations to continue to invest their attention and energy in scientific research, industry, military and other fields closely related to civilization, instead of relapsing the old disease and going back to continue to engage in that shabby financial game.

If the smartest brains of a civilization don’t think about things like the beginning and end of the universe, the mysteries of the physical world, or how to benefit civilization and make everyone progress together, but indulge in crazy financial games Those meaningless numbers in the inner volume, it can really be called the tragedy of an intelligent civilization.

Unfortunately, in the absence of external pressure and insufficient internal supervision and awareness, civilization will always spontaneously tend to be poor, not thinking about how to make the cake bigger or distribute the cake more equitably, but trying desperately Snatch the poor cake crumbs from others.

As the most powerful civilization in its own star field, representing the most advanced system and productivity, Hong believes that he has certain responsibilities and obligations to guide these civilizations on the right track, so that the entire camp of intelligent civilizations can move towards prosperity and strength together. s future.

This is the awareness that a superpower should have.

"If you don't give a sense of urgency and pressure appropriately, believe it or not, they will have to fall back into the trap before the extermination war within 200 years, and continue to go crazy on the road of history."

Hong spread her hands helplessly: "There is no way, this is human nature, and it is a problem that their current moral system cannot solve."

"Isn't the shuffling of a war of extermination not enough?"

Li was puzzled.

It is normal for her to raise such doubts. After all, after a war, the human population has dropped from a peak of more than 100 billion to a minimum of less than 5000 million.

Even if various methods are used to promote fertility in the future, coupled with a certain range of cloning supplements, now the war has ended for 36 catus years, and the human population has just returned to 45 billion, and there are still nearly 20 billion are minors.

In contrast to the aging population that we have encountered before, today's human beings can be called a younger population. More than 40% of the population in society is under the age of 15, and they can hardly produce anything. They can only consume the fruits of other people's labor. Maintaining existence - this is very normal in itself, after all, providing compulsory education to minors is not only the obligation of a country, but also a necessary investment to enhance national strength.

But with such a high proportion of minors, if you count the adult population such as universities, masters and Ph. Ds who are still in the education stage, it can be said that more than half of the human population is waiting or receiving education.

This is simply a huge blank sheet of paper that has never been seen before, and it is the best opportunity to reshape the mainstream thoughts of civilization—this is also a major reason why the foreign alliances are desperate to get rid of the xenophobic thoughts entrenched in the country.

Although they are xenophobic militarists, they do not want any pollution related to xenophobia to be mixed in this unprecedented action of shaping the trend of civilization. Once they are polluted, they will have to pay hundreds or even thousands Double the huge price.

"Since they are intentionally preventing pollution and reversing the car, why does mother think that they will still reversing in the future?"

"It's very simple." Hong held up an index finger and shook it slightly, "Because people can change."

"Although there have been a lot of unhappiness before, I am actually very clear that the generation that grew up under the war of extermination is already a group of people with a high level of consciousness. In order to survive the crisis of life and death, their whole The quality can be said to be the highest batch ever.”

"Although due to many reasons, they failed to take a step further from this state and completely break away from this vicious circle, but it is undeniable that the people living under their rule are much happier than most people in the previous centuries. "

"However, after the pressure of survival gradually dissipates, do they really have the determination to continue in this way?"

"Isn't it?"

Li was puzzled.

"Yes, they won't—at least so far, I haven't seen a route to break the cycle." Hong gently made a gesture of rubbing money, "As long as this thing is still their most important thing, they If you would rather spend your whole life pursuing it, then the cycle will continue forever.”

"Do you have any ideas?"

Seeing Li who was obviously thinking about something, Hong habitually touched the soft ears above, and then asked aloud.

"I'm wondering...is it possible that organic creatures will almost inevitably fall into chaos and eventually self-destruct if they are freed from the tutelage of our omnics?"

Li replied.

"This kind of thinking is wrong."

Unexpectedly, Hong shook her head, expressing her disapproval.

"Huh?" Li raised his head in surprise, his ears moved slightly, "Why?"

It is understandable for her to ask such a question. After all, whether it is seen by outsiders or Maomeng's own people, isn't Hong doing what she said above at this time?

To protect the organic creatures, to completely eliminate the signs of chaos from the source, and to ensure that they will not self-destruct due to such reasons, isn't this Hong's course of action?

"Of course, under this infinite cycle, civilization always tends to involute and internal friction, getting worse and worse.

"However, whenever civilization falls into chaos and depression, there will always be those who are not willing to fall, and want to use their own power to transform the world into a better look.

"Although they always fail in the end, in each cycle civilization is actually a little bit more advanced than it was before—for no other reason than that they have been here before."

"In this repeated cycle, as long as they have enough patience, one day, their ideal world will be able to be built.

"If there is an idea that organic creatures must be supervised to solve problems, it is actually putting them in a low position unconsciously, and then going to 'handout' to give them such a future.

"This is not the right idea, we just accelerated the arrival of this process and used our persistence to make this beautiful world more stable, not because we produced this result.

"do you understand?"

"So that's how it is..." Li pondered for a while, then nodded, "I'm narrow-minded."

In her heart, the "supervisor" tendency that had just appeared a little bit had been completely resolved by Hong's teaching.

Mom knows a lot.

Sure enough, those organic creatures look weak, but their intelligence is not inferior to them. The various thoughts born in their social activities can also guide even an omnic life like her. Effect.

The mother's thinking is so mature, is it because there are many organic creatures accompanying her?

How about she... try it too?

However, Li made some calculations and found that the source of this organic creature was difficult to deal with—she would definitely not be able to get someone from Hong. My understanding of sociology is very shallow, but I also know that as social animals, people need enough companions and social interactions to live normally.

Otherwise, it is very easy to have various problems like Hong’s when she first raised her cubs—even a mother who knows so much finally solved her psychological problems and hidden dangers by integrating with Jeffrey’s society. Just don't count on it.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Li ruled out the idea of ​​using biotechnology to breed a small number of foxes to suck them out—after all, she would never do such a thing that harms others and benefits herself.

As for the human side, although there is no problem in directly absorbing technology and environment, the problem is that Li doesn't think he can absorb enough people from the human side that he can fully trust.

It is even more impossible to cultivate it by yourself, which will definitely cause extremely huge diplomatic problems, and she does not want to cause trouble.

As for the birds, Hong and Li have already decided not to interfere with them in all aspects of society, so they are directly excluded.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li reluctantly put this idea on hold for the time being, and decided to try to raise some small animals without advanced intelligence, just to gain some experience in the future.

"Mom, I want to have a cat."

Li suddenly said.

"Cat?" Hong tilted his head, "Sure, but why did you suddenly think of raising a cat?"

Li explained his thoughts to Hong.

"Okay, you should try it a long time ago." Hong said with a gratified expression that you finally got the hang of it, "However, it's not enough to just raise cats. Later, I will ask the cargo ship to bring you some other things by the way. You prepare in advance. good locations, and use them to create a small eco-region."

"Ok!"

Li nodded vigorously, and wagged his tail unconsciously, looking a little happy.

After all, who doesn't love cats?

Volume 210 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] [-] New Unknown Civilization

While sucking cats, Hong and Li didn't forget that there is still a group of toilet-smelling creatures eyeing their civilization.

It has been nearly four years since the opening of the wormhole of the religious order. During this period, Hong was not only expanding his own fleet, but also kept making small-scale explorations around the wormhole empty minefield, trying to clean up these buried wormholes. A huge threat on the path that one must pass.

The method is actually not difficult. Let an armored detection ship go through the hole first, resist the first few rounds of lasers, and then send back the current distribution of the enemy's nuclear air mines, and immediately let the missiles in the opposite position Set off and move towards the predicted future trajectory.

Although the DV of a heavy nuclear bomb equipped with a solid rocket motor is very bleak, the advantage is that the acceleration is fast enough, which is suitable for this occasion that requires a quick response.

Although after passing through the hole, most of the missiles will find that their target does not appear in the predicted position, so they can only explode far away in grief and indignation, causing a little negligible damage to the armor of these heavy nuclear air mines—— But if these missiles happen to be in the position of a nuclear air mine, they can easily reimburse the opponent for a big killer buried in the hole.

Obviously, since the time required to pass through the wormhole of the Order is about 15 minutes, this means that their missiles need to predict the position of an air mine that can change orbit slightly in 15 minutes to ensure the accuracy of the nuclear bomb Hit the opponent's air mine, and complete a detonation attached to the armor surface.

For this kind of super-heavy air mine, only by detonating the warhead when it is close to zero distance from the armor can it be guaranteed to destroy these armored behemoths. In addition, any non-fireball damage can hardly be caused to this thing. obvious impact.

Although it is also possible to gamble on radiation damage equipment, it is obvious that the most that the opponent loses is the normal battle of the fleet. If they lose the bet, the entire vanguard will be reimbursed.

No one of normal intelligence would take such a gamble.

Although it seems that a small armored detection ship needs to be reimbursed for each cleaning, and a large number of missiles used to make up the probability, the overall cost is higher than that of nuclear air mines, but it is obviously worth it.

In military operations, the cost of the offensive and defensive sides can never be compared alone. It is just a game of fighting beasts. An anti-tank missile costs 10 yuan each, and a main battle tank tens of millions of yuan. Might die, so the tank is useless?

From the birth of the first tank to the present, the theory of the uselessness of tanks has been updated in various forms. For example, on the human side, shortly after the tank was invented, some people thought that tanks were useless, and that they were under the influence of anti-tank weapons. As fragile as an old-fashioned caravan.

Basically, whenever a new generation of anti-tank weapons comes on the scene, tanks will reappear once, but after so many years of fighting, from ground trenches to interstellar space, the main combat force of the ground army is still tanks, but the traditional air force Under the attack of the ground laser air defense network and the firepower of the orbital warship, it has become the tears of the times. Now I can only fly the aerospace plane to send Ma Run to land, not to mention how uncomfortable it is.

Combat missions never depend on how much money you spend to destroy the opponent’s equipment, but whether you have reached the predetermined tactical goal—even if a hundred tanks are destroyed by the opponent’s hundred cheap missiles, But if under their charge, key strategic locations are captured, it is a win.

The same is true for the Cat League, as long as all the nuclear air mines can be cleared to ensure that one's superior forces can pass through the hole safely, so what if the cost is higher than the cost of nuclear air mines?

After confirming that all the nearby spare nuclear air mines had been completely exhausted, Hong decided to take the initiative to attack.

According to intelligence, in the galaxy bordering the enemy, there are a total of about 900 warships of various types deployed, with a total tonnage of about 3 million tons, and then a fleet of about 0.5 million tons is deployed in the two adjacent galaxies , its total fleet tonnage is 4 million tons, and another 1 million tons were transferred some time ago, and it will take at least ten days to get to the battlefield.

In contrast, the Cat League currently has a total of 1920 cat-and-cat pusher-class ships, 640 beluga-class ships, and 200 queen-bee-class ships. 6.4 million tons.

Even considering the existence of enemy fortresses and defense platforms, their combat effectiveness still has a certain advantage-this is already an opportunity worthy of their initiative.

However, why did the religious order suddenly withdraw a fleet of nearly 1 million tons from the battle line at such a critical moment?

"Look, everyone, these are the information that our detector just sent back."

Hong took two steps back, and the display screen behind the control lit up, showing the photos she had just analyzed.

"This is..."

An officer observed carefully for a while, and said somewhat uncertainly, "A warship?"

Although the clarity of this small detector is really poor, and the relative distance is also very far, he can barely see a thick and short white outline, and can't see more details, but experience tells him, A space object of this configuration is most likely a warship.

"Wait a minute." He suddenly realized something was wrong. "They are engaging...a battleship?"

"Yes." Hong nodded, "One of their entire fleets will fight a warship."

"This..."

Everyone looked at each other.

A battleship singled out a fleet?

Even the most powerful No. 10 Glory-class ship of the Cat League, it is impossible to single-handedly challenge the entire fleet-in fact, 240 Solo Pusher-class ships can already draw with the Glory, let alone the A standard, regular fleet consisting of 80 single pushers and [-] Oluga-class ships.

With a similar level of technology, how could there be a battleship that could single-handedly challenge an entire fleet of others?

"Where did it come from?"

Someone asked eagerly.

"I don't know." Hong shook her head, "But, I can say with absolute certainty that it didn't come through a wormhole."

Saying that, Hong switched to the next photo.

Everyone can clearly see that in this new photo, the position of the order's fleet has hardly changed, which proves that the time it was taken is not long after the previous one.

However, the unknown warship that was still killing all directions with its own power just now has disappeared without a trace.

"It also has a warp speed engine—and unlike all of our engines, which were originally used to lead small fleets to conduct short-distance maneuvers on the battlefield, the one equipped on this battleship should be a kind of engine specially designed for single-ship operations. And prepare the warp drive."

While talking, Hong put up the observation data.

"This can be clearly seen from the warp light - from the time it represents the construction of the warp bubble to the formation of the warp bubble and the warship entering the warp state, the time is only 5 seconds, faster than our engine more than ten times."

"Did you see where it went at warp speed?"

"Unfortunately, the search capability of the micro-probe is too poor, and the specific landing point of this battleship has not been found-but judging from the distribution of red light at the warp speed, I have reason to believe that it should be heading directly to this galaxy Planet 5, near an ice giant."

The red teaching stick tapped and marked out the faint sky-blue planet.

"However, no matter where this battleship came from, thanks to it, we now know the whereabouts of the more than 300 warships that the enemy disappeared before, and we can be sure that they will not be able to return to this galaxy in a short time.

"I think this is the perfect time for us to launch an active attack and capture the other side of the wormhole.