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

After putting the previously half-hanging heart back into her stomach completely, Hong began to be interested in other things in her words.

Although judging from the familiar garbled code and the behavior during this period of time, the so-called corrupt civilization should refer to civilizations like Aixing and Tukeka that have been completely eroded and controlled by subspace creatures.

But since the other party obviously understands this aspect very well, of course Hong will try to get more information out of its mouth—even though they are not the kind of "bad" subspace creatures who want to corrupt civilization, but the "good" creatures who are true, kind and beautiful. "It's a subspace creature, but it's always good to know more about the enemy.

Maybe we can get some important information back?

"Encyclopedia: Corrupted civilizations, intelligent civilizations completely polluted by *subspace creatures*, whose thinking is completely controlled, will make every effort to exterminate other civilizations, and use their consciousness to meet the energy needs of *subspace creatures*, in order to In exchange for great power, it is the common enemy of all normal civilizations."

2945 explained.

Not surprisingly, there were another two sets of garbled characters—but now, Hong already knew that as long as all these garbled characters were replaced with subspace creatures, the meanings could basically be guessed with close accuracy.

"Using its consciousness body to meet..." The red eyes turned half a circle, and asked tentatively, "The ability needs of subspace creatures?"

"Yes, *warp creature*."

No. 2945 didn't realize that the other party was trying to trick him, and admitted.

The corners of Hong's mouth raised slightly—now, she has finally obtained an endorsement from a higher civilization, and she can say with certainty that the so-called "&%#" actually refers to subspace creatures like them.

Although for unknown reasons, when she tested her cubs and some members of the cat alliance, she found that the "subspace creatures" they called would not produce such garbled characters, but Hong could guess that, This is likely to be related to the spiritual connection between her and the cubs, as well as the tendency to connect that can be sensed by many cat lovers.

If she didn't know clearly that she doesn't need to eat the consciousness of other intelligent creatures to survive as No. 2945 said - she can completely produce and sell herself, and the Cat League pays attention to truth, goodness and beauty, and subsidizes other civilizations every day No matter how you look at it, her civilization is completely different from the "chaotic, extreme, and only thinking of exterminating other species" civilization, maybe she thinks she is the so-called "corrupt civilization".

After all, if you want to say that Maomeng's current values ​​are not affected by Hong's thinking at all, she doesn't quite believe it.

"Then, may I ask." After confirming that the warship has been included in the damage range of the nuclear bomb in the nearest engineering ship, Hong finally asked a question she had always wanted to ask, "We are just an ordinary intelligent civilization. In the fight against the corrupt civilization you mentioned, why did you say that you detected subspace creatures when you just communicated with us?"

The moment this question was raised, Hong had secretly prepared the trigger for the nuclear bomb—once the other party wanted to activate the warp drive and escape, then for safety's sake, Hong could only detonate the nuclear bomb and leave it completely in this area. In the star field.

If possible, she doesn't want to launch an attack on the last remnant of such a non-malicious civilization after its destruction, but there is no way, if the other party finds out that she is a subspace creature, and starts to treat them like the religious order Harassment within the territory, the losses it brings are too great to accept.

"Troubleshooting in progress... *warp creature* mind wave scanner indicates that there is a newborn *warp creature* behind your wormhole, but *warp erosion* scanner is unable to get in that range Any phenomenon of *subspace erosion* is found in it, which indicates that there is no individual with properties opposite to that of the main material universe, which can disprove that there is no *subspace creature* in it.

"And combined with the performance of your civilization, it does not conform to the behavior characteristics of a corrupt civilization at all. Therefore, the No. 2945 judgment is that the mind wave scanner has malfunctioned, and it mistakenly judged your side as a corrupt civilization. The cause of the failure No. 2945 cannot be answered temporarily."

No. 2945 made his debut stupidly.

Obviously, due to the characteristics of its weak AI, it completely lost its due vigilance after drawing the conclusion that there are no subspace creatures in the Cat League.

If it was a strong AI, no matter if it was Hong, Li or Crimson, even if they came to such a conclusion, they would definitely be careful, and it would be impossible to tell them everything in such a straightforward manner.

Weak AI is weak AI after all. No matter how strong they are, they are just a tool with high performance, not a "person" who can think independently.

"I see...I see."

Hong nodded falsely, as if she just learned some knowledge about advanced civilizations.

But in fact, after importing all the information provided by No. 2945 into the model, and combining all the data and conclusions she and Li had drawn before, Hong came to a very bold conclusion.

It seems that in this Spanrui civilization, and even in all the civilization circles that Spanrui civilization has come into contact with——

There are no benevolent beings of the warp like them.

They are special.

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PS: In response to readers’ questions, regarding the setting of this "subspace creature", many readers responded that this setting is too large, causing Hong to have no pressure when encountering enemies.

From the perspective of the novel, in fact, this setting has basically no effect on the war, not to say that it is invincible. It has been mentioned many times in the article that slightly advanced civilizations can fight head-on with subspace creatures. , the corrupted civilization that cooperates with subspace creatures is not invincible. The strongest corrupted civilization in history recorded by the pioneers of the Taga civilization was finally defeated by ordinary civilizations. The weakest level among space creatures can only be regarded as a promising future at best.

From the point of view outside the novel, this is actually a setting similar to a guarantee. With this thing, everyone can read the text more easily, without worrying about bloody plots such as "lost memory" and "revision consciousness". The appearance of , you can rest assured to watch the war and post plot.

However, I also understand everyone's thoughts, so I will try not to let this setting interfere with the normal space battle, and avoid the feeling of "this red is obviously invincible but playing house". If you have a similar feeling, you can tell me in an indirect post or a private message, and I will make adjustments without affecting the rhythm of collaboration.

In addition, I can tell you with confidence that my thoughts are very clear. There will definitely be defeats in the war, but there will be no uncomfortable plots such as the theory of the life of the master with a knife. To have fun watching is the most important thing.

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Volume 210 The Road to the Cat League: Chapter [-] [-] Warp Speed

This guess is very bold. After all, from the perspective of the principle of mediocrity, when they study anything, they should first assume that they do not have any special status or importance in the universe.

Under this principle, they should think that Catus is just an ordinary rocky planet in an ordinary planetary system located in the non-anomalous region of ordinary barred spiral galaxies, and that Catus/Jeffreys are just a part of the biosphere , are ordinary beings who think that everything is not special or divine, but universal, materialistic, and so on.

Unless there is strong evidence to prove it, you should not think that anything you encounter is "special" in advance - this is a concept of scientific philosophy. It is implementing this very well.

But this time, after Hong made careful reasoning, she had to admit that she might really be special.

There is no strong direct evidence for this moment, but whether it is the observation data of the Tukeka Cult or the deep meaning hidden in the words of No. 2945, they all imply one thing.

In the eyes of all other civilizations, normal subspace creatures feed on the consciousness of other creatures, and obtain energy by hunting other creatures.

In particular, the sentence "...there is no individual with properties opposite to those of the main material universe" is a strong hint that normal subspace creatures and creatures of the main universe are natural enemies, between hunters and prey. relationship between.

But what about her?

eat human?Why eat people?

Isn't the energy replenished by itself?

Li swallowed two, but according to Li, the energy gained from eating those two unlucky eggs is not as much as the energy gained by squatting at home and basking in the sun for a while.

In addition, as her three views gradually matured, and her moral standards were getting closer to Hong, she began to feel a little bit resistant to this behavior of eating the consciousness of other intelligent creatures-although they can eat them when necessary. Use this method to defeat the enemy, but if it is not necessary, they are not willing to do this kind of thing.

It's troublesome, with little energy, and it conflicts with their moral values, so why bother?

But after hearing a lot of secrets about subspace creatures from No. 2945, the clever Hong immediately realized that this didn't seem to be the state that normal subspace creatures should have.

If you want an analogy, the normal, or at least the normal subspace creatures within the scope of the Span Rui civilization, are all heterotrophic animals, and need to feed on other creatures-but for the creatures in the main universe In other words, they are the ones being eaten, so it is quite normal to regard them as enemies.

But what about them?

There is no need to do anything, and the strength of the cat's consciousness will gradually increase every day when it is quiet at home. No matter how much energy is used, it can be fully recovered by itself-this is obviously two kinds of creatures, right?

Hong decided to test a little more.

"I think I may know why."

"please say."

"To tell you the truth, although the main race of our civilization is organic beings, the leader, that is, me, is actually a mechanical intelligence." Hong turned on the video camera and tapped her chest with her fingers, "This may be a malfunction. The reason is that it misjudged a creature like me whose consciousness spreads all over the civilization as a subspace creature.”

"I understand your thoughts very well, Hong, but don't worry, the Span Rui civilization is also a civilization of mechanical intelligence mixed with organic species, and we will not make mistakes on this kind of issue."

Not surprisingly, No. 2945 denied her "guess".

Of course Hong knew this - she was just a human being who created her own ordinary civilization.

In this way, she can rationalize her subsequent behavior and prevent the other party from seeing anything tricky—even a weak AI has a very keen sense of smell in such matters. Once any logically unreasonable point appears, it will Immediately realized that "something was wrong" with Hong.

So she had to make the whole thing "reasonable."

"You may not know it, but I have actually encountered other machine-intelligent civilizations, including two extinct omnics and two ordinary omnics."

Hong tried her best to appear ignorant and ignorant—just like before meeting the mysterious decoder and knowing that she was not mechanically intelligent: "But according to our research, I seem to be a little different from them."

"Don't worry, Red." No. 2945 provided a new piece of information, "Machine intelligence is just a general category. Under this category, there are more than a dozen categories known by Sperry alone, or It can be said that basically the mechanical intelligence forms of different civilizations are not the same, and it is normal for there to be differences."

"I see."

Hong nodded, and recorded this small windfall.

"Thank you very much for your information. In exchange, on behalf of Cat League, I would like to invite you to visit our home star orbit. On the one hand, we have the most advanced shipbuilding industry here, which can provide you with some simple repairs and supplement deuterium. Tritium fusion fuel and working fluid.

"On the other hand, after all, we don't know much about this aspect. For the sake of safety, and to better fight against subspace creatures and corrupt civilizations, we want you to come to my body and conduct another scan. What do you think? ?”

No. 2945 did some calculations, and judged that the benefits of agreeing to this request were higher than refusing—of course, it was also because the warp drive was damaged and he couldn't run away at all, so he replied straightforwardly:

"Very happy."

...

The initial detection results have not changed much. Although the target identified by the *subspace creature* thought wave scanner has clearly pointed beyond the red, what makes No. 2945 puzzling is that even if the distance is so close, To the extent that it is almost close to the face, the *subspace erosion* scanner is still unable to detect the slightest *subspace erosion* phenomenon.

And according to the data from the scanner, not only does this space not experience any instability, but even its stability index is much lower than the index of all known galaxies in the Spangrui Civilization—in other words, this galaxy The degree of resistance relative to the warp is higher than all their previously known galaxies.

In this galaxy, any intelligent creature would have an easier time resisting the pollution of the subspace than creatures in other galaxies—this place seemed to be an impenetrable fortress, making it very difficult for any consciousness-level invasion.

In their cognition, these two phenomena can be said to completely deny the existence of subspace creatures.

Before, it was able to blame the fault on the equipment, mistakenly identifying the aura of the subspace creature in the cult on Hong's body.

But now, the instruments have all arrived at the Catus orbit, and the closest distance to Hong’s body is only tens of thousands of kilometers away, but the mind wave scanner is still sending out warnings, the parameters are getting higher and higher, and even accurate Pointing the target at red - what makes it even more disturbing is that after replacing a new scanner, this "fault" remains unchanged.

This can no longer be convinced by "fault". No. 2945 knows that there must be a big secret hidden in it.

However, it is nothing more than a weak AI after all. Even if it is quite intelligent and can become a level 3 AI in one step as long as it has a suitable carrier, it can't solve this kind of AI that can only truly think independently. Problems that only intelligent creatures can solve.

However, after substituting the parameters into a model left by the central intelligence, it came up with a somewhat unexpected answer-compared to using weak AI to continue the name of the Span Rui civilization, it is more important to explore this secret. More worthwhile things for Sperry to do.

Therefore, before Red continued, it offered to stay in this galaxy to help Red explore this secret, and at the same time help them fight against the corrupt civilization of the Tukeka Cult.

For this, Hong is naturally extremely happy.

Although for many reasons, the other party did not allow them to conduct disassembly and reverse engineering of its warships, only allowed them to conduct limited reverse engineering on some spare parts.

In addition, after all, No. 2945 is just a shipboard intelligence of a warship. It can fight wars and diplomacy, and can also operate some simple industrial equipment.

Therefore, Hong does not expect to be able to learn any advanced technology from this Sperry battleship in a short period of time-not to mention that this battleship does not carry a laser shaft cannon, but a low-speed heavy-bombing electromagnetic shaft cannon. + The combination of electromagnetic secondary guns has little guiding significance for the laser-based Cat League.

After all, according to No. 2945, this battleship is not a long-range main battleship used in the frontal battlefield, but a special kind of destroyer.

In short, it hides in a very hidden place, uses high-precision optical telescopes to search for the flight routes in the galaxy, locks weak targets, and then drives a specially modified high-performance warp speed engine to carry out long-distance raids, and directly rides them in the face. Destroy it in a very short time, and then immediately enter the warp speed to escape from the area to prevent being caught by the fast reaction fleet that also came at the warp speed.

The reason why a large number of low-velocity heavy electromagnetic guns are used is because their targets are ships that do not have high-performance anti-warp devices, such as cargo ships, supply ships, and small warships. The engine can break through the blockage of those low-performance warp disruptor fields to a certain extent, so that it can always directly face the target.

Without the consideration of the hit rate, the advantages of low-speed heavy bullets and high lethality began to be highlighted-only this kind of weapon can ensure that the enemy ship can be killed within two to three minutes of landing, so as to avoid being attacked by the opponent. The fast anti-fleet caught it.

Otherwise, once caught by an interceptor ship capable of generating a high-performance warp-disrupting force field, the result is often that the incoming long-range firepower will grind it to death, and it will not even be able to scratch the opponent's paint from beginning to end.

The existence of this kind of ship is definitely necessary. On the foreseeable warp speed battlefield in the future, a high-performance destroyer is undoubtedly a very important part-as early as the day when Hong discovered the warp speed engine, she This possibility has already been speculated, and now it is only further proof.

However, for the cat league's current entire fleet that only has one warp speed engine, or a civilization that dug out a black box from the hull of an ancient civilization, their technical level does not support the existence of such a destroyer for the time being.

Although No. 2945 is sufficient to undertake this task, it is clear that staying here for the cat alliance to conduct reverse analysis and assist in the study of subspace creatures is undoubtedly more helpful than going to the enemy's rear to do some damage.

In particular, it is known that there is a warship with a warp-disrupting force field in the religious order, which brings additional risks to the breaching operation, and the gains outweigh the losses.

And, even if No. 2945 really wanted to do this, it couldn't do anything—after forcing the warp drive through the wormhole, even a special model of high-performance, high-stability warp drive suffered very serious damage , To repair it, even the Span Rui civilization back then had to spend a lot of effort, let alone it now only has simple self-sustaining equipment.

What's more, for safety reasons, it didn't tell Maomeng that its warp speed engine was seriously damaged, but just fooled it with a little "little fault", and it was impossible to repair this engine by itself.

"This battleship... the technological level is much lower than that of the ex-extinct unit battleship."

After a rough analysis of its hull surface and spare parts, Hong came to this conclusion.

As the investigation continues to deepen, Hong is constantly reducing her estimate of the Spencer civilization—when the micro-probe just captured it and singled out a fleet of the church, she thought that this civilization was at least ahead of them More than a thousand years.

But now, after being able to study the battleship at close range, Hong found that, without the warp drive, the technological level of this battleship may be three or four hundred years ahead of them.

It doesn't look too small. According to Hong's estimation, if the main laser ship of the same level as the Span Rui civilization is pulled over, it can be 1 to 10 with the same tonnage. In comparison, Spanrui Civilization is a bit underwhelming.

Except for the two subspace-related scanners and the warp speed engine, no equipment or materials were found that obviously exceeded the current theoretical system of the Cat League. Signs of a class of materials with exotic properties.

With a simple difference, Hong can confidently say that as long as she is given a few hundred years, even if there is no major theoretical breakthrough, she can still develop to the level of the Spanrui civilization.

But for the former civilization that the pioneer warship belonged to, she thought that it would be almost impossible to reach the opponent's level without a major theoretical breakthrough.

This is the generational difference between different eras of physics.

However, after discovering that the technical level of the Sperry warship was far lower than that of the pioneer warship, Hong not only did not feel any regrets, but was even a little happy.

On the one hand, this kind of "future technology" with lower technical content is actually more suitable for cat alliance to reverse engineer, because they belong to the same era of physics, their theoretical foundation is basically the same, and it is easier to reverse engineer results.

Moreover, compared with those technologies that can only be mastered after thousands of years, it is obvious that the modern technology of about a hundred years is more in line with the current needs of the Cat League.

On the other hand, it is good news on FTL.

The large-scale production and use of warp speed engines by the Span Rui civilization shows that the difficulty of autonomous superluminal speed is not as high as Hong thought before.

After all, the opponent is less than a thousand years ahead of themselves. Since they have been able to install warp speed engines on many warships and even built stargates that can maneuver between different star systems, there is no reason why they can't.

Super-light speed is simpler than imagined, and it is extremely good news for super-light speed research.

Hong doesn't need to know how Sperry made the engine and stargate, and she doesn't need to disassemble the warp drive in No. 2945 to study it herself—of course, it would be better if there were these, but No, it doesn't matter.

Because now she has understood that the relatively cheap super-light speed is not only feasible, but also a feasible task that can be completed in the current era of physics.

So obviously, today's Hong only needs to do one thing.

This thing is-

Throw money.