Starting from Zero

The switchboard room where Nuwa is located is very different from the original one. Now this place has become a huge liquid container filled with biological culture fluids and various Chemical substances.

This huge cultivation tank is our future biological battleship-the cultivation center of the Divine Dragon. Of course, you can also say that this is a slipway. The difference is that the Divine Dragon is a biological battleship, so it is assembled. The slipway structure used is a little different, because it is actually not built, but grown, and it is not normal growth, but genetically induced growth.

Walk to the entrance and exit of the maintenance device on the top of this huge cultivation tank, then take off all the clothes on your body, walk into a special spraying workshop, and enter the entrance and exit from the dedicated passage after thorough disinfection treatment The room where it is. The room where this entrance is located at first glance looks like a submarine base hidden in the mountain. One side is the ground entrance and the other side is written with green translucent culture medium. There are five berth-like passages on the ground. The difference is that it is actually a sloping slope, one end is connected to the ground height of this side, and the other end extends into the culture medium.

I came in naked, because I just finished the disinfection and need to be fully synchronized later, so I don’t bother to change clothes again. Anyway, although it seems busy here, there are actually no outsiders here. All working around are automated robots, there is no human or other Dragon Clan members, and the controller of these robots is Nuwa himself below.

Just walk along the slope a little bit into the ocean of culture fluid. The light green culture medium is maintained at 37.5 degrees, and the temperature is just right. Compared with normal water bodies, the nutrient solution is slightly more important, so the buoyancy is greater, but this is just right for me, because the skeleton of our Dragon Clan is made of metal, so the weight is heavier, even if it is not equipped. The heavy block can also easily dive into the bottom. Of course, the price is that if we want to float on the water, we must keep paddling, otherwise we will sink quickly.

As I continued to move forward, the culture medium gradually covered the top of my head, but I did not start to swim, but first stood still and took a few deep breaths.

The function of this high level culture fluid is somewhat similar to artificial amniotic fluid, which can support any mammals on Earth to use their lungs to breathe directly in the culture fluid. But the lungs originally evolved to cope with the gas environment, so suddenly replaced with a liquid environment, even if oxygen exchange can still be a little uncomfortable, especially the initial process of sending out air to inhale the culture solution is quite uncomfortable, and it will choke you. Even the tears burst out, but it's good to adapt. After all, this is only caused by the incoordination of the nervous system, not any damage.

As a Dragon Clan, my adjustment is of course faster. After a few breaths are squeezed into all the air and the culture solution is infused, I start to swim forward.

In fact, the oxygen content in the high level culture medium is very high, higher than the oxygen content you can breathe when you are on land, so even an ordinary person will feel his physical strength here It seems to have increased. Of course that is all an illusion, it's just that the increase in the amount of oxygen inhaled reduces the accumulation of acid in the body.

Although the light green culture medium has a color, its permeability is very high. I just walked to the end of the slope and saw the huge outline in the solution below. If someone who doesn't know suddenly sees such an outline in the water, it is estimated to be scared to pee immediately, because the huge outline is clearly the head of a giant beast.

In fact, this head should be a dragon head. The shape is designed according to the shape description of Divine Dragon in Chinese mythology. Of course, a lot of artistic processing has been done. Divine Dragon does not look so naive in Chinese painting. , Emphasizes the imposing manner and deterrence, so it looks more scary than the normal Divine Dragon head.

Of course, the real scary part of this head lies in its size. This dragon head that towers up like a mountain is too big, and its size makes it impossible for you to find a human building that can be used for analogy except for the mountain.

In fact, if you can see the body under the head, you will find that this is a complete Divine Dragon instead of just a head, but it is now upright with the head up, so I Only one head can be seen from above.

This Divine Dragon is certainly not a biological weapon of our Dragon Fate, or it is not a pure biological weapon. Everyone knows the body structure of Divine Dragon. This shape is quite good if it moves underwater, but if it is fighting on the ground, the body structure of Divine Dragon is actually very unreasonable. The ancient Divine Dragon Totem in our country was actually made up of several creatures. During the Chinese nation’s war on the Quartet, they continued to merge the Totems of various tribes, adding some of the representative characteristics of the creatures Totem to their Totems. Above biology, and the final product of this addition and modification is Divine Dragon, a creature with an imposing manner, but its body structure is completely unreasonable. This is why Longyuan even created a Western giant dragon like Lucky, but didn't create Eastern Divine Dragon as a national Totem. It's not that it can't be done, but the combat effectiveness will never be too high after it is made. At least the shape of the Eastern Divine Dragon is not suitable for most ground environments. As for air combat...Let’s go to sleep, everyone!

So, since the shape of Divine Dragon has been proven to be unsuitable for the environment on Earth, why should we make a Divine Dragon here? The answer is that this Divine Dragon is simply not designed for the environment of the gravity circle. It is a biological battleship, a space biological battleship that can enter a vacuum environment and conduct interstellar voyages.

The body structure of Divine Dragon is not a suitable shape within the gravity circle, but if it is going into space, there are not so many problems. Because there is no such problem as air resistance, and wings are not needed to provide lift, the shape of the space battleship can be very arbitrary. As long as the structural strength and the reasonable configuration of the internal space are ensured, the shape of the space battleship can be very strange.

Since the space battleship does not require high appearance, it is not surprising that we have made a Divine Dragon. Of course, since it is a biological weapon used in a space battleship rather than a gravitational circle, then the volume of this Divine Dragon must be large enough, which is why the dragon in front of it is so big that it is so unimaginable. Of course, such a large biological weapon is impossible to lift off with a rocket booster, and it actually has its own power.

The power used by this Divine Dragon is multiple sets of biological engines located in the body. This thing is similar in principle to a super-electromagnetic engine, except that it is realized in a biological structure, not a mechanical structure. In addition, the propulsion power of this biological engine is higher than that of a super-electromagnetic engine with a mechanical structure. However, because this biological engine is not compatible with mechanical bodies, the immigration ship cannot use this biological engine, only biological battleships can be used.

In addition to the super-electromagnetic engine, this Divine Dragon actually has almost five million miniature mass effect thrusters. The reason why the number is so exaggerated is entirely because this thing is also completely realized in a biological way, without the slightest mechanical structure. For a mechanical battleship dominated by metal materials, it is absolutely impossible to produce millions of small propellers and install them in place. Even if they can do it, no one will do it, because the gains outweigh the losses and the cost will scare you to death. . But for organisms, there is no such problem at all.

For example, humans and tiring robots are similar in structure. In order to make the robot have a sense of touch, it is necessary to install baroreceptors to the robot. According to the information provided by the pilgrim leader, even the high-end life service robots used by the creators will not have more than two thousand baroreceptors on the body surface. These baroreceptors are distributed on the body surface of the robot and all need to feel pressure changes. To simulate the sense of touch. For industrial robots, this may not be important, but biological service robots, especially certain special models, have very high requirements in this regard. However, even so, two thousand baroreceptors are already the limit, and more will seriously affect the cost and other capabilities of the robot.

But, do you know how many nerve endings on the human body can feel pressure changes? The specific number is not yet clear, but it has been determined that there are millions of nerve endings in a normal person’s leg, and sensory nerve endings in sensitive parts such as fingers are extremely dense, so a normal person’s whole body touch In fact, it is done by nearly 100 million nerve endings. This level of precision is impossible in artificial robots anyway, because even if they can do so much, no one will be bored enough to equip robots with more than 100 million baroreceptors. even more how The sensory nerve endings on the human body are not only the ability to sense pressure, they also produce temperature and current sensing capabilities. That is to say, every human sensory nerve ending has the ability to sense pressure, temperature and electric field. Of course, the last electric field sensing ability is already very slow.

Just like these neurosensing systems. A robot is impossible to install hundreds of millions of baroreceptors, but most high-level mammals have more than one million sensory nerve endings, which is completely unimaginable in mechanical engineering.

The same reasoning. You are impossible to install millions of propellers for a steel battleship, but a Divine Dragon produced by genetic engineering can "grow" millions or even billions of "propulsion organs". Yes, it is to promote organs. These mass effect engines are components for the steel battleship, but for this Divine Dragon, they are one by one small organs. They are just like the organs in the living body, which are responsible for certain special functions.

The number of Mass Effect Thrusters in this Divine Dragon body exceeds one million, and they are scattered throughout the body of the Divine Dragon. Although there are a lot of them, they hardly generate any spatial pressure, because The specialty of living organisms is to make good use of every space.

The combined effect of these two propellers is that the dragon not only has the ability to freely enter and exit the surface of the planet, but it can also easily perform sub-light cruises in the interstellar. Of course, this biological battleship actually has a jump device, but this thing is mainly used for long-distance voyages, and as an escort battleship for the immigrant fleet, this Divine Dragon probably doesn't use this kind of equipment.

As it sinks all the way, the huge shadow of the dragon head becomes bigger and bigger in my sight, and soon I can no longer see the whole picture of the dragon head at all, what I can see is my side The huge and cliff-like dragon's mouth protrusion, and below me is the position of Divine Dragon’s forehead and eyes, but now those two eyes look like two huge lakes, and Divine Dragon’s forehead There is also a huge diamond-shaped crystal at the location. This thing is actually a weapon launching port. Of course, it is launching an energy weapon, otherwise it will not be sealed with a crystal.

My goal is not the huge crystal, but the long dragon's mouth beside me. There are two horizontal openings in the upper part of dragon's mouth, which look like breathing holes, which are the nostrils of this dragon. The design of this nostril is quite different from the mythical Chinese Divine Dragon. The nose of the legendary Divine Dragon in our country is located at the forefront of the head, and it is very large and looks quite prominent. However, the nostril design of our Divine Dragon is very similar to the nostril of a bird. The position is symmetrically distributed on both sides of the root of the upper part of the mouth. The appearance is just two holes without any protrusions.

In fact, these two nostrils are not real respiratory tracts, because this dragon is actually a biological battleship, and it is a biological battleship for interstellar navigation, so it needs to be in a vacuum environment most of the time Action, the breathing function naturally cannot be accomplished by simply using the nostrils. This dragon actually has an internal oxygen circulation system, so it actually has no breathing organs. The "lung" of this dragon is actually a large hangar for docking medium-sized spacecraft. And this part can be opened outward to facilitate spaceship in and out. As for the nostrils and the space behind it, it is actually a berth and access channel for space fighters and small battleships, or catapult orbits.

Now that both nostrils are open, I can swim in directly.

From a distance, I still don’t think that when I really enter this huge nostril, I realize that this thing is really outrageous. But think about it. This thing is not only the entrance and exit of the space fighter, but also allows the entrance and exit of a small battleship. As for me being here alone now, it's almost like a dust.

After entering along the huge nostrils, you can see a passage covered with a translucent carapace. These things are actually solidified biomass secretions, and the hardness after solidification is comparable to high level alloys. But its biggest advantage is not hardness and toughness, but repairability. This thing is just like a human fingernail, which can continue to grow, so no matter what degree of damage occurs, it can be regenerated, and there is no need to worry about damage. As the entrance and exit of the passage, the probability of this location being damaged in battle is obviously quite high, and a self-repairing material is obviously more suitable for this environment than any steel.

This special material does not completely cover the entire channel. If you continue to move forward, you can see some exposed metal structures. Those things look like train tracks, and they are huge, forming a full 13 track groups of different sizes in the nasal cavity. These all are electromagnetic catapults, which are similar in function to the catapults on the aircraft carrier. They are mainly a device that provides initial speed for the aircraft that needs to start.

After crossing these things, the wormhole-like passage becomes a huge metal passage. From here on, the surrounding environment looks like the internal structure of a regular space battleship, and there is no difference except that the space is very large.

Walking all the way through this huge passage, I soon reached a confluence point, which is the connecting position of the nostrils on both sides. The passages merge into one here, and then extend towards the rear. Here you can see the horizontal partition in the center of the passage. This is used to guide the aircraft in and out, just like the highway is divided into left and right sides. This is divided into upper and lower sides. The aircrafts entering and exiting need to go through the corresponding passages respectively. Avoid this An accident occurred on a traffic artery.

I entered from the above passage. After a short distance, I saw a personnel entrance on the side passage, but I did not go in, but continued to go deeper. In one breath, he dived into the super huge space fighter hangar inside, and then swam towards one of the relatively large entrances and exits. There are floating passages on the wall here. This is about 170 floors where I arrived. There is a large electronic door on the wall here. As soon as I approached the door, I automatically opened it to both sides, and then I entered the interior.

It's actually a large elevator. I didn't press the switch after entering, because this thing is completely controlled by the spirit net network. There are no other buttons on the wall besides emergency stop.

The elevator first moved a certain distance toward the top of the dragon head, and then suddenly began to move horizontally. After stopping, I appeared in a considerable space. This place is similar to a transportation hub. From here, you can take elevators in different directions to reach different areas, and there are many passages to go, but I still changed an elevator.

At least forty minutes have passed since I entered the culture medium, but I still didn't get where I wanted to be. The hugeness of this Divine Dragon is certainly one of the reasons, but it is more because of the current environment.

In terms of design, this thing should have been used in space, which is a gravity-free environment. In fact, there is no artificial gravity in this Divine Dragon. It's not that we can't do it, but it's unnecessary. The human body is relatively fragile. If you stay in a gravity-free environment for a long time, there will be a lot of problems. In addition, the human body will be restricted in many actions in a gravity-free environment. It is almost inevitable that work efficiency will decrease due to unaccustomedness. . But this Divine Dragon is not an immigration ship, but a battleship for escort, so it is a Dragon Clan dedicated ship, and our Dragon Clan's ability to adapt to a gravity-free environment is obviously much higher than that of humans, and even if it’s a long-term absence Our body will not react abnormally under gravity. In addition, our electromagnetic control ability can counteract itself through the push and pull of the magnetic field, allowing us to move at high speed in a vacuum, so that the vacuum environment is a more suitable state for us. This is actually one of the reasons why the original creators wanted us to be creatures that can survive in a vacuum, because in this way our space adaptability will be very high.

If the Divine Dragon is now stopped on the Earth track, then I can reach the place I want to go in at most ten minutes, but the problem is that not only is it not a gravity-free environment, it is also full of grands. Competition heavy biological culture fluid, this thing not only has a larger specific gravity than water, but also has a much higher viscosity than water, so it needs to face huge resistance to move at high speed in this environment. This damn resistance caused me to move here for more than forty minutes without getting there, but fortunately, the distance is not far away.

Almost an hour after I entered the culture medium, I finally reached my goal, the brain of Divine Dragon, through a complicated network of channels.

As I said before, this Divine Dragon is a shell that grows out of Nuwa's body using gene induction technology, and this brain is actually Nuwa's body, just to control this huge shell. Therefore, Nuwa has directionally multiplied a subsidiary control area. This control area can be understood as the cerebellum, but it is only responsible for controlling the body and not participating in other rational thoughts.

The place where I am now is probably between the body of Nuwa and the newly grown cerebellum. There is a special control room here. The structure of this control room is very special because it is a standard sphere. Longyuan’s engineers jokingly call it Dragon Ball, but I think it’s actually more like a bridge.

Because this dragon was built for Nuwa, it actually simply has no bridge in the traditional sense. The entire dragon becomes a battleship and is also a living creature. Nuwa It's the brain of this creature, so she simply doesn't need a control room. The dragon ball itself was not prepared to control the dragon. It was actually more like a Conference Hall. Of course, it could replace Nuwa to control the whole body of the dragon when necessary.

There is no console or the like in this spherical cabin. The only device here has a high level mental connection device. One hundred and eight mental connection devices that resemble surgical chairs are evenly distributed on the bulkhead around the sphere, and in the center is an integrated processor similar to the joint control system in the new star. This processor allows eight Dragon Clan members to lie in it and make high-level spiritual connections with Nuwa. When someone lies in, he will automatically become Nuwa's Level 2 processor and become the high level consciousness aggregate of the entire Dragon Clan.

In addition, above the integrated processor, there is a spherical device with a diameter of more than two meters at the center of the entire sphere. This device is currently in an open state, and you can see that there are two fixing devices placed face to face inside, which can be seen from the shape of the groove, which can just lie down for two people. In other words, this sphere is actually prepared for two people.

After looking around the environment here, I swam to the center of the sphere. When my hand was placed on the open hatch, the light inside and outside the cabin suddenly lit up. , Accompanied by a faint buzzing sound. Nuwa's voice appeared in my ears. "Are you sure you really need to connect directly with me?"

I confirmed with certainty: "Yes, I have some questions and some ideas. These things are too vague, I think I want It may take a long time to understand, but you should be able to help me think clearly."

"Since this is your decision, then come in."

I quickly scored goals Then I lay down in one of the grooves specially prepared for me. The fixing device designed to fit my body completely fixed me in this groove, and when I lay down, my brain The latter huge metal cone was inserted directly from the special connection port on the back of my head. If it is a human, this one can definitely kill people, but there is a hole in my head. This is the reserved interface specially prepared for high level spiritual connection.

In fact, in addition to this part, there are several places on my body that are connected by special connection devices. These things are not only connected to my nerve system, but also function as a fixing device. I am completely locked in this position.

The hatch on the outside of the sphere began to close slowly, and the inside of the sphere with the shining green light instantly turned into pitch black, but even if there is light, it is useless, because my consciousness has begun to connect to Nuwa Of the neural network.

In the big sphere outside, Nuwa's voice began to react quickly. "Confirm that the high level core processor is plugged in, and the upload with the highest authority of the system is completed. The spirit net network starts in high level mode, disconnects the external information link, and the internal network closed-loop mode is completed. Transfer power to the core processor, and the main system transfers to the co-processing mode. .Warning, the prophet system call request, all Dragon Clan thinking units are synchronizing...synchronization is completed...the prophet system is fully activated."

At that moment, the members of Dragon Clan all over the world were taken aback collectively. , And then all Dragon Clan members’ actions began to become very sluggish. If the people around you get closer, they will find that the eyes of these Dragon Clan members have lost focus, and their reactions are also half a shot. They seem to be distracted by the problem. Same.

"What's the situation?" At the White House, several U.S. government officials were exchanging opinions with the few Dragon Clan members we left behind, and suddenly found that the few Dragon Clan members in front of them were in a daze. I asked them for a long time before answering one sentence, and my eyes were dull and dull, and even my hearing seemed to have fallen. I needed to talk to them very loudly to have a little reaction.

Similar to the White House in the United States, the Dragon Clan members who stayed in other places by Dragon Fate were basically stuck in a state of lag, stammering, and others did not respond. The whole People are like sleepwalking, their eyes can't find the focus at all.

In fact, this situation is one reason why the computer is running too many software at the same time, and the reason is that the computing resources are not enough.

The prophet system started by Nuwa was also started once before, but there were not so many Dragon Clan members involved in the calculation, so the cost was that all military and civilian computer networks in the world were blocked to varying degrees, almost All computers connected to the network were requisitioned by Nuwa. The difference between this time and the last time is that instead of borrowing external computer resources, we used the internal spirit net network of the Dragon Clan individual as the computing unit, without involving external computers, so the result is that all Dragon Clan members are Stuttering occurred.

Actually speaking of which, although we did not borrow computers from the external network this time, our Dragon Clan individual’s own biological and electronic brain computing capabilities are actually very powerful. The number of Dragon Clan as a whole is now very So the total amount of resources used by the prophet system this time is actually more abundant than last time. The reason for the stuttering is not a problem of computing resources, but a problem of the prophet system itself.

The so-called prophet system is actually a set of software, its full name is "regional quantum cross interference calculus system", prophet system is just an abbreviation. However, the basic function of this system is exactly the same as the abbreviation, which is used for Forecast Future. Yes, you read that right, this system is used for Forecast Future.

Although we do not believe in theology, we have to say that the nature of the universe is really close to some theories mentioned in theology. For example, the prophetic abilities that exist in both Eastern and Western myths. There is prophecy in the West, and fortune-telling in China. Anyway, it is a way of Forecast Future in some way.

Originally these all are myths, but the fact is that the development of the universe is really predictable, and speaking from a certain perspective, the development of the universe is indeed fixed, no matter what you do Efforts, the development and changes of the universe are always fixed, it will never change at all, and there is no power to change this established fact, thinking that the ideas generated in your brain are actually part of the established line of the universe, that is to say No matter what method you think of to change the world, your idea is actually a predetermined one, and your changed world itself is the established path of universe development.

Of course, some people will say: "I can choose to do or not, so I can change the established development path." Yes, you can choose to do or not, but your choice is actually an established fact , Because your thoughts are actually a series of electrochemical reactions in your brain and the structure after the integration of various information from the outside world. This result is fixed. They seem to be free, but in fact there is an inevitability, and immutable.

However, these are actually the fixed development paths of the macrocosm. If you are specific to a certain person, you don’t have to think about how to live or how to live, because of the above. Information is a macrocosmology. If individuals act according to this theory, your life will definitely become very miserable.

Our prophet system is probably such a system. It performs cross-calculation through quantum cross-interference, bringing all the basic variables that have a greater impact on the future into the calculation, and then you will get a feasibility comparison. Big specific future.

Attention, the result obtained here is not a future that will definitely happen, it is just likely to become the future, not necessarily the future, because there are so many variables in this universe. Although in theory, when you bring in all the variables, you can get an inevitable and accurate answer, but in fact, because of the lack of computing power, you will always be impossible to bring all the variables into the calculation, and some variables are inherently uncertain. So it is basically impossible to bring in all the variables. What we can do is to collect as much information about the world as possible, and then calculate and deduct it in as much detail as possible.

The more variables we bring in, the more results of the cross calculation, and the higher the probability of getting the correct answer in the end. But at the same time, as the variables become more intensive, the demand for computing resources will increase in a geometric progression.

To put it simply, the "prophet system" has an infinite demand for the computing power of the system, and you don't have enough resources. And the running time of this system is also uncertain, the key depends on how long you want the information within.

The shorter the predicted future distance from the present time, the smaller the scope required, and the lower the reliability of the result, the smaller the demand for computing resources. On the contrary, the demand for more computing resources and longer calculating time.

The calculation range I requested this time is the entire Earth circle, the range can be said to be unprecedentedly large, and the forecast period I requested is two years, this time span is also quite high, and I just set The requirement is 80% probability in the future, so the demand for this computing resource is a bit scary, so that all members of the entire Dragon Clan have different degrees of overload.

Although our Dragon Clan's lag problem caused some small-scale confusion, it did not cause any serious problems in general. It just scared many people who worked with us, but fortunately Nuwa A certain amount of remaining computing resources is still reserved for maintaining feedback on external information, so soon those people know that we are doing some kind of secret data processing here, so they feel relieved.

The whole calculation process finally ran for three full days. After 79 hours, the red light outside the sphere I was in suddenly jumped to green with a bang, and then the hatch on the surface of the sphere snorted. Open outwards, and spray a lot of bubbles at the same time.

"Damn it, my head hurts!" When I came out of the sphere, I didn't catch any of them, and slid off directly. Fortunately, there was liquid all around, and it was just a slow sink. It's nothing more than to the bottom of the cabin.

Nuwa complained in my ear: "Who made you run for so long? Not only you are suffering from headaches, but our entire Dragon Clan is suffering, okay?"

"Sorry, everyone has worked so hard this time!"

Due to long-term overload of computing, all individuals of Dragon Clan have suffered nerve damage to a certain degree, although this damage is reversible. Yes, and based on our physical condition, it will completely return to normal within two hours at most, but the headache of these two hours can't get away anyway!

Of course, paying such a large price, the receipt is also very huge.

After such a long time of calculation, many of the quest