Chapter 1,224 Spreading the Virus

"They also extracted a huge number of souls. [Baishuzhai.]" Lilina squinted her eyes, reminding me of this incident that was almost forgotten for a moment.

"The soul itself is a set of efficient computing rules, human memory is the database, self-awareness is various application software and front desk, and the soul is the underlying computing rules and operating system, a carbon-based biological brain, 'hardware' computing The ability is limited by its physiological structure. Once the limit calculation is performed, various biological self-protection mechanisms will be activated. Shock, coma, fatigue, lack of concentration, and various physiological phenomena will prevent the brain from performing calculations beyond its physical limit. And since in most cases the soul relies on the human body for survival, the soul's processing of information is limited to this level."

I remained silent and listened quietly to Lilina giving me some popular science. I never expected that this guy in front of me, who was always chirping and jumping up and down, would be so quiet and serious. She looked so knowledgeable and knowledgeable now. Like a wise teacher, I suddenly realized that the person in front of me probably knew much more than the most knowledgeable person in human history: she completed her training directly in front of God's textbooks.

"Generally, the computing power of the soul is limited, but since there are general situations, there are exceptions - Boss, you know, there are some souls that are not attached to the material body." Lilina suddenly winked slyly. Blinking, waiting for my reaction.

"A soul that is not attached to a material body?" I thought about it and suddenly realized, "Energy creatures! Psychic creatures!"

"There is also the sister Guang who sleeps all day long in the boss's head," Lilina nodded. "The souls of non-physical creatures have unique computing advantages because they do not need to rely on physical organs for data processing, so their souls undertake all calculations. There are no restrictions on tasks. There are no hidden dangers of overheating or energy consumption. Their thinking is infinitely broad and they can think about every problem countless times in an instant. If purely based on efficiency, the soul of an incorporeal creature is the most efficient computing machine... "

"Oh no," I suddenly thought of something, "Why does it feel like this is not in line with Alaya's current intelligence?"

Lilina rolled her eyes: "This is also caused by the shortcomings of energy creatures. The law of life is fair, and every creature has its own weaknesses. Energy creatures have fast data processing speed. But because their thinking process cannot be finalized and they lack The restrictions and regulations on the subject caused their thinking to be in an endless loop most of the time, or they spread many questions too broadly, and finally came up with a completely different answer - okay. Now let's go with Alaya's The current state of intelligence remains the same.”

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"The situation of the three more mainstream life forms in terms of thinking ability, or data processing ability, is this: the main thinking ability of silicon-based life and its branches comes from solid organs, and the soul only serves as an operating system. Their thinking tendencies Due to accuracy, linearity, high efficiency and low tolerance, its weakness is that the thinking process is too linear and insufficient in flexible thinking and variability; the thinking mode of carbon-based life and its branch life forms is similar to that of silicon-based life. For data processing The advantages are fuzzy calculation, non-linear processing, variable results and association ability, but the disadvantages are low efficiency, limited accuracy, and often unexpected errors - as the saying goes, children with brain disabilities have more fun; energy life is similar to everything non-entity life. All thinking processes are directly supported by the operating system of the soul and executed by the surface will. It is as fast as a solid-state drive that is separated from the mechanical structure - they are even separated from the solid-state drive, and their thinking The advantage is high and unlimited. The degree of non-linearity is even higher than that of carbon-based life, and it will never burn out. The disadvantages are various endless loops, unnecessary scattered thinking, frequent personal downtime, and concerns about things happening in the real world. The response is always delayed and slow, which is the legendary mental patient's broad thinking: their thinking is so broad that they don't even know what they are thinking for a while."

I thought about it and felt that according to this standard, Qian Qian probably belongs to the kind of person whose soul is out of the body for twenty-three hours a day... while Sylvia's soul is probably never in the body. Alaya seems to have improved her intelligence recently because she found a trick: living in my head helps her spend less time on her own.

After Lilina finished this popular science for me, she turned the topic back to the huge equipment in front of her: "The Merova people may not have learned directly usable starship host technology from the empire, but they can probably learn it from the public database. They found something similar to conventional knowledge, so they forcibly separated the souls and bodies of ordinary carbon-based creatures. The human brain can serve as a fuzzy processing part in the host, and the lack of computing power is solved by the solidified soul server. Supplement. After separating the soul from the body, the former is no longer bound. A certain degree of modification may be able to generate enough computing power. The Merovans must have carried out some other 'processing' means to allow normal The soul of the machine has completely turned into an operating system. The connection between the two is replaced by other devices made by themselves. I don’t understand the specific process. After all, I only know the knowledge related to life forms, but I am sure that according to my With this method, everything is feasible.”

I don’t know how to evaluate such an “initiative” of the Merova people. Perhaps in their own eyes, this is an unprecedented creation of genius—using copycat technology to separate the brains and souls of the indigenous people and create a set of operations themselves. system, using this operating system to completely replace the host of the Imperial Starship... and it was a success. For themselves, this is probably a great victory.

In this way, the new power that Barian gained probably means that he finally created enough "human hosts" and fully controlled the royal fleet back then.

"There must be a place like the Soul Forge somewhere here that manufactures servers." Lilina frowned and looked around at the matrix of processors connected by human brains. These processors are the hardware of the Melova host. , and the original souls of these brains were extracted and made into operating systems and auxiliary processors. They no longer had the memory and personality of when they were human beings, and turned into such half-dead machine parts... Lilina said Yes, there must be another assembly factory somewhere here for converting ordinary carbon-based biological souls into isolated "tools" like energy biological souls. She named this place the Soul Forge, and she was absolutely right. But at this point, we can no longer find other areas by tracking the staff. There must be a strict zoning system between the soul furnace and the human brain factory. We have not found anything in this factory that may be related to the soul project—— The closer they get to the depths of the criminal base of Barian, the tighter the security measures become, even so tight that they themselves don't know the situation in another area. It took Lilina and me three full hours to find the entrance to the so-called soul furnace—it was actually in a deep underground cave dozens of kilometers outside the base.

Unlike the typical industrial base scene of the Human Brain Factory, the Soul Forge looks more like a religious place where evil rituals are held. This is a deep cave hundreds of kilometers underground. The interior is vast and presents a perfect circle. Although the light from all directions is not dim, the lavender mist lingering here and the faint mournful sound coming from the wind make everything enveloped in a gloomy atmosphere. It is huge. The cave is filled with complex and regularly arranged crystals. These crystals are probably the equipment used by the Merova people to store and transform souls. I guess these devices are most likely stolen from the empire - the Fifteen Days District was proud of its mysterious technology, and Merova The highest technology that people secretly learned from the Fifteen Days Zone is of course the knowledge of the mysterious system. For things like soul extraction and transformation, the mysterious system technology has more advantages.

In the endless circular cave, there are huge bottomless cracks everywhere, and steaming steam is rising from the cracks. It seems that this place is close to the magma layer. In the center of the cave, there is a deep well that goes deeper. It is impossible to see where the end is. Only a faint red light can be seen at the bottom. I thought it was magma at first, but Lilina went down to investigate and told me that it was actually a huge soul crystal, and she saw a large number of criss-crossing crystallized networks at the bottom of the cave. This shows that the soul furnace we found is just one of many furnaces - just like the previous conjecture, it is a hell factory like this. Barian built many.

We also found the assembled soul servers. When the shells are installed, they look exactly like the servers of the Imperial Starship host. They have common interfaces and standard shells. But when you open these shells, there is no psionic structure inside, but It is a large group of mournful clouds and red soul crystals. The Merova people use this crystal, which has a strong binding effect on weak energy, to imprison the soul, and use the interface they created to connect the crystal and psionic energy. The data ends were connected together, and just like that, their starship host arrays were continuously mass-produced.

"According to Turazo, they have been executing this plan for nearly a thousand years. Every year, the newly added population on the three slave donor planets will be taken away," I calculated silently, "but until now, Barian basically took control of all the imperial starships... In the process, how many people died due to failed transformation?"

"I'm going to throw him into the fourth area and tie him to the furnace and burn him for ten thousand years." Lilina pressed her hand on an exposed soul crystal, as if she could talk to the mournful soul inside. As a life god system The demigod, she was really angry, "Life is not wasted like this... The surrounding lavender clouds are all filled with souls that collapsed due to failed transformation. They have accumulated to the point where they have become substantial. The Merova people did not dispel these ghosts. Because the latter can serve as the energy and 'amniotic fluid' of this furnace, they burned these ghosts like firewood just to save resources!"

Now all the mysteries have been solved, the truth about Barian's control of the royal fleet, the truth about the indigenous people who were taken away, and the truth about brainwashing education - because the brainwashed indigenous people will lose their will to resist, and the superficial will will weaken at the same time. It can also weaken the resistance strength of the soul, so those Merova people can increase their success rate of host creation. Lilina and I didn't stay in the Soul Forge for long. The atmosphere here made us both feel very uncomfortable, but we still got a little extra information at the end - under the extremely high probability of transformation failure, Merova In order to "reduce costs", people not only manufacture large mainframes, but also use bad and less complete "leftover materials" to make small mainframes. They use small soul crystals and human brain cores to replace the ones in the empire's individual fighters and individual vehicles. control system, thereby controlling the entire royal fleet from top to bottom!

"We must tell Sandora the news as soon as possible," Lilina and I discussed after carefully leaving the Soul Forge. "We must find a way to eliminate the threat of the royal fleet. But now they are controlled by the human brain host... Psychological pressure is also a problem. In addition, we have to find a way to suspend activities in this place."

My eyes are in the distance, and those huge human brain factories and dismantling factories are rising and falling on the horizon, like sharp-edged mountains. I don’t know what their production efficiency is, but I am sure that there are countless of them on this planet. It is a similar hell on earth. People transported from slave donor planets are dismantled every minute and turned into parts on the Merova warship. What is the population growth rate of those slave donor planets. The productivity here is so high.

Carnage happens every second! !

In any case, before the Empire launches a general offensive, this facility must be stopped - not only to save people, but also to reduce the number of old Empire starships we have to face, although it seems that Barian has generally controlled all the old Empire Royal fleet. But looking at the operating status of these factories, I guess he needs more human brain hosts - no matter what he needs, he can't continue to succeed!

"If we destroy it directly, it will be difficult to destroy all the bases at once, and we don't know if there are similar bases on other planets, and we don't know where they hide the completed hosts..." Lilina immediately quickly said When I think about it, my head full of curious and dark thoughts is running high. "This will make Barian more vigilant and even suspicious of the resistance organization... It should be disguised as an accident or a mysterious disaster that shuts down all research bases... Viruses, plagues. Mutated organisms... These methods are all effective. , but it may not be possible to shut down all factories, after all, we can’t find where other factories are.”

I thought about it and thought of various emergency response practices: "Then let the Melova people have an illusion. Make them mistakenly believe that other factories are also at risk of similar accidents, and they will naturally suspend these projects."

Lilina smiled slyly: "I'm good at this... Since they are engaged in biochemistry, then the contamination of experimental samples is definitely more worrying than the infection of staff."

Lilina's thinking is full of twists and turns, and she has unlimited power in these bad ideas: just like Nanfu batteries. She decided to spread two viruses in this experimental base. One is aimed at the Merova people, with an astonishing fatality rate, and the other is aimed at the slaves who were sent over.

But the second virus is not fatal. It only makes people sick and shows a variant form of the first virus. Lilina's plan is to use this method to make the Merova people mistakenly think that their slave donor planet is suffering from a viral plague. In this way, they will not be able to determine whether all other "host raw materials" are still safe, and will even doubt the past. Are the consoles manufactured over a period of time still reliable? Maybe they can find out the situation quickly, but at least for the near future, these factories will have to shut down.

Some "hosts" can be infected by biological viruses. This is probably one of the weaknesses of the Merova project.

"In the early stages, they should temporarily isolate all infected personnel and slaves for examination, but if they find that the virus cannot be cured, they will eliminate the infected personnel in a planned way: at least when they eliminate those slaves, they will not "I will hesitate," a ball of green light lingered in Lilina's hand, and she was making those "cute and deadly little guys", "So I have to carefully adjust this thing to make them look tricky, but 100% curable. Mei The Lowa people will not execute those 'raw materials' when they can treat them. After all, even if they regard slaves as crops and livestock, they have been cultivated at a cost."

"You really see the dark sides of human nature..."

I looked at Lilina speechlessly. This "mercyful female pope" represents the gods. What she knows best is all kinds of nasty things in human nature. She is never afraid to use the greatest malice to guess the limits of others' behavior. And every time, he can always grasp these lower limits just right and use them as his own weapons. Evil people need to be punished by evil people - Lilina is the best at dealing with evil people among us. Her twisted psychology is simply too invincible to deal with those who are not twisted enough.

"Okay, that's it." Lilina snapped her fingers, and the green light in her hand gradually subsided, and then from the afterglow of the last light, a large group of colorful butterflies flew out!

I looked at this group of rainbow-like beautiful butterflies in amazement. They were dancing in the bright sunshine. They were gorgeous, light, and cheerful. They could be described as beautiful sights. However, they were murder tools created by Lilina - President Lilina She likes to make the killing tools she makes so beautiful.

"Just leave the rest to these little guys. I gave them the most basic intelligence. They will try their best to find other bases similar to this one on the planet to make the illusion of virus infection more realistic. "Lilina looked at the butterflies flying farther and farther against the sun with a motherly smile, "They will dissipate in the air and water. As long as they don't break away from these bases, they can multiply indefinitely, even though it only takes a few minutes to create. It’s a small work, but it’s surprisingly cute.”

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