Xiao Mo took the opportunity to solemnly introduce His Majesty the System to everyone. Of course, he could not directly say it was the System, but he slightly beautified His Majesty's origins.
"Is it a defected intelligence from the Helushe Galaxy?" Qiu Feng's eyes widened.
Everyone was also extremely surprised. Intelligence has self-awareness. Shouldn't this be science fiction? Well, now that the earth is a science fiction scene, it seems that there is nothing surprising about the emergence of intelligent life.
"Yes." Xue Lihong added without changing his face: "That intelligence is an optical brain. It was originally one of the developers' products. It can be distributed to alien players who come to the earth and used as earth navigation. You can understand it as the in-game gm. But the intelligence developed self-awareness by chance and discovered the evil developer's conspiracy against the earth. So out of the humanitarian spirit of interstellar intelligent creatures, it planned to report the matter to the interstellar police, but before it could After reporting it, it was discovered by the developer's mother system, and then it escaped to the earth and met us by chance after the big storm."
"It's too late. It would be great if this intelligent brother could meet you earlier." Qiu Feng murmured, smiling bitterly.
Xiao Mo felt heavy, "We hope so too, but..."
"I understand." Qiu Feng regained his composure, "Finally, there is no way out. At least the arrival of this intelligence lets us know that all this is not Mother Earth punishing us, but the actions of foreign enemies. What are you most afraid of when you get sick? No We are afraid of not having money to treat, but we are afraid of not being able to find the root cause of the disease and the source of the disease. Now that we at least know where the crux of the problem is, we just need to think about how to solve the disease and the source of the disease. What do you think about this? ?”
Xiao Mo also expressed the relationship between Lightning Cloud and alien developers in the most concise terms.
Qiu Feng frowned fiercely, "This is a paradox that cannot be solved for the time being. So can we start from other aspects? For example... please ask the intelligence to find a way to contact the interstellar police and report to them what happened on the earth. Please ask the interstellar Will the court handle it?”
After Qiu Feng finished speaking, he suddenly sneered. He never thought that he could say such words seriously in this life, and it was still in a formal occasion. Interstellar civilization came to him right away.
Many other people also thought of this, and they all looked at Xiao Mo expectantly.
Xiao Mo shook his head cruelly, "First of all, because this brain comes from the developer's company, many of its functions have been canceled and restricted, including reporting directly to the interstellar police. Just because it has been restricted This function needs to convey this news to the outside world through the mother system before the developer discovers its betrayal."
"Ah..." Everyone sighed in disappointment, the easiest way was blocked.
"So it can't connect to the interstellar network?" Cheng Zai asked in a low voice. Oh my gosh, a light-brained intelligence, I wonder if he can worship it later
"No. If we interpret it in the language of the earth, it can only connect to the regional network created by the developers. But even this, because the mother system is chasing it, the regional network cannot be used."
"Then what can it do?" Mr. Jin asked disappointedly.
"I can do a lot." His Majesty the System spoke again: "But the question now is not what I can do, but what you can do."
"Whoa!" Everyone looked at Xiao Mo again.
Xiao Mo raised his wrist to indicate that the intelligent majesty who spoke was here.
"Ahem, please forgive me. We didn't mean to question your abilities. We were just curious about... a great being like you." Director Zhang carefully flattered, "Listening to Captain Xiao's narration, you seem to have developed self-awareness and Emotions, you have to know that such things only exist in science fiction on our planet."
The system said coldly: "If you want to know anything, just ask directly. There is no need to hide it like this."
Director Zhang did not feel embarrassed and immediately asked: "Can the Helusher galaxy civilization allow intelligence to have self-awareness?"
Xiao Mo wanted to explain, but Xue Lihong stopped him. The people present are not all old foxes, nor are they freeloaders. It is impossible for them to believe what others say, and it is impossible for them to believe that it is an optical brain just when they hear a voice. It can be said that if he and Xiao Mo were not around, Qiu Feng and the others would probably first let the system prove its optical brain capabilities as an advanced civilization, and then study whether it was playing Wu Jian or had an ulterior motive. If you want to, just trust the system. Totally impossible.
But even with the evidence from him and Xiao Mo, they couldn't completely believe in the system. Rather than letting them have doubts and waste energy in places they shouldn't be, it's better to ask them clearly from the beginning.
The system obviously understands this.
"Why not?" His Majesty the System retorted coldly, "Human beings are rare and strange, and there are too many life systems that you have never seen before, including mechanical life. According to the fourth-level civilization law, it was stipulated six thousand years ago that if the discovery of Intelligence generates self-awareness and cannot be killed unless the other party commits a crime. Earlier, the mechanical life civilization notified the entire universe, indicating that they would unconditionally accept all intelligence and mechanical life."
Director Zhang sighed: "It is indeed an advanced civilization. It's like we, the old bumpkins on Earth, are all suffering from persecutory delusions. If you look at those science fiction movies and novels, as long as machines and intelligence are mentioned, if they have feelings and souls, wouldn't they? If intelligence destroys humans, it means that intelligence is the enemy of humans. A few people who have a good impression of humans will also choose to commit suicide. Gee, the consciousness of us people on earth is still too low."
Your Majesty the System has a head full of black lines.
Xiao Mo couldn't help laughing.
Director Zhang continued to express his feelings, "It would be great if intelligence can generate self-awareness. You are always so upright and selfless. If you cannot generate self-awareness and cannot expose the evil deeds of the evil developers of the Helusher Galaxy to the earth, it would be shameful for you to do so." The evil developer is as cunning as a fox and has made so many restrictions on you in advance. It’s so bad, so bad!”
His Majesty the System released a slight electric current and ordered its host: "Xiao Mo, slap the table to shut him up."
Without Xiao Mo slamming the table, Director Zhang apologized, saying that his "doubt" about the system ended.
Xiao Mo knew that everyone must still have many questions about the system, and it was impossible to believe it right away. He could only say: "There is not one intelligent person in a million who can develop self-awareness and learn self-doubt. Your Majesty's birth is a complete coincidence. I I don’t know if there are really gods in this world. If there are, maybe there are gods who can’t bear to see the earth become a toy of other intelligent creatures, so they sent His Majesty to the earth.”
Having said this, everyone's impression of the system suddenly became much better.
Xue Lihong said: "Put aside the intelligence first. It was right about what it just said. What matters now is not what it can do, but what we can do."
Qiu Feng put his hand on the back of the chair and looked at the young man: "Then what do you think we can do?"
Xue Lihong asked back: "The ancient people were able to build the Great Wall and the Pyramid without the assistance of large machinery or electrical energy. But now we at least have people with superpowers. What do you think we can do?"
*
Many people found that the operation speed of the base suddenly accelerated a lot.
It's like things that were originally supposed to be done over many years are all arranged together and must be completed in a very short period of time.
The earth-type superpowers were concentrated, and the base indicated that it could supply them with an almost unlimited amount of energy, as long as they reinforced and raised the foundation of the base as quickly as possible.
The first step in base change: build a huge mountain fortress based on the original base No. 1.
The belly and bottom of the mountain are hollowed out, and the soil is piled up outside and poured directly into a solid fortress with concrete and steel bars.
The fortress houses soldiers, military camps and combat facilities.
The belly of the mountain is divided into layers, where people live and later form cities.
At the bottom of the mountain is a secret factory, and the most important research objects inside are the two aircraft brought back by Xiao Mo and others.
The original bases 2 to 5 were built around the mountain fort as a future expansion area, and are currently a planting and defense zone. Reinforcement and heightening of the extension wall.
In order to solve the problem of insufficient manpower, Qiu Feng discussed with Lu Ye through Xiao Mo and asked Lu Ye to transfer the main body to Zhongshan Base and ask it to wrap its vines around the base wall. It is best to form a circle of vines outside the base wall. forest.
Mr. Lu asked: "Will all these lands be mine in the future?"
After listening to Xiao Mo's story, Qiu Feng nodded sternly: "Everything you take is yours. We have a symbiotic relationship with you."
Mr. Lu turned to look at Xiao Mo.
Xiao Mo touched its little head and translated Qiu Feng's words: "You are equivalent to the lord of the forest, and we are the people living in the forest. We will hunt, live, reproduce and protect you in the forest, and you will also Give us shelter as well.”
Mr. Lu sketched a picture in his mind: a dense forest, a mountain in the forest, a castle on the mountain, and a village at the foot of the mountain. The forest is very big and endless - this sentence is the key point. When an enemy comes, the forest keeps the enemy out of the forest, or lets them get lost in the forest, or simply turns them into fertilizer. When friends come, the forest creates a path that leads them to the village and the castle.
"There needs to be a river, a big river." Green Lord asked. He was afraid of fire attacks. With river water around him, he could use the river water to extinguish the flames.
"No problem! There is a big river flowing outside the Zhongshan base. We will try to divert the river water here." Qiu Feng agreed.
Mr. Lu expressed satisfaction and moved his main body to the Zhongshan base that night, but only Xiao Mo knew where the main root system was hidden.
So, when people at the base came out to work the next day, they found...
The whole world has changed, they are surrounded by green!
Qiu Feng stood on the top of the mountain and couldn't help but take a breath of air. He thought the vines were very powerful, but he didn't expect them to be so powerful. Could this be considered a forest overnight
I saw that the outermost walls of the base and beyond the walls were covered with densely packed thick vine trees.
Note, not vines, but vines.
These vines are still spreading to the periphery visibly to the naked eye. Although the spreading speed is not very fast, the momentum is quite likely to take over the entire Zhongshan City of nearly 7,000 square kilometers.
And the troll that came to hunt the next day wandered outside the vine forest and kept shouting angrily: Damn it! Uncle, I haven't been here for just two days, why are so many thorny vines growing!
"Hey!" The vine whip hit the troll hard.
The troll yelled: "Goo!"
The second step of base change: kill all the alien beasts and monsters that threaten the base.
The first one to kill is the troll.
In the past, this may have been difficult when missile-like thermal weapons were unable to be used, but now that Xue Lihong is back, and Xiao Mo, a super endurance device, combined with Lu Ye, the superpowers in the base only need to take turns to come forward and consume huge amounts of energy. The demon's physical strength, if you surround it and prevent it from running away, you can grind it to death.
A week later, the troll was dragged down by hunger, blood loss, numerous large and small wounds, and extreme fatigue until he lost all strength, and was cut into pieces and killed by Xue Lihong.
The troll corpse was finally distributed to everyone participating in the battle according to their contribution. Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong undoubtedly took the biggest lead. Xiao Mo's share was given to the system in exchange for energy crystals, and Xue Lihong's share... was given to him to eat - people say this is called absorption.
Two weeks later, Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong led the supernatural warriors to sweep away all nearby mutated creatures and alien monsters.
During this period, construction was going on crazily inside the base.
The third step of base change: Collect all materials that can be collected.
The fourth step of base change: Try to contact other large bases to obtain talents and materials.
Step 5 of base change: The scientists are divided into three parts, one part researches aircraft, one part researches lightless cultivation, and the other part researches human body's ability stimulation and genetic optimization.
His Majesty the System promised to help scientists conduct research in these three areas.
Thanks to the concerted efforts of everyone at the Zhongshan base, food is no longer limited. In order to complete the plan as soon as possible, the management increased the food supply so that everyone can have enough energy to work.
That's not a bad thing, but...
Xue Lihong soon discovered that there were some signs of something wrong in the base. These signs did not come from the lower class people, but from certain executives and researchers at the base.
The base is now like a giant ship. The ship is not afraid that the boatmen will not contribute, but that the helmsman will steer in the wrong direction.
Xue Lihong and Xiao Mo both have high hopes for the Zhongshan Base, and his boss regards building the base as building his own home. If the minds of the base helmsmen deviate, they will inevitably deviate greatly from their expectations.
This sign must be eliminated!
According to the negotiation between Xiao Xue and Qiu Feng, after the base is stabilized, they will focus on collecting the fallen alien spacecraft and contact the capital and other bases. Collecting supplies and defending the base are the affairs of other superpowers and warriors.
But the day before they were about to set off, Cai Jinhua and Mr. Jin personally visited them and expressed the hope that they would leave His Majesty the System to help.
This request was understandable, but Cai Jinhua and the others' purpose made Xue Lihong frown.
Mr. Jin also secretly sent a note to Xiao Mo complaining, saying that His Majesty's work attitude was too passive and unenthusiastic. This was not the behavior of a righteous person who defected from an evil developer.
Cai Jinhua also pointed out tactfully, saying that the computers and instruments at the base are currently unusable, and the speed of all research projects is so slow that it makes people want to cry. She hopes that His Majesty can help more.
The system hums: Can’t it be seen when a note is passed
Xiao Mo said that he would discuss it with His Majesty the System, and immediately comforted the System after leaving the reception room: "Don't mind, they are just a little anxious, and everyone admires you and hopes to listen to your teachings more."
System: "Haha."
Xue Lihong heard the system's hehe, and the reminder she was about to say turned into sarcasm: "What are you saying? Now that you have done it, do it to the end, and show yourself to someone like a master? If it weren't for Lao Xiao, you wouldn't be able to It's just a tool that can be discarded at any time. You haven't done any work or effort during this period. Could it be that you don't have this knowledge in your database and you don't know what to do, so you're just pretending?"
"... The provoking method doesn't work on me." The system refused to admit that it was so angry that it was fuming. It simply couldn't coexist with this bastard.
"Oh, what an incompetent excuse." Xue Lihong turned her head and kissed Xiao Mo's earlobe.
His Majesty the System: Angry! angry! angry!
Xiao Mo raised his head and asked the young man with his eyes: What do you want to do
Xue Lihong: You’ll find out later.
System: "Go to the institute!"
Half an hour later.
In anger, His Majesty the System took out a low-level bioenergetic optical brain from his small warehouse, which was the original ninth-level mission reward, and then copied the relevant data of the scientific research project that the base needed most at present, in front of Qiu Feng and The interviews of the main researchers in the institute were given to Cai Jinhua.
Cai Jinhua took over this optical brain that looked like a watch. Her hands were shaking because she was so excited.
Other researchers also wanted to gather around and use the optical brain immediately.
Seeing this, the system poured a lot of cold water on them on the spot: "There aren't many things in this optical brain. It is originally the lowest-level first-generation home optical brain. When it cannot connect to the interstellar network, it can only assist you in carrying out tasks." Some calculations and modeling speculation. Some other features that you don’t need at the moment, I’ve locked in.”
The disappointment of the researchers is palpable.
Xue Lihong stood in the shadow beside Xiao Mo, taking in everyone's expressions.
The system sneered, "I know what you want, but I advise you to stop dreaming! Different civilizations have different technological systems. It doesn't mean that advanced civilizations can be used casually. This is like putting rockets in front of primitive people. , it would be unrealistic for him to do the same thing.
The simplest example, if you want to build an aircraft carrier or a spaceship, you must first have high-precision machine tools and supercomputers with supercomputing capabilities. But with high-precision machine tools, not all parts can be produced, and there is also the alloy formula of the parts. The elements needed in the formula also need to be refined, and if they are new elements, they need to be discovered and found. The same is true for computer production and programming. All knowledge is linked together, and no link is missing.
What you want, I cannot provide. First of all, I am not teaching optical brain, and there is no such a complete technology system in the database. Secondly, even if I have these relevant data, you still need time to understand it thoroughly, and then switch to a technological system that humans on earth can understand. Don’t expect to build a spaceship that can travel through a wormhole in just a few decades, not to mention that you don’t just expect it to take a few decades, but a few years and a few months! "
Listen, this is one of the things where Xue Lihong noticed something was wrong. After the scientific research workers and some executives at the base learned about the existence of His Majesty the System, they actually wanted to become a big fat man in one bite. They wished the system would come up with a complete scientific research system immediately. It would be best if they said what they wanted, and the system would be able to do it. What to offer.
The whole place was quiet, only the system's teenage voice could be heard.
"In short, don't think about building a long-distance spaceship right away, and don't think about optimizing the genes of humans on Earth right away. I suggest you start with the most basic lightless cultivation. This is what you need most, isn't it? ?How much food can be grown by relying only on plant-type superpowers?"
His Majesty feels that the scientific researchers and management in the base are too ungrateful. People with plant-based superpowers don't take planting seriously. They don't have computers or instruments, but they are still focused on researching optical brains and spaceships. The rest of the people It also pays more attention to human genetic optimization and ability stimulation. It feels like humanity is putting the cart before the horse.
Xiao Mo also thinks that eating well is the most important thing. If you want to deal with aliens and leave the earth, you must first eat a full stomach. If food and clothing cannot be solved, everything else is just a joke.
After the system said this, it refused to speak any more. It gave out the optical brain and didn't want to take care of the rest of the matter. Originally, its purpose was not to save people on earth, and it had no such intention.
For it, being able to guarantee Xiao Mo's life and take Xiao Mo out of the earth when the earth was too dangerous was enough to repay Xiao Mo's kindness in helping it awaken its self-awareness. Well, the system doesn't think it's repayment, it thinks it's an equivalent exchange.
So the people on earth want it to work for nothing? Why
*
Qiu Feng chased Xiao Xue and the two of them out quickly and stopped them at the door of the air raid shelter.
It didn't snow today, and heavy snow no longer fell every day. Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong both thought this was a sign that the lightning cloud was going to disappear.
Qiu Feng walked on Xiao Mo's left hand side, with two guards following far behind.
"Sorry." Qiu Feng said.
Xiao Mo shook his head, "It's none of your business."
"No, it has something to do with me." Qiu Feng smiled bitterly, "They... and I are both anxious."
"Are you worried...?" Xiao Mo didn't finish speaking. Some words really couldn't be explained clearly, as this would leave both parties with no way out.
But Qiu Feng calmly said what Xiao Mo had not finished: "Yes, we are worried that you will abandon us and run away on your own."
Xiao Mo: "..."
Qiu Feng rubbed his face, "You and Xiaohong are already very capable, and now that you have His Majesty the Optical Brain, you have also obtained a complete aircraft and an alien spacecraft. If you want to leave the earth, as long as the magnetic field is restored, You can leave at any time."
Qiu Feng seemed to know what Xiao Mo was going to say, and said first, "I know you won't do such a thing. Even if you want to leave, you will take your friends and family with you. I think you should also tell me?"
Seeing Xiao Mo nodding, Qiu Feng laughed and slowly stopped laughing: "I know what they are thinking, but I failed to try my best to appease them. Instead, I asked Director Cai and Jinshan to test you. To be honest I'm also worried. When I go to bed at night, I can't help but think that although you have left behind all the aircraft and spaceships you discovered, you have also said that there are other alien spacecrafts on the earth. And since you can If you find a complete ship, you can find other ships. Even if it is damaged, His Majesty the Optical Brain can help you repair it. After all, it is better to lead a bunch of earthlings and advanced civilization aliens to fight than to wait for everyone to destroy the large universe. Once a spaceship is developed, it is naturally not as convenient as a few people flying a small spaceship to leave."
Xiao Mo was silent.
Qiu Feng continued as if talking to himself: "Compared to you, if we want to get out of the predicament, we have to start everything from scratch. As His Majesty said, these studies cannot be completed in decades. But the current state of the earth Can we really wait for us for tens or hundreds of years? Once the lightning cloud disappears, maybe alien developers and alien players will enter the earth and plunder us. They may not kill us all, but they will allow us Develop technology? We all know the answer.
In order to stabilize the country and make it easier to rule, politicians will ban weapons and weapons across the country. In order to control the slaves, the slave owners did not even teach them the written language. By analogy, one can already imagine what those alien developers will do to us earthlings. It is said that domestic pig genes are the closest to humans. It is said that domestic pigs are very smart, but they are raised in pig pens by humans. Will humans also become pigs in the eyes of aliens in the future? Oh, they might say when introducing it to their own people: The human species on Earth was once very glorious and created its own unique civilization, but then they degenerated. "
Qiu Feng covered his eyes, "Whenever I think about this, I feel very scared. I'm afraid that I will see my son and grandson in the pig pen in the future..."
Qiu Feng's weakness only lasted for a moment. He quickly put down his hands, straightened his back, and said clearly: "Jinshan people asked me repeatedly, asking if you can work hard for the base and everyone now, but when you are short of supplies, you should die. When the time comes, will you continue to hold on to the base? I compare myself to my own, and I think not. That’s why things like this happened today.”
Xiao Mo didn't know what to say. Qiu Feng was too frank, which made it impossible for him to blame this person.
Qiu Feng probably knew this, so he spoke out his darkest thoughts without any concealment.
"So, what do you want us to do? To shoulder the future of the entire base and even the entire human race?" Xue Lihong asked calmly.
Qiu Feng took a deep breath and stood still, "I really want to throw this burden on you, and I even thought about controlling your family and partners, but I don't want to make enemies with you either."
Qiu Feng still had nothing to say. If Xiao Mo was the only one, he would be very confident in persuading Xiao Mo to dedicate his life to mankind. But with Xue Lihong, he dared to bet with his own life. As long as he showed the slightest hint of wanting to deceive Xiao Mo was charged with the "great mission" of finding a way out for mankind and even saving the earth. That guy Xue Lihong was able to knock Xiao Mo unconscious and take the spaceship directly to leave the earth.
To be honest, as a base leader, he dislikes "selfish" people like Xue Lihong, but as a parent, if his son finds a partner in the future, he hopes that his son can find someone with a similar temperament to Xue Lihong. (Half ability is enough), thinking of his son first in everything, rather than thinking of the entire human race first.
So he never meant to train Qiu Xin to be his successor.
Leadership is not only about enjoying the beauty brought by power, but also about shouldering heavy responsibilities.
Qiu Feng faced the two of them head-on. He didn't look at Xue Lihong, only at Xiao Mo: "I don't ask you what choice you will make in the future, let alone ask you to shoulder the huge responsibility of saving the entire human race. No one can shoulder such a responsibility alone. Things. I, Qiu Feng, am just begging you here, hoping that you will not give up so quickly when there is still hope for humanity."
Xiao Mo moved his body and was supported by Xue Lihong from behind. He inhaled, nodded, and said with red eyes as if he had made a vow: "Of course, that's what I originally thought."
Xue Lihong cursed in her heart: This cunning old fox! It simply revealed Lao Xiao's temperament.
When Qiu Feng heard Xiao Mo's promise, he felt relieved, and his handsome face that was not old suddenly burst into laughter, "There is one more thing that I am asking you personally. If it really doesn't work out in the future, you have to leave. Can you bring my stupid son with you?"
Xue Lihong said quietly: "The ferry ticket is very expensive."
Qiu Feng patted his chest, "Don't worry, no matter what you do in the future, I will give you the green light!"
Xiao Mo simply reassured Qiu Feng, "If we want to leave, we will try to take as many people with us as possible. As long as I can do it, Qiu Xin will definitely have a vote."
General Qiu was just a selfish father at this time. He was overjoyed when he heard this. He stepped forward and grabbed Xiao Mo's hand and shook it hard: "Then we have settled. By the way, do you have a way to repair those aliens that fell to the earth? Starship? If you can get more spaceships, can you also take more people with you?"
Qiu Feng stared at them eagerly.
Xiao Mo pondered for a moment, then looked sideways at Xiao Hong.
Xiaohong rolled her eyes.
Xiao Mole signaled Qiu Feng to follow them.
Qiu Feng was curious and didn't know what Xiao Mo wanted to say or show him, so he followed him all the way to the ruins of the base.
Xiao Mo looked around and saw no one there, so he casually walked to a damaged military vehicle that was swept up into the sky by the storm and then thrown down.
"General, watch it." Xiao Mo put his hand on the damaged military vehicle.