"They also extracted a huge number of souls." Lilina narrowed her eyes, reminding me of this incident that was almost forgotten for a while.
"The soul itself is a set of efficient calculation rules, human memory is the database, self-awareness is various application software and the front desk, and the soul is the underlying calculation rules and operating system, a carbon-based biological brain, 'hardware' calculation Ability is limited by its physiological structure. Once the calculation beyond the limit is performed, various biological self-preservation mechanisms will be activated. Shock, coma, burnout, inattention, and various physiological phenomena will prevent the brain from performing calculations that exceed its physical limit. , and since the soul is attached to the body to survive in most cases, the processing of information by the soul is limited to this level."
I kept silent and listened quietly to Lilina doing science popularization for myself. I didn’t expect this guy who was always jumping up and down in front of me to be so quiet and serious—now she looks like a knowledgeable and wise person. I suddenly realized that this guy in front of me probably knows much more knowledge than the most knowledgeable guy in human history: she completed her training directly in front of God's textbook.
"Under normal circumstances, the calculation ability of the soul is limited, but since there are general conditions, there are exceptions—boss, you know, there are some souls that are not attached to the physical body." Lilina blinked cunningly suddenly , waiting for my response.
"A soul that is not attached to a physical body?" I thought for a while, and suddenly realized, "Energy creatures! Psionic creatures!"
"And the glowing sister who sleeps all day in the old head," Lilina nodded. "The souls of non-physical creatures have unique computing advantages, because they don't need to rely on physical organs for data processing. Therefore, their souls undertake all computing tasks without any restrictions, and there are no hidden dangers of overheating and energy consumption. Their thinking is infinitely broad, Every question can be thought about countless times in an instant. If it is purely based on efficiency, the soul of an incorporeal creature is the most efficient computing machine... "
"Oh no," I suddenly thought of something. "Why do you feel that this is not in line with Alaya's current state of intelligence?"
Lilina rolled her eyes: "This is also caused by the shortcomings of energy creatures. The law of life is fair, and any creature has its own weaknesses. The data processing speed of energy creatures is super fast, but because their thinking process cannot be finalized, and The lack of physical restrictions and regularity has caused their thinking to be in an endless loop most of the time, or many questions are diverged too broadly by them. In the end, they come up with a completely different answer—well, let’s talk about it with Alaya’s The intellectual status quo is the same."
I:"… "
"The three mainstream life forms are like this in terms of thinking ability, or data processing ability: the main thinking ability of silicon-based life and its branches comes from physical organs, and the soul is only used as an operating system. Their thinking tendencies It is based on precision, linearity, high efficiency and low tolerance. The weakness is that the thinking process is too linear, and it is not flexible enough in terms of thinking and variability; The advantages are fuzzy calculation, non-linear processing, changeable results and associative ability, but the disadvantages are low efficiency and limited accuracy. And there are often unexpected mistakes—the so-called brain-dead children are more happy; energy life and all similar Non-physical life, all thinking processes are directly supported by the operating system of the soul. Executed by the surface will, it is as fast as the solid-state hard disk that has been separated from the mechanical structure—they even have separated from the solid-state hard disk. Their thinking advantage is Ultra-high speed is unlimited, the degree of nonlinearity even exceeds that of carbon-based life, and it will never be burned. The disadvantages are various endless loops, unnecessary divergent thinking, frequent personal downtime, and reactions to things that happen in the real world All kinds of delays are always slow, that is, the legendary mental patients have broad thinking: their thinking is so broad that they don't know what they are thinking for a while."
I thought about it, and felt that according to this standard, Qianqian probably belongs to the kind of soul that goes out of the body twenty-three hours a day... and Sylvia's soul probably never was in the body. Alaya's intelligence seems to have improved recently, because she found a trick: living in my mind helps her reduce the number of times she is in a daze.
After Lilina finished the science for me, she returned to the huge equipment in front of her eyes: "Maybe the Melovas didn't learn directly usable starship mainframe technology from the empire, but they probably can learn from the public database. They found these things similar to common knowledge, so they forcibly separated the soul and body of ordinary carbon-based creatures. The human brain can be used as a fuzzy processing part in the host computer, and the lack of computing power is provided by the solidified soul server. Supplement. After separating the soul from the body, the former is no longer bound, and a certain degree of modification may be able to explode enough computing power. The Melova must have carried out other "processing" methods to make the normal The soul of the system is 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 knowledge related to life forms, but I can be sure that according to my This way, everything is doable.”
I don't know how to evaluate such an "innovation" by the Melova people. Perhaps in their own eyes, this is an unprecedented creation of genius - using copycat technology to separate the brain and soul of the indigenous people, and create a set of operating system by themselves , using this operating system to completely replace the mainframe of the Imperial starship... and it was a success. For themselves, this is probably a great victory.
In this way, the new power that Barryan gained probably means that he finally created enough "human hosts" and completely controlled the Royal Fleet back then.
"Somewhere here there must be a place like a soul furnace, which makes servers." Lilina frowned, looking around at the processor matrix connected by human brains. These processors are the hardware of the Melova mainframe , and the original souls of these brains were extracted and made into operating systems and auxiliary processors. They no longer have the memories and personalities they had when they were humans, and turned into such half-dead machine parts... Lilina was right. There must be another assembly factory somewhere here, which is used to transform ordinary carbon-based biological souls into isolated "tools" similar to energy biological souls. She named this place Soul Furnace, which is not true at all. wrong. But at this point, we have no way to find other areas by tracking the staff. There must be a strict partition system between the soul furnace and the human brain factory. The closer to the depths of the criminal base of Barian, the tighter the security measures. 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 in a deep underground cave tens of kilometers away from the base.
Unlike the typical industrial base scene of the human brain factory, the Soul Furnace looks more like a religious place where evil rituals are held. This is a deep cave located hundreds of kilometers underground. The screams made everything shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere. The huge cave is full of complex and regularly arranged crystals. These crystals are probably the equipment used by the Melovas to store and transform souls. I guess these equipments are most likely learned from the empire-the The 15th Heaven Area is proud of the mysterious technology. The highest technology that the Melova people stole from the 15th Heaven Area is of course the knowledge of the Mystic Department. For things like soul extraction and transformation, the Mystic Department technology has more advantages.
In the endless circular cave. Bottomless huge fissures can be seen everywhere, steaming hot air in the fissures, it seems that this place is close to the magma layer, and there is a deep well in the center of the cave, and it is impossible to see where the end is. Only a faint red glow could be seen from its bottom, which I thought at first was magma. 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 crystallization networks at the bottom of the cave, which shows that the soul furnace we found is just one of many furnaces. One—As the previous conjecture, Barryan has built many hell factories like this.
We also found the assembled soul servers, which look exactly the same as the servers of the mainframe of the Imperial Starship with the shells installed, with common interfaces and standard shells, but when these shells are opened, there is no psionic structure inside, but It is the clouds and red soul crystals in the big groups of mourning. The Melova people use this kind of crystal that has a strong binding effect on weak energy to imprison the soul, and use the interface they created to connect the crystal and the psionic energy. The data ends are connected together, and just like that, their starship mainframe arrays are continuously being mass-produced.
"According to Turazzo, they have carried out this plan for nearly a thousand years. Every year, the new population of the three slave donor planets will be taken away," I silently calculated, "but until now, Barryan basically controlled all the imperial starships... During this process, how many people died due to the failure of the transformation?"
"I'm going to throw him into the fourth district, tie him in the furnace and burn for 10,000 years," Lilina pressed her hand on an exposed soul crystal, as if she could talk to the screaming soul inside, as the life god The demigod, she was really angry, "Life is not wasted like this... The surrounding lavender clouds are full of souls that have failed in transformation and have collapsed, and they have accumulated to the point where they have become real. The latter can act as the energy and 'amniotic fluid' of this furnace, and they burn these ghosts like firewood, just to save resources!"
Now that all the mysteries are solved, the truth about Barryan's control of the Royal Fleet, the truth about the aborigines who were taken away, and the truth about brainwashing education—because the aborigines who have been brainwashed will lose their will to resist, the weakening of their superficial will will also cause them to lose their will. It can weaken the resistance strength of the soul, so those Melovas can increase the success rate of their host manufacturing. Lilina and I didn't stay in the soul furnace for a long time. The atmosphere here made us feel very uncomfortable, but we still got a little extra information at the end—under the extremely high probability of transformation failure, the Melova In order to "reduce costs", they not only manufacture large mainframes, but also use bad and not so thorough "scrap" to manufacture small mainframes. They use small soul crystals and human brain cores to replace the controls in the imperial individual fighters and individual vehicles system. Thus controlling the entire Royal Fleet from top to bottom!
"Tell Sandora the news as soon as possible," after carefully leaving the soul furnace. Lilina and I discussed, "We must find a way to eliminate the threat of the Royal Fleet, but now they are controlled by the human brain host... The psychological pressure of Nima is also a problem. In addition, we must find a way to suspend activities in this place. "
My eyes are in the distance, those huge human brain factories and dismantling factories are undulating on the horizon, like sharp-edged mountains. I don't know their production efficiency, but I can be sure that there are countless Similar to hell on earth. Every second, people transported from slave donor planets are dismantled and turned into parts on the Melova warship. The growth rate of the population of those slave donor planets is the same as the production speed here. high.
Carnage is happening every second! !
Regardless, this facility must be shut down before the Empire launches its all-out assault—not just to save lives, but to reduce the number of old Imperial starships we have to deal with. Although it seems that Barryan has basically controlled all the old imperial fleets, but judging by the operating status of these factories, I guess he still needs more human brain hosts—no matter what he needs, he can't let him continue to succeed!
"If it is directly destroyed, it is difficult to destroy all the bases at once, and it is impossible to say if there are similar bases on other planets. I don't know where they hide the finished mainframe..." Lilina immediately thought quickly Wake up, the brain full of strange and dark thoughts is running at high speed, "This will make Barian more vigilant, and even suspect the resistance organization... It should be disguised as an accident or a mysterious disaster, a mysterious disaster that shut 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, thinking about the various handling practices in the face of emergencies: "Then let the Melova people have the illusion that there are hidden dangers of similar accidents in other factories, and they will naturally suspend these projects."
Lilina smiled slyly: "I'm good at this... Since they are engaged in biochemistry, the contamination of experimental samples is definitely more troublesome than the infection of the staff."
Lilina's thinking has turned around, and she has infinite surging power on these bad ideas: just as surging as the Nanfu battery. She decided to spread two viruses in this experimental base. One is aimed at the Melova people, which has an astonishing lethality rate, and the other is aimed at the slaves who were sent over.
But the second virus is not fatal, it only produces symptoms of illness, while showing a variant form of the first virus. Lilina's plan is to use this method to make the Melovas mistakenly believe that their slave donor planet is experiencing a viral plague, so that they will not be able to determine whether all other "host raw materials" are safe, and even doubt Is the mainframe manufactured in the past period of time still reliable? Maybe they'll find out quickly, but for at least the near term, these factories will have to shut down.
Some "hosts" that will be infected by biological viruses are probably one of the weaknesses of the Melova project.
"In the early days, they should temporarily isolate all infected personnel and slaves for inspection, but if they find that the virus cannot be cured, they will plan to eliminate the infected personnel: at least when eliminating those slaves Will hesitate," said Lilina, with a lingering green light in her hand, who was concocting those "cute and deadly little ones," "so I'll have to seriously tweak this thing so they look tricky, but 100% healable. May The Lowa people will not execute those 'raw materials' if they can be cured, after all, even if they regard slaves as crops and livestock, they are cultivated at a cost."
"You really see the dark side of all kinds of human nature..."
I looked at Lilina speechlessly, this "Female Pope of Mercy" who represents the gods, but what she knows best is the filth of all kinds of human nature. And always grab those lower limits just right every time, and use them as your own weapon. Wicked people still need wicked people to grind—Lilina is the guy who is best at dealing with villains among us, and her twisted psychology is simply too good for 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 a large group of colorful butterflies flew out from the afterglow of the last light!
I looked at this group of beautiful rainbow-like butterflies in amazement. They danced in the bright sunshine. They are gorgeous, light, and cheerful. They can be described as a spectacle of beauty. However, they are the killing tools made by Lilina—Lilina always I like to make the killing tool she made 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 this planet, so as to make the illusion of virus infection more realistic. With a motherly smile, Lilina looked at the butterflies flying farther and farther against the sun, "They will dissipate in the air and water, as long as they don't leave these bases, they can proliferate indefinitely, although it takes a few minutes to create It's a small work, but it's surprisingly cute."
Me: "..." RS