Chapter 2779: Collective Thinking

"This creature... seems to be it?"

When the creature from the small space came out... Ersh seemed to recognize it. Novel.

It is...that creature.

When mentioning it, we have to mention a time in the past...

A long, long time ago, Ersh once tried to find... creatures like himself.

Although there were many creatures on its body, none of them were the same as Ersh itself, so it began a large-scale search in the void.

Not long after, Ersh discovered a creature.

This creature is the one that appears now.

This kind of creature is called "Faith Collective" by Ersh.

It is essentially a species of division of labor transformed from individual creatures. According to Ersh, its main source is... a group of very fanatical individual creatures.

The fanaticism of this group of individual creatures is mainly reflected in their belief, a belief called "unity".

Generally speaking, individual creatures almost always put individual interests above those of the group, and countless disputes and wars among the same species arise from this.

This group of creatures are very individual, and they extremely hate fighting among their own kind.

Although they all have their own personalities, they like to act in unison, and they do almost everything in a group... whether it's daily life or some major event.

If any individual among them tries to keep a secret or tries to get more food than its peers, that individual will be killed immediately.

Everything must be open, everything must be distributed reasonably, and all selfish desires are prohibited.

They do not have managers, rulers or the like; everything is based on mutual supervision between individuals.

Although there are still greedy individuals among them, their population as a whole is extremely unified. Almost every individual will not try to obtain more after obtaining enough resources. At the same time, they will actively kill those of the same kind who want to take more resources.

This race is fanatically devoted to unity and worships uniformity...

But they think that this is not enough. No matter how much a group of individual creatures worship unity, they can never be like species with division of labor.

They are extremely eager to connect their entire minds together like a true species with division of labor, and they are constantly...researching technology in this area.

Later they did develop some amazing technology.

What this technology does is to cut open their...brains, then mix up all their thought structures and put them in a device, so that the thinking of the entire tribe can be unified.

Because the thinking structure of these creatures is liquid, they can indeed do this.

So when everything was ready, the entire race of creatures committed suicide.

They put all their liquid brain tissue into a huge device called a "unified tank".

Although it is a device, the 'Unification Tank' was not actually made by them, but is the organ of some void creature.

Their entire species put their brains... into this organ.

This seems to be quite similar to some creatures Lin had encountered before.

However, this is not entirely the case for their species.

There are some individuals who have doubts when the entire race commits suicide.

Although they usually believed in collective consciousness just like their peers, they still hesitated when it came to committing suicide together.

So they survived after almost all of their kind committed suicide.

And these few individuals who survived witnessed the birth of the "Unified Jar".

The 'Unification Tank' itself was an organ that no longer had any 'activity', but after being injected with a large amount of biological brain fluid, the organ began to move.

The "Unified Jar" began to destroy the original civilized buildings of this group of creatures. It seemed to be very violent and had no intelligence at all.

The suicide survivors were shocked by this because they had always believed that doing so would unify their thoughts.

But I found that the 'Unified Jar' was in this state.

So they began to attack the Jar of Unification, but the Jar of Unification... was much more powerful than they had imagined.

The weapons they had at the time could only cause little damage to it, and the number of survivors was too small for them to activate powerful large weapons.

Almost everything created by this civilization requires the cooperation of a large number of individuals to use.

In addition to reflecting their worship of collective thinking, this also makes it difficult for selfish individuals to do anything.

Therefore, this group of survivors could only cause little damage to the Unification Jar.

They could only inflict some scars on it and knock off some... pieces of flesh.

Finally, they took the meat from the unified jar and fled into the void on a flying vehicle.

After a drift that was neither long nor short, this group of creatures arrived at Ersh's location and landed on Ersh.

That's why Ersh got to know this group of creatures.

So Ersh became very interested in the experiences of this group of creatures, and began to investigate where they came from.

That is where their civilization is located.

According to Ersh's investigation, he found that the civilized city where this group of creatures lived had become a ruin.

Ersh also discovered the Jar of Unity located in the ruins.

But this Unified Jar is not as completely unintelligent and brutal as described by these survivors.

Ersh discovered that the Unified Jar was a very talkative creature.

Because when Ersh detected it... he started trying to find a way to communicate with it.

The Unified Jar also responded positively to Ersh's communication.

Ersh quickly confirmed that it was indeed a creature with collective thinking integrated into a large number of individual creatures.

However, this unified jar did not last long.

Maybe it's because it's essentially a biological organ... In any case, it will age after living for a period of time.

Its movements became slower and slower, and finally it died.

But before it died, it told Ersh that its consciousness would continue... to continue.

Later, its consciousness continued as it had said.

It can be said that all those that appeared later were its descendants.

The way this creature continues its offspring is very interesting.

Because Ersh had never seen it reproduce directly.

All of its descendants appeared... in the beliefs of other species.

They have always relied on the 'consciousness' of other species to survive, until... it seems to be the same now.