Chapter 2801 Disappointment

Life in the void... is very difficult.

This group of survivors who escaped from the synthetic creatures and flew into the void... saw no hope at all.

They can only see the gorgeous starry sky...

There is also a warehouse that is almost empty.

Many creatures traveling in the void encounter this problem, that is, they are unable to find any food for a long time.

The same is true for this group of creatures.

Their warehouses were almost exhausted after they traveled for a while, and because they escaped so hastily, they did not develop any long-term sleeping equipment.

Anyway... they can't continue.

However, this group of survivors came up with an idea, maybe... they could go back.

Because they thought the synthetic organism might have been killed in the explosion, they blew up the part of the synthetic organism where its neural structure was most densely populated.

Maybe after the explosion, the synthetic creature's thinking could no longer be maintained... maybe it just died.

But researchers remain opposed to this.

Because it has always carried a small piece of...synthetic biological nerve wire.

Even though this nerve line is far away, researchers can still feel the thoughts of the synthetic organism when they touch it with their own neural structure.

Synthetics aren't dead at all.

However, floating like this was definitely not a solution, so they held a meeting to discuss the issue... and finally decided to go back.

However, they do not return directly to where they originally lived, that is, the body of the synthetic organism.

Instead, they float nearby, live in aircraft, and gather necessities from the bodies of synthetic organisms.

This way, we can survive... while researching ways to completely eliminate synthetic organisms.

Although the researchers thought it was dangerous to do so, they had no other choice but to go back.

After flying for a while, the aircraft discovered to their horror... they were lost.

Originally, according to this flight journey, we should be able to return to the location of the synthetic creature, but after flying there, we found...

Synthetic biology is not here.

It’s not that the synthetic organisms have left their original positions, but that there is an error in their locators and they cannot return to their original positions.

They immediately tried to correct the locator, and after correction they found that it was still quite a long way from the normal position.

But their food can no longer sustain them for that long.

"Why haven't you discovered the locator error yet?"

The initial cause was this sentence, and the group of creatures began to blame each other and quarreled.

Seeing little hope for their future lives, several creatures that had become desperate began to attack the same kind around them.

Soon the survivors in the aircraft began to attack each other, seemingly launching a final massacre that would symbolize the end of their civilization.

All this because of meaningless emotions...

That’s what the researchers thought.

As it watched the last of its kind attack each other, it began to recall the past.

In fact, once addiction symptoms appeared in neural connections, they banned all neural connections and imposed... very severe punishments.

But countless people kept trying to connect, and eventually the entire civilization collapsed.

Why do they have to do this? Why do they have to...care only about momentary satisfaction?

The researcher fell into deep thought.

The situation is similar now. After discovering a mistake, people blame it on other people of the same kind to satisfy themselves.

They will do it even if it makes no practical sense.

After all, if you blame your mistakes on your peers, you will feel relieved... This feeling comes from the reward substances secreted in your mind.

After creatures gain intelligence, they always feel that they are mainly rational and free from the influence of instinct.

In fact, it is not the case at all... They have always been controlled by instinct, always pursuing the tiny bit of reward substance secreted deep in the nerves to live.

All species of this civilization are themselves symbols of sadness.

...They actually regard a little reward as more important than the entire population.

When the researchers came up with this idea, it killed all of its kind.

To be more precise, their 'brains' were pierced, but their bodies were preserved intact.

They are the kind of creatures that can survive for a period of time without a brain, and the researchers took this opportunity to... install new brains in these creatures.

This "brain" was created by studying the neural structure of synthetic organisms.

After escaping, it has been studying the synthetic biological neural structure it brought with it.

The original purpose was to find out how to completely eliminate synthetic organisms, and it was discovered during the research process, or very early on...

The neural structure of the synthetic organism itself is very similar to their own, and when connecting to the nerves of the synthetic organism... it can vaguely sense other similar organisms around it that are also connected to the nerves.

Simply put, synthetic biological nerves are like a huge 'network' that all living things can connect to.

They can sense each other through synthetic nerves.

It’s just that before, they mainly sensed the consciousness of synthetic organisms, and their perception of their own kind was very... weak.

But now that I'm so far away from the synthetic creature, the sense of the synthetic creature's consciousness when I come into contact with its nerves... is not that strong.

On the contrary, you can feel the consciousness of your own kind more clearly.

The researchers also tested it on a spacecraft with several other companions who had the same "disease".

Of course, these companions have now been killed by it.

Although they are just as sick as I am and are not controlled by reward substances, they will definitely have different opinions from me and may hinder me.

So the researchers decided to let it become the last survivor and the first revival of the entire population...and this must be done with the help of the synthetic organisms that destroyed their population.

It mainly uses the neural structure of synthetic organisms to create many mechanical devices.

These mechanical devices are then installed in similar locations in the brain.

At the same time, it also carries a synthetic nerve.

And then…it worked.

It found that when it came into contact with the synthetic biological nerves, it could clearly feel the bodies of those of its kind.

At the same time, if it has some thoughts, its thoughts will affect the bodies of the same kind through synthetic biological nerves, thereby controlling these bodies to move.

Because they have lost their original brains, their bodies have become nerves that receive signals from synthetic organisms.

That way, researchers can control them.

In fact, the original researchers didn't think it would be successful, after all, it had never been tested before.

But since it succeeded.

Then their population...will surely recover.

But first we have to solve the problem of starvation.