Chapter 71 Shenlong Frigate and the Future
The switchboard room where Nuwa is located has been greatly different from the original one. Now this place has become a huge liquid container, filled with biological culture fluid and various chemical substances.
This huge culture tank is the training center of our future biological warship, the Shenlong. Of course, you can also call it the slipway. The difference is that the Shenlong is a biological warship, so the structure of the slipway used for assembly is slightly different, because It's not actually built, it's grown, and not normal growth, but genetically induced growth.
Walk to the entrance and exit of the maintenance device on the top of this huge culture tank, then take off all your clothes, walk into a special spray workshop, perform a comprehensive disinfection process, and then enter the room where the entrance and exit are located through a dedicated passage. At first glance, the room where this entrance is located looks like a submarine base hidden in the mountain. On one side is the ground entrance, and on the other side is a book composed of green translucent culture fluid. There are five berth-like passages on the ground. The difference is that it is actually an inclined slope. One end is connected to the ground level here, and the other end extends into the culture solution.
I came in naked because I had just finished disinfection and needed to do a full synchronization later, so I didn’t bother to change clothes. Anyway, although it seems busy here, there are actually no outsiders. The people working around are all automatic robots, there are no humans or other members of the dragon clan, and the controller of these robots is Nuwa herself below.
Just follow the slope and walk into the ocean of culture solution little by little. The light green culture medium is maintained at 37.5 degrees, which is just the right temperature. Compared with normal water bodies, the specific importance of nutrient solution is slightly larger, so the buoyancy is also greater, but this is just right for me, because the bones of our dragons are made of metal, so the weight is heavier, even without counterweights Blocks can also easily dive underwater. Of course, the price is that if we want to float on the water, we must keep paddling, otherwise we will sink quickly.
As I continued to move forward, the culture fluid gradually covered my head, but I did not start swimming. Instead, I stood there and took a few deep breaths.
This advanced culture fluid functions somewhat like artificial amniotic fluid and can support any mammal on Earth to use its lungs to breathe directly in the culture fluid. But the lungs originally evolved to cope with the gaseous environment, so if it is suddenly replaced by a liquid environment, even if oxygen exchange can be carried out, you will still be a little uncomfortable, especially the initial process of sending out air to inhale the culture fluid is quite uncomfortable and will choke you. I even burst into tears, but just adapt to it. After all, this is just caused by the imbalance of the nervous system, not any damage.
As a dragon, I naturally adjusted faster. I squeezed all the gas in a few breaths to complete the infusion of culture fluid and started to swim forward.
In fact, the oxygen content in the advanced culture fluid is very high, higher than the oxygen content you can breathe on land, so even ordinary people will feel that their physical strength has increased here. Of course, that's all an illusion. It's just that the increased amount of oxygen inhaled reduces the accumulation rate of acids in the body.
Although the light green culture solution is colored, its permeability is very high. I just walked to the end of the slope and saw the huge outline in the solution below. If someone who didn't know suddenly saw such an outline in the water, they would probably be scared to death immediately, because that huge outline is clearly the head of a ferocious beast.
In fact, this head should be a dragon head. The shape is designed based on the appearance description of the dragon in Chinese mythology. Of course, a lot of artistic processing has been done. It does not look as naive as the dragon in Chinese paintings. It focuses on increasing the momentum and intimidation. So it looks a bit scarier than a normal dragon head.
Of course, the really scary thing about this head is its size. This dragon's head, which stands like a mountain, is so big that you can't find any other human structure to compare it to except the mountain.
In fact, if you can see the body under the head, you will find that it is a complete dragon, not just one head. However, it is standing with the head upward, so I can only see it when I come down from the top. A head.
This divine dragon is certainly not a biological weapon of our Dragon Yuan, or it is not a simple biological weapon. Everyone knows the body structure of Shenlong. This shape is quite good if it is moving underwater, but if it is fighting on the ground, Shenlong's body structure is actually very unreasonable. The dragon totem in ancient my country was actually made up of several creatures. As the Chinese nation conquered all directions, they continued to integrate the totems of various tribes and added the representative characteristics of some of the biological totems to their own totem creatures. above, and the final product of this addition and modification is the Shenlong, a creature that although it looks very imposing, its body structure is completely unreasonable. This is why Longyuan even created a Western dragon like Lucky, but did not create an Eastern dragon as a national totem. It's not that it can't be made, but the combat effectiveness after it is made will definitely not be too high. At the very least, the shape of the Eastern Dragon is not suitable for most ground environments. As for air combat... let's just go to bed!
So, since the shape of the divine dragon has been proven to be unsuitable for the environment on Earth, why do we want to create a divine dragon here? The answer is that this dragon is not designed for the gravity circle environment at all. It is a biological battleship, a space biological battleship that can enter a vacuum environment and conduct interstellar navigation.
Shenlong's body structure is not a suitable shape within the gravity circle, but if it enters space, there won't be so many problems. Because there is no problem of air resistance and no wings are needed to provide lift, the shape of the space battleship can be very random. As long as the structural strength and the reasonable configuration of the internal space are ensured, the appearance of the space battleship can be very strange.
Since space battleships do not have high requirements for appearance, it is not surprising that we have a dragon. Of course, since it is a space battleship rather than a biological weapon used within the gravity circle, the size of this dragon must be large enough. This is why the dragon in front of you is so big that it is incredible. Of course, such a large biological weapon cannot rely on rocket boosters to lift off. It actually has its own power.
The power used by this dragon is multiple sets of biological engines located in the body. This thing is similar to a super electromagnetic engine in principle, but the difference is that it is realized with a biological structure, not a mechanical structure. In addition, the propulsion power of this biological engine is higher than that of a mechanical super electromagnetic engine. However, because this biological engine is not compatible with mechanical bodies, immigrant ships cannot use this biological engine. Only biological warships can use it.
In addition to the super electromagnetic engine, this dragon actually has almost five million miniature mass effect thrusters. The reason why the number is so exaggerated is entirely because this thing is completely realized biologically, without any mechanical structure. For a mechanical battleship that is mainly made of metal materials, it is absolutely impossible to produce millions of small propellers and install them in place. Even if it could be done, no one would do it because the gain outweighs the loss and the cost would be terrifying. you. But for living organisms, there is no such problem.
For example, humans and tiring robots are similar in structure. In order for a robot to have a sense of touch, it must be equipped with pressure sensors. According to the information provided by the pilgrim leader, even the high-end life service robots used by the creators do not have more than 2,000 pressure receptors on the body surface. These pressure receptors are distributed on the robot's body surface wherever it needs to sense pressure changes. parts to simulate touch. This may not be important for industrial robots, but biological service robots, especially some special models, have very high requirements in this regard. However, even so, two thousand pressure sensors are already the limit. Any more will seriously affect the cost and other capabilities of the robot.
But how many nerve endings are there on the human body that can sense pressure changes? The specific number is not yet clear, but what is certain is that a normal person has millions of nerve endings in one leg, and the sensory nerve endings in sensitive parts such as fingers are extremely dense, so a normal person's whole body touch In fact, it is completed by nearly 100 million nerve endings. This level of precision is impossible to appear on an artificial robot anyway, because even if it can do so much, no one will be bored enough to install more than 100 million pressure receptors on a robot. What's more, the sensory nerve endings on the human body are not only capable of sensing pressure, they also produce temperature and current sensing capabilities. That is to say, every sensory nerve ending in human beings has the ability to sense pressure, temperature and electric fields. Of course, the last electric field sensing ability is already very slow.
Like these neurosensory systems. It is impossible for a robot to be equipped with hundreds of millions of pressure receptors, but most advanced mammals have more than a million sensory nerve endings, which is completely unimaginable in mechanical engineering.
Same thing. You cannot install millions of propellers on a steel battleship, but a genetically engineered dragon can "grow" millions or even billions of "propulsion organs." Yes, it’s the propulsive organ. These mass effect engines are components to the steel battleship, but to this dragon, they are small organs. They are just like the organs in the living body, responsible for a certain special function.
The number of mass effect thrusters in this dragon's body exceeds one million, and they are scattered throughout various parts of the dragon's body. Although there are many, they hardly produce any spatial pressure, because the specialty of living organisms is to make good use of every piece. space.
The combined effect of these two thrusters is that this dragon not only has the ability to freely enter and exit the planet's surface, but can also easily cruise at sublight speeds within the interstellar space. Of course, this biological warship actually has a jump device, but this thing is mainly used for long-distance navigation, and as an escort warship for the immigration fleet, this dragon probably does not need this kind of equipment.
As I sank all the way, the shadow of the huge dragon head became bigger and bigger in my sight. Soon I could no longer see the entire dragon head. All I could see was the huge and cliff-like shadow beside me. The protruding part of the dragon's mouth, and below me is the location of Shenlong's forehead and eyes, but now the two eyes look like two huge lakes, and there is a huge diamond-shaped lake on Shenlong's forehead. Crystal, this thing is actually a weapon launch port. Of course, it fires energy weapons, otherwise it wouldn't be sealed with crystals.
My target was not the huge crystal, but the long dragon's mouth beside me. There are two horizontal openings in the upper part of the dragon's mouth, which look very much like breathing holes, which are the nostrils of this dragon. The design of this nostril is quite different from that of the mythical Chinese dragon. The nose of the legendary dragon in my country is located at the front of the head, and it is very large and looks quite prominent. However, the design of the nostrils of our dragon is very similar to those of birds. They are located symmetrically on both sides of the root of the upper part of the mouth. They appear to be just two holes without any protrusions.
In fact, these two nostrils are not real respiratory tracts, because this dragon is actually a biological warship, and it is a biological warship for interstellar navigation, so it needs to move in a vacuum environment most of the time, and its breathing function naturally cannot It's so simple to use your nostrils. This dragon actually has an internal oxygen circulation system, so it actually has no breathing organs. The dragon's "lungs" are actually a large hangar for docking medium-sized spacecraft. And this part can be opened outwards to facilitate the entry and exit of the spacecraft. As for the nostrils and the space behind them, it is actually a berth and access channel for space fighters and small battleships, or it can be called an ejection track.
Now both nostrils are open and I can swim right in.
You don't even notice it from a distance, but when you actually enter this huge nostril, you realize that this thing is really ridiculously big. But it’s right to think about it. This thing is not only the entrance and exit of space fighters, but also allows the entry and exit of small battleships. How can it be done if the opening is not big? As for me being here alone now, that's no more than a speck of dust.
After entering along the huge nostril, you can see a passage covered with translucent carapace. These things are actually a kind of solidified biomass secretion. After solidification, its hardness is comparable to that of high-grade alloys, but its biggest advantage is not its hardness and Resilience, but repairability. To put it bluntly, this thing is just like human fingernails. It can continue to grow, so no matter how damaged it is, it can be regenerated without worrying about damage at all. As the entrance and exit of the passage, the probability of this location being damaged in battle is obviously quite high, and a material that can self-repair is obviously more suitable for this environment than any steel.
This special material does not completely cover the entire channel. If you continue forward, you can see some structures composed of exposed metal materials. Those things looked like train tracks, and they were very big, forming a total of 13 track groups of different sizes in the nasal cavity. These are electromagnetic catapults, which have similar functions to the catapults on aircraft carriers. They are mainly devices that provide initial speed to aircraft that need to take off.
After passing these things, the passage that looked like a wormhole turned into a huge metal passage. From here on, the surrounding environment looks like the internal structure of a regular space battleship. There is nothing different except that the space is extremely large.
Moving forward in this huge passage, I soon reached a meeting point, which is the connecting point of the nostrils on both sides. The passages merge into one here and then extend towards the rear. Here you can see the horizontal partition in the center of the passage. This is used to guide incoming and outgoing aircraft. Just like a highway is divided into left and right sides, it is divided into upper and lower parts. Incoming and outgoing aircraft need to go through the corresponding passages respectively to avoid being in this An accident occurred on a traffic artery.
I entered from the upper passage. After walking a short distance, I saw a personnel entrance and exit on the side passage. However, I did not go in, but continued deeper. He sneaked into the huge space fighter hangar inside in one breath, and then swam towards one of the relatively large entrances and exits. There are suspended passages on the wall here. I arrived at about the 170th floor. There is a large electronic door on the wall here. As soon as I approached the door, it automatically opened to both sides, and then I entered the inside.
This is actually a large elevator. I didn't press the switch after entering, because this thing is completely controlled by the psychic network. There are no other buttons on the wall except emergency stop.
The elevator first moved a certain distance toward the top of the dragon's head, and then suddenly began to move sideways. After it stopped, I appeared in a quite large space. This place is a place like a transportation hub. From here, you can take elevators in different directions to reach different areas. There are also many passages to walk through, but I still changed to another elevator.
At least forty minutes have passed since I entered the culture medium, but I still haven't reached where I want to be. The hugeness of this dragon is certainly one of the reasons, but it is mostly due to the current environment.
From a design perspective, this thing was originally supposed to be used in space, that is, in a gravity-free environment. In fact, there is no artificial gravity in this dragon's body. It's not that we can't do it, but it's not necessary. The human body is relatively fragile. If it is in a gravity-free environment for a long time, many problems will occur. In addition, many human body movements will be restricted in a gravity-free environment. It is almost inevitable that work efficiency will decrease because of not getting used to it. . But this dragon is not an immigrant ship, but a warship for escort, so it is a ship specially designed for dragons, and our dragons' ability to adapt to a gravity-free environment is obviously much higher than that of humans, and even if we are in a gravity-free state for a long time, we There will be no abnormal reactions in the body. In addition, our electromagnetic control ability can react on itself through the push and pull of the magnetic field, allowing us to move at high speed in a vacuum. In this way, the vacuum environment is a more suitable state for us. This is actually one of the reasons why the original creators wanted us to become creatures that can survive in a vacuum, because in this way our spatial adaptability will be very high.
If this dragon is parked in the earth's orbit now, then I can reach the place I want to go in ten minutes at most. But the problem is that not only is this not a gravity-free environment, but it is also surrounded by biological culture fluid with a high specific gravity. This thing Not only is the specific gravity greater than water, but the viscosity is also much higher than water, so moving at high speed in this environment requires huge resistance. This damn resistance caused me to move here for forty minutes and still not reach the place. Fortunately, I was finally not far away.
Almost an hour after I entered the culture medium, I finally reached my target - Shenlong's brain through a complex network of channels.
As mentioned before, this dragon is a repellent shell grown outside Nuwa's body using gene induction technology, and this brain is actually Nuwa's body. It is just to control this huge repellent shell, so Nuwa has directed its proliferation. A subsidiary control area was established. This control area can be understood as the cerebellum, but it is only responsible for controlling the body and does not participate in other rational thinking and the like.
The place where I am now is probably between Nuwa's body and the newly grown cerebellum. There is a specially set aside control room here. The structure of this control room is very special because it is a standard sphere. Longyuan's engineers jokingly call this place Dragon Ball, but I think it's actually more like a ship's bridge.
Because this dragon was built for Nuwa, it actually does not have a bridge in the traditional sense. The entire dragon becomes a battleship and is also a living creature, and Nuwa is the owner of this creature. brain, so she doesn't need a control room at all. The dragon ball itself is not prepared to control the dragon. It is actually more like a conference room. Of course, it can also control various functions of the dragon's body on behalf of Nuwa when necessary.
There is no console or anything like that in this spherical cabin. The only device here is the advanced spiritual connection device. One hundred and eight mental connection devices that resemble operating chairs are evenly distributed on the bulkheads around the sphere, and in the center is an integrated processor similar to the integrated control system in Nova. This processor allows eight members of the Dragon Clan to lie inside and have an advanced spiritual connection with Nuwa. When someone lies in it, he will automatically become Nuwa's secondary processor and become the high-level consciousness aggregate of the entire dragon clan.
In addition, above the integrated processor, there is a spherical device with a diameter of more than two meters in the center of the entire sphere. This device is currently open, and you can see that there are two fixtures placed face to face inside. It can be seen from the shape of the groove that two people can lie in it. In other words, this sphere is actually prepared for two people.
After looking around the environment here, I swam to the sphere in the center. When I put my hand on the open hatch cover, the lights inside and outside the entire cabin suddenly lit up, along with A faint buzzing sound. Nuwa's voice appeared in my ears. "Are you sure you really need to connect directly with me?"
I confirmed with great certainty: "Yes, I have some questions and some ideas. These things are too vague. I think it may take a long time for me to figure it out myself, but you should be able to help me think it through."
"Since this is your decision, come in."
I quickly got into the sphere, and then lay down in one of the grooves specially prepared for me. The fixing device designed to fit my body completely could completely fix me in this groove. The moment I lay down, a huge metal cone was inserted directly into the special connection port on the back of my head. If it were a human, this would definitely kill someone, but there is a hole in my head at this location. This is a reserved interface specially prepared for advanced spiritual connection.
In fact, in addition to this part, there are several places on my body that are connected by special connecting devices. These things are not only connected to my nervous system, but also act as fixation devices, completely locking me in this position. superior.
The hatch outside the sphere began to close slowly, and the interior of the sphere, which was originally glowing with green light, instantly turned into darkness. However, even if there was light, it was useless, because my consciousness had begun to connect to Nuwa's neural network.
In the big sphere outside, Nuwa's voice began to respond quickly. "Confirm the insertion of the advanced core processor, and the upload of the highest authority of the system is completed. The advanced mode of the psychic network is activated, the external information link is disconnected, and the internal network closed-loop mode is completed. Power is transferred to the core processor, and the main system is transferred to the co-processing mode. Warning, prophet System call request, all dragon thinking units are synchronizing...synchronization is completed...the prophet system is fully activated."
At that moment, the members of the Dragon Clan all over the world suddenly froze for a moment, and then all the Dragon Clan members began to move very slowly. If people around them got closer, they would notice that the eyes of these Dragon Clan members had lost focus. , the reaction was also a little slow, as if he was thinking about a problem and was distracted.
"What's going on?" In the White House, several US government officials were exchanging opinions with the few dragon clan members we left behind. Suddenly, they found that the dragon clan members in front of them began to be in a daze. They took a long time to answer questions, and their eyes They were sluggish and lifeless, and even their hearing seemed to have declined. They had to speak loudly to get any response.
Similar to the White House in the United States, the members of the Dragon Clan who we Longyuan left in other places are basically stuck in a state of lag. They stutter when speaking, and have no reaction when others speak. They are as if they are sleepwalking, and their eyes are completely Focal length not found.
In fact, this situation is caused by running too many software on the computer at the same time. The reason is that the computing resources are not enough.
The prophet system launched by Nuwa had been launched once before, but at that time there were not so many dragon clan members involved in the calculation, so the price was that all military and civilian computer networks around the world were blocked to varying degrees, and almost all computers connected to the network were blocked. Recruited by Nuwa. The difference between this time and last time is that we did not borrow external computer resources, but used the internal mental network of dragon individuals as the calculation unit. There was no external computer involved, so the result was that all dragon members experienced lag. Condition.
In fact, although we did not borrow computers from the external network this time, the computing power of the biological and electronic brains of our individual dragons is actually very powerful. The number of the entire dragon family is now very large, so this time the prophet system uses The total amount of resources is actually more abundant than last time. The reason why lags still occur is not a problem of computing resources, but a problem of the Prophet system itself.
The so-called prophet system is actually a set of software. Its full name is "Regional Quantum Cross Interference Calculation System", and the prophet system is just an abbreviation. However, the basic function of this system is exactly the same as the abbreviation, which is to predict the future. Yes, you read that right, this system is used to predict the future.
Although we do not believe in theology, we have to say that the nature of the universe is sometimes very close to some of the theories mentioned in theology. For example, there are prophecy abilities that exist in both Eastern and Western mythology. In the West, there is prophecy, and in our country, there is fortune telling. Anyway, they are all methods of predicting the future through certain methods.
Originally, these were all fairy tales, but the fact is that the development of the universe can really be calculated, and in a sense, the development of the universe has indeed been fixed. No matter what efforts you make, the development and changes of the universe will not change. It is always fixed, it will never change in any way, and there is no power to change this established fact. The ideas generated in your brain are actually part of the established route of the universe. That is to say, no matter what method you think of, When it comes to changing the world, your thoughts are actually predetermined, and the world you change is itself the established development path of the universe.
Of course, some people will say: "I can choose to do it or not to do it, so I can change the established development route." Yes, you can choose to do it or not to do it, but your choice is actually an established fact, because your idea is actually The structure of a series of electrochemical reactions in your brain and the synthesis of various information from the outside world are fixed. They seem to be free, but in fact they are inevitable and cannot be changed.
However, the above are actually the fixed development routes of the macrocosm. If it applies to a specific person, there is no need to consider whether these are present or not, how to live, or how to live, because the above information is the macrocosmology, individual If you act according to this theory, your life will definitely become very miserable.
Our prophet system is probably such a system. It performs cross-calculation through quantum cross-interference, bringing all the basic variables that will have a greater impact on the future into the calculation, and then a specific future with greater feasibility will be obtained.
Note that the result obtained here is not a future that will definitely happen. It is only a likely future, not necessarily the future, because there are too many variables in this universe. Although theoretically, when you bring in all the variables, you can get a certain and accurate answer, in fact, due to insufficient computing power, you can never bring all the variables into the calculation, and some variables themselves are uncertain. , so it is simply impossible to bring in all the variables. What we can do is to collect as much variable information in the world as possible, and then calculate and deduce it in as much detail as possible.
The more variables we bring in, the more cross-calculation results there will be, and the higher the probability of getting the correct answer in the end. But at the same time, as variables become denser, the demand for computing resources will increase geometrically.
To put it simply, the "Prophet System"'s demand for system computing power is actually infinite, and no matter how many resources you have, it will not be enough. Moreover, the running time of this system is also uncertain. The key depends on how long you want the information.
The shorter the predicted future is from the present, the smaller the required range, and the lower the reliability of the results, the smaller the demand for computing resources. On the contrary, more computing resources and longer computing time are required.
The calculation scope I require this time is the entire earth circle, which can be said to be unprecedentedly large, and the prediction period I require is two years, which is also a very high time span, and the requirement I just set is 80% probability. future, so the demand for this computing resource is so large that all members of the entire Dragon Clan are overloaded to varying degrees.
Although the lagging problem of our dragon family caused some small-scale confusion, overall it did not cause any serious problems. It just scared many people who cooperated with us. Fortunately, Nuwa still retained a certain amount of remaining calculations. Resources are used to maintain feedback to external information, so those people soon knew that we were doing some kind of secret data processing, so they felt at ease.
The entire calculation process finally ran for three days. After 79 hours, the red light outside the sphere where I was suddenly jumped to green with a thud, and then the hatch on the surface of the sphere opened with a hiss, and at the same time it sprayed out. Lots of bubbles.
"Damn, my head hurts so much!" When I came out of the sphere, I didn't catch anyone and slid directly from it. Fortunately, there was liquid all around. If I fell, it would just sink slowly to the bottom of the cabin. Nothing happened.
Nuwa complained in my ear: "Who asked you to run for such a long time? Now it's not only you who have a headache, but our entire dragon clan is also in pain, okay?"
"Sorry, it's been hard on everyone this time!"
Due to overloaded computing for a long time, the brains of all individuals in the entire Brotherlong clan have suffered a certain degree of neurological damage. Although this damage is reversible, and based on our physical condition, it will completely return to normal in two hours at most. But the headache for two hours can't go away anyway!
Of course, after paying such a big price, the goods received are also very huge.
After such a long period of calculation, many issues that were unclear before are now finally understood. At least I now know how to do it.
"Nu Wa, you have also seen the calculation results just now. You don't need me to tell you the next step, right?"
Nuwa immediately answered in a very serious tone: "I understand this, but what I can do is actually the same as before. It is just to maintain my current job. I can only rely on you for the rest."
"I understand." After nodding hard, I said to myself: "I hope everything goes well in the future!" (To be continued ~^~)