Chapter 289 Technological Singularity and Progress

Chapter 289 · Technological Singularity... and Progress

There is such a theory.

When different technologies reach the right node at the same time, their mutual cooperation and integration may cause an extremely powerful chain reaction. The iteration of technology will be continuously advanced dozens of times or even dozens of times in a very short period of time, and the entire social environment affected by technology will undergo drastic changes - yesterday's cutting-edge becomes today's mediocrity, and today's mediocrity becomes tomorrow's antique. In such a high-speed change, all human past experience, ideas, and traditions will become useless in the drastic changes.

This is called the technological singularity - the person who proposed this theory believes that humans may suddenly change from surface civilization to interstellar civilization one day in the future. The speed may even be so fast that society will not have time to adjust its own operating structure.

Of course, this can also be called "quantitative change leads to qualitative change", and this kind of thing, at least for now, has not happened.

It has not happened in human society.

It has not happened in human technology.

However, outside of humans, two completely different technological products are rapidly blending in a coincidence that should not exist.

One of them is called the "Divine Seal-Corpse Transformation" technology. The so-called Divine Seal is a cleaning mechanism of a certain advanced civilization. It looks like a twisted spiral tentacle sculpture that can provide false unlimited energy, and twist the minds of intelligent bodies within the energy radiation range, turning corpses into corpses.

Corpse Transformation has great power and immortality, but its main function is not to fight. Its purpose is to aggregate, and the corpses will pile up into balls in huge numbers. When the accumulated sphere forms a huge scale, it will rise into the sky and turn into a blood-red moon that releases powerful wide-area mental pollution and generates high-energy reactions inside. Its birth represents the end of a civilization.

It is very interesting that the blood moon is the remote provider of the false unlimited energy of the Divine Seal. The civilization that obtains the Divine Seal will be deceived and induced by the illusion of unlimited energy, and will copy the Divine Seal in large quantities under the extremely low technical threshold set deliberately. Until the moment when the Divine Seal explodes and transforms all living things within the coverage area into corpses. Until the agreed time arrives, the God Seal will even release a force field that wipes out scattered small-scale corpses to disguise itself, so that the civilization that obtains the God Seal will regard the bomb as a life-saving straw and protect it closely before the real disaster occurs.

This disguised annihilation force field is called "death space". Until it shows its true appearance, it will only have a killing effect on corpses.

This is one.

The other one has an unknown source and purpose. But it is called black water. It once fell into the hands of the engineer civilization and has the function of decomposing and reorganizing organisms and iterating structures. Each iteration of it is stronger than the previous one. From engineers to humans, and then from humans to aliens. And the aliens... seem to be a relatively stable terminal result at present.

This technology can also be called "black water-alien" technology.

And the interesting point is here-the God Seal technology that can transform corpses into corpses and achieve structural upgrades. Black water technology that can disassemble and reorganize organisms and then strengthen them. So, when these two samples of technology that should not come into contact with each other collide with each other, what kind of results will be developed?

Will the corpse transformed by the God Seal adapt to the black water?

Will the black water melt the corpse transformed and turn it into a useless thing?

Or... will the black water transform a powerful alien life form, and the alien life will be killed by the radiation of the God Seal and transformed into a corpse. And the new corpse is eroded and transformed by the black water again, and iterates into a more excellent life. And this new life dies again in the radiation of the God Seal, creating a more powerful corpse?

It sounds a bit like an absurd delusion of stepping on the right foot with the left foot and going straight to the stratosphere.

Because both the God Seal and the black water have their own technical limits. They cannot infinitely transform life forms for their own use, and their iterations are destined to stop when they touch a certain node.

But... but.

Before it, before they touch that node. How far can it, or they, grow?

It's worth looking forward to.

…………………………

-The strength of the corpse seems to have increased.

Jiang Yu stretched out his hand and restrained the humanoid corpse in front of him with a life force field. It could no longer see its original appearance. It could only be discerned from the outline of its appearance that it should be derived from humans rather than alien monsters.

Its strength has increased, and its biological material has also improved accordingly. The overall combat power has increased by nearly 20% compared to the group at the prison gate area.

20%.

For the reincarnationists, it is simply a low-level combat power increase. Every large-scale purchase and exchange of reincarnationists will bring about a huge scale, or even several times the power change. A mere 20% is probably just an ordinary enhancement level. However, for the indigenous civilization of non-reincarnationists... it is too outrageous.

Especially...

- it changes too fast.

Jiang Yu clenched his five fingers, and the corpse in front of him was crushed into a bloody foam by the force field. He sensed that Xia and Zhao Yingkong were heading towards the direction of the underground mineral vein area, and the current time point... was still sufficient.

Abundant refers to the sky - the huge wreckage of the crashed starship will take several minutes to fall above the prison. And he must ensure that the starship he is carrying when he descends will not be turned into powder in the next crash.

There should be dozens of seconds.

There was a little omission in the initial landing point selection. If he had known that such a complicated change would occur, he should have directly stuffed it into the prison of Fiora No. 161 when he chose the landing point, instead of making a more general request to the Lord God. In this way, when he triggered Ripley's mission, he might be able to act before all variables were generated.

Unfortunately, knowing in advance is worth a lot of money.

It is impossible for me to choose to enter the plot area directly, instead of placing the landing point in a close position without direct contact - the mechanism of the Lord God is a trial of fate. No matter how I trigger the side plot, the rating given by the Lord God will be transformed into a test of corresponding specifications and then fall on my head... Even if I bring a star destroyer and blow up No. 161 before triggering the plot, maybe when I pack up my belongings and turn around, I will find that a replica Ripley has replaced the original body, and then trigger an unexpected high-difficulty side quest when I am completely unprepared.

It is not advisable to exploit the loopholes of the Lord God.

The Lord God is indeed artificially retarded, but it will only show loopholes at the right time when the reincarnations take the initiative to make progress and work hard. And all attempts to cheat and exploit loopholes will suffer the consequences when they are unexpected.

Continue to move forward, and more and more corpses appear. The weaker parts are solved by the barrage of enhanced warriors - they have adapted to the current environment, and they also have the protection from Zhu Wen.

‘Boom boom boom boom——’

The barrage of bullets brought a series of explosions, and dozens of corpses mixed with aggregates were blasted into debris. Their death was swift and neat, and their death was just a prelude.

The pollution fluctuations of the divine seal never appeared.

After the group of corpses in front of them were killed, another group appeared again. Among them, there were even stronger aggregates mixed in, and they showed a certain degree of energy resistance effect.

Energy resistance... If it is said that it is an improvement from immediate evolution, it is too outrageous. There is a possibility of advance research, but it is more likely to be the effect of some unexpected factors.

Above the sky, the silent giant ship called ‘Ishimura’ has always been the most huge unstable factor on this battlefield.

Jiang Yu is sure that if he, or any other reincarnation besides himself, touches it, it will inevitably trigger a new side quest. In the current environment, the difficulty of contacting two side quests at the same time will increase exponentially.

Can’t go up.

Jiang Yu held an ancient dragon lightning spear in his hand, judging the current situation while planning to release it at the right time.

He didn't wait until the right time.

Because at this moment, a huge miracle fireball that had been shaped skipped the chanting stage and bombarded the cluster of the second wave of corpse variants. All these mutant creatures were charred in an instant.

Zhu Wen's growth was much faster than he expected. Obviously, she only took drugs on the spot to open the first-level gene lock, but she was able to master the A-level enhancement she possessed so quickly and effectively. This may be classified as a "genius", of course, it may also be that the cultivation method recommended by Chu Xuan is particularly suitable for her.

Whatever.

These are not strictly important.

There are about ten seconds before the starship wreckage falls.

He turned his head and saw Zhu Wen looking at him with a confused and urgent look-she should have sensed the increase in calamity. Because even if the starship wreckage is penetrated by the light spear, its own mass can still cause a large-scale destructive effect.

Zhu Wen can already take care of herself.

But now is not the time to just throw her here and let her take care of herself.

The black knife assassins sent by Zhao Yingkong have already joined the battlefield. The destined death diversion they carry should be able to effectively block resistance.

The battle line will not collapse for the time being.

Jiang Yu took a step forward, tearing the air, and came to Zhu Wen's side.

His hand was on Zhu Wen's shoulder.

"Come, come with me." The tone was direct and unquestionable. He did not sense any resistance from Zhu Wen.

Then... space jump.

The two reincarnations suddenly appeared above the outer rooftop of the giant prison. Jiang Yu held the thunder gun in his hand, and thousands of meters above his head, the steel meteor was already approaching.