Chapter 208 Incredible Biological and Technological Singularity (1/2)

"Huh... uh huh huh..."

The entrance to Highway Town.

Holding the tail of the rifle, he leaned against the rusty road sign and leisurely hummed a tune that Sisi had never heard before.

It sounds so good.

"What is Awei humming about?"

Seeing Si Si looking over, the corners of Tail's mouth turned up and he said proudly.

“The song you heard on the radio!”

"Radio?" Sisi was stunned for a moment.

What an ancient setting this is.

Tai Wei said with piercing eyes: "There is a radio in the reception room on the first floor of the sanatorium. It plays some incomprehensible things in the evening, and in the afternoon it plays a few repetitive singles in a loop. It is suspected to be the original soundtrack built into the game! I observed before It’s been a whole day! Oh, Si didn’t find this Easter egg!”

Why should I pay attention to boring stuff like that?

Si Si looked helplessly at the slowly moving clouds in the sky, sighed softly and said.

"Speaking of which, is it really okay for us to fish like this every time?"

Tails gave Sis a dissatisfied look.

"What does fishing mean? Isn't the tail working hard?"

Sisi reminded.

"I heard that deserting while on guard is a death flag."

Tails said nonchalantly.

"Don't be afraid, the tail is agility. As long as the tail is fast enough, death will always be one step slower than the tail!"

Si: "..."

The team they were in at the moment was on an inter-provincial highway leading to the east.

The terrain of the road is higher, with gentle slopes on both sides. Because it is an inter-provincial highway, there are few buildings nearby. Outside the guardrail are patches of pine and cypress trees, as well as dead branches and shrubs dotted in the forest.

The name of this survivor stronghold is Highway Town. As the name suggests, it is a town built on a highway. The only landmark building here is probably the three-story-high highway sign leaning against the back of the tail. This is probably why this survivor colony got its name.

The survivors here used materials dismantled from abandoned cars and wood obtained from felling trees to build a long and narrow settlement along the road.

The advantage of doing this is that you don't have to worry about your house being soaked in water when it rains. When wolves or hyenas wander over, you don't dare to attack people living on the slope from both sides.

The architectural style here is quite wild, just like the temper of the local residents.

They don't usually grow crops, and they mainly raise goats that are as tall as horses. If we had to find out the only difference between them and nomads, it would probably be that they would not move easily. They would occasionally plant some cash crops such as Camu trees and sell the rubber and Camu Camu fruits produced to passers-by. of businessmen.

To be honest, Sisi admires the operators of "Wasteland OL" for being able to create a completely different style for each survivor settlement. And this different style is not only reflected in the modeling and textures of the game, but also goes deep into the deeper core.

These survivors have their own unique culture and customs, as well as moral principles, worldviews and beliefs that are different from others.

This kind of detail is not only reflected at the collective level, but also accurate to everyone in the collective.

While they were standing guard, a child wearing a fur coat was standing under a small tree, seemingly saying goodbye to something. The men and women who had packed their bags stood at the door of their homes, looking worried at the newly repaired new home.

Not far away, an old man in his fifties was having a heated argument with a scar-faced man because he wanted to take away the kamu trees wrapped with hemp rope and plastic in the field.

They are like real people.

Not only does one have a life that belongs only to oneself, but the trajectory of life is also affected by countless variables, and thus a tree diagram with countless possibilities has evolved, rather than a single line that can be seen at a glance.

This was much better than the sandbox games she had played.

Even more "powerful" than reality!

She even wanted to set off immediately, pack up her bags and travel.

But then again...

Does this count as a desertion?

Sisi glanced aside unconsciously and found that no one was paying attention to them at all.

Maybe the other team members didn't have much hope in them from the beginning, so I and another friend from the perception department consciously went out to do some physical reconnaissance.

The battlefield man carrying a rifle couldn't help but wander around in the distance, looking for someone to fight, but the weather was too cold and he couldn't even find a mutated hyena.

Captain Quan Shui, who wears the only "orange" exoskeleton in the server, always stands in the most stable place and takes command, and very carefully arranges specific tasks for each team member - including those who serve as bait outside. Battlefield Dude and I are the darkest.

Generally speaking, this team is relatively reliable, at least much more reliable than the Marginal Brother, the Death Team and the Demon Team.

So much so that Si Si often thought about the meaning of staying here with Tai Tai.

Glancing at the time on the VM screen, Tai stretched his body and yawned.

"Si, it seems that there is no fight today. We can only show off our skills until tomorrow."

"Awei, please quickly recall that you are actually a girl——"

There was a sudden explosion in the distance, interrupting Si Si's complaint.

The two of them looked in the direction of the explosion and grasped the weapons in their hands.

"The enemy is coming?!" Tai Tai was full of energy, his eyes shining.

Sisi glanced at the map, pondered for a moment and said.

"No... I feel like the sound is quite far away, probably from other teams."

At this time, the curses of the battlefield brother came from a distance, confirming her guess.

"Gan! Why didn't we trigger the plot! Bad review!"

Unlike the regrets of the players, the survivors of Highway Town were obviously frightened by the explosion. They stopped what they were doing and looked towards the northeast with a look of doubt.

"What happened?"

"That sound..."

"Did something explode?"

"Could it be the bone chewers!"

"Those damn looters! Let me catch them, I must twist their heads off!"

The crowd was talking.

Night Owl standing in Kamm Tree Garden frowned, and the burn scars on his face squeezed together. His hands unconsciously rested on his waist, but he quickly retracted them.

The sound was at least 4 kilometers away from here, and there were large ruins and wastelands in between, so it would take some time to get over there.

The old man who was still arguing with him a second ago also looked sharply at the northeast direction, muttering to himself.

"It's the direction of the battery factory."

His name is Hooker, and he is 56 years old this year. When he was young, he was a nimble hunter until he was shot in the knee and became the old Hooker who planted kamu trees.

Although he is not an awakener, he can live to his age, and his rich experience is not inferior to the strength of the genetic level.

Night Owl looked solemn and asked him.

"The group of blacksmiths?"

Hooker closed his eyes and nodded gently.

"It should be... Listen carefully, there are gunshots, and there are quite a few."

Night Owl held his breath, listened carefully for a while, and frowned.

"At least 40 people."

"At least double."

Looking at the trees covering two acres of land, the old man finally sighed as if giving up, secretly saying that he shook his head with regret.

"Go find your father."

"We have to move faster!"

...

Outside the west gate of the outpost, not far from the shooting range of the guards, there is a red brick house with only one iron window facing the outpost.

This is the prison of the outpost, where several prisoners who have just been sent from Changjiu Farm are being held.

In addition, there is a special "prisoner" being held there.

In the wooden shed, the four-meter-long Death Claw curled up in the corner.

It was wrapped with iron chains and ropes made of devil's wire, and its amber pupils reflected a dangerous light, scanning the people at the door.

After being looked at by the beast, Xia Yan took a step back unconsciously and nervously grasped the sickle assault rifle in her hand.

This thing.

It's much more dangerous than the crawler!

"You, why did you bring this thing near the door of your house?"

Chu Guang, who was standing next to her, said without thinking.

"Of course it's for research."

He was wearing a power armor, and a carbon nano bulletproof vest inside, which he got at the beginning. He was carrying a nitrogen power hammer on his back. He was armed to the teeth.

Let alone a death claw, even if the queen of the split claw crab stood in front of him, he was confident that he could escape unscathed.

"By the way, you don't have to come with me."

"What nonsense are you talking about? How could I let you come alone for such a dangerous thing?"

Chu Guang looked at Boss Xia with interest, and couldn't help wondering when this guy became so brave.

Is it because of that leg?

It seems that the money was worth it.

"Unbelievable... This is incredible!"

Muttering to herself, Heya walked forward with a fanatical look on her face, and Chu Guang was so scared that he quickly pulled her back.

"Are you crazy?"

My SSSR card!

No, it should be the players' SSSR card!

"Crazy? No, it's this world that's crazy. I've never seen such an amazing creature!" Heya continued, looking at the lizard with an intoxicated look. "I've checked the DNA of this guy. It undoubtedly belongs to the order of lizards in the class of reptiles of the phylum Chordata! But it has evolved a mechanism to regulate its own body temperature, which can maintain a high metabolism in winter like mammals. As long as it wants, it doesn't need to hibernate even in winter!" "Even Taiga lizards can only maintain a constant body temperature for a period of time during reproduction... Is this really a radiation mutation?" Chu Guang didn't know how to answer this question. After all, he had been in this world for less than a year, and this was the first time he had seen such a terrible monster. Yin Fang, who was standing aside, also had an incredible look in his eyes. But what he was paying attention to was different from Heya's. His eyes were fixed on the black device on the neck of the death claw. It looked like a large ring! "It's really outrageous... Can the device installed on the back of its head really connect it to people's minds?"

"That's the result of the interrogation. Do you want to try it?"

As he said that, Chu Guang took out a prop that looked like a "headphone with a microphone" and threw it in Yin Fang's hand.

After Yin Fang took it, he pondered it in his hand for a while, and soon put it on his head without any instruction.

Turn on the power.

Turn the knob to the maximum!

A slight electric current sound rang out, just like the brain being electrified.

But other than that, there seemed to be no other feeling.

"What's going on with this thing - hiss!"

The stinging pain welling up in the depths of his mind made Yin Fang let out a soft cry of pain, and subconsciously reached out to press on his temples.

But the pain came and went away quickly, and he soon got used to the stinging feeling and put his hand down.

Seeing Yin Fang coming over slowly, Chu Guang, who had already tried it once, continued.

"You can try giving orders to the monster...for example, order it to stand up."

Holding the wheat at the corner of his mouth, Yin Fang took a deep breath, stared at the death claw and said.

"stand up!"

The body trembled, and the Death Claw lying on the ground, although it resisted the order, still dragged its scarred body and slowly stood up from the ground.

Damn it?

Does it really work? !

Yin Fang looked shocked, even forgetting his headache, and continued to order to Mai at the corner of his mouth.

"Get down!"

Deathclaw lay on the ground obediently.

The expression on his face became more and more shocked. Yin Fang seemed to have discovered a new continent and continued to give orders to it with excitement.

"stand up!"

"Hop on one foot!"

"Use your tail to draw circles on the ground! Tsk, doesn't this work? Then bark like a dog!"

"..."

After being tortured repeatedly, Deathclaw's face gradually showed a painful expression, the neurons in his body were highly active, and his brain waves began to become disordered.

Chu Guangneng could clearly feel that if it weren't for the iron chain, this beast would most likely have been able to tear the guy in front of him to pieces with his claws!

But Yin Fang didn't care about that.

He just wanted to figure out where the limits of this device were.

He tried almost all the commands he could try. Just when Yin Fang was thinking about what other commands he could try, he suddenly felt dizzy, his shoulders swayed and he fell back.

Chu Guang gently pushed forward with his left hand, dragging Dr. Yin who fell backwards, and took off the headset on his head with his other hand.

"It's best not to use this thing continuously...it will not only cause a mental load on the object being controlled, but also the person who uses this device."

Chu Guang had tried this thing once before.

Rather than mind control, the function of this device is more similar to a kind of "hypnosis."

It does not allow the user to directly control the actions of the controlled person, but uses mental pressure and a spiritual suggestion to allow the ringed alien to execute a few simple commands.

Such as hunting.

Another example is moving forward, backward, or running in a certain direction.

I can barely do it while hopping on one foot, but I can't do things like drawing circles on the ground with my tail or barking like a dog.

This device cannot allow the controlled person to complete commands beyond its cognition, unless it has actively done similar things at some moment in its life before.

Even though this device was amazing, it was still far behind the "morphogenetic field" in his shelter.

Players from "different worlds" can directly "soul penetrate" clones. Isn't this much more awesome than some indirect PUA and the master's command?

As long as the clone does not die, the player can keep fighting.

Not like this guy.

If you break the ring around its neck, it will probably lose control.

"Sorry, I got a little too excited. I've never seen this kind of technology before..." Yin Fang shook his head and regained his balance.

Chu Guang said thoughtfully.

"A technique that even the academy doesn't know about?"

Yin Fang said helplessly.

"The academy is not omniscient and omnipotent. There are also things that we don't know much about or don't understand at all."

After a pause, he continued.

"I should have told you before, in order to facilitate the reshaping work, we have divided the technology into FEDCBAS seven levels for management based on the difficulty of the reshaping, and allocated personnel and budget reasonably."

Chu Guang nodded.

"You did say that once."

Yin Fang continued.

"In fact, in addition to the well-known seven levels, there is an eighth level outside of the system - which we call the Singularity."

"Singularity?" Chu Guang frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

Yin Fang: "It represents the cutting edge, a blank space about the future. These technologies are like singular points in calculus, unanalytic points on complex variable functions, an island independent of the set... They are like us bottleneck to the future.”

"For example, the neutrino channel that you may have never heard of, or the overrun of mutants in the wasteland... They are all singularities. Although they are immature, they usually have extremely attractive prospects behind them. Once completed, it will be foreseeable to set off a technological revolution. For example, the former corresponds to super-light travel, which will allow us to travel to farther galaxies faster and cheaper, and the latter corresponds to super life forms with the ability to adapt to all environments. "

Saying that, Yin Fang shrugged his shoulders.

"Of course, the technological revolution mentioned here is based on the premise of social integrity. What we need now is obviously not innovation, but revival. Therefore... the academy does not know much about the Singularity, and only selectively retains some As a topic worth continuing, the focus of recycling work is mainly on the mature technologies in the system. "

Isolated individuals outside the system, "future technology" that had not been researched even before the war.

To make an inappropriate metaphor, it might be similar to the forbidden magic in a fantasy setting?

Chu Guang could only understand it this way.

"I'm suddenly curious. Are the clones of the Legion considered a singularity?"

What Chu Guang didn't expect was that Yin Fang nodded decisively.

"It counts, but it can only count half of it. The full name of the entire project should be 'Full Life Cycle Adjustable Technology'. If it can be completed, theoretically we can shorten or extend the time of any life cycle of any life, and control it in the true sense. evolution."

"As long as you want, you can be a child or an adult for your whole life, and you will be immortal at the genetic level. Our race will completely get rid of the backward r-strategy and k-strategy, and will no longer accept natural selection, but define itself by itself. ”

Heya, who was standing nearby, was stunned on the spot.

"Can such a thing be done?"

"Who knows?" Yin Fang shrugged, "Maybe it can, maybe it can't. Only the future knows everything about the future."

Yin Fang and Heya began academic discussions on whether this kind of thing could be realized. It was obvious that Heya didn't believe it, saying that such a thing was unheard of.

Yin Fang glanced at her mouth to confirm her statement.

"You are so young...Didn't your mentor teach you not to jump to conclusions about unknown things?"

Heya was instantly furious when she heard that Yin Fang actually pointed the topic at her mentor.

Xia Yan was confused the whole time. She couldn't even remember when she started not being able to understand.

Chu Guang fell into deep thought.

He suddenly thought of that recording, about the expression of "morphogenesis field".

After organizing their words for a moment, Chu Guang interrupted the argument between the two and spoke.

"If there is a technology that can establish a strong connection between two consciousnesses in different dimensions and transmit information across the boundaries of space and time."

"What the hell is that? Is it magic?" Yin Fang, who was in the middle of an argument, replied without thinking, with a tone that sounded like ridicule.

But perhaps thinking that this person was not easy to bully, he immediately closed his mouth again after opening his mouth.

But Chu Guang didn't take what he said to heart.

Because he feels the same way.

Something unheard of, it sounded like a miracle.

However, seeing Yin Fang's reaction, Chu Guang probably understood.

A certain technology hidden in Vault 404 has obviously surpassed the academy's knowledge, and naturally cannot be within the FEDCBAS classification system.

There is no doubt that it has reached the realm of "singularity"!

And it seems to be mature...

Just when Chu Guang was about to talk to Heya about the Torch Church, Xiao Qi's voice suddenly came from the communication channel.

"Master, something happened to your player!"

Hearing these words, Chu Guang was slightly startled. He didn't have time to ask in detail, so he immediately closed the helmet's visor, tapped his index finger a few times in front of the tactical eyepiece, and switched to the map interface.

Xia Yan, who was standing nearby, realized something when he saw Chu Guang's sudden movement, and asked in a low voice.

"what happens?"

Chu Guang frowned as he stared at the map and said in a deep voice.

"There's a situation."

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, a guard trotted over from a distance.

Standing in front of Chu Guang, he performed a military salute and said seriously.

"Master Manager, the team you sent to the battery factory to cover the evacuation of local survivors was attacked by marauders!"

"I know, I've already arranged for someone to go."

Chu Guang looked up at the nursing home and saw a spare Hummingbird drone flying into the air and quickly disappearing in the northeast.

Just now, he had mobilized the team that was performing a mission nearby to support him, and issued a defense mission to the players on the front line.

Be sure to hold on until reinforcements arrive!

"Just hold on!"

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(I haven’t finished writing the next chapter yet...I should be able to finish it before twelve o’clock. Tens of thousands of days is too difficult for a handicapped person QAQ)