Age of Cataclysm: I can light up the technology tree

Lu Yongchang subconsciously took two steps back and looked at the giant tree behind the transparent aluminum curtain wall in horror.

"Do you know this is dangerous?"

He turned around suddenly, grabbed Mao Zhengzhi's sleeve fiercely, and shouted in a low voice: "That's an intelligent creature!"

"A life form with advanced intelligence!"

"Without knowing the details of the other party, we rashly allow it to survive in our flagship. Do you know how much hidden danger this means!"

"Teach, professor..." Meng Lu on the side was frightened by Lu Yongchang's reaction, but she still opened her mouth to explain for Mao Zhengzhi, "Yes, I asked Academician Mao to do this."

"This will be of great help to my deciphering work..."

"It won't happen next time!" Lu Yongchang slowed down his tone slightly, "Academician Meng, you probably don't know the crisis the fleet encountered last time. I don't blame you."

"Remember, weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, arrogance is!"

"Professor." Mao Zhengzhi also started to explain, "I have taken everything you said into consideration."

He pointed at the transparent aluminum curtain wall and said in a low voice: "There are three ship-based laser cannons installed in the biological laboratory."

"Once it makes any abnormal movement, Zero will control the laser cannon to destroy it immediately."

"Not only that, the entire laboratory adopts a modular design. Once an uncontrollable state occurs, it will directly break away from the [Earth] and be bombarded by the antimatter cannon that has been set up."

"In addition, in order to prevent information leakage, all instruments sent to the biological laboratory are encrypted."

"Not only that, even the probe sent to the Forgotten Star has been encrypted and equipped with a self-destruction device."

Hearing these words, the shock and anger in Lu Yongchang's eyes gradually dissipated. He took a deep breath and apologized softly: "Sorry, I was too excited just now."

"We don't know how high the other party's intelligence and technological level are. What if this is its disguise, just like the [painting] at that time..."

"I can understand." Mao Zhengzhi interrupted Lu Yongchang with a smile, "Because of this, I took various preservation measures."

Lu Yongchang turned to look at the transparent aluminum curtain wall aside, with a deep fear in his eyes.

In such a short period of time, it has learned how to coexist harmoniously with human civilization. Moreover, even if there are no tree roots to connect with each other, even if it grows in an environment isolated from the outside world, it can still have a certain connection with the mother body...

At this moment, in Lu Yongchang's mind, no matter how docile these giant trees appeared, they were classified as dangerous creatures!

After a moment of silence, he slowly turned to look at Meng Lu.

"The decryption has been successful. Now let's try to communicate with it?"

Perhaps because she had not yet recovered from the conflict that had just occurred, Meng Lu subconsciously turned her head to look at Mao Zhengzhi beside her.

Seeing Meng Lu's eyes asking for help, Mao Zhengzhi smiled bitterly, touched his nose, and said.

"yes."

"There is some kind of connection between the two, it's just speculation after all."

"We would like to take this opportunity to verify that we can communicate remotely with the giant tree on the Forgotten Star through this small tree."

Lu Yongchang thought for a moment and then nodded gently: "Let's start the experiment."

…

In the biological laboratory, scientific research robots carefully inserted electrodes and probes into the slowly twisting tree roots.

Because a large number of similar operations have been carried out in the past, these tree roots did not show much reaction to this.

"Academician Mo, let's get started."

After Mao Zhengzhi checked it again, he turned to Mo Zeyang and said, "Get ready to start transmitting information."

Mo Zeyang nodded solemnly, and then carefully turned on the precise instruments one after another.

"Academician Meng."

He greeted softly.

Meng Lu responded, quickly walked to her own position, and started checking the compiled translation program again.

Lu Yongchang frowned slightly and looked carefully at the holographic projection in front of Meng Lu.

"Bioelectric signal?" he whispered softly.

"Yes!" Mao Zhengzhi explained softly after completing his work, "Professor, at the beginning, we did not find patterns in the bioelectrical signals."

"On the contrary, a relatively strong pattern was found in the quantum signals generated by the giant trees."

"That also creates a problem."

"We can intercept these quantum signals with the help of instruments, but we lack the means to interfere with them."

Lu Yongchang nodded thoughtfully: "This is indeed a difficult problem. How did you solve it later?"

"Good luck." Mao Zhengzhi said with a smile, "As the giant tree continues to mature, the bioelectrical signals gradually change from disorder to order."

"Of course, the specific cause of this phenomenon has not yet been clarified."

"However, thanks to this, we successfully found the correspondence between bioelectric signals and quantum signals."

"This communication device is based on this principle."

"Using bioelectric current, we interfere with the quantum signals generated in a certain root system of the giant tree to achieve communication with the giant tree."

After Lu Yongchang was silent for a moment, he slowly spoke.

"Do you think this is like a learning stage for humans?"

Mao Zhengzhi was slightly startled. He quickly understood the meaning of Lu Yongchang's words: "You mean..."

"The quantum signal we discovered did not come from this sapling?"

"But from the giant tree on the Forsaken Star?"

"What do you think?" Lv Yongchang cast his eyes on the transparent aluminum curtain wall again, staring at the rough tree trunk, and whispered, "Do you think it is possible for it to master a mature language system immediately when it grows alone in a closed environment?"

"If this is true, the potential of this race will be immeasurable!"

Mao Zhengzhi's face changed slightly and he nodded repeatedly.

"Yes, what you said makes sense..."

"Bioelectric signals are generated spontaneously by the saplings. Because they are just born and have not mastered the corresponding skills, they will appear extremely chaotic."

"And the quantum signal is transmitted by the giant tree. The complete language system is naturally regular..."

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, frowned, and gently said: "No, that's not right!"

"According to our guess, these 100-meter-high trees should not have individual consciousness. They are just branches of the giant tree."

"But now..."

Lv Yongchang glanced at Mao Zhengzhi: "You are stuck in a dead end."

"What if this small tree can grow into a 10,000-meter giant tree after it leaves the mother body?"

"What if... they all have individual consciousness?"

"Including what I said just now, they are all unverified guesses, and no one can say for sure."

"Everything depends on the results of the next experiment."