Cyber Heroes

Hikasi continued to dive. A certain discomfort came over me. The surrounding water pressure is now beyond what her ancestors could withstand. But for a metal-based dolphin, this is pretty bearable.

But the seawater was taking away her body heat at an accelerated rate. The waste heat emitted by the batteries, artificial heart and other organs in the body can only barely sustain it.

It is said that the skin of older dolphins in the group has become numb, even worse than artificial skin.

Hikasi sighed while flicking the squid in her mouth to prevent the delicious juice from being taken away by the nasty sea water. At the same time, she was constantly warning herself to exercise restraint and not eat them all.

Then, several beams of ultrasound gently swept over Hikasi's skin. It is the language of dolphins like poetry.

Several dolphins are looking for them.

"Hikasi, Hikasi, why didn't you lose contact for three minutes?" the leader, Kleidich, scolded in a low voice. If this were converted into human-readable audio, it would sound more like a sobbing accusation. But in the dolphin's view, this is already anger.

Hikasi spit out most of the remaining squid she had eaten: "Prey."

What Hikasi brought caused all the dolphins to stop working on their mouths. The complex proteins synthesized by animal cells form complex fragrances in their receptors. Dolphins are in a state of long-term hunger since they are weaned. The occasional bits of surimi collected may not relieve hunger for these dolphins, but instead make their "appetite" flourish.

"Hunger" has been parasitic on them for decades.

They didn't care about anything, and even threw away the mechanical arms on their bodies, just rushed over and tore the squid tentacles covered with thorns.

Kledici also almost lost his mind. But as a commander, he restrained his appetite, tried to calm his subordinates, and distributed the food fairly. Squids have ten arms and legs. The longest and fattest ones were obtained by two dolphins respectively. There were four dolphins left, each of which was given two arms and legs and a little bit of minced meat. Kledich devoured the remaining scraps from the first half.

Food mixed with sea water slides down the throat and into the stomach. Kledici's stomach didn't feel much better. Instead, like a parasite, he urged the "host" to find more food.

"Momentary happiness" and "hungry misery" conflicted in Kledici's mind.

Then, the dolphins gradually calmed down.

A normal dolphin needs to eat 4 to 8 percent of its body weight in food a day, which is about 17 kilograms. And these metal-based squid tend to weigh less than three kilograms.

"Okay, you can eat it by yourself next time." Kledich said: "You won't die if you don't eat this, but it will be more uncomfortable..."

I don't know if it was to calm himself down, but Claydet strangely used encoded human language.

"Keep working, friends, we have to work for our home now!"

The dolphins cheered, picked up their equipment again, and began to approach the silent submarine.

This is the result of the war between "human beings out there". Just a few days ago, Hopkins heard violent noises in the distance, and then spotted this scene from a distance. "Humanity out there" is killing each other. A behemoth attacks a smaller gadget and then abandons it.

So Hopkins sang. Infrasonic songs can float far away under the action of resonators. And at that depth, sound travels pretty quickly.

The dolphins gathered together.

They must dismantle all the electronic equipment they can collect within a limited time. Slight modifications to these devices could result in new cetacean-artiodactyl prostheses. This is quite important to their tribe.

Human beings outside seem to be divided into two parties who never share information. Therefore, after they discover that the parts are missing, they will speculate that the other party took them away to cover up something. They will not think that there are intelligent creatures under the sea that will steal those parts that can be easily Manufactured electronic components - yes, the dolphins are targeting components.

Under the command of Kledich, the dolphins swam back into the sunken medium-sized submarine, and then looked for things that could move themselves and parts that would not be damaged if the shell was disassembled underwater.

The remains of the prosthetic body cannot be moved. These things are often numbered and may even have tracking devices built into them.

The tool used by the dolphins is a collar around the neck with several mechanical hands that can quickly remove things.

Looking at these human bodies, Hikasi became even more uneasy.

"What's the matter, my dear friend, you are so uneasy now?" Kledici couldn't stand it anymore and stopped what he was doing.

Hikasi sighed: "I may have been exposed to an outside human being."

"What does 'possible' mean?"

"The humans and detection machines we have seen all look like this..." Hikasi pointed to the remains of the prosthetics on the ground with her sharp mouth: "Or the boxy kind, but that thing is both. No. From the side, he looked like a hollow piece of garbage. And that human-like thing was right in front of a squid..."

For dolphins, the long seagrass is a "translucent" medium. Its blocking effect on sound waves is far less effective than its blocking effect on light waves. The squid was so obvious to Hikasi's senses.

So at that moment, the hungry dolphin forgot everything.

Kledich was silent for a moment and shouted: "All dolphins! Countdown for half an hour, then we will meet up with Hopkins! Leave! Go home!"

Then he patted Hikasi's fin with his tail again: "Relax my friend, it's not your fault. I saw that squid would go crazy... We are not as good as humans at this point."

Humans' higher functional areas are more developed and can more easily suppress instinctive reactions. But dolphins are only just gaining intelligence. Even their intelligence needs the assistance of chips. Sometimes Kledich couldn't help but wonder whether he was a dolphin or the soul in the chip inhabiting the body of a dolphin.

This is the underlying design of human prosthetic chips. When an instinctive reaction occurs simultaneously with the judgment of a high-level functional area and is strong enough, that instruction will have the highest priority, even superior to various safety restrictions in the settings. The original designers believed that the safety limits of the prosthetic body were artificially formulated and could not cope with all emergencies. In some extreme situations, it would be too bad for people to lose their ability to save themselves due to safety restrictions.

- That will affect the company's reputation.