Earth Era

Even if the technological creations from human civilization have defined a range for robots to try exhaustively, there are still too many possible evolutionary directions within this range, and most of the robots' attempts will inevitably fail. For robots, death is not scary, and it is not unacceptable to decompose the bodies of dead species and use them to create new ones. Therefore, all robots that failed to evolve were immediately decomposed by their own kind, and their bodies were turned into materials for making new robots. After the new robot grows up, it will choose a possible direction to try.

Although there are many possible evolutionary directions, the total number is always limited. Every robot that fails to evolve will broadcast a message indicating what kind of evolution attempt it failed before dying, so all other robots will no longer choose this evolutionary direction to try. If you continue to eliminate them one by one in this way, you will eventually find the correct direction of evolution.

For robots on Pluto, this time may be a bit long, because the number of robots is still too small.

But it doesn't matter if it takes a long time. Xiao Yun has enough patience to wait for them to find the correct direction of evolution. So, after Xiao Yun waited for six days, the robots made their first major breakthrough - they found the right casting parts through exhaustive evolution at the expense of 300 billion robots. Material recipe.

Of course, even if 300 billion robots are sacrificed, the number of robots on Pluto has not declined. Because after the old robot dies, its body materials will be recycled immediately, and a new robot will be born within a short period of time.

After nineteen days, the robots found the correct dynamic structure at the expense of 600 billion robots.

Thirty-five days later, the robots found the right way to advance at the expense of 700 billion robots.

After seven full months, a robot finally fully mastered the technology that can move within 10,000 kilometers of the planet's surface. So this technology was immediately broadcast, and all the robots knew about it. So... in less than half a month, all the robots evolved this ability.

The expansion of living space has greatly increased the total number of robots that Pluto can carry, so in a very short time, the total number of robots around Pluto reached 900 billion. Then, they once again hit a bottleneck and their numbers stopped growing again.

"The number of 900 billion units is enough for virus testing." Xiao Yun said, "Let's release the virus-carrying robots onto Pluto."

During the past few years of long research and development work, the project team led by Dink has developed the first version of a self-evolving virus, and this virus has been copied to these several prepared robots. bingo.

This virus was named "smallpox" by Dink, because Dink believed that this virus could bring endless nightmares to the robot group just like the smallpox that once brought endless fear and disaster to mankind in the national era.

Robots have only one mission, and that is to reproduce as best they can. In order to reproduce, they do not hesitate to embark on distant and long space travels, and they do not hesitate to destroy planets one after another. For this goal, they will give everything.

Likewise...the smallpox virus developed specifically for robots also has a unique mission. This mission is to infect as many robots as possible and kill them all as much as possible. To this end, they can evolve different structures and develop specific attack methods for different robots. They can find inspiration for their own evolution from the evolution of robots in order to kill robots more efficiently.

Xiao Yun knew that the smallpox virus would become a nightmare for robots throughout their lives. Once it is spread into the robot group, it will turn into a tarsal maggot, which will always be attached to the robot group and will not stop dying.

Xiao Yun is cruising in a special transport spacecraft 30,000 kilometers above the surface of Pluto. In this transport spaceship, the robots were firmly fixed on the test bed and remained motionless. After the distance of the spacecraft dropped to a little more than 10,000 kilometers, the robot and the test bed were thrown into space together. Then the restraints were lifted, and these robots, which symbolized death and disease, were freed.

After gaining freedom, their first reaction was to attack the transport spacecraft Xiao Yun was riding. But unfortunately, their power is still too weak at this moment, and they can't even catch up with the spacecraft. So after a while of trying, they gave up. The monitoring program showed that at this moment, these robots made the judgment of "returning to the collective". Under the guidance of this judgment, they quickly dived and blended into the huge robot group in the blink of an eye, and could no longer be found. arrive.

These robots have the same judgment mechanism, the same core code, the same beliefs and the same body structure as the robots on Pluto. Therefore, they can integrate harmoniously into the robot group and will not be excluded in any way.

The entire huge robot group can be regarded as a huge distributed computing system. Each robot is a "host" in this system, and each robot is responsible for the corresponding computing tasks, so among them There must be an extremely complete and efficient communication system. The few robots created by human civilization were now integrated into this huge system and began to communicate with other robots. As a result, the viruses hidden in their bodies followed this perfect communication system and spread rapidly. It spread to all robots in a short time...

Due to exhaustive evolution, the body structures of these robots are all different from each other, and there are slight differences between any two robots. It is precisely because of these differences that viruses cannot attack them in a universal way. So the viruses also began to evolve. They began to collect the robot's body structure information and program structure information, and based on this information, they began to adjust their own code structure.

Like infinitely replicating robots, smallpox viruses also have the ability to evolve themselves, so they are now also beyond the control of their makers. Neither Dink nor Xiao Yun have the ability to control when the smallpox virus breaks out - the attack on the robots depends on the smallpox virus's own judgment. Therefore, Xiao Yun and his team started waiting again at the Pluto base.

The all-out attack broke out one afternoon in Earth Standard Time. That afternoon, surveillance personnel discovered that the robots on Pluto suddenly behaved in a disorderly manner. They began to make some seemingly bizarre actions, such as attacking each other, self-mutilation, and internal parts being damaged inexplicably. Things like that.

Pluto was in complete and utter chaos. Xiao Yun saw that countless robots began to fall towards Pluto like rain. Countless robots were colliding with each other. Countless torrents were impacting each other. In this complete and utter chaos, the robots were like falling in the storm. Like a small canoe, it was torn into pieces and destroyed...

The remains of the robots occupy almost the entire sky and surface of Pluto. The chaos lasted for three days in total. According to preliminary statistics, at least 800 billion robots died during these three days. The powerful offensive capability of the smallpox virus was fully revealed at this moment. But...it didn't completely destroy the robot group after all. As long as one robot survives, it can rebuild a huge robot empire in a very short time.

The monitoring program showed that after being attacked by the smallpox virus, the massive death of robots once again started the evolution mechanism of the robot's core program. Only now did Xiao Yun discover that it was not only technological creations that would start the robots' exhaustive evolution attempts. The death of a large number of groups in a short period of time will also start the evolutionary process.

The robots started a road to fight against the smallpox virus. The technological creations of human civilization can delineate the scope of attempts by robots to achieve exhaustive evolution, and the smallpox virus can also delineate this scope - because the virus itself is a piece of information, and through the analysis of this piece of information, the robots can also delineate this scope. Sufficient information can be obtained. So exhaustive evolution began again, and the robots began to try to modify their internal programs to fight against the smallpox virus. Robots that chose the wrong response method were killed by the smallpox virus, but before they died, they would broadcast the wrong path they chose. , so that the remaining robots can avoid making the same mistakes. After almost endless attempts, the core programs inside the robots finally found the correct way to fight against the smallpox virus. Therefore, after the initial rapid killing period, the smallpox virus killed the robots. The speed slowed down.

But don’t forget that the smallpox virus can also evolve on its own. After realizing that the robots had found a way to fight against themselves, the smallpox virus also began an exhaustive attempt. They chose to use various methods to attack the robots. Ineffective methods would also be passed to other smallpox viruses through the robot communication network, so They will no longer choose this ineffective method, but will try another brand-new method, and whenever an attack method is proven effective, it will also be passed to all smallpox viruses, all smallpox viruses He will immediately adopt the same attack method... (To be continued~^~)