Earth Era

In this way, the robot group and the smallpox virus began a war journey. This war is completely beyond human control. Both warring parties have something that can be called "self" in a broad sense. They will evolve and adjust their response strategies based on the behavior of the other party. The power of exhaustive evolution is fully demonstrated in these numerous quantitative supports, and their coping strategies, protection strategies, and adjustment strategies even amaze the researchers who are standing in front of the monitoring screen.

There are so many coping strategies that even scientists find them ingenious. That is a perfect response strategy that even intelligent scientists need to spend a lot of energy to find, but at this moment, it is revealed between data codes and robots that have no intelligence or consciousness. Yes, this is the power of exhaustive evolution.

This seems to be another way of natural evolution, natural selection, survival of the fittest. Robots that choose the wrong response method will die, and smallpox viruses that choose the wrong response method will be in vain. Therefore, after this layer of elimination, Robots that can survive must have the ability to fight the smallpox virus, and smallpox viruses that can survive must also have extremely powerful offensive and killing capabilities.

But from an overall perspective... Dink's attempt still failed. Because the smallpox virus failed to completely eliminate the robot group. The inability to completely destroy the robot group means that this countermeasure is meaningless.

Looking at the robots fighting the smallpox virus on Pluto, Xiao Yun seemed to see humans from ancient times. Faced with various challenges such as ferocious beasts, natural disasters, epidemics, wars, food shortages, and climate change, human population growth has been severely restricted for a long time. Although those natural disasters and man-made disasters killed many humans, they did not exterminate human civilization after all. Human civilization has found a smooth road amidst this thorny landscape, and has evolved to the point where it is now. It has evolved to the point where almost any disaster can no longer wipe out humankind.

Will robots follow this evolutionary trajectory in their fight against the smallpox virus?

Xiao Yun didn't know this, but Xiao Yun probably knew the difference between the two. Obviously, the natural and man-made disasters that plagued ancient humans did not constantly escalate themselves, but the smallpox virus was different. Robots may evolve to become more powerful, but the smallpox virus is also constantly evolving itself. The two will be entangled forever, and there will probably never be a winner.

"The virus attack plan failed." Xiao Yun finally announced the news. In the conference room, Dink and the team members led by Dink all looked sad.

In order to develop the smallpox virus, they don't know how much effort and energy they expended, but the reality is cruel. The Robot Group will not die willingly just because Dink's team members worked a few extra days of overtime. If it cannot be achieved, it cannot be achieved, and no one can change this.

"But I think... Dink and your team members don't need to feel disappointed or sad about this." Xiao Yun continued, "You should see that the smallpox virus can effectively weaken the combat effectiveness of the robot group and can greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the robot group. Reduce the self-reproduction ability of the robot group. Taking a comprehensive view, the smallpox virus can reduce the robot group's ability by at least 50%. Do you know what this means?"

"This means... in the future, when our civilization and the robot group officially fight, our army can face half the enemies, we can delay it for a longer time, and we can greatly reduce the losses. We will Killing fewer people can reduce the expenditure of a lot of energy and resources. On the other hand, that is, the smallpox virus has greatly improved the probability of our human civilization winning this war."

"So, Dink, you are still a hero." Xiao Yun said, "Did you know? Because of the birth of the smallpox virus... the military combat effectiveness of our human civilization has increased two to three times out of thin air."

The weakening of the enemy's combat power is equal to the improvement of one's own combat power. Everyone knows this very well.

"Next step, I will issue an order to destroy all robots on Pluto, and new, pure robots will breed on Pluto. Dink, I ask you to continue to lead the team to improve the smallpox virus - in this paragraph During the virus attacks over time, we have accumulated a lot of data. With these data as support, your newly developed smallpox virus will surely make a huge leap forward." Xiao Yun said, "You must know that smallpox For every 0.01% increase in the virus's combat power, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of warriors will escape from a desperate situation in the future."

"I understand." Dink nodded silently.

"Let's discuss the evolutionary trap." The summary discussion of virus attacks came to an end, and Xiao Yun presided over the meeting and moved the topic to another aspect, "Xiao Muhong, please report on my involvement in the smallpox virus. What progress has your research made during this period?"

"There has been some progress. We already have several alternatives, but the specific one to choose has not yet been determined." Xiao Muhong said, "The first alternative is an evolutionary trap for the robot's energy acquisition device."

"Tell me more about it in detail." Xiao Yun gestured, "Remember to take notes, secretary."

Xiao Muhong pulled out a stack of information, glanced at it briefly, sorted out his thoughts and words, and then said: "The specific plan is as follows: We have cooperated with the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, the Institute of Power, the Institute of Propulsion, and the Institute of Energy of the Academy of Sciences. The organization jointly developed a technology that can show energy conversion efficiency beyond this level at a lower technological level. That is, when the technological level is one, using this technology, the efficiency of the energy acquisition device can be It is equivalent to the equipment manufactured when the technology level is two. This technology is far ahead of the original technology level, but it can be manufactured only with the original technology level."

To use a simple analogy, that is to say, Xiao Muhong and many institutes of the Academy of Sciences have found a method that is equivalent to "creating guns in the feudal era of mankind." As attractive as guns and other thermal weapons were to people in the feudal era, the method developed by Xiao Muhong was equally attractive to robots.

The mission of robots is to reproduce. In order to reproduce, they must evolve and must have a high pursuit of technology. And how to judge whether a technology is advanced? The method is very simple. You only need to evaluate several key indicators of a technology to distinguish it. Then... the technology developed by Xiao Muhong will inevitably be judged as advanced in the robot evaluation system, and advanced technology will inevitably guide robots to evolve in the direction of this technology, leading to the large-scale application of robots like this technology.

"But this energy acquisition device has a fatal flaw, which is where the trap lies." Xiao Muhong continued, "Under lower-level applications, this technology can bring great benefits to the robot group. Greatly improve their energy acquisition efficiency, but when the robot's own technology develops to a certain extent and they can travel across stars, this fatal flaw will be exposed: during the long interstellar voyage, using The energy acquisition device manufactured by this technology will fail due to long-term operation and the impact of interstellar radiation, thus cutting off the robot's energy supply. Without the energy supply, the robot will naturally die."

“To put it simply, because of the advanced nature of this technology, robots will inevitably choose to adopt this technology. After adopting this technology, once they travel across stars, they will lose their energy supply due to defects and will never be able to recover. In this way, we will achieve the goal of destroying the robot group."

There are several key logical progressions in Xiao Muhong's plan. The first logic is that the technology is advanced and can greatly improve the energy supply efficiency of robots, which leads to the second logic, that is, : Because this technology is advanced, robots will inevitably adopt this technology, which leads to the third logic: because robots will inevitably sail across star systems when they develop to a certain stage, and because this technology has flaws, once robots travel across stars If you don't sail well, you will die due to defects.

These three logics progress layer by layer without any loopholes, and the logical foundation is extremely solid. It is precisely because of this that this solution is highly feasible.

Xiao Yun was silent for a moment, and then said: "Xiao Muhong, your plan seems impeccable, but I wonder if you have noticed that in the previous stage, when we used the smallpox virus to attack the robots, the robot group was exposed A characteristic that came out?”

"Please say."

"This characteristic is that once an abnormally large number of robots die within the group, the exhaustive evolution of the robot group will be initiated. Defects in the energy acquisition device will cause the death of a large number of robots, but... if this large number of robots die, What caused the robots to start exhaustive evolution again and find a way to solve this flaw?"

"I don't think the situation you mentioned will cause trouble to the plan." Xiao Muhong said, "Also please note that exhaustive evolution of robots requires an extremely large amount of material support. In other words, exhaustive evolution can only Expand inside the star system. When traveling between stars and in a void interstellar environment, they cannot get supplies. Since there is no supply of supplies, how can they carry out exhaustive evolution to solve this defect?" (Unfinished) To be continued~^~)