How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 675 Maintenance of the Ship of Theseus

"The passage of time in the area is faster than that in the outside world, which means that the life of the equipment and instruments in the area is many times shorter than that in the outside world. It is impossible for the Hui civilization who designed this area to not think of this. They even accelerated the time passage. Applied to medical..."

It is not difficult to guess the reason why the equipment in the area is as brand new and has been in operation for such a long time, because there are real objects, and all the information obtained is enough for the collectors to analyze the logical cause and effect.

Another collector took over the conversation and expressed the conclusion of the analysis, "So we can boldly guess that Hui Wenming used some method to extend the service life of the equipment and instruments."

"However, the materials used in these equipment and instruments are still at the molecular level, and there is also air in the area. In normal time and space, 800 million years have passed, but in the area where time is accelerated here, I am afraid that more than billions of years have passed. The self-decay of the equipment is definitely unavoidable, and the equipment and instruments cannot be what they are now."

If it uses neutron degenerate materials, or even other more advanced materials to build equipment and instruments like Stargate, it may last for more than billions of years with the technological height of civilization.

But if it is just molecular materials, it is absolutely impossible to last such a long time in a chaotic environment with air. Even if the technology is like a god, at least the basic law must be taught.

"So it can be concluded that Hui Civilization does not extend the life of equipment by improving the performance of materials, but by other means. Then there is only one method left." Another collector replied firmly.

"Yes, the only way to extend the life of the material is 'external maintenance'."

The instrument is a system consisting of multiple parts, so parts can be replaced to ensure a longer service life of an instrument.

The principle is similar to that of the ship of Theseus. The theoretical service life of the ship of Theseus is close to infinity, because as long as it can continuously replace parts, it can exist forever and be brand new forever. The same is true for equipment and instruments. The parts of the equipment are constantly replaced, which can ensure that the equipment and instruments will never reach the limit of their service life.

The two collectors suddenly felt that their thinking was clear. Perhaps it was because of the convenience of replacement that Huiren would use relatively fragile molecular materials in an environment where time passed rapidly.

"But the problem is that the external maintenance requires a carrier, and the carrier itself must be able to operate continuously for more than billions of years, and the resources consumed to replace the materials are very huge. This internal area cannot be created out of thin air, right? No Speaking of other things, the energy it maintains is already ridiculously high."

Although the Ship of Theseus can have an infinite lifespan due to replacement, it also means that the "replacement" of the parts exists, which is equivalent to the "replacement" of the parts that has existed stably for more than billions of years. caught in another paradox.

This involves many things, whether the 'replacer' is living or dead, it must have an internal operating program, and such an operating program, even if the 'replacer' is outside the area where the passage of time is accelerating, at least it can run stably For 800 million years, the logic has not collapsed due to quantum effects, which is already very exaggerated.

The second is the parts available for replacement. It is necessary to know that parts are replaced less frequently. The 'replacers' also need to know the manufacture of the parts, which leads to many production lines, and these production lines must also guarantee that they will not last for at least 800 million years. error occured.

After thinking about it, the two collectors felt that there was a big discovery in it, which should be no less surprising than negative matter.

"Go and look for it, maybe there will be new discoveries like negative matter."

The collector who obtained the internal information of the equipment decided to ask the same clan to find out. There are no too important issues to deal with right now, and the information acquisition is also smooth. It is better to let the same clan figure out that this laboratory left by the Hui civilization, And something good is hidden.

After thinking about it, the collector did not forget to tell his fellow clansmen,

"But be careful when looking for it, it won't be good if any mechanism is triggered."

The collectors who are going to look for the maintenance mechanism within the influence range of the negative matter let the roots spread further, trying to cover the entire inner area, and then let these roots invade into all the instruments and equipment.

This is done for observation, and the level of observation is from the macroscopic scale to the microscopic molecular scale.

When the collectors entered the inner area, the equipment and instruments were still as brand new, which meant that the maintenance mechanism of the inner area was still in operation. As long as they observed carefully, the collectors believed that they would definitely find something.

After a period of time, the collectors who were looking for the maintenance mechanism really found something, but this discovery did not surprise, surprise, or make it happy. On the contrary, anxiety filled its thinking, and it could be clearly perceived by its peers in the life field.

"What's wrong?"

The collector who was searching for information inside the equipment asked with doubts.

"I found the maintenance mechanism here, but it's not good news."

"Bad news? What's going on?"

Because of the information replied by the same family, the collector didn't understand what was going on—if it wasn't good news, it could only be bad news, but what was the bad news? It's just a maintenance mechanism for equipment and instruments. Is there any danger? Hui Wenming wouldn't pretend to be a crazy super weapon for a maintenance mechanism, would it?

The gatherer who discovered the mystery of the maintenance mechanism replied.

"Stable external maintenance on a scale of 100 million years, the time scale increases the variable, and it must be handed over to intelligent agents to complete this maintenance task."

The so-called intelligent body is an object with subjective initiative, whether it is a dead thing or a living thing, it must contain a 'program' inside, but the dead thing is called code, and the living thing is called consciousness.

What the kin said, the gatherer understood, and it answered.

"But we didn't see anything suspected of being a maintenance unit. The only mechanical unit we found had been scrapped for a long time, and now there is only an empty shell left."

"Because the maintenance unit is at the microscopic scale, or rather, in other dimensions."

"Other dimensions? You mean..."

Hearing this mentioned by the same family, the collector vaguely thought of something familiar, which was also a creation of Hui civilization, and also existed at a higher latitude.

Afterwards, the same race confirmed the conjecture of the collectors.

"Yes, it's Lingyu. Lingyu is maintaining the equipment and instruments in this place."

The maintenance mechanism in Hui Wenming Laboratory is divided into two parts. Due to the time-space distortion caused by negative matter, the maintenance of this part is entrusted to Lingyu, from energy to its material form, and then to the stability of the internal program. This is the case, when the remnants of the Hui civilization in the normal time and space of the laboratory are all decayed by time, the creations of the Hui civilization in the environment accelerated by negative matter time are still as brand new.

As long as the spiritual domain is still there, the things here will not perish.

"...This is really not good news."

When it comes to the spiritual domain, what the collectors immediately think of are all kinds of monsters that are so distorted that they can be described in a mess, as well as those operating principles that are beyond their understanding, and the majestic malice from the spirit master.

"Will you bring Lingzun over?"

The gatherer asks the kind it cares most about.

Since the maintenance mechanism uses the spiritual domain, it means that there is a connection between this place and the spiritual domain, and things will become troublesome. The ghost knows whether the spiritual master will suddenly pop out along this connection to cause damage. It is now The last thing you want to see is that there are monsters from the spiritual realm appearing in the ruins.

"have no idea."

Regarding this question, the collector who found the maintenance mechanism couldn't answer it, it depends on what Lingyu thinks.

"It doesn't matter if we fight Lingzun. We have the advantage outside the spirit realm, but I am worried about causing damage to the remains of Hui civilization. This 800 million-year-old antique cannot withstand tossing."

"That's exactly what worries me."

It doesn't matter whether they are strong or not, the collectors are completely confident in beating up the spirit master who ran out of the spiritual realm, because the ethnic group has done this before, but the problem is that even if they win the spirit master who ran out of the spiritual realm, then The loss is still on the collector's side, which makes them unable to accept it.

After all, they want to obtain information through the remains of Hui civilization. They can not only understand what happened in the original experiment, but also inspire new technologies, such as the existence of negative matter being confirmed.

Now that the information has not been obtained, and the pile of negative matter has not been transferred away by the same family, at such a critical time, the Lingzun ran out to make a fuss, and everything was in vain.

If the matter develops to that point, the collectors won't get any benefit other than smashing the corpse of the Lingzun into thousands of pieces to vent their anger.

After thinking about it, one of the two gatherers proposed.

"There are still some of the remains of Hui Civilization's laboratory that have not been explored. You go to explore the rest of the place, find everything you can find as soon as possible, and collect the information you can collect as soon as possible, so that even if something happens, the loss will be lost. can also be minimized.”

"Understood, I will finish exploring as soon as possible, and you should move quickly."

Due to the relationship between the spiritual domain, the difficulty of the task that should have been easy and enjoyable has increased by several levels, and the exploration mentality of the two collectors has also changed. They are no longer simply wary of possible dangers in the ruins, but There is a sense of crisis, and the source of the sense of crisis is the spiritual realm.

A harvester shifted its attention from the microwave area to other places, spreading and expanding towards those places in the laboratory that have not been explored by them.

The area affected by negative matter and other parts of the laboratory are completely two templates, one is brand new as if it has just been built, and the other is old and has been through the vicissitudes of time. There are no new discoveries along the way.

It is true that there are equipment and instruments, but none of them have survived the baptism of 800 million years.

This situation continued until the discovery of a certain room, the roots spread into the closed room, and what I saw was iron powder all over the floor, and there were relatively familiar horn-shaped metal objects in the iron powder.

The collectors of this thing are very familiar, because its genetic memory has an impression of this thing, and then it discovered many iron oxide metals that are suspected to be bone-shaped.

"These are Huiren's skeleton fossils?"