How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 790 Ascension Mission (Part 1)

"Ask for a batch of metallic hydrogen. This star system has no planets and lacks construction resources..."

"Wormhole technology is being studied, and a large amount of antimatter is needed, which is urgently needed..."

"Discover a new alien civilization, the coordinates are..."

"Production rich announcement, the solid helium resources of this colonial star system are richly accumulated, please contact us if you need it..."

"I found a new Hui civilization relic, but unfortunately it has been eroded into an empty shell by the long years, and its value has plummeted. I hope that a more in-depth investigation can find something..."

"Find a star system with a star gate, and the group has added another entry channel to the gate world. At present, the intelligent species in the star system have been controlled. The other party is the local force of the gate world. We are trying to control it physically and psychologically. control……"

Since the superluminal technology was popularized in amoeba, the stars have become quiet, and the star systems colonized by the collectors have become more active.

Messenger creatures start from a star system, and within a few seconds, they run to a star system that is several light years away, and broadcast the information, and the collectors in the colonized stars will collect all the information broadcast by the messenger creatures. After the organism enters the star system, it transfers this information to the messenger organism, allowing them to take it to other nearby star systems.

As a result, a faster-than-light information network is formed.

This is a good thing. It makes the cohesion of the entire amoeba stronger than before, but it also has a disadvantage. So speed up.

Generally speaking, there are pros and cons.

In a certain star system, a collector stands on a small soil slope in their traditional posture, staring at the night stars above their own dome, as if they can see clearly the beauty hidden in the universe through the bright stars. The mysterious appearance under the beautiful appearance.

"What are you thinking about?"

A piece of information is transmitted to the collector through the life field.

Gatherers turn from stargazing and answer questions about their own kind.

"Thinking mission."

"What is the need to think about the task, the order of the will is absolute, we just need to follow it."

The words of the collector who delivered this piece of information were full of puzzlement.

Their tasks are different from those of other colonized star systems. The content of the tasks is directly issued by the supreme will of the entire amoeba, unlike others, which are drawn up by the collectors themselves based on the development needs of the ethnic group.

Originally, in accordance with the principle of the supremacy of the will of the ethnic group, the collectors only need to follow the content of the task and complete the task, which is a matter of course.

But in this mission, there is a problem that makes the individual collectors who are in charge of directing the mission very hesitant.

After being questioned by the same race, the collector asked back the hesitation in his heart.

"But... give up the life field, what else can we have?"

"This time, the task entrusted to us by the will is too strange. It is not to change the genes, but to change the current life form. It is to give up the life field, give up the will, and completely become another kind of creature..."

This task is marked as 'Ascension' by the Supreme Will, which is very rare. The Supreme Will has never specifically named any task, but this time it is intentional, as if to remind the collectors how important this task is to the ethnic group.

The essence of the task is a kind of transformation. Transforming the collector into another life is not as simple as simply changing the genes. As for the genes, the collector can change whatever he wants. There is no psychological burden at all, and it can be given by the supreme will What the task requires is to break the original framework of the collectors.

"So you're hesitating?" the subject asked back.

"Yes."

The collector who was hesitating gave a straightforward answer.

The family members pondered for a while, and organized the information to be fed back to the collectors.

"The will is very clear in the mission. Our life forms imprison the future of the ethnic group. If we want to make great strides forward, we need to break the routine and break the confinement. We are too fragile with cells as the basic unit and need to be replaced. In addition, the basic unit is more stable, and at the same time, its versatility cannot be lost to the current cells..."

"Another way to understand it is that the population needs a new type of cell."

For a long time, the amoeba's technology has been restricted by biological cells. The fundamental reason is that the tolerance range of organic biological cells is too narrow, and the difference between the upper limit and the lower limit is not large.

Faced with a high temperature higher than 100 degrees, the collectors will start to consider the cooling design structure. Facing the low temperature below zero, the collectors will start to consider the structure design of the temperature rise. In the face of radiation, even if it is only a low degree The destructiveness of radiation to genes cannot be ignored, and special radiation protection design is required.

The result of this is that the structure of the organism will become very complex and bloated.

"The will does not want us to just imprison our thoughts by carbon-based chemistry. There are various forms of life, and the basic units that make up life are also diverse. It can be a silicon-based cell at a normal temperature of 500 degrees, or a data package of programmed life. , or even a 'cell' made of subatomic matter of degenerate life."

"As for giving up the life field, the reason is also very simple, because the life field has long been unable to meet the growing needs of information circulation of the ethnic group, and can only be used as a means of secret communication and the ability to change genes."

"The most useful point is the ability to change genes, but if life forms are completely changed, this ability to change genes is naturally meaningless. We only need to use the current cells as templates and add them to the newly designed cells. A mechanism similar to the life field that can change the genes inside the cell will do.”

Even if the life field is abandoned, it is not unacceptable to the collectors. Although the life field has been with them for a long time, in the face of the progress of the ethnic group, these are nothing. Lose.

"As I said, it is to 'change' the life form. You simply don't understand the task given by the will. It is not as simple as simply replacing cells."

The collector who was hesitant before replied to the same family, and its words were very dissatisfied, because in its view, the same family had misunderstood the content of the task, so it continued to explain, "This change is ushering in a change together with us. According to If the idea of ​​will is successful, the group is the individual, and the individual is the group."

If the research direction specified by the Supreme Will in the task is successful, the collectors will be able to have multiple brains and multiple bodies, which is a network-type life form, but at the same time they can also switch to an individual form.

This appearance is a bit like the supreme will, but it is different. Huogu, the supreme will, cannot transfer his thinking subject to another body through space.