I Am the Swarm

Although avoiding the pursuit of the intelligent machine will be suspected and increase the difficulty of sneaking in later, but if you don't avoid it, it will be even worse. Abnormal organisms cannot see the light in their bodies, and I am afraid that their intelligence will disintegrate in situ.

Looking at this star field, the Zerg units are probably the only ones that will disintegrate in place. Others can't imitate it if they want to. The label is too serious. If you do that, it's just self-defeating.

Fortunately, this kind of situation will not happen to plants, and other tissues will be derived from a small area in the body, as long as it does not deviate from the large spectrum, it will not attract attention.

Moreover, not being able to move freely seems to be an advantage at this time, and there is no agility attribute at all, so naturally there is no abnormality in movement.

An echolocation system was built into those plants and couldn't reach into windows, so the visual system was pretty much useless. Moreover, the visual system will be superficial and reveal flaws, but the echolocation system does not have such troubles at all.

It can be hidden in the plant body, the texture of a few leaves changes, and it becomes an audio receiver. Coupled with the advantage that plants have to stick to the wall, soon...

Soon Rowan felt frustrated again.

There is almost no sound inside the castle, and naturally there is no echo, which makes it impossible for the echolocation system to collect information.

In fact, no information also represents some intelligence, at least Rowan knows the fact that no one is active in the castle.

Is Cecil really not here? If those intelligent machines can go to sleep to stop moving, then as a living person, daily eating, drinking and drinking are essential. As an elder of the Ji Clan, she will not do everything in her daily life, and there will definitely be special servants or machines to serve her.

Then the actions of these people or things will inevitably make some noise, and it will definitely not make the interior of the castle so quiet that even the echolocation system cannot detect the sound.

Although the probability that Cecil is not here is close to infinite, Rowan still thought of a possibility. That is, since the machine can stop working through hibernation, why can't Cecil?

If Cecil goes to sleep, the machinery that serves her daily life will also go to standby, which can create a situation where the castle is silent.

In fact, the actual possibility of this situation is much more than it seems. Because in many interstellar civilizations, dormancy is a very common thing.

Due to the vastness of the universe and the influence of the speed of the aircraft, even if there is such a thing as a star gate, boring flights of tens or hundreds of years are common.

In the early interstellar voyages, even in one voyage, several generations, even dozens of generations, would multiply on the spacecraft. When the spaceship arrived at the destination, the crew members who set out had been dead for a long time, and they were doomed to not be able to see the scenery of the destination from the very beginning.

This situation is also the biggest motivation for all ethnic groups to pursue life extension. However, there is a limit to life extension without side effects. Therefore, people began to start from another aspect, that is, although life span is limited, then try to discard meaningless time consumption as much as possible.

In situations such as meaningless waiting, boring interstellar voyages, etc., if the passage of life can be suspended at this time, and then start again when encountering meaningful things, wouldn't it be equivalent to changing direction and prolonging life?

Hibernation technology came into being under such thinking. Today, dormancy is as common as eating and sleeping, and people even use dormancy instead of sleep to increase the effective lifespan.

And the Xinji Clan has used this technology to the extreme. For example, Hummings, who only has a lifespan of a few hundred years, has lived for more than five thousand years. He has almost doubled his lifespan by ten times. The reason why he can do this is because he often sleeps.

Since Hummings is like this, Cecil, who is also an elder of the Ji clan, is likely to be the same. The residents of the surrounding cities have not received any notification that a new manager will take over, which means that Cecil's arrival here is a private matter.

It's not an official business, but a private visit. It just so happens that the owner here is not at home. If there is no important business for the time being, Cecil may choose to sleep here and wait for the elder of the Ji clan named Said to return.

Of course, this is just Rowan's unilateral good expectation. Before the facts are thoroughly verified, there must be something to look forward to.

Afterwards, Rowan activated the secret information network of the swarm, focused on the situation of Elder Seide, and found out what he was doing, so as to estimate how long it would take for him to return home.

But what surprised Rowan was that there was no news about Elder Seid from all the channels. In this case, there is only one conclusion, that is, Said has also entered a dormant state, and it is a long-term dormant state.

Although there are tens of thousands of Ji clan elders, they are indeed the top of a pyramid built by countless trillions of intelligent creatures. Therefore, no matter how low-key they are, each of them has countless followers.

In this case, whenever they have appeared or spoken in public, their locations will be marked by those who care. Therefore, as long as there is no news from them for a long time, they are either dead or dormant.

With today's technology, if there is no accident, it is almost possible to calculate how much life is left. Big figures like the elders of the Ji clan don't need to go west completely, as long as they approach this point in time, they will occupy the headlines of the news from time to time, causing a great sensation. For example, Hummings was in this state before.

Said obviously does not fit this situation. His native race, the Heita Clan, is an inner-circle civilization that survived from the era of the original Ji Clan, and his lifespan is naturally not low.

According to their lifespan calculations, Saide is still in his prime. Therefore, the reason for his loss of contact is only a long period of dormancy. In this case, only some of his close friends can know his location.

As for Said being missing in the actual sense? On the territory of the Star Sea Alliance, this is simply impossible. The Ji Clan has the strength to say such things.

Waiting meaninglessly is not Rowan's style. Since there is no information from Seid, Rowan has no choice but to use some unconventional means. Just be careful and cut off the contact before it is exposed. At most, there will be a little unsolved case left, and the insect swarm should not be exposed, probably.

It was that group of familiar birds again, and they flew towards the castle from afar again. According to the records of the artificial intelligence in the castle, these birds are residents in the nearby forest, and they often fly over the castle in groups, occasionally dropping some poop.

The artificial intelligence compared the flight trajectory of the bird, and the error rate compared with the past is less than 1%, and there is nothing abnormal.