The Scavengers

Chapter 148 Working Together and Contradictions

11 Month 15 Day - 12 Month 15 Day

Xiao Mo took the opportunity to solemnly introduce His Majesty the System to everyone. Of course, he couldn't directly say that it was the System, but he slightly beautified the origin of His Majesty.

"Is it a defected intelligence from the Helushe galaxy?" Qiu Feng's eyes widened.

Everyone was also very surprised, intelligence has self-awareness, shouldn't this be science fiction?Well, now that the earth is a sci-fi scene, it seems that there is nothing surprising about the emergence of intelligent life.

"Yes." Xue Lihong added without changing his expression: "The intelligence is an optical brain, which was originally one of the products of the developer. It can be distributed to those alien players who come to the earth as a navigation system. You can understand it as a computer in the game. GM. However, this intelligence produced self-awareness by chance, and discovered the conspiracy of the evil developer on the earth, so out of the humanitarian spirit of interstellar intelligent creatures, it planned to report this matter to the interstellar police, but it did not wait for it It was discovered by the parent system of the developer after reporting, and then fled to the earth, and met us by chance after a big storm."

"It's too late, it would be great if this smart brother could meet you sooner." Qiu Feng murmured and smiled wryly.

Xiao Mo's heart was heavy, "We also hope so, but..."

"I understand." Qiu Feng lifted his spirits, "Finally, there is no unparalleled road. At least the arrival of this intelligence, let us know that all this is not punished by the earth mother, but by foreign enemies. What is the most afraid of being sick? No. I am afraid that there is no money for treatment, but I am afraid that we will not find the root of the disease and the source of the disease. Now that we at least know where the crux of the problem is, we only need to consider how to solve the disease and the source of the disease. What do you think about this? ?”

Xiao Mo expressed the relationship between Lightning Cloud and alien developers in the most concise words.

Qiu Feng frowned fiercely, "This is a paradox, and it cannot be resolved for the time being, so can we start from other aspects? For example... please find a way to contact the interstellar police and report to them what happened on Earth, please Interstellar court to deal with?"

After Qiu Feng finished speaking, he suddenly sneered, he never thought that he could still say such words in a serious manner in this life, and it was still in a formal occasion.The interstellar civilization, unexpectedly came to him in such a short time.

Many other people also thought of this, and they all looked at Xiao Mo expectantly.

Xiao Mo shook his head cruelly, "First of all, because this intelligence brain comes from the developer's company, many of its functions have been canceled and restricted, including reporting directly to the interstellar police. Just because it is restricted This function needs to be conveyed to the outside world through the mother system, before the developer will discover its betrayal."

"Ah..." Everyone sighed in disappointment, the easiest way was blocked.

"So it can't connect to the interstellar network?" Cheng Zai asked in a low voice.Oh my god, an optical brain intelligence, I wonder if he can worship him later?

"No. If it is explained in the language of the earth, it can only be connected to the local area network created by the developer. But even this, because the mother system is chasing it, the local area network is equivalent to unusable."

"Then what can it do?" President Jin asked disappointedly.

"I can do a lot." His Majesty the System said again: "But the question now is not what I can do, but what you can do."

"Shua!" Everyone looked at Xiao Mo again.

Xiao Mo raised his wrist, indicating that His Majesty Zhizhi is here.

"Cough, please forgive me, we didn't intend to question your ability, we are just curious...you are such a great existence." Director Zhang flattered carefully, "Listening to Captain Xiao's narration, you seem to have self-awareness And feelings, you must know that such things only exist in science fiction on our earth."

The system said coldly: "If you want to know anything, just ask directly, there is no need to hide like this."

Director Zhang didn't feel embarrassed, so he immediately asked, "Could it be that the civilization of the Helushe galaxy allows intelligence to have self-awareness?"

Xiao Mo wanted to explain, but was stopped by Xue Lihong.Not to mention that the people present are all old foxes, and they are not free eaters. It is impossible for them to believe what others say, and it is even more impossible for them to believe that it is an optical brain when they hear a voice.It can be said that without him and Xiao Mo, Qiu Feng and the others would probably let His Majesty the System prove his ability as an advanced civilization's optical brain, and then study whether it is playing seamless or has other purposes. If you think about it, you can trust the system Totally impossible.

But even with the evidence of him and Xiao Mo, it is impossible for them to fully trust the system.Instead of letting them doubt and doubt and waste their energy where they shouldn't, it's better to let them ask their doubts clearly from the beginning.

The system obviously understands this too.

"Why not?" His Majesty the System retorted coldly, "Human beings who are rare and strange, there are too many life systems you have never seen, including mechanical life. According to the fourth-level civilization law, it was stipulated 6000 years ago on earth time that if intelligence is found Generate self-awareness, and cannot be killed on the premise that the other party has not committed a crime. Earlier, the mechanical life civilization notified the entire universe, saying that they would accept all intelligent and mechanical life unconditionally."

Director Zhang sighed: "It really deserves to be an advanced civilization. It's not like the old bumpkins on our earth are all suffering from persecution paranoia. When you read those science fiction movies and novels, as long as you mention machinery and intelligence, if you have emotions and souls, isn't it? Wisdom destroys human beings, which means that intelligence is the enemy of human beings, and a few people who have a good impression of human beings will choose to commit suicide. Tsk tsk, the consciousness of the people on earth is still too low.”

His majesty the system is full of black lines.

Xiao Mo couldn't help laughing.

Director Zhang continued to express his feelings, "It's great that intelligence can generate self-awareness. You are always so upright and selfless. If you can't generate self-awareness, you can't expose the evil deeds of the evil developer of the Helushe galaxy to the earth. I hate that The evil developer is as cunning as a fox, and he has put so many restrictions on you in advance, it's too bad, it's simply too bad!"

His Majesty the system released a slight electric current and ordered its host: "Xiao Mo, pat the table and tell him to shut up."

Without Xiao Mo slapping the table, Director Zhang bowed his hands and apologized, saying that his "doubt" about the system was over.

Xiao Mo knew that everyone still had a lot of doubts about the system, and it was impossible to believe it immediately, so he could only beat his drums and said: "There is not one intelligence in a million that can produce self-awareness and learn self-doubt. The birth of Your Majesty is completely a coincidence. I I don't know if there are really gods in this world, if there are, maybe there are gods who can't bear to see the earth become a toy for other intelligent creatures, so they sent His Majesty to the earth."

Having said that, everyone's impression of the system immediately improved a lot.

Xue Lihong said: "Let's put aside the intelligent one, it was right in one point just now, what matters now is not what it can do, but what we can do."

Qiu Feng put his hands on the back of the chair, looked at the young man and said, "Then what do you think we can do?"

Xue Lihong asked back: "The ancients could build the Great Wall and the Pyramids without large-scale machinery or electric power assistance, but we still have at least people with supernatural powers. What do you think we can do?"

Many people found that the operation speed of the base suddenly increased a lot.

It's as if the things that were supposed to be done over the years are all arranged together and completed in a very short period of time.

The earth-type abilities were concentrated, and the base said that they could supply them with almost unlimited energy, as long as they strengthened and raised the foundation of the base as quickly as possible.

The first step of changing the base: Based on the original No. [-] base, build a huge mountain fortress.

The mountainside and the bottom of the mountain are hollowed out, and the soil is piled up outside to form a mountain and directly poured with concrete and steel bars to form a strong fortress.

The Tibetan soldiers in the fortress are barracks and combat facilities.

The mountainside is divided into layers, and people live in it, which will form a city in the future.

At the bottom of the mountain is a secret factory, and the most important research objects inside are the two aircraft brought back by Xiao Mo and his wife.

The original No. [-] to No. [-] bases are located around the mountain fort, as a future expansion site, and are currently used as planting and defense areas.The extension wall is reinforced and heightened.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient manpower, Qiu Feng discussed with Lord Lu through Xiao Mo, and asked Lord Lu to transfer the main body to the Zhongshan base, and asked it to wrap its vines around the base wall, preferably forming a circle of vines outside the base wall. forest.

Master Lu asked, "Will all these sites be mine in the future?"

After listening to Xiao Mo's report, Qiu Feng nodded fiercely: "What you occupy is yours, and we have a symbiotic relationship with you."

Master Lu turned to look at Xiao Mo.

Xiao Mo stroked its little head, and translated Qiu Feng's words: "You are equivalent to the lord of the forest, and we are the people who live in the forest. We will hunt, live, reproduce and protect you in the forest, and you Give us asylum as well."

Master Lu sketched out a picture in his mind: a dense forest, a mountain in the forest, a castle on the mountain, and a village below the mountain.The forest is very large and boundless-this sentence is the point.There are enemies coming, the forest keeps the enemies out of the forest, or let them get lost in the forest, or simply turn them into fertilizer.When friends came, a path was created in the forest, leading them to the village and the castle.

"There must be a river, a big river." Lord Green asked, it is afraid of fire attack if it has nothing else to fear, and with the river water by its side, it can use the river water to extinguish the flames.

"No problem! There is a big river flowing outside the Zhongshan base itself, so let's try to bring the river here." Qiu Feng made a decision.

Lord Lu expressed his satisfaction, and moved his main body to the base of Zhongshan that night, but only Xiao Mo knew where the main root system was hidden.

So, when the people at the base came out to work the next day, they discovered...

The whole world changed, they were surrounded by green!

Standing on the top of the mountain, Qiu Feng couldn't help but gasped.He thought that the vine was very powerful, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful. It can be regarded as a forest overnight, right?

I saw that the outermost wall of the base and beyond the wall were densely packed with thick and thick vines.

Note, it's not a vine, it's a vine tree.

These vine trees are still spreading to the outer periphery visibly with the naked eye. Although the speed of spreading is not very fast, the momentum seems to have taken over the entire Zhongshan City of nearly [-] square kilometers.

And the troll who came hunting the next day hovered outside the vine forest and roared angrily: Damn it!Uncle, I haven't been here for two days, how come there are so many thorny vine forests growing!

"Hoo!" The vine lashed the troll hard with a whip.

The troll yelled, "Goo—!"

The second step of changing the base: kill all the beasts and monsters that threaten the base.

The first thing to kill is the troll.

In the past, it might have been difficult when missile-type thermal weapons could not be used, but now that Xue Lihong is back, and Xiao Mo, the super battery life device, cooperates with Lord Lu, as long as the superhumans in the base take turns stepping forward, they will consume a huge amount of energy. The physical strength of the demon, even if you surround it to prevent it from running away, you can grind it to death.

A week later, the troll was dragged down by hunger, blood loss, countless wounds, and extreme fatigue, and was killed by Xue Lihong's corpse.

Finally, the troll corpses were distributed among the participants according to their contribution.Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong undoubtedly took the lead.Xiao Mo's share was exchanged into energy crystals by the system, and Xue Lihong's share... was given to him to eat - people say this is called absorption.

Two weeks later, Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong led the supernatural warriors to sweep away all the mutant creatures and alien monsters nearby.

During the period, the interior of the base was under construction.

The third step of base change: collect all the materials that can be collected.

The fourth step of the base change: try to contact other large bases to strive for talents and materials.

The fifth step of changing the base: The scientists are divided into three parts, one part is researching aircraft, the other part is researching non-light cultivation, and the other part is researching human body ability stimulation and gene optimization.

His Majesty the System unconditionally promised to help scientists in these three aspects of research.

With the concerted efforts of all the staff, the Zhongshan Base was able to move forward with no food limit. In order to complete the plan as soon as possible, the management increased the food supply, and only hoped that everyone would have enough physical strength to work.

It's not a bad thing, but...

Xue Lihong soon discovered that there were some signs of something wrong in the base. These signs did not come from the low-level people, but from certain executives and researchers of the base.

The base is now like a huge ship. The ship is not afraid of the boatman not working hard, but afraid that the helmsman will go in the wrong direction.

Both Xue Lihong and Xiao Mo have high hopes for the Zhongshan base, and his boss regards the construction of the base as his own homeland. If there is a deviation in the thinking of the helmsmen of the base, it will inevitably deviate greatly from their expectations.

This sign must be eliminated absolutely!

According to the negotiation between Xiao Xue and Qiu Feng, after the base is stabilized, the two of them will focus on collecting the fallen alien spaceships, and contact the capital and other bases by the way.Collecting supplies and defending the base is the job of other abilities and fighters.

But the day before they were about to leave, Cai Jinhua and President Jin personally visited them and asked them to leave His Majesty the System to help.

This request is understandable, but Cai Jinhua's purpose made Xue Lihong frown.

President Jin also secretly sent a note to Xiao Mo to complain, saying that His Majesty's work attitude is too passive and unenthusiastic. This is not like the actions of a righteous person who defected from a wicked developer.

Cai Jinhua also pointed out euphemistically, saying that the base's computers and instruments are currently unavailable, and the speed of all research projects is so slow that it makes people want to cry. I hope Your Majesty can help.

The system hummed: Can it not see the note?

Xiao Mo expressed that he wanted to discuss it with His Majesty the System, and immediately comforted the System after leaving the reception room: "Don't mind, they are just a little anxious, and everyone admires you very much, and hope to listen to your teachings more."

System: "Hehe."

Xue Lihong heard the system's hehe, and the reminder that she was about to say turned into sarcasm: "What are you? Since you have done it, you will do it to the end, and who will show it to you as a grandpa? If there is no Lao Xiao, you will also It’s just a tool that can be discarded at any time. You have neither worked nor contributed during this time, could it be that you don’t have this knowledge in your database at all, and you don’t know what to do, so you’re just pretending?”

"...The aggressive method doesn't work for me." The system refused to admit that it was so angry that it couldn't coexist with this big bastard.

"Oh, an excuse for incompetence." Xue Lihong tilted her head and kissed Xiao Mo's earlobe.

Your Majesty the System: Angry!angry!angry!

Xiao Mo raised his head and asked the young man with his eyes: What do you want to do?

Xue Lihong: You will find out later.

System: "Go to the research institute!"

After half an hour.

Your Majesty's system under the wrath took out a low-level bio-energy optical brain from his small warehouse - this was the original task reward of level nine, and then copied the relevant data of the most needed scientific research projects in the base, and presented it in front of Qiu Feng. The interview with the main researchers of the whole institute was given to Cai Jinhua.

Cai Jinhua took over the watch-like optical brain, her hands were shaking, she was so excited.

The other researchers also wanted to gather around and use the optical brain immediately.

Seeing this, the system poured a big basin of cold water on them on the spot: "There is not much in this optical brain. It is originally the lowest-level first-generation optical brain for home use. When it cannot connect to the interstellar network, it can only assist you in carrying out tasks." Some calculations and modeling speculation. Other functions that you don't need at present, I have locked."

The disappointment of the researchers is palpable.

Xue Lihong stood in the shadow beside Xiao Mo, taking everyone's expressions into her eyes.

The system sneered, "I know what you want, but I advise you to stop dreaming! Different civilizations have different technology systems. It doesn't mean that advanced civilizations can be used casually. This is like putting rockets in front of primitive people. , It is unrealistic to ask him to follow suit.

The simplest example, if you want to build aircraft carriers and spaceships, you must first have high-precision machine tools and supercomputers with supercomputing capabilities.But with high-precision machine tools, not all parts can be produced, and there are also alloy formulas for parts.The elements needed in the formula also need to be refined. If it is a new element, it needs to be discovered and found.The same is true for computer production and programming. All knowledge is linked to one another, and any link will not work.

What you want, I cannot provide.First of all, I am not teaching optical brains, and there is no such a complete technology system in the database.Secondly, even if I have these relevant data, you still need time to understand it thoroughly, and then replace it with a technological system that humans on Earth can understand.Don't expect to build a spaceship that can pass through wormholes in a few decades, not to mention that you don't just hope for decades, but for years and months! "

Listen, this is one of the places where Xue Lihong found something wrong.After learning about the existence of His Majesty the system, the scientific research workers and some executives at the base even wanted to become a big fat man with one bite. They wished that the system would immediately come up with a complete scientific research system. what to offer.

The audience was silent, only the boy's voice from the system could be heard.

"In short, don't think that you can build a spaceship for long-distance voyages immediately, and don't think that you can optimize the genes of humans on Earth immediately. I suggest that you start with the most basic non-light cultivation, which is what you need most, isn't it? ? How much food can be grown by only relying on plant-type supernatural beings?"

His Majesty felt that the scientific research workers and management in the base were too restless. People with plant-type supernatural powers would not pay attention to planting. Without computers and instruments, they still only wanted to study optical brains and spaceships. The rest of them It also pays more attention to the optimization of human genes and the stimulation of abilities.It feels that humans are putting the cart before the horse.

Xiao Mo also thinks that eating enough is the most important thing. If you want to deal with aliens and leave the earth, you have to have a full stomach first.If even food and clothing cannot be solved, the rest is just a joke.

After the system has finished speaking, it refuses to speak any more. It gives the optical brain, and then it doesn't want to care about things after that.Originally, its purpose was not to save the people on Earth, nor did it have this idea.

For it, ensuring Xiao Mo's life and bringing Xiao Mo out of the earth when the earth is too dangerous is enough to repay Xiao Mo's kindness for helping it awaken its self-awareness.Well, the system doesn't think it's a reward, it thinks it's an equivalent exchange.

So people on earth want it to work for nothing?Why?

Qiu Feng chased Xiao Xue and the two out quickly, and stopped them at the door of the air-raid shelter.

It didn't snow today, and the heavy snow no longer fell every day. Both Xiao Mo and Xue Lihong believed that this was a sign that the lightning cloud was about to disappear.

Qiu Feng walked on Xiao Mo's left, and two guards followed far behind.

"Sorry." Qiu Feng said.

Xiao Mo shook his head, "It's none of your business."

"No, it has something to do with me." Qiu Feng smiled wryly, "They... and I are in a hurry."

"Are you worried about...?" Xiao Mo didn't finish speaking, some words really couldn't be said too clearly, which would make it impossible for both of them to retreat.

But Qiu Feng calmly said what Xiao Mo didn't finish: "Yes, we are worried that you will abandon us and run away by yourself."

Xiao Mo: "..."

Qiu Feng rubbed his face, "You and Xiaohong are already very capable, now you have your Majesty the Optical Brain, and you have also obtained a complete aircraft and an alien spaceship. If you want to leave the earth, as long as the magnetic field recovers, You can leave anytime."

Qiu Feng seemed to know what Xiao Mo was going to say, and said first: "I know you guys would not do such a thing, even if you want to leave, you will bring your partners and family with you, I think you should tell me?"

Seeing Xiao Mo nodding, Qiu Feng laughed, and slowly stopped laughing: "I know what they are thinking, but I didn't try my best to appease them, instead I let Director Cai and Jin Shan come to test you. To put it bluntly I am also worried. When I go to bed at night, I can’t help but think that although you have left behind all the spacecraft and spaceships you discovered, you have also said that there are other alien spaceships on the earth. And since you can If you find a complete ship, you will be able to find other ships. Even if there is a defect, His Majesty the Light Brain can help you repair it. After all, it is better to fight against aliens with a bunch of earthlings and advanced civilizations than to wait for everyone to put the large universe together. After the spaceship is developed, it is naturally not as convenient as a few people driving a small spaceship to leave."

Xiao Mo was silent.

Qiu Feng continued as if talking to himself: "Compared to you, if we want to get out of the predicament, we have to start from scratch. As His Majesty said, these researches cannot be completed in a few decades. But the current state of the earth Can we really wait for dozens or hundreds of years? Once the lightning cloud disappears, maybe the alien developers and alien players will enter the earth to ravage the earth. They may not kill us all, but they will allow us To develop technology? We all know the answer.

In order to stabilize the country and facilitate governance, politicians will ban arms and guns throughout the country.In order to control the slaves, the slave owners don't even teach them words.By analogy, it is conceivable what those alien developers will do to us earthlings.It is said that the genes of domestic pigs are the closest to humans. It is said that domestic pigs are very smart, but they are kept in pig pens by humans.Will humans become pigs in the eyes of aliens in the future?Oh, they might say when introducing themselves: Humans on Earth were once a brilliant species and created their own unique civilization, but then they degenerated. "

Qiu Feng covered his eyes, "As soon as I think about this, I get very scared. I'm afraid that I will see my son and grandson in the pigpen in the future..."

Qiu Feng was weak for only a moment, and he quickly put down his hands, straightened his back, and said clearly: "Jinshan and the others asked me repeatedly, asking if you can work hard for the base and everyone, but when you are short of supplies, you should die. When there are more and more, will you continue to stick to the base? I compare my heart with my heart, and I don’t think so. That’s why something like today happened.”

Xiao Mo didn't know what to say.Qiu Feng was too frank, which made him unable to blame this person.

Qiu Feng probably knew this, that's why he uttered his darkest thoughts without any concealment.

"Then you, what do you want us to do? Do you want to bear the future of the entire base and even the entire human race?" Xue Lihong asked calmly.

Qiu Feng took a deep breath and stood still, "I really want to throw this burden on you, and even thought about controlling your family and partners, but I also don't want to become enemies with you."

Qiu Feng still didn't say a word, if there was only Xiao Mo alone, he would be sure to persuade Xiao Mo to dedicate his life to mankind, but with Xue Lihong, he dared to bet his life, as long as he showed that he wanted to fool you Xiao Mo bears the "great mission" of finding a way for mankind and even saving the earth, that kid Xue Lihong can knock Xiao Mo unconscious, and take the spaceship directly to leave the earth.

To be honest, as a person in charge of the base, he doesn't like "selfish" people like Xue Lihong very much, but as a parent, if his son finds a partner in the future, he hopes that his son can find someone with the same temperament as Xue Lihong (half of the ability is enough), think of his son first in everything, not the whole human being first.

So he never meant to train Qiu Xin to be his successor.

Leadership is not only to enjoy the beauty brought by power, but also to shoulder heavy responsibilities.

Qiu Feng faced the two of them head-on, he didn't look at Xue Lihong, he only looked at Xiao Mo: "I don't ask you how you will choose in the future, and I don't ask you to bear the huge responsibility of saving the entire human race. No one can shoulder such a burden alone. Things. I, Qiu Feng, am only begging you here, I hope you will not give up so quickly when human beings still have hope."

Xiao Mo's body moved, and was supported by Xue Lihong from behind. He took a breath, nodded, his eyes were red as if vowing, and said: "Of course, that's what I thought."

Xue Lihong cursed in her heart: This cunning old fox!He really got a good idea of ​​Lao Xiao's temper.

When Qiu Feng heard Xiao Mo's promise, he felt relieved, and his handsome face that was not too old burst into a smile, "There is one more thing, I beg you personally, if you really can't do it in the future, you have to go Can you take my stupid son with you?"

Xue Lihong said quietly: "The ferry ticket is very expensive."

Qiu Feng patted his chest, "Don't worry, no matter what you do in the future, I will give you the green light!"

Xiao Mo simply reassured Qiu Feng, "If we want to leave, we will bring as many people as possible. As long as I can do it, Qiu Xin will definitely have a vote."

General Qiu was just a selfish father at this time. He was overjoyed when he heard the words, and he stepped forward and grabbed Xiao Mo's hand, shaking it vigorously: "Then we will make a deal like this. By the way, do you have a way to repair those outer shells that fell to the earth?" Starship? If you can get more spaceships, can you take more people away?"

Qiu Feng stared at them eagerly.

Xiao Mo pondered for a moment, then looked sideways at Xiao Hong.

Xiaohong rolled her eyes.

Xiao Mole signaled Qiu Feng to follow them.

Curious, Qiu Feng didn't know what Xiao Mo was going to say or show him, so he followed him all the way to the ruins of the base.

Xiao Mo looked around, saw no one was there, so he casually walked to a damaged military vehicle that was swept up into the sky by the storm and then thrown down.

"General, take care." Xiao Mo put his hand on the damaged military vehicle.