Xia Jin looked at the AI girl’s expression with a strange face. She wanted to say something but had no idea what to say.
After all, the other party was a robot; perhaps she was purely curious about what the biological civilization’s nutrient solution was like.
“Um... if you like nutrient solution, I can give you plenty. But this stuff doesn't seem to have much use for robots. If it touches your circuits, it might even cause damage.”
“The nutritional value of this substance seems very high,” the AI girl replied after hearing Xia Jin’s words.
“Yeah,” Xia Jin said awkwardly.
Fortunately, the other party did not press the matter further.
After taking the capsule, First Protocol promised, “We will preserve this pill carefully and ensure it does not leak.”
“Mm.”
“Follow me. I have already compiled a portion of the mechanical civilization’s technology.”
“Alright.”
She followed the girl back to the previous room, where the AI handed her a device that looked like a handheld console.
“This is a gaming device of the Juxin Civilization, so it won't look strange to outsiders if you're carrying it. They will just think you want to play our games. File 4590 inside records the method to unlock the archive, and File 4590 will self-destruct five minutes after the device is turned on. You must access the archive within five minutes, or the data will be lost.”
“Strict security,” Xia Jin remarked.
She took it and realized this thing wasn't a handheld console in the usual sense, but a consciousness login device.
After clicking it on, the surrounding space immediately entered a virtual state and formed a quantum matrix. As long as a person's consciousness chose to log in within the matrix, they would directly enter “another world.”
Of course, this so-called other world didn't actually exist. The game content was imprinted directly into the brain through quanta, effectively inducing game hallucinations. By networking these hallucinations and linking them with the hallucinations of others, it became an online game.
It was a very unique technology, and she felt it could give the Zerg some inspiration.
After taking the device, Xia Jin immediately hurried back. She decrypted the password on the spot and found the corresponding data—a set of mature theoretical systems from the Juxin Civilization.
It contained their understanding of the universe and the microscopic world, along with various complex formulas.
This kind of content from a pure technological civilization still had reference value for the Zerg. After all, they focused on developing a biological civilization; while they didn't completely ignore other technologies, they hadn't mastered much.
The former Overlord was even less likely to pay attention to such things; only Xia Jin was interested.
To her, theoretical content allowed her to better understand the essence of the movement of the physical world. If it could be used to explain the Zerg themselves, she might be able to find a breakthrough from within.
After finding content related to long-distance matrix projection, she soon had an inspiration.
A lower-cost fodder zergling.
One must know that whether it was a zergling or any other bug, they all had their own thoughts. And the birth of consciousness required an energy cost no matter what, and it inevitably occupied a certain volume (the brain).
So Xia Jin began to construct a type of bug without a brain.
This “without a brain” was literal, meaning the brain organ was no longer needed.
Without a brain, how would it receive orders and complete complex combat missions?
It was simple: a Matrix Link.
This meant the coordination between different bugs would be carried out through a link similar to a long-distance matrix. It was different from the link of the Zerg Will; it required almost no energy and did not depend on the whole.
The matrix could simulate a structure similar to a brain over a large area, which Xia Jin called a virtual brain.
Though they lacked a physical brain, it was as if they had one; the matrix could generate the functions of a brain.
The transmission of information for this brain relied on the gravity of the different bugs themselves and the slight fluctuations of their own microscopic particles.
The entire matrix, in fact, acted like a single brain.
By issuing commands to the matrix, the entire group could execute them as required.
Such bugs could omit the massive space taken up by brain structures and nerves. By reducing consumption and volume, a large number of miniature, high-level combat bugs could be produced.
Similarly, Xia Jin had always been somewhat dissatisfied with the locusts bred by the swarm hosts, even though they were already cheap enough.
The problem was that they were too clumsy.
With such a large volume, their combat style was incredibly simple, used purely as disposable attacks.
But if every swarm host, when producing these new units, could omit part of the brain and let part of the functions be handled by the Matrix Link—with the collective acting as the brain—then the saved space could be used to install new weapons on the locusts or to enhance them.
This strategy could be considered an increase in the combat power of low-level fodder.
Of course, no matter how much they were modified, they still couldn't compare to a zergling. In terms of cost-effectiveness, the zergling had already reached the limit; the number of locusts a single zergling could kill in battle was very high. The existence of locusts was more like a tool for rapid production on the battlefield to stabilize the situation.
Their mission was to exhaust the enemy and reduce the pressure on the main force as much as possible while pinning down the majority of the foes.
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