Earth Era

This battle was more like a one-sided massacre. Facing the weapons of war created by human civilization, robots are as vulnerable as ants. But both Xiao Yun and General Emerk knew very well that the massacre was just an appearance. Behind the appearance was the fact that the resources of the assault team were being continuously consumed.

What's the use of killing more robots? Robots don't care about numbers, but the assault team cannot care about their own material reserves and declining defense and attack power.

General Emerk glanced at some data displayed on the screen and quickly made a judgment: "The assault team still has half an hour. If the battle cannot be ended within half an hour, the follow-up of the robot group will Supporting troops will arrive, Major Lin will be cut off from his retreat, and his entire army will be annihilated there.”

The staff team sent this judgment to the assault team, but did not attach any orders from the main fleet. Obviously, General Emerk believed that Major Lin would make the most correct judgment.

When almost half of the robot army was wiped out, the assault team finally made a new move. They no longer maintained a gathered formation, but spread out a little, and then, while maintaining the formation, began a relatively slow movement to evacuate the Lager 728 galaxy.

This was not a rout, but a planned retreat. Precisely because this retreat was planned, it did not cause additional casualties. When the assault team retreated to a certain distance, the entangled robot army dispersed in an instant, and then returned to the Lager 728 system, giving up the attack on the assault team.

Under the leadership of Major Lin, the series of actions of the assault team, from the beginning of the attack to the retreat, were as standard as a textbook. Although Xiao Yun didn't understand military affairs, he also realized the art-like beauty of the entire battle process.

General Emerk nodded approvingly: "I knew that Major Lin was the most suitable person to carry out this raid mission. Only one Fengyun-class spacecraft and some combat airships were lost in the entire battle, but the total number of enemies eliminated was More than two million.”

A combat staff officer added: "In addition, the assault team led by Major Lin also captured more than 30 complete robots - originally this number was as high as several thousand, but these robots were extremely well equipped. The condition judgment self-destruction device, during the capture process, except for these more than thirty robots, all the rest destroyed themselves."

General Emerk said: "It doesn't matter. More than thirty robots are enough for us to carry out analysis and research."

The raiding team led by Major Lin returned to the fleet like heroes. General Emerk personally met with Major Lin and gave him the corresponding honor. After some encouragement to Major Lin, General Emerk I came to the analysis laboratory again. The scientists in the fleet will carry out an overall analysis of the robot here, and Xiao Yun is also here to carry out an analysis of the code structure of the robot's core chip.

The fleet had already harvested a robot body that had lost power before. After a simple comparison between that robot and the robots captured now, an obvious conclusion was immediately presented to everyone: "It's like As we suspected, robots have indeed evolved. The previous robot only had the ability to crawl on the ground, but now the robots we captured already have the ability to travel at faster than light speeds. Whether it is material technology or structural technology, and Or computing technology... they have all produced changes that can be described as earth-shaking."

After reaching this conclusion, General Emerk asked the most critical question: "What is the mechanism of their evolution? Is there any way to determine it? Are they able to evolve because of the existence of genius, or can they evolve independently?" "

"There is no way to be sure." said the scientist responsible for analyzing the robot's body structure. "To determine this, we need to analyze the core code that governs their actions. All the mysteries about robots are hidden in the core code, and this It’s not my job, they are analyzed by Xiao Yun.”

General Emerk looked at Xiao Yun with questioning eyes, and Xiao Yun said with a wry smile: "Sorry, General Emerk, I can't determine their evolution mode. Because the codes used to write the core program... and Not any programming language we’ve mastered.”

"what does that mean?"

"This means that we are temporarily unable to analyze the design ideas and specific implementation ideas of the core program, nor can we know what they mean." Xiao Yun said, "You have to know, it is just like the different languages ​​used by our human civilization , deciphering the meaning of a language is much more difficult than designing a new language. For example, suppose I create a new language system from now on. In this language system, the pronunciation "ah" means "yes" ", and the pronunciation of "hu" means "no", I just gave them a random definition and completed the design of a new language system, and... Without a large number of sample analysis and comparison, you can decipher In the language system I designed, do the two sounds "ah" and "hu" mean anything?"

"No." General Emerk shook his head.

"So... I have no way to decipher the meaning of the core program that controls the actions of these robots." Xiao Yun said with a wry smile, "I can only vaguely realize that it has a very complete and self-consistent logical system, and it is very complicated. , so complicated that I alone cannot complete the work. Only by sending it to our civilization and relying on the collective wisdom of countless experts and scholars in our civilization can we complete the work of deciphering it."

"It takes decades for signals to be transmitted back and forth. In other words, if we use the power of our civilization to do this, it will take at least this long. And obviously, we don't have that long to wait." General Merck spread his hands, "So... we still have no way to determine the evolution mode of these robots, right?"

Xiao Yun didn't speak, but nodded silently.

"Then let's proceed according to the plan we made before." General Emerk waved his hand and turned his attention to the previous expert again: "Through the analysis of the robot's body structure, have you concluded What conclusion?"

"Conclusion..." The expert pondered for a moment, and then said: "The body structure of these robots is very ingenious, even so exquisite that it can be described as a work of art. But it is precisely because of their ingenuity that they are very fragile. This is As a result... except for their huge numbers, the rest of them are simply useless. This is the detailed combat power data we analyzed about them, you can take a look."

General Emerk took the report sheet, glanced at it casually and said, "This combat power data is similar to the results we analyzed before."

"There's just a little bit of doubt," the expert said. "We noticed that the similarity of these more than 30 robots reached 99.99%. There is only the remaining slight difference. We I think that these differences may be caused by the needs of robot evolution. It's just...99% of these differences, we can find their use, but only the remaining one, we don't know what they are. What is this for."

"Explain it in detail," General Emerk said.

"That's it." The expert did some operations on his personal computer, and a three-dimensional projection was presented in front of everyone: "It's this little thing."

It was something smaller than a grain of rice. It was hidden among intricate circuits and machinery and was very inconspicuous. If you didn't observe it carefully, you wouldn't even notice its existence.

"These robots are very delicate things. Everything in their body has its own use. There is no useless thing in their body. But this thing... we don't know what their function is. It seems to be in the robot." It does not function at all inside the body and does not participate in any internal operation of the robot. It is simply unnecessary to exist, but I don’t know why, it just exists. We have found similar things inside the bodies of more than 30 robots - —They are different from each other, but what they have in common is that they are “completely ineffective and completely unnecessary.”

Xiao Yun seemed to have thought of something and immediately asked: "Is there such a thing in the robot we obtained in the Raqqa Galaxy?"

"No." The expert shook his head.

Xiao Yun nodded gently: "In this case... it means that this kind of thing only appeared during the evolution of robots, and it is impossible for them to evolve into useless things. In other words... this Things must have their uses.”

The expert said helplessly: "The key point is here. We all know that it must have a reason for its existence, but we don't know what the reason for its existence is."

Xiao Yun also said sadly: "All the mysteries of the robot must be reflected in the core code program. As long as we can crack the core code program and understand its design ideas and implementation methods, we can master all the mysteries of the robot." , you can also know what this thing is used for, but unfortunately, we cannot crack the core program at this stage." (To be continued~^~)