There was a lot of information contained in the message.
First, Meng Chao was certain that the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities was not a pure fighting-type mission.
He did not need to risk his life against these highly intelligent, fierce, and super-intelligent monsters. He could only complete the mission if he destroyed all of them.
Instead, he needed to find the corresponding clues, report them to the related departments, get more feedback, and search for more clues. That was the basic process.
After all, with his slender arms and legs as a two-star superhuman, even if the remaining eight Supernatural Entities had not developed, he could not handle them alone.
Second, his experience the day before and the underground monster he saw in his nightmare were related to one of the eight Supernatural Entities. That was why the progress of the mission had increased.
But how was that possible?
"I dreamed of … a huge Giant Sandworm. Its efficiency in eating stones was ten times higher than that of a normal sandworm. It could even crawl through the foundations of the skyscrapers in the downtown area and cause powerful earthquakes."
Meng Chao wiped his face and mumbled, "Could it be one of the Supernatural Entities?"
Now that he thought about it carefully, he remembered that one of the so-called Nine Great Supernatural Entities in his previous life was a sandworm-type monster that hid deep underground.
But the difference between a Supernatural entity and an Apocalyptic Beast was not their destructive power, but their intelligence.
Meng Chao could understand why mammals or birds with brains developed intelligence.
Sandworms were primitive, low-grade creatures, but how could they develop intelligence?
While Meng Chao scratched his head, Ning Shewo called him and asked him in a slightly agitated tone whether he had leaked what happened the day before.
"How could I?
Didn't we sign a confidentiality agreement before we entered the monster research center? Besides, I found a needle hole in the biochemical pet's ear canal, which means that it might not be an accident but a vicious crime. I handed it over to the Supernatural Tower and the adjudicator court to handle it, so I couldn't speak without thinking and alert the enemy. "
"That's good."
Ning Shewo sighed in relief and explained, "Go online and look at the news. Someone exposed this matter. The three victims' torn up corpses, the wounds left behind by the Good Samaritans fighting against the biochemical pets, and all sorts of bloody pictures are all over the internet. It has already caused a storm in the city. Now, Spirit Creation Creatures has been pushed to the heart of the storm."
"What?"
Meng Chao instantly woke up.
Once he put down the phone, he did not even bother to wash his face. He went to the largest monster forum in Dragon City to take a look, and just as he expected, there were a few popular posts that had a lot of people following them. They were all discussing the case of the biochemical pets going out of control and hurting people.
"It's too terrifying. The biochemical pets that we live with all day and night instantly turned into bloodthirsty demons. If that's the case, who would dare to keep pets?!"
"Monsters will always be monsters. No matter how much we keep them, we won't be able to tame them. It's best if we humanely destroy all the monsters, pets, and biochemical beasts in Dragon City as soon as possible!"
"I heard that after the three biochemical pets went out of control, they fought fiercely against the Good Samaritans who rushed over when they heard the news. The Good Samaritans are one-star fighting-type superhumans, but even so, they spent a lot of effort and were injured quite badly. Isn't the fighting strength of these biochemical pets a little too high?"
"It can't be helped. Dragon City is constantly attacked by monsters. Many of the pet companies that are skilled in biochemical modifications use the fact that their products have companion forms, working forms, and fighting forms as their selling points. They insert all sorts of ferocious beast genes into their pets, but they ignore the problems of stability and safety. There's no way that nothing will happen to them."
The main opinions on the forum were all criticizing Spirit Creation Creatures for being blinded by profit and neglecting safety.
Even if there were some biochemical pets who supported them, when they saw the bloody and terrifying pictures of the crime scene, they could not come up with any sort of retort.
Meng Chao stared at the bloody pictures that were not censored for a long time and saved them.
He looked through a few pages of guesses and arguments that had no substance to them before he closed the webpage and switched to Agricultural University's forum.
Just as he expected, since they were parties that shared the same interests, the information on Agricultural University's forum was much more detailed. It allowed him to have a more detailed understanding of what happened in Blessed Paradise on that day based on the chronological order.
Compared to the normal netizens, many of the lecturers and students' comments were more insightful.
However, the most popular thread in the university was reposted from another university, and it stood against biochemical modification technology.
[Over the past half a century, Dragon City has been waging a brutal Monster War. Humans and monsters have been fighting for living space forever, and this has become the main theme of civilization's advancement. But on the other hand, the monsters that have been biochemically modified and are believed to be docile and controllable have infiltrated the capillaries of society without us knowing.]
[The inside and outside of the city are like two different worlds. The foggy battlefield is just dozens of kilometers away, and the boiling blood of humans is stained by the monsters' cold claws and scales. We curse the monsters to be demons, destroyers, killing machines, nightmares, hell, and apocalypse. We don't even need to curse them. The word 'monster' is enough to represent our attitude.
[But in the city, all sorts of biochemical fighting beasts, pets, and working beasts are popular, and their numbers are increasing. They help us dig tunnels, develop underground spaces, clean up trash, provide help and comfort to the physically and mentally handicapped, and even fight with us. They are like comrades who have gone through thick and thin with us.
[The more our civilization fights against monsters, the more we study monsters, and the more we can't do without monsters' help.
"In the end, even the children who are just learning how to speak will hug the biochemical beasts' necks while swinging their young fists at the savage monsters on the screen. Even though the difference between biochemical beasts and Nightmarish Beasts might just be a string of unstable genes and a small chip that might malfunction, it's still very likely for the biochemical beasts to malfunction.
[I'm not saying that taming monsters is definitely wrong.
"After all, tens of thousands of years ago, when our ancestors were still hunting near the caves on Earth, they began to try to domesticate wild animals. They tamed ferocious-looking hungry wolves into loyal hunting dogs. Domesticating animals and plants is a skill that must be 'lit up' when a civilization sprouts.
[But I also hope that everyone can understand the difference between taming pigs, dogs, cows, and sheep, and taming monsters.
'The genetic chains of the creatures of the Other World are too unstable, and they evolve and mutate too quickly. Many of the monsters have brains and brain circuits that don't lose to those of humans. Even wild monsters have intelligence equivalent to that of a seven-year-old human child. What they lack from intelligence is a social system and a large amount of information.
[No one knows just how great the potential of these monsters are. How can you raise a monster that might have hidden mind control abilities like a pet dog?
[Of course, I'm not saying that I want to destroy the current biochemical modification technology. It's just like what some netizens said. It's impossible and unreasonable to humanely destroy biochemical beasts, fighting beasts, and working beasts.
"But I still have to ask. Just what is the bottom line of how we modify monsters? Just how much do we want to increase the intelligence of monsters? Do we have to create a perfect monster whose intelligence surpasses that of humans, has sturdy shells, sharp claws, or can fly before we realize that we're nurturing a tiger that will only bring us trouble?
[Don't think that I'm trying to scare you.
[Humans have never learned their lesson when it comes to being overly infatuated with technology. When we have a hammer in our hands, we always look for a nail to hit it with.
[Right now, there are more than one hundred biochemical modification companies in Dragon City. In the face of fierce competition in the market and a pie with a lot of room for imagination, will these talented monster controllers, modifiers, and monster specialists really be able to control their passion and desires?
[If we let them modify monsters at will and turn our civilization into a monster civilization, what will Dragon Citizens end up like in the end?
[I don't know, but I can imagine it.
[Many sci-fi works have the classic theme of AI betrayal. It's as if we're born with a kind of fear and don't trust the cold machines beside us. This is especially so when the machines are injected with complicated codes that normal people can't understand and seem to be operating on their own. We always suspect that we'll be replaced by these sturdier, smarter, and more merciless iron lumps.
[But that's just an unfounded worry.
[At the very least, with Dragon City's current runic symbol technology and the level of automated photon computers, there's still a long way to go before true AI is born. Machines are just machines, and they obey humans 100%.
[But who said that AI must be born between cold chips and machines?
[If a monster that's skilled in mind control goes through biochemical modification and has a brain that's one hundred times more developed than a human's, then it gains terrifying intelligence, wouldn't that be another form of AI? Wouldn't it be impossible for it to go out of control?
[Why is it that when people see human-shaped machines that can talk, they instinctively fear them, but when they see a pet dog that can understand its master's orders, they think that it's really cute?
[You have to understand that it's just a fantasy for metal machines to gain self-awareness and lose control.
"However, machines made of flesh and blood will gain self-awareness and lose control, devouring their creators. This is an imminent threat!
[After all, even though we humans claim to be the wisest of all things, at the end of the day, we're just machines made of flesh and blood. Our brains aren't fundamentally different from the brains of monsters. In fact, many of the autopsies of Apocalyptic Beasts show that the functions of their brains are even above those of human brains. It's just that they've never been developed or sealed.
[Now, I'll ask you one more time. Are we prepared to remove the seal on the monster brains and release the real Other World spirit so that it can coexist with a completely different and unpredictable AI and even be destroyed by it?]
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