"They … are looking for neural connections."
The Scholar was still in a building full of creatures called Dust Crocodiles.
The Scholar observed the Dust Crocodiles for a while and communicated with them. Just as the Scholar thought, the Dust Crocodiles were studying the Void Cockroach.
They studied almost all parts of the Void Cockroach, the function of all the internal organs, the nuclear information, and other things, trying to fully understand this insect.
One of the most important tasks in this research was to find the 'nerve connection'.
The nerve connection could be said to be the most important organ of a swarm. It was this organ that connected the 'thoughts' of the swarm together to form a complete consciousness. The swarm could be said to be a creature with countless individuals, but only one 'brain'.
The Dust Crocodiles thought so. As long as they found the neural connection, they could find a way to further study a way to break the overall connection of the insect and cause the entire insect to collapse.
However, the Scholar who had more research on the insect thought that it was very difficult to do. The thought connection of the insect was quite … tight. They did not only have one or two ways to connect.
Even if they were completely disconnected, each soldier had the ability to cooperate with the actions of the same species around them to make a group action.
The Dust Crocodiles obviously did not know this, but they had not found the neural connection organ.
They confirmed the function of most of the organs in the Void Cockroach, leaving only some unconfirmed structures. They also inferred that these unconfirmed structures did not have the function of neural connection.
Then … the clues were completely cut off. The Dust Crocodiles here were quite troubled.
"What should we do? It would be good if we had a few live ones for testing … but now we can only get corpses. "
The leader of the Dust Crocodiles here was the one who kept complaining in front of the Scholar. To be precise, it should be called the 'Research Chief.' It kept staring at the three-dimensional screen in front of it, showing the information obtained by the Dust Crocodiles around it.
However, the information seemed to be useless, so it was very distressed.
"You came from below, right?" Suddenly, the Research Chief turned to look at the Scholar and said, "What are you doing here? To see our progress? "
The Scholar was puzzled and asked, "What is … below?"
"Didn't you come from below? Or are you a wanderer living outside? " The Research Chief said, "Looking carefully, you seem to be a metal … Are you an intelligent machine? Can you help us with our research? "
"Rogue …" The Scholar heard the researcher's words and had more questions in her mind. She thought that her mechanical body had some special camouflage function that made the Dust Crocodiles treat her as one of their kind, so they didn't care about her.
But now, that did not seem to be the case. Dusty Crocodile knew that the Scholar was an outsider, but this kind of outsider seemed normal to him.
"I … I was just created. I don't have any memories." The Scholar thought for a moment and said, "My maker wants me to travel and explore everywhere, so I've been collecting information. Can you tell me about the situation here?"
"Really? Machines are really troublesome. " Chief Research Officer Dust Crocodile seemed to believe him. He said, "Alright, there is no progress in the research. Ask me anything you want to know, and I will tell you."
Scholars believed that … Dust Crocodiles seemed to be very easy to talk to.
Thus, the researcher answered many of the scholar's questions. The scholar first asked about the general situation of the Mirror World and learned that this world was almost … a completely wild world.
There was no civilization in this world. There were crystallized jungles and all kinds of wild creatures everywhere. However, there were many ruins of civilization.
Just like these ruins, they were all remnants of the past civilization.
There were many such ruins, and most of them were the habitat of wild creatures. They were completely abandoned. Why was this? The Dust Crocodile said that it was caused by a tragic war in the past.
However, there were still some … high-intelligence creatures living in some of the ruins, like the Dust Crocodile. They were creatures that … survived the war.
They lived in these ruins, established small communities, and built simple weapons and supplies to resist the dangerous wild creatures. They worked hard to live here.
Some of the creatures had built larger groups, so they started to invade other ruins to occupy more space and resources. But such situations were rare. Dust Crocodile said that it was difficult to live here because there were too many dangers.
Most of the races gathered in the ruins, but there were also a few who lived a wandering life. These races were called 'wanderers'.
The scholar heard from the Dust Crocodile that most of the statue-like creatures she saw in the crystallized jungles were very dangerous, but they were not interested in the scholar.
There were also many creatures who cooperated and traded with each other. Their lives were not bad … Almost all the races were constantly excavating the ruins, trying to find some high-tech items of the past to reconstruct them. Some races dug out the technology to create intelligent machines, so it was not surprising that the scholar appeared.
However, the Dust Crocodile also said that the scholar was the most intelligent machine he had ever seen. He had seen other intelligent machines before, but they were not very intelligent.
Although they could still survive now, every race here … of course, including the Dust Crocodile, wanted to restore the strong civilization of the past, and they had recently received an opportunity.
That opportunity came from … underground.
It was said that a certain race had dug very deep into the ground during the process of excavating the ruins and discovered an ancient civilization that was in deep slumber underground.
This ancient civilization was older than all the civilizations they knew, and it was said that this civilization had the most powerful technology. The secrets of this technology and the city of the ancient civilization were buried deeper in the ground. If they wanted to know, they had to do something to activate the guidance system of this ancient civilization. Only with the guidance of the guidance system could they go to the city of the ancient civilization and obtain their technology.
And to activate the guidance system, they had to use the body structure of a certain creature.
This creature was the Void Cockroach of the Inca Bug Swarm.
According to the translation of the information from the ancient civilization, this ancient civilization had been at war with this insect creature. So, any race that discovered the ancient civilization had to explain all the body structure of the Void Cockroach in detail, and translate it into ancient language and input it into the guidance system of the ancient civilization. Then, the guidance system would be activated.
The ancient language specifically pointed out that … there was a neural connection system in the Void Cockroach. The most important thing was to unravel the detailed structure of the neural connection system and describe in detail how to break the connection.
In order to activate the guidance system, it was discovered that many creatures of the ancient civilization were studying the Void Cockroach, and they had reached an agreement with each other. Whoever unraveled the secrets of the Void Cockroach and activated the guidance system first would obtain the technology of the ancient civilization first.
Then, these races, including the Dust Crocodile, were all studying the Void Cockroach, but they had not made any progress for a long time.
Recently, the Dust Crocodile had found another problem, and that was … abnormal mental state.
Sometimes, they would become absent-minded, causing them to ignore their surroundings and even ignore danger. The chief researcher believed that it was caused by the tower-like thing in the forest.
When the Scholar heard this, it remembered that the Dust Crocodile was stabbed to death by the crystal grass outside, but its companions did not care … It seemed to be caused by the distortion device.
After hearing the general situation, the Scholar did not expect that … the Primordial Realm had placed many species of civilizations on the surface of the Mirror World.
Perhaps they wanted to observe the situation of each civilization at different stages, so they deliberately let these species stay in the ruins of destruction to live a more difficult life. In fact, this was very similar to the situation in many movies. There were also many movies that showed the scenes of the Voids struggling to survive in the ruins after the world war.
However, the Primordial Realm wanted them to study the Void Cockroach in such a complicated way … They even used an ancient civilization or something to trick these species into studying it. Couldn't they just let them study it?
"These corpses …" Thinking about it, the Scholar pointed at the corpses of the Void Cockroaches and said, "Where did you get them?"
"Near the discovery site of the ancient civilization," the Dust Crocodile said. "There are still many corpses there. Most of them have been taken by other races for research, but I don't think they have made any progress."
"How many races are doing the research?" the Scholar asked.
"A few dozen. Species that discovered the ancient civilization are qualified to participate," the Dust Crocodile said. "But who made this competition in the first place … Why can't I remember?"
"Oh no!"
Suddenly, a scream made the Scholar turn around. A hole opened up in the ground not far away, and a Dust Crocodile crawled out of the hole.
"What happened?" The chief researcher looked at the Dust Crocodile's panicked expression and quickly asked, "Is there an invasion of dangerous creatures in the underground residence?"
"No … It's that group of creatures!" The Dust Crocodile said, "Those creatures called Lulum, they said that their research has been successful! They plan to activate the navigation system and go to the ancient civilization's city! "
"This … Impossible! Why are they faster than us? " The chief researcher was shocked, "Hurry up, I want to take a look … You guys continue your research here!"
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