CARS was a comprehensive giant space station, with a focus on scientific research and dangerous goods storage. In addition to the large container cabins used to accommodate the First Born, there were several large laboratories on the lower level of the space station for daily research work. Samples collected from the First Born and weird junk from other worlds could be scanned here. Hao Ren finally did not have to worry about the limited functions of the shipboard laboratory of the Petrachelys.
But the most satisfactory thing about this place was its architectural style: the style of this building was different from the technological equipment that Hao Ren usually came into contact with. Its main material was crystal and a warm and strange "metal", including the laboratory. The light and elegant crystal clusters and arc-shaped metals were dazzling. Walking in CARS was as pleasant as walking through an art museum. Hao Ren usually complained that Raven 12345 was unreliable, but this time he had to thank the goddess for blowing up the original building module: this new space station was at least better than a coffin.
The two red spheres were quickly sent to the laboratory, and everyone was studying what they were. Hao Ren followed Vivian's advice and ordered a quick full-body scan of the living First Born in Container No. 1 and Container No. 2. Now he was waiting for the results.
"What do you think it is?" Hao Ren was bored and began to chat with Vivian. "It also created a phantom of Helcrown. Is it an organ used by the First Born to cast spells?"
Vivian shook her head gently, unconsciously throwing a small bat in her hand to relieve boredom. The two spheres were suspended on the crystal imaging platform not far away, and now there were a few beams of light scanning the spheres. This was the detection equipment collecting the information of the spheres and comparing it with the scanning progress of the First Born. And in the center of the laboratory, the holographic projection showed the work progress of Container No. 1 and Container No. 2. It was a holographic image of the First Born, which was getting clearer and clearer.
After a while, the MDT suddenly whistled. "Found it!"
Hao Ren was delighted. "Really?!"
The MDT zoomed in on the holographic projection to show the details of Container No.1. The tentacles and tissue tumors of the First Born appeared in the middle of the picture, and the most striking thing among the intertwined biological tissues was the pulsating dim red light. The MDT pointed at a star-shaped structure between the red lights. "In this position, there's a thick connective skin with a strong bioelectric current. There's a sphere hidden underneath, exactly like the two red spheres we have. And there's more than one of them … "
As the MDT spoke, it zoomed in on the holographic image a little further, and seven or eight shining red dots appeared on the entire scan. Those red dots were spherical organs, and they were not evenly distributed.
Lily scratched her head and looked at it for a while. "A First Born can grow so many balls? Then why did Y'lisabet only find three? "
"Because of malnutrition. Don't forget that the First Born of the Wang family starved to death." Hao Ren switched the picture back and looked curiously at the star-shaped tissue that emitted a dim red light. There were many thinner tentacles extending out around it, all the way to the nearest tissue tumor, and those thinner tentacles were light in color, obviously not the same species as the tentacles used as weapons. And all the star-shaped tissue was wrapped in layers of other tentacles and thick skin, which meant that they were very important to the First Born. "What do you think this looks like?"
"It looks like some kind of center," the MDT replied. "And according to the latest test results, most of the grayish-white tentacles are connected to medium-sized tissue tumors, which have been identified as the ganglia of the First Born."
Hao Ren scratched his chin, trying to expand his imagination. Suddenly, an idea came to him. "Wait a minute! Do you think this is the brain of the First Born? "
Lily looked at Hao Ren in horror. "Mr. Landlord, is there a ring above your neck?"
"But it's very possible," Hao Ren said, shrugging. "This thing has already grown into such a strange appearance. What's wrong with its thinking organs being even weirder? You see, we've been looking for the brain of the First Born before, but there was none. But this thing obviously knows how to think, so its thinking organs should look a little strange. And anyway, this thing is connected to a lot of ganglia, so it must have something to do with thinking. "
"A very valuable conjecture," the MDT confirmed Hao Ren's conjecture. "This creature is so huge that a single brain may not be able to command the whole body, and nutrition can't keep up. So it used a distributed brain structure. But first, we need to test it. "
Container No. 1 quickly received the MDT's instructions. A light green thin potion was injected into the container, and then a few bright luminous objects were attached to the tentacles of the First Born. The tentacles trembled slightly, and then calmed down.
The control module of Container No. 1 cut off the connection between one of the star-shaped tissues and other organs around it, and then began to input analog signals to it.
"Maybe it's really a brain," the MDT read the transmitted data, and even it was a little amazed. "This is really a wonderful thing. The thinking process of the First Born is actually completed by three distinct tissues: the ganglia, the red sphere, and those gray and white nerve fibers. These three things are the brain, and they are scattered throughout the body."
Lily looked at Hao Ren in amazement. "You're right! Mr. Landlord, your brain hole is precision guidance? "
"Don't be silly, this is called talent, different from you who reincarnated into a fool," Hao Ren rubbed Lily's head and turned to look at the MDT. "Why didn't we see it when we were studying the sphere in Helcrown last time?"
"I didn't think about it last time," the MDT did a somersault in the air. "Gee, this thing is really interesting... Well, I've roughly figured out the thinking process of the First Born."
Hao Ren suddenly pricked up his ears to listen to the MDT's explanation.
"These spheres are the main thinking organs of the First Born, which bear 70% of the brain's functions. They can be called brain nuclei. There are several of them, and they are distributed in various parts of the First Born's body; those medium-sized tissue tumors, that is, the ganglia, are something that enhances and accelerates signals, and perhaps also has a buffer function, responsible for distributing instructions from the brain nuclei to all parts of the body. Because the First Born is too large, it must have this secondary buffer and brainwave amplifier to control its body; those gray and white tentacles are not ordinary nerve fibers, they are actually the mutated form of the ganglia, which also has the ability of logical calculation. Their function is to connect several different brains, so that the thinking process of the First Born can be coordinated — to prevent schizophrenia and brainwave conflict. This whole mechanism works in a very strange way, different from all kinds of intelligent creatures I know, but it can perfectly solve the various problems faced by the First Born due to its large size. And more importantly, they allow the First Born to have a backup of its thinking. I think that a single brain nucleus can also think, but the execution efficiency will be reduced, and there is no way to control all the tentacles. But if a part of the First Born's brain is offline, it can still survive by relying on the remaining brain structure, and even repair its own offline brain... A perfect computing machine, it has formed a local area network with itself, and can upload and download things between several of its brains! "
Lily used her fingers to sort out this logical relationship, and suddenly she was amazed by the First Born. "If I had this ability, I wouldn't have to worry about not being able to separate myself from writing novels! I can even fall in love with myself! "
Vivian squinted her eyes and smiled. "Unfortunately, you are still a single dog."
"Woof your head!" Lily scolded.
"Can't you two be quiet for a few minutes on such a serious occasion?" Hao Ren glared at the two enemies to quiet down, and then turned to look at the MDT. "I understand what you said... That is to say, the First Born has multiple brains, and these brains are combined like modules, and those red spheres are the main thinking organs. So what's the matter with the phantom of Helcrown?"
The MDT was silent for a moment, the surface of the blue light surged, and then it made a speculation. "I think that is its sleep talk."
Hao Ren was puzzled.
"The mental power of the First Born is strong enough to directly trigger natural phenomena. Although not to the point of interfering with reality, at least it can create large-scale phantoms," the MDT flew over the two spheres. "These two brain nuclei... although seriously damaged, they are not dead. They are sleeping, and occasionally dream."
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