Faced with the questions raised by Zhang Ran, the famous silicon-based biologist Scott took the lead in saying: "By the biological specimens we captured and combined with the information given by the Sibadi people, I will carefully analyze the basic combat methods of these silicon-based life."

"I don't think the problem is too big for other messy living creatures, such as flower buds and virus-like self-destructing creatures. Conventional combat weapons can completely kill them."

"The most difficult thing is actually the black fog-shaped microbial community."

"They are very small, many silicon-based microorganisms composed of tiny structural units. Their individual individuals are only 10 microns, but they show extremely high combat power. When they gather together, they will form strange products like liquid metal and have extremely strong cutting capabilities."

A photo was played on the screen. These tiny silicon-based microorganisms, when enlarged, look like spiders, have multiple flagellated structures, spherical bulges, and six shiny discs on their backs.

These discs can release electromagnetic waves, allowing microorganisms to attract or repel each other, and after a large number of gatherings, they form liquid metal-like substances.

"The high-speed vibration of the flagella produces very high cutting ability."

"This silicon-based microorganism, according to the Sibadi people, is called the 'Devourers'. They can cut matter at the molecular level and destroy the inside. Just a little bit of the vocation will soon break a big hole when touching the metal and the space suit."

"Killing is naturally only a matter of minutes."

"It sounds like... nanorobots? nanomechanical clusters?" Zhang Ran's heart beat faster and raised his eyebrows.

Yes, humans once fantasized about an interstellar weapon, a cluster of nanomechanical machines!

The nanoclusters swallow and contact matter themselves proliferate, and only nanorobots with no limit value-added range are needed to be placed on a planet, and they can cover the planet's surface in less than a week!

This kind of disaster is called the "gray tide"!

Of course, due to the technical level, humans cannot make corresponding nanomechanical clusters. Even if they are made, they have no power.

Its difficulty is comparable to artificial life, and even higher than artificial life!

The human technology level is not fully explored, and it is a thousand miles away from the manufacturing of nanoclusters.

Professor Scott nodded seriously, "Yes! It's really very similar to a nanomechanical cluster!"

"But there is still a gap with the fantasy one. The first is that the energy carried by a single devourer is limited, and decomposing matter requires a lot of energy to consume, so they cannot proliferate infinitely without energy sources." "We can confirm this."

"Secondly, a single 'Devourer' does not have too high combat power or any wisdom, but as long as their number exceeds 10 billion, 100 billion, gather together to form liquid metal, it will generate a certain degree of wisdom and generate corresponding combat power."

"As for those huge monsters, buds, viral creatures, and Godzilla-like silicon-based life forms, they are essentially species controlled by the 'Devourer'."

"We found a large number of wreckage of the 'Devourers' in their control center. As for why these large monsters exist, it is still an unsolved mystery. It may be that they need these monsters to engage in some complex tasks, such as smelting metals, generating energy, etc.."

"It is also possible that these monsters are the former prisoners of the Devourer... Well, there are quite a variety of silicon-based creatures."

Everyone felt a little dry and dry. This devourer was really full of buffs. It can not only proliferate infinitely, but also has strong aggressiveness, and has "certain wisdom".

The most important thing is that they have to go to the ground to dig up heritage, and maybe close combat will take place!

It is impossible to use hydrogen bombs to clean the ground legacy, right?

Lieutenant Colonel Guo Weiqiang asked in a hoarse voice: "If we humans fail, we will become prisoners? Being controlled by the devourers?"

Scott immediately shook his head: "No, we humans do not seem to have this qualification. Because our vitality is too fragile to live in vacuum and cold conditions. In this three-dimensional space, we will still have short lives."

"And these controlled monsters are all silicon-based species with thick skin and flesh. They not only have strong vitality, but can adapt to the physical rules after Lanhua."

"In other words, fragile carbon-based lives are not qualified enough... After all, the Sibadi people have not become prisoners."

After a while of silence in the room, Zhang Ran smiled bitterly and said, "Speak out anything beyond our imagination. Professor Scott, don't be restrained, just speak freely."

"In fact, it is not too difficult to kill these silicon-based microorganisms. High temperatures, low temperatures, electromagnetic pulses can kill them. But the problem is..." Scott sighed and said, "The devourer's base camp is actually in the small universe, which is buried deep underground. Now three thousand years have passed, and we have no idea how much material they have swallowed and how many more they have reproduced..."

"Maybe the entire core has been half digested."

"We have no idea what the purpose of the Devourer is."

Chairman Zhou Chengfeng, who was sitting aside, frowned and murmured to himself: "A new mining machine invented by higher civilizations? Nanobots that can hollow out a planet? Their ultimate goal is to dig out this planet. No wonder the geothermal activity here is a bit abnormal."

"So our future mission is to compete with these mining machines? Not only this planet, but every planet we encounter in the future will encounter these things?"

After hearing what he said, Zhang Ran was silent for a while, but this kind of thing... how to say it, after one's life and the second one's ripening, everyone has the meaning of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water.

Then he patted the table: "Everyone, calm down a little."

“Let’s comb through all the details from beginning to end.”

"Three thousand years ago, a large number of small universes landed from the high-dimensional universe to the Sibadi family's home planet. These small universes are the base camps of the Devourers."

"Then the Sibadi people began a tragic war with the Devourers."

"They retreated step by step, and lost half of the geotropics within a year. At this time, the senior management of the Sibadi people believed that these silicon-based lives were invincible, and coupled with the slow swelling of three-dimensional space, the living environment of life deteriorated, so they fled to the high-dimensional universe with a small universe that could live in people..."

"The automation technology and intelligent productivity of the Sibadi people are far higher than ours, so after the stars disappear, they preserved more people, well, far more than us."

"Oh, there's another point... they don't seem to have nuclear fusion technology."

"After all, they have spread solar panels across most of the land, and there is no shortage of energy. When the stars disappear, they want to develop nuclear fusion technology, but they don't have that much resources and don't have that much time."

After this discussion, many scientists became proud of it. It was somewhat accidental that humans were able to successfully develop nuclear fusion. On the one hand, it was a huge investment in creative capabilities. On the other hand, the emergence of elite scientists and a large number of new materials was also crucial. Without any of them, a certain step in the middle might be stuck.

Zhang Ran continued to sort out all the information: "After the powerful and powerful ran away, the combat effectiveness of the Sibadi people increased. They once again united and developed the second small universe while resisting the enemy. It took a total of five or six years... and then they left this three-dimensional world and placed a time gift box at the same time."

"After losing the native indigenous people to resist, the devourers quickly occupied the entire planet, hid under the ground, and began to continuously mine, causing the planet's geothermal heat to be extremely active."

He was silent for a moment and said slowly: "This also gives us a great opportunity. The surface has the most heritage preserved, and due to the excessive cold, the monsters are sparse."

"So, our first priority is to find ways to obtain some technological heritage, such as semiconductor production lines, artificial intelligence processing programs, etc."

"Your Highness, there is bad news." An engineer suddenly said, "These technological heritages have been preserved for three thousand years in extreme cold conditions, and may not be able to be used... After all, the Sibadi people cannot save them specially for us, and the probability of being intact by war is not high."

Zhang Ran said: "It doesn't matter. As long as you repair a component and understand its basic principles, I can try to create a new component!"

"I've now...regained a little bit of my ability."

As soon as these words came out, the emotions in the conference room suddenly became excited.

Yes, even the incomplete spoils of war are meaningful in combination with the ability of void creation!

Then Zhang Ran said: "The second goal is naturally mining. We still need to come up with a better targeted solution. The noise of mining with excavators is too big, and it is likely to attract attacks."

"The ultimate goal is to capture this planet!"

The room was quiet.

Zhang Ran grinned and said, "I know this is a bit whimsical, but I always have to set a high-end goal, right?"

As soon as this sentence came out, bursts of laughter rang out.

"If we seize this planet, all of us can settle in subspace and minimize the troubles of the Lanhua problem. What we lack now is resources... Of course, I know that this goal is difficult, but with so many resources in front of us, we will leave in shame without trying anything. I am really unwilling to accept it."

"So after completing the first two goals, we will find a way to test the monster's combat power... If there is no way, we can choose to escape..."

Zhang Ran didn't say anything more, fantasy was meaningless.

"Everyone, take action!"

...

After the meeting, the Oriental Panshi once again dispatched 10 small shuttles, carrying two hundred exploration robots.

One of the shuttles had a space door installed, and the robot began to try to relocate cars on the streets, machines in factories, computers in some entertainment venues, etc.

In total, there are 400 exploration robots already active on the planet, carefully looking for legacy.

There are a small amount of resources every day, which makes people feel nervous and a little stimulating... This feeling is like being a thief under the owner's eyelids.

But the whole result is not as simple as imagined. After investigation, people found that the planet was extremely barren, and the proportion of the three elements of sulfur, phosphorus and boron in the soil was far lower than the normal ratio. It was suspected that the swallowers had absorbed most of these three elements.

In addition, we have encountered difficulties in finding minerals. Except for the common metals such as iron, aluminum, and copper, the rest of the metal elements are all very rare, especially rare earth minerals!

Scientists seriously suspect that all the rare earths were eaten by the devourers!

This fact is so painful that the leaders of several scientific teams are frowning and helpless.

"In just one month, there were twenty-two major earthquakes of magnitude 7 or above in the world, the largest one, even reaching magnitude 8.9... Such a large earthquake may kill millions of people if it is placed on the earth."

There are 22 earthquakes above magnitude 7 in a month, which is even more crazier. You don’t have to think about it and it’s caused by the “Devourer” underground.

The resources on the surface of a planet have been dug up almost, and rare earths are urgently needed by humans. The larger the atomic mass, the more expensive it is to create with the energy of creation. In the universe, matter after iron cannot be produced through nuclear fusion.

Elements after iron can only be generated through supernova explosions.

1 point of creation energy can create 500 million tons of steel. However, rare earths are one to ten thousand times more expensive, and 1 point of creation energy can only create 50,000 to 5 million tons.

"It seems that they are not swallowing everything. The rest are all elements with a large amount of ice, stones, solid nitrogen, etc., and they are all not allowed."

"There are still no animals that have been found. They have great desire for organic matter, which is very similar to the Void Amoeba."

"A magnitude 9 earthquake was just observed in the northern hemisphere... This planet is likely to have shrunk, down 30%.

The more information you have, the more heavy pressure comes.

The government has set up several discussion groups to discuss various possible situations. All scientists involved in chemistry, biology, genes, and even the universe are basically gathered in various discussion groups.

No matter how great the benefits are, no matter how urgent the time is, scientists have always looked at this action with a cautious attitude.

Overestimate the enemy's strength as much as possible and make the best war planning.

The final result of the discussion was... not optimistic.

Judging from the huge deformation of the planet at present and the information provided by the Sibadi people... it is not optimistic, and there is even no hope for mining...

Being able to quietly find the technological heritage and bring it back to the sub-space is already a successful strategy.
Chapter completed!