Chapter 274 The highest authority of Sequoia Base (3/3)
"...Is this what happened in this central control room back then?"
It combines the information about the past illusions that he has seen, as well as the information about the brain-eating insects that he has guessed before.
At this moment, Ian has concluded the truth about the redwood ruins that has been buried for nearly a thousand years, and knows the true identity of the mastermind behind it.
There is no doubt that the Sequoia natives are the descendants of the researchers at the Sequoia Base of the pre-era civilization 1,600 years ago.
During the disaster, due to the complete disaster prevention preparations, the Sequoia Base did not suffer the same disaster as the pre-era civilized cities on the surface, but was extremely well preserved.
Just for some reasons and to ensure safety, they decided to avoid the aftermath of the disaster on the surface, lurking inside the base to build an ecosystem, continue their knowledge, and maintain the entire base.
However, without a sufficient population, knowledge will deteriorate.
Even if all intact knowledge manuals are stored in electronic devices, or printed into books, or engraved into tablets, as long as one teacher makes a mistake in understanding, as long as one of the descendants of any generation does not understand what he needs to inherit.
knowledge, then knowledge will deteriorate.
All researchers at the Sequoia Base are geniuses and elites, but they cannot guarantee that every generation of their descendants will be elites. As long as there is an ordinary person, all their knowledge will be lost.
There is too much knowledge, and it is impossible to learn it by yourself by reading textbooks... Even with a teacher's step-by-step guidance, you may not be able to teach it.
Therefore, in order to preserve knowledge, at least the knowledge must not be distorted.
The Sequoia people decided to use 'brain attachment' and 'gene memory' for double protection.
The brain-attached slug is an alien-derived brain slug with extremely stable genes. It can host on the brainstem of vertebrates, enhance the host's memory and computing power, and can also pass on its own knowledge and memory from generation to generation. Because of this
Group-brain slugs have an internal psychic network, and all their knowledge and memory, and even their own genetic information, are retained in their psychic energy.
As long as the community is immortal, knowledge will last forever.
But...the leader of a certain generation of Sequoia people, their 'Great Elder', had evil thoughts in his heart.
He wants eternal life.
Therefore, that man forcibly put his own memory, his own thinking algorithm, and even his own soul into the brain slug's psychic network.
He should even have modified the genes of the brain slug, making it return to its ancestors and turn it into a vicious brain parasite from ancient times. He also created an insect nest and used the most primitive, barbaric and bloody methods to continuously invade the lives of his compatriots.
The flesh turns them into echoes without self.
But besides him, there were five elders with extremely high wisdom. They joined forces to upload their own consciousness. The five of them joined forces one after another to smash the soul of the great elder who tried to control the brain slug's psychic network.
At this point, the insect nest lost its master and fell into chaos. This is why the parasite he saw before did not attack him, but just kept trying to return to the central control room.
Because the psychic network within the parasite is in chaos, part of it is primitive instinct, part of it is the great elder, and there are also fragments of the other five elders who sacrificed themselves.
only……
"Thousands of years later, the indigenous people still evacuated the Sequoia Base. They lost almost all their knowledge inheritance, and were even slower than the humans in other refuges. They truly became indigenous."
"Ruth hair and drink blood, cannibalistic natives."
Ian murmured to himself, he raised his head, his gaze seemed to penetrate the entire central control room, looking at the entire Sequoia base group: "The brain-eating parasite community has never been extinct, and has even re-strengthened the parasite in recent years.
The river is proof of that.”
"Although the great elder's consciousness was shattered, the souls of the five elders also disappeared. The parasite now is probably a violent and terrifying artificial biological weapon, as well as fragments of their wisdom."
"However, during the evolution of the brain-eating insects, something must have happened. The indigenous sacrificial traditions and cannibalistic traditions have a long history. This is definitely not a habit they developed after leaving the Sequoia Base. And it is aberrations.
It is also a mystery that human cloning has no one to control it. Before the natives left the Sequoia Base, there must have been some crisis or they lost some knowledge."
However, these crises are not very important.
Because all of that is the process of the Sequoia people's constant struggle after losing their glory.
Under Andor's puzzled but awe-filled gaze, Ian stepped forward.
He jumped across and came to the main control seat on the second floor.
Then sit on your seat.
Click, click, click.
The automatically extended data cable was accurately connected to the boy's neck, and invisible data flowed, making Ian's eyes light up with glimmers of light.
[Perform identity check... The white people of the northern New Caledon District, no data records, search online... Unable to connect to the Internet... Activate the base crisis self-determination agreement]
[Determined to be a non-threatening juvenile individual/meeting the base’s whitelist standards]
[The Sequoia Base and its affiliated ecological parks are in a long-term unmanned automatic maintenance state, and 67% of the blocks have been detected to be damaged/missing/changed/destroyed]
[The first to thirteenth ecological parks were all destroyed, the fifth to twelfth power source areas were damaged, the cooling reservoir was abnormal, the main channel collapsed and damaged in large areas, and the transportation channel underwent dangerous changes... Based on this judgment, the Sequoia Base is in
'Extremely dangerous' status]
[Call to a user with central administrator authority...the call failed]
[Call to a user with sub-administrator rights...the call failed]
[Call registered user...Call failed]
The call went on for a long time, and Ian waited patiently.
Until that moment.
[Confirm that there are no emergency handlers and start the transfer of maintenance authority]
A huge, redwood-shaped logo appeared in front of Ian's eyes, with gentle subtitles flashing: [Welcome, Mr. Temporary Administrator, you have registered as the 97th critical maintenance engineer]
【please……】
Click, click...
Just when the automatic AI in the central control room was transferring authority.
Suddenly, the silver chip in Ian's body moved abnormally.
Ian, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately concentrated on sensing the abnormal movement of the chip.
But unfortunately, the chip only reacted to Ian's nerve connection in the central control room, transmitted information for a moment, and then returned to silence.
But in just such a moment, the AI in the main control room of Sequoia Base immediately changed its rhetoric.
[Welcome, Director of the Federal Institute of Xenology, codenamed ‘Forerunner’]
[You have obtained the highest authority of Sequoia Base]