The deep space star, the "Tian Shen" space base, is known as the place closest to God. That spacious room is filled with 39% oxygen, 21% carbon dioxide, 30% nitrogen, 2% sulfur dioxide, and other trace amounts.
In an office filled with fresh air mixed with gases, Noli Ruoxi, the president of the deep space civilization, who is about 3.4 meters tall and weighs 213 kg, has a look of disappointment on his bronze face.
What was presented to him at this moment was a report submitted by the chief scientific officer. The report clearly stated that there was still no progress in deciphering the previous generation of texts during this period of time.
"If there is no progress, our civilization will be wiped out by those guys who call themselves humans!"
After gritting his teeth for a moment, Noli Ruoxi finally sighed.
There is no way, the inheritance of civilization is too serious. In the process of the long journey across the stars, the living environment of the people of the deep space civilization has become increasingly worse, and supplies have become increasingly scarce. It has been nearly ten thousand years.
, all the descendants produced have not been able to undergo comprehensive genetic optimization modifications like their ancestors.
At this moment, there is only one genetically modified instrument that can barely function in the entire civilization. Just this one, hundreds of years ago, when it first arrived in this remote galaxy where its main star was being swallowed by a black hole,
A key component was blown away due to an accidental explosion, and it flew to an unknown location.
That’s nearly 10,000 tons of precious plutonium! It’s just gone.
Originally, this genetic modification machine could still operate at about 3% of the performance when it was intact, which could significantly improve people's intelligence, physical fitness and other related indicators. Now, without that key component, the performance has been flat.
It has been reduced to at most 1/200th of what it was when it was intact.
Not only has the improvement effect plummeted, but there is no big enough difference between "humans" and "sub-humans" at this stage - this is undoubtedly a shame for noble "humans", and even efficiency has declined.
Greatly decreased.
In the past, no matter how many offspring people gave birth to, they could always accept genetic modification. Now, only some lucky offspring can accept modification. The descendants of those "people" who cannot accept modification will, after a few generations,
You can only associate with stupid and lowly "subhumans".
All this is due to the unfavorable reasons for the progress of deciphering the civilizational characters of the previous generation!
Recalling what is recorded in history books, when civilization was at its peak, everyone could receive a full set of genetic modifications from genetic modification equipment before they were born. Not only did everyone have excellent physical fitness, all kinds of diseases were almost eliminated, and their wisdom was still far away.
Far more than those ordinary "subhumans" who have not been able to undergo genetic modification.
In fact, apart from the lack of reproductive isolation, humans and subhumans are almost fundamentally two completely different species.
The two have different cultures, different etiquette, different living habits, and different jobs. But all the differences are based on the biggest difference: the difference in writing.
The writing used by people who have undergone genetic modification is extremely complex. According to historical records, this set of writing contains a total of nearly 130,000 words, more than 800,000 specific vocabulary phrases, and 38 different sentences.
tense and mood.
There are more than 200 words just to describe the main star of the galaxy at that time. Among these words, some words specifically refer to the state when the stellar flare burst reaches X level, some simply refer to the state of the star when it is at its calmest, and some
Some only refer to the setting sun, some only refer to the state of the setting sun when the flare explodes, and so on.
The entire sentence "I am hungry and want to eat food A" can be expressed by a unique word; "I am hungry and want to eat food B" can be expressed by another unique word; "I am hungry and want to eat food B"
"I'm hungry and want to eat C food in the wild with the wind" also has a unique word.
This writing system is undoubtedly extremely complex and sophisticated. But it is also extremely efficient. Often extremely complex meanings can be perfectly expressed with only a few, or even a single word. Sometimes
, one word can express all the information of a painting.
What supports people's use of this extremely complex and sophisticated text and language system is a highly developed and highly intelligent brain that has been genetically modified.
Everyone can easily master these 130,000 words and more than 800,000 specific vocabulary phrases, master various tenses and moods, and communicate with others easily and efficiently.
People who have not received genetic modification are completely different. They use a completely different language system. In that language system, the number of words is only about 1,200, and there are only more than 2,000 specific vocabulary phrases. Language and
The paucity of words allows them to only vaguely describe objects and events, and the efficiency of information transmission is extremely low.
It's not that people don't want to master more words and vocabulary, but that their brain capacity is too low and their brain operation efficiency is too low, so they cannot remember and master too many words and vocabulary proficiently. This leads to
, people can't understand people's language at all, can't understand people's logic, and don't even know what people are doing. On the other hand, people can easily understand everything about people.
But now, the noble people of the deep space stars have fallen to the same level as the subhumans. The number of words mastered by the subhumans is still about 1,200, while the vocabulary mastered by the noble people only has a few words left.
To 5,000, and the semantics are greatly simplified, the information content of a single word is not the same as that of those ancient texts.
The most terrible thing is that all the information recorded in the database from the heyday of civilization were all recorded in the writings of that time!
A complete operating model of an efficient controllable nuclear fusion reactor was completely recorded in just thirty-seven characters! A practical ion propulsion engine used only 225 characters. The most important thing is
The design and manufacturing drawings of genetically modified instruments were recorded in just over 13,000 characters!
Each word in these words has enough information to write an entire paper. But now, the meaning of almost most of the words has been lost. The people of the deep space planet at this stage simply cannot understand it. Chief Science Officer
After leading a group of the smartest people in the civilization to study for such a long time, they have only mastered the meaning and usage of less than 1,000 ancient characters.
If the meaning of those words could be deciphered, not to mention the small human civilization, even if it was ten times more powerful, it would be wiped out in one fell swoop. How could it be like this now, where it was forced to even abandon the surface of the planet and could only hide?
To survive in space, only by consuming sub-human lives in large quantities can we obtain barely enough supplies from the planet.
Fortunately, fortunately, the production system of sub-humans has always been relatively complete. On average, hundreds of new sub-humans are born every day, and there are also hundreds of new sub-humans who can work when they reach adulthood. The civilization has finally been maintained and has not collapsed.
But it won’t work if we continue like this...
The enemy civilization has been developing at full speed, but our own civilization has been developing slowly due to the lack of materials. If this continues, when the enemy civilization becomes strong enough and sends a fleet over, our own civilization will have no chance.
"The work of deciphering the ancient characters must be speeded up. Let’s not talk about the rest. The results of the deciphering of the characters '￥%#￥@#%#￥%' must be produced within three years."
The Chief Science Officer has determined that what these words describe is all the detailed information of a strategic-level weapon that can be manufactured with current stage technology.
Of course, the so-called strategic level is relative to the current level of technology. In ancient times, this kind of weapon was just a child's toy.
As long as this kind of weapon can be produced, destroying that hostile civilization will not be a problem at all!
After thinking silently in his mind for a long time, Noliruoxi grabbed the communicator and conveyed this instruction to the chief scientific officer.
"Abandon all other attempts to decipher and concentrate all efforts on solving the problem of the principle and manufacturing method of this weapon! I want to see the finished product within three years!"
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Gudazar is a "subhuman". It was "created" 22 years ago, and since it came of age 8 years ago, it has been responsible for resource collection.
All sub-human beings do not have the right to reproduce naturally. All sub-human beings are "created". Noble people will collect the "life essence" of sub-human beings regularly, and then take it to various equipment and pass it through the machine.
Breed new sub-persons. According to people, this method is the most efficient. It can continuously and stably create new sub-individuals without affecting the production efficiency of the parent and mother generation sub-individuals.
Ever since he first gained self-awareness, Gudazar has been longing for more knowledge. The period when he was still underage and still learning and mastering knowledge in school was the happiest time in his life.
Unfortunately, due to insufficient optimization and transformation of the brain, just learning and mastering more than 1,200 words of subhumans and learning some necessary survival knowledge has already made him feel the limit. If he wants to learn new things, it is not because he cannot remember them.
Even if you memorize it, you will never learn it.
It has no choice but to accept the fate passed down from generation to generation like its companions, friends, and its father and mother who don’t know if they are still alive, or sons and daughters who don’t know if they were born.
Worker.
Today it was Gudazar's turn to set off to the surface of the planet to collect mineral resources. Controlling a simple spaceship specially made for subhumans, Gudazar left the space base.
"I hope today is not the day for the enemy's nuclear bombing..."