This new batch of engineering beasts is only the size of a calf, and the smaller ones are about the same size as dogs. Although they are not large, their bodies are shiny and silvery, with many metal parts embedded in them. Some of them are equipped with insect-like mouthparts.
Some of them are just excavation drill bits, with slots for installing power batteries on the back. Between the metal parts, there are obvious biological tissues.
Before Chu Jungui could scan it, the wise man transmitted the blueprint.
The bodies of these working beasts are all solid inside, and all of them are used for power. Therefore, although they are small in size, they have thousands of horsepower. Such abundant power ensures that they can crush almost all ores and organic matter, even those with low strength.
Ordinary steel that is too large can be chewed directly. Their mouthparts, that is, the crushing and digging organs, can be replaced at any time according to work needs.
Work beasts are divided into groups, and each group of individuals ranges from a dozen to three or four hundred individuals. Each work group has a command beast, which the wise call the leader of the group.
The wise man and the base center will divide the work tasks into each command beast, and the command beast will lead its work group to the designated location to complete the designated work.
The first advantage of this mode is that the working accuracy is greatly improved. For example, in the scenery shown by the wise man to Chu Jungui, the height difference on the ground within a radius of 1 kilometer does not exceed 5 centimeters. This is not smoothing in the later stage, but directly gnawed out by the working beast.
of.
Secondly, the utilization rate of the wise man has been greatly improved. Now the wise man only needs to implant the sub-body in the command beast, instead of implanting it in every working beast as in the past. Although the intelligence level required by the command beast is far higher than that in the early work
Above the beasts, a command beast can carry a group of work beasts.
The sub-bodies separated by the wise man also have differences in intelligence levels. The first-level sub-bodies can only be said to be intelligent and have a certain ability to think independently. In the past, the sub-bodies implanted with the work beast were all first-level sub-bodies. The ones implanted with the command beast were level 2.
The intelligence of the sub-bodies is already comparable to that of ordinary humans. They can work independently, learn independently, and even have a certain degree of creativity.
With the current level of evolution of the wise man, 1024 second-level daughter bodies can be separated. Now the wise man is gradually recycling the first-level daughter bodies and differentiating the second-level daughter bodies. More than 300 second-level daughter bodies have been differentiated. In other words, there are currently
More than 300 groups with a total of 50,000 engineering beasts are extracting raw materials.
Speaking of which, it comes to the evolution of the wise man himself.
It can be said that the construction of the new base was basically undertaken by the wise men. Kaitian built some biochemical engineering machinery at the beginning. Le Mans and the girl focused on research, while Li Ruobai half managed the fleet and half maintained external relations.
.In this way, almost only the wise men are in charge of the entire new base. It has been operating at full capacity, and even eating is very serious.
Eating is particularly important to the Mist tribe. They spend much more time eating than ordinary creatures and digest it much faster. If a wise man wants to separate more daughter bodies, he must eat constantly to increase the number of his own cells.
become more.
In this way, the wise man eats, separates the daughter bodies, optimizes the new base, and directs the engineering beasts to work. He is so busy that he evaporates. However, such high-intensity work makes the wise man's evolution speed increase by leaps and bounds, and his eating efficiency is also greatly improved.
It has even evolved a specialized micro-organ for eating and digesting.
Le Mans provides another way for the wise: combining with biochips.
The biggest progress during this period of Le Mans is the development of a new biological data interface, which allows the wise man to seamlessly connect with the biochip. This is not like ordinary humans using personal chips, but similar to Chu Jungui's consciousness directly communicating with the biochip.
The method of chip communication. With the assistance of chips, the theoretical computing power of wise men can be expanded infinitely.
A basic engineering beast can dig 100 cubic meters of earth every day. In their eyes, soil and rocks are no different, and steel is a bit cumbersome. The existing engineering beasts can dig out 5 million cubic meters of earth every day. This
This means 500,000 tons of basic metals, more than 1 million cubic meters of construction materials, and 100,000 tons of survival-grade composite materials every day.
This is only the beginning stage.
Seeing such a huge potential production capacity, Chu Junguiyin had some new ideas, but those are just ideas now and need to be refined.
After seeing the scenery, the group of people took the Ark and returned to the new base. When everyone sat down in the new base, the wise man said: "After this period of evolution, I gradually understood the meaning of the Mist Clan's origins and are about to enter a new era.
stage of evolution. My intuition tells me that after entering a new stage, new memories and knowledge will be awakened. This knowledge is engraved in our genes. As for why there are so many secrets hidden in genes, I am not very clear.
, waiting for Mr. Le Mans to explore and study. And precisely because of evolution, I think I know more of Brother Dao’s secrets.”
"Brother Dao's evolution speed is far faster than that of other tribesmen. Now I know the reason is that it has been controlling the beast nest and creating war beasts. But the number of war beasts that Brother Dao can control far exceeds the limit of our Mist Tribe. This reminds me of
Three tribesmen disappeared for no apparent reason. Although I don’t know how Brother Dao used them, it must be related to the disappearance of the tribesmen.”
"I think Brother Dao has not disappeared. He may be continuing to evolve. We must find a way to interrupt its evolution."
Chu Jungui frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said, "You just said that evolving to a certain level will unlock memory?"
"Yes, I'm pretty sure of that now."
“Where do these memories and knowledge come from?”
"have no idea."
Chu Jungui had a bad premonition. Of course, this knowledge did not come out of thin air, but he was still unable to explore the entire planet. After weighing it, Chu Jungui made adjustments to the construction of the new base and added a large number of defense facilities and turrets.
, and designed a brand new engineering beast based on the wise man's engineering beast blueprint.
This engineering beast has enhanced perception and can control rapid-fire cannons, while the command beast can coordinate multiple turrets for joint defense. This alleviates the problem of insufficient troops. As for Doomsday Shadow and Base 2, they are already armed to the teeth, so there is no rush.
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After seeing the new base, Chu Jungui has a general idea of the expansion of production capacity. The current bottleneck is the preliminary processing of raw materials and transportation between the surface and orbit. Lightyear currently only has 4 transport ships, transporting 20,000 tons of materials at a time. Normally,
It's barely enough, but now we have to build Titans and mobile bases, and this transportation volume is far from enough.
So Chu Jungui said to the girl: "Build a new transport ship."
"Okay! How big do you want to make it?"
“The structure will be built as large as the structural strength can support it.”