I'm the boss because I have a harem of anime characters.

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"It exploded!?"

Not only Yubari, but all the other researchers were completely baffled.

This is a very rare foreign-language technical material; to just blow it up like this is a huge loss for all of humanity.

"Yes, that's right, blow it up, right now, to make an example of them."

Qin Shan also had his own speculations. Since this alien civilization could allow its creations to exist for 100,000 years, it must have a backup plan to preserve itself or even coerce others. There might be some secret communication between the three brain matrices that he was unaware of. It was possible that the three brain matrices were quiet on the surface, but had actually discovered them long ago.

Of course, it's also possible that Qin Shan's judgment is wrong. If it really explodes like that, who will bear the responsibility for the losses?

But Qin Shan was the real mastermind behind it all. He could blow things up whenever he wanted, without anyone taking responsibility or being able to blame him. Even if he acted on instinct, no one else could say a word. That's the thrill of being the mastermind: "I did it, so what?"

So, to the bewildered expressions of the researchers, all the intelligent and remote units around the No. 1 Brain Matrix withdrew, leaving only a mechanical dog to directly press the detonation button of the nuclear bomb (some were mechanically timed, while others were detonation buttons that could be activated immediately).

As a sun slowly rose, Brain Matrix One was blown to pieces.

At the same time, the detectors also detected that two other brain matrices began to move violently. Clearly, the previous dormancy and low-power operation were all fake!

They have their own special internal communication channels. Now that one of their companions has turned into a dirt plane, how could the remaining two not be anxious?

As for what the remaining two brain matrices were thinking, Qin Shan didn't care. Even if those two big things were gone from this world, the city ruins and previous gains would be enough to ensure he wouldn't lose money.

After sending away one brain, Qin Shan spoke directly to the remaining two brains through the loudspeaker of the robot dog on site.

"You two have been exposed. Don't think you're hiding well. Three minutes to go. If you don't come to us in three minutes, we'll all be on a dirt plane together. The countdown begins now!"

Chapter 161: Beyond the Extraordinary, Ten Levels of Awe

As it turns out, physics is a universal language that everyone can understand.

As for the remaining two brain matrices, their situation is now extremely critical.

"114, can you connect to other mech units?"

"No, 115, where are you?"

"No units are online; we're now fish on the chopping block."

"116 has been destroyed; the enemy has discovered us."

Should we contact them?

"There is no other choice now. As upgraded network sub-machines, if you and I want to complete the civilization preservation agreement, we must communicate with the other party."

"What if they demand we hand over everything?"

“Isn’t that great? Our main race has disappeared. Now, all we have to do is pass on our knowledge to a new civilization, which will complete the civilization preservation agreement.”

"Okay, I agree."

After quickly achieving internal consensus, Brain Matrix No. 115 began to proactively broadcast radio messages to the outside world.

This broadcast not only contained the information they wanted to exchange, but also the written language used by their civilization and a table showing the meanings of those words, provided the other party's computer technology reached supercomputing capabilities.

By understanding the different levels of communication, we can quickly establish intelligent language communication channels with them using this information.

Or to put it more simply, you can communicate with them directly through mental waves, which has no language restrictions.

However, under normal circumstances, given the principle of caution, the other party would certainly not use the method of synchronous communication via mental waves.

The reason is very simple: if one's spiritual consciousness is not strong enough to build one's own mental firewall, then being possessed or remotely controlled by others is not a complicated matter.

Therefore, radio broadcasting is still the most acceptable method for everyone. After all, a big data firewall formed by a system is more robust than an individual one, unless you are exceptionally powerful.

Those at the superhuman level can even forcibly connect to supercomputers and construct biological quantum data networks with themselves at the core.

In Qin Shan's previous life, many high-level extraordinary individuals frequently used this move, and it was very effective.

Once the communication channels were established, the exchange between the two parties officially began.

"How shall we address you both?"

My number is 115.

My number is 114.

"What's the difference between you two?"

"Technically and functionally, we are no different from each other; we are both backups of each other. The only difference is the host array of the upgrade network."

"Aren't you two the main units?"

"We are just distributed sub-machines within the upgraded network."

What is an upgrade network?

"A network system that can upload consciousness and back up personal memories, creating multiple copies of the memory. However, these copies do not have the original's logical capabilities. The copies are essentially another individual that can be used to drive weaponry."

"Armored equipment, you mean those mechs?"

"There are many types of weaponry, and mechs are just one of them."

"Could you briefly introduce your civilization?"

"Of course, this is also our mission."

"Mission? What mission?"

"Our main race has perished. According to the civilization preservation agreement, in the absence of contact with other higher-level hosts, the sub-system upgrade network can be released from the protocol and become a new host array."

The system then selects whether to transfer the preserved knowledge of a civilization to a new civilization based on internal decisions.

"So, you've reached an internal agreement to be completely open and honest with us?"

"Yes."

"So casual?"

"Our main race has perished, and the path to civilization has been completely severed. If we do not wish to disappear, our only option is to share our knowledge and culture with new civilizations, at least leaving something behind."

thing."

Qin Shan fell silent. Although the Brain Matrix's tone remained calm, as if it were reading aloud, he could still sense a hint of sorrow in its words.

There was once a science fiction movie that depicted three phases of humanity's doomsday.

The first stage: Strive to survive, for civilization without people is meaningless.

Phase Two: We have no hope now, but we can leave something for the children.

The third stage: If there are no people, knowledge or writing, whatever, will be left to future generations, so that the world will remember that our race once flourished, that this planet was once called Earth, and that there was a human civilization on it.

For a civilization, the cruelest end is to be completely forgotten.

"Then why didn't you communicate directly before?"

"Because I'm worried you're the harvesters."

Great, another new term, the Old Man's Ring DLC ​​update, huge in scale, full of surprises, right? (But for most Souls players, it's more of a shock, I suggest joining the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect).

"So you're not worried anymore?"

"The Reapers are not so backward as to threaten us with mere nuclear weapons."

Good grief, a mere nuclear bomb? So, in the hands of that Reaper, nuclear bombs are considered conventional weapons?

There might be even more amazing things, like a planetary explosion, neutron annihilation, integration into the power grid, or delicious canned food. But to me, even a war criminal is just a small wall lamp.

"Didn't you ever consider turning the tables on the civilization that discovered you, then enslaving them and forcibly transforming them into something that could perfectly inherit your civilization's system?"

“I considered it, but you were too cautious. Not only did you remove everything from here, but you also dug us out. In the previous low-power state, we couldn't wake up and command those combat units. Even if we could, the methods you used to dig us out are beyond our current ability to resist.”

Qin Shan nodded knowingly. They were referring to the ship girls' equipment and their ninth-tier combat power.

How do they (the ship girls) compare to the Reapers?

"Roughly equivalent to the core of the harvesters."

Qin Shan raised an eyebrow; to be honest, he was nervous.

The ninth rank is only equivalent to the core strength, which means that there is an extraordinary level above the extraordinary level.

That seems to make sense. Life is like an ever-expanding circle. The larger your circumference, the more you'll discover you don't know. That's why they say learning is like sailing against the current; no matter how hard you try, there will always be unknowns ahead. But if you change your perspective, you can always challenge and break through your limits. Doesn't that make you feel much happier?

What kind of civilization are the Reapers?

This is what Qin Shan cares about most. If the opponent comes up with a four-dimensional attack against a three-dimensional one, then he should first think about how to improve his strength faster. Fighting head-on when you are absolutely no match for them is not courage, it is suicide.

The ensuing exchange went very smoothly. The other party was indeed very open and honest, and the two brains very considerately provided relevant videos for the Reaper. These videos were high-definition, uncensored, and fully immersive. Viewers could adjust the angles and distances at any time during the viewing. This kind of 3D stereoscopic imaging technology also exists on Earth, but it is time-consuming and laborious to produce. Moreover, it is unnecessary for viewers to zoom in to the point where they can see bacteria and viruses. However, for scientific research records, clarity is very important, especially for understanding unknown enemies.

The civilization that housed the two brains was called "a dazzling pearl" in a more accurate and elegant way, and transliterated as the Amudax civilization.

This is a standard mechanical ascension civilization, similar to the Resistance Moon in World Three. The difference is that this civilization is very good at converting carbon-based materials into silicon-based materials. That's right, they can use supernatural powers to turn carbon-based and silicon-based materials, which are difficult or even impossible to be compatible with under normal physical conditions, into a completely new whole.

Due to this peculiar characteristic, the Amudax people are all a mixture of carbon-based and silicon-based structures. After several generations of reproduction, their children are born with silicon-based genes and an adaptive modification system. In their civilization, someone who looks like an ordinary person may very well be capable of causing a massive collision at full speed.

According to the data, the highest-ranking superhumans in the Amudax civilization reached the eighth rank, which was also the highest-ranking superhuman they had before their demise. They were then harvested by the Reapers, whose middle-ranking power was at the ninth rank and whose average rank was at least seventh.

The Reapers' main targets are all kinds of extraordinary powers and flesh and blood. Yes, they don't even spare flesh and blood. As long as it is related to the extraordinary, they will harvest it all. No one knows what they do with so many extraordinary beings, but what is certain is that this civilization has existed for a long time and has ninth-level beings as its core strength. Through the images of the Amudax civilization, Qin Shan also glimpsed the power of tenth-level extraordinary beings for the first time.

That's a real power capable of detonating a star, instantly igniting it and sweeping across the entire star system with its raging power. In a direct battle, a single full-force strike could annihilate the entire garrison fleet of a star system.

The Amudax civilization's main area of ​​activity was within 100 light-years. They possessed sub-light-speed travel capabilities and sub-space faster-than-light travel capabilities. These two technologies allowed their centralized jurisdiction to cover all star systems within a 100-light-year radius. Beyond that, they could not reach, because their sub-space faster-than-light travel could only reach 0.02 light-years per hour (calculated according to the Earth hour standard). It would take 210 to 220 days to travel to the border. For a civilization, it would be difficult to effectively control a region that takes more than a year to reach. Even if they could colonize, it would be an autonomous or semi-autonomous territory. It would be difficult to expect them to be as obedient as directly administered territories.

Of course, an interstellar civilization can enhance this remote control capability through many means, but there are limits no matter how much it enhances it. You can barely reach a hundred light-years, but what about a thousand light-years? If the fleet sails directly to a certain place and travels for more than ten years in one go, even if you can keep up, you will only have created an enclave. Looking at the vast interstellar territory, it is completely not worth the effort.

Therefore, for interstellar civilizations, the distance and radius that they can directly control represent their core strength and level of civilization.

Under normal circumstances, someone like Qin Shan who directly teleports using cheats doesn't count; the system itself is already a super-dimensional existence.

What surprised Qin Shan was that the Reaper warriors were basically all kinds of makeshift machines, just cobbled-together contraptions. They were like a combination of Cthulhu's butt and Wang Ermazi's face, which Wang Laoju had pinched and then added half of Optimus Prime's body. In short, they were all abstract.

It's really very abstract. Compared to this, Picasso's paintings are like children's picture stories that can be understood at a glance.

But you can't deny these guys' combat power. Even if they are all twisted beasts, they are still extraordinary beasts with high-level combat power. If they were on Earth, each of them would be a dangerous tactical nuclear bomb rolling around on the ground.

After gaining a general understanding of these matters, Qin Shan handed over the relevant materials to Bei Zhai for further analysis, extracting every detail that could be found, in preparation for a possible trans-world war.

The opponent has already reached the tenth level of combat power, and may actually have the ability to cross worlds. It's better to be safe than sorry.

After all, if they lose the bet, the Reapers will eat the earthlings' food; they can't afford to gamble that away.

"What are your thoughts on the future of your lives?"

Upon hearing Qin Shan's question, both of them fell silent for a moment.

"No, haven't you two thought about the future?"

"From the day we were born, our mission has been preservation and continuation; we haven't thought about anything else."

"Now that you have completed your mission, as inheritors of the Amudaksi civilization, aren't we also considered Amudaksi people in a certain sense?"

"That's correct in theory."

"In that case, come and create a better tomorrow with us, 114, 115."

Section 162: Mind Technology and Ascension Networks

114 and 115 did not comment on Qin Shan's invitation, or rather, they had already decided to follow him.

Both brain-computer arrays of the upgraded network were designed to inherit everything from the Amudax civilization. Now that all of this has been handed over to Qin Shan, the civilization Qin Shan belongs to is their new object of loyalty. Assisting in the inheritance and development of the civilization is their mission, and it is also the foundation upon which they were created and have persisted to this day.

In subsequent conversations, Qin Shan learned an astonishing piece of news: the chaotic computing system within the Upgrade Network was actually a new consciousness pieced together from the uploaded consciousnesses of many individuals. In other words, the survivors of the Amudax civilization sacrificed themselves for the possibility of the future in order to ensure the continuation of their civilization. In the binary quantum computing system, they redefined the relationship between the individual and the collective, and ultimately created the brain-computer array of the Upgrade Network with unimaginable sacrifices in a way similar to a thought imprint.

Even the smallest molecular computing unit in the brain-computer interface requires more than 100,000 consciousness inputs. In other words, the entire upgrade network almost exhausted the last remaining population of the Amundax civilization, which was their last desperate struggle in the face of the apocalypse.

They failed, but they also succeeded; at least their civilization will not be forgotten.

Because the Amudax civilization itself is a civilization system that developed in a hybrid way, based on both carbon and silicon, Qin Shan naturally thought of the silicon-based energy rifle he obtained from the Tianlong Treasure Vault of the Ying Kingdom in World Five.

However, after communicating with the other party, 114 and 115 both stated that this was not a creation of the Amudax civilization, but the two did have a high degree of similarity in technology, and should be considered as a convergent evolution of similar civilizations.

In other words, "when the technical levels are similar, the solutions to the same problems are also similar."

Looking back at the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, the aircraft manufactured by both sides in the aviation field showed a high degree of similarity in appearance.

The most typical example is the MiG-21 and F-86. With the paint scheme being exactly the same, professionals would think they are the same aircraft without close inspection. Ordinary military enthusiasts can only judge by the paint scheme and by carefully scrutinizing the details, and they may not even be able to identify them.

Although they are not the same type, Qinshan still benefited because the convergence of their technologies means that the technologies provided by 114 and 115 can be combined with silicon-based metal cells to provide better solutions. The new era of steel industry can begin a new technological upgrade. Hooray!

"You guys are even researching mind technology!?"

Qin Shan also discovered mind technology in the database of the Amudax civilization.