Chapter 826: The Unknown Path of Evolution
Xiao Chaonao obtained a large amount of data from Hashar's data core, which was basically confidential information about the major civilizations in the universe.
It is not something that can be obtained easily, so it saves Li Yu a lot of effort.
The information plundered from the ultimate wisdom is more interesting.
"The mechanical soldiers of the Eternal Civilization are essentially controlled by the consciousness of real living beings."
"There is a complete promotion channel. As long as you complete enough tasks, you can evolve your weak mechanical body and become stronger."
“It’s more like a game to them.”
Then, Xiao Chaonao simulated the "perspective" of the Eternal Civilization's consciousness, which was a screen with a large number of data column pages.
The degree of damage to various parts of the body, the energy supply, the task templates connected to the intelligent management system, everything is too similar.
Little Noisy added: "When a large-scale war is going on, the Eternal Civilization will place data nodes on the battlefield to recover the data consciousness in the dead bodies."
"It can be resurrected." Li Yujue was a little surprised, and then looked at Hashar.
"It's not that simple. If there is no data node nearby to recover the consciousness when the machine dies, then it will really dissipate."
Eternal civilization has not yet reached the level of ignoring everything and recycling consciousness in the entire universe in real time.
"Really interesting..." Li Yu thought about it and found that this method of eternal civilization was really good, at least for those life consciousnesses.
"And what you are most concerned about is the future evolutionary path of super life forms." Xiao Chaonao continued, while asking Li Yu to concentrate.
"According to some information in the Ultimate Wisdom, all the top civilizations are looking for the evolutionary path after super life forms."
"Currently, there has not really been a super life form that has truly emerged. The main reason is that there are too many paths to explore."
"Each civilization has a different name for it, but when it reaches this point, the physical evolvers continue to devour energy to strengthen their bodies, or, like the Eternal Civilization, develop various high-tech technologies to enhance their combat effectiveness."
"Either devour the information state to strengthen the ability to interfere with the universe, or spend a long time devouring the source to strengthen oneself."
Li Yu couldn't help but frown when he heard this. According to Xiao Chaonao, even in this universe, how to continue evolving is still an unknown.
The main reason is that no evolutionary path attempted has ever produced a super-life form.
In the desolate universe, the reason why genetic evolution is prevalent is because more than one super life form has been born.
The same is true for the path of supernatural evolution.
The reason why the path of mechanical transformation is limited is that no true super life form has been born.
When there is no super life form emerging, no one can say for sure which path is the right one.
"The combat effectiveness of super life forms cannot be quantified using data, but the Eternal Civilization has its own set of standards. They use the impact on the laws of the universe as a scale, and can be roughly divided into three stages."
"Weak impact, small-scale shaking, and forced twisting can also be divided into primary, intermediate, and advanced levels."
"Scale?"
Li Yu murmured the term, and then looked at more detailed information.
Although energy is still the main means of killing between super life forms, it is basically mixed with various private goods, like Hashar.
Therefore, the almost unshakable foundation of cosmic rules has become the main means for the Eternal Civilization to measure the combat effectiveness of the Mechanical Lords.
A super life form that can shake the rules of the universe to a greater extent will naturally have stronger combat power.
Although it sounds simple, in fact, the standards used by Eternal Civilization for this division are so complex that it is unimaginable.
The holographic projection was the size of an A4 paper and contained nearly 100,000 pieces of detailed information, which made Li Yu dizzy.
Similarly, due to constant wars between major civilizations, each civilization has its own unique secret recipe, making it difficult to unify.
After hearing these words, Li Yu fell into deep thought, although Xiao Chaonao plundered and solved some doubts for him.
But the most crucial question, "how to continue evolving", still has no accurate answer.
Who reminded him of his special state [Accumulation of strength for a sudden burst of energy], the system's evaluation was "accommodating more source essence".
In other words, in the system's cognition, accommodating the source substance is the evolutionary path he should take.
He wasn't sure about this before, so he wanted to know if there was an accurate way of evolution in this universe.
Since this universe does not have it and all major civilizations are still in the process of exploration, he doesn't mind using the system as a criterion.
It's not like he hadn't tried it before, but the process of his physical body absorbing the source was too slow, and it took a thousand years to stop.
This length of time was a bit unacceptable to him.
"There should be a way to optimize it..." Li Yu muttered.
According to the information obtained by Xiao Chaonao, there are ways to evolve by devouring source matter in this universe, so there must be a way to deal with the problem of too much time.
As for things like source material, he really had no shortage of it. At worst, he could go back to the Star Empire and borrow some.
But now he definitely can’t stay in this place for long, because the Eternal Civilization will definitely try every means to find his whereabouts.
Fortunately, the [Eternal Core] is in the [Sympathetic Reproduction Suit]. As long as the Eternal Mecha God is not used, it is difficult for the Ultimate Wisdom to lock his position.
Based on the information provided by Xiao Chaonao, Li Yu began to tentatively perceive the existence of cosmic rules.
This is not a difficult task for super life forms.
The rules of the universe are scattered and condensed. The material constants are rules, and the space coefficients are also rules. They are like indestructible chains that span the entire universe.
Sometimes, special circumstances can change it, but in essence, it is still the combined effect of various rule parameters.
It's like the relationship between atmospheric pressure and boiling water temperature.
By utilizing special abilities or superpowers, one may be able to change various parameters of a certain area, but it will only last for a short time and will not affect other areas.
But shaking the rules of the universe will affect the entire universe.
Just like Civilization Zero, which changed the rules of the universe at the cost of destroying the Device of Annihilation, resulting in the Titans being unable to avoid attacks no matter where they are.
The universe is fragile. Li Yu can cause large-scale, irreparable damage to space with just a casual blow.
But the universe is indestructible.
With his current strength, he could barely have a slight impact on some rules if he tried his best. His theoretical combat power should be roughly equivalent to the primary scale.
This reminded him of the desolate universe belt.
That group of crazy Titans can cause the phenomenon of rule entanglement, which is at least at the intermediate scale, or even at the advanced scale.
Being able to withstand the pressure and pass through the rule entanglement area, the theoretical combat power of the Eternal Mecha God should far exceed the primary scale.
But he always felt that the strength of the Eternal Mecha God had not reached the intermediate level.
No... I almost forgot that the Eternal Mecha God is essentially a collection of eight source elements, which may make him special.
The blessing of Storm Red cannot be ignored.
Li Yu thought :
"It should have something to do with luck, otherwise Silver Shadow would never have been able to get through."
"The ultimate wisdom's speculation is correct. There is no limit to the path of evolution."
However, becoming a super life form is already extremely difficult, let alone continuing to evolve.
Even if the universe is infinite, the number of super life forms will not be too many.
“As for this Hashar…” Li Yu stared at the other party, who was covered in iron and couldn’t even feed the Tree of Life.
"Tianzun, let me devour it. It will be just the right way to repair ourselves." Zhen Tianzun said.
"Oh? Is it okay?" Li Yu was a little surprised.
"I can try. " Zhen Tianzun assembled his hands into a special instrument, like a large vacuum cleaner, and covered Hashar.
At the same time, seven metal pipes extended from his body and connected to other Super-Original King Kongs.
Immediately, black arcs of electricity appeared on Megatronus' body, and Hashar's body began to tremble violently.
The indestructible metal armor began to be affected by the special force, gradually disintegrating into a particle flow and being swallowed by Zhen Tianzun.
Then it was evenly distributed to several other super-primordial King Kongs.
As time passed, the damage to their bodies began to gradually repair itself, until Hashar completely dissipated into the starry sky.
And their bodies also looked much better and no longer in tatters.
Just as Li Yu was preparing to leave here temporarily, countless light years away, there was an area known as the core area of Civilization Zero by the outside world. Its level of technology and prosperity was needless to say.
And in the core of the core, inside a certain interstellar fortress, the huge space is a busy and orderly military city.
Various war factories and control core buildings are suspended in the air, forming the skeleton of this three-dimensional city.
The passing spacecraft become the nerves and blood between the skeleton.
If you observe this space from a full-view angle, you will find that a black rectangular building stands out among the surrounding buildings.
Not only is it located in a completely empty "prime location" that is out of tune with the surrounding area, but there are almost no spacecraft traveling between them.
It can even be said that except for the heavy defense fleet and photon turrets floating around this rectangular building, no floating units dared to approach this building.
Its peculiarity is obvious.
What makes it even more special is that the edge of this aerial building is shaking slightly.
Just like a disturbed full-system projection, it was slightly deformed and distorted in the air, and would even occasionally flicker and disappear for a moment.
This rectangular black building is the research core of Civilization Zero.
Apart from this ordinary code-like name, it has no fancy name and is as inconspicuous as its appearance.
And now, a delicate small aircraft is approaching here rapidly, and will soon be close to this research core.
The newcomer possesses extremely high authority, and all levels of defense measures have given way to him, allowing him to connect with the core of the research.
What is studied here is so important that the entire research facility has to be built inside an interstellar fortress.
This is the core area of Civilization Zero, not the outside world. Logically, almost no enemy can reach here, but highly alert defense measures are still used.
The force field that covers the entire building is not only to prevent external attacks, but also to prevent the leakage of things inside.
"Prophet, you..." A researcher who had disguised himself into a special form was about to report, but the person in front of him said directly: "Don't waste time, just say it."
The group came to a huge isolation door.
A layer of honeycomb-shaped energy barrier floats on the surface of this trapezoidal isolation door.
As they approached, the barrier was gradually weakening, and it completely disappeared the moment we reached the door.
Then, the heavy door suddenly became transparent.
After entering the gate, a very wide circular hall appears in front of you. The walls around the hall are covered with various information terminals and floating information boxes.
Busy researchers were walking back and forth in the hall. In the center of the hall, which had a radius of several thousand meters, a purple cube was suspended, flickering with light.
There is a nearly transparent energy barrier that isolates the suspended objects on the opposite side like a pipe.
Seeing the prophet coming, the person in charge signaled the researchers around to adjust the locking parameters of the device.
Immediately, the originally complete floating cube slowly disintegrated, revealing its true core:
A broken eyeball with gray mist surging through it, its surface covered with cracks and many parts missing.
The disintegrated cube fragments floated around the crystal ball, slowly rotating.
After a series of data reports, the researcher concluded: "...It has been confirmed that half an hour ago, new debris fluctuations were captured, and the Annihilation Device was affected and kept fluctuating."
"Have you located it?" The prophet's mimicry seemed to be that of an interstellar human, but there were some subtle differences in appearance, making him look even more wild.
"Already located, near the ruins..." The researchers around projected a star map.
"Ruins?" The prophet's face changed slightly, and he asked again: "Did the tribesmen sent by those people activate the connection device?"
"No, there is still no information." Someone reported.
"Send someone to check out what's going on. We can't afford to fail in our mission to recover the fragments of the Annihilation Device!"
He gave the order in a deep voice, and there was a response from all around, and then he started working busy again.
