Xiling Empire Chapter 1450: Lin Jing

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We saw the boss of the ship "Caomu's Ark" and the tree sent by the empire in the customs office of the civilian Star Harbor. Pixie/Elf observer stationed here: About the ghost ship parts, this observer report came up.

This civilian Starport has a large number of modular customs offices, and every spaceship ship that has docked here for more than a week can apply for such a free office for handling official business and handing over all kinds of information with the Imperial Administration, Of course, it can also be used as a place for business negotiations: many "special" merchant ships that travel through the macro World directly complete trade activities on Xinggang. They ran from one star port to another, and the warehouse was always filled with long-term moving goods. They were middlemen and transporters, except that they never left their spaceship or set foot on any planet except during the shutdown. . This kind of World businessman called himself "star ship's lord", and their slogan was "We don't produce resources, we are just nature's porters"-but these star ship merchants have nothing to do with these Lin Jing, I am very curious about these What's the point of Lin Jing also applying for such an office, although they meet the application requirements, but as a businessman, they have no goods, no intelligence to hand over, and no need to receive any business partners, such an office seems to such a group of businessmen Makes no sense.

For my question, the merchant ship boss who looks indistinguishable from other mimosas responded particularly shamelessly: "Anyway, do n’t use nothing, my ship and goods are all over. You do n’t allow me to take a small place here. Is it cheap? "

At that time, I felt that the first batch of profiteers who started trading in Hong World were probably printed with a model: I saw the shadow of the hawker Queen in the Feiyali Empire from this mimosa.

Shandora is learning about the ghost ship with the tree Pixie/Elf who is an observer. I am curiously watching the Lin Jing ship boss in front of me: I have been feeling this race since I saw the chattering mimosa in Shadow City last time. I was interested, and then I also learned about the ins and outs of these gangs in various online community of Shadow City. As a result, the more I learned, the more curious I was: How was this strange race born?

Lin Jing is a new race from the edge of the macro World. Official exchanges with the empire were less than a year ago, and before this month they were engaged in short-term trade in remote areas and never in the empire area Inland appeared. These perennial herbs have civilized intelligence and a higher level of science and technology civilization. They have researched their own Universe, but for the time being they do n’t know how to jump out of their World. Therefore, Lin Jing caravans like the "Caomu Ark" Relying on the purchase of spaceship from other civilizations or applying for a public gate to complete the self-help tour. This seems to be a plant, but in fact, the strange combination of plants and machinery parts race makes people who are acquainted with them for the first time feel puzzled. Even in the strange and strange race, Shadow City, Lin Jing for the first time Many people were also curious when they showed up, because according to normal logic, such a race that has not yet evolved a natural limb (or other functions that can enable them to have action ability) and an exchange organ is impossible to become a high level civilization. Started on the road: they could not make the first tool, nor could they form the first class and conscious cluster. After getting rid of those mechanical components, Lin Jing can only rely on his roots to perform extremely slow and limited actions. They will also lose the language ability. Even if they communicate with their peers, they can only rely on inefficient and vague plant pheromone communication. In other words, the Lin Jing who lost those mechanical limbs and auxiliary plugs will become a creature that is only a little bit less than the plant high-level: they will still keep thinking about ability, but they ca n’t move, ca n’t say, nobody knows that their bulged petioles are turning What a clever idea.

This has not changed in Lin Jing ’s entire evolutionary history: they have never been able to break away from their mechanical body.

So how did they start on the evolutionary path to becoming a high level civilization? Or directly: how did they obtain the first mechanical prosthesis and pass it on to the next generation?

This reason is wonderful and rare: The original Lin Jing was actually just another pet made by race.

"We call them 'father'," Lin Jingchuan's boss jumped briskly on his desk. His voice, posture, appearance, and various habits seemed to me the same as those I saw two days ago. There is no difference in that mimosa, "This name is exclusive to the creator, because Lin Jing is hermaphrodite, and there is no concept of parent in our family. The name" father "comes from the civilization of the creator. They are very smart, and they are the earliest in our A bonfire was born on the planet-oh, a great civilization. They discovered Lin Jing and planted us in their corners: initially only used to improve the air in their houses. Later one of the greatest scientists among these great people Suddenly, it was a historic day to connect the electrode and the decoding device to Lin Jing in his home: that great Lin Jing—we called him the eldest son, and this name also came from the creator—he was a scientist Say: Thank you, to express my gratitude for watering every day, these two words are displayed on the display screen of 'Father', so someone finally discovered Lin Jing's thinking ability. Then after a long time, the 'Fathers' Mastered all the techniques of normal communication with Lin Jing, and know that we have been thinking silently for the past few hundred years. Although that kind of thinking is very primitive, close to dreams and slow thinking hallucinations, the 'fathers' still seem very Happy. "

I heard that I could n’t help but interrupt the other party: “You said that your creators do n’t have a conspiracy theory or anything? For example, worry that another wisdom race that appears on your planet will grab territory with yourself and so on— on the Earth has many similar stories. "

"Oh, yes, but this idea soon proved to be a joke," Lin Jingchuan's boss visually expanded his branches, imitating the movement of Human Race's hands, "Lin Jing needs to be planted in the soil, our best What I like is just the right watering and bask in the sun. We do n’t need any wealth in the hands of the fathers. On the contrary, Lin Jing is an essential plant on the planet of the fathers. The gas that the fathers breathe Eighty-five percent come from Lin Jing. The two races will not plunder each other ’s treasures. The waste we do n’t need is the survival resources of the other. Smart people know that we do n’t have to compete – I know you Where is Earth in your mouth, earthling will worry that too much food and air will crowd out your survival space? "

Me: "... this is also true."

"In short," Fathers "transformed Lin Jing," the ship ’s little legs ran fast on the table. "They improved Lin Jing ’s intelligence and made us more convenient to output ideas: It is a sensor plug-in, and then we are equipped with mechanical multi-functional limbs: they can be used as legs and hands. Lin Jing and the 'fathers' live together happily, that is a good day. "

I was just asking casually about the ins and outs of this strange race, but the story of didn't expect is so interesting, I ca n’t help but urge him to say more quickly: "Then? Where are your creators?"

The mood of Lin Jingchuan ’s boss fell suddenly, and even the leaves fell listlessly to the table: "A group of robbers, robbers five light years away, they are a group of innocent guys among the stars, followed by pests. As well as eating the resources of the planets, these robbers invaded the planets of the 'fathers', and after a fierce battle, they won. "

"The" fathers "were killed by the robbers, and all of them died out in one generation, but Lin Jing survived. This is because when the war was about to collapse, the" fathers "modified all database, they Erase the traces of Lin Jing ’s wisdom of high level, and then let us pretend to be household pets and plants in nature with simple thinking ability. The robbers did not expect this, plus they also need a smart servant like Lin Jing. Help them improve the planet's atmosphere, so Lin Jing survived. "

Now Lin Jing are not only alive, but also one of the active race of Hong World, which shows that they still kill their enemies after all, but how do these seemingly weak plants get their revenge? Especially in the era when the ship's boss mentioned it, the Lin Jings did not have any weapons in their hands. This revenge is really incredible in my opinion.

"It took a long time," Lin Jingchuan boss on the spot jumped, "Seven hundred years, we spent seven hundred years to prepare for revenge. We have no weapons, no base, no place to hide, They ca n’t even show high level intelligence in front of robbers: only in this way can they continue to relax their vigilance, it seems that Lin Jing has nothing, but we have a way of revenge-evolution and plant pheromones, Lin Jing can do basic communication through plant pheromones , Or even exchange our own genetic fragments or cooperate with the manufacture of new chemicals, we can control our own evolutionary direction, and let ourselves produce toxins through purposeful and subtle mutations from generation to generation. We spent 500 years to slowly change ourselves , Let their organelles begin to secrete a seemingly innocuous small molecule compound-those robbers have superb interstellar navigation technology and weapons science and technology, but their biochemical and genetic science and technology are only average, which is really perfect Opportunity. "

I am completely attracted to Lin Jing ’s story. didn't expect, the plants that look soft and weak, have such a history, but I still ca n’t think of how they evolved toxins to complete their revenge: Lin Jing ’s The goal should not be as simple as poisoning several enemies. This is race hatred, and they need more large scale results.

"It's very simple," said the boss of the ship seriously (if all the leaves are gathered to mean seriousness), "we make ourselves nutritious, easy to digest, and cater to the taste of the robbers."

I was dumbfounded.

"For the next two hundred years, Lin Jing became the food that those robbers strove to taste, and we also evolved some other gadgets to make ourselves look like medicines with health effects, and the robbers were addicted to this Everyone was addicted to this, and finally Lin Jing became their total democratic food: toxins accumulated in their within the body, took three generations to slowly take effect, and then broke out, those stupid things did not think that the revenge of plants could endure for so long, So there is no connection to the food that they have eaten for two hundred years: they lost their fertility ability, and gradually lost their logical thinking ability. Those robbers tried to use clones to continue their race, but as long as they still eat, they ca n’t escape these. Toxins, eventually those who can manipulate the cloning equipment also died. Only the monkeys who drooled from their toes came out of the cultivation chamber-Lin Jing spent seven hundred years to prepare, and finally used three hundred years to appreciate this Everything, this is our story. "

You can guess what happened after that: we survived this way, and used the mechanical limbs left by the 'fathers' to continue civilization, every new Lin Jing must accept this transformation, mechanical limbs Accompany each Lin Jing's life. Praise the ‘father’ and the eldest son, and no one dares to underestimate Lin Jing: the revenge of the plant will not end once it begins. "

I stared at the cheerful Lin Jing ship with no sorrow, and suddenly understood that this group of creatures who can still think of "small cheap spot is a point" after the ship is broken and destroyed What's going on: they won't be sad, they won't be in trouble, they won't be overwhelmed by any short-term difficulties, yes, for a race who is so forgiving and patient, as long as they are always energetic A cluster of leaves is enough to meet the sun.

"In this place, ship bosses from different Worlds introduce themselves to each other race and the glorious history of civilization is a tradition," at this moment Shandora and the tree Pixie/Elf observer conversation is also came to the end of a phase, the tall and thin tree Pixie/Elf turned his head In fact, he heard the conversation here just now, "Lin Jing's story is the most exciting one, but the only problem is that these Lin Jing like to talk to others too much: I have heard these stories six times, Would you like me to carry one on your back ... "

Me: "..."

Okay, I can imagine this point. After all, the mimosa that I met two days ago is a guy with no distinction between simple and traditional language. Lin Jing ’s way of thinking seems to be different from other race. When you communicate, you will list all the content you have in mind, regardless of priority. When you first contact you, you will feel that Lin Jing is hospitable and easy to communicate. However, after a long time of contact, you will feel that these perennial herbs are a bit noisy. But how to say that I also talked to the broken reminder of Xingyu, and said that Lin Jing's slightly more talkative nature was acceptable, after all, they just talked a little bit, and the broken reminder of Xingyu almost reached a mouthful. The degree of self-circulation ...

"Let ’s talk about the right thing first," I turned my attention away from Lin Jing ’s affairs, and seeing the relaxed look on Shandora ’s face, I knew that the ghost ship ’s affairs were basically stable, “That part is confirmed to be a ghost ship. Has it fallen? "

"Ok, that's it." Shandora said, handing over a small cylindrical metal object, this thing is less than a foot long, the egg is thick and thin, and one end is still broken, its size is larger than mine What I expected was small: I just thought it was a big thing when I heard that the ghost ship was hitting the debris on the Ark of Grass.

"I just identified that this is a common external sensor on the Empire spaceship. The manufacturing time is in line with expectations. It is a relic of Old Empire most flourishing period," Shandora said while handing that sensor to Xiaoxue. "Pass this Things, combined with the prediction of Xiaoxue ability, should be able to lock where the ghost ship will appear next time. "

"My mother should be safer in this matter." Xiao Xue mumbled over the metal post.

"Your mother just came back from a business trip and let her rest for two days," I tilted the bear boy who was picking fat and thin. "And you are about to grow into rice worms at home. I will worry that you will rust in front of the TV if you are not active. "

Xiao Xue grinned at me and finally grabbed the broken sensor probe and closed her eyes. She will go back to the information of this item and find other people who have spent more than 100,000 years with him. Components, this is a process that is difficult for others to understand. If you want to explain it, it is equivalent to taking a leaf to the forest to find the tree it once belonged to. This is a task that sounds impossible, but be aware that everything born in Void is in a huge ocean of information, and there is nothing to be exception. eyes of Prophet can be overlooked on the Void ladder to all from below this step Derivatives that spread out: Although it seems a bit incredible to sort out a ghost ship from such a huge amount of information, Xiao Xue has his own special method.

I was silently waiting for a few minutes with Shandora. During that time, the Lin Jing ship boss ran to chew with the observer, and finally Xiao Xue suddenly opened eyes: "I found it."

"Where is it?" I and Shandora spoke in unison.

"Three days later, capital city's watch World is over a red dwarf star more than three million light-years from Earth," Xiao Xue returned the metal pillar to Shandora. "The ghost ship does not appear in the macro every time. Around the World channel, occasionally it will drift to an desolate region, but its stay in these desolate areas is usually very short, so short that even the imperial radar station is too late to to scan. This time the ghost ship will be there The place stays for three seconds. "

Three seconds ... This is really short enough.

Shandora doesn't care much: "Enough is enough, let's first send someone to set up the surrounding net. Three seconds is enough to start the gravitational trap. Xiaoxue, is that ship armed?"

"Unarmed," Xiao Xue shook his head. "But it's hard to tell if there is any in the boat. There is too much information about the one-time jump, and it looks vague."

Neither I nor Shandora waved their hands carelessly: it ’s good to be able to locate the upcoming location and time of the ghost ship. Xiao Xue, the bear boy, is still unambiguous in his business.

The Lin Jing ship boss of at this moment has once again pulled the observer of Xinggang and is opening the conversation box with excitement: "Eh, I will tell you something about my adventure ..."

I suddenly felt that it would be better to leave this place early ... This group of Lin Jing would n’t believe in Dragon God! ?