Chapter 308: Useless Structure
This battle is more like a one-sided massacre.◇◇↓◇↓ Xiao◇↓ said that in the face of the war weapon built by human civilization, the robots are as vulnerable as ants. But both Xiao Yun and General Emerk knew very well that the massacre was just an appearance, and after this appearance, the resources of the raid combat team are constantly consumed.
Even if there are so many robots, what is the use of slaughtering? The robots don’t care about the quantity, but the raid combat teams cannot ignore their own material reserves and their declining defense and attack power.
General Emerk glanced at some data displayed on the screen and made a quick judgment: "The raid combat team has half an hour left. If the battle cannot be finished within half an hour, the subsequent support army of the robot group will arrive, and Major Lin will be cut off from retreat, and the entire army will be wiped out."
The staff team sent this judgment to the raid squad, but did not attach any orders from the main fleet. Obviously, General Emerk believed that Major Lin would make the most correct judgment.
When the robot army was almost half destroyed, the raid combat team finally took new actions. They no longer maintained the gathering formation, but scattered a little a little, and then, under the premise of maintaining the formation, they began to evacuate the Rag 728 Galaxy very slowly.
This is not a defeat, but a planned retreat. It is precisely because this retreat is planned that it does not cause any additional casualties. When the raid combat team retreated to a certain distance, the robot legion that had been entangled in an endless stream instantly dispersed, and then returned to the raid 728 galaxy and gave up the attack on the raid combat team.
Under Major Lin's leadership, the series of actions of the raid combat team, from the beginning of the attack to the retreat, were as standard as textbooks. Although Xiao Yun did not understand military affairs, he also realized the beauty of the entire battle process as artistic as it was.
General Emerk nodded in praise: "I knew that Major Lin was the most suitable candidate for this raid mission. The entire battle only lost one Fengyun-class spacecraft and some combat airships, but the total number of enemies eliminated exceeded two million."
An operational staff member added: "In addition, the assault combat team led by Major Lin also captured more than 30 complete robots. Originally, the number was as high as thousands. However, these robots were equipped with extremely complete self-destruction devices. During the capture process, except for these more than 30 robots, the rest were destroyed."
General Emerk said: "It doesn't matter. There are more than 30 robots that are enough for us to conduct analysis and research."
The raid squad led by Major Lin returned to the fleet like a hero. General Emerk personally met Major Lin and gave him corresponding honors. After encouraging Major Lin, General Emerk once again came to the analysis laboratory. Scientists in the fleet will conduct an overall analysis of the robot here, and Xiao Yun is also conducting an analysis of the robot's core chip code structure here.
The fleet had already gained a robot that had lost its power before. After a simple comparison between the robot and the robots captured now, an obvious conclusion was immediately presented to everyone: "Just as we guess, the robot has indeed evolved. The robots before only had the ability to crawl on the ground, and the robots we captured now already had the ability to navigate at a speed of light. Whether it is material technology, structural technology, or computing technology... they have all produced earth-shaking changes."
After reaching this conclusion, General Emerk asked the most critical question: "What about their evolutionary mechanism? Is there a way to determine? Is it because of the existence of geniuses that they can evolve, or can they evolve independently?"
"There is no way to determine." said the scientist who is responsible for analyzing the structure of the robot's body. "To determine this, we need to analyze the core code that governs their actions. All the mysteries about the robot are hidden in the core code. This is not my job, they are the ones Xiao Yun is responsible for analyzing."
General Emerk looked at Xiao Yun with an inquiring gaze, and Xiao Yun said with a wry smile: "Sorry, General Emerk, I can't determine their evolutionary patterns either. Because the code used to write core programs... is not any programming language we already know."
"what does that mean?"
"This means that we cannot parse the design ideas of core programs and the specific implementation ideas, nor do we know what they mean." Xiao Yun said, "You must know that just like the different languages used by our human civilization, it is much more difficult to crack the meaning of a language than to design a new language. For example, let me give you an example. Suppose I have created a new language system from now on. In this language system, the pronunciation of "ah" represents "yes", and the pronunciation of "hu" represents no. I just randomly gave them a definition and completed the design of a new language system. And... Without a large amount of sample analysis and comparison, can you crack the meaning of the two pronunciations of "ah" and "hu" in the language system I designed?"
"No." General Emerk shook his head.
"So... I can't crack the meaning of the core programs that dominate these robot actions now." Xiao Yun said with a wry smile, "I can only vaguely realize that it has a very complete and self-consistent logical system. It is so complex that I can't complete this work with my own power. Only by sending it to our civilization and with the common wisdom of countless experts and scholars in our civilization can we complete the work of cracking it."
"It takes decades to transmit signals back and forth, that is, it will take at least such a long time to do this with the power of our civilization, and it is obvious that we don't have that long time to wait." General Emerk spread his hands, "So... we still have no way to determine whether the evolutionary modes of these robots are right?"
Xiao Yun didn't say anything, just nodded silently.
"Then we'll do it according to the plan we've planned before." General Emerk waved his hand and looked at the previous expert again: "By analyzing the robot's body structure, have you reached any conclusions?"
"Is the conclusion..." the expert pondered for a moment, and then said: "The body structures of these robots are very clever, even so exquisite that they can be described as works of art. But it is precisely because of their ingenuity that they are very fragile. This leads to... except for the huge number, the rest of them is useless. This is the detailed combat power data we analyzed for them, you can take a look."
General Emerk took the report, glanced casually and said, "This combat power data is similar to the results we analyzed before."
"It's just a little bit of suspicion," said the expert. "We noticed that the similarity between these thirty robots reached 99.99%, only the remaining subtle differences. We believe that these differences may be caused by the needs of robot evolution. But... there are ninety-nine percent of the differences that we can find their use, but there are only the remaining ones, and we don't know what they are for."
"Explain it in detail." General Emerk said.
"That's it." The expert operated on his personal computer, and a three-dimensional projection was presented to everyone: "It's this little thing."
It was something smaller than rice grains. It was hidden in complex circuits and machinery, very inconspicuous. If you don’t observe carefully, you will not be able to detect its existence.
"These robots are very exquisite things. Everything in their bodies has its own uses, and there is no useless thing in their bodies. And it is this thing... We don't know what role they play. It seems that it does not work in the robot's body at all and does not participate in any internal operation of the robot. It is simply unnecessary to exist. But for some reason, it exists. We have found similar things in the bodies of more than 30 robots. They are different from each other, but the common point is that they "do not work at all, and there is no need to exist at all."
Xiao Yun seemed to have thought of something and immediately asked: "Is there such a thing in the body of the robot we obtained in the Laka Galaxy?"
"No." The expert shook his head.
Xiao Yun nodded gently: "Since that's the case... it means that this kind of thing only appears during the evolution of robots. They cannot evolve useless things, that is to say... this thing must have its use."
The expert said helplessly: "The key point is here. We all know that it must have a reason for its existence, but we don't know what the reason for its existence is."
Chapter completed!