Chapter 242 [Revised] The Flesh and Blood Mechanical Mushroom!
Body.
A chill slowly climbed up my spine.
What body... The former emperor's body is this brain monster, and the brain monster is the computer room...
...The late emperor...is the mother machine?
...So it really is a demon?
The graduate student was so frightened that he tried hard not to scream. He could sense its hidden malice, to the point where his hair stood on end at the mere sight of it.
This kind of thing can only appear in hell - some distant scenes flashed through his mind. In his vague memory, he seemed to have found a genealogy of hell on the dusty bookshelf in his religious grandmother's house. There was a drawing of a scary devil in it.
So, how long has it been here and how is it feeding, or replenishing its energy. What is inside it? Is it flesh and blood or machinery...
At this time, the flying camera ball slid to the other side. They made a new discovery on the screen: the bottom of the neuron-shaped stipe was connected to a large circuit network.
"…Flesh and blood machines, brain room! Genius, genius, how could someone come up with such a genius pairing, an electrified brain, this is the true form a computer should have!"
Coconut octopus spared no effort to praise it.
Although the computing power and storage capacity of computers in the interstellar age are several times that of the human brain. But there are always people who believe that the human brain is far superior to artificial intelligence.
This sophisticated organ has more than 100 billion neurons and can perform 10 trillion operations per second. Moreover, its power consumption is very low, only 20 watts, which is only equivalent to lighting a dim desk lamp.
Humans use this 20-watt spark to light up the brilliant interstellar civilization.
In Coconut Octopus's view, linking the human brain with machines can maximize the potential of the brain. As a result, mankind will enter the next stage of development!
To this end, he developed a long-lasting brain-computer interface. He decrypted the electrical signals of brain neurons, compared them with the mechanical signals, and connected them.
If it is placed on a student, he or she can complete all courses from elementary school to university overnight; if it is installed behind the driver's neck, it can increase the synchronization rate of the mecha and it will not be a problem to increase it to 100%.
By then, the world will be full of geniuses, and knowledge will become the least valuable thing. The upper limit of humanity has been raised exponentially. The sky is no longer vast, the universe is no longer mysterious, and humanity’s conquests will extend to every corner of the galaxy.
Now that the research patent has been approved for marketing, it will earn a lot of money. And he, this epoch-making inventor, is relying on his successful career and facing a new creature that may change human cognition.
His inflated self-confidence gave him a crazy idea.
He planned to link himself to the giant brain.
Even if it's only for a moment, it's exciting enough and enough to savor for a lifetime.
It is difficult for normal people to understand the thoughts of scientists. Once, an archaeologist opened a tomb that had been sealed for a thousand years and saw a piece of braised pork that still had its original shape on the table. For the rest of his life, he regretted it and questioned himself why he didn't try a bite of the thousand-year-old braised pork, even at the risk of poisoning.
But challenging their limits is the fun of this kind of people.
Moreover, Coconut Octopus was sure that if other people in the circle came across this incident, they would seize the opportunity without hesitation like him.
Upon learning of his idea, the graduate student was incredulous, "You can't ignore the danger like this! You might be turned into a vegetable by the huge difference in brain signal flow!"
"Am I the boss or are you?" Coconut Octopus ordered firmly, "Just do as I say!"
He is very confident in his patented technology. After all, in this field, the only person who can be considered more famous than him is a retired old woodpecker who ran a private hospital and is now missing.
The graduate student struggled over whether graduation or his life was more important. Finally, he made up his mind, gritted his teeth and crawled over shivering, and connected the data interface to the root of the stem.
Coconut Octopus plugged the other end into the back of his head, carefully adjusted the parameters, and then turned on the limiter. In an instant, he felt the roaring data rushing towards his brain stem. His brain became hot and heated due to the high-frequency refresh, and his whole body was filled with extreme happiness.
"Ah...! Do you see those flashing red and blue lights? Those are the synapses of neurons transmitting signals... How bright and brilliant!"
He was so frantic that he was about to groan.
"Quick, take a picture of this scene."
He waved his hand and called his apprentice over.
The graduate student could only carefully raise the terminal and shoot at him. "It is August 15, 2411. My mentor, Coconut Octopus, is devoting himself to science..."
Coconut Octopus has no doubt that this video will be broadcast to the world at a pace that will shock the world when he gives a report with a top journal article in hand.
He will become a Columbus in this field, like the first person to discover the New World, and his name will be remembered forever.
His student subconsciously said, "Boss, the first person to discover the New World was Amerigo Vespucci, and the American continent was named after him. Columbus was just the first person to try to colonize America."
"Shut up your stupid mouth. I don't need your cleverness," Coconut Octopus added, "Cut this part out."
Before his apprentice could react, his bloodshot eyes moved nervously and he issued a new order:
"Give me the terminal, I'll shoot you, and you go extract the slices."
"But teacher..." The graduate student's lips were pale and he trembled as he did not dare to approach the evil-looking thing. But thinking about the upcoming graduation, he compromised and said, "Okay."
However, what he didn't expect was that, as if seeing that he was too slow, the octopus kicked him in the knee out of habit.
The graduate student stumbled forward a few steps and unexpectedly dove headfirst into brain tissue.
Then, his body exploded with a strange and incredible sound, "puff", blood splattered, and the 80-kilogram human being turned into bloody mist in the blink of an eye.
The octopus watched helplessly as the giant brain came to life.
It seems as if it smells lunch and takes a breath very leisurely and enjoyably - the brain certainly has no respiratory organs, but its movement of first contracting and then relaxing gives people an intuitive illusion. In the blink of an eye, the blood mist made of human blood was sucked into the surface of the cerebral cortex in one breath.
It clearly has a transcendent and advanced eating system that is different from that of humans.
This system is extremely efficient, terrifyingly so.
The octopus's stomach churned and he leaned against the wall and vomited all over the place. It's not just because of the disgusting smell of blood, but because of the performance of this thing -
It looked like a glutton, looking at them with great interest, ignoring the fate of mankind. Just like higher-dimensional creatures preying on lower-level animals, they don't even bother with the process of swallowing.
If it were a normal person, he would have collapsed and turned to run away. However, the first reaction of the coconut octopus was: raise the terminal and continue shooting!
"Everyone, what you are seeing is the process of the Imperial Mother Machine eating."
"It is definitely the first half-animal, half-mechanical product discovered in human history, perhaps with some plants mixed in. Its support point is like the mushroom stick."
Then he turned to his own head and took a selfie. "I could sense it wasn't eating with much interest."
"It said, I thought I heard it say, it wanted to eat bird meat."
"Okay, next time I'll kill one and bring it to him."
At this moment, it suddenly turned its brain subtly. Then, its fruiting body, which is the brain-shaped cap part, shed some deep red flesh spots like withering.
Is that... spores?
The octopus' eyes suddenly lit up.
He stepped over the empty clothes that his students had dropped on the ground, took out the prepared robot from the box he brought with him, and controlled it to pick them up.
He is much luckier than that unlucky student whose name he can't even remember. The whole process went very smoothly. The brain seemed to have no hostility towards him and easily acquiesced to him.
A burst of ecstasy overcame the fear in Gene, and he ran out of the palace impatiently to report the matter to the cult.
The church promised to help him deal with the students' parents.
Coconut Octopus breathed a sigh of relief, and with a settled mind, he flew the aircraft to his new girlfriend.
He hadn't been here for a while, and this time he didn't bring any gifts, he just kept asking for things.
The girlfriend complained, "I sent you a message yesterday saying I was sick, but you didn't reply. You have no empathy or sympathy at all."
Coconut Octopus hugged her from behind and touched her nose. "My dear, if Oppenheimer had wasted his time on sympathy, he would not have been able to develop the atomic bomb."
My girlfriend asked, "Who is Oppenheimer?"
Coconut Octopus cursed in his heart, what a bummer, this big-breasted, brainless woman.
When his girlfriend saw his face in the mirror, she felt panicky. "You seem a little strange today. Your facial features... seem to be distorted."
"That's not the case. You're just dazzled." Coconut Octopus let go of her, feeling bored. He said hello and left.
Ignorant woman. He spat in his mind. He had completed an adventure of the highest order and was ready for sensational success. Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, his name will surely explode in the interstellar media!
But when he was flying the aircraft home, he felt cold and uncomfortable, as if someone was staring at him from behind.
He looked back several times, but there was nothing but the cockpit. But his subconscious mind told him that there was someone there.
"Damn it!" he cursed, stopped the aircraft, and kicked the dog that came over enthusiastically.
He has raised this dog since it was young. The dog has a vicious temperament and has a history of injuring people. Because it bites, the coconut octopus is considering whether to throw it away. But when he saw the vicious dog today, he actually felt much safer. At least with the dog there, the potential person who had been watching him didn't dare to approach the house.
However, today the vicious dog sniffed the scent on him vigilantly, then ran away with a bark, tail between its legs.
The dog was so frightened that it broke free from the leash and ran away, never looking back. It was a week later when people saw it again.
It was sent to a pet rescue center by a kind-hearted person.
When retrieving its chip information, it was discovered that its owner had disappeared the night it went missing.
Since the dog was not there, no one knew what happened that night.
On this day, the new owner of the adopted dog smoothed its fur and said, "Poor little thing, look how dirty your fur is. Let's drive to see your old home."
"Woof woof woof!" Claws climbed onto the car anxiously.
The new owner thought it was impatient and started the car happily. When we got there, the dog huddled in the car and whimpered, refusing to get out.
There was no choice, the new owner had to go down by himself. She closed the car door, turned around, and the first thing she saw was a flower landscape on the lawn in front of the house.
The landscaping looks quite unique. The base is life-size, with the "person's" arms and limbs covered with colorful mushrooms, which are bright and beautiful, and the gaps between the mushrooms are filled with green leaves of Oxalis. The tender little pink flowers pop out from the leaves, swaying gracefully, beautiful and lovely.
I don't know which gardener made this, but it actually has such artistic aesthetics.
The woman driving the pickup truck was very interested and started asking the neighbors.
The old lady next door with the cat told her something about the house.
"…He was shouting all night, saying there was someone on the lawn outside, and that there was a face on the second-floor window smiling at him weirdly. He seemed to be mentally ill. We all went to check, but there was no one there."
"He was making such a fuss that I had to call the police. But there's a war going on at the front and all the police have been called away. They're short on manpower, so they only sent an intern to check on him. I knocked on the door but he didn't open it. I just saw him banging his forehead against the door, mumbling 'No, you're not here, not here, I don't want to see, I don't want to see'."
"We were all terrified," the old lady said, wrapping her shawl tightly around her shoulders. "The trainee police officer said he would call an ambulance. But when the ambulance came, he had disappeared. We searched everywhere but couldn't find him. The next day, this thing suddenly appeared on the lawn."
She pointed at the mushroom landscape with a trembling, wrinkled finger.
The woman followed where she pointed and took another look. This time, she subconsciously felt a sense of absurdity. The humanoid landscape was terrified and seemed to be screaming at them at the top of its lungs.
Afterwards, the woman learned from the overwhelming media reports that the dog's former owner was actually a well-known scientific madman in the industry.
And the strange things don’t just end there.
In the three days that followed, more than 40 similar lawn landscapes were discovered in communities across the country.
The owners of the houses they were staying in had almost no overlap, and the only thing they had in common was that they had all been to a Cyber Cult gathering. Moreover, one of them was suspected to be caught on surveillance camera going to his house to take something on the night when Coconut Octopus disappeared.
August 19th.
Royal Palace - Abidante Palace.
Heinz, the royal chief of staff, received new instructions from the order.
[Now, immediately, blow up that room and use all means to prevent the contents from escaping! 】
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