Chapter 685 Hive Consciousness
Finally, everyone found a place to live.
It is not about finding a cave without insect swarms, but directly choosing a cave where insect swarms are already resting.
Because everything in the Zerg Kingdom is publicly owned, Zhou Qing guessed that perhaps they could rest anywhere.
as predicted.
The swarm of insects that were in a resting state were startled by the arrival of Zhou Qing and others. They just touched them a few times with their tentacles, and after confirming their identities, they did not make any action to drive them away.
"Their vigilance is really too low." Dugu Bo shook his head, suspecting that if these insect swarms existed in the Soul Beast Forest, they would be at the bottom of the food chain and be preyed upon by various carnivorous soul beasts.
"Remember when our blood was collected? That was the Swarm's way of making sure we weren't real invaders!"
But Zhou Qing just felt terrible!
In such a short period of time, the queen insect secretes corresponding pheromones based on their blood and transmits them to all the insect swarms, allowing them to be recognized by the insect swarms.
How efficient is it?
Not to mention the feudal society of Douluo Continent, even in the modern society of his previous life, no country could match the operating efficiency of the Zerg.
It is true that in terms of the speed of information transmission, this method of stimulation through pheromones is definitely not as good as the electronic equipment in modern society. However, since all individuals in the swarm are without intelligence and thoughts, they are loyal "organic machines" and truly "lead by example".
If each individual member of the swarm had its own thoughts and will, they would probably not be able to achieve such high efficiency as they each had their own thoughts.
However, there are also disadvantages. That is, this operating mode is just for survival. The swarm of insects has no will or thoughts and essentially pursues extreme benefits. For this reason, when necessary, there will be no hesitation and a part of the swarm will be sacrificed directly.
As for humans, if they have to choose to sacrifice the interests of some people, even the most heartless person will suffer in his heart as long as his thinking logic and moral concepts do not deviate too far from the average of a normal social group, but it is difficult for others to see it from the surface.
But such an efficient operation model cannot be left alone. We can learn from it and use it in the development and construction of the Chihui. We can also wait until the inner world is gradually improved in the future and conduct corresponding efficient operation experiments to achieve further transformation of the inner world...
"Hearing what you said, these insects are really very efficient." Romantina felt a little scared, but then she felt relieved. "Fortunately, they don't have independent thoughts and wisdom. They are just soul guides with life. Otherwise, humans really can't compete with them."
"No, it's precisely because they don't have independent thinking that it's difficult for humans to compete with them in work efficiency." Zhou Qing saw it very clearly.
Aren’t creatures without thoughts just machines?
If every individual in the swarm has independent thoughts and wisdom, then the swarm is nothing more than an intelligent creature different from humans. Once the ruling class emerges, there will definitely be dissatisfied individuals at the bottom...
Even under this assumption, the Zerg and humans are the real competitors, and competition will lead to war, and there are only two final results:
Or one side is extinct.
Or seek common ground while reserving differences.
On the contrary, the current state of the swarm is the best way to survive in this world together with humans.
However, the fact that the swarm is self-sufficient and has a mutually beneficial relationship with other species makes Zhou Qing somewhat wary.
"Is that so?" Romantina said she had learned it. Zhou Qing made a small joke and said, "Come to think of it, the fourth soul ring option I originally planned for you is somewhat similar to this insect kingdom, a soul beast named 'Hive Bee'."
"Hive bees? I know that. There are some in Sunset Forest."
As a Poison Douluo, Dugu Bo would naturally be familiar with poisonous soul beasts, and the Nest Bee was one of them.
"But why choose Hive Bee for Romantina?"
The venom of the hive bee is quite strong, even the Soul Fighter can hardly stand it. If you are stung, it will take at least a month to heal without medication. If you touch the stung area, the pain is excruciating.
As far as Dugu Bo himself knows, anyone who dies from being stung by a hive wasp dies from the pain, not from the poison.
The soul master world also defines the Hive Bee as a soul beast with poisonous attributes. This attribute is not suitable for Romantina's brain martial soul at all, right?
"It does have poison properties."
Zhou Qing admitted this, and then said, "But I am not looking for a poisonous spirit ring for Romantina. Instead, I am attracted by another characteristic of the Nest Bee that is currently ignored by the entire spirit master world."
"What characteristics?"
“Hive mind.”
A gleam of light flashed in Zhou Qing's eyes.
The so-called hive consciousness refers to the fact that all individuals within a group share a common consciousness, in which each individual forms a close connection with other individuals, thus forming a unified thinking body.
After Romantina and Dugu Bo understood the concept of hive consciousness, Zhou Qing continued, "The reason why I think the hive is suitable for Romantina is that the way this kind of soul beast drops soul rings is very special. You need to kill all the hive bees in the hive, and then their cultivation will gather together to form a soul ring."
"My second spirit ring was formed by coincidence, from the fusion of the cultivation of a pair of Dancing Winter Rabbits that died at the same time. But the Nest Bees are different. After death, their cultivation will actively fuse together and condense into one spirit ring."
"I think they have a hive mind, that is, the bees in the entire hive, each of which has no individual consciousness, are connected to each other and share a unified mind."
"It does sound similar to the Swarm Kingdom." Romantina pondered, "Then if I choose Hive Bee for my fourth soul ring, what kind of soul skills can I obtain?"
"The general effect should be that you can unify all the skills you have, especially the permanent skills that the second soul ring brings you. The eight secondary consciousnesses cannot cooperate 100% at present, and they need to work one by one. With the hive consciousness, they may be able to cooperate."
Zhou Qing analyzed, "Moreover, with the skills of your first soul ring and the third soul skill: mental dream, I am 90% sure that you can reconstruct all the information originally recorded in the brain martial soul and complete the most critical 'operation' part, so that your brain martial soul...
No, now your martial soul has been further completed and evolved into a nervous system!
In short, it allows you to deduce the operation of things within a certain range based on the information observed within that range!
Even if you can't do that yet, it should allow you to further unify and coordinate all of your abilities, thereby unleashing even greater combat power."
In fact, as long as Tianmeng Ice Silkworm and Ice Emperor are willing to help Romantina to open up the inner world after she obtains the fourth soul ring in the future, the simulation ability of her nervous system martial soul will be able to show 70% to 80% of the effect...
(End of this chapter)
