This new batch of engineering beasts is only the size of a calf, and the smaller ones are about the same size as dogs. Although they are not large in size, their bodies are shiny with silver and embedded with many metal parts. Some of them are equipped with insect-like mouthparts, and some are simply excavation drills, with slots for installing power batteries on their backs. Between the metal parts, there are obvious biological tissues.
Before Chu Jungui could scan it, the wise man transmitted the blueprint.
The bodies of these working beasts are all solid inside, and all of them are used for power. Therefore, although they are small in size, they have thousands of horsepower. Such abundant power ensures that they can crush almost any ore and organic matter, and even ordinary steel that is not very strong can be chewed directly. Their mouthparts, which are crushing and digging organs, can be replaced at any time according to work needs.
Work beasts are divided into groups, and each group of individuals ranges from a dozen to three or four hundred individuals. Each work group has a command beast, which the wise call the leader of the group.
The wise man and the base center will divide the work tasks into each command beast, and the command beast will lead its work group to the designated location to complete the designated work.
The first advantage of this mode is that the working accuracy is greatly improved. For example, in the scenery shown by the wise man to Chu Jungui, the height difference on the ground within a radius of 1 kilometer does not exceed 5 centimeters. This is not smoothed out later, but directly chewed out by the work beast.
Secondly, the utilization rate of wise men has been greatly improved. Now the wise man only needs to implant the sub-body in the command beast, instead of having to implant it in every work beast like in the past. Although the intelligence level required by the command beast is much higher than that of the early work beasts, one command beast can carry a group of work beasts.
The sub-bodies separated by the wise man also have differences in intelligence levels. The first-level sub-bodies can only be said to be intelligent and have a certain ability to think independently. In the past, those who were implanted with work beasts were all first-level sub-bodies. The level 2 sub-bodies implanted into the command beasts are already as intelligent as ordinary humans. They can work and learn independently, and even have a certain degree of creativity.
With the current level of evolution of the wise man, 1024 level 2 sub-bodies can be separated. Now the wise men are gradually recycling the first-level daughter bodies and dividing them into second-level daughter bodies. More than 300 second-level daughter bodies have been differentiated. In other words, there are currently more than 300 groups with a total of 50,000 engineering beasts extracting raw materials.
Speaking of which, it comes to the evolution of the wise man himself.
It can be said that the construction of the new base was basically undertaken by the wise men. Kaitian built some biochemical engineering machinery at the beginning. Le Mans and Maiden mainly focused on research, while Li Ruobai was half managing the fleet and half maintaining external relations. In this way, almost only the wise men are in charge of the entire new base. It has been operating at full capacity, and even eating is very serious.
Eating is particularly important to the Mist Tribe. They spend much more time eating than ordinary creatures and digest it much faster. If a wise man wants to separate more daughter bodies, he must keep eating to increase the number of his own cells.
In this way, the wise man was eating, separating the sub-bodies, optimizing the new base, and directing the engineering beasts to work. He was so busy that he evaporated. However, such high-intensity work has made the evolution of the wise man accelerate by leaps and bounds, and its eating efficiency has also been greatly improved. It has even evolved a specialized micro-eating and digestion organ.
Le Mans provides another way for the wise: combining with biochips.
The biggest progress during this time at Le Mans is the development of a new biological data interface, which can seamlessly connect smart people and biochips. This is not like ordinary humans using personal chips, but similar to the way Chu Jungui's consciousness directly communicates with the chip. With the assistance of chips, the theoretical computing power of wise men can be expanded infinitely.
A basic engineering beast can dig 100 cubic meters of soil every day. In their eyes, there is no difference between soil and rocks, and steel is a bit cumbersome. Existing engineering beasts can dig out 5 million cubic meters of soil every day alone. This means 500,000 tons of base metals, more than 1 million cubic meters of construction materials, and 100,000 tons of survival grade composites every day.
This is only the beginning.
Seeing such a huge potential production capacity, Chu Junguiyin had some new ideas, but those are just ideas now and need to be refined.
After seeing the scenery, the group took the ark and returned to the new base. After everyone sat down in the new base, the wise man said: "After this period of evolution, I gradually understood the meaning of the Mist Clan's tracing back to its origins, and it is about to enter a new stage of evolution. My intuition tells me that after entering the new stage, it will New memories and knowledge will be awakened. This knowledge is engraved in our genes. As for why there are so many secrets hidden in genes, I am not very clear. It remains to be explored and studied by Mr. Le Mans. It is precisely because of evolution. I think I know more of Brother Dao’s secrets.”
"Brother Dao's evolution speed is far faster than that of other tribesmen. Now I know the reason is that it has been controlling the beast nest and creating war beasts. But the number of war beasts that Brother Dao can control far exceeds the limit of our Mist Tribe. This reminds me of Three tribesmen disappeared for no apparent reason. Although I don’t know how Brother Dao used them, it must be related to the disappearance of the tribesmen.”
"I think Brother Dao has not disappeared, it may be continuing to evolve. We must find a way to interrupt its evolution."
Chu Jungui frowned slightly, thought for a while, and said, "You just said that evolving to a certain level will unlock memory?"
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure of that now."
"Where do these memories and knowledge come from?"
"have no idea."
Chu Jungui had a bad feeling. Of course, this knowledge did not come out of thin air, but he was still unable to explore the entire planet. After weighing the balance, Chu Jungui made adjustments to the construction of the new base, added a large number of defense facilities and turrets, and designed a brand new engineering beast based on the wise man's engineering beast blueprint.
This kind of engineering beast has enhanced perception and can control rapid-fire cannons, while the command beast can coordinate multiple turrets for joint defense. This alleviates the problem of insufficient troops. As for Doomsday Shadow and Base 2, they are already armed to the teeth, so there is no rush.
After seeing the new base, Chu Jungui had a rough idea of the expansion of production capacity. The current bottleneck was the preliminary processing of raw materials and the transportation between the surface and the orbit. Lightyear currently only has 4 transport ships, which can transport 20,000 tons of supplies at a time, which is barely enough in normal times. Now that it has to build Titans and mobile bases, this transportation volume is far from enough.
So Chu Jungui said to the girl: "Build a new transport ship."
"Okay! How big do you want to make it?"
“We will build it as big as the structural strength can support it.”
(End of chapter)
