Cyber ​​Heroes

Chapter 846 Dolphins

Shikashi continued to dive.A certain discomfort sets in.Now the surrounding water pressure has exceeded the range that her ancestors could bear.But for a metal-based dolphin, that's tolerable.

But the sea water is taking away her body temperature at an accelerated rate.The waste heat emitted by the batteries, artificial heart and other organs in the body can barely support it.

It is said that the skin of the older dolphins in the group has become numb, even worse than artificial skin.

While Hikashi lamented, she flicked the squid in her mouth to prevent the delicious juice from being taken away by the nasty sea water.At the same time, she was constantly warning herself to restrain herself and not eat everything.

Then, several beams of ultrasound were gently swept over Shikashi's skin.It was the language of dolphins like poetry.

Several dolphins are looking for them.

"Shikashi, Hikashi, why have you been out of contact for 3 minutes?" the leader Kleideki reprimanded in a low voice.Converting this passage to human-readable audio would sound more like a sobbing accusation.But in the perception of dolphins, this is already anger.

Shikashi spat out most of the squid she ate: "Prey."

What Shikasi brought made all the dolphins stop what they were doing.The complex proteins synthesized by animal cells form complex fragrances in their receptors.Dolphins have been in a state of hunger for a long time since weaning.For these dolphins, a little surimi collected occasionally may not relieve their hunger, but instead make their "appetite" flourish.

"Hunger" has been parasitic on them for decades.

They couldn't care about anything, and even threw off the mechanical arms on their bodies, and just rushed over like this, tearing at the thorny squid tentacles.

Cledage almost lost his mind.But as the chief, he restrained his appetite, tried his best to calm down his subordinates, and distributed the food fairly.Squids have ten arms.The longest and fattest two were obtained by two dolphins respectively.There are four remaining dolphins, each with two arms and a little bit of meat.The leftovers from the first half of the meal, Cledage swallowed them all in one gulp.

Food mixed with seawater slides down the throat into the stomach.Cledage's stomach didn't feel much better, instead he urged the "host" to look for more food like a parasite.

"Momentary pleasure" and "suffering hunger" clashed in Kleidech's brain.

Then, the dolphins gradually calmed down.

A normal dolphin eats [-]% to [-]% of its own body weight in food a day, which is about [-] kilograms.And these metal-based squid are often less than three kilograms.

"Okay, next time you can eat it yourself." Kledage said, "You won't die if you don't eat this, it's just more uncomfortable..."

I don't know if it was to calm himself down, but Cledade strangely used the coded human language.

"Keep working guys, we have to work for our home now!"

The dolphins gave a cheer, picked up their equipment again, and began to approach the silent submarine.

This is the result of the "humans outside" fighting.Just a few days ago, Hopkins heard violent movements in the distance, and then discovered this scene from a distance. The "humans outside" are killing each other.A colossal creature attacked a smaller contraption and left it behind.

So Hopkins sang.Under the action of the resonator, the infrasonic song can float to far away places.And at that depth, sound travels pretty fast.

The dolphins came together.

They must dismantle all the electronic equipment they can collect within a limited time.With slight modifications to these devices, new cetacean-artiodactyl prosthetics can be formed.For their group, this is quite important.

The human beings outside seem to be divided into two parties that never share information, so when they find out that there are missing parts, they will speculate that the other party took them away to cover up something, and they will not think that there are intelligent creatures under the sea that will steal those parts that can be easily obtained. Manufactured electronic components -- yes, the dolphins are targeting components.

Under Cledage's command, the dolphins re-swimmed into the sunken medium-sized submarine, and then looked for things that could move by themselves, and parts that would not be damaged when the shell was disassembled underwater.

The prosthetic remains are immobile.These things are often numbered and may even have built-in tracking devices.

The tool used by the dolphins is a collar around the neck with a few mechanical hands on it, which can quickly disassemble something.

Looking at these human bodies, Shikashi became even more disturbed.

"What's the matter, my dear friend, you are so disturbed now." Cladeitch couldn't stand it any longer, and stopped what he was doing.

Hikashi sighed: "I may have been exposed to an outside human being."

"What is 'possible'?"

"The human beings and detection machines we've seen all look like this..." Hikasy pointed to the wreckage of the prosthetic body on the ground with her sharp beak: "Or the boxy one, but that thing is both No. From the side, he looked like a hollow piece of crap. And then that human-like thing was right in front of a squid..."

For dolphins, the long seagrass is a "translucent" medium.It blocks sound waves far less effectively than it blocks light waves.The squid was so obvious in Shikashi's senses.

So that at that moment, the hungry dolphin forgot everything.

Cledage was silent for a moment, then called out, "All the dolphins! Count down for half an hour, and then we'll join Hopkins! Go away! Go home!"

Then he patted Shikashi's fins with his tail again: "Relax my friend, it's not your fault. I'd go crazy seeing that squid too...We're not as good as humans at this point."

Humans have more advanced functional areas, which can more easily suppress instinctive reactions.But dolphins are only just getting smarter.Even their intelligence needs the assistance of chips.Sometimes Kleidech couldn't help thinking whether he was a dolphin, or the soul in the chip resided in the body of a dolphin.

As for the human prosthetic chip, the underlying design is like this.When an instinctive reaction occurs synchronously with a high-level judgment and is strong enough, that command will have the highest priority, even better than the various safety restrictions in the settings.The original designers believed that the safety restrictions of the prosthetic body were artificially formulated, and it was impossible to deal with all emergencies.In some extreme situations, it is too bad that people lose the ability to save themselves because of safety restrictions.

— that would affect the company's reputation.

(End of this chapter)