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Chapter 163 The Main Brain Rabi's Imagination

It turns out that everything started with the spiritual energy cultivation method that Di Fantian accidentally obtained, which allowed him to cultivate multiple second brains.

The original version of this cultivation method was a spiritual energy cultivation method called "Zhu Tian Jue".

After clearing that breeding area, the bee colony also recorded this spiritual energy cultivation method and then spread it in other breeding areas.

In a certain breeding area, a genius of spiritual energy cultivation was born. He accidentally learned of the existence of the bee swarm and knew that the cataclysmic disaster could not be stopped. So he thought of secretly hiding the existence of the bee swarm in his spiritual energy cultivation method in the form of coded language.

The idea is that later generations in this breeding area can cultivate their own methods, become aware of the bee colonies beyond the world, and eventually, after accumulating countless epochs, defeat the bee colonies beyond the world.

Later, the bee colony built a new type of civilized breeding farm, and the old version of the river system breeding farm was naturally no longer needed. Everything that needed to be demolished was demolished, and the resources were transferred to build a microcosm-level breeding farm. That breeding area attempted to accumulate countless eras to crush the ambitions of the bee colony outside the world, and thus it came to nothing.

However, the cultivation method that was coded was preserved by the bee swarm as material for cultivating psionic creatures.

At the time, the swarm didn't think too much about it. After all, there were so many spiritual energy cultivation methods included. Who would have thought that the existence of the swarm would be recorded in code in this cultivation method?

I can only say, I never expected this.

Then, this psychic cultivation method was deliberately and mysteriously released by the bee swarm into a microcosm-level breeding farm, where it was accidentally obtained by a psychic creature named "Emperor Brahma".

When Di Fantian first began cultivating, he was unaware of the hidden codes within his cultivation method. It wasn't until he reached the peak of his cultivation, the fourteenth level of spiritual energy, and condensed fourteen second brains, that he began to analyze and study his cultivation method in order to advance further. Only then did Di Fantian realize with astonishment that his cultivation method contained hidden codes.

He initially thought that the cultivation method for level 14 and above spiritual energy was written in code, so he didn't tell anyone and secretly deciphered it himself. As a result, he managed to deceive the ubiquitous microscopic creatures.

As the deciphering progressed, Indra learned of the existence of the swarm and the World Prison. He then began to silently and alone to lay out his plans, a plan that would take more than 500,000 years to complete.

"The problem this time is actually related to the inheritance of civilization?" Lu Shang was both surprised and speechless.

Sure enough, life always finds a way out, and this way out includes chance. Lu Shang's feelings were complicated.

The outcome was predictable, but the process was unpredictable. It felt as if it were all predestined, but Lu Shang did not believe in fate.

As the masterminds, led by Rabbi, discussed how to build a civilized breeding farm to better prevent such containment from spiraling out of control, Lu Shang expressed his opinion.

"It's safer for civilized beekeeping farms to stick to the old model: once the bee colony reaches the standard, start harvesting the chives, clearing out the entire colony, and starting over. This is a safer approach."

Compared to the old mode of containment failure, the new mode of containment failure seems to be more troublesome. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Lu Shang felt it was necessary to revert to the old mode.

To guide psionic beings to break through to a higher psionic level through mere coercion or enticement.

Like this containment failure, the psionic creature called "Emperor Brahma" has existed for more than 500,000 years and has developed the power to utilize tens of millions of level 70 psionic brains right under the noses of the swarm.

While bee swarms can be suppressed, the risks involved are indeed quite significant.

Since both the old and new models can achieve the same goal, choosing the one with less risk is undoubtedly a more stable approach for the bee colony.

"I disagree. I believe civilized farms should adopt a new model," the rabbi objected.

Lu Shang said irritably, "Using a new model? Haven't the number of times the farms have gone out of control already been too many?"

Rabbi quickly explained, "No, no, no, it's not the new model that has already failed, but a new model that is more perfect and harder to contain if it goes out of control, based on the lessons learned from the current failed model."

Upon hearing that Rabbi was making modifications to the existing model, Lu Shang immediately lost interest.

"Isn't that still the same?"

Rabbi corrected him earnestly: "It's different. This new mode can increase the difficulty of psionic spacetime distortion without compressing spacetime, completely eliminating any possibility for psionic creatures in the breeding area to escape by opening wormholes."

"This new model is more perfect than the previous one, and even the old one... That's the theory, since it hasn't been tested yet."

When Rabbi said it was perfect, Lu Shang was unconvinced, after all, a containment failure had just occurred not long ago.

However, Lu Shang was not an unreasonable person. Since Rabbi said that his improved new model was perfect, he decided to listen to it for the time being.

Lu Shang said, "Since you insist on this, then Rabbi, please explain your new model. If it's not suitable, I cannot agree to it."

The rabbi began to explain: "This is my idea: to completely separate psychic energy from biological energy."

"In this way, the swarm only needs to imprison the creatures. Even if the psionic creatures possess the most powerful psionic energy, even if it surpasses the swarm's current psionic energy by countless times, they will absolutely not be able to open a wormhole to escape, or even resist the swarm..."

Before it could finish speaking, Lu Shang interrupted it.

"stop!"

"Explain yourself clearly. What do you mean by completely separating psionic energy from biological energy? How do you do that? Don't omit the details; I don't understand anymore," Lu Shang said, dissatisfied.

The rabbi paused for a moment, then said, "Okay."

After responding, the rabbi resumed his explanation, this time providing a detailed description as requested by Lu Shang.

"Actually, the new model I came up with is not complicated. I divide it into three parts: the cage world, the virtual world, and the projection world."

"The swarm can imprison all psionic beings in a cage world, suppressing their innate psionic power to the point of no reaction by compressing spacetime, and then immersing them in a virtual world through brain-to-brain physical docking. This virtual world is 100% a replica of reality, so much so that the psionic beings in the cage world will regard the virtual world as a real world."

Lu Shang shook his head in disappointment. He thought it was some amazing method, but it turned out to be the same old Matrix approach.

"The brain in a vat is an old, tired story from my hometown."

"What's the point of this? The swarm needs to use psionic creatures to deduce a higher level of psionic brain. If you lock them in a virtual world like this, who will deduce the swarm's psionic brain? You've put the cart before the horse."

This method can indeed fundamentally eliminate the possibility of psionic beings escaping through wormholes.

Because all psionic beings, unless there is an unexpected event, will have their consciousness sink into the virtual world, mistakenly believing that the virtual world is the real world.

If one's consciousness is trapped in the virtual world, how can one use psychic energy to open a wormhole and escape in reality?

This is clearly not very realistic.

However, this method of prevention also means that these psionic beings cannot create a second brain, and are therefore completely cut off from the development of psionic energy.

What is the purpose of the bee colony going to such great lengths to build a civilized breeding farm?

Is it just to keep these psionic creatures?

If these psionic creatures cannot help the hive deduce psionic energy or point out the direction of higher-level psionic energy, then they are only of value to the hive as organic matter.

What's the point of keeping the bee colony?

Are we going to engage in large-scale farming, then slaughter them collectively to harvest the organic matter?

This method doesn't produce high levels of organic matter, since these psionic creatures don't have much meat to begin with.

The rabbi replied, "So, there is also the projected world."

"It is extremely difficult to perfectly recreate a virtual world that matches reality. According to information obtained by the Beehive from the Star River Alliance, even the most efficient computers in the alliance have not been able to simulate a universe that perfectly matches reality. So I thought of designing such a projection world to directly simulate the movement of physical particles. Every particle in it is a microscopic organism, and the microscopic organisms will upload all their activity information to the virtual world, so that the virtual world can perfectly match reality."

"And those psionic beings also have corresponding bodies in the projected world. These external bodies do not have brains themselves, and they only become active by receiving brainwave information from the corresponding psionic beings in the virtual world."

"At the same time, everything perceived by all the senses of these external bodies—sight, hearing, smell, and so on—will be faithfully fed back to the psionic beings in the virtual world to ensure the authenticity of the virtual world."

Lu Shang understood. Rabi meant to lock all the psionic beings in the virtual world, thus eliminating their possibility of escaping through wormholes.

In the virtual world, psionic beings only need to provide brainwave information to the swarm. The swarm receives this brainwave information and directly reflects it in reality, using physical inferences.

The Projected World provides physical reality, the Virtual World provides brainwave information, and the Cage World is responsible for imprisoning the bodies of all psionic beings.

But there's a problem here: how does the second brain deduce this?

The deduction of the second brain requires the participation of psychic energy, but psychic beings whose consciousness is trapped in the virtual world cannot affect their external bodies in the projected world with their psychic energy.

This means that these external bodies cannot form a second brain.

To imagine that an external body could possess the biological brain of a psionic being would be an extremely risky endeavor.

This time, the containment went out of control, resulting in a transfer of consciousness.

Psionic beings whose consciousness is trapped in the virtual world may be able to transfer their consciousness into the biological brain of an external body, so the external body cannot have a biological brain.

Lu Shang asked the main brain Rabi, "What about the psionic energy? Don't forget, the second brain needs a biological psionic brain to maintain it."

Rabbi replied, "I haven't forgotten that. In my conception, the swarm will match a swarm individual of the same level based on the biological brain psychic energy level of the psychic creatures in the virtual world."

"Individual members of the swarm can learn about the brainwave information of the psionic creature in the virtual world and then carry out corresponding psionic physical interventions, including the construction of a second brain."

Lu Shang hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Is this a safe approach? In this containment failure, the psionic beings were manipulating consciousness, allowing individual swarm members to read each other's brainwaves in their virtual worlds. Is there a possibility of consciousness transfer? What if a psionic being transfers its consciousness into one of these matched swarm members?"

Rabbi, who had already considered this kind of problem, replied, "That's even better. If an individual bee is attacked, it's impossible to hide it from the entire colony. Any abnormal situation will be known to the whole colony immediately, and there will be no situation where containment goes out of control."

Let's set aside for now how difficult it is to transfer consciousness from the virtual world into the swarm brain, which already possesses the ability to think.

With a swarm network, even if a forced transfer of consciousness were to occur, how could the entire Babel swarm not know?

Understood. The nearby bee swarms will kill any enemies that harm their kind as soon as possible.

Lu Shang thought about it carefully and realized that this made sense.

"It sounds good, but it's just a sound. Who knows what bizarre way the psionic creatures might find to break through the swarm's endless confinement?"

Hearing Lu Shang's words, Rabbi admitted, "Life will always find a way. The breakthrough of the civilized breeding farm is only a matter of time. All the bee colony can do is to continuously improve and become more perfect, and try to prolong the time it takes for them to break through."

"Alright, then the bee swarm will try out your new model," Lu Shang said.

(End of this chapter)