Dragon God, immortal

If I hear about French fries in the morning, I’d die in the evening!

"Fish and chips!"*4

It looked like they had finally come to their senses.

After this conference, not only did they gain something, but everyone gained something to some extent. It can be said that except for those confidential information that had to be kept private, everything that could be shared with others was rewarded.

The four people from the West Coast provided the technology of [driving magic of monsters] and gained Shushan's worldview.

The Kingdom's divine magician provided the magic of [Minor Healing] and gained ideas for enchanting titanium-aluminum alloy.

The Naga and Habi tribes in the southern continent provided the technology of [Sound and Light Magic for Entertainment], and received, uh... cheers from a large group of people. Hm, is it the same magic that Aqua performed at the banquet?

There is no need to say much about Shushan. He has always been generous and promised to put some magic into the Watcher School. When the branch school in Chuangjie Mountain is built, all students can study it. He has received praise and... tuition fees from all visiting races.

It’s not that Shushan is snobbish, but he needs a little influence now to call on other races to help him collect gold ore. Yes, he wants to lose weight.

What? Hot gold?

Shushan is not Araragi the Demonic King!

What brother would lick his sister's dead skin flakes to lose weight? !

The charm bees are very busy. As members of the gods' favored class, they are at the bottom of the labor force... No, to put it another way, those who work harder get more pay. The abilities of the charm bees are unquestionable.

Even the waiters at the banquet were composed of charming bees, who were responsible for serving all the guests.

As for their abilities, and the extent to which they have evolved... let's put it this way, they listened in on the exchange conference, and they learned all kinds of magical knowledge, big and small... They mastered it all.

Yes, every word.

People have benefited a lot.

They have benefited greatly.

Although the charm bees seem to be running around and busy in the conference, in fact, the busy ones are the worker insects and soldier insects, while the intelligent insects have their own work.

In the Sleeping Dragon Valley, in the insect nest, a group of intelligent insects are thinking... The charm bees are a clustered hive mind. Their individual thinking ability is only one percent, and ninety-nine percent is calculated in series with the group.

In most cases, one intelligent insect with a specialized body acts as the 'system board', two or three intelligent insects with specialized computing power act as the 'central processing unit', followed by the 'computational memory' responsible for drafts and the 'storage memory' responsible for memory.

The worker insects and soldier insects active outside will continuously "input" information to the small group of intelligent insects, and then receive the feedback "output" information to carry out activities.

Well, integrated computers are.

Meifeng Thinking is such a convenient thing.

No matter it is sunrise or sunset, wind or rain, there will always be a large number of small groups of intelligent insects thinking for the group and constantly processing the group's information.

This is the reason why they evolve so quickly. All the Charm Bees share perception and thinking, and as long as there is a need, the entire race will work hard for it.

Their wisdom is unknown to outsiders. Except for the Charm Bee, no one knows how terrifying these insects are...

This is the original divine favor.

The class of gods' followers.

In the valley, the fluorescent lights under the antennae of the bees flashed rapidly, indicating that they were thinking quickly.

At this moment, the information flows were summarized, the fluorescence of the charm bees and intelligent insects stagnated, and they fell into an eerie silence.

*Intelligent Insect: The calculation of the magic well has been completed, and the worker insects are being arranged to feed it. Three soldier insects are needed for the experiment.

*Charm Bee: Soldier insects are in place, worker insects are feeding... Metamorphosis is complete, experiment failed, error message has been uploaded.

*Smart Bug: Error information has been collected and the experiment will be conducted again after proofreading.

*Charm Bee: Repeating...Experiment failed, error message uploaded.

*Intelligent Bug: Error information has been collected, [Driving Magic of Warcraft] is being loaded, magic model is being calculated, calculation is completed, repeat the experiment.

*Charming Bee: Repeating, repeat ...

"Huh? What's going on?"

Four people on the Yangfan are frying fish and chips.

He stopped eating, licked his fingers and looked around.

They found that the busy bees all fell down, as if they were having a collective seizure, with their limbs and antennae shaking constantly.

The strange scene made all the people who stayed here to eat feel confused and uneasy. You know, these insects are the followers of the Earth Dragon God... If something happened to them, it would be a big deal...

At this time, Shushan was at the coast of Zhangqiu Island, watching the moon with the elderly Suju, her two daughters, and a group of nameless kittens.

"Huh? What's going on?" Shushan was just as confused as the others. The feedback from the bees suddenly became intermittent, just like a network fluctuation.

"The experiment is completed." A bee fell in front of Shushan and scratched a few dragon claw characters on the ground with its claws.

"Magic Trap Experiment?"

"The experiment is over, over, over, over—"

"Okay, stop moving and open the connection so I can see." Shushan sighed. The bees must have had a big incident when they were having a seizure, but... he didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

As a parent, Shushan, as a dragon god, is born with the ability to communicate with souls, so he can integrate into the Meifeng thinking network at any time and communicate with zero delay.

After entering the Meifeng network, Shushan's eyes suddenly widened, then narrowed again after a moment. He tilted his head in confusion for a while, then nodded in sudden realization.

"I'm going to look for Hua Dai," Shu Shan said apologetically, "I can't watch the moon with you tonight. Hua Dai's experiment has produced results, so I have to go there in person."

"Well, Master Shushan, take care~"

"Grandpa Shushan, take care~"

"Ouch!"

A group of little cats chirped and said goodbye to Shushan, and Shushan could only reluctantly leave these little cuties.

Well, the dragons have an instinctive love for their cubs, and the cat-people cubs are obedient and well-behaved, making them even more adorable.

It’s a pity that cuteness can only last for a few years, and you have to go to class and work, and the shelf life is only a few years.

In Shushan's eyes, the cat people are iterating very quickly.

And the iteration of Charm Bee...

It is as fast as light and heat...

If there is adequate nutrition, it will take about 30 days for an egg to turn into a pupa. In other words, it will reach adulthood in more than a month.

After adulthood, the lifespan of insects below the middle worker level is only ten years, and that of insects above the middle worker level is only fifteen years. If intelligent insects and soldier insects have undergone metamorphosis, their lifespan will be directly halved!

The life span is short, right? But a queen worm can lay thousands of eggs a day. After the colony grows in number, the queen worm only needs to be responsible for reproduction. In a month, there can be tens of thousands of eggs!

"All of these Charm Bees are going to be retired..." Shushan walked towards Thumb Ball Island, thinking helplessly on the way, "The speed of technological advancement is too fast!"

On Thumb Ball Island, Shushan found Huadai, communicated with her about matters related to the Charm Bee, and gave Huadai the information that the Charm Bee failed to convey in time.

Well, this group of bees are already dead.

Their mental networks collapsed.

Fortunately, the charm bees did not have condensed souls. Before they collapsed, they transferred all the information to the other half of the group, that is, Shushan.

As long as he recreates the Charm Bees once more, this group of Charm Bees can be restarted... As for whether the new Charm Bees are the same group as before, well, that's a rather philosophical question...

If a group of Charm Bees is reduced by half and then new Charm Bees are added, then are these Charm Bees the same group?

If the above statement does not apply, if only one of the Charm Bees is replaced with a new one, is it still the same group...

If the above statement is true, then if we only keep one Charm Bee and replace all the others with new ones, are they still the same group?

"The Ship of Theseus paradox?"

Shushan shook his head.

While the cat man was accepting the report on the charm bee experiment, Shushan recreated a new insect queen and then began to recycle the collapsed charm bees.

Not long after, Hua Dai told Shu Shan that the structure of the magic well had been deciphered, and the cat man could also make it if necessary.

Well, the cat people's alchemy and enchanting technologies are both great. With these 'industrial' foundations, the cat people's cutting-edge technologies are actually very awesome.

. . . . . .

About half a year passed.

The Charm Bees have returned to their previous numbers.

Shushan also has the answer to the question of whether the current charm bees are the same group as the previous charm bees.

“Movement is the fundamental attribute of things. Everything in the world is constantly changing. The so-called ‘I’ is actually a collection of countless elements and information. As a collection, the ‘I’ is constantly updating and iterating.”

Shushan sat quietly in the Cat's Paw Islands and entered a kind of flow experience...

"The update of the collective has the continuity of time and space. The 'I' of the previous time unit and the 'I' of the next time unit are connected in series based on the continuity of time and space. We can say that 'I' has changed, or we can say that 'I' has not changed..."

After quite complicated thinking.

Shushan opened his eyes.

He came to the conclusion that... that's it!

Is the current swarm of Charm Bees the same swarm as the previous one? Yes!

Is this stone the same stone as the one from the last second? Yes!

Is this tree the same as the original seed? Yes!

"What the hell! I spent half a year thinking about this and I got this conclusion? What an idiot I am!" Shushan slapped his forehead. Seeing this, a group of bees came over to help him clean the mud on his forehead.

On the surface, the charming bees seemed to have not changed at all; the pink and purple color was still breathtaking.

However, since half a year ago, they have undergone tremendous changes in their inner selves.

All the charm bees are integrated into a complete collective.

Their minds are connected to a certain subspace.

It can be said that the charm bee is an individual, or it can be said to be a group. As for what it should be defined as... Shushan is not sure.

"So, undead creatures are, in theory, the continuation of their previous individuals, so undead can be defined as a 'state', a kind of magical creature!" Shushan concluded his thoughts.

The undead are a very special kind of existence. They did not exist in the Age of Chaos because the conditions for the birth of the undead were not met at that time.

So, regarding the undead issues, the Kingdom of Amon negotiated with the Mor Empire, and then...

The talks finally broke down!

It's time to set off!

The Kingdom declared war on the Empire, and the first to bear the brunt were the lords of the west coast...

Chapter 111! Record of Traveling to the West!

Shushan doesn't fight.

It was a peaceful time in my previous life.

I prefer to be peaceful in this life... Well, no one can beat me anyway, so I have to have a peaceful mentality.

"Okay, now we've taken the hardest first step, what next?" Shushan scratched his cheek and scraped off a piece of moss.

A charm bee's eyes suddenly became smart, and it climbed up to Shushan's cheek and rubbed it, trying to clean it.

It's just that, everyone knows how big the tree mountain is. This charm bee is only about 1.5 meters tall, and it is a mayfly that regrets the tree.

*Mei Feng: I will wash~ I will wash~

*Shushan: emmmm…

*Charming Bee: I’m so tired. I can’t wash it clean… Huhu… Take a break and keep going~

With a sigh, Shushan pinched the annoying bee and put it aside.

But the bee's eyes turned back to mechanical indifference. Instead, another 1.5-meter-tall worker insect next to it turned its head, shook its antennae, and climbed onto Shushan's face to scrub it...

Shushan used the same trick again, picking off the charm bee, and then...sigh...she used other worker insects to clean Shushan. No matter what Shushan ordered, this charm bee seemed to have its own ideas...

Her idea was simple: Shushan was a member of the group, so he was dirty and needed to be cleaned... just like the bees cleaned each other. This bee regarded Shushan as a specialized bee...

"Charm Bee, can you control this part of consciousness?" Shushan reluctantly connected to the Charm Bee's mental network to check on the Charm Bee's consciousness.

Well, it turned out to be the node that was accidentally entangled when the magic wells were connected in series before.

If we look at the charm bee as an individual.