Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

"Can we postpone the mission? We found something interesting and would like to stay here and study it for a while longer."

"veto!"

Cheng Xing directly rejected Principal Liu's proposal.

"According to the main program settings given to me by Lin Xuan, I must complete all the tasks within the specified time. No one has the authority to terminate or suspend the task."

"This guy is really good at making things happen!" Liu Chang couldn't help but complain about Lin Xuan.

Until now, they still haven't figured out how many tasks Lin Xuan has assigned to this artificial intelligence, and how many tasks they must be executed forcibly.

"In that case, why don't we split up? You guys go and continue your mission, and leave me a small battleship. I'm going to stay on Green Star for a while."

Liu Chang's words shocked everyone present.

"Principal Liu, I'm afraid this isn't appropriate. We don't know what the situation is on Earth right now. If we split up into teams rashly..." Zhang Beihai seemed a little hesitant.

Liu Chang is Lin Xuan's teacher, so naturally he doesn't want to see Liu Chang get into trouble. It would be fine if Liu Chang follows the main force, but if he acts on his own and the Trisolarans chase him, it would be a big trouble.

Upon hearing this, Liu Chang waved his hand indifferently.

"Don't worry, Earth is fine. It's been so many years, and the water droplets haven't come to clean us up yet. That's enough to prove a problem. I'll stay here and figure out a way to figure this out. You guys go do your own things first. When this stupid AI has finished what it needs to do, you can come back and find me."

"Then I'll stay with you." Shi Qiang touched his stubble.

"More people means more care. If anything happens to you, I can help you collect your body."

Chapter 199 New Abilities [Part ]

After leaving some necessary supplies to Liu Chang and others, Zhang Beihai drove the Navigator away from Green Star.

Originally, some crew members planned to stay and assist Principal Liu in his work, but Liu Chang said that clones were more convenient to use and directly rejected their kindness.

This is understandable. Liu Chang's decision to stay on Green Star was due to his curiosity. He could be sure of any danger.

If these people follow Liu Chang, it would be a case of risking their lives to follow a gentleman. If any accident happens, all the consequences will be blamed on Old Liu.

He doesn't want to take the blame.

Watching the Navigator continue to rise into the sky until it disappears into the horizon, Liu Chang and Shi Qiang put away the last batch of airdropped supplies.

Old Zhang was quite loyal and left a Blue Space ship that had been upgraded with nanorobots to Principal Liu and his team. Not only was it equipped with the latest annihilation thrusters, but the main intelligence also had a Cheng Xing subroutine to assist in the control of the ship.

The consciousness of artificial intelligence Cheng Xing was constructed based on Yun Tianming, but it is quite difficult to separate a new consciousness from him.

Therefore, the intelligence of this shipborne AI is not as powerful as Cheng Xing, the main program, but it is good enough. Otherwise, Liu Chang and Shi Qiang would not be able to control such a large spaceship.

"To be honest, this feels a bit weird. Zhang Beihai sent us a spaceship, why is it the Blue Space?"

Liu Chang heard this and said happily.

"That's because the Natural Selection is his own ship. If I'm not mistaken, he probably plans to rebuild the Natural Selection in the future. After all, the Navigator belongs to Lin Xuan. When this mission is over, Lin Xuan will probably take this Space Leviathan back."

"And we have other considerations. After all, if we stay here, we will most likely be discovered by the Trisolaran civilization. Once the Trisolaran fleet arrives at Green Star, I'm afraid this ship will also be taken away by the Trisolaran civilization for research. So we left the Blue Space behind for future considerations."

After this explanation, Shi Qiang suddenly understood.

"No wonder Chu Yan's expression was so ugly just now, so this is the case."

While the two were talking, three tree people suddenly appeared beside Shi Qiang behind them.

"You two, we have something to say to you."

"Oh?"

Liu Chang immediately became interested. His purpose of staying here was to observe the future development of tree civilization, but he didn't expect the other party to find him so soon.

The three tree men are the computing terminals of the entire tree civilization. Their computing form is a bit like the new Zerg in StarCraft, but also somewhat different.

The Zerg's way of thinking is to completely follow the decision of a conscious entity to control the entire Zerg, but the tree civilization is different, they are a game mechanism.

The three tree people represent the wisdom of three decision-making powers. When the tree civilization encounters an event that requires decision-making, the three tree people will jointly vote yes or no. Since this is an odd number voting method, it is easy to make a decision.

The advantage of this is that the tree civilization can make decisions quickly when facing any problem. Their technology tree develops tens of millions of times faster than that of humans. Even without the guidance of Shi Qiang and others, the tree civilization will progress rapidly.

But the disadvantages are also obvious. All decisions of tree civilization are polarized, that is, black or white.

It is easy for them to go to two extremes of one thing. For example, on the issue of how to evolve and reproduce offspring, the tree civilization gave up seed reproduction and directly chose the more efficient grafting reproduction.

That is, tree man A and tree man B each retrieve a gene fragment and synthesize tree man C. If a benign mutation occurs in the replication of tree man C, tree man A or B and C will reproduce again, and the genes will be upgraded from generation to generation.

It is only thanks to the fact that these things are tree people and not purebred animals, otherwise this method of reproduction would be somewhat shattering and unacceptable to people.

"We have also grown a lot in the past few years, and have explored more about our own genes and memories. From this, we also discovered that we have inherited some abilities from the previous generation of tree people." The Triangle Tree talked freely.

"Oh? For example?" Liu Chang had already taken out a pen and paper, waiting for the other party to continue.

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that his brain seemed to be connected to something, and the sound of trigonometric functions began to sound in his brain.

"Just like this, I can connect my consciousness directly to yours."

"Oh, it's a magical ability, what else?"

Liu Chang felt that his consciousness was connected to the other person. The feeling was quite strange, as if there were two different personalities in his brain.

The next second, Liu Chang felt that the consciousness suddenly took over his body and he began to dance.

At the same time, the voice of the triangular tree also spoke

"Just like this, I can also control your body. Hmm, so this is what it feels like to be a human being."

Upon hearing this, Liu Chang looked at his body and let the other party manipulate it, but he did not seem surprised.

If it were in the past, this miracle of consciousness controlling other people's bodies would definitely shock Liu Chang, but since the emergence of the Mewtwo Database, consciousness transfer is no longer a rare technology.

However, the Mewtwo Database cannot allow multiple consciousnesses to coexist in one body like the other party. If it really wants to do so, there will eventually be a conflict of consciousness between the two sides, and they will devour and merge the memories of the other half of the consciousness.

It seems that only the trigonometric tree can allow two completely different and independent consciousnesses to share the same body.

"You should be able to transfer knowledge to two different individuals. Try it."

Liu Chang reminded.

Upon hearing this, the latter hurriedly did as he was told. He first controlled his own consciousness and copied a piece of memory knowledge in Liu Chang's brain, and then transmitted it to Shi Qiang.

Shi Qiang was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't help but open his mouth wide!

"Principal Liu, it turns out that you also delayed your graduation in the past!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Chang's face turned green.

"Shut up!"

Chapter 200 New Abilities [Part ]

After carefully recording all the abilities, Liu Chang spoke again.

"It looks like your ability is somewhat similar to the function of the Mewtwo Database. Both act on living things from the consciousness level. It should have a stronger effect on controlling things without subjective consciousness."

Speaking of this, Liu Chang's eyes flickered. This ability is simply the natural nemesis of the clone army. As long as the opponent wants, all the clone troops can turn against them in a moment.

"You said that the three of you have gained remarkable abilities. Besides that, what are the abilities of the remaining two tree people?"

After hearing this, Triangle Tree pondered for a moment before explaining.

"It's hard to describe it to you. One of them gained a strong vitality, and the other one gained the ability to connect to the void."

Liu Chang couldn't help but pause while recording the action. He could understand the first one, but he was a little shocked by the second one.

What the hell, why is your ability so idealistic?

Connecting to the void?

No matter how you sound about it, it seems like something from a fantasy world, right?

Afterwards, the remaining two tree people showed their abilities to Liu Chang one after another.

Among them, the ability of the segmented tree is specifically manifested in the growth of broken branches. Any part of its body can quickly grow into a new tree after leaving the main body. Combined with the consciousness ability of the triangular tree, this guy can even switch bodies at any time.

"It seems that the manifestation of this ability has some connection with evolution. Can you extract some of your branches for me to study?" Liu Chang was very interested in this ability and asked curiously.

If the other party is an animal, it would be difficult for him to come up with such a reason. This sentence is like saying, can you cut off your arm so that I can study it?

But since the other party was a tree man, Liu Chang was naturally more casual.

As expected, the other party quickly agreed to Liu Chang's request and allowed the other party to cut off a section of his body with a knife. Then Liu Chang carefully put the branch into his pocket with a small metal box, for fear of damaging it.

As for the last tree man, his ability cannot directly affect Liu Chang, so Liu Chang cannot verify what the other party meant by connecting to the void.

After completing this series of tests, the Triangle Function Tree finally spoke.

"All of our abilities should be inherited from the willow tree. It is hard to imagine how terrifying the willow tree that created us was."

"That's true."

Liu Chang's mind was no longer on the conversation at this time. After getting a part of the branch from the other party, he became very interested in this plant that could quickly promote evolution.

If it weren't for the fact that he would need to do more research on these three tree men in the future, he would probably have turned around and gone back to his laboratory.

"In addition to inheriting the abilities of the Great Willow, we also remembered our original names."

"Oh? So you have your own names?"

Liu Chang looked at the three tree people with some curiosity.

"Yes, we have different names according to our different abilities. Mine is called the World Tree, the one that has the ability to evolve is the Tree of Life, and the last one is the Tree of Imaginary Numbers."

Upon hearing this, Liu Chang couldn't help but touch his chin.

"This name does sound much better than the previous one. Could it be that you guys think the name Shi Qiang gave you is too ugly and gave it to yourself?"

"No, no, no!" The World Tree shook its head repeatedly.

"This is really a part of our memory. As we continue to grow, the memories stored in our consciousness are also recovering little by little. This is only a part of the memory, and it also allows us to figure out why there are only three of us in this civilization."

"why?"

Liu Chang vaguely felt that there were great secrets waiting for him to explore. When he followed Lin Xuan in the past, his desire for scientific exploration was aroused again.

"We have been deprived of the ability to reproduce."

The World Tree let out a long sigh.

"It's hard to explain it to you in just a few words. Anyway, it's impossible for the three of us to have another generation to inherit our abilities."

He said, looking at the tree people jumping around.

"In the past, I thought these tree people were our children, but now it seems that they are just tools we created to look like us. They are not our descendants. Starting from our generation, their ability to reproduce has been completely cut off."

Upon hearing this, Shi Qiang, who was standing by, threw his cigarette butt on the ground beside him, which happened to hit a created tree man, causing him to jump high in pain.

"So, you three were sterilized by your father?"

Liu Chang: ???

No, your story doesn't exist here, don't interrupt!

But the three tree people didn't care at all. Shi Qiang was right.

"It seems that there are very demanding conditions for achieving intelligent life, and being able to reproduce is an important part of it."

But Liu Chang held a negative attitude.

"No, that's not right, the order is wrong!"

After he said this, everyone looked at Liu Chang, waiting for his next words.

"You got the order wrong. There is a cause and effect relationship. Do you think there is a possibility that the big willow tree that created you is not an intelligent life itself?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the three tree people present were immediately shocked.

"What do you mean?"

Liu Chang squatted down and casually pulled another branch from the Tree of Life, but this time it was for a demonstration to everyone.

"For example, suppose, I'm just saying suppose, that the maximum capacity of a planet for intelligent life is 1, then it means that the constant number of intelligent life in the same period is fixed."

"If the willow tree that created you is an intelligent life, let's put aside the universe's constant standards for intelligent life and use human standards as an example. Intelligent life must at least have the ability to think independently."

"So if the Great Willow already had this ability, why did it need to create the three of you?"

"What I said is not accurate. I should say why he wanted to separate you three. If he wanted to build a tree civilization, he could have let you three stay by his side instead of randomly throwing you onto someone else's planet."

Shi Qiang seemed to understand what he said, but he followed the other party's logic and quickly understood what Liu Chang meant.