Chapter 416 - 22: Slime Computer

Chapter 416: Chapter 22: Slime Computer

After hearing Chenxi explain the research institute’s plan to use Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes as biological computers and the reasons for it, Lin Yu agreed to her request. He issued a command to the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes in the vicinity of the institute.

Subsequently, a vast tide of nearly fifty million Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes surged toward the research institute from all directions.

Guided by the institute’s researchers, the Slimes converged on a specially modified experimental site.

All the experimental equipment had been cleared from the site, which was then divided into multiple levels.

Each level had the same footprint as the original site and was partitioned into numerous rooms for the Slimes. The rooms were furnished with amenities designed to suit the Slimes’ habits.

The design aimed to accommodate all the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes, allowing them to live there in comfort.

Of course, as per Lin Yu’s request, the Slimes were free to move about. However, given their lazy nature, it was highly likely that with room and board provided, they would be content to stay put in their rooms.

"Any Slimes who haven’t found a room, head this way! There are still plenty of empty spots over here."

"The institute only requires max-level Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes right now. Will any Slimes who aren’t at max level please find others to merge with as soon as possible."

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After more than fifty million Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes entered the institute, the researchers immediately ushered them into the experimental site, urging them to merge and become max-level Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes.

After several busy days, ten thousand max-level Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes had successfully settled into their dedicated rooms within the experimental site.

The rooms at the site were meticulously designed, spread across 10 floors, each 5 meters high, with 1000 rooms per floor.

To ensure the Slimes remained under the constant amplification of their Hive Mind, each room was a 5-meter by 5-meter square. This was enough to guarantee that a Slime, no matter its position, would never be disconnected from the others.

Once all the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes had settled in, the researchers began testing their abilities. The results were astonishingly good!

With a ten-thousand-fold amplification, the Slimes’ intelligence reached a level that the institute’s researchers couldn’t even hope to match.

After the researchers taught them various mathematical operations, the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes’ calculation speed completely blew every researcher out of the water. Their memory was just as exceptional.

The biological computer formed by the Slimes was different from the computers brought from the Glacier World. This was because the Slimes entered a very unique state when under the amplification of the Hive Mind.

Their minds merged into one, allowing them to be viewed as a single entity. When performing calculations, every Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slime amplified by the Hive Mind could participate, sharing the computational load.

Likewise, when storing data, every Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slime could contribute to the storage.

And yet, each of them was also an independent entity, capable of performing calculations and storing memories individually, without having to rely on the collective’s power.

With the ten-thousand-fold amplification, their individual abilities also completely dwarfed those of the researchers.

In other words, the group of Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes in the experimental site was equivalent to a ten-thousand-core processor.

While the individual capability of each "core" wasn’t high enough to match a supercomputer from the Glacier World, the researchers’ tests showed it was comparable to a standard consumer-grade computer.

Furthermore, their multi-core processing capabilities were exceptionally powerful. The collaboration between them was flawless, with zero latency or errors, making them, as a collective whole, on par with the specialized, high-end research computers from the Glacier World.

What’s more, the Slimes’ minds were very simple. Due to their unique physiology, their minds were free from extraneous desires and thoughts.

Once amplified, they could memorize vast amounts of data—each individual capable of storing far more information than a conventional computer.

The only downside was the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes’ somewhat lacking capacity for innovation. Otherwise, the territory’s researchers might have found themselves out of a job.

Still, the capabilities of the "Slime Computer" were more than enough to make the institute’s researchers ecstatic.

Every project team at the institute scrambled to claim a few Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes to serve as their own dedicated biological computers.

After that, they just had to show the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes their research data, and a single glance was enough for the Slimes to memorize it completely.

Whenever they needed to retrieve data, they could simply ask, and the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes would provide the answer.

The Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes’ Telekinesis could even function as a display, projecting the desired information in a graphical format.

They could even use their Telekinesis to run experimental simulations, provided they were given specific parameters. (On the condition that the parameters perfectly matched real-world experimental conditions!)

Several researchers had already applied for new projects focusing on the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes. They wanted to study how to increase the Slimes’ intelligence by feeding them different foods, leveraging their ability to devour and assimilate.

If this research proved successful, the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes at the institute would likely specialize further, evolving into a dedicated intelligence-based variant and finally realizing their full potential as true biological computers.

Fortunately, Lin Yu had given them a warning beforehand. That, combined with the fact that the Bee Swarm Gluttonous Slimes’ Combat Power was off the charts under such amplification, meant the institute’s researchers didn’t dare conduct any live experimentation on them.