I Really Didn't Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World

Chapter 831: Chapter 496: The Essence of Compound Eye_1

Without a doubt, the Compound-Eyed Observer highly valued its life; even though it had been captured, it had not committed suicide until now.

After opening the door, Harrison Clark stepped inside.

The other people had already put on protective suits and hid on the other side of the corner.

As expected, a large amount of physical toxins sprayed from inside the room as soon as the door was opened. Fortunately, Harrison Clark was well-prepared and set up multilayered shields in advance, and the other Summit Warriors and special soldiers were not idle either.

Layer upon layer of energy shields were stacked in this small space.

The physical toxins released by the Compound-Eyed Observer had strong penetration and spread like mist, infiltrating layer by layer into the shields.

Unfortunately for it, the humans were too well-prepared, and in the end, the toxic mist stopped just three layers of shields away from Harrison Clark.

Harrison Clark beckoned, and several soldiers sprang from behind him, firing dust cannons forward.

The dust began to react with the toxin particles continuously.

About ten minutes later, the toxins inside were neutralized to an extremely low concentration.

Subsequently, several engineers came out and placed a bunch of boxes on the ground. One by one, purification robots walked out of the boxes and crossed the shields to enter the room.

After another half-hour, Harrison Clark, fully armed, strode inside.

The life monitor showed that several Compound-Eyed Observers were hiding in what seemed to be a safe secret room, but this was all in vain.

Although the secret room had Auxiliary Intelligence separate from the Prism Ship’s main System, Star had gradually learned the Egyptian Tribe’s Intelligent Brain’s algorithms through infiltration of the cognitive brain core and used its computational advantage to slowly crack them.

As the inner secret room’s door opened, Harrison Clark stepped inside, and the seven Fly Eyes stood neatly side by side.

The seven looked almost identical, full-body cloaked in black robes, hands hanging, and their huge eyes stared straight ahead.

Although the two were completely different life forms, Harrison Clark could still read fear from their gaze.

It was a familiar look, no different from the first time they met.

These seven guys seemed pitiful, but as things stood, they were mortal enemies, and humans had no qualification for compassion.

Harrison Clark’s Folding Shadow Battle Armor raised an arm, and seven bubble-like pockets floated out, firmly restraining the seven Compound Eye People within them.

“Go!”

After confirming that it was completely safe, Harrison Clark beckoned again, and dozens of soldiers rushed forward, taking out the recently developed binding equipment and binding them tightly. The next part was not Harrison Clark’s expertise anymore.

He didn’t leave, however, but observed the whole process instead.

On the surface, the Compound Eye looked like a hybrid of a fly and a mantis, but compared to the countless species studied by humans in the Orion Arm, the physiological structure of the Compound Eye Tribe had significant differences from any life form in the Orion Arm.

Although it resembled a fly, it had a highly developed brain.

Even more incredible, more than 50% of their body mass was made up of neuron cells, hidden beneath their seemingly simple arthropod-like appearance.

Unlike humans, whose neuron cells are mostly concentrated in the head, the Compound Eye had neuron cells mixed with other ordinary cells, almost evenly distributed throughout the body, even at the tips of their jointed fingers.

The Compound Eye followed a path of evolution that seemed similar to Earth’s arthropods but was completely different in reality, diverging from humans as well.

After further analysis, scientists believe that the neural structure of the Compound Eye is similar to the crystallization pattern of Quantum Cognitive Brain Chip, which is pseudorandom.

Theoretically, such crystallization patterns were not able to support biological thinking and at most could only be equivalent to a small-scale Battle Armor Auxiliary Quantum Intelligence.

Yet, astonishingly, the Fly Eye developed into an incredibly vast civilization.”Lord Sage, according to gene evolution analysis, we believe that the stable genes of the Compound Eye People were completely formed about 250 million years ago.”

A female researcher explained to Harrison Clark.

It was a mystery that this senior project leader from the Shadow Science Academy’s Institute of Biology was also an old acquaintance of Harrison Clark’s.

It was Yvonne Wallace, who had helped him develop the Infinite Gene Device a long time ago.

Harrison Clark raised his eyebrows, “The Permian period on Earth? Before the third great biological extinction on Earth?”

Yvonne Wallace nodded, “Yes.”

Harrison Clark: “If I remember correctly, the Permian period was when the insects on Earth had a major explosion. The fly eye couldn’t have come from Earth, could it?”

His wild guess was quite misleading.

In the Permian period, the oxygen concentration on Earth was high, giving birth to extremely tall trees. The dominant creatures on Earth at the time were not dinosaurs or mammals represented by humans, but insects.

For example, the giant dragonflies of the Permian era, with a wingspan of over 70 centimeters, were simply terrifying.

If it weren’t for the third great extinction that led to the death of more than 95% of Earth’s living organisms, perhaps Earth’s civilization would have taken another path.

During the era when arthropods dominated Earth, reptiles and later mammals might not have had the chance to overtake their competition on the evolutionary road.

Harrison Clark today might not have been Harrison Clark at all, but an insect person instead.

Yvonne Wallace shook her head, “That’s not the case. The Earth’s physical rules are not enough to support the evolution of the compound eye. Our estimates are no different from the information we received previously. The compound eyes do indeed come from the Virgo Cluster. All observable matter within the known universe was born at the same time, so theoretically, the time difference between the birth of different planets that can incubate life should not be too great. Thus, the first generation of life on different planets should appear at roughly the same time. The error would not exceed one billion years.”

“Perhaps it’s because they were pursuing the most extreme intelligence structure, or maybe because we Earthlings are genuinely unlucky, and our destiny has been too bumpy, causing us to be born too late. However, the reason the Compound-Eyed Observer could lead us by two hundred million years on the path of biological evolution was that they took a shortcut. They gained intelligence from different directions and were fortunate enough to never encounter disasters similar to Earth’s third great extinction.”

Harrison Clark laughed, “They’ve taken that shortcut quite well. It’s enviable.”

Yvonne Wallace sighed, “Yes.”

But Harrison Clark laughed again, saying, “However, from my experience, those who take shortcuts are bound to pay a price. Their price, as we have seen, is that they are indeed not as good as us. Cloning eternal life? It’s just a joke, nothing more than a pseudo-intelligent life that deceives itself and others.”

Harrison Clark’s words exposed the essence of what the Compound Eye People called emotions.

It was his gut feeling, but he soon got a more conclusive answer from another scholar.

After chatting with the man for a bit, Harrison Clark recalled from the man’s voice that he had “met” him before.

Idris Graham, one of the first-generation Blank Ones who had talked to Harrison Clark the most.

In this timeline, Idrisi got the real life he had long sought.

He finally had the chance to make use of his talent and became a top psychologist and linguist.

Idrisi laughed and gave an analogy, “We live for ourselves. The Compound Eye People just live as tools of the universe.”

Harrison Clark nodded, fully agreeing.

Fly Eye was as beautiful as Star, no, not as beautiful as Star, far from it.

The Compound Eye People’s emotions were pitifully simulated using every individual’s limited computing potential.

Star, on the other hand, had already become a virtual living being by relying on immense computing power and deeply absorbing a vast array of human emotions.

Compared to the infinitely complex emotions of humans, the so-called emotions of the Compound Eye People seemed more like castles in the air, rootless wanderers that shattered upon touch.