Sword and Magic and Taxi

Zhao Mai did not hesitate to choose the passage permit to the Alda World Ring Alliance branch. In this way, you can go to the alliance branch by paying ten gold coins, which is considered to be in the world of Alda. Ilúvatar, the creator god of Arda, closed the original world so that he could not go to play with his friends. Zhao Mai estimated that those who could reach through the alliance branch could only reach branch worlds or parallel worlds, and it was impossible to go to the original world.

That's fine, Zhao Mai just wants to know how closely related the origin and the branch world are.

Therefore, Zhao Mai made a plan for the next step, but he had to wait until the current step of the plan was completed. The Z-worm spacecraft was stuck in a bottleneck, not because of a lack of nutrients, materials, or unique genome information, but because of a lack of brains.

I think this is a complete joke on me. Who would believe that I have no brain after working for a long time? Zhao Mai sat on the bow of the spacecraft and dangled his legs outside the deck. The Z worm, which was the first to split into a construction base, floated on the water and made a complete report on the current situation to Zhao Mai through telepathy.

In order to better control the spacecraft, the ghost removed the entire brain of the spacecraft creature, leaving only some neural interfaces. Most of the work is managed by the onboard computer, and the pilot is connected to the neural network during flight. Zhao Mai was able to restore most of the spacecraft, but he couldn't conjure up things that didn't exist when he took over.

Just like the human body's nerves need to manage cardiopulmonary activity, regulate endocrine, and allow intestinal peristalsis and nutrition to flow, so does the ghost spaceship. With the efforts of Z worms, things like eating, growing and excreting can finally be completed, but this is far from enough.

One way is to find a way to build a brain for the spacecraft, and the other way is to connect a ready-made brain - such as mine - into it. I don't dare to do the former, and I don't want to do the latter. Zhao Mai said to Xiaohua: Do you have any ideas?

Are you still worried that Z-worm will one day have independent thoughts, disobey you, and cause trouble?

Yes. Many movies and novels are like this. The terrifying insect swarm army goes from one planet to another, killing, multiplying, evolving, and replacing, like terrible parasites. Zhao Mai said to Xiaohua: Don’t forget that after evolution, the cells of Z worms use energy more efficiently than the ghost ship, and their ability to adapt and evolve is extraordinary. I’m worried that they will have a bad impact on other organisms.”

Can it be compared to Ghost or Nexus? For the entire universe, there is no more, no more, no less. Xiaohua asked with a smile: Besides, how smart can the Z-worm's brain be? If it can If you become smarter, you will also become smarter, so what are you afraid of?

In other words, I determine the upper limit of the Z-worm's intelligence? Zhao Mai thought for a while, even if the Z-worm caused trouble, wouldn't it be impossible to deal with it? If that doesn't work, you can also start a civil war between Z-worms and let them consume themselves. This can always be done.

However, Zhao Mai did not decide immediately. Instead, he thought about Xiaohua's words carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more reasonable he felt. Compared to the entire multiverse, the Z-worm is just a small thing, not even comparable to a ghost. How many waves can it cause? Besides, aren’t there multiple insurances for the Transcendent and the Alliance of Rings! No matter how the Z-worm changes, as long as you pay attention to and record their status, check the Z-worm every time you introspect, criticize and educate it more, what problems can happen?

Moreover, to put it bluntly, Zhao Mai himself has a bad brain. How could he suddenly create a super-intelligent brain? That kind of thinking is too arrogant! So Zhao Mai nodded, accepted Xiaohua's suggestion and made up his mind: I have decided to allow Z insects to create brain-like structures. For the time being, it is limited to spaceships, manufacturing bases and giant beasts over ten meters in size. Others will be allowed first. It is enough to maintain the thinking ability at the nerve node level, after all, there is still a spiritual communication network.

It is very difficult to create something like the brain out of thin air, but it is much better to transform it on the basis of existing ones. Z-worms have collected genetic information from countless ferocious beasts. Since they can create organs with special purposes, brains are no problem. Zhao Mai thought for a long time and decided to use the nervous system and brain of the hydra as the basis to integrate it into the spacecraft.

From two-headed snakes to hydras, multi-headed snake creatures all have one thing in common: the head is not that important. On the one hand, it can regenerate after its head is cut off. On the other hand, even if it has only one brain, it will not affect its control of the body, and multiple brains will not conflict with each other. This mechanism that can cooperate, control separately, and take turns is very suitable for super giant spaceship creatures.

All living things need to sleep so that their brains can fully rest. Zhao Mai judged from the brain structure of the spaceship creature that unless it could work alternately between the left and right brains like a dolphin, it must have time to fall asleep completely. This is understandable for living things, but unacceptable for a spacecraft. Could it be that halfway through the flight, the whole ship had to stop to sleep, and then set off again after sleeping enough? Traveling is so troublesome, wouldn't it be even more restricted when fighting? This is probably one of the reasons why the ghost completely replaced the brain of the creature on the spaceship!

Another advantage of Zhao Mai's use of Hydra's brain structure is that it disperses intelligence, making it much less difficult to manufacture. One is not enough to make up for two, and accumulating quantity is much easier to achieve than suddenly raising manufacturing standards. After Zhao Mai gave the order, the Z-worm began to execute the order and once again modified the body structure of the spacecraft creature. Every time a function is added, it is a mutation. For the original spaceship creature, the nervous system of Hydra is essentially similar to cancerous tissue. It is an arduous process to integrate it and become a beneficial symbiosis.

The difficulty of this change is like doing spinal cord replacement and brain transplantation at the same time. Even the energy of the spacecraft creature cannot keep up. Zhao Mai quickly discovered the bottleneck of the entire process. Spaceship creatures need to eat in order to provide energy for the growth of new organs. When large-scale changes are required, the process of trying means a lot of falling and getting up again, which consumes a lot of money. Just with the mouth of the spaceship creature, it can't afford it.

When patients recover after surgery, they sometimes need nutritional injections! Zhao Mai thought for a while, took out some blue crystal fragments, and asked the Z insects to throw them to the spaceship creatures.

The effect was immediate and the speed of the entire project was greatly increased. The faster cells change, the faster they adapt. After iteration after iteration, Hydra's brain finally grew into the nervous system of the spaceship creature. At the same time, the work of integrating other magical beasts and animal abilities is also ongoing, and the entire spacecraft is constantly changing like a ball of clay. When bloodline powers from different sources are mixed in the same individual, the minimum requirement is to be able to show abilities, and then they must coordinate with each other. Zhao Mai is very glad that he has been a beast god for a while, because there is a creature that can always perfectly reflect the mixed state of multiple creatures.

That was the Chimera, the creature that Zhao Mai killed during his first time traveling operation. Chimera's life started Zhao Mai's first step, and now, Chimera's bloodline started Zhao Mai's second step.