CHAPTER 111: CHAPTER 100: MECHANICAL BIOCHEMICAL SPECIES: A VISION

Yudula followed behind, still feeling heavy-hearted inside.

After all, being thought of as kitchen ingredients by that low-level wizard was forgivable—it was just a temporary cycle to experience life—but now, even the main body has been turned into such a state...

This is the main body, not something to joke about!

Degraded to such an enslaved state, perhaps I’m one of the most miserable in the fourth realm. Am I fit to be a god?

"Perhaps I’m not fit to be a god," Yudula suddenly spoke up, finally saying it aloud.

Has her determination failed?

Fu Qingjun thought for a while, then comfortingly shook his head, "Don’t be discouraged, breaking into the fourth realm is rare throughout history."

The fourth realm, as Jiang Yang briefly described, already bestowed a terrifying awareness.

Even as an ant, your body can leap to ten thousand ant body heights, that’s ten thousand centimeters. Yet it’s something to be proud of...

Which translates to a hundred meters, thirty stories high, can an ant jump that exaggeratedly?

Terrifying!

"Knowledge can change destiny, knowledge represents wealth... all you have to do is strive to collect knowledge, learn knowledge, and you can change your current situation," Fu Qingjun suddenly said with a smile.

Yudula’s expression wavered a bit.

Fu Qingjun continued, "The three great steps: life, knowledge, wisdom... God of Hemons ranks second, showing that knowledge is the most important thing after life!"

"In many worlds, the beings on the ground often equate knowledge with wealth, even imprinting it on their currency." Fu Qingjun’s words slightly encouraged Yudula.

Indeed, engraving the symbol of the all-seeing eye representing knowledge onto currency, like one’s own wanted poster.

"Teacher, I understand," Yudula said begrudgingly.

"It’s good once you understand, young people must learn to see things broadly, for life’s path is still long." Fu Qingjun advised earnestly.

While speaking, he led her into a laboratory, entering a room filled with brightness.

In the center was a gigantic and sleek phone, scaled proportionately to the phone seen earlier by the ants.

"What is this place?" Yudula asked in astonishment, looking around; it was her first time seeing anything beyond the soul orb in the Divine Demon Night Banquet, and into reality.

"Once you have higher authority, you’ll be able to achieve these things."

Fu Qingjun ambiguously said, "Divine Demon Night Banquet involves creating life and requires other external forces; with higher authority, you can access more external forces."

After all, these projection "phone" techniques were learned from Yudula.

Whether in the dream here or in reality, how they handled the phone was learned from Fu Qingjun’s own phone.

Hardcore projection.

Click.

The screen lit up and switched to the operation interface.

"Ah, I’ve never seen such a sight," Yudula curiously commented.

After all, they had never unlocked a phone before, as every phone everyone has carried fingerprint recognition.

Now seeing an unlocked phone, with its sliding screens, album, and camera, it was quite mesmerizing.

"This exists in almost any civilization above a certain level of technological progress, owned by nearly every person. But the crucial point isn’t that, it’s the structure inside it." Fu Qingjun opened the phone, revealing the internal circuit board.

"You begin studying, observing what it seems like?" Fu Qingjun said.

She looked at the intricate circuit board and deftly operated the phone further, observing this device that could continually issue commands, memorize, and store information.

"It’s like a biological brain."

She said, "These patterns resemble the cerebral circuits; I’ve dissected many and I’m quite clear about this... Moreover, this phone possesses memory, storage, retrieval, and behavioral logic—a living, breathing brain!"

"What cruelty! Every prehistoric human carried a living brain!"

"..."

Fu Qingjun listened to Yudula’s words, his face darkened slightly.

For those not living within a modern technological society, those considered "primitive tribe natives," as an expert studying "dissecting brains" in biochemical witchcraft, it was natural to associate their most familiar thing.

"Yes, it’s like a brain, they each carried an auxiliary brain used for supplemental thinking."

Fu Qingjun said with a smile, "And for the people of Slug with no brains, what do you associate with?"

Yudula was stunned, then upon Fu Qingjun’s guidance, indeed immediately thought of something.

Installed with a mechanical auxiliary brain, Slug people would have logical behaviors!

The reason she was weak was that Slug soul purity was without wisdom; even serving as parasitic beast weapons for humans still relied solely on their master’s control.

Therefore, the Slug tribe could not rise.

Because except for herself, the Slug wisdom people truly existed only as her, and offspring would either become weapons or food.

"And these brains, installed on a board... are they not like the boards of snail shells?"

Yudula exclaimed with excitement, "The spiraling precise textures on snail shells resemble these patterns called circuits... So, how about using snail shells as their circuit boards brains?"

Fu Qingjun nodded.

That was also his thought.

Snails, considered closely, aren’t they just as simplified as pieces of soft flesh attached to a circuit board?

He had indeed visited robot technology exhibitions, seen modern robots.

Very simplistic, larger ones are usually a computer connected to mechanical arms.

Could his parasitic beast’s killing scythe sound wave weapon compare to a mere mechanical arm?

Parasitic beast snail scythe, connected to a snail shell chip.

"Changing snail shell material structure, needs modification, needs consuming sand to create crystalline circuit boards carried on their backs." Fu Qingjun explained.

Of course, he didn’t mention the latter part:

Once this species was successful...

Disassemble the snail’s soft flesh, boil into snail noodle soup, and the remaining snail shells, become chip circuit board production lines, can be mass-produced.

This was the essence of the idea which he’d rather not share with others.

Yudula paced back and forth, falling into contemplation, "Modifying snail shells, turning them into circuit boards... This looks like a phone motherboard indeed resembles a snail shell, but does consuming sand truly change it?"

Fu Qingjun nodded, solemnly stating, "Yes, consuming sand can make your species stronger."

Chips are made from sand.

Yudula pondered about asking another question,

Fu Qingjun interrupted, "These circuits might be called magical patterns, which witch studies the magical pattern arrays, starting to explore... "

Fu Qingjun believed that mythology was ultimately based on reality.

That mages’ magical pattern diagrams, perhaps they were intricate circuit boards combined with Spiritual Power, evolved into technological advancements.

He internally mused: perhaps true magic never existed in this world, but it doesn’t stop me from using modern science to investigate...

Yudula couldn’t help but ask again, "But are these so-called circuit boards really intelligent?"

"They don’t possess biological intelligence, merely acting mechanically."

Phones and computers currently have very low intelligence, even AlphaGo.

Fu Qingjun replied, "They can be programmed to possess fixed behavioral logic determination, akin to mechanical soldiers, more loyal than biological beings, calmly executing commands."

"That’s wonderful!" Yudula instantly imagined.

Those Ant Queens, each wielding absolute power, while their offspring soldiers proliferate, only she was a lone commander!

Now she’d pursue mechanical soldier ways?

Lacking self-wisdom, it’s fine, just capable of understanding her orders, executing until death, even surpassing those possessing wisdom.

Unfortunately...

This species isn’t mine.

It’s the master’s evolution plan, but I can acquire knowledge, and perhaps study better things in the future.

"Now, are you evolving this species and wanting me as your assistant?" Yudula returned to the main topic, "We are partly replacing Creator God’s, Amiro’s authority—constantly creating species and deploying them across various worlds!"

"Correct."

Fu Qingjun replied, "Having you do the simplest and most skilled part is evolving snail shell materials to change them... I’ll handle the programming, create these complex tasks."

Yudula took a deep breath, "Thank you very much."

How could she not know?

The mentor could live countless lives, in the cycle night banquets becoming an elder, possessing evolution and genetic modification abilities profoundly.

He absolutely didn’t need her assistance, he could resolve these genetic engineering adaptations alone!

Right now, merely handing over the simple, suitable domains to her, letting her accumulate experience through assisting, helping free from current depressive circumstances.

"Teacher is truly wonderful." She joyfully remarked and began working in the laboratory earnestly.

"Work diligently, avoid talking nonsense." Fu Qingjun said sternly.

"Yes." Yudula’s voice chirped, filled with vitality, seriously working in the lab, promptly reviving.

While working, Fu Qingjun thought he was fine.

Primarily because his hands itched, he wanted to code.

If this mechanical snail emerged, with a brain as a mechanical chip, wouldn’t it be a biological robot? Could he edit their brains whenever?

Modify programs?

The thought of it was exciting.

In the future, with this as a prototype, what kind of civilization might arise on those Earth ruins?