Base equipment room.

On the metal workbench, under an ultra-fold decomposition display.

Roddy controlled a work instrument, and countless tiny soft tentacles on the metal arm, gently decomposed a tiny piece of fragments from the specimen on the workbench, and then carefully sent it to the decomposition display.

"Slow, slower, by the way, don't move... the movement is gentle and gentle... Ha! Okay!"

Roddy cheered, breathed a long sigh, and looked back at Chen Xiaolian standing behind her: "What is this thing?"

"The remains of the electronic guard." Chen Xiaolian's face was very calm: "You analyze it first, and we will continue to talk about it when there is a result."

A few minutes later, Roddy's eyes left the solution-filled vessel and turned his head to look at the instrument monitor on the workbench.

"What does these data mean?" Chen Xiaolian pointed at the content on the monitor and he couldn't understand it at all.

"Okay, I can't explain too much with a poor student like you." Roddy smiled proudly.

"Hey, you can't say that, you copied my answer during the school exam."

"That's liberal arts." Roddy said quickly, "I will copy you if I don't have any interest."

After a pause, he stared at the data on the monitor and squinted his eyes: "It's really... interesting."

"Don't worry about being alone, tell me what the result is?"

"Okay." Roddy nodded, then touched her pocket, took out a cigarette and put it in her mouth, but it didn't ignite it. She just passed the fun and said quickly: "Simply put, this is a very pure metal life."

“…speak human words.”

"We humans and other organisms belong to carbon-based life, do you understand this? And the metal life in the legend belongs to silicon-based life. No matter how bad you learn, you are still a writer. You have read and written so many fantasy science fiction novels, you always know this."

"... My novel hasn't been updated for a long time." Chen Xiaolian said self-deprecatingly: "You continue talking."

"Well, I can't explain it in detail to you, and you don't understand it even after saying it. I can only say: From the existing analysis results, this thing is completely different from us from the perspective of life structure. Our architecture is carbon chain, and the macromolecule structure is like this, but... it is not."

Roddy pointed to the monitor and repeated it hard: "It's not!"

"I still didn't understand."

Roddy sighed: "Now almost all creatures in our world are carbon-based. Let me say that, if I take this thing outside the table, I can win the Nobel Prize in minutes."

"So, it is a life that does not exist in our world, right?"

"Yes." Roddy quickly said, "The simplest thing is: it is not made of water and carbon."

"Silicon-based life?"

"It's not entirely true." Roddy grabbed his scalp: "In fact, the so-called silicon-based life is a fantasy, and this fantasy has great flaws. First of all, the chemical reaction of silicon-based life is very slow. In other words, if there is such a life, it may take a long time to do any movement, and maybe it will take several hours to complete it if it really has eyes.

Another thing is that silicon is easy to oxidize. The oxidation of silicon will form solids, that is, it becomes...sand. And...Silicon-based life needs higher temperatures to adapt to the surrounding environment. Theoretically, they need to be at least two hundred degrees to be considered normal. So they may not be able to survive in our current temperature environment. This is also the reason why silicon-based life does not exist on the earth."

"That is, if it exists in a world of silicon-based life, then that world should be..."

"It should be a place with low oxygen, even anaerobic, and extremely high temperatures." Roddy said quickly.

Chen Xiaolian's eyes lit up!

That world...is this true?

"It is a life." Roddy said quickly: "I can be sure of this. The cells that are broken down have all the characteristics of life. It is just that with my cognition, I cannot understand how it works. You know, the foundations of our existence are different, and our cognition cannot be drawn into it."

Roddy stretched out his finger and stroked the screen, and soon, some other numbers appeared on the screen.

"Do you remember the electronic bugs I got in the copy before? The unlucky team that was destroyed by our team, one of the guys who had similar abilities to me, raised some metal bugs as creatures. I originally thought it was an electronic life, but after I took it back, I was disappointed. It was not a real electronic life, but some electronic instruments made with nano-level technology. They were just made of bugs, but in fact they were just a highly intelligent thing made by nano-level technology. Although they were highly intelligent, they were still small things that could be controlled remotely according to the program, not real life.

Look, these are the decomposition results of the electronic bug, which is significantly different from the fragments of the electronic guard you brought back."

“The difference is very far?”

"Far further than the Milky Way to the Human-Equestrian Galaxy."

Roddy shrugged: "The electronic guard you brought back, whose cells are broken down, has many interesting features, such as... soluble and deformable."

"Well?"

"I observed that the decomposed cells change shapes constantly under the monitor, which means that this kind of life can be transformed... Well, you can understand it as a Transformer... Ah no, that is not enough, like that kind of liquid metal man. But it is more perfect! More powerful!"

"How to say it?"

"They can split themselves and proliferate themselves. At the same time, they are more resistant to high temperatures. They will not fall into the steel smelting furnace like the liquid metal people in the movie "Terminator" and they will be killed. For them, perhaps falling into the steel smelting furnace is equivalent to taking a hot bath."

"Let's talk about anything else, you say that the movements of silicon-based life should be very slow... This is wrong." Chen Xiaolian smiled bitterly and said, "I have fought with the Electronic Guardian in Zero City, and their movements are very fast."

"I didn't say it's silicon-based life." Roddy shook his head: "Silicon-based life is imagined by us humans, but I didn't say it is. It's an alternative, similar thing like metal life. But I don't know what substance it is, it's not carbon-based anyway."

"Then the question now is... what value do these little things I brought back have?"

Roddy smiled.

He smiled strangely: "For others, it may be a pile of scrap iron that can be thrown into the smelting furnace, but when it falls into my hands, I have a lot of interest to see if I can use them to make some interesting gadgets. By the way, how much have you brought back this thing?"

"There are quite a few, there are always semi-trucks." Chen Xiaolian said.

"Is there a little more complete form?" Roddy asked.

"have."

"Then... I'll have a lot of inspiration." This guy's smile made Chen Xiaolian feel a little sneaky, and Roddy laughed and said, "Maybe I can make something. In the future, the dungeon will be shocked."

As he said that, Roddy shouted loudly: "gm!!"

Soon, a synthetic electronic sound appeared in the room: "I said, I am not a gm, I am not the clone of the body outside, I am an independent new existence, please call me the base control."

"Okay, main control." Roddy thought for a while: "I need some new instruments, a cultivation bin that can be cultivated and decomposed. It is better to have a larger one, a high-temperature cultivation environment, and can be automatically adjusted. There is also a more powerful operating table, the closed one is best, and the manual function can be switched. Well, there are some instruments that can provide various metal synthesis, preferably with spraying and decomposition functions."

Roddy quickly made a long list of requests.

After listening quietly, the base master controller gave an answer: "Yes, these requirements can be generated in the base, but they need to consume energy. I would like to remind you that you haven't replenished energy for the base for a long time. We have been consuming it since I took control of the base."

Chen Xiaolian suddenly said: "Why does Zero City never need to replenish energy? I haven't heard of any smelting furnaces or something in Zero City."

"Because I'm not Zero City." The base controller said lightly.

"But I always thought you were the same thing. Isn't this base just a small city with zero numbers?"

"This is a small initial program module separated, but it is not complete. Zero City has more complete, or more complete functions. As for me... I am still in my growth stage and I am unable to achieve self-sufficiency in energy at present."

"How can I do it?" Chen Xiaolian asked.

"It takes time to grow, or you recharge, let me grow quickly, or, find a suitable world, let me breed, and I can evolve myself while absorbing energy to form a virtuous cycle."

Chen Xiaolian was silent for a moment and asked, "Crossing? What does this mean?"

"A separate space, let me colonize."

"Is this world not good?" Chen Xiaolian asked.

"Don't match, this world is too big for me at the moment."

Roddy suddenly asked, "So what happens when you grow up? Can you also have powerful functions like Zero City, such as creating some resource space for us to use?"

"Yes." The base main control said.

"Further explain the meaning of colonization." Chen Xiaolian said coldly: "It is best to give examples to illustrate some feasible solutions."

"For example, if you enter some low-level copies of the risk level, the low-level copies have relatively small space and low resistance to the outside world. I can breed smoothly without causing the reaction of the main world program, and then perform space devouring and occupying, so that I can..."

"Then you can slowly evolve into a existence like Zero City?" Chen Xiaolian asked.

"Yes."

"I understand." Chen Xiaolian waved his hand: "I will think about it carefully, and now I will end the conversation."
Chapter completed!