#988 - Chapter 988: IQ deprivation? Life ranch? Chen Hao's sudden idea!
Chen Hao stared intently at the screen.
More than half a month had passed since Zhang Ling sent the memory images.
A person's memory, presented in image form, contained far too much content.
The vast majority of useless information had to be filtered out.
Not only that.
On the warship, there were as many as several thousand beetle-like creatures, including ordinary soldiers, technical and logistical personnel, and commanders at all levels.
Each one had different memories, different access to secrets, and different areas of expertise.
Chen Hao wasn't just looking at the memory of one beetle-like creature.
With the successful modification of the brain-computer interface, more beetle-like creatures' memories were extracted.
Thousands of memories were collected.
Over the past half month, China had invested as many as a million people in screening these memories, and finally, this 'condensed essence' version was sent to Chen Hao, with a duration of… over 430 hours!
That is to say, even if he didn't eat, drink, or sleep, and kept watching non-stop, it would take 18 days to finish.
The video was categorized into several parts.
Some were common knowledge, others were technical.
Piloting warships…
Repairing warships…
Operating weapons…
These were technical memories, accounting for the largest proportion of the duration.
Chen Hao was currently watching the common knowledge category.
Gliese 832c.
With a diameter approximately 1.5 times that of Earth, according to Chen Hao's classification of civilization levels, it was roughly at a 2.3-level civilization height—a few tens of thousands of years ago, during the last invasion of the solar system, it was approximately at a 2-level civilization stage.
This planet had no countries and adopted an elder council system.
Suddenly!
When he saw the following content, Chen Hao's expression froze for a moment.
This segment of the image revealed the… purpose of the invasion!
Initially, he learned from the alien civilization leader that the Hunters had invaded tens of thousands of years ago, and he later wondered what their purpose was.
The most likely possibility was…
How could they tolerate others snoring beside their bed?
It was likely that the Hunters were worried that once advanced civilizations appeared in the surrounding star systems, would they surpass them? Would they invade their civilization?
Don't think that the length of development time is the only standard for technology.
Firstly.
Technological explosions can occur during the development of civilization.
That is to say, the height of civilization can be greatly elevated to a higher level in the short term.
If a civilization experiences more than one technological explosion, even if the civilization's development time is shorter, it may surpass older civilizations.
Secondly.
Different intelligent creatures have different evolutionary processes.
For example, the so-called Hunters resembled beetles that had become spirits, completely different in appearance from Earthlings.
This is the result of evolution.
Different evolutionary processes lead to different average intelligence levels after becoming highly intelligent life forms.
Not to mention different planets.
In summary.
Time is not the only standard for measuring the height of civilization.
Nor is it the core standard.
Chen Hao had always believed that the Hunters invaded other advanced intelligences because they were worried that others would be stronger than them.
Worried that allowing other civilizations to develop would one day surpass them.
Even invade them!
But now…
Seeing this image, he realized that this factor did exist.
But it was not the only reason!
Another purpose of the invasion was…
Even a 2.3-level civilization still cannot fundamentally change some innate factors.
For example, intelligence!
Like Chen Hao's gene science project.
It can extend lifespan.
It can enhance physical fitness.
It can cure diseases.
But there is no gene drug that can fundamentally and significantly improve intelligence.
However!
The Hunter civilization had developed a new technology a long time ago that could further improve intelligence.
Very magical?
Even with Chen Hao's knowledge, it felt like a fantasy?
However, using a lower level of knowledge to look at higher civilization technology is itself a kind of subversion!
Countless years ago, when this technology first appeared, a protracted war broke out within the Hunter civilization.
In this war, a unified race split into multiple camps, attacking each other to capture the other's people, thereby enhancing the intelligence of their own camp—after extracting a certain special component from the brain, they died immediately.
The war lasted for many years, causing the entire race's population to plummet to an alarming level.
Finally.
Realizing that this would lead to the extinction of the entire race, several camps were forced to make peace, stipulating that they would no longer use intelligence deprivation technology on their own race.
Later, they received deep space signal waves and discovered…
Highly intelligent life forms 16 light-years away!
When they could no longer fight internally, and a new target appeared, they immediately united against the outside world.
On the other side.
The alien civilization's ancestors encountered a crisis, allowing a very small number of people to escape this disaster, but those who escaped underground did not know the subsequent truth at all.
The truth is.
The vast majority of the same race on the surface were not directly attacked and killed.
But were deprived of their intelligence!
"So…"
Xia Qingmo murmured beside him: "Our ancestors… were likely deliberately left behind by the Hunters!"
The Hunters deliberately left a small number of people on the surface.
These were seeds.
Like planting vegetables: leaving a few seeds to take root, sprout, and grow continuously. When they reach a certain height again, due to their desire for the universe and space, they may send out deep space waves again, and then…
The Hunters harvest again!
It's just that the Hunter civilization never expected that in just a few tens of thousands of years, Earth's civilization would develop so strongly.
It was estimated that it might not even reach level 1, but the result was that it destroyed their warship.
"There are many such planets…!"
Chen Hao's face was livid as he stared at the screen and said: "Several surrounding star systems, as long as they are habitable, have been… transformed into 'pastures' by them!"
Earth was not the only one, but one of many 'grazing' planets.
Centered on Gliese 832c, there were dozens of similar planets within a radius of hundreds of light-years.
They really were Hunters!
Harvesting the cattle and sheep in the 'pasture' wave after wave!
It's just a pity…
The Hunter civilization didn't expect that the alien civilization that was hunted in the previous round would leave behind a 1.4-level technology inheritance, and it would be obtained and integrated by later generations—a new civilization of only a few tens of thousands of years, its technology had reached such a high level.
In the future, who will be the hunter and who will be the prey?
It's hard to say!
The couple continued to watch the recording.
Suddenly!
Chen Hao's expression froze.
The recording was a collection of a large number of memories, selecting the valuable parts.
At this moment, this recording came from the person in charge of the technical field on the warship, whose position was second only to the captain.
Not a scientist engaged in invention and creation.
But an engineer.
Some of the technologies in his memory were already existing in their civilization.
This technology made Chen Hao think of many things.
He quickly prepared to contact General Wang, but suddenly thought of a problem.
Language barrier!
Unable to communicate!
The Hunter civilization's language has not yet been learned, and even if it is learned…
It is also the people on Earth who are responsible for this aspect who have learned it, he, Chen Hao, has not yet learned it, okay?
