Chapter 1450: Chapter 1450

1450: Chapter 1446: Developers Conference 1450: Chapter 1446: Developers Conference “First of all, let me conclude that killing the insect swarm’s consciousness… is absolutely impossible.”

To outsiders, Lu Ping’an seemed to have just zoned out for a moment.

But actually, he had gained a lot…

Perhaps there was no obvious improvement in his strength, but it made a world of difference in his perspective.

If it were someone else in his situation, they couldn’t even begin to ‘listen’ or ‘observe,’ let alone establish an effective ‘connection.’

At this moment, the power of the ‘Eye of Truth’ truly manifested itself.

Only at Lu Ping’an’s current level was he qualified to glimpse the so-called ‘truth’ of existence.

He reined in his thoughts.

He was still too far from such a level of existence.

He didn’t need to grasp the truth; he just needed a rough understanding of its state within the scope of his abilities, and to implement it in a superficial application based on its appearance.

“…As expected, their souls are already in the same state.”

How could different individuals merge into a unified existence?

How could such a collective consciousness think so accurately?

Lord Xiuyi’s metaphor had already provided the answer.

“Each member of the Bug Clan…

no, every King Bug, is a cell, and each typical insect swarm is a cell of the King Bug.”

The cell is a metaphor, but it is quite appropriate, for inside a cell lies the majority of the genetic information of the creature.

In a sense, a cell can potentially ‘recreate’ the entire organism.

One is all, all is one; this is Lu Ping’an’s ‘understanding,’ as well as the ‘fact’ he observed.

“This shouldn’t be a permanent change.

To put it accurately, if it reached such a transformative stage, life would have perished.”

This is evidenced; after the world was disconnected from the network, Mudar and other psychic technicians brought back ‘self-consciousness’ to the Abyssal Insect Race through a psychic network.

Inside Lu Ping’an’s tent were various insect corpses; his eyes seemed colorless, just numbly and rapidly conducting the dissections.

When he finally stopped, he had obtained the results he wanted.

“Their souls, somewhat resemble a computer infected with a Trojan…”

Just by relying on collective consciousness to achieve a god-like state?

High-dimensional existence isn’t so simple; the consciousness of the Abyssal Insect Race is only a pseudo-high-dimensional consciousness.

It can’t achieve ‘integration.’ Its method is to make the individual self-consciousness function as it intends.

The id is sleeping while other parts of the consciousness, like a computer infected with a Trojan, run the preprogrammed ‘trap program.’

Through dissection and ‘observation,’ Lu Ping’an found the problematic part in their brains, which was suppressed by a special gland—an ‘ego consciousness’ of sorts, and in a way, also a connector, or perhaps a network card.

Even with a ‘network card’, too weakened an individual can’t connect to a higher existence… thus low-tier insects are controlled by high-tier insects, and high-tier insects are controlled by the King Bug, which serves like a server, directly forming a ‘server matrix.’

When the world was disconnected, and the King Bugs began to break free, the lower-tier insects also gained freedom.

“No wonder psychic abilities are ineffective…”

The problem was with the mind, but Mudar’s psychic techniques were basically ineffective… The ‘virus’ you inserted was never recognized by this rigid and cold machine from the start, so how could it work.

Only by severing the network, letting the ‘Trojan virus’ be gradually awakened by the self-consciousness itself, can the psychic technicians’ abilities take effect.

Lu Ping’an’s ‘eyes’ allowed him to observe deeper anomalies in the soul and identify the problematic parts.

Understanding the operational mechanism, Lu Ping’an naturally pondered on how to handle the situation.

“Now there are three solutions…

uh, let’s try them all.”

Facing the Abyssal Insect Race, one can never have too many solutions, and Lu Ping’an didn’t feel this was solely his problem to solve.

He published his research results on the “contact board” and proposed his problem-solving ideas, hoping to get some support from them…

This group of Quasi-Gods and eighth-tier life systems, idle as they were, could engage in this project.

“Using ‘antivirus software’ or ‘another virus’ to forcefully hijack the opponent…

First, we need to understand their connection method, since we have a sample it should be possible, I’ll give it a try.

Are there any big shots in soul aspects who want to collaborate?”

“Creating a pseudo-King Bug to widely remove or apply new control…

The issue is still ‘decoding’, let’s wait for the results from that project team.

But if it really works, the practical effect should be quite good.

“Directly inducing complete madness through the Abyssal Will, causing mutation that makes the original stable ‘Trojan’ ineffective?

Although this idea is far-fetched…

it seems to have the highest success rate and isn’t expensive.

I’ll get some high-concentration Abyss Aura and try it out.”

“Other than the Abyssal Will, there are other erosive spiritual life forms.

Since we know the problem lies in the spirit body, we should give it a try.”

“I do have a new idea, we could cultivate another King Bug, implant a new consciousness program, and let the two swarm consciousnesses collide on their own…”

“Aren’t you worried that in the end, they might cultivate a monster through Cultivating Gu, or they might simply fuse together?”

“I do have an idea, developing a kind of ‘Venus flytrap’, specifically emitting ‘sleep’ or ‘seduction’ commands to lure it into a trap to be dissolved on its own.”

“Interesting, I’d suggest setting up a ‘Sleeping Beauty Forest’…”

Even if Lin Nu’s Church lacked everything, it wouldn’t lack idle high-tier life systems which were rare on ordinary days.

Facing the Abyssal Insect Race type of “biological weapons”, they might not come up with a permanent solution, but it wasn’t difficult to produce specific “battlefield countermeasures.”

Previously, they hadn’t treated them as significant threats…

Now that everyone wanted to demonstrate their capabilities to secure a more stable position, they naturally began to work earnestly.

Projects were initiated, teams were formed, and not just the three solutions Lu Ping’an thought of; they casually discovered more than a dozen.

It seems everyone wanted to contribute to the “New Kingdom”…

“Tricky people, they want to secure their Warlord status and want their Exotic Races Subjects to obediently listen, reputation is necessary.”

“Seeing but not exposing, as long as the outcome is good, everything is OK.”

Lu himself was quite open-minded; struggling to come up with a solution on his own in a short time, these Big Shots working together would likely yield results soon.

And indeed, this demonstrated the value of these Quasi-Gods and eighth-tiers.

In just under two weeks, the first batch of “Anti-Insect Weapons” was produced…

although among the first thirteen weapons, five were directly ineffective, one backfired by causing berserk behavior, two had subtle effects hovering between possibly effective or not, but indeed four or five were practically effective.

Being effective was enough; it proved that this approach was worth continuing to explore and attempt.

Lu Ping’an and the team didn’t expect to develop a “Weapon” that could eradicate the Insect Swarm’s consciousness…

Merely interfering with the frustratingly precise empathy and micro-manipulation was enough to completely reverse the battle situation.

Test, real battle, discussion, progress.

In the face of the cold Insect Swarm consciousness, intelligent creatures were competing with it at the top of the biological chain in their own way.

Visibly, the battle reports were increasingly promising.

“Lulu has her way of fighting, and I have mine…” At least from the outcome, Lu Ping’an’s accomplishments far exceeded those fighting bloodily on the frontline.