Chapter 3233 Setting

After the consciousness of the metal microorganism, that is, 'mercury' flew away... the leaf-cutter ants fell into confusion again.

It doesn't know what to do or how to act.

Even... I don't want to do anything.

The leafcutter ant felt that everything it had been doing seemed to have no meaning and was just helping Mercury to complete its plan.

The leaf-cutter ants therefore fell into a state of 'loss'.

In this state, the leafcutter ant does nothing, it is almost in a daze.

Something special happened during this period. The leafcutter ants felt that their "consciousness" was splitting.

Originally, the consciousness of leaf-cutter ants was a single consciousness integrated from multiple groups, but now it... has split back into the original multiple consciousnesses.

It seems that because it was too lost, its consciousness became unstable.

This is one of the reasons it guessed, as for the actual reason... it is not clear.

The split consciousnesses of multiple leaf-cutter ants controlled different groups of metal microorganisms respectively, and these split consciousnesses all had almost identical emotions.

In other words, they are all in a state of...loss and still don't want to do anything.

However, the metallic microbes on this tumbler behaved differently.

The groups of metal microorganisms controlled by different consciousnesses began to fight each other.

It was not the consciousness that ordered them to fight, but this group of metal microorganisms acted on their own... Although each consciousness could directly order these microorganisms to stop, none of them issued any orders.

They don't care about anything, so the metal microorganisms are always fighting each other.

However, at this moment, one consciousness noticed a problem.

These metal microorganisms will not multiply during the battle.

Usually, like ordinary fungi, they will constantly devour their dead opponents to reproduce.

But in this war, they never ate the corpses of their killed opponents, nor did they reproduce, so... it can be said that their numbers became fewer and fewer as the war went on.

Therefore, if the fighting continues like this, all the metal microorganisms here will die sooner or later.

But even after noticing this, the consciousness still doesn't want to do anything.

However, something special happened again at this time.

A creature came near the tumbler. This creature was the 'Repairer' from the City of Miracles.

It just approached the place and left without landing on the surface or doing anything special.

But its appearance aroused the curiosity of the leaf-cutter ants.

The split leaf-cutter ant consciousnesses all noticed the Repairer, a creature they had never seen before.

In fact, they didn't know whether it was a living creature or something strange at that time.

It is also because of this that they...ended their lost state.

Because its 'curiosity' was aroused.

When the leaf-cutter ant's consciousness noticed the repairer, it immediately recalled many things from the past.

For example, they attacked and studied land creatures out of curiosity, placed many unique individuals among them out of curiosity... entered the ocean out of curiosity, and wanted to complete the galaxy bus out of curiosity.

After seeing such a strange thing, the leaf-cutter ant remembered everything in the past.

In fact, this is quite similar to Lin, acting out of curiosity.

There are still many secrets in this void. If it wants to know them...it can't just sink like this.

As a result, the consciousness of these leaf-cutter ants became active again.

After they recovered from their lost state, these fragmented consciousnesses reunited to form one single consciousness.

At this time, the leaf-cutter ant also noticed that its previous split consciousness, emotional loss, and metal-microbe war were related.

This is actually a program set by the original metal microorganism's consciousness 'Mercury'.

It is programmed that these metal microorganisms will start fighting each other when the leafcutter ants lose consciousness.

Eventually, they will be completely wiped out.

Simply put, 'Mercury' believes that leaf-cutter ants are no longer useful, but keeping them around might cause trouble, so it sets this mood to make the metal microorganisms fight each other.

After the metal microorganisms were consumed, the consciousness of the leaf-cutter ants naturally disappeared.

Mercury also judged that the leaf-cutter ants would not stop fighting after falling into despair... and therefore would slowly die.

But it didn't judge that the leaf-cutter ants would be refreshed by the sudden appearance of the repairman.

What is more strange is that it does not set a program for the metal microorganisms to self-destruct, but instead allows them to kill themselves by fighting each other, a slower method.

When the leafcutter ant thought of this, it immediately stopped the metal microorganisms from fighting.

Then, it tried to find mercury.

It felt that mercury had set up this process of destruction because it had the potential to hinder mercury.

That's why it was allowed to die.

This also means that leaf-cutter ants may be able to know where mercury is and what it is doing.

The leafcutter ant began to try various methods to find it, mainly by studying itself.

That is, the study of metal microorganisms.

The internal structure of each metal microorganism is quite complex, and contains many "organs" whose functions the leaf-cutter ants do not yet know.

It has been studied before, but without any results.

But this time, the leafcutter ant discovered that it seemed to understand the function of these structures.

The leaf-cutter ant thought that the reason why it couldn't figure it out was probably because Mercury's consciousness was still there, thus interfering with it.

And now that it's gone...the interference has also disappeared.

Leaf-cutter ants have discovered various structures inside metal microorganisms that appear to function as 'thinking'.

It is like they have many "brains" in their bodies.

But these 'brains' only start up occasionally and are inactive most of the time.

This is why they often behave strangely.

They acted arbitrarily because these "brains" suddenly started up.

The commands of the leafcutter ants' consciousness are above these brains, so the leafcutter ants can still command them to stop them from acting on their own.

But... the leaf-cutter ants discovered that if a metal microorganism's brain is fully activated, it will ignore all its commands.

It’s just that these brains have never all been activated at the same time. The only time they are all activated is when the leaf-cutter ants command them to do so.

Of course, once the command is initiated, the leaf-cutter ants can no longer control them.

After discovering this, the leaf-cutter ants deliberately created a large group of...metallic microorganisms that they could not control.

Because it was discovered that these metal microbes with their 'brains' fully activated do very strange things.

In fact, the "sphere" that Lin saw now was composed of uncontrollable metal microorganisms.

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