Bab 103: Chapter 102
This creature called the 'Eye Bug' was tied up in a small cave inside the base by Lin's silk thread.
Ever since it woke up, it had been nervously making 'tap tap' sounds. The sound wasn't loud, but it could travel quite a distance. Lin's underground cavern system was now more than a kilometer wide, so the sound could be heard from the entire cavern.
At first, Lin wanted to see how she could study it. After all, it was only one of the Inca insects, it couldn't represent the other insects, so it shouldn't have too much research value. But after a while, Lin thought that she might be able to understand its meaning.
Other than observing the Inca insects, the 'Eye Bug' was also responsible for transmitting signals to the other insects. When faced with different situations, it should be able to send out different signals. Even though Lin could hear the same 'tap tap' noises, the details were definitely different.
In other words, it had the ability to communicate.
Because the other creatures couldn't communicate with each other regardless of distance like Lin, Lin noticed that most of them used signals to communicate. These signals could be smells, brain waves, sound, contact, etc.
If Lin studied this, she might be able to explain the Inca insects' communication method.
However, how could he decipher the information contained in it? Should she dissect the bug's brain?
That might not yield any results ….
And so, Lin needed something that could interpret its information without harming it.
Not only did Lin need to interpret the noises it made, she also needed to directly read the information in its brain.
The brain also relied on signals to communicate with cells. Lin had an idea a long time ago, to see if she could decipher the information sent out by a creature's brain.
Lin didn't need to create a brain, she only needed to create some organs that could receive information from the brain. For this, Lin needed to study which organs other creatures used to receive information from the brain.
And so, Lin began to assemble these organs that she had never seen before. Not only did Lin need to learn the physical advantages of other creatures, she also needed to decipher their thoughts and consciousness.
This was a relatively long process. First, Lin needed to create some cells and insert them into the Eye Bug's body for research. She needed to see how its cells normally processed the signals sent out by the brain.
Furthermore, she couldn't harm it during this process, otherwise, she wouldn't be able to continue her research.
However, there was still a small problem. Lin had tried to feed the Eye Worm with food, but it refused to eat at all. So, Lin had to directly inject nutrients into its digestive organs for it to absorb and maintain its vitality.
This also proved that although the brain said no, the body was still very obedient. Its brain was unable to directly direct some of the actions of the cells in its body.
While Lin was conducting her research, some of her Flyers near the crater were killed, but the remaining ones were enough for her to continue her research.
After observing the Inca insects for several days and nights, Lin concluded that they seemed to have become very strange.
They didn't move a new water ball to absorb the water in the pit, nor did they continue to plant the white silk there. They just let the black bees drag the bodies of the giant jellyfish and the parasitic insects back to the cave, and did nothing else.
After that, they never left the cave again.
What were these bugs thinking?
Lin would soon be able to read their thoughts through the eye worm.
In the end, Lin created a special unit called the 'Brain Reader'. This unit looked like a jellyfish, with many thin and long tentacles with sharp ends under its body.
Lin placed the Brain Reader on the head of the Eye Worm, and its tentacles could pierce through the Eye Worm's skin, drill into its body, and find every nerve line connected to its body. The tentacles would then cut off these nerve lines and reconnect with the Brain Reader.
This way, Lin would be able to receive its brain signals.
Of course, receiving was one thing, and interpreting was another. But anyway, she would just have to receive it first.
When the Brain Reader cut off all the nerve lines in the Eye Worm's body, the cells in the Eye Worm's body would still function normally, but it would no longer be able to command them. The most obvious thing was that it could no longer command its muscles, so it couldn't twist its body, move its limbs, and so on. The brain would send out brain waves to make the muscles contract or stretch, but now Lin's Brain Reader would receive these signals instead of the muscles.
After completely connecting with the Eye Worm, Lin began the test.
The test location was in the cave of Lin's base, which was a dark cave more than ten meters deep underground. Lin would set up lanterns in the cave and the tunnel to light up the cave. Now, Lin turned off the lanterns to test the reaction of the Eye Worm.
The moment the surrounding lanterns turned dark, the Brain Reader instantly received several signals.
The main one was that the brain waves vibrated rapidly, and Lin speculated that this was a signal that could be called 'startled'. At the same time, the Eye Worm also sent out several other signals, mainly to make the muscles in its legs move.
Of course, because the nerve lines had been cut off by the Brain Reader, the Eye Worm's body didn't move at all.
It seemed that deciphering the signals wasn't difficult. It turned out that when the light was turned off, the Eye Worm would 'startle' and 'take a few steps back'.
It seemed that the Brain Reader was very useful. It could know what the other party wanted to do, but could it directly receive its thoughts?
Then, the Brain Reader received another signal. This signal was originally sent by the Eye Worm's brain to the vocal organ, and the purpose was to make the vocal organ make a 'tap tap tap' sound.
Lin didn't know what that meant. Maybe it was making a panicked cry because it couldn't control its body?
Interesting. However, Lin didn't just need to know the signals to command its body, she also needed to receive its thoughts directly.
To do this, the Brain Reader's tentacles had to extend further into the Eye Worm's brain.
This process had to be done very carefully to not damage the structure of its brain.
This invasion process would cause the immune cells in the Eye Worm's body to increase by a large amount, which might affect its entire body, so Lin had to create a few small units to kill off these excessive immune cells.
As the tentacles slowly penetrated the brain, Lin could sense different kinds of information from the sensory cells on the tentacles, but Lin didn't stop there. She needed to reach a specific area, and that area determined the organism's memory, judgment, analysis, thinking, and manipulation.
The complexity of the brain was quite difficult to understand. Lin didn't know how the system inside worked, nor did she try to create a brain, but to receive information from it, it was quite simple.
The Brain Reader's tentacles finally reached a specific location. In Lin's previous research, she discovered that this was the so-called focal point of the Eye Worm's thoughts, so she focused on receiving information from this location.
What came next was a time-consuming process … the main problem was deciphering. Lin noticed that no matter what kind of thoughts the Eye Worm had, its brain would undergo certain changes, such as secreting some kind of liquid, emitting various kinds of vibrations, etc. Lin needed to understand what each message represented.
This was quite difficult, and she didn't know how long it would take …
Lin then began to conduct various tests on the Eye Worm. At the same time, she also began to research something else.
A new explosive bomb.
After witnessing the jellyfish's explosion, Lin wanted to research something like this. It was a powerful compressed bomb, the shockwave alone would cause great damage to its surroundings.
For this, Lin wanted to test the pressure, to see how small the muscle cells could compress a cloud of air, and how powerful the explosion would be.
This was quite fun, and much easier to research than the Brain Reader. Although Lin didn't need to create anything powerful right now, Lin felt like it would come in handy one day.
All kinds of research kept Lin in her cave base, she didn't travel much, but the Green Carpet was also constantly expanding, extending towards the direction of the Dark Plain.
Lin's demand for crystals was also increasing. Under the Glittering Forest, the tunnels that Lin dug were quite complex, even more extensive than the green carpet on the ground. At the same time, Lin discovered a few unique things in the deepest tunnels that extended deep into the ground.
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