Chapter 676: 422: One Piece of Information After Another (Thank You, Alliance Leader Lao You Zi for Your Timely Support)_3
Chapter 676: 422: One Piece of Information After Another (Thank You, Alliance Leader Lao You Zi for Your Timely Support)_3
Chapter 676: Chapter 422: One Piece of Information After Another (Thank You, Alliance Leader Lao You Zi for Your Timely Support)_3
As the information continued to intensify, he began to understand the content it contained.
It was a command.
The command had a very wide range of directions, but he still didn’t understand its specific content.
Unconsciously, another half month passed, and he finally completed another new device.
A String Energy Level Bottom Layer Gene Analysis Detector.
Without artificial intelligence, the detector could only display a long string of massive information on the screen that would make any ordinary person dizzy at first glance.
But that was okay, as he could see it with his own eyes and analyze it with the human brain.
Harrison Clark first tested his own gene awakening degree, then and based on experience, he compared the key parts of the listed gene information with the detailed tables he had seen in the past. He was then surprised to find a big difference.
41.77%!
He wasn’t sure what happened, but his gene awakening degree had quietly broken through 40% and had advanced even further.
No wonder he had recently felt his brain working better, analyzing data faster and faster.
Scratching his head, he could only attribute the cause to drinking tea.
He then analyzed the gene information of special items like snake gall and wolf fangs.
For accurate comparison, he went hunting specifically to obtain a whole new venomous snake and compared the snake gall with other regular parts.
After three days of difficult analysis, Harrison Clark discovered the mystery.
The snake gall, which had antimatter battery properties, contained a unique piece of genetic information compared to other parts of the snake’s body.
He found this information vaguely familiar and, relying on photographic memory, completed the comparison.
It had a 44% similarity to the segment responsible for latency in S Bacteria, and a 56% similarity to the segment responsible for forming collective intelligence in Z Bacteria.
The case was broken.
In this timeline, humans faced defeat at the hands of a new type of bacteria that merged the abilities of S Bacteria and Z Bacteria.
Harrison Clark named it ZS Bacteria.
He also understood the general content of the command.
The command required the bacterial carrier to search and eliminate humans, as well as erase key traces that could become human history, including energy cores, intelligent cores, and historical materials.
On the surface, ZS Bacteria seemed no fundamentally different from the previous two types of bacteria.
Harrison Clark could even roughly calculate the course of the war: latency, control, development of carriers, and instigation of war.
The process should have been no different from the Great Extinction Catastrophe in the Eighth Timeline. However, the change in this instance was unprecedented.
Z Bacteria could not invade human bodies or control human thought.
But ZS Bacteria could.
Z Bacteria could only lurk inside animals, and the ensuing war would be a distinct battle between species.
However, ZS Bacteria could not only infect animals but also definitely differentiate some humans.
So, in this war, normal humans would have to face two types of enemies simultaneously.
Those who were controlled by ZS Bacteria, fully aware of human technology, and the mutated animals with extraordinary abilities.
Stronger human technology would not bring direct war advantages.
That’s because the ZS-infected humans also had access to that knowledge.
As the war intensified, ordinary humans would likewise be unable to avoid the possibility of being invaded by ZS Bacteria. Their own numbers would dwindle while enemies would only grow, endlessly. So, from the start of the war, the outcome was essentially predetermined.
After sorting out his thoughts, Harrison Clark sighed deeply.
He had already guessed it.
With their own capabilities, the Compound Eye Civilization may not have been able to invent a new strain of bacteria that merged the traits of Z Bacteria and S Bacteria.
So, this creation must have been a product of a higher-order civilization with insight into the physiological characteristics of Earthlings.
By 2500, the Compound Eye Civilization had made initial observations of human conditions through the Solar Dome, causing a strong sense of crisis, and sought help again.
Harrison Clark discovered a sad logical dilemma.
Without pushing technology to its limits, humans could not win.
But if they continued to push technology and successfully stole another 500 years, the Compound-Eyed Observer would bring out the ZS Bacteria, a desperate weapon.
What to do?
Keep a low profile for the first 500 years and then break out after 2500?
But would it help?
As long as the Solar System was once covered by the Solar Dome, any breakout afterwards would be futile; they would still be trapped and waiting for death.
Let the colony’s technology explode and have the Solar System locals pretend to be stupid?
This also seemed a possible solution.
But Harrison Clark had no idea how to bridge the five centuries required to implement such precise control; it was too difficult.
Additionally, based on the Compound-Eyed Observer’s ability to teleport the Solar Dome instantly, even if the plan to pretend to be stupid succeeded, the Compound Eye Civilization fleet would simply move the Solar Dome to a star system with higher technology levels to implement a blockade, resulting in a similar outcome.
No matter how he pondered ways to take shortcuts, he could not fundamentally solve the problem.
Thinking back and forth, Harrison Clark made a decision.
He would not try to figure out a shortcut but use a more direct method instead.
He believed that there must be a way out, and as long as he could thoroughly understand ZS Bacteria beforehand, it would not be impossible to prepare targeted countermeasures.
Since the Solar Dome had a limited amount of energy that could be mobilized, ZS Bacteria, which combines the advantages of the two types of bacteria, must have some flaws.
Essentially, humans had to fight not any visible enemy, but the energy that could be mobilized within the Solar Dome.
Humans had to unite their strength to defy this energy.
Since the energy was finite, there must be a limit to the power of the methods indirectly utilized by the Compound Eye Civilization.
As long as human capabilities were strong enough to exceed a certain range, any method could withstand the challenge, and the problem would naturally be solved.
Or, for every new method that appeared, they could develop countermeasures for it on their end, adding more and more ways to fight back. One day, the opponents’ imagination would be drained, and the chance for a head-on battle would come again.
After sorting out this train of thought, Harrison Clark’s long-standing confusion was swept away, and he regained his spirits and continued to work overtime.
Recently, he had slightly improved the performance of his floating motorcycle, allowing it to reach a top speed of 1000 kilometers per hour. He also modified the motorcycle to have a closed cockpit, so he no longer needed to shield his face from the wind.
After he had nearly finished scouring the Oxfordshire ruins, he expanded his exploration range once again.
In the mountains 3,000 kilometers from Oxfordshire, he discovered a huge radio telescope, so large that it was beyond the imagination of 21st-century humans.
This once again proved that, before mastering the full quantum entanglement exploration method, electromagnetic waves were still the main carriers of the vast amount of information in the universe, and future generations still valued it.
The reflector of the radio telescope was severely damaged, with pieces scattered all over the ground.
But this didn’t deter him.
Harrison Clark took matters into his own hands, operating the engineering machinery to grind each piece one by one.
Unknowingly, another two months passed, and he utilized the repaired radio telescope to determine a critical piece of information.
The Solar Dome had disappeared.
On that day, February 12, 3020, spring was about to arrive, and the tea-picking season was upon them.