Global Game: Ten Billion Spirit Energy Coins From The Start
Chapter 1601 - 1489, Crystal Blue Intelligence’s Bold Experiment

Chapter 1601: 1489, Crystal Blue Intelligence’s Bold Experiment

"Spiritual Energy?" Morning Star asked in confusion.

Holy Song replied nonchalantly, "You still don’t understand the mechanism behind the birth of spiritual energy, do you?"

"Well..." Su Yu and Morning Star exchanged glances. Indeed, they didn’t know, nor had they thought about delving into this information.

Holy Song explained, "’Spiritual Energy’ is the most peculiar form of energy in the universe. Its generation mainly relies on carbon-based lifeforms.

The more carbon-based lifeforms present on a planet, the more diverse the species, and the higher the intelligence level of carbon-based lifeforms, the greater the quantity and quality of spiritual energy produced by that planet."

"Oh, so that’s how it works!" Su Yu and Morning Star suddenly understood—the formation of spiritual energy made sense now.

Holy Song added, "This is precisely the weakness of mechanical civilizations.

Mechanical civilizations, although advanced in technology and vastly superior to carbon-based lifeforms in scientific research, have one major flaw: they are incapable of producing spiritual energy.

Take this planet Grela-13 as an example. Without carbon-based lifeforms, not a trace of spiritual energy would be generated.

This is why the majority of the Singer Supercluster is composed of intelligent lifeforms rather than intelligent machines.

Without spiritual energy, how would we carbon-based lifeforms compete with the machines?"

"Uh, Holy Song..." Su Yu wanted to remind her that Holy Song’s own essence wasn’t carbon-based life at all!

As a super AI, Holy Song was in fact closer in nature to the Crystal Blue machines.

Still, Su Yu refrained from saying it aloud.

If saying it caused Holy Song to have some unsettling thoughts, the consequences could be catastrophic!

After a brief pause, Su Yu looked toward the ground below and shifted the topic: "No wonder Crystal Blue keeps so many intelligent lifeforms in captivity. Honestly, it really does resemble a massive farm!"

Suddenly, Su Yu realized how much this colonized planet resembled a large-scale farm!

1% of the machines in the Southern Hemisphere functioned as caretakers, while the remaining 99% were essentially livestock within the farm.

Human farms on Blue Star primarily raised animals for meat; intelligent machines farmed intelligent species mainly to harvest spiritual energy.

"It does feel like a massive farm!" Morning Star agreed.

Still, the fur on Morning Star’s back stood up on end. Realizing the true nature of this planet sent chills down her spine.

Even more terrifying was the thought—did the intelligent life on this planet even understand the reality of their existence?

Morning Star extended her feline claw and pointed at the nearest continent below. This continent was the richest in resources and concentrated most of the intelligent lifeforms.

She remarked, "But raising intelligent species is far more complex than raising livestock. Look, this continent even has Eighth Rank Peak cultivators! And not just one!"

"Indeed, it’s not just one." Su Yu scanned the five continents with his spiritual power and quickly reached a conclusion: "There are five Eighth Rank Peak cultivators among the intelligent lifeforms, and one of them is even on the verge of breaking into the planetary-level. Remarkable!

The total number of Eighth Rank cultivators everywhere exceeds 200, which is truly astonishing!"

"200? That’s quite a large amount!" Morning Star exclaimed.

But after a moment’s thought...

Take, for instance, their former adversaries, the Skuru. The Skuru race had fewer numbers than Blue Star people, totaling only around 5 billion, yet they possessed 9 Eighth Rank cultivators.

Meanwhile, the number of intelligent lifeforms on this planet was nearly 160 times that of the Skuru. Yet there were only 200 Eighth Rank cultivators.

Considering that many of the native species on Grela-13 had superior innate bloodlines compared to Blue Star people or Skuru, even 200 didn’t seem like an especially high number.

Holy Song’s voice rang in their ears: "The level of the cultivated intelligent species depends largely on the resources invested by Crystal Blue.

More resources lead to higher levels, while fewer resources result in an overall lower average.

Grela-13 has had substantial resources invested into it.

And haven’t you noticed? Crystal Blue machines are conducting a bold experiment here."

"Experiment?" Morning Star and Su Yu were stunned, not comprehending Holy Song’s point.

"Yes, an experiment." Holy Song’s voice carried a hint of gravity. "Didn’t you pay attention to the individual on the cusp of becoming planetary-level? That’s the subject of the experiment.

Crystal Blue machines seem intent on cultivating this individual into planetary-level status, studying whether farming planetary-level beings yields benefits or drawbacks.

Planetary-level beings are highly destabilizing factors as their power is immense enough to crush this whole colonized star.

However, the spiritual energy generated by a planetary-level being is immeasurably superior—far exceeding what all other ’livestock’ combined could produce.

Crystal Blue machines are conducting such an experiment.

As for whether similar experiments are happening on other colonized planets, I wouldn’t know."