Legend of the Cyber Heroes
Chapter 917 - 162 Wrong Thinking Approach

Chapter 917: Chapter 162 Wrong Thinking Approach

This is a chip made of organic materials. Sagittarius Xiang Shan even suspects that if this chip were swallowed by an Earth creature, it might be broken down by digestive enzymes.

This complex device is embedded within the spear squid’s thick nerves, with several metal wires extending from the surface of the chip. It is said that these squids also have artificial neural networks inside them—not the kind humans have, but something more rugged.

The reason humans use nanoconductor wires as the basis for so-called artificial neurons is because human neurons are extremely slender and their neural networks are dense and complex. Only nanoconductor wires can successfully penetrate inside neurons and establish new neural circuits within the brain without causing significant damage to glial cells.

But squids don’t need that. Squids inherently lack such a complex brain. Squids rely on thickened nerve fibers to increase signal conduction speed, which limits the complexity of their neural networks.

The Six Dragons Sect can use thicker wires to enhance the complexity of the squid’s neural network.

And this chip is undoubtedly the core of it all. It even inherits the characteristics of the squid’s distributed ganglia, constructing an artificial neural network inside the squid in a way that aligns with the squid’s intuition, ultimately compensating for the squid’s lack of memory, learning, and communication abilities in a mechanical form, and adding acquired social traits to the squid through artificial protocols.

And Xiang Shan now realizes that he might have underestimated this mysterious organization in the past.

This strange technology...

"How does it operate? Does it rely on the power of chemical gradients within the nerve fibers? Or is it... obtaining energy through some kind of chemical reaction..." Xiang Shan pondered.

Through optical equipment, Xiang Shan could see that compared to traditional chips, this special chip is not highly integrated, with clear gaps and grooves inside the chip, perhaps intended to allow certain liquids to pass through...

The Sagittarius’s body is designed for combat rather than research, and this AI was programmed to escape Paradox City, without much redundant design. This means Xiang Shan does not possess the functionality to ponder such complex issues.

However, this advanced AI’s "association" capability, something it should possess, still led him to retrieve similar memories.

The organic material manufacturing instruments brought along by Argon.

In some way...

Close...

"I don’t understand why it feels similar to the things Argon brought along..." Xiang Shan mumbled to himself.

This issue probably can’t be understood in a short time. The Native Xiang Shan is a relic from two hundred years ago, and the Sagittarius prototype Ninth Martial God is outdated from sixty to seventy years ago. What the Six Dragons Sect is tinkering with is essentially a different technology tree.

With just the shipwreck’s equipment, it’s likely impossible to manufacture this kind of stuff.

Xiang Shan had to tell Soul this.

After Soul learned of this news, his body started turning red, eventually unable to hold back from spewing ink.

He quickly dispersed the ink, and the ring patterns on his body’s surface refreshed like neon lights, asking, "Isn’t there anything we can do?"

"The chips inside you differ greatly from mainstream human technology. Most humans would find it difficult to replicate unless they are willing to spend time researching it?"

"Research? How long would it take?"

"This..." Sagittarius Xiang Shan hesitated for a moment, then said, "It would depend on the scale and resources invested. With ample resources and stable external conditions, in terms of human time, it would take at least... three to eight years?"

Soul spewed ink once more.

He said flatly, "I can only live for another seven years at most."

After saying this, his body became deathly pale and weak again, as if he didn’t want to say another word.

Xiang Shan didn’t say anything else. He returned to the dry cabin section to continue manufacturing equipment.

He began to think.

If one wants to reverse-engineer this technology quickly... what would be needed?

Reverse-engineering this technology would undoubtedly be very difficult.

Even if one overlooks the materials... No, even if Xiang Shan now seized a bunch of chips from the Six Dragons Sect, he couldn’t perform implantation surgery for the feral benchmark squids.

It’s embedded within the squid’s body. Xiang Shan has no idea what treatment this chip undergoes before being implanted into the squid. According to the usual processes of Superman Enterprise, such externally implanted artificial objects in organisms are pre-coated with a variety of specific signaling factors on the surface, making cells mistake "this artificial object as part of the body" and grow together with it, requiring certain techniques to avoid subsequent rejection reactions.

Xiang Shan knows some information, but that is all for humans.

This implantation process/assembly technique is very complex in itself.

The base layer of organisms is so ambiguous and complex, concentrating too many "mountains of shit" formed through evolution, unlike the clarity and simplicity of mechanical creations by intelligent life forms.

The uniqueness of the Six Dragons Sect’s technological tree, combined with the complexity of organic life itself, exponentially increases the difficulty of this reverse-engineering task.

But...

Thinking of those squids charging forward, how can Xiang Shan not try his best?

Upon careful thought...

"Earth has at least one top molecular biologist, as well as a top engineer..."

Who Xiang Shan referred to was naturally Niyaguti and his own entity.

There’s no need to elaborate on himself—undoubtedly the top developer.

Niyaguti is the top biologist. If she weren’t born in the same era as a maverick like Yawgmoth Voigt, she might have had the qualification to become the brightest star in the history of biology like Darwin or Mendel, praised by people of different ages.

She can keep up with Yawgmoth’s thoughts.

——No, that’s not right. The difference is...

Sagittarius Xiang Shan knocked on his skull.

This line of thinking was wrong from the start.

Why must he reverse-engineer the Six Dragons Sect’s technology himself?

In fact, there is a better way.

He should directly snatch it from the Six Dragons Sect.

After all, an AI brain is not as efficient as the original.

Xiang Shan shook his head.

Moreover, the current situation of Niyaguti is indeed unclear.

Niyaguti in all aspects is very similar to Yawgmoth. Similarly detests evil (at least in the past), and sympathizes with the weak. However, compared to the scholarly Yawgmoth, Niyaguti’s temperament is more akin to a warrior.

The current Niyaguti may have almost abandoned the identity of a researcher, retaining only the essence of a technician.

Xiang Shan remembers the first time he saw Niyaguti. It was in late summer of 2030.

At that time, it should have been around the equator, near the Galapagos Islands...