How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 68 Name

Without any natural enemies, coupled with the vast space and almost unlimited resources, the number of collectors has expanded unprecedentedly. Even if you look down from outer space, you can see the mass formed with the blue ocean on the sea surface. Highly contrasting stains.

Judging from the point of quantitative expansion alone, the initial purpose of the collectors has indeed been achieved.

The reproductive collectors themselves have the ability to reproduce and long-term memory. The former is achieved after the gene is modified and optimized into the chromosome structure, and the latter is programmed into the genetic memory and exists as genetic knowledge.

And the most important point is that they inherit the concept of 'I' from the original individual.

However, this is not the end, it's just a beginning that couldn't be simpler, just like the first thing in mathematics that one plus one equals two.

To sublimate from a 'tool' to a 'life', we must face some problems that we have never faced as a tool, and these problems have become more and more prominent under the sudden increase in the number of collectors...

Although obvious patterns can be seen in the universe, when the perspective is zoomed in, you will find that the distance between the collectors is still quite wide.

The distance between them is about 100 meters to 50 meters.

Such a loose distribution ensures that each collector can obtain enough organic matter as food in the corresponding water area to maintain its own life activities.

The two collectors, about seventy-three meters apart, communicate with each other through the life field. It should be said that this is the first communication that has been realized, and both parties are very awkward in speech.

"Who are you?"

"I am a collector, who are you?"

"I'm also a collector."

There is no awkward chat at all. The key point is that they don't seem to think it is an awkward chat, and they just keep having a conversation that doesn't happen.

At this time, the new individual began to imitate the two collectors, and also used the life field to join the conversation between the two.

"No, I am the collector..."

"Who are you?"

The two collectors who were chatting awkwardly just now transferred the object of communication to this third party in an instant, chatting with each other.

With the first imitated individual, there will be a second, a third... and then all individuals have this ability.

This is 'learning'. Based on 'I', they have been able to subjectively learn knowledge from the outside world and use it for their own use.

More and more individual collectors join in the communication, jointly forming a noisy and lively network channel with the life field as the physical basis.

The only pity is that the topic of the conversation is not very good...

"You are all wrong, the collector is me."

"No, you are wrong, I am the collector."

"Why do you all like to think you're me?"

"What is a gatherer? Can it be eaten?"

...

This noise continued for a long time, until finally one individual could not stand it, and it was the collector individual who first woke up from the ice and awakened the concept of 'I'.

"Give me almost a little!"

The powerful life field that is far stronger than other individuals covers the life field signals of all collectors with high power, and turns into undecipherable noise.

Facing the coming of this absolute threat, all individual collectors trembled and remained silent.

Seeing that all the collectors in the channel were silent, the individual was very satisfied with the influence he showed at first.

However, the problem of referring to each other does exist, and the uproar in this channel is not without reason, and the original individual is quite aware of this.

First of all, the definition of 'collector' should be explained clearly.

"I'll answer your questions for you..."

Initially, the individual gave answers while organizing the language.

"Collector is a species name. It is you and me. It is a name shared by our entire population. It is the meaning given to us by the Supreme Will. It is not and absolutely cannot be an individual name exclusive to you. Do you understand?"

There was no answer from the individual collector, and after the first individual finished speaking, the channel was followed by a deathly silence.

"Why don't you talk anymore?"

Hearing the urging from the first individual, the collectors mustered up their courage to reply.

"Ming, understand..."

"How to solve the appellable problem?"

"Do you already have a method?"

"If we don't use 'gatherers', what should we use?"

Faced with one after another of inquiries, the individual at first gave the answers that had been prepared.

"So, we can give ourselves a name, as our exclusive name, to distinguish the independent will of different individuals of the same kind."

This solution can be said to be quite epoch-making. It is like someone first proposed the concept of four arithmetic operations in the era when knots were still used for counting.

From their point of view, a group of collectors whose IQ could not even reach the level of a child, the plan proposed by the individual at first is quite "science fiction", and the shocking feeling is unprecedented.

"Really, it's amazing!"

"The problem was solved at once, so smart!"

"powerful!"

Noisy voices reverberated throughout the channel again, but they were basically praising the words of the original individual. The initial individual felt very useful, so they did not reprimand the individual who made the channel noisy again like last time.

"So who should start with?"

A collector individual suddenly asked such a question, and in an instant it had the same effect as the original individual's "speaking silence", but this silence was temporary.

"I'll come first."

"Go on your side, it's obviously me first."

"No, I'm coming."

Disputes arise again, and at first the individual knows that it has to speak up again and end the tumult.

"Okay, stop arguing."

"Since I proposed the plan, it is natural that I come first."

The channel returned to silence, and all the individual collectors were waiting for the next message from the original individual.

"As another thinking individual after the disappearance of the Supreme Will, I should take on the responsibility of the Supreme Will and find a way of survival for the ethnic group..."

"I know that my ability is limited, and I don't have a huge body or unrivaled strength, so I chose this path. The more individuals of the same species, the greater the probability of survival of the species..."

"It is unknown when the enemy will come to destroy us. It seems to be calm now, but that day will always come. I firmly believe in this. We are 'defeated'. I hope my population can grow permanently in the 'defeated' live……"

"So, from today onwards, I am called 'Yongshou'."