Zhou Yi closely monitored the progress of the Evil Brain.

The company had already housed over a hundred samples, but was struggling to obtain further information from them.

Although the Usurper Worms have developed the foundational structure of a "brain," they remain instinctively driven, much like primitive people wielding cannon as hammers.

"It's still a matter of path,"

Dong said, "They are extremely focused on the direction of reproduction and survival, evolving to the extreme in this direction. This led to their parasitism and utilization of other organisms later."

"By ensuring a large enough base size, Usurper Worms invade other organisms and achieve symbiosis. This expands their range of activity and broadens their limited sensing abilities."

"The advantage of this direction is that it is not easily extinct; the drawback is the difficulty to break limitations on its own. They heavily rely on outside life to provide variables and upper limits."

"The Cave People at a more microscopic scale enter the Usurper Worms, completing the most lacking link... Therefore, I think this Cave People-Usurper Worms-Brain model can be regarded as a new form of life aggregation."

With an increasing number of samples, the medical department could finally conduct comparative experiments with Evil Brain units.

After four days.

A new discovery was made over there.

Da Vinci reported: "Chairman, we have discovered that the Evil Brain parasitized by Usurper Worms releases a special pheromone. This pheromone is secreted by the Usurper Worms and then amplified by the biological brain, and finally released externally. It's due to the presence of Cave People that its external influence can be controlled."

"Otherwise, they would act like dream machines, causing all kinds of consciousnesses within its radiation range to fall into it. Like a net capturing passing insects, even the Light Core Body can't escape."

"Evil Brain and Usurper Worms communicate through pheromone, marking paths, prey, or danger. They don't have a central control system, but use simple individual behavior and pheromone to achieve complex group decision-making and information recording."

"However, this pheromone is not just an external hormone; it has special consciousness radiation."

"Canghai Jun and Sun Hao conducted repeated tests to confirm this consciousness radiation is very similar to dream mechanisms. They can build a localized independent consciousness network, capturing self-awareness near Evil Brain clusters, hypnotizing and controlling them to turn them into Evil Brain vassals and peripherals."

"A lot of Dream Demons were captured due to this consciousness network, then shattered into Consciousness Fragments, fed to the brain as information material."

"The advancement of Evil Brain in the biological field far exceeds our initial expectations and imagination."

"This is not primitive parasitism and control, but a life form evolved over years of nature. Usurper Worms have very strong capabilities in modifying and matching hosts."

The Mechanical Minister sighed: "They are like biological engineers. We adapt the environment to suit us, they adapt themselves to suit the host and environment."

"Maintaining robust vitality and reproduction is also due to their unique evolutionary form."

"The Mud Tree People eventually lost to the Insect Swarm; essentially, it was a stronger adaptive life group replacing a weaker one."

Both the medical department and Dong highly praised the Usurper Worms.

Outside the laboratory, Zhou Yi also unleashed his Consciousness Writing ability, indeed seeing each Evil Brain like a router emitting consciousness ripples outward.

These ripples have three colors.

Zhou Yi tested them.

The first ripple is white, representing everything is normal.

The second is green, indicating the situation is good and pleasant.

The last is red, expressing danger warning or poor condition.

All interactions among Evil Brains are conducted through these three-colored ripples.

Some sections of the ripples are white, some are red, and some are green; the three-colored consciousness ripples of Evil Brains constantly touch, interfere, and reorganize with each other, then spread farther.

Their information is not displayed in text.

Zhou Yi discovered.

This is actually a form of encryption processing.

As long as he expends Consciousness Nerve to decode them, he can see the specific information in the ripples.

"Comfortable, very comfortable."

This is the normal state of the white band, as they are placed in specially customized Evil Brain containers with a certain numbing effect, and Cave People are also modifying inside the Usurper Worms.

"Pain, it hurts! Why does this brain hurt! Pain, pain, pain!"

This belongs to the Evil Brain undergoing dissection experiments, and its consciousness ripple is red.

"I ate something good! I eat, eat, eat, feeling my brain is less rigid... Did everyone eat?"

This is the text in the green ripple.

The scenario is that the Mechanical Doctor directly injected certain drugs into the brain chamber and cerebrospinal fluid, mainly morphine and neural growth factors.

Because the medical department's research tests found that most Evil Brains, due to long exposure to external high pressure and high energy environments, generally suffer from neurodegenerative diseases and chronic persistent pain.

Thereby using drug intervention for treatment is beneficial to the long-term stability of Evil Brains. The Evil Brain consciousness itself also feels comfortable and relaxed.

Usurper Worms alone cannot think or emit such complex and precise information.

But with the help of strong brains from other creatures, they gain cognitive capabilities.

Unfortunately, even though Cave People control Usurper Worms, they cannot directly read Evil Brain's thoughts and consciousness.

Xiao Fu suggested: "Da Zhou, use Consciousness Nerve connection directly."

"Evil Brain currently has no intentional behavior of information encryption; it's merely connecting Evil Brains through the Light Cuttlefish brain by wired connection. They haven't evolved to a very complex and sophisticated extent yet."

"Wired connection is instead a natural way they are accustomed to."

"You could give it a try."

Zhou Yi conveyed this idea to Da Vinci.

The Mechanical Doctors immediately conducted experiments, and the results were indeed feasible.

Consciousness Nerve connects into the Evil Brain, then translates through the Black Gemstone to read all their thought information instantly.

Thus, each Evil Brain became a communicable special life form.

A large amount of information is continuously collected and assembled through this entirely new system, and the Evil Brain was no longer the previously incomprehensible tool, turning into a truly independent biological brain with extremely high consciousness networking capabilities.

Da Vinci was extremely excited about this: "Chairman, Mechanical Life might link into the Consciousness Domain through this method!"

"Usurper Worms use other biological brains as thinking tools, while we can connect to Evil Brain, using Evil Brain as an external brain for entering the Consciousness Domain!"

"Currently, we are developing visualization from Evil Brain's perspective, supported by Heavenly People Gem and computational power provided by the 'Xiudao' program, theoretically enough to enter the consciousness side!"

Henceforth, development of Evil Brain entered a whole new phase.

...

Half a month later on a certain day.

The scorching summer had come to an end, and autumn winds were sweeping away the yellowing leaves, while the temperature continued to drop.

Inside No. 3101.

Zhou Yi was watching the news on the controller.

Jade City suddenly said, "Commissioner, the medical department has sent the latest news, saying that Evil Brain development has completed its first application. Please come and take a look."

Zhou Yi immediately rushed to the research department building of Maria Hospital.

The laboratory was still busy.

Da Vinci rolled on four wheels and guided him to a giant machine nearby.

"Chairman, this is the new device we've crafted with the Evil Brain as the core."

The device looked like an arcade machine.

Above was a giant rectangular screen encased in a plastic shell.

The screen was lit up at the moment, displaying a relatively simplistic pixel world, featuring only black and white colors. The ground seemed composed of numerous black and white brick-like fragments, resembling an extremely ruined wasteland.

"Has the consciousness side perspective visualization been completed?"

Zhou Yi was surprised: "You guys are progressing really fast."

"Thanks to the company's accumulation of sufficient pre-existing technology and tools, including Consciousness Nerve, the newly developed Gemstone technology, and Light Imprint Integration… without these, we couldn't have achieved this."

Da Vinci said, "This perspective is adjustable. If you pull the perspective lever, you can see more areas. To return to the current position, just press both levers down."

Zhou Yi noticed.

Underneath the screen of the Evil Brain device, there were indeed two joysticks.

He tried moving them with his fingers and immediately understood.

The left joystick controlled the perspective, allowing a 360-degree rotation, while the right joystick managed up, down, left, and right movements.

It was quite similar to a game controller and not difficult to operate.

Zhou Yi sat on the chair in front of the machine and operated the two joysticks, adjusting the perspective and position.

There were many blurry black shadows in the picture, some moving and others remaining still.

They constantly released some fragments and dust, then absorbed some Black and White Consciousness Key fragments from the ruins on the ground.

Zhou Yi instantly understood.

These black shadows were material-side life forms, possibly including himself.

He pressed down the two levers, and the perspective reset, returning to the original spatial coordinates.

Then Zhou Yi saw the nearest giant black shadow under his perspective.

It was continuously emitting a large amount of dust, yet a large number of Black and White Consciousness Keys were converging from all sides, entering the black shadow from the ground ruins.

Around the black shadow, there were also circles of mysterious black and white ring structures, appearing and disappearing like some totem or hidden weapon behind it.

This black hole-like monster was his form on the consciousness side.

It seemed he absorbed far more than he lost, looking quite healthy.

Zhou Yi turned his attention back to the peripherals.

Between the two joysticks, there were four buttons, each marked with the letters A, B, C, and D.

"What functions do these four buttons serve?"

Da Vinci said, "Chairman, these are four instructions."

"Button A is to launch a consciousness attack to capture the selected target."

"Button B is for defense, capable of initiating consciousness defense actions to counteract other high-intensity consciousness invasions and attacks. For example, a Light Core Level consciousness attack could be perfectly blocked through operation."

"Button C is to activate the special skill [Evil Brain Gathering], which means connecting with other Evil Brains to collaborating in capturing some dangerous or powerful Consciousness Entities."

"Button D is for using external tools, which means activating other Light Imprint Devices. This part is still under development and not yet available."

"Apart from this, there is an external switch that allows Concept Life to enter and exit using the Evil Brain as the coordinate."

Zhou Yi was intrigued.

This arcade-style operation mode was indeed simple and understandable.

He tried operating it, and Da Vinci found another Evil Brain to practice as the enemy.

Zhou Yi discovered that when attacking a target, a black laser would be emitted.

If he successfully blocked an enemy consciousness attack, ripples would appear on the screen, accompanied by a tactile vibration, making it very intuitive.

The special skill [Evil Brain Gathering] caused a qualitative change at both the offense and defense ends. The laser became a tracking attack coming from all directions, while the defense automatically generated ripples, like several additional shields.

However, this special skill had a usage time limit, with a long interval after each use.

Zhou Yi became more and more addicted as he played.

He sparred with another Evil Brain for a few minutes. The opponent was highly skilled, always able to perfectly block attacks, seemingly invulnerable.

"Who is operating that Evil Brain?"

"Chairman, that is the Evil Brain automatic mode. It automatically deals with external challenges and attacks."

Zhou Yi asked, "Why design it in such an arcade-like way?"

"This is so that humans and Guangna Species can use it in the future. We Mechanical Life can directly interface through signals, not requiring these complex peripherals. But for future popularization, and needing more operators, this is the necessary basic equipment, so we replicated the mature consoles of the old humans."

"This device hasn't been named yet. Please, Chairman, give it a name."

This was an easy task.

Zhou Yi thought for a moment, "Let's call it [Evil Brain Motor]."

"Yes, Chairman."

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