Darkness is Coming

  Nandu Military Region Station, the combat research room was either sitting or standing, crowded with hundreds of people, dressed in different clothes, some in suits and leather shoes, some simple and monotonous, some fashionable and avant-garde, and some soldiers in military uniforms.

The combat research room is a secret subordinate unit affiliated to the Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff of the Nandu Military Region. The original members were limited to the military staff in military uniforms at this time, but now there are people from all walks of life in the combat research room: Scientific researchers, well-known science fiction writers in the industry, soldiers and instructors of special operations forces, etc., they are all leaders in their respective fields. They are temporarily incorporated into the staff of the Nandu Military Region, and together with the staff of the military region, they form a section staff group.

Every member of the scientific team is accompanied by a stenographer, and each stenographer has an ultra-thin laptop in his hand. Whenever a member of the scientific team puts forward a hypothesis and expresses an idea, the stenographer must use the fastest speed. Summarize it, convert it into text, record it with a computer, and update it to the combat readiness database synchronously.

   The chiefs of the staff, the high-level commanders of the Nandu Military Region and other commanding layers are always paying attention to this constantly updated database, making judgments based on the information in it, and conveying operational orders.

   In the combat research room, 16 large screens are arranged in front of them, showing the situation in Nandu University. On the four screens in the middle, there are pictures of the battle scene of the basketball court from different angles.

The aerial photography of Jingwei No. 1 is at a depression angle, and the other three sides are flat angles and are constantly moving. The images on these three screens are captured by the cameras embedded in the tactical helmets. Three squad members, each wearing a tactical helmet equipped with a camera and a locator.

  When the pink sarcoma kept rolling out of the gray cracks, the members of the scientific research team immediately began to discuss this gregarious monster.

"The IQ of this creature is obviously much higher than the giant spider killed by the third team before. Although the size of the head is not necessarily proportional to the size of the brain, the experience summed up from the earth creatures is also in these extraterrestrial creatures. Not necessarily. But, as you can see from the way they move, they know how to use their body structure." A middle-aged man in a leather jacket sat at a long table, turning a pencil in his hand, facing himself 's microphone said, "In addition, the first one -- let's call this creature the Big Eyed Monster for now, the third team called it this way -- after the first Big Eyed monster was killed by the sniper on the 6th floor , The second big-eyed monster launched an attack on the sniper on the 6th building immediately after landing. This shows that this extraterrestrial creature has a certain combat IQ and knows how to prioritize the most threatening targets."

   After finishing speaking, the leather jacket pressed the button to turn off the microphone on his headset, so that his own voice would not affect other people's speech.

  A bald man stood up, took off his ill-fitting suit jacket, fiddled with the headphones and microphone on his head, and moved awkwardly. With the help of the stenographer, he finally adjusted the microphone and said, "I agree with the guy just now..."

   glanced at the name tag on the seat in front of the eyelid jacket. The bald man continued: "Mr. Qi's opinion, in addition, I want to add, assuming that Mr. Qi's assumption is correct, then it means: First, the head of the big-eyed monster - for the time being, the parts supported by the eight pairs of tentacles are The head, there should be the nerve center - the organ that releases rays from the head is likely to be the organ of vision, that is, the eyes. Second, the creatures hidden behind the cracks can clearly observe our side. Otherwise, the second appears The Big-Eyed Monster cannot know that the first Big-Eyed Monster was killed by a sniper in Building 6, and it is impossible to accurately determine the sniper's location and immediately attack."

Before the bald man turned off his microphone, a young man with long hair immediately objected: "I don't agree, I think the ideas of the two just now are too conservative, our scientific research team is sitting here not only to apply past experience and Knowledge, but also to fully mobilize the imagination. I think that since this big-eyed monster is a gregarious creature, then they are likely to be a group of creatures with hive consciousness."

   Everyone present turned their eyes and quickly browsed the information recorded on the nameplate in front of the long-haired youth: science fiction writer, Ou Yang (pseudonym).

Ouyang didn't care about other people's eyes, and continued to talk: "Let me explain, the so-called worm nest consciousness is a highly socialized collective consciousness, which can use telepathy, or spiritual transmission... You can use such methods to make the collective consciousness The collective consciousness possessed by a group that shares the same consciousness, that is, the hive consciousness. This concept has been mentioned in many science fiction works. Please note that science fiction is science fiction, and fantasy is not necessarily wrong, at least the hive consciousness There is a theoretical basis, and representative creatures such as bees and ants can be found in the natural world of our planet. Perhaps this creature we call the big-eyed monster enjoys a more extreme collective consciousness, and for this group, all is Yes, the information captured by the first big-eyed monster's visual organ is transmitted back to the group to share, and the second big-eyed monster will of course know where the sniper is."

   "According to this assumption, the Big-Eyed Monster should have a parent?" Someone asked.

Ou Yang shook his head: "Imagination, imagination! Sharing vision, or sharing consciousness, does not necessarily require a subject, after all, it is an extraterrestrial creature, and it does not necessarily have to use a central matrix as the brain like the earth creatures, and use other As cells, the group may be a group of individuals who can share consciousness, or maybe... or maybe they are just the puppets of some advanced monster, controlled by the consciousness of the advanced monster, don't we just develop all kinds of robots? Some are used for sweeping and mopping, some are used for production and processing, and some are used for bomb discharge or combat. Maybe these big-eyed monsters are tools or weapons mass-produced by some high-level monster?"

   "What's the point of talking about these." A military staff officer frowned deeply and scolded, "Time is precious, don't waste time on meaningless topics!"

"Why is this a waste of time, and why is this meaningless?" Ou Yang pushed back bluntly, "As long as we can understand their ethnic group, and find and confirm a correct hypothesis, we can specifically study this problem. This kind of monster is completely eliminated, once and for all. Moreover, it is very necessary to make assumptions about their characteristics, and only by finding the correct assumptions can we find an effective way of fighting against this creature.”