"Biological networks? Yuan's Tier Three star network? Or are you talking about the cyberspace in the city from before?"
Huang Yuanli's first thought was the faction's information network, but after thinking it over, she realized that didn't fit. Then she remembered the citizens' network in the city back when they were still on the planet.
The High Engineer shook his head.
Strictly speaking, both of those were information networks.
The defining feature of an information network was that its signals grew stronger while its hardware grew smaller, until the hardware disappeared entirely.
The mechanical system, on the other hand, had its own mechanical networks, which leaned more toward being a hardware system.
For example, the High Engineer's recent "planetary mechanical transformation" contained many traces of a "mechanical network."
He thought for a while before explaining it in terms Huang Yuanli could understand:
"Back in the desert, every time a beast king advanced, the range of radiation under its control would expand, and its dominion over the tribe would grow stronger."
"You can think of yourself as a super beast king. Once you build a biological network, your 'radiation range' will surpass the planetary level."
"Before, if we wanted to plant other planetary trees, we had to pluck branches from you and propagate them. Now we won't need to do that anymore. The other planetary trees can serve as your avatars."
"Moreover, within this 'biological network,' you can freely strengthen or weaken biological genes, along with carrying out more complicated operations..."
The High Engineer did not explain how to perform those operations in detail, such as designing a genetic evolution machine, because he knew Huang Yuanli could not handle such things.
That was not because she was too unsophisticated to appreciate fine food, nor because she lacked intelligence.
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