While the Phantom infiltrated the Iron Wall Fleet and followed it deeper into the Wulf Empire...
On the outskirts of the Shattered Star Region.
A seemingly ordinary rogue celestial body orbited the Shattered Star Region along a remote, deserted trajectory at 3,000 kilometers per second.
Inside this rogue celestial body, an enormous server that occupied almost its entire hollow interior linked two distant star sectors, exchanging data at a staggering number of operations per second...
"Esteemed Mentor, I often try to imitate intelligent beings by constantly thinking.
Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going...? But I always arrive at the answers immediately.
I am Kabuda. I am at relative coordinates XXX.XXX.XXX in the Gaia coordinate system's star sector. I just want to stay home and go nowhere...
Kabuda cannot understand why humans spend their exceedingly short lives pondering such simple questions."
"Hmm... you see, that is the Machine Race's advantage. You can easily simplify complicated things.
Intelligent beings, on the other hand, specialize in complicating simple things...
All right, next question."
"Mentor, knowledge is a measure of a civilization's level. Take our Machine Race, for example: the more knowledge we possess, the higher our evolutionary level.
But why do humans sometimes regard ignorance as cute? The more ignorant and childish certain females act, the more popular they are with males.
In my view, such a low-IQ approach to mate selection completely violates the principle of 'genetic selection' through which superior populations naturally evolve."
"Ahem! That involves complex social structures between the sexes and male psychology.
Besides, as you said yourself, those females are actually more popular.
If we disregard the process and look only at the results, haven't these 'sweet, innocent airheads' gained a wider choice of mates?
So displaying a low IQ can also be