Chapter 219 The Demon's Command Post

The demons are leaving.

Yao Yan saw demons of various forms leaving the demon city in batches, and judging from the pheromones that permeated the surroundings, they would gather again outside.

At this time, Yao Yan was also ready to act.

He took a step and moved towards the location of the decision-making demons he knew.

The demons responsible for decision-making are also functionally specialized individuals.

The area where they live is strictly guarded.

Yao Yan used his ability, the ability of the one-eyed crow.

He came to a piece of giant tree rising from the ground. At the moment when the action stopped, the shadow of cognition also fell, like a curtain.

Yao Yan got in.

In an instant, his presence disappeared along with his figure, and he disappeared from the demon city.

However, no demon noticed this.

Even the demons who were patrolling and passing by, when they walked near the shadow of the curtain, could not detect the existence of the shadow.

Yao Yan stayed in the curtain, waiting quietly.

Waiting for the demon who was responsible for delivering information to arrive.

Not long after, he waited for the target he wanted.

The route he had confirmed long ago was not wrong.

When the other party passed by the shadow of the curtain, a shadow-like crow silently emerged from the curtain and entered the body of the demon.

The demon's movement paused slightly, and then, soon, the demon took another step.

The decision-maker of the demon city is not located in the center of the demon city.

To be precise, there is more than one demon who makes decisions and commands.

The demon who is responsible for delivering messages and intelligence came to the "command post" at a speed basically the same as usual.

Then, while chewing the spirit body formed by the blood-colored thorn jungle, Yao Yan faced the demons who made decisions for the operation of this demon city for the first time. What kind of posture is it?

The appearance changes brought about by the specialization of other demons are already quite large, but when he saw the demon who was responsible for making decisions and commands in the command post, he realized how small the physical changes of those demons outside were.

Yao Yan saw huge heads that were embedded in the roots of the tree house.

Those heads, which were half the size of a demon's body, looked like nodules growing out of the roots.

And if you look closely, you will find some strange textures at the roots.

At this time, Yao Yan finally understood one thing.

The "giant tree" outside that formed the demon city was not a plant in the true sense.

It should be said that the "giant tree" was the body of one or more demons.

Like a skeleton?

Yes, I should have thought of it long ago.

The genes that demons can integrate are not only animals, but also plants.

A demon that grows into a huge plant, should it be called a plant or an animal?

No wonder plants open and close tree houses at different times on sunny and rainy days.

No wonder those tree houses are so special, they don't look like they have been hollowed out, and there are no traces of excavation, but they grow directly into that appearance.

This huge plant continuously performs photosynthesis to provide nutrition for their "brains".

Yao Yan followed the movements of the demon who should be called a messenger and reported in the tree house.

Inside the tree house, on the huge root that stretched across the wall of the tree house, the spherical surface that resembled a head had patterns that looked like facial features.

Along with the faint sound, the fragrance of flowers spread.

Yao Yan, the possessed person, wanted to report on the march of the group of one hundred demons that went out to conquer.

The pheromones emitted by the head embedded in the tree root were instructions for the patrol and dispatch of the guards in the city.

The demons do not need language at present, and they do not have language.

They did not move towards sound, text, or body movements, but towards the information transmission method that mainly uses pheromones.

After receiving the order, Yao Yan controlled the body of the messenger and left the command post.

He searched the messenger's memory for a long time before finding some relevant clues.

Yao Yan, hiding behind the curtain, looked at the giant tree.

The demon individuals in charge of command, those "brains", have been completely integrated with the giant tree.

No, soon, he found that he should have made a mistake.

The "command posts" located in the three directions of the demon city are the commanders responsible for the local defense of the demon city, responsible for the internal operation of the demon city and the defense command when the enemy invades, but not the decision makers of the group plan.

However, as a "gene hunter" The memory tells her that most pheromones come from those command posts.

The higher-level decision makers should be hidden.

While controlling the movement of the body messenger, Yao Yan searched the messenger's memory more carefully.

Not long after, he found a location.

Cultivation house.

Or it can be said to be a cultivation room.

No, to be more precise, it should be an incubation room.

They are in the queen's "palace".

This is something Yao Yan did not expect.

To be precise, this result has been ruled out by him.

Because of the Queen's status, because of the Queen's status as a "template", in order to avoid catching them all in one fell swoop, in order to prevent the Queen from taking action against the decision makers.

For several reasons, he ruled out this possibility and located the tree house for defense.

However, it was not the "optimal answer" he expected.

As for why?

Yao Yan also remembered something at this time.

It is the so-called "efficiency first", the so-called "optimal solution", the so-called "highest cost performance".

In thinking about many problems, when facing choice decisions, people tend to choose the one with "maximum benefit".

When considering income output, people tend to focus on "benefit".

However, taking the cost performance curve as an example, the benefits gradually increase from the beginning to the end, and then decrease after reaching the peak, and the cost performance will gradually decrease.

Then, this curve itself should also be an option to be considered in "cost performance".

Repeated many times, each time the cost performance is calculated, the previous curve itself is part of the cost performance.

That is, "pursuing cost performance" itself is also a cost performance consideration, forming a loop nesting.

Coupled with people's fuzzy judgment defects, people often have very subjective views on what cost performance is.

The better ones are that they have considered several rounds of cost performance and the pursuit of cost performance.

The worse ones often miss some relevant points and influencing factors.

Not to mention

Are people really pursuing the "best value for money" result?

Or, do people really have a correct understanding of the weight of factors in the cost-effectiveness?

For some people, safety is the first priority and has the highest weight. When considering cost-effectiveness, safety will be put first.

But

What if this group thinks that "there is no security threat"?