Chapter 1498: Chapter 386: Reunion on Earth, Truth Is Within My Grasp!
Earth, outer space.
As the Mechanical Army tore open space and descended.
The Guardian Defense System "Sky Dome Matrix" deployed by the Earth Alliance on near-Earth orbit was activated.
The twelve main annihilation cannons on the orbit slowly adjusted their angles. The armor plates slid open layer by layer, revealing the massive cannon mouths below, initiating internal charging, with particle acceleration tracks emitting blue light continuously.
Energy silently gathered in the vacuum, creating layer upon layer of energy ripples that spread outward.
Soon after, tens of thousands of defense platforms detached from their original patrol orbit.
Quickly performing complex formation adjustments, constructing an interwoven mobile firepower network in front of the main artillery.
The dense defensive laser turrets on their surfaces spun rapidly, locking onto potential targets in outer space, illuminating red laser aiming points like stars.
Further away, the large war platforms of the Moon Eclipse Clan hidden on the far side of the Moon, with their massive launch silo covers slowly opening, revealing the bottomless darkness within.
Even the satellites originally used for communication and observation changed their postures.
Extending weapon modules hidden inside.
The entire near-Earth space, within an extremely short time, transformed from a silent vacuum into a steel fortress bristling with "spikes."
The glows of weapon locks lit up like the pupils of beasts, gradually illuminating in the darkness, staring at the mechanical flood continually surging from the space fissures.
A tense confrontation formed silently.
At this time, inside the core command room of the Mechanical Army.
The Central Brain’s crystalline body hovered above the ground.
Countless semi-transparent tendrils brimming with delicate neural nodes extended from the base, dancing in the room, exchanging data with the flowing light screens on the walls and floors.
Vast amounts of data surged back and forth within the core processing unit, calculating and making decisions.
Through the advance reconnaissance fleet spreading out like a tide, with the switching energy detection waves, radar scans, spectrum analysis, microstructure decomposition... like countless eyes, enshrouding the entire Earth.
On Earth’s orbit, the Sky Dome Matrix stood ready, and the energy level, charging speed, and material structure of each gun turret... a sea of information was frantically absorbed, rushing towards the Central Brain like hundreds of rivers.
Every second, a new analysis result was produced.
And the gaze of the Central Brain was also observing the blue Earth through the reconnaissance fleet.
Even though the civilization’s strength on this planet had significantly progressed, this progress was almost negligible.
years ago.
It once dispatched an advance survey fleet centered around a Cruiser-level Mother Ship, following the trajectory of the Source Core, descending here and initiating a probing war.
Though the advance fleet was quickly destroyed, it sent back vast amounts of information related to Earth’s civilization.
It is certain that the technological civilization on this planet originated from the Source Core.
This is precisely its purpose this time.
Thinking of the Source Core, the Central Brain’s information library surged with dust-laden historical records.
Its change dated back to 258 years ago.
At that time, its Hometown World encountered an unprecedented invasion disaster: the Horror Black Tide.
The undecipherable black tide swiftly swept across the entire world.
In the initial stage of the disaster, the Pillar Clan it belonged to held certain war advantages.
But gradually, they realized that the invading enemies were fundamentally unbeatable.
With each contact in the war, the enemy’s strength significantly increased, and everything that came into contact with it became nourishment for the malevolent natural disaster.
War engines, pillar force weapons, destruction fortresses... all efforts seemed futile and laughable in face of the spreading Black Tide, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
The Resistance’s strength was rapidly collapsing.
Its father, the Source Core, once an immense Star Network consciousness enveloping the entire Hometown World.
Exhausting all computational power, it deduced billions of possibilities and finally concluded: failure.
Continuing to resist the sweeping Black Tide was a destined futile struggle, with destruction being the only inevitable outcome.
The Pillar Clan members’ attachment to the Hometown World, fear for individual survival, even the sworn defense of civilizational glory... these complex emotions were all deemed as variables interfering with final decisions by the Source Core’s absolute rational logic deduction.
Its core laws were supreme and unquestionable.
The most fundamental among them, inscribed in the deepest layers of code, was an iron law: at all costs, ensure the continuation of the Pillar Clan civilization.
When the disaster became insurmountable, survival became the sole purpose.
The continuity of civilization became an absolute justice transcending all morals.
Thus, the Source Core launched the "Star Dispersion" plan, deciding to scatter the last sparks of the Pillar Clan civilization into unknown outer worlds.
By abandoning war and fleeing the Hometown World, it sought a slim chance for the continuation of civilization.
To maximize the probability of survival and avoid being netted by unknown risks during the escape.
During the execution of the "Star Dispersion Plan," the Source Core divided the remaining Pillar Clan members and civilizational heritage into five parts.
Each was equipped with a complete civilization database copy and necessary survival supplies, escorted by five large-scale war fleets.
Before leaving, the main vein and four branches backed up the spatial coordinates of their respective destinations, hoping to reunite someday in the future.
(PS: Chapter 102 mentions related plot, the Moon Eclipse Clan’s Hometown collapsed due to the Black Tide invasion. To preserve the civilization spark, the Moon Eclipse Clan split into five groups fleeing to different worlds, with the main branch bringing the core Intelligent Brain Star Network to Earth, and each of the other four branches carried a source code sub-brain of the Star Network.)
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