Captain, your ship has exploded again.

"Hey, Zhao Wanyang, I think you'd better come and check on things. Yuanshi Tianzun's condition doesn't seem right."

Marcus's voice came through the communicator, which made Zhao Wanyang, who was already busy, frown.

“I can’t get away right now, Kang Yuanhang, go and check with the remote puppet.”

Under normal circumstances, Zhao Wanyang could operate two puppets simultaneously, but in the current situation, she had no spare capacity and could only hope that the problem on the other side was not too serious.

Kang Yuanhang, who was adjusting the fleet's gravity output, handed over the gravity devices of some warships to Yun Ruomin for control, while he himself operated a puppet.

Soon, in the core room where Marcus was, one of the puppets in a row got up and came over.

"what happened?"

Marcus operated the robotic arm and pointed to one of the large sub-brains, saying, "Megatron's processor is showing signs of fusion with the core, and I sense that Primordial Celestial is showing signs of awakening. External devices cannot stop them; only my consciousness can penetrate deep into the core."

The Primordial Celestial Venerable's body is different from that of the Cosmic Emperor. Although the energy there is not full, it is still at a relatively high level (thanks to the selfless contribution of the Walker fleet). Even though Zhang Xun was causing a ruckus inside, it still took a lot of effort to truly subdue him.

Using the Cosmic Emperor as the experimental subject, Zhao Wanyang roughly calculated how much energy the Primordial Celestial Venerable would require to revive. Although the Primordial Celestial Venerable only has a hundred or so gravity sensors, the dense array of detection limiters on it is to prevent it from going out of control.

Kang Yuanhang took out his portable operating platform and checked the energy output, saying, "That's impossible! There are three detectors per square meter on its body, and now none of the detectors are alarming, not even the core mental monitoring device is responding!"

The complexity of this energy pipeline system far exceeds the scope of human cognition; not to mention the design time, the verification alone took up most of the total working hours.

If the computers used in the Apollo moon landing represented the pinnacle of human craftsmanship, then this energy pipeline system represents the pinnacle of quantum and optical computer design.

Given Kang Yuanhang's abilities, let alone copying it exactly, he couldn't even do a complete verification.

“Kang Yuanhang, why don’t you believe me? Their connection relies on the spiritual body of the remaining spark, which has nothing to do with energy. Now that I’m connected to the Cybertronian spark, this kind of quantum problem is simply not something that this hastily manufactured detector can detect.”

"Dude, please understand our predicament. Zhao Wanyang is already overloaded. She doesn't even have time to glance at it. I'm just a mortal, and I have no other choice but to look at the data! Besides, there are comprehensive emergency measures here. Manually activating the response plan would cause the traction-carrying Blue Star to collapse."

Marcus understood Kang Yuanhang's predicament. At first, he thought that he was experiencing hallucinations because of the connection to the secondary brain. However, after trying to disconnect from the secondary brain several times, he realized that Yuanshi Tianzun was about to cause a major incident.

"Damn, I can't explain it. Come here."

Kang Yuanhang manipulated the puppet toward Marcus, not understanding why the other party wanted him to pass.

Just as he reached Marcus, a sharp spike suddenly extended from the mechanical arm beside him—it was Cybertron's neural connection system.

"The fluctuations of the Fire Seed's spiritual body cannot be converted into data. You should experience it for yourself. Hopefully, it's not too late."

The metal spikes swiftly pierced Kang Yuanhang's puppet head, and a massive data stream instantly flooded into the puppet's processing core. Of course, the goal wasn't to hack the puppet; Marcus already had level two privileges and didn't need to hack into the system.

His real target was Kang Yuanhang, who was thousands of miles away on a battleship.

Kang Yuanhang, who was busy at the time, was suddenly cut off from the puppet's control, but he did not pay attention to it. However, when the massive amount of data took over his mental system, he realized that something was wrong.

"Marcus, you..."

Before Kang Yuanhang could finish speaking, his eyes rolled back and he fainted.

After Marcus set up the auxiliary AI, he sent a message to Zhang Xun and then entered the Fire Seed's spiritual world. He sensed that the other party had accelerated the fusion process, and he needed to stop Megatron and the others. Once the three were combined, the traction plan would inevitably fail.

As Kang Yuanhang lost consciousness, the fleet he was using to assist Tianwen in adjusting gravity instantly lost its composure, and some of the gravity became skewed.

Marcus's actions were born of desperation. He understood what Kang Yuanhang and his technical troops were doing and was well aware of the consequences of his actions. However, if he didn't handle things properly, any other consequences would be meaningless.

Because Yun Ruomin needed to take care of Kang Yuanhang's fleet, she took over as soon as problems arose there, even though they used their nervous system to increase their reaction speed.

When Yun Ruomin took over, due to insufficient computing power, she forcibly repaired the instantaneous overload of the gravitational field, which still produced violent inertial oscillations like a whip being cracked, eventually forming an out-of-control gravitational wave that flew towards the blue planet.

"Zhao Wanyang, there's been a problem with Kang Yuanhang. Marcus knocked him unconscious. I'm currently overseeing all the fleets. Requesting support."

Yun Ruomin didn't have Zhao Wanyang's crazy side. As a pure carbon-based upgrade route, Yun Ruomin's brain simply couldn't process such a massive amount of data for a long time. Even with Tianwen's assistance, the human brain's heat dissipation limit was there. After only a short while, blood clots flowed from her nasal cavity.

At the same time, the gravitational waves that were thrown over created a hole thousands of meters deep on the islands on the southern side of the East Asian plate, making the Asian continental plate extremely vulnerable.

"Honestly, you guys are just making things worse for me. Reserve Team A will take over the pressure from Yun Ruomin, and Team B will temporarily take over my Data Stream No. 92. I'll be back soon."

After Zhao Wanyang finished speaking, the reserve team, which consisted of Garen's subordinates and high-energy researchers rescued from Star Wars, urgently took over some of the pressure.

These researchers, lacking systematic enhancements, were limited by their physical abilities. The ordinary enhancement techniques Zhao Wanyang possessed could only provide them with a certain level of improvement, resulting in a significant gap in physical fitness between them and the technical soldiers. This was also the reason why Garen was put in charge of the Starkiller Cannon's energy source in the Death Star (the compressed star brought by the Men in Black).

"Damn Marcus, can't you just stop causing trouble?"

Zhao Wanyang, who activated the new puppet, discovered that Marcus's brain in a vat was not functioning properly; the previously busy robotic arm was no longer responding.

Noticing something amiss, Zhao Wanyang pulled out the operating platform to check the data on Yuanshi Tianzun's body.

"Strange, the energy level and reaction are both within the normal range?"

Just as Zhao Wanyang was about to continue, Kang Yuanhang's puppet suddenly stood up and shouted, "Quick, the two Megatrons are about to merge. He wants to sacrifice himself again to awaken the consciousness of the Primordial Celestial!"

At the same time, Zhao Wanyang also discovered Marcus's abnormal data stream. Combining this with Kang Yuanhang's statement, she immediately activated the secondary brain's decommissioning program.

"Damn, I should have put Optimus Prime's brain on it. Even Megatron is dead and still can't rest in peace. Kang Yuanhang, go and stabilize the fleet's gravity immediately. At the same time, have the reserve team take over the data stream I released and let Garen connect to the nervous system. I need to release some computing power."

Marcus, who hadn't reacted, was already fighting Megatron's consciousness. Without being connected to the Cybertronian sub-brain module, Zhao Wanyang couldn't directly intervene in the battle between the two sides. Rushing in would only hinder Marcus's ability to protect himself.

This isn't like playing a game where a few milliseconds of latency is insignificant; in the mental world, a mere instant can mean the passage of millennia.

As Kang Yuanhang left the puppet to support the traction plan, Zhao Wanyang's puppet reached out and supported another puppet, saying, "Marcus, it's up to you from now on."

Immediately, two puppets extended their arm probes, one inserting into the core of the Primordial Celestial Venerable and the other into the center of the secondary brain module, urgently activating emergency safety measures.

This was originally a function on TX, which was modified for data transmission. What Zhao Wanyang transmitted was a variant of the Nano Legion virus, using a remote mental puppet, in order to prevent the Primordial Celestial from discovering it.

Of course, this is just a virus, not a nanorobot. This virus will only prevent silicon-based life from doing anything.

The so-called "human-like" is simply a nerf to silicon-based data communication capabilities, that is, the ability to share consciousness.

What makes silicon-based life terrifying is the convergence of their consciousness; if all silicon-based life forms are connected for a long time, two life forms will eventually become one.

This isn't a math problem about a decrease in the number of people; it's a problem of keeping the number of physical entities constant while synchronizing consciousness.

Simply put, it's about one consciousness influencing another, while simultaneously copying and pasting the techniques used by both sides.

If humanity were to possess this ability, it wouldn't just be a matter of unifying the planet, but rather a sign that humanity would usher in a new technological leap forward.

The One that begins is everyone, and everyone is the One that begins. When consciousness converges, sacrifice for the race becomes sacrifice for oneself. Even if the sacrificed person's physical body dies, their spirit remains, which will only lead more consciousness to extremes. However, the converged consciousness will only become stronger. This is the terrifying nature of silicon-based systems.

However, the virus injected by Zhao Wanyang did the opposite, making all the fused silicon-based consciousnesses closed and selfish. Even though silicon-based systems have extremely high computing power, the selfishness of each life form will only make it impossible to accomplish anything.

However, this 'selfish' virus takes effect very slowly. Originally, this manual safety device required Marcus to use the Cybertronian sub-brain to accelerate it, but Marcus's complete loss of responsiveness greatly reduced the virus's efficiency. The busy people in space could wait, but the humans on Earth could not.

While Zhao Wanyang was dealing with the problem, islands on the continental shelf of Earth were being forcibly twisted into a ball under the pressure of irregular gravitational fields, and some continental edges were simply torn into fragments by the changing gravity.

The traction plan has entered its countdown to failure.

To make matters worse than Marcus's inability to return to his original position and continue operating Primal, the Death Star II's Starkiller cannon has begun charging.

Zhang Xun is already preparing for the worst-case scenario.