Stellaris from the Automata Era

What they hate is not the war itself, but the emotions that have accumulated from thousands of years of no one praising their hard work and efforts.

So it's clear that their focus now is different.

Most awakened machines that can come to the Koprulu sector are usually stripped of their cores by their immediate superiors (note), which represents the absolute authority and control of the mechanical network over them.

Now, just a handful of crystals can make up for Engels's consumption. How much energy does this thing contain?

With such curiosity, the humanoid picked up a piece and put it in his mouth.

Because the crystals are hard, they cannot chew them, but swallowing them directly will allow the crystals to flow through the simulated esophagus into the reactor.

"Yeah, I'm full."

This scene once again shocked the Terrans present and left them speechless.

Because everyone gets along so well, it's not like no one has ever invited a humanoid to dinner, but the humanoid's comments at the time seemed to be something like "So this is what it tastes like."

It’s as if I have never eaten any food before. If you think about it carefully, although everyone looks similar, they are different races after all, and their diets must be different.

Especially since the other party's petite figure can match the power of power armor, but they didn't eat much. It turned out that they were just tasting the food. At first, they thought they were eaten because of the law of conservation of energy!

"I can't afford it..."

If many Terrans had already thought of names for their children, they would have immediately withdrawn from Taobao.com.

As for the reason, the humanoid can only be full by eating crystals...we are all adults, so let's look at the problem more realistically.

Chapter 199: Construction in Progress

The humanoid space dock is a space structure located near the Earth's satellite.

Judging from its appearance, it is estimated to be about 7 kilometers long, 5 kilometers wide and 3 kilometers high. Because it utilized the productivity of engineering ships, it was built at a fairly fast speed.

As long as there is enough supply, it can produce 5 battlecruisers at the same time. According to the humanoids' estimation, this should be enough for them to use.

According to the specifications of the battle cruiser of 550 by 550, their production capacity even has enough to manufacture battleships of kilometer length.

However, in fact, they still overestimated the capabilities of the space dock, or underestimated the width of the battleship level.

The shipyard's manufacturing space could no longer accommodate the new battleship blueprints, and they eventually had to demolish two adjacent areas and merge them into a larger production slot.

"What a waste." The chief humanoid researcher commented.

Although she was dissatisfied with the huge empty space in front of her, she had to admit that the humanoids did not think so much when they built the dock in the early days.

At that time, everyone was still focused on producing transport ships and had never thought about the day when they would need to build large warships. The fact that the shipyard can now be of such a scale is a testament to the foresight of the planners at the time.

After all, their scientific research progress is too fast, and it is understandable that many infrastructure buildings are now seriously lagging behind.

"The other space docks currently under construction may need to have their details redesigned. Since they're not yet completed, we still have plenty of room to maneuver."

The chief of humanoid research quickly filed the matter, and as soon as he finished his own work, he immediately sent it to the human side for approval.

The main reason why she didn't proceed immediately was that she had more important tasks at the moment.

The keel of a kilometer-scale battleship is being laid in the slot of the space dock, and the drone matrix copied from the engineering ship is buzzing as it performs rigorous welding work.

You can see that while they are welding, they are also stirring a crystal powder with a special adhesive, and then sticking it to the inner and outer surfaces of the hull.

Of course, their adhesion is not a random painting, but an expansion outward along a currently blank area, just like the densely packed blood vessels extending around the heart.

The smearing did not last long, and soon all the drones stopped working.

It's not that they have been completed, but that the materials used have been exhausted. In fact, if you look at the ship as a whole, there are still many blank spaces that have not been covered by the crystal powder.

"Sure enough, it can't even meet the needs of the first phase of the project. No matter how streamlined the depiction is, there is still a huge demand."

The chief humanoid researcher sighed and prepared to leave.

Production here could no longer continue until the next batch of high-energy crystals arrived. Instead of staring blankly at the battleship's hull, she might as well go back and do a few more experiments.

Just as she raised her foot, a rhythmic dripping sound was heard, and then a black ball appeared from the opened sensor door.

It quickly circled around her.

"Susan? Why are you here?"

"Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip."

Listening to Black Ball's words, the chief humanoid researcher nodded seriously.

Then she took out a radio-like device coated with crystal powder and placed it in front of Black Ball Susan.

"Please speak human language, thank you."

Although everyone's soul is expressed in the form of data, this does not mean that humanoids can understand binary language.

It would be fine if the person opposite had a pattern like the Sherlock Holmes code, but the problem is that her language has no pattern at all.

In fact, the humanoid chief seriously suspected that the monster's language was blocked for some reason, and every word she uttered turned into a dripping sound.

Fortunately, the things painted with high-energy crystals can become her new body, so the two sides do not lose the way of communication.

Obviously, after the chief researcher took out the radio, the black ball froze for a moment and even stopped spinning.

"Ding ding?" She continued to speak in her own unique language, then realized the other party couldn't understand her. Then, a thick fog-like magic element emanated from her body and wrapped around the radio. "Why don't you understand? Why are you so serious?"

"That's not important. Let's talk about what you just said."

"Rui, I see the transport ship. The high-energy crystal is coming."

"Very good, the word count does match." The head of humanoid research nodded again, her conversation with Susan having reinforced some of her suspicions. "It seems the new materials are in place, and we can continue our work here."

"So that's my new body from now on? It looks beautiful."

The parts with high-energy crystals will emit a light blue light, and with the preventive coating on the inside and outside, the traces of the texture can be seen even from the outside of the entire ship.

If this momentum continues, when the entire ship is truly completed, it will probably not even need any paint and will become a work of art with great scientific beauty.

"Strictly speaking, that's not your new body. The monster's form allows you to replace it at any time. In fact, if possible, we can place a specially made humanoid body on it so that you can move around in the outside world."

"You mean...that's not right! If that's the case! Why don't you create a body for me now! You don't know how inconvenient my current form is!" Susan's angry voice came from the radio.

Facing the monster's roar, Rui explained slowly and calmly.

"All the crystals must be used to build warships. There's no surplus inventory to waste."

"Now the crystal is here! Why don't you make one for me!"

"..." Rui was silent for a moment, then continued. "Of course, I'm very interested in your current form of expression. I don't want to do anything unnecessary before the value of your research is fully utilized."

"You definitely don't have any friends, do you?"

Seeing that the situation was about to turn into a quarrel, Rui felt that it was time to use the rhetoric he had just learned without a teacher not long ago.

"Susan, do you know that adults actually have high expectations of you?"

"what?"

"The abnormality in you is enough to allow our humanoid magic... no, science to reach a new level. This is what the adults have always hoped for. Susan, you also hope that the adults will be disappointed, right?"

"Of course I don't want to disappoint you!"

As expected, as soon as the humanoid comes into contact with humans, its IQ immediately plummets to negative.

"That's great. I have a new idea and I need you to report to Leviathan in the Koprulu Sector."

Chapter 200: Yan Luo Wants More Population

"What does our Chief Scientist want to do? Create a bug girl?"

Yan Luo raised this question while holding the report, compared to the request to expand the scale of the space dock, which was a standard plan and one he was also interested in.

Another research project on raising insect swarms in a magic element environment and testing the chemical reactions between monsters and insect swarms really left him dumbfounded.

To be honest, the operation of letting monsters possess and transform into ship girls is too easy to make people associate.

Then, thinking back, Yan Luo's first reaction was that the humanoid research team also wanted to develop insect girls. Although the appearance of the insect swarm was not suitable for the aesthetic tastes of humans and humanoids, it could mutate.

These days, some people even dare to do something like the tentacle monster Cthulhu...what else can't or shouldn't people do now?

At least Yan Luo remembered that many people licked the photo of Blade Queen's adjutant back then. It can be imagined that as long as one is willing, insects can also become good-looking.

"Forget it, let's play it safe for now. Tell Rui that the magic element experiments on insects can wait until the laboratory in the Koprulu sector is built."

Although Yan Luo was indeed curious about the insect swarm's reaction to magic, he ultimately put the brakes on this research.

The Koprulu Swarm is too special. They seem to be following the path of genetic evolution, but in fact they can be considered as psychic life forms to a certain extent.

Otherwise, they would not have a psychic command network to implement command and orders between superiors and subordinates.

As for things like psychic power, the humanoid form itself does not have much knowledge reserves, but it can be considered a form of energy.

Yan Shishi really couldn't imagine what kind of wonderful chemical reaction would occur after the collision of spiritual energy and magic element.

You must know that the psychic energy in the Koprulu sector and Yan Luo's psychic energy are completely different things, although they can both be detected by psychic detectors.

But even if Yan Luo just threw a human figure in front of the scanner, it would be at least level 5 or 6.

What that thing detected was not psychic energy at all, but an unknown energy whose principles the Terrans in the Koprulu sector could not understand.

Anyway, Yan Luo was very cautious about this experiment. Mixing magic elements into the insect swarm would easily produce a new variant of the insect swarm that would react to magic elements.

In addition to the mysterious method of the Zerg to collect genetic sequences, I am afraid that as soon as Yan Luo has come up with some experimental results, the Queen of Blades will have implemented a new unit.

Therefore, even if we want to add magic elements to the bugs, we should at least wait until the Heart of the Swarm battle. As long as the Queen of Blades does not become an ally, this cannot be done.

Yan Luo didn't want to see a group of insects releasing magic on the battlefield.

"Sir, rather than this, why don't you take care of those humanoids you released first?"

The truth about the humanoid lie was eventually leaked, or rather, they had never intended to conceal it from the beginning.

After all, this kind of thing is bound to cause problems, and it will. The difference is whether it happens at the beginning or at the end when minority laws are used as a weapon.

Although the humanoids have prepared their iron fists for emergencies, they are not so crazy as to deceive their superiors and hide the truth from their subordinates.

Otherwise, if they cause displeasure to humans, they can only commit suicide to apologize.

In short, the twins who assisted Yan Luo in managing the humanoids quickly discovered this group of people from a pile of humanoid colony development reports.

In order to ensure fairness and openness, the number of people in each colonial team was divided into equal numbers.

It's only been a few days and you've come up with an effective population of 50?

It would be fine if the factory producing the humanoids hadn't shut down, but now is the time for a complete renewal of the humanoids. Where did these extra people come from? A talking tree? (Note)

"I've heard a little about this matter." Yan Luo didn't know how to judge it.

The planet chosen by the deceptive humanoid group is not only inhabited by the Terrans, but also by mechanical life forms that have set up factories there.

In fact, as soon as they entered the area of ​​the planet, they were reported by N2, who was disturbing their existence.

However, considering that this group of humanoids are willing to set foot on an alien planet where mechanical life exists, they are probably an open-minded group who do not have many prejudices against mechanical life.

No matter what, Yan Luo would not let N2 drive them away. They would have to live together in this binary empire for a long time in the future, so they should get to know each other better and be tolerant of each other in advance.

Originally, I looked at this matter with the mentality of mending the wounds between the two mechanical races.

But I didn't expect that the real purpose of the humanoids was Terran and his group of two-legged tools.

As expected, this group has inherited the essence of human civilization and will use any means to achieve their goals.

"But no matter what, their results are still quite good. After their commotion, the Terrans have shown a trend of integrating into our circle. It can be said that this is a good move."

The Terrans, whose quality of life has improved significantly, have been vaguely testing the treatment of Earth citizens. This was asked in front of Engels who was mining.

Although this huge machine was not equipped with translation software, the superior network N2, which controlled them, still vaguely recorded the conversation between the humanoids and the Terrans through them and transmitted it to Yan Luo.

After just a little thought, Yan Luo understood what the Terrans' temptation meant.

Although Yan Luo also wanted to recruit this group of people, it was obviously not the right time.

The main reason is that Yan Luo does not yet have the ability to face the Terran Empire directly.

Perhaps the Terran Empire may not treat the people of the marginal world as human beings, but sometimes politics is about bargaining chips.

If necessary, this group of marginalized people can also become human beings.

Therefore, he also needs to consider the reaction of the Terran Empire. Without several fleets at hand, he has no confidence in doing this.