Stellaris from the Automata Era

And because he had just woken up, a drowsy feeling kept attacking Yan Luo's nerves. This feeling was as uncomfortable as if he had only slept for two hours after staying up all night.

So he didn't have too many thoughts.

So after sitting up, he swayed his body and asked Boppola.

"How long have I slept?"

"Four hours. You should have gotten more sleep."

"We can continue this later. What's the situation now?"

"The mechanical lifeforms haven't made any movement yet."

Yan Luo thought it was normal.

Judging from the previous situation, there is obviously a commander behind the round head, otherwise the chaotic mechanical life form would choose to rush to the end.

It seems that there must be a more powerful integrated unit behind them, considering that he has been encountering some strange mechanical life forms recently.

We also get information about the Internet from them.

I'm afraid this network is the core logic of warfare among mechanical life forms.

The other party obviously had his own judgment, and after seeing Yan Luo's war philosophy, he immediately avoided it.

He might be planning some strange acrobatics (tactics) now, waiting to give Yan Luo a big gift.

"What about the rest?"

"We are all outside, so we don't want anyone to disturb you."

There may be some strange game going on here. Anyway, Popola is the only one left in the field.

At this time, she seemed much more gentle.

"Do you need me to call them for you?"

"No, I'll be out soon. The situation ahead is still unclear. I'll check to see if there's any new developments."

"understood."

Popola looked regretful.

In a sense, although she still made a lot of money today, it was a bit disproportionate compared to the brutal fight before.

Fortunately, there is only one person who can be called an enemy. After all, which combat figure can perform operations with the management figure (front)?

With their limited logical thinking, I guess they will just be circling the door for the rest of their lives.

Only that person can fight against it.

After thinking so much rapidly in her mind, she quickly decided on her next strategy.

She picked up the water cup prepared on the side and handed it to Yan Luo, trying her best to appear well-educated and well-mannered.

"Have a drink."

Hmm... I always feel like there's something a little weird...

The atmosphere at the scene made Yan Luo think of a series of words such as computer accessories for some reason.

Of course, Bobo La hasn't reached this point yet, she is just trying to improve her impression points.

With the analytical ability of the humanoid form, it is easy to understand human preferences.

Sometimes Yan Luo may not understand himself as well as a human.

After all, who would pay attention to the little things in their lives? Only others would notice them.

"Um..thank you."

This atmosphere ends here.

Just as Yan Luo finished drinking the water, hurried footsteps were heard at the door, followed by the door being pushed open gently.

Divala entered the room. She was obviously stunned for a moment when she saw Yan Luo who had woken up. Then she looked (stared) at Bopora, and then spoke to Yan Luo calmly.

"Sir, there's something going on with the mechanical lifeforms."

So A2 and 11B who were guarding the gate saw Yan Luo rushing out, and the twins looking at each other and expressing their feelings...

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"What's the situation now?"

As Yan Luo walked back to the command room, he caused a human salute.

After glancing at the projection screen, he quickly got straight to the point.

As the commander of the entire scene, he naturally began to explain the current situation, and at the same time dialed the administrator's communication to reveal a red humanoid.

"Just now, the mechanical life forms began to move strangely, and the latest models appeared at their forefront."

The current situation appeared in the projection, and from the perspective, it seemed that a reconnaissance figure was broadcasting live on the scene.

In the footage, a number of tanks were standing in front of the humanoids and confronting them. They seemed to be heavy armored units of mechanical life forms.

"Are they preparing to stack their armor and charge the defense?"

Yan Luo almost screamed in surprise.

Under normal circumstances, even a thick water tank should not be able to withstand artillery bombardment. However, considering that there has always been some unscientific technology between mechanical life forms and humanoids.

He couldn't quite gauge the strength at the moment. What if they could really withstand the full force?

So after thinking for a while, he turned around and asked.

"Have any heavy units of mechanical lifeforms been discovered in other battle zones?"

"I'm not sure about that," the local top commander said with a helpless look. "I'd have to exchange information with the commanders of other areas to find out."

"Administrator, please contact other commanders immediately to exchange intelligence!"

As Yan Luo gave the order, the humanoid leaders quickly began to work busily.

After a very brief and efficient exchange of information, the result sent back surprised Yan Luo greatly.

"There are no signs of activity of this type of aircraft in other areas..."

"What is this? Testing the strength of the new model?" Yan Luo felt a little confused by the scene in front of him.

He began to be unable to use his own thinking to figure out the tactical arrangements of the mechanical life forms.

However, he has known one thing very well over the years, that sometimes when he can't figure out something, he should just rush into it!

The information you get from the previous wave is definitely correct.

"At this distance... have our artillery, ammunition, and logistics caught up?"

"Yes, but there are not enough of them to conduct high-intensity combat."

"I don't need high intensity. See these water tanks? Five minutes of cluster bombing."

Then the artillery fire began to roar again, huge dust clouds flew up, and the rising thick smoke obscured the projected battlefield scene.

In an instant, Yan Luo had a bad feeling.

The scene after the smoke cleared confirmed his intuition.

The dense artillery damage could not completely destroy the water tank, or could only destroy a small part of it. It seemed that the caliber of the humanoid's existing ammunition was not enough.

This made him frown.

"If the entire line is covered with this stuff next, it will be over."

Yan Luo said:

"I remember you guys once destroyed the servos of the machine lifeforms and dealt them a heavy blow, right?"

"Yes." The person who answered this question was the manager. She secretly glanced at A2 who was following Yan Luo, and then nodded.

"So where is the server for this area?"

Chapter 97: Mechanical Life Wants to Protect Humanity

"The humans are in there! Break through the humanoid defenses! Charge in!"

n2 (destruction) raises a huge question mark!

She felt that there might be something wrong with the personalities of both parties.

It's clearly an evolution of his function, but why does he look even more excited and warlike now?

As the embodiment of the entire mechanical life form, she (they) is exactly the network that Yan Luo guessed.

Mechanical life forms themselves are alien creations, and the mission they were given from the beginning was extremely simple: to destroy the enemy.

In fact, it may be precisely because of such a broad definition of the word "enemy" that the aliens are ultimately backfired and destroyed in the crude setting.

However, after the aliens were extinct, the mechanical life forms looked around and saw that there was only one life form left on Earth that could resist a little, the human form.

Thus, a touching logic was born among the mechanical life forms that began to gain intelligence: they first needed enemies.

From that time on, she consciously put the brakes on the expansion of the entire mechanical life form.

Even after the humanoid gradually fell into decline, she began to think that the humanoid needed to be "protected".

In this way, her logical self-contradiction eventually led her to inevitably split, and she eventually became them.

That is, they can be seen as a whole, or as different personalities.

The conceptual personality representing all mechanical life forms, n2.

"I object. The loss is too great and the value conversion is not justified."

'You weren't like this before.'

'I think the idea of ​​human value is quite right.'

To cooperate, the human voice echoed throughout the data space where N2 was staying: "You mentioned value before, right..."

Listening to the echoing words, n2 (evolution) began to get a little impatient.

"So (you) evolved, but it should have been me! Humanity is just ahead! I need to observe, keep it captive, and test it!"

n2 (Evolution) paused and continued, "I need to transcend."

In fact, as an evolved N2, she should be more rational. In fact, she has been responsible for maintaining the balance between humanoids and mechanical life forms in the war for thousands of years.

Neither will the humanoid be completely destroyed, nor will the humanoid completely surpass the mechanical lifeform.

There has been an endless war between the two sides.

However, the premise of all this revolves around one core: these mechanical life forms need to break free from the mission given to them by the Creator.

n2 calls it evolution...or transcendence (note), which itself comes from human thought.

n2 recognized and implemented this, even going so far as to divide itself (Note 2).

In order to achieve this goal, she conducted experiments on the diversification of mechanical life forms.

Whether it is Pascal’s mechanical village, or the Forest Mechanical Kingdom that Yan Luo has not seen yet, or the mechanical cult in the factory.

Even Adam and Eve were the result of her conscious experiment of "disconnecting the Internet" and performing a series of other magical operations.

In terms of the results, I am quite satisfied... After the Internet was disconnected, a brand new network was formed, which also contributed to the birth and perfection of evolution in the true sense.

However, Adam's subsequent contact with humans created greater possibilities!

As a mechanical life form, Adam has walked his own path under the guidance of humans.

This allowed Evolution to vaguely grasp the path to its original purpose after absorbing the key information.

After careful consideration, she came to a new conclusion: they needed guidance.

This is also the reason why she instigated her other self who represented destruction to attack the humanoids. She needed mechanical life forms to snatch humans from those humanoids.

But it was obvious that N2 had been observing and listening to human speech through the back door of YoRHa's humanoid form, and seemed to have some kind of epiphany.

This inevitably makes evolution a little confused and impatient.

She couldn't understand the change of destruction.

In fact, the last time they had a disagreement in their ideas was when humans were cleaning up the factory, and the two sides attacked each other for the survival and extinction of humans.