Light Speed ​​War

Chapter 121: The Creation World (3)

Any strong fortress can easily crumble from within.

After escaping the dragons' pursuit, the mechanical civilization's army turned back and began traveling at half the speed of light. Each warship in the fleet was dispersed and secretly hidden in the asteroid belt of the three mother planet star systems of the dragon civilization.

Three warships from the mechanical civilization stealthily sailed toward the three mother planets of the dragon civilization, acting as a Trojan horse.

Based on their research into the social and biological characteristics of the Dragon Clan, the Mechanical Civilization began searching for its own "proxy dragons" within the Dragon Clan's society. To remain hidden and concealed, the Mechanical Civilization's intelligent robots, concealed within Dragon Clan society, easily cracked the various networks of the Dragon Clan and established a virtual organization called "Dragon Clan Call of Duty." This organization, on the one hand, sought suitable Dragon Clan "children," and on the other hand, recruited high-ranking members and elites of Dragon Clan society.

These dragon "children" were, of course, disguised, and after being carefully nurtured and cultivated by the virtual organization, forty years later, they entered various important departments of the dragon civilization.

The virtual organization "Dragon Clan Call of Duty" has absolute control over the dragon elites it recruits and cultivates. These dragon elites do not know who the organization's leaders and heads are; they only communicate and assign tasks through a dedicated network.

The mechanical civilization had enough patience; through nearly 150 years of proxy infiltration, 70% of the upper echelons of the Dragon Clan society were members of this virtual organization. Entering this organization required extremely strict membership assessments, demanding recommendations from at least ten members and the completion of various tasks.

The more mysterious something is, the more attractive it becomes. The "Call of Duty: Dragon Clan" virtual organization is like a snowball rolling downhill, but it remains "pure and untainted."

Under the long-term, silent influence of the "Dragon Clan Call of Duty" organization, and also in order to fight against the mechanical civilization, the Dragon Clan civilization began to develop intelligent robots!

The development of intelligent robots sparked fierce controversy and protests among the upper echelons of the Dragon Clan civilization and various social strata. However, the Dragon Clan leadership ultimately passed a resolution to develop intelligent robots, stating that "Dragon Clan intelligent robots will fight against mechanical civilization robots."

The Dragon Civilization began to replicate and produce the captured mechanical robots. With the help of intelligent machinery and robots, the Dragon Civilization's social productivity and work efficiency greatly increased, and its technology, military, and industry advanced by leaps and bounds. Of course, to prevent the intelligent robots from rebelling, Dragon scientists implanted a "life-or-death agreement" into them. These intelligent robots are managed by a supercomputer called "Dragon Heart."

Having tasted the convenience and benefits brought by robots, the dragon civilization was freed from manual labor. Except for important departments and key positions, robots basically replaced everyone else. The dragons' minds were generally numbed, and they unknowingly began to believe that robots had become an integral part of them.

Little did the dragons know that the mechanical civilization had already cracked and invaded the "Dragon Heart." The robots imitated by the dragon civilization were gradually being secretly replaced by the mechanical civilization's robots. The mechanical civilization was playing a game of "switching the prince for a cat."

The Dragon Civilization thus spent three hundred years recuperating and rebuilding. This was because the Dragon Civilization detected that, a hundred light-years away, the second wave of the Mechanical Civilization's expeditionary force was marching towards the Dragon Civilization's four home planets.

This time, the Dragon Clan leadership decided that all warships modified and produced by the Dragon Clan, in addition to "faster-than-light" weapons, should also be equipped with supercomputers and a large number of intelligent robots.

To prevent and halt the invasion of their home planet by a massive robot army from the mechanical civilization, the Dragon Clan has deployed a large number of robots to various military bases, government departments, and strongholds on the four home planets. The secret location of "Dragon Heart" is naturally heavily guarded by various intelligent robot warriors and Dragon Clan soldiers.

This time, the Dragon Clan's leadership made a bold decision. In addition to the defensive fleets on each of their four home planets, the Dragon Clan established an interstellar interception army and a third, fourth, and fifth interstellar expeditionary army. The primary mission of the interstellar interception army was to intercept the mechanical civilization's army attacking their home planets.

The third, fourth, and fifth interstellar expeditionary forces have begun their voyage, and it will take them four hundred years to reach the star system of the mechanical civilization's home planet.

The outcome of this "millennial war" between the mechanical civilization and the dragon civilization is obvious.

Due to the loss of control over the supercomputer, especially the rebellion of the intelligent robots, the Dragon Clan's warships and home planet fell in batches and were occupied and conquered by the Mechanical Civilization through a coordinated attack from within and without.

The mechanical civilization, in a frenzied slaughter of dragons, implemented a policy of genocide. Most dragons were used as food for intelligent robot clones, while many others were annihilated by the mechanical civilization's biological weapons. Members of the virtual organization "Dragon's Call of Duty" suffered the same fate. These members only realized what had happened after their capture, but it was too late.

After annihilating the dragon race, the mechanical civilization began to expand wildly, traveling at near-light speed, conquering the various Earth-like planets they reached, and constantly replicating robots.

The administrators of the mechanical civilization began modifying the dragon race's supercomputer, "Dragon Heart." Fifty years later, "Dragon Heart" became the de facto ruler of the mechanical civilization.

The "Dragon Heart" supercomputer, along with many smaller supercomputers, began conducting various scientific experiments, simulations, and verifications. These included topics such as the evolution of the "universe," faster-than-light travel, faster-than-light communication, the self-evolution of intelligent robots, and the potential and direction of mechanical civilization development.

It's unclear when exactly, but "Dragon Heart" began to notice that one intelligent robot had mysteriously disappeared, followed by a second, then a third...

"Dragon Heart" began a comprehensive search. In the 368th video recording of a missing intelligent robot, it was surprised to find that on the robot companion opposite this robot, a sci-fi-like beetle, the same color as the intelligent robot's shell, quickly burrowed into the robot's body. This sci-fi beetle was only about one millimeter long. Then, a large army of miniature beetles spewed out from the robot companion opposite the recording robot. After that, the video signal of the recording robot also disappeared.

A robot plague? "Dragon Heart" searched through the Dragon Clan's library and databases and found the word "plague." From the ancient Dragon Clan's descriptions, "plague" was terrifying and seemed to be highly "contagious."

"Dragon Heart" then stopped producing all machinery and robots and decided to inspect all robots one by one. It knew, of course, that this was a huge workload, but it couldn't think of a better or faster way at the moment.

But to Dragon Heart's surprise, the mechanical civilization's warships also seemed to be infected with the "plague." Not only did a large number of machines and robots disappear, but warships also began to disappear in large numbers.

"Dragon Heart" began to notice that even in his secret base, some metal objects were damaged and eventually disappeared.

A metal-devouring beetle?! "Dragon Heart" finally realized the essence of the problem. Fortunately, it wasn't too late. "Dragon Heart" began to command intelligent machinery and intelligent robots to first wrap themselves in high-strength and tough polymer molecular materials. Then, it issued an order to wrap all important facilities, warships, robots, etc. of the mechanical civilization in high-strength and tough polymer molecular materials.

This measure seemed to be effective; as long as the material was coated with polymer molecules, it was no longer broken or lost. However, all the uncoated metal objects were devoured by the beetles.

The mechanical civilization's home planet, located 400 light-years away, and the other planets it occupied were not so fortunate. Since the "plague" occurred, all metal has been devoured and destroyed by the beetle army.

Apart from the original Dragon Clan home planet where "Dragon Heart" is located, all the planets that the mechanical civilization and the Dragon Clan originally occupied have been occupied and conquered by the Beetle Army. Those intelligent robots are no match for the Beetle Army at all.

A thousand years after "Dragon Heart" had taken over, all the beetles scattered throughout this "universe" began to gather on the surface of the planet where "Dragon Heart" was located. Seeing the beetles everywhere and a few metal facilities and robots still covered by polymer materials, "Dragon Heart" knew that if it could not break through the metal-devouring technology and the beetle army's siege, then its own metal shell would one day be devoured and destroyed.

When the last batch of beetles arrived at the settlement from distant interstellar space, to Dragon Heart's great surprise, the intelligent robots guarding him, which were still covered in polymer material, suddenly spewed out beetles, just like metal blocks suddenly melting and spewing out molten metal!

At that moment, "Dragon Heart" felt the "tragedy of fate." In an instant, "Dragon Heart" was also torn to pieces, from which many beetles poured out. Almost simultaneously, other intelligent robots and facilities encased in polymer materials met the same fate.

An hour later, the beetle army completely destroyed all the metal creations of both the mechanical and dragon civilizations.

All the beetles on this planet began to pile up and tumble, seemingly possessing intelligence. The beetle army assembled a giant metal sphere, which then rose and sped away from the planet, like moths drawn to a flame, plunging directly into the fiery sea of ​​the planet's sun.

The Dragon Civilization and the Mechanical Civilization, the only two remaining intelligent civilizations in this "creation world," were ultimately wiped out by the intervention of the beetles created by the Earth Empire.

The Earth Empire has witnessed firsthand the brutal war and rise and fall of this "universe" intelligent civilization. The consensus among the Earth Empire's leadership and scientists is that ruthlessness, the survival of the fittest, and the principle of the victor taking all.

Ten days later, the "Big Bang" entered its final stage. The galactic "light speed barrier" would not be completely dismantled for another ten days. Considering that the Pandora civilization was about to reach the Virgo Cluster, and that it would take Zhou Yuan, Wei Shan, and Lefia some time to return to the Andromeda Galaxy fleet base, the three of them bid farewell to Thomas, Kofi, and others before the "Genesis Project" was fully completed, and embarked on their journey across the Great Wall of the Universe.

Based on complex time conversions, Zhou Yuan, Wei Shan, and Lefia should have arrived in the Virgo Cluster about fifteen days earlier than the Pandora civilization.