Chapter 679: Thirteen-Ring War System (Part 1)
As soon as Lao Jiang arrived in the world of mechanical life, he witnessed the truth of how the Alpha world works.
The worldview of mechanical life forms is simple and crude.
Keep getting stronger.
Or become a part of the strong and bask in the glory of the strong.
This rough way of survival probably comes from the civilization characteristics of mechanical life. As a civilization, their biggest feature is the modular body.
Except for the "mind chip" that carries thinking, every other part of the body of all mechanical life can be replaced and modified.
Through this transformation, the weak robots completed the evolution of their individual strength in a very short period of time.
This is a cruel process of survival of the fittest.
According to Metal, weak mechanical life has no right to survive. They are only fit to be parts of powerful machines. Allowing the weak to survive is a terrible waste of precious resources.
This mode of survival also makes mechanical life forms truly undead - as long as the mind chips are still there, they can transfer consciousness by constantly replacing their bodies.
"In the current Alpha world, the number of 'original' mechanical life forms is already very small."
While Lao Jiang was watching the "Evolution War" below, the mechanical traitor Metal was also introducing the past of the Alpha World to Boss Jiang.
“Before the Great Schism, we already had the ability to create new individuals, but we couldn’t do it in large quantities.
And those original machines regard their own existence as a pure "glory", just like the extremely stupid "blood supremacists" among you humans.
In order to explore and control the entire Alpha world, those original machines designed their own "replicas" based on their own different thinking circuits.
That is, a replicating robot like a clone.
Before the Great Schism began, because of the different "copy blueprints" adopted, these copy robots followed different original robot clans and formed the primary structure of the Alpha world, as well as different social forms.
At that time, there were several class groups such as the Book Society, Warriors, Craftsmen, Balance Society, Privy Council, etc. , which controlled various functions in the mechanical life society.
Our world is like a smoothly running precision machine that has developed for nearly ten thousand years and has brought mechanical civilization to its peak.
But at that time, all kinds of chaos had already appeared within the civilization.
A large number of robots were imitated without restriction, and "purity of blood" has become an empty talk. Although the entire Alpha planet is rich, there are limited resources.
The upper class occupies the majority, which arouses dissatisfaction among the lower class replicators .
The rulers at that time chose to suppress it with ruthless laws, which made the dissatisfaction grow day by day. Eventually, a war that swept the world broke out because of the fight for the energy blocks that we regarded as "food".
The whole world was divided into several camps, and they started fighting each other.
That was the shameful 'Age of the Great Divide'.
The war went on for hundreds of years, and our civilization was almost driven back to a clan society by civil war.
Every robot that survived was very powerful, but corresponding to this power was their completely destroyed hometown.
The mechanical life forms at that time were extremely pessimistic about the future. They firmly believed that the end of the world was approaching and our civilization was on the verge of collapse. "
Metal whispered:
"The great Mechanical Sage appeared in that dark age. It invented the 'Mind Chip' that we use now, replacing the simple and crude blueprint copying in the past.
It gives all robots the possibility to truly have their own "self", rather than being pathetic shadows and copies of the original robots.
The sage thus quickly assembled an invincible army.
It took only ten years to reintegrate our civilization.
But the old Alpha world was beyond saving.
Therefore, under the leadership of the Mechanical Sage, we completely reshaped our world! We did our best to collect resources and shape our world into a doomsday fortress that can withstand the end of the universe!
That is the land you see now, boss."
Metal introduction to:
“The Doomsday Fortress is not a spherical object in the traditional sense. Our world has long been completely mechanized. It is a complex structure of thirteen rings rotating alternately.
All mechanical life forms live in this thirteen-ring world.
The outermost ring is the largest, and its total area is almost the same as the wasteland continent. It is full of "slaves" who are incapable of complex thinking.
These are the low-level mechanical lives that you see fighting among themselves now.
From birth to death, they do not have any achievements worth remembering. Their entire lives are spent in constant search for usable mechanical modules and fighting.
The only way to escape this miserable existence is to win promotions into higher ranks.
But even if they become the next level of "militia", they are just the most basic warriors in the Doomsday Fortress...
No, the militiamen are not even fighters.
They are just one of the countless parts of the Doomsday Fortress and can be sacrificed at any time, possibly just because they were glanced at by passing soldiers.
Only when they are promoted to the rank of "soldier" again, will they have a certain degree of choice.
They can obtain more complex mind chips, thus having simple logical thinking abilities, and then choose to join a low-level chapter and serve the chapter leader.
Taking orders from higher-ranking Chapters, they are often sent out on reconnaissance or clean-up missions.
After accumulating several such merits, they may be promoted to "centurions" again and become elite warriors.
Keep fighting, keep serving the cause of Doom Fortress.
If they survive ten brutal battles, they will be promoted to "Centurions" and be eligible to establish their own low-level warbands.
Reaching this step is already the pinnacle of most mechanical life.
For promotion to a higher level, not only the individual's combat capability is examined, but also the command ability is tested. At this stage, mechanical life will also begin to change its own mindset due to receiving large amounts of data.
If they can possess complete thinking logic in continuous selection and learning, they will have the possibility to rise from the level of "executor" to the level of "commander".
I was once a centurion.
The rank above Centurion is 'General'!"
The sound of metal rose up at this moment, carrying with it a sense of expectation, a sense of pride, a sense of desire, and a hint of loss.
He said:
“I was once only one step away from this glorious military rank, but unfortunately, I have lost the qualification to pursue it forever.
This is the most solid force in the entire Doomsday Fortress's mechanical civilization, and also the backbone of the command level. Each general has his own advanced regiment, all composed of centurions.
Each high-level regiment is under the command of several lower-level regiments with elite combat capabilities.
Every general has the authority to plan and launch foreign plundering wars, and every victory in a war means that the Doomsday Fortress will obtain valuable resources from the outside world.
When generals have completed five hundred successful raids, they will be eligible for a final promotion.
It was a precious struggle, a brutal fight to the death. Every time, at least eight generals and their regiments were thrown into the war against the evil alliance formed by the Wasteland Lord's vanguard.
They will not receive any support, and the war will have only two outcomes: victory or destruction.
They have to compete in cooperation, and after completely eliminating the selected general of the Lord of the Wilderness, only one of the eight generals and lieutenant generals will be eligible for promotion.
By then, it will become the 'leader'!
That is the destination that all thinking mechanical life desires, and it represents the final struggle of a soldier from the Alpha world, born in the Doomsday Fortress.
That's pride.
That is the supreme pride of the Invincible Iron Army."
"What about the Mechanical Sage?"
Lao Jiang asked:
"In your system that is completely designed for war, there doesn't seem to be a place for the Mechanical Sage? Is it a leader?"
"No! The Mechanical Sage is the spokesperson for the Machine God. It is beyond the military rank system."
Metal immediately corrected:
"If the Mechanical Sage had not appeared, we would still be struggling in the dark ages of ignorance. It was the Mechanical Sage who brought the oracle of the Machine God, and it was the great sage who united the divided world again.
It is it that reads out the mission to us and sets grand goals for us.
It is what makes us stronger again.
The moment the Doomsday Fortress was built, the Sage had already achieved transcendence. It also hid behind the scenes at that time and no longer interfered with the development of the Alpha World.
It's our 'saint'!
It is located between the second and first rings of the Doomsday Fortress of the thirteen rings. It is the closest place to the world core of the Crucible and the only place where the oracle of Mekhan can be heard.
It is the source of power for the entire Alpha world. It is what keeps this world marching in the darkness. It is the only light in this dark star field.
Boss, you cannot question the power of the Mechanical Sage with words, and you cannot question the legitimacy of the existence of the Doomsday Fortress.
This is a terrible sin in our world.”
"Yes, I understand."
Lao Jiang nodded. He quickly lost interest in the fight between the mechanical life forms below and planned to go further to take a look, but was stopped by the metal.
The traitor of the mechanical world pleads:
"The boss wants to go to Rust Hill, where the Mechanical Sage was born. It is also the hometown of me and my subordinates. We also want to go there. But it is a long distance.
We will pass through several mechanical city-states on the way. If we don't have any mechanical bodies to camouflage, our actions will definitely attract attention.
So I beg you, boss.
Finding a machine that can carry our bodies for the seven of us is necessary in this world."
“This is easy.”
Lao Jiang whistled, opened the storage ring, and threw out six elite executor robots taken from the armory of the Eternal Life Society, and gave one to each of Metal's six subordinates as a body.
They have completed their "evolution" in the paradise space of the wasteland and no longer need mind chips to carry thought data, so they can be easily loaded into six "mechanical ninja"-like executor bodies in the form of "drivers".
As for metal.
This guy is a powerful fellow, a Centurion who has experienced many battles. Naturally, Lao Jiang will give him a machine that can exert its combat effectiveness.
"You use this!"
Jiang Xia generously took out the "Medusa" body that Emma had modified for him and gave it to Metal.
The latter, with gratitude, loaded his data stream into the core database of the Medusa body.
As the body restarted, the snake demon machine, which was originally a female body, quickly transformed into a ferocious and domineering six-armed snake demon robot through the precise mechanical module conversion.
The head no longer had Emma's mechanical face, but was replaced by a Y-shaped cracked horn helmet like a medieval knight.
The red light moved back and forth in the helmet's observation port.
There is also a snake-like metal lower body, two exaggerated robotic arms with full weapon systems, and six ferocious robotic arms behind it that are constantly moving.
The feeling came all of a sudden.
This is the kind of arrogant attitude that Lao Jiang admires in mechanical life.
"This world is too unfriendly to flesh and blood life."
Boss Jiang glanced at the sky above his head, which was as gorgeous as a dream, filled with various chaotic magnetic fields and atomic energy alternating to form streams of light. He felt the explosive radiation around him. With his physical fitness, he could actually feel a tingling pain under his skin here.
This shows the horror of all kinds of uncontrolled atomic radiation in this world.
If he stays any longer, Lao Jiang might get radiation sickness.
He turned around and said to the Metal Seven:
"I will send my body back to my world, but my digital consciousness will follow you. In addition, I am very interested in the thirteen-ring system of the Alpha world.
On the way to Rust Hill, where the Mechanical Sage was born, you have to tell me in detail what the war system in your world is like.
I am really interested in your war potential."
