Chapter 680: Thirteen-Ring War System (Part 2)
When Lao Jiang reached the spiritual cultivation realm, the magical power of the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree naturally became stronger again as his primordial spirit was born.
He also learned the Mohist star-pulling technique and used his magical power of traveling across the sea of stars to reach the Alpha Steel World. When he arrived in this world in the physical sense, a small flower quietly bloomed on the fifth branch of the Seven Treasures Tree.
The coordinates representing the Alpha world were also obtained by Miao Shu.
But this flower is a bit ugly.
It is different from the bright and beautiful flowers that have already borne fruit on the other four branches. It is a very monotonous gray-black color, just like a slightly rusty metal made into a small flower about to bloom.
Boss Jiang used the magical power of the wonderful tree to send his body back to the Bitter Wood Realm. This process is more difficult than teleporting in other worlds.
The chaotic power of the dark star field created a strange pressure, which made Jiang Xia's speed in opening the world channel here several times slower. It also meant that his "invincible + Hearthstone" escape and transition strategy was difficult to work in the Alpha world.
Temporarily moving out is the right choice.
" Let's keep going, heading towards Rust Hill."
After returning to Kumu Realm, Lao Jiang lay on the bed in his cave and projected his consciousness into the Alpha World. Relying on the digitized consciousness, he disguised himself as a program and loaded it onto a metal mechanical body.
After the order was given, the seven mechanical life forms, led by Metal, turned on the thrusters on their respective machines and headed along the metal land of the outermost ring of the Alpha World, towards the Rusty Hill, the birthplace of the Mechanical Sage and many mechanical heroes.
The air in the steel world is filled with chaotic magnetic fields and atomic energy. These invisible forces can be consumed by mechanical life forms as free energy supplements.
It's like the "oxygen" that silicon-based life can breathe.
In this world, the combat, movement and calculation status of mechanical life forms can be amplified to 120%. Without considering the exaggerated survival of the fittest mechanism here, there is nothing wrong in calling this place a "paradise" for machines.
“Tell me more about the thirteen-ring war system in your world and the promotion of the mechanical life regiments. You said before that there are nine hundred and ninety-nine regiments in the Alpha world?
Is this amount fixed? "
The program disguised by Lao Jiang communicates with metal in the form of data information flow.
The latter connected his consciousness to the "war network" covering the entire Alpha world, obtained location information, adjusted his direction, and continued to introduce his hometown to Boss Jiang.
It says:
"The number of warbands is fixed at 999. This is a restriction imposed by the Mechanical Sage. Because no matter how large the surface area of the Alpha World is, there is a limit. The garrisons that can be allocated to each warband are fixed.
In addition, setting a relatively small upper limit on the number of battle groups is to ensure that our war mobilization system will not cut off the channels for promotion of lower-level machines due to long-term membership fixation.
This system is in dynamic equilibrium.
Every war group, no matter how big or small, will always be subject to calls from above and challenges from below.
This kind of synchronized pressure on two levels will ensure that the regiment can maintain the strongest fighting desire and the most vigilant state of war at all times.
As for the promotion between the various regiments, it is also inseparable from the thirteen-ring system of the Doomsday Fortress in the Alpha World. "
Metal paused and organized his words in the data activity.
It brought its subordinates and flew over a desert wasteland-style mechanical town below. The town was not large, and was surrounded by sci-fi energy towers. Inside the town, there were several workshops that were constantly active and emitting black smoke.
"Boss, look, that's our city."
The metallic mechanical snake demon body was hovering in the sky. Driven by the six thrusters under its silver-white shell, it swayed its body and introduced the small town below to Lao Jiang.
explain:
"These small towns are deployed by the 'base vehicle' and fixed in the energy-rich area. There are more than 3,000 towns like this in the entire outermost ring.
They are the 'neutral zone' in this chaotic, battle-filled steel land.
Slaves can bring the enhanced modules they have robbed and look for craftsmen in war workshops in such towns to complete the body enhancement for them.
You can also repair your own machine here, add some lubricant, change the paint, replenish ammunition, collect information, etc.
Although it is difficult for low-level mechanical life to conduct complete logical thinking, because the circuit design of the mind chip is completely random, some strange mechanical bodies with "very unique personalities" will occasionally be born among these guys."
"Well……"
Lao Jiang thought about it and said:
"Like 'both violent and peaceful'? A wise fool or something?"
"The example you gave is too extreme."
Metal was embarrassed.
This machine life, which is already very human in terms of data consciousness, made a small complaint and said:
“But the facts are indeed somewhat similar to your example.
The Mechanical Sage once said that mediocre logic cannot give birth to greatness.
This sentence represents another truth in this world.
That is, mechanical life forms that cannot achieve a breakthrough in intelligence can only serve as simple soldiers forever. No matter how good they are at fighting, they can only be high-level cannon fodder.
Those who can truly enter the "Commander" class are often these mechanical bodies with strange and unique personalities.
Therefore, each regiment would send out observers to search for these strange mechanical bodies in the chaotic land of the outermost ring, paying attention to them but not intervening in their wars.
If they could ascend on their own, they would be immediately invited to join those chapters."
"It seems that your civilization system is really all centered around the theme of 'war'. No wonder your individual combat capabilities are so exaggerated.
A single chapter can lead the destruction of a world."
Lao Jiang withdrew his attention from the mechanical town below and said:
"Let's continue with the previous topic. The promotion model between chapters, I guess, still relies on war?"
"Yes, it's a challenge!"
Metal continued to lead the team towards the Rust Hill, increasing its speed, and then described it to Lao Jiang:
“In the outermost five rings of the thirteenth ring of the Doomsday Fortress, all the mechanical life forms you see are actually in a chaotic and dynamic war.
The only difference is that they fight alone in the outermost ring, but after entering the promotion sequence, they have to learn to fight in a group.
Starting from the twelfth ring, there will be small-scale wars among small groups for territory.
Before I left the Alpha world, I was very familiar with that place, and my regiment also fought all the way up from there.
There are small war groups everywhere, using mechanical factories, energy towers, weapons production workshops and other resource points as their bases, and their forces are intertwined with each other.
Battles are happening all the time. Damaged robots will be recycled as backup resources, while completely dead robots will be placed in the loading workshop and sent to the decomposition factory to be decomposed into raw materials.
A portion was given to the Chapter to keep.
The other part was sent to the furnace to continue forging the outer firepower line of the Doomsday Fortress.
But there is no future for us to stay in such a chaotic place and develop.
For the mechanical life forms in the outer five layers, the only way to avoid defeat and dismantling is to occupy as many resource points as possible. If they occupy 1% of the energy towers in one layer, they can apply for "group promotion".
That is, choose a force on the inner layer and fight as a group.
This is a very cruel promotion mode because there is no option to give up!
Either you break through the opponent's fortress, occupy the opponent's power, and turn the opponent into your subordinate.
Or the whole team will be wiped out.
But the robots at the inner level have more complex thinking, more cunning combat methods, stronger bodies, more abundant firepower, and can obtain more resource supplies from the disassembly factory every month.
They will try their best to strengthen the combat capabilities of their respective members, so the success rate of "warband promotion" is generally only about 20%, and only one out of every five challenges is likely to succeed.
And it was definitely a pyrrhic victory.
However, as long as we capture the base of a certain inner-layer regiment, we can rely on the supplies accumulated by the other side to quickly restore our combat effectiveness and quickly become a new force in the new place."
“This is raising a Gu.”
Lao Jiang sighed again:
"I feel more and more that your system is a replica of the Spartans in Iron Life. It is so militaristic. No wonder you have to constantly plunder resources from the outside world to maintain this scale of internal elimination."
"It's raising Gu."
Metal did not deny Lao Jiang's statement, and answered very frankly:
"But it is precisely this kind of elimination that allows our Invincible Iron Army to maintain its strong combat power. Besides, this kind of Gu-breeding-style combat will come to an end when the battle group reaches the eighth level.
Being able to reach the eighth ring proves that the surviving mechanical bodies are absolute war elites.
Such elite veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles can no longer be used as consumables.
When a chapter is promoted from the eighth level to the sixth level, although it is still in a continuous combat mode, the elite chapters already have the power to admit defeat, which can preserve the manpower to the greatest extent possible.
In addition, at this level, a chapter often chooses to become a vassal of a large chapter, especially after reaching the sixth ring, when the chapter enters the upper combat power stage of the Alpha world.
At this time, the conflicts between each other will be reduced by more than 90%, and everyone will choose to resolve the conflicts through diplomatic means rather than brutal wars.
Furthermore, because the area of the Sixth Ring is already very small, its surface is only equivalent to one-fourth of the outermost ring, so the Sixth Ring only has nine regiments.
Going further up, there are six in the fifth ring and three in the fourth ring.
There will never be many places, so if you want to join, you must first squeeze out one of the above. And these 18 major regiments are the absolute backbone of the mechanical life kingdom.
They are responsible for external combat collection.
The promotion from the sixth ring to the fourth ring is no longer about internal combat, but about external combat.
Only by destroying other worlds through combat and conquest, and providing enough resources for the forging of the Doomsday Fortress, and converting them into military honors, can one be promoted through the rankings.
Once you are promoted to one of the eighteen major war groups, if you want to go further, you must at least independently complete the plunder and destruction of one hundred worlds!
This strategy is extremely cruel. Even for a robot that will never die, it will take a lot of time and cost a huge amount of money.
But once the attack and plunder are completed independently, the harvested world can be dismantled, the core part can be used as an independent base of the regiment, brought back to the Alpha world, and mechanized.
Make it a combat defense satellite surrounding the mechanical world.
After entering the Eighteenth Regiment, fighting is no longer the main job of the Grand Regiment.
They will officially become the ruling class of the Alpha world, responsible for formulating a series of world plans. They will be responsible for coordinating the battles against the wasteland lord forces and the internal conflicts on the planet.
For 99% of mechanical life, this is the end of their life's struggle.
There is full of order there, and members of each regiment live in peace with each other. Even if there is friction, it is mostly resolved through negotiation. Each of the mechanical life forms in the eighteen major regiments is the most precious treasure of the Alpha world.
They cannot be consumed in civil wars.
The promotion from the fourth ring to the third ring is a battlefield for generals, and every major battle will determine the birth of a "leader".
The third ring is already extremely narrow.
It was not a combat zone, but the leaders' daily residence.
Everything in it is mysterious and unknowable to others. Legend has it that the Leaders' Council is pushing for a grand plan to transform the world into a doomsday fortress.
Once they become the leader of mechanical life, they will rarely appear in the outside world.
The second ring is the sanctuary of the Mechanical Sages. Even the leader cannot enter without being summoned.
As for the first ring closest to the Crucible, legend has it that it is where the ancient temple of Mecha-God is located.
It is an ancient sanctuary that has witnessed the long changes of the entire Alpha world. No one knows what is going on there. It is a mythical place of mechanical society.
Within the first ring is the melting pot.
The burning heart of the Alpha world radiates endless heat and black hole-like gravity, keeping the entire world from falling apart.
When the weather is good, the light and heat emitted by the furnace can be clearly seen from each of the thirteen rings that revolve around the world. It is the only light in this dark star field.
It is also the only beacon that guides us mechanical beings forward."
