"Not an intrusion?!"

"this……"

Inside the Earth's command center, a murmur of surprise rippled through the room.

Obviously.

Lu Yongchang's orders and words just now left most of the researchers present confused.

Only those researchers who "understood" this data war nodded thoughtfully.

This naturally included Mo Zeyang and others.

Mo Zeyang carefully examined the data in the holographic projection. As if he had discovered something, his furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and he nodded in agreement with Lü Yongchang's words.

“I understand what you mean. [Ten]’s behavior is indeed a bit strange.”

He clicked his tongue softly: "This certainly doesn't seem like an invasion..."

"In my opinion, this is more like..."

A flash of inspiration struck Mo Zeyang: "An assessment! Just like the previous kind!"

Upon hearing this, Lü Yongchang's eyes lit up.

"right!"

"I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out. This behavior really does seem like a test of human civilization!"

“But…” Mo Zeyang scratched his head in confusion, “I don’t understand, shouldn’t the assessment have ended long ago? Why are we being assessed in this form?”

"This kind of attack, which occurs without any warning, is highly dangerous."

"This is completely illogical!"

Lu Yongchang pondered for a moment: "[Ten] is just a weak artificial intelligence."

"We need to think about this from the perspective of weak artificial intelligence."

"Clearly, some of our actions met the conditions and triggered this assessment."

"As for the specific conditions, and why they chose such a dangerous method for the assessment..."

"That requires asking [ten]."

As soon as the words were spoken, the zero-control research robot, which had ceased its attack, emitted an electromagnetic wave message.

...

After the electromagnetic wave information was emitted, the data stream from [10] began to slowly recede.

Finally, under everyone's watchful eyes, it left the research robot that served as a battlefield.

At the same time, an electromagnetic wave message was sent.

The information contained a great deal of content, making it almost the most "talkative" thing that human civilization had done since entering the ruins.

It first apologized to the "Enroget Civilization" for its previous actions, and then explained in detail why it did so.

Just as Lü Yongchang guessed, it was indeed the behavior of human civilization that met the preset conditions of [10], triggering this hidden test.

There are three preset conditions in total.

First, the main body of the civilization that enters the Imperial homeworld fortress must be silicon-based life forms.

Secondly, this civilization is a friendly one and does not pose a threat to the imperial fortress.

Third, this civilization adheres to the basic principles of equivalent exchange and equal trade.

Looking at the luminous white text in the holographic projection, Lü Yongchang's expression turned strange.

cough……

Is this really talking about human civilization?

He felt a little embarrassed.

They're not exactly the same; they're practically unrelated.

Silicon-based? Sorry, humans are carbon-based life forms.

A friendly civilization? The Enroget civilization has something to say.

Equivalent exchange, equal trade? Hmm... When outmatched, human civilization has indeed followed this basic principle.

As for why such a dangerous method was used for the assessment...

According to the interpretation of [10], based on information transmitted back by the Empire 150,000 years ago, this is the standard assessment process of the Silicon-based Alliance.

Under the constraints of the laws and rules established by the Empire, it will not actually invade the main network of the "Enroget Civilization".

In other words, even if Zero fails to withstand the invasion of [Ten], human civilization will not suffer any damage.

The unexpected assessment was also intended to better test the "Enroget Civilization's" ability to respond to unforeseen circumstances, as well as its development potential.

good.

This is precisely the potential for the development of civilization.

For silicon-based civilizations, the ability to control data streams is innate.

This has become the best way to assess the potential of silicon-based civilizations, bar none.

At least, that's how the Tenth Empire sees it.

Furthermore, the performance of human civilization in the assessment far exceeded the expectations of [Ten]!

According to the information provided by [Ten], the assessment criteria were set based on the plan transmitted back by the [Tenth Empire] 150,000 years ago and its data control capabilities at the fifth level of civilization.

As a weak AI, its data processing capabilities are certainly inferior to those of the Tenth Empire, so the way to compensate is naturally to stack computing power.

Therefore, at the very beginning of the assessment, the computing power used by [Ten] far exceeded the computing power standard of a Level 5 civilization, but the overall strength of the intrusion data stream was still within the Level 5 civilization framework set by [Tenth Empire].

But soon, [Ten] realized something was wrong.

The Enroget civilization reacted very quickly and constructed a series of extremely strong firewalls in a very short time.

After completing these basic operations, the other party even began to carry out reverse intrusion!

This further triggered the assessment mechanism of [Ten].

As a result, the computing power it called upon increased steadily, and the assessment standards also jumped directly to the ordinary Level 6 civilization standard.

However, the computing power used by the other party is also increasing, and the attack methods have also undergone multiple evolutions in a short period of time—Zero Base [Ten]'s defense methods are upgrading its own attack methods in real time.

In this way, the "positive cycle" was achieved.

[10] The computing power being called up is getting higher and higher. The intensity of this assessment has even reached the entry assessment standard of the Silicon-based Alliance!

That was a test for a Level 6 silicon-based civilization!

Just as [Ten] was about to call upon higher computing power resources, the "Enroget Civilization" abandoned its attack and sent it a query message.

The assessment was also forced to be interrupted.

But the assessment results have already been released.

Human civilization… no, the “Enroget civilization” has fully demonstrated its development potential to it.

Thus, [Ten] began executing the next phase of the program and extended an olive branch to human civilization.

...

"Inviting us to join the Silicon Alliance?!"

Lu Yongchang stared at the holographic projection, then looked at the researchers around him with a strange expression.

【10】It is normal that we cannot discover the true face of human civilization.

But those advanced silicon-based civilizations, often at level six, would surely be able to easily unveil the mask of the so-called "Enroget Civilization".

This is just a minor matter.

The biggest problem actually lies with Zero.

According to [the painting], the Level II AI ban is widespread among all advanced civilizations.

What if this were discovered by a group of advanced civilizations...

Hiss!!!

Thinking of this, Lü Yongchang's eyes widened and he gasped sharply!

This is a really big deal!