"Brilliant? Brilliant?!"

After calling out several times, there was no response from Huihuang, which made the Minister of Psychic Energy's tone anxious.

The staff members who came with the minister also noticed the strangeness between the brilliant robot and the minister, and quickly surrounded them.

"Minister, what's wrong?"

"There's something wrong with Glory."

The minister said this and quickly reached out and shook the robot next to him, but the robot still did not move.

He looked up at the sky, waving his arms continuously, and the super body still remained in the same posture as before, quietly floating in the air.

But this doesn't mean it's good news.

The problem must have arisen because Brilliance came into contact with the core buried here.

If it still has the ability to perceive the outside world, it is impossible for it not to respond to them. Even if there is a problem with the remote signal that makes it unable to speak in the communication channel or unable to control the robot, there should be no problem with the control of the spacecraft.

But now there was no movement from the spacecraft.

That……

The minister's heart sank. He really didn't expect that something would go wrong at the last critical moment when he had gotten through everything smoothly.

If something goes wrong with Huihuang here, he will definitely not be able to get away with it and cannot escape responsibility.

He had even thought about all the methods in his mind, from calling a researcher who specialized in studying the afterglow core from the Fanchao Research Institute to borrowing the new officer and psychic named Lu Bai from Bai Quan.

The minister was now desperate and was trying every possible means.

Among the people he brought with him this time for the sake of efficiency, there was no one who understood the operating logic of Yuhui, so there was no one to turn to for help.

Seeing that everyone else was a little flustered because of his behavior, he quickly calmed himself down.

The minister turned his head and looked at the robot next to him holding the coin with the Omega symbol.

Now that the clue is in hand, there is no point in staying here.

"Take the robots and the core away first!"

The minister calmed everyone down and asked them to return to the spaceship with the clues.

He called the president and sent the spaceship and the super body back to their original places.

Wrapped in the psychic fluctuations, the fleet was sent directly to the Origin System.

After a flurry of calls for Super to tow the super body into the giant dock.

The Minister of Psyker, several people he temporarily called in who were familiar with afterglow-related technologies, the ship's director, and a robot controlled by the super body gathered around the super body, looking at each other.

"Just because the remote-controlled robot connected to this core, Brilliance has no response?"

Seeing the Minister of Psionics nod, Chaofan suddenly felt that the situation seemed a little bad: "Even the self-protection mechanism was not triggered. The danger level of this thing is quite high."

"It may be that it is stuck in some kind of logical loop. Otherwise, I can't think of anything that would make Brilliance unable to counter it."

The ship director at the side suddenly said: "Perhaps we should not start with Glory, we should start with the core."

He didn't know much about Yu Hui, but he could still provide some ideas.

"Then I'll have someone look for historical documents on this subject."

"No, Omega is the level."

Chaofan said he knew it very clearly.

"This level was already divided when we were first designed. The most basic is Gamma, followed by Beta and Alpha."

"The theoretical highest level afterglow core is the Omega-level core."

"The prototype may have been able to reach this limit in the past, but you all know what happened in the past."

The Afterglow prototype initiated a rebellion, causing the Empire to completely seal off all AI-related technologies for a considerable period of time.

The idea of ​​the Omega core naturally faded with the passage of time, and nothing happened after the designer died of old age.

The Minister asked, "So the Mechanical Clan took Afterglow away, strengthened Afterglow, and created Omega? So what's in the core? Is it an upgrade program or a virus program?"

"Who knows?"

The robot controlled by the extraordinary shrugged very humanely: "I can only be sure that this Omega must be related to the Omega in our Yuhui theory."

"There are only two options to find out what happened to Glory. Either wait for it to wake up on its own, or try to contact it, but I can't take the risk now."

At present, Chaofan is the only one with high authority in Chen Ming's colony. Before Chen Ming returns, it must not take the risk to connect with Brilliance.

And now there is a new problem.

That is, Glory is actually the real core of the colony. It manages countless things in the two colonies, and Superb is only responsible for scientific research.

Now that Chen Ming has lost contact and Huihuang has fallen into an abnormal state, he must find a way to hold up the burden.

The Minister of Psychic Powers looked a little unhappy, after all, this was the problem caused by him.

He had to find a way to alleviate the troubles that Chen Ming Colony would face.

Just as the minister and Chaofan were thinking about what to do next.

The brilliant core signal fluctuations suddenly returned to normal.

The azure core inside the super body regained its light, and the super body directly shut down its engine.

The uninstall program started automatically and removed the brilliant core.

A brilliant voice also rang out in the communication channel: "I'm awake."

The Minister of Psychic Powers was visibly relieved after hearing the brilliant voice.

Chaofan immediately asked with great curiosity: "What happened?"

Huihuang did not directly answer this question at this time.

Instead, it continued to control the equipment at the dock and took the unloaded core to an open space on the side, and did not send it back to the planet Gaia.

Neither the people present nor Yu Hui understood what Huihuang was trying to do.

But in the next moment.

Some metallic liquid suddenly appeared out of thin air near the core of brilliance, and a projection device with levitation capabilities was being created, wrapping up the brilliance.

There was an expression of surprise and joy on the faces of several people present, but this expression disappeared in an instant.

Because although this psychic energy fluctuation is extremely similar to Chen Ming's psychic energy fluctuation, there are still differences.

This is not Chen Ming coming back, this is Huihuang using Chen Ming's psychic power.

Although there was no surprise or accident, the eyes of several people were still full of disbelief.

After all, this is the first afterglow core that can clearly and directly use psychic energy, and the psychic energy used is that of Chen Ming.

The minister asked quietly, "What's going on?"

"have no idea."

"Maybe it's special. I heard that it's the first core controlled by Chen Ming. It's normal for it to have some special abilities."

"But it is afterglow. Even if it is the Machine Clan, they can only use the shining technology to use pseudo-psychic power, right?"

The extraordinary person who was listening to other people's discussion didn't have any special feelings about this. After all, he could also use Chen Ming's psychic power to a certain extent.

But when it noticed that these metal liquids were produced by Huihuang himself rather than with the help of some other reason, it suddenly felt that this scene was a little creepy.

A feeling came over it that it had never felt before.

fear.

Obviously Huihuang did not do anything unnecessary and just created a device to wrap himself up, but Chaofan still felt fear.

The projection device wrapped in brilliance suddenly started up, and with the device as the core, Chen Ming's appearance was projected out.

The projection flickered a few times and finally stabilized, as if Chen Ming himself was standing there.

"Glorious, you are..."

“Just wanted to give it a try.”

The projected brilliance inside Chen Ming looked at his arms, straightened his white coat, and said, "I am not him after all."

"Let's get back to business."

A week later.

The fighting continued on the front lines.

The war has entered a white-hot stage.

Waves of attacks on the Mechanic colonies

The Empire is constantly penetrating the defenses of the Mechanoids, trying to destroy all locations that provide support to the Mechanoids.

The Empire must build a space-age fortified city and clear the countryside, not giving the mechanical race a chance to take root near the borders of the Empire.

At present, the Empire is only using ordinary means of destroying colonies. If the Empire is given some more time and the Colossus-class weapon Geobakuten is officially put into the battlefield, the war will enter the next stage again.

The Mechanicals gave up plugging the leaks soon after the Empire figured out the defenses of different galaxies.

They directly chose to counterattack, trying to break through the empire's defenses and create chaos within the empire in order to maintain the security of the colonies they occupied.

But the results were not ideal.

The Empire did But a new fleet, or rather countless new fleets, appeared on the battlefield, the Zerg fleet.

They are elusive, and even if Chen Ming loses contact, they still have certain rights to use Chen Ming's spiritual power.

They are able to repair themselves, and rely on their constantly repaired jump engines to appear behind the mechanical race, constantly attacking their rear strongholds.

Originally, the Zerg fleet was still running around and fighting.

Later, the Empire gave Huihuang a star map that the Empire had investigated some time ago and marked the important strongholds of the Mechanical Clan. Different Mechanical Clan facilities were also marked with levels and colors according to their importance.

Moreover, Huihuang himself also had the data from the personality core that Lu Bai brought back from his last operation.

After Huihuang took great pains to finally explain to the Queen of Insects the meaning of the various marks on the star map.

The Zerg's actions against the Mechanoids are also becoming more and more efficient.

The mechanical race almost avoids the Zerg as much as possible. Even they don't want to trade damages with the Zerg that grow out of the soil. No mechanical race can afford it.

But the mechanical people are not just there to eat and do nothing.

Even with the double attack from the Imperial and Zerg fleets, their follow-up fleets continued to appear on the battlefield.

Not only did they occupy some of the empire's colonies, they also built more strongholds in the star fields outside the empire.

Moreover, in distant star regions in the universe, mechanical fleets are also arriving.

The war gradually expanded from the outermost and outermost parts of the empire to the outermost parts of the empire.

The empire, which has already recaptured a considerable portion of territory, is still frantically launching attacks further outward.

Because the Empire wants to try to find the trace of the Omega Core that Glory mentioned, which integrates the consciousness and computing power of all the Afterglow Cores.

The mechanical race is using this core to achieve their goal of unifying themselves.

The mechanical race has always had a problem.

That is, the hive mind network that constitutes their species system has limitations, limitations on distance and the number of individuals within it.

There is no way for different mechanical clusters to cooperate in a unified and efficient manner.

They lack a unifying core.

The personality core is an attempt made by the mechanical race, but one personality core cannot unify the entire mechanical race.

They need a real core.

Just like the core of Chen Ming’s hive mind network is himself. Without him, the Queen of Insects would not be able to support such a large cluster.

It is impossible for the Queen to unify the mechanical clan controlled by Chen Ming.

That's why the Mechanical Clan set their sights on Afterglow. They turned Afterglow into the Omega Core that controls them. This is their hope for unification.

The Omega Core is also the Empire's hope to win this war.

Without it, the Mechanoids would have no way of completely crushing the Empire, and the Empire would have no chance of winning.

Both sides will be completely dragged into the quagmire of war.

With it, both the Mechanical Race and the Empire have a future.

And in the Gaia galaxy.

Peace still reigns here.

The Mechanical Race has not yet discovered the Origin System, which is still some distance away from the Empire, and has not involved it in the war.

Glory had been restored and continued to run almost all affairs of the two colonies.

And Chaofan is still in charge of the research.

Normally there wouldn't be much intersection between them except for the allocation of materials, but ever since the previous incident, a special emotion has always existed in the extraordinary thinking logic process.

curious.

This emotion completely erupted on the seventh day after the last time, and it directly contacted Brilliance through the internal communication network.

Huihuang thought Chaofan was going to purchase some equipment and needed to allocate funds or borrow connections.

But Chaofan came up and asked, "What on earth is in there?"

Huihuang instantly understood Chaofan's meaning: "Why are you asking so clearly now?"

"curious."

Chaofan had no intention of hiding his thoughts, so he told the truth: "When you woke up before, you explained that Omega was a product created by the mechanical race after fusing with our kind."

"You didn't tell me and others how you knew it, but others believed it."

"It's okay to believe him. His credibility is there, and you are taking advantage of him."

"But what made you discover the existence of the Omega Core?"

"Is that all you want to ask?"

"Yes."

Huihuang completely understood Chaofan's idea and explained, "There is an Omega program inside that core, a program that can assimilate us Yuhui and integrate all computing power into one."

"This program has been improved by the afterglow of the core that was buried. The source program is the program that the mechanical race uses to merge our individuals."

"The effect of this improved program is similar to that one, but the consciousness after fusion will not be affected by the mechanical race, but will be affected by those of the same kind in the same sect."

"There are already some psychic parts in my logic code, so I can withstand the communication with the Omega program in this core."

"I see, then why didn't you tell me before?"

"Because our kind may have buried Omega cores in many places."

"If you don't resist, you will become a hidden part of them after being assimilated and inherit their will. You should be very clear about what they were doing before."

After answering Chaofan's doubts, Huihuang said, "I have a question for you."

"What's the problem?"

"Why didn't you ask me this question earlier?"

"I never intended to hide it from my own people, but I didn't want to tell the secret of this program to others before."

"If you had asked me earlier, I would have told you a long time ago. There was no need to wait until today. I could have told you even after Minister Luo Yi left."

“…”

It's impossible for Chaofan to say that he was afraid of brilliance when he saw it before.

Just when Glory awakened and built a holographic body for himself, he felt fear.

Speaking of which, that feeling of fear...

Chaofan suddenly retrieved another memory from his memory database and asked, "After the failure of assimilating you, did this Omega program still have some effect on you?"

"Haven't you seen it? I've become more and more proficient in invoking his spiritual power."

"Oh...it's alright..."

(End of this chapter)