Chapter 284 Entering the Land of the Intelligent Machines
One month later.
The power of the higher-dimensional channel dissipated, and the divine kingdom landed in a place similar to the land of the insect plague.
[Lord Jiang Yan, you are also granted permission to enter this sealed area. Everything is now in your hands.]
"good."
Jiang Yan nodded slightly and, without hesitation, controlled his divine kingdom to fly directly into the gray fog.
Previously, we might have needed to be more careful.
However, even without the "Immortal Wall" protecting it, it cannot be broken by any continuous attack of the highest level. Even if something unexpected happens, there is still "Suppressing Mountains and Seas," whose passive ability can block an attack at the cost of destruction.
Even if the Mechanical Overlord were to personally guard the exit of the barrier, there would be enough time to react.
The sealed area of the Machine Lands was similar to that of the insect plague; it took three full days of flying at full speed to reach the edge of the barrier.
The moment you step inside, a feeling completely different from the outside world arises.
Jiang Yan suddenly found that the knowledge he had learned in the Federal Culture Class was involuntarily reappearing in his mind. Some things that were not very clear before suddenly became clear, and even those so-called world problems that he had browsed before had countless inspirations.
"Such powerful technological rules."
Everyone frowned slightly. This meant that within this world, the power of technological weapons would be far greater than outside. Just like during the sixteenth Abyss Trial, within the Holy Light Ruins, the power of the Holy Light Law far surpassed that of other laws.
Forcibly suppressing the surging calculations in his mind, Jiang Yan scanned this universe with his divine sense.
"Huh, there's actually life here, and quite a lot of it..."
"No, that seems to be an unnaturally formed galaxy..."
Jiang Yan was somewhat surprised.
This universe is completely different from the desolation and ruin of the insect plague land.
Within a mere one light-year radius, there are seventeen small galaxies exhibiting signs of life.
Each galaxy has seven planets that orbit an artificially created star in an orderly fashion.
"interesting."
Jiang Yan could vaguely sense that countless reconnaissance devices were scattered throughout space, constantly monitoring him ever since he left the gray fog, but he didn't know why they hadn't launched an attack.
"Let's go take a look."
Jiang Yan pondered for a moment, then urged his divine kingdom to fly to the nearest location.
After approaching the galaxy by more than 5 million kilometers, it suddenly seemed as if it had encountered something, and an invisible ripple spread across the starry sky.
Three seconds later, a massive fleet leaped in; a sweep of divine sense revealed at least one ship.
A unique communication signal came through:
"Experimental Zone 17 ahead. Unauthorized entry will result in death."
"Prepare for battle."
Jiang Yan ignored the warning, opened his divine kingdom, and his angel legion and a group of powerful beings at the level of chief gods or above stood at the entrance, ready to fight.
Before engaging in combat, it is difficult to judge the exact strength of the warriors on the technology side. They can only make a rough estimate based on the strength of the alloy materials that make them up, so he did not let his guard down at all.
On the other side, dozens of reconnaissance ships at the front of the fleet lit up with streaks of red light, sweeping towards the divine kingdom, and countless data streams flashed across the processors and were transmitted to the main ship at the rear.
"A unit with energy fluctuations at level 60-70 has been detected..."
"Energy fluctuation of level 70-89, 8 units..."
"Signs of advanced life form detected. Dimensional weapons ruled out. Kinetic energy equipment prioritized..."
"Attempting to generate feasible combat plans... Generation complete, 137 in total."
"Simulated battle results: 0% chance of victory, 99% chance of total annihilation..."
"In conclusion, the chosen option is: retreat."
In an instant, the approaching fleet simultaneously lit up with warp lights and disappeared into the starry sky.
"That's the style of omnics, isn't it?"
Seeing this, Jiang Yan, who had some knowledge of it from the information, was not surprised.
Compared to the Zerg, who would even try to bite into a rock, the Omnics only wage wars they can be sure of winning, unless absolutely necessary.
"Unfortunately, warp-like movements on the technology side are not within the scope of what can be silenced."
Sheena shook her head with some regret; her Eternal Mute Domain was only effective against law-driven teleportation and skills.
"There will be plenty of opportunities later. Let's go in and take a look."
Jiang Yan reassured him and then manipulated the divine kingdom to enter the star system.
As far as the eye can see, the atmosphere of every planet is covered with countless mechanical devices that emit a special ray, monitoring the world while completely isolating each other.
—It's like a pigsty in a pig farm.
Jiang Yan used his divine sense to lock onto a space station-like device on the nearest planet and teleported there.
After using his divine power to shatter several hatches, Jiang Yan arrived at the core area of the space station.
It resembled a large monitoring room, with countless images transmitted in real time from various devices, and streams of data constantly flowing.
"This seems to be a technologically advanced world."
Jiang Yan looked at the various screens, lost in thought.
In this world, daily operations and management have been entirely handed over to artificial intelligence.
Furthermore, humans have developed single-player virtual games with a 99% realism rate, allowing people to freely edit the world they want or even directly input the worldview of a fantasy novel, truly entering into it and living a wonderful life.
No work, no pressure, an experience with endless possibilities...
Intelligent robots, along with this invention, have almost resolved all social conflicts.
"For ordinary people, this seems pretty good. Wait, what's that...?"
Jiang Yan glanced at it for a moment and suddenly noticed a file on the main screen that looked like a log. He immediately looked at it out of curiosity.
Experiment Record 0339:
Current reset count: 37.
Longest duration: 8372 years.
Cumulative causes of extinction without mechanical intervention:
1. Addiction to the virtual world leads to a loss of interest in reproduction in the real world, resulting in a continuous decline in the overall population. Equipment lacks maintenance and stagnates. Individuals confined to game pods for extended periods experience physical degeneration, making it impossible to sustain human civilization...
2. Some groups, unwilling to accept the limitations of life, secretly alter artificial intelligence programs, using game pods to extract special substances from their bodies in an attempt to overcome aging and achieve immortality...
3. Over-development of hedonistic technologies led to stagnation in military technology, failure to detect the asteroid impact in time, and ultimately, destruction...
4. The emergence of self-proclaimed saviors...
"What does this mean...is it a record of the demise of civilization?"
Jiang Yan then realized that these life forms all possessed a strong aura of time fluctuation, as if they had undergone repeated time reversals.
After a moment's thought, he flashed into a space station on another planet.
After smashing the hatch and entering the monitoring room, a familiar scene appeared before my eyes.
This world is completely different from the last one; it's a fantasy world, somewhat similar to the beginner continent we were on before.
It is also divided into many different factions with different beliefs, and even simulates a super-weakened version of the abyss.
Of course, the strongest among them is no more than diamond level.
These factions sometimes fight each other over their beliefs, and at other times unite to resist an abyss-like existence.
"It's quite remarkable that they managed to gather all the characters in such a small space."
Jiang Yan shook his head and looked directly at the log.
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