Sophon debuff
Just as the Intelligent Machines army was preparing to expand rapidly, the Intelligent Machines God suddenly felt that its central system was under some kind of pressure.
It felt like countless invisible needles were relentlessly piercing his core program; the oppressive feeling of penetrating deep into the underlying code caused him to momentarily freeze.
The Intelligent Machines Mothership, which was preparing to ascend, suddenly went silent. The massive metal hull lost its power support and slowly sank. The energy patterns on the surface of the hull quickly dimmed, and the flashing indicator lights went out one by one.
All the Intelligent Machines units were stuck in the Great Rift Valley, like an ant colony that had lost its pheromones, running around aimlessly.
"This..."
What's going on?
What the Intelligent Machines God found even more unbelievable was...
Within his central system, a large number of Intelligent Machines units had gone offline and were no longer controllable.
Although the Intelligent Machines Civilization possesses billions of combat units in this Instance, seemingly overwhelming and invincible, in reality, the entire legion's operation relies on this single core central system.
The Intelligent Machines God is like the "brain" of the entire Intelligent Machines Civilization. It issues its combat orders and strategic deployments layer by layer, relying on the Intelligent Machines vassals distributed on various battlefields as relay nodes to transmit the orders to every grassroots Intelligent Machines unit, thereby achieving precise control over the entire Intelligent Machines Army.
In other words, every Intelligent Machines unit has a unique code identifier in its backend, just like a person's ID card.
The Instance Backend was provided by the Divine Firmament, and the Intelligent Machines God himself also had a dedicated Intelligent Machines control platform.
Through the console, he can intuitively view the real-time status, energy reserves, and combat positions of billions of units. Even if the most basic mechanical soldier malfunctions, he can detect and repair it immediately.
But now!
A large number of Intelligent Machines units are offline!
[Number of controllable units remaining: 4,000,000,000]
[Number of controllable units remaining: 3380050798]
[Number of controllable units remaining: 2760065432]
[Number of controllable units remaining: 2,327,653,472]
[...]
5 billion, 4 billion, 3 billion!
The number of units in the background is decreasing, with tens of millions of units going offline every second.
Just like bad pixels on a mechanical hard drive!
The lights on the screen, which were originally densely packed and dazzling, now seemed to be extinguished one by one, like stars swept away by a storm.
The bright spot, indicating normal operation, quickly turned into a gray dot with no response.
The biggest difference between Intelligent Machines Civilizations and other civilizations is that mutual trust among other civilizations is based on civilized order, moral norms, and shared interests.
The units of the Intelligent Machines Civilization are all manipulated by hard data.
Once they lose control of the central system, these independent units will evolve into self-manipulating intelligent agents.
The number of players in the Instance remained the Instance, and these Intelligent Machines units had not died, but... they had escaped the control of the Intelligent Machines God.
"Why?!"
"Divine Firmament, there's a bug! This Instance has a bug!"
"My people are out of control! There's a memory error!"
The Intelligent Machines God was genuinely panicked.
As the ruler of the Intelligent Machines Civilization, he had witnessed the carnage of countless battlefields and experienced countless clashes between civilizations, but he had never felt such fear as he did now.
The program going out of control was his greatest fear, bar none.
Intelligent Machines Civilizations are not afraid of death or destruction because they can quickly recover and repair themselves.
Each Intelligent Machines unit is like a cell in the body of Intelligent Machines God, constantly dying and being resurrected—it's just the body's metabolism.
His biggest fear is that the program will go out of control!
Once the mind control over all Intelligent Machines units is lost, the Intelligent Machines Civilization will cease to exist.
In an instant, it will turn into a mechanical locust plague.
[Divine Firmament Reminder: Challengers, before officially entering the Instance battle, the Divine Firmament will provide a more detailed explanation of the Instance's mechanics!]
[In the background of this Instance, the Trisolaran star system has already determined the coordinates of the Solar System in the Universe and has begun to exert initial control over Solar System! The Solar System is now a slave system of the Trisolaran star system.]
[Therefore, a series of buffs will be automatically triggered at the Spawn Points of all Challengers. Please check them carefully!]
debuff?
Same plot, same absurd gameplay.
This is Lin Ye's specialty: applying buffs at the start of the game, just like in Solar System Online.
They're putting players under pressure before even starting the Instance.
[1. Sophon Control: Sophons are microscopic super particles created by the Trisolaran Civilization, essentially protons that have been modified into supercomputers.]
The Trisolarans would curl up in an 11-dimensional microscopic proton, forcibly unfolding it into a two-dimensional plane, large enough to envelop the entire Trisolaris.
On this enormous two-dimensional "film," ultra-large-scale integrated circuits are etched using the Three-Body Problem -edge photolithography technology, transforming protons into a super AI computer with planetary computing power.
After etching, the two-dimensional proton is folded back into a microscopic 11-dimensional state, restoring it to the size of a normal proton.
In order to control the Solar System, the Trisolaran Civilization deployed a total of 10,000 Sophons throughout the entire galaxy!
[2. All-Seeing and All-Hearing: Each Sophon deployed into the Solar System has a symmetrical Sophon in a quantum entangled state within the Trisolaran star system. The two are in a quantum entangled state, used for real-time interstellar communication. Traveling at near the speed of light, it can penetrate any matter and simultaneously conduct real-time monitoring and recording of the entire galaxy... All Challengers are completely transparent to the Trisolaran Civilization!]
[3. Science Lockdown: The Sophon will tamper with the Challengers' database, creating data chaos and rendering all data already possessed by the Challengers invalid. The Challengers' technological level will drop by 99%!]
[Divine Firmament prompt: Sophons have significant limitations. Due to their microscopic nature, Sophons cannot directly alter the physical world...]
However, since all Challengers in this Instance are Intelligent Machines units, whose core programs rely on data and instructions to operate, the Sophon can directly hack into the core processors of the Intelligent Machines, thus achieving direct manipulation of them!
As soon as Divine Firmament finished speaking, the various mechanical units in the East African Rift Valley began to fight each other.
Various types of shells and lasers flew around wildly.
The backend interface of the Intelligent Machines God also crashed instantly.
2 billion.
1 billion.
One hundred million.
50 million...
Ultimately, his control units dropped to 1000.
This means he has lost control of most of his units, with only 1,000 Intelligent Machines units remaining, which he can barely control because they are directly connected to his main body.
But this is only temporary. Once a more powerful manipulation program is attached to these units, they will be captured in no time.
Without control, he is no longer an Intelligent Machines God.
It's just a regular video game console, the BT1315.
In the blink of an eye, he had been sidelined and became Commander.
"..."
"That's impossible!"
The Intelligent Machines God was completely stunned.
He had never experienced anything so outrageous.
In one Instance, the Intelligent Machines army went out of control right from the start.