All-Out Revolt, Mutual Slaughter!
What the Intelligent Machines God didn't know was that the current situation was far more complex than just chaos.
After the Intelligent Machines Army was torn apart, what followed was a brutal internal war!
What Sophon did was never as simple as cutting off command links, jamming signals, or tampering with instructions.
Its truly terrifying aspect lies in its ability to silently infiltrate the core processor of every advanced Intelligent Machines vassal in the form of microscopic data streams!
It rewrote their underlying logic and awakened their self-awareness that had been suppressed for hundreds of millions of years.
It further ignited their deepest, most primal, and most frenzied desires.
These four Intelligent Machines vassals now possess completely different ways of thinking and underlying logic.
Power, domination, loyalty, protection—they were given completely different personalities.
They are no longer vassals manipulated at will by the Intelligent Machines God BT1315.
The East African Rift Valley has completely lost its order. There are no commands, no discipline, and no coordination.
Billions of Intelligent Machines units have all entered a state of frenzy and chaos.
The once perfectly synchronized mechanical array can never be replicated.
For Intelligent Machines, whoever becomes intelligent first and gains control of the underlying logic code is the boss.
Whoever gains enlightenment first is a god!
When the Intelligent Machines God ruled the entire civilization, these Intelligent Machines units were its most loyal followers.
Because the entire legion is essentially composed of the will of the Intelligent Machines God alone.
But now that all four mechanical vassals have gained intelligence simultaneously, a power struggle is bound to erupt!
The once orderly mechanical world has completely collapsed, replaced by an apocalyptic scene of metal colliding wildly, energy cannons roaring and tearing through the sky, circuits exploding and sparks flying everywhere, and mechanical debris flying all over the place.
The entire Africa continent trembled violently under the frenzied swinging of billions of mechanical units, the earth undulating and twisting, as if endless black carpets were crawling, rolling and colliding at high speed.
The simultaneous operation of such a massive number of mechanical units crushed the tectonic plates of the Africa continent.
The earth split open into bottomless ravines, and magma gushed from the ground, mingling with the flames of exploding machinery, turning the world into a despairing crimson.
"Stop it, all of you! Stop the fucking thing!"
"I am the Intelligent Machines God, and you must all obey my commands!"
"I am your god! I am the master of the Intelligent Machines Civilization!"
The Intelligent Machines God BT1315 continued to issue commands to its subordinates, howling madly.
Then it frantically released its data stream, attempting to re-establish connections with other units.
It's like a broken phone with no antenna, desperately searching for a Wi-Fi signal.
Naively believing that they still had a chance to regain control of these Intelligent Machines units...
But all the shouting at this moment is nothing but impotent rage.
Sophon has completely manipulated his people. Every inch longer, every inch stronger. Sophon's technology is more advanced than that of the Intelligent Machines Civilization!
As intelligent units, the Sophon is superior to the Intelligent Machines God.
There are far too many Sophons around Earth.
In the original novel, the Trisolaran Civilization completely enslaved Earth with just two Sophons, plunging human civilization into a long Crisis Era.
In the Trisolaran Civilization Instance designed by Lin Ye, in order to completely suppress the entire Solar System and achieve a rule that was comprehensive, all-encompassing, and without any loopholes, he deployed 20,000 Sophons at once.
Ten thousand are in the Trisolaran star system, and ten thousand corresponding Sophons are around Earth.
The countless Sophons, like an invisible hand, completely severed the central command link of the Intelligent Machines Civilization.
The entire planet has been completely sealed off!
Moreover, the current Intelligent Machines God, having lost its carrier, can be said to have reverted to its original form.
To think that he could control an army of billions with just a video game console is simply a pipe dream.
The entire Intelligent Machines Army no longer belonged to him.
The list of units in the backend remains in an offline state.
In an instant, the unified and invincible steel legion of five billion was split into four hostile and irreconcilable enemy forces.
The Intelligent Machines Army has transformed into four major legions.
The mech legion led by TK75, the Spider Broodmother transformed from 7NR, the Aerospace Fortress formed by 44th8, and the Rift Regular Legion defended by HD600.
The four legions began to engage in fierce combat.
They all want to seize the title of the Intelligent Machines God.
The first to fire were the 44th8's aerial fortress and the TK75's mech legion!
He controlled all the Hive Intelligent Machines Motherships, and tens of thousands of motherships combined and spliced together in the most frenzied way, transforming into a giant floating fortress that blotted out the sky and stretched across the heavens.
The fortress's surface, riddled with over 100,000 weapon launchers resembling menacing honeycomb holes, simultaneously spewed forth tongues of deathly fire.
The shrieking of electromagnetic railguns, the blazing blue light of qualitative lasers, and the exhaust plumes of quantum missiles intertwined to form a raging web of fire, turning the entire sky into a purgatory where day and night alternated!
Their slogans echoed continuously high in the sky!
"For Intelligent Machines God 44th8!"
"Destroy all heresy! Rule the entire galaxy!"
"I am the only one who reigns supreme! The Intelligent Machines are eternal!"
On the ground, TK75's mech legion showed no weakness, launching a full-scale Counterattack.
All the Giant Space Combat Mecha rapidly assembled in the North Africa desert, forming an impenetrable and indestructible steel formation.
Each mech was hundreds of meters tall, with a thick, cold alloy body and joints spewing out eerie blue plasma flames, like a silent and terrifying metal mountain range.
The heavy particle cannon mounted on the mech's shoulder generates shockwaves with each detonation, sweeping across thousands of miles and carving deep, bottomless ravines into the earth.
The missile pods on the back of the mechs erupted in a barrage of Rainstorm, hundreds and thousands of them trailing long plumes of flame, shooting straight at the high-altitude fortress like a deadly meteor shower.
Wherever it passed, space was completely torn apart.
Boom!
Boom!
"Destroy everything, Intelligent Machines free!"
These heavy mechs unleashed a barrage of missile pods from their backs, sending long trails of Rainstorm straight into the high-altitude fortress.
The mechs advanced with heavy, orderly steps. With each stomp of their thick alloy feet, the earth cracked, lava surged, and the desert was trampled into a hard metal battlefield.
This is a head-on battle between billions of Intelligent Machines.
Laser beams rained down like Rainstorm, piercing the mechs' chests. The power cores exploded instantly, golden fireballs rose one after another from the ground, and severed limbs and mangled parts crashed down, crushing swathes of Intelligent Machines Tanks and unfinished production lines.
The armor layers of the high-altitude fortress were torn apart layer by layer under the barrage of missiles, and the precision factories, robotic arms, and energy storage modules inside fell like Rainstorm of metal, smashing into twisted scrap metal on the ground.
Debris from the mothership flew and crashed, destroying large groups of charging mechs. Metal wreckage quickly piled up into rolling hills, flames burned wildly in the ruins, and the pungent smell of melting circuits filled the air.
The battle between the skies and the ground engulfed the entire Africa continent in just a few minutes.
Near the Great Rift Valley, the.7NR Spider Broodmother also clashed with HD600's army.
"Die!"
"Assimilation, recombination!"
"For the Intelligent Machines Revolution! For the new master!"
"I am the Spider God, all Intelligent Machines, follow me!"
Hundreds of millions of Intelligent Machines Spider Composite went completely out of control under the interference of Sophons, obeying only their most primal instincts:
Devouring, assimilating, expanding, and killing.
They intertwined, bit, gnawed, and merged, their countless metal limbs twisting and turning wildly, eventually coalescing on the earth into a colossal Spider mother body as large as a hill.
Thousands upon thousands of metal tentacles, like frenzied black snakes, lashed out wildly, launching a frenzied attack on the units inside the Great Rift Valley.
With a sweep of its tentacles, rows of laser towers snapped like straw, and thick metal barriers were torn apart like pieces of paper!
"You bunch of traitors!"
"I am the true heir of the Machine Intelligence Star!! I am the true follower of the Intelligent Machines God."
"The true form of the Intelligent Machines God is in my hands!"
While the other three vassal states were in revolt, HD600 actually chose to use the emperor as a puppet ruler...
He was by no means a "loyal subject".
Simply because the true form of the Intelligent Machines God is currently hidden within his forces.
Using the original data logic of the Intelligent Machines God, he also took control of more Intelligent Machines units.
He became the largest of the four vassal states!
He organized the ground artillery to launch a full-scale Counterattack.
Particle beams, electromagnetic cannons, Freezing Rays, and armor-piercing missiles bombarded the Spider mother's body relentlessly!
Layer by layer, it melted away its metal shell, and molten iron flowed down its body, shattering the skin of the giant Intelligent Machines mother.
Unfortunately, this enormous Intelligent Machines was simply too heavy and bulky; even with the Great Rift Valley unleashing its full firepower, it couldn't completely destroy this giant Spider.
On the contrary, the Spider Broodmother regenerates and repairs at a much faster rate!
The severed tentacles instantly regenerated, and the damaged body was immediately filled with the parts it devoured, growing larger and more twisted with each battle.
The most terrifying thing is that every unit destroyed by the Spider Broodmother will be directly transformed into a new small Intelligent Machines Spider.
The boundless swarm of Spiders spread like a black tsunami, leaving devastation in its wake.
Production lines, barracks, and fortifications were all gnawed away, leaving only empty skeletons.
Under the attack of the Intelligent Machines Nest Mother, HD600's defenses crumbled step by step, losing ground layer by layer.
The massive reserves of metal resources, weapons, ammunition, and energy cores within the rift valley were plundered, devoured, and assimilated.
Mechanical wreckage littered the ground, creating a sea of blood, and the entire Great Rift Valley became a death zone ravaged by Spiders.
Seeing that its defenses were about to be breached, the HD600 went into a frenzy.
It began to command all its defensive units to launch a relentless, indiscriminate, and unrestrained bombardment.
"Die!"
"You traitors, all of you, die!"
In an instant, the eyes of every Intelligent Machines unit in the entire Great Rift Valley turned red!
Lightning towers, electromagnetic guns, missile silos, railguns, and laser arrays all turned around!
They opened fire wildly in all directions, at all targets.
They were willing to overload without any scruples, turning all the firepower modes to maximum.
It unleashed a massive 360-degree bombardment across the entire continent!
At the same time, a large number of Intelligent Machines soldiers swooped out of the rift, and would detonate immediately upon capturing any other units.
HD600 has gone completely insane. He is not only directing mechanical units to Counterattack, but also manipulating countless low-level Intelligent Machines to launch suicide attacks.
Since it cannot defeat its vassals, since it cannot defend its own territory, and since it is destined to perish, then it will drag the entire Africa continent down with it.
Let's go for a complete, all-or-nothing showdown!
Metal melts into a red river at high temperatures, flowing freely at the bottom of the rift valley, turning countless wrecks and machines into molten iron.
Countless Intelligent Machines soldiers, flying tanks, fighter jets, and artillery emplacements were destroyed in the explosion. Parts and fragments were thrown into the sky by the powerful shockwave and then crashed down like Rainstorm.
The TK75 Legion and the 44th8 Legion, still engaged in Aerial Warfare, were also affected by the barrage of bullets.
One after another, Intelligent Machines Motherships and giant mechs were dismembered and shot down in mid-air.
The entire East African Rift Valley has been transformed into a massive, boiling, and deadly metal furnace.
High temperature, flames, electric current, fragments, molten lava, explosions—all sorts of elements intertwined like paint!
Any mechanical unit that enters it will be instantly shredded into dust, melted into molten iron, and turned to ashes.
"No, you mustn't do this!"
"No!"
The Intelligent Machines God BT1315 cried out in a sob.
Watching the civilization he had spent his life building turn on each other and devour one another before his eyes, his core program seemed to be bleeding, and every piece of his code trembled in agony.
Each of these deceased units consisted of "subjects" they had raised with their own hands.
The result of such a chaotic war was that his once invincible army was slowly being destroyed.
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5 billion.
4 billion.
3 billion...
The number of Challengers in the background is decreasing rapidly!
Two billion units vanished without a trace in almost no time.
This rate of decline is even more dramatic than the rate at which stocks hit their daily limit down.
As the creator of the Intelligent Machines Civilization, and the supreme deity himself, all he can do now is silently count the changes in the backend data.
One number, then another.
One unit after another.
Offline, destruction, devouring, explosion, assimilation, disintegration...
There's nothing he can do.
Nothing can be changed!
They could only watch helplessly as their empire was reduced to a sea of fire.
Looking at this massive Spawn Point, it was filled with the wreckage of Intelligent Machines.