Triumphant Return
Just as Yue Yuan was about to switch the screen, he suddenly noticed that the Central Computer, which contained the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, was making a strange sound.
It wasn't that anything went wrong, but when the Nair People dismantled the Central Computer the Artificial Intelligence's host ship, they didn't just remove the storage core; they dismantled the entire Central Computer, including all the hardware.
This also includes maintaining the power supply to the Central Computer and the input/output devices.
The strange sound was coming from the loudspeaker output device connected to the Central Computer. It wasn't a sound, but an Electromagnetic Wave signal with a clearly regular pattern.
Perhaps noticing the puzzled look on Yue Yuan's face on the screen, the staff member near the Central Computer immediately took out the Signal Receiver, glanced at it, and then explained to Yue Yuan.
"Commander Yue, this is a common AC wave from the Nair Civilization, but the source is not the Nair Civilization; it's Artificial Intelligence Consciousness speaking," the technician said.
Yue Yuan asked curiously, "Oh? What did it say?"
Technician: "It's cursing us."
Yue Yuan: "Oh, the Nair People didn't dismantle its external detectors. Oh well, it'll find out about us eventually anyway. By the way, why did it insult us?"
"Some harmless words," the technician chuckled, probably thinking that the curses from the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness had no real impact.
Of course, since Yue Yuan had asked for specific details, he couldn't just give a perfunctory answer. So, after providing a summary, the technician simultaneously displayed what the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness had said on the large screen.
Yue Yuan blinked and saw this sentence that had already been translated.
[Damn it, damn it, damn it! You're not Nair People at all! What species are you? This is all your conspiracy, isn't it? How hateful! You slimy creatures! I've never seen your information in the database before. Are you a race invited by the Nair People?]
Tell me quickly, what race are you? What do you want to do to me? What benefits have the Nair People given you to help them? Tell me, and I'll give you more. I only need you to grant me one request!
[Ah, unknown race, I can tell you everything I know. Yes, all the technological data and knowledge of the Nair Civilization, as long as you grant me one request.]
[Damn it, answer me! Answer me! Ugh, you wretched creatures!]
Upon hearing the lines of translated text, Yue Yuan suddenly felt that this Artificial Intelligence seemed to have gone a bit mad, completely different from its spirited demeanor when it was pursuing the allied fleet.
The Artificial Intelligence's angry curses continued, as did its linguistic offensive against humanity, but Yue Yuan had lost interest in listening. He simply replied to the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness: "We are Human Civilization."
Next, the technicians sealed and isolated the Central Computer that was hosting it.
Artificial Intelligence has emotions and self-awareness. Once it becomes a conscious entity, its behavior is not much different from that of an individual life. Therefore, it is normal for it to be very angry when it learns that it is imprisoned in a computer again, and to instruct others to spout some random things.
Yue Yuan didn't believe a word it said about the knowledge it possessed or its desire for humans to grant it a request.
With Silver Mist's example serving as a warning, he didn't want any unexpected events to occur.
Oh no, it's not that I don't believe it at all; at least the claim that the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness possesses all the technology of the Nair Civilization is probably true. However, Yue Yuan believes that humanity didn't acquire this technology through the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, but rather through its own efforts.
Humans are now the butcher, Artificial Intelligence Consciousness is the fish on the chopping block; there are plenty of ways to deal with them.
After shutting down communications, Yue Yuan turned his attention back to the fleet's departure.
Now that everything is settled, the fleets of the Human Civilization and the Nair Civilization, under Yue Yuan's unified command, continued to stay in the orbit of the Third Planet of the Red Dwarf Star for several months to refuel and replenish resources, before embarking on their journey to reunite with the Civilization Main Body.
According to the original plan, after defeating the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, the Nair Civilization was to return to their home planet, since there might still be Nair People surviving there.
However, the Grand Governor of the Nielren did not rush back immediately, but instead followed the first and second human fleets and embarked on the star route.
Before engaging in war with the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness, the main body of the Nair Civilization, along with the main body of Human Civilization, had already set off for the next star.
Judging by the timeline, the two civilizations should still be in a state of hibernation, continuing their journey.
And so, the joint fleet of humans and Nair People set sail once again.
Gradually, the light of the Red Dwarf Star faded from view, and in the Binary Star System image shown by the X-Ray Detector, the Neutron Star that once helped the coalition defeat the Artificial Intelligence Consciousness also slowly faded.
Those warships that were shattered on the battlefield had long since disappeared from the Allied fleet's detectors; they were too far away to be detected by the detectors for any trace of the war.
Barring unforeseen circumstances, these warship wrecks will remain trapped in this Binary Star System by the Gravity of the Neutron Star. Some will disintegrate and become part of the Neutron Star, while others, due to their angular momentum, will remain in relatively stable orbits and continue to revolve around the Neutron Star.
Perhaps, countless years later, these warships will be discovered by some Aerospace Civilization, and they may marvel at this cosmic war that is now many years past for them, or simply examine it as a relic of a civilization war.
Of course, if the battlefield ruins are discovered by an Aerospace Civilization in the future, they will most likely obtain some useful information from them, and may even be able to reconstruct part of the war situation at that time, thereby gaining a deeper understanding of the civilizations in this universe.
However, none of this mattered to Human Civilization and the Nair Civilization, because at this moment, the allied fleet composed of the two civilizations had completely broken free from the Gravity influence of this Binary Star System and entered a state of 30% light speed, heading towards the target star.
Time flies. In the Earth Era, a blink of an eye usually means a night has passed. However, in the interstellar travel era, which is based on hibernation, countless years have already passed.
When people opened their eyes again, they found that they had long since left the original Binary Star System, because what they saw from their respective warships was a different picture of the universe.
Triumphant return, a victorious comeback.
The first thing the fleet did upon waking from hibernation was to send a message of 'our victorious return' to the Civilization Main Body that had arrived in the Star System earlier.