Yet Qianyi made it eat.
He made it break free from that fixed anchor point, made it do things Lagurghos would never have allowed it to do—eat freely and whimsically, follow some vague instinctive impulse, feel things, do things utterly unrelated to the definition of a "machine"...
This inevitably led it to a conclusion—Qianyi might not want it anymore.
When someone made a machine do things a machine was not supposed to do, it often meant that the machine had developed a problem and was about to be scrapped. Just like how Lagurghos had deemed its calculations unacceptable and simply blown its head apart with a Stellar Core, sealing away that abnormal thing and re-anchoring several key nodes to prevent its calculations from deviating from [Destruction].
Was Qianyi letting it think freely and do things outside its fixed framework also a preliminary step before blowing it up with a Stellar Core?
And there happened to be a Stellar Core right here.
Iron Tomb: "..."
Its electrical signals flickered madly as its calculations continuously weighed the two choices: 'Will I be destroyed?' and 'Keep eating.'
In the end, it made its choice.
Whatever. It could not resist anyway, so it might as well do something it liked first—such as enjoying the 'delicacy' before its eyes.
It moved its enormous body and pounced toward the black hole, toward that massive white entity of Dark Planet Gransphia.
Iron Tomb's actions immediately provoked a fierce retaliation from Dark Planet Gransphia.
Yet the lightning Dark Planet Gransphia unleashed at full power only scattered a few sparse sparks across Iron Tomb's shield. Its all-out black hole devouring force was like tiny droplets trying to erode through a titanium-alloy steel plate—not even leaving a scratch on Iron Tomb's pitch-black surface.
To it, all of those attacks were