Lai Ya was still continuing her breakthrough.
However, news of the situation at the South Pole had spread like wildfire, reaching the entire Southern Hemisphere in just one day.
All intelligent beings who learned of it fell into extreme shock!
Lady Lai Ya had actually broken through?
And she had defeated that legendary intelligent machine during her breakthrough?
Ninety percent of the powerful beings who entered the secret realm had died?
So many powerful beings, yet they had died so tragically?
Even Ling Ge, August, and Laiken, the three peak Dominator-tier beings, had failed to leave the secret realm alive?
While deeply shocked, everyone was also terrified in hindsight.
"What will happen next?"
"It feels like we're going to fight the intelligent machines!"
"A fight is inevitable. So many of our top experts died. How could we not take revenge?"
"And how could the intelligent machines possibly allow Lady Lai Ya to live?"
"So we should run away as soon as possible!"
"That's right, hurry and run! Flee south to the cities or human settlements. If we don't leave now, it'll be too late!"
Many intelligent beings had caught the scent of war—and the scent of a massive war about to begin!
After such a major upheaval, it was almost impossible for the intelligent beings and the intelligent machines not to fight a major battle.
And unlike the previous Carbon-Silicon Wars, the scale of this war was bound to be unprecedented.
Either the northern intelligent machines would be completely wiped out by the southern intelligent beings, or Lai Ya would be killed under the intelligent machines' siege. There was almost no middle ground.
Thus, after receiving the news, nearly all intelligent beings fled south with their families.
The intelligent beings living especially near the equator immediately began migrating toward major