"Boss, extracting at this level consumes 30% of the factory's power, and it's still rising. The final power consumption should be between 34.1% and 35.3%." Mechanic Huang Wen spoke up.
"Mm, that's about right."
High Engineer nodded. This was not a single star core, but the equivalent of refining dozens of star cores at once. Being able to keep power consumption below half already proved that it lived up to its status as a Tier Four civilization building. There had to be ascension technology products inside it.
"Stop for now. Adjust the energy refinement frequency and try refining fireseed energy."
High Engineer ignored Crystal Four's hungry gaze and pulled out something resembling a metal box. This was a fireseed cube, which could be understood as the cockpit of a fireseed lifeform. The consciousness, thoughts, and emotions of every fireseed lifeform were sealed inside it.
It was precisely because of its existence that fireseed machines existed between machinery and energy. They were rare half-machine, half-energy lifeforms within mechanical civilization.
There were many of these things. They had all been excavated from inside "Cybertron" back then. Since they were dead objects, they had not been contaminated by the Cyber Tide.
Of course, even if they had been contaminated, it would not have mattered. They could simply be cleansed once more.
These "cubes" had all belonged to veterans who had followed the true Cybertron generals. They had either died in civilization wars, or the redundant components of their mechanical bodies had reached the system limit, causing their consciousness to collapse and their fireseeds to extinguish—similar to a carbon-based lifeform reaching the end of its lifespan.
If these fireseed cubes were awakened, they would naturally become Tier Three machines, and fairly powerful ones at that.
Besides the fireseed cubes, the confidential database of the