If it were merely some biological virus targeting mechanical lifeforms, it would not be unusual in the eyes of the String Controllers.
After all, the mechanical civilization had long been flooding the universe with troops, and the civilizations of the other systems had researched countless methods to deal with it.
Biological viruses that were easy to transmit, easy to spread, and highly dangerous were naturally among them.
But they soon discovered that this was not a virus. What virus could drag the mechanical energy of these mechanical lifeforms down to such an extent?!
One had to understand that the gap between an ascended species and a Tier Three species was enormous—so enormous that it was almost inconceivable.
For example, the combat power of an ascended mechanical species could be a thousand times that of a Tier Three species. That was no exaggeration.
Yet at this moment, this "biological-mechanical mode" was approaching that theoretical limit.
It was not limited to mechanical lifeforms, either. Mechanical planets, planetary mainframes, and even stellar-level celestial bodies all began transforming at a rapid pace. Whether it was their modules, computing power, or even the level of energy they could manipulate, everything began skyrocketing!
A Tier Three species could reach a strength approaching that of an ascended species.
A Tier Three machine could evolve to a level approaching that of a Tier Four civilization's machines.
Even mechanical planets, which theoretically could no longer advance, began experiencing explosive growth in "planetary energy." From one point of planetary energy to two, then three, the value began leaping continuously.
Throughout the entire process, planetary will also began to gestate.
Even mechanical planets without planetary computers installed began automatically generating a computational large model within their hardware modules.
This planet-level artificial intelligence possessed computational power no weaker than that of a