It was fair to say that the Third Mechanical Revolution—the "Mechanical Cage"—was the most widely known among carbon-based civilizations, and also the most notorious.
There was no other reason for it. Technologies such as "biological canning," "human-machine brains," "carbon-based power plants," and "carbon-based perpetual-motion machines" could all fundamentally trace their origins back to it.
If the first two Mechanical Revolutions had been centered on "extinction" and "pollution," respectively, then this one was centered on "exploitation."
Exploitation meant treating the "intelligence" of different species as fuel for computing power, treating carbon-based technology as fuel for mechanical technology, and even treating the life forms of other species as evolutionary keys for creating one's own "mechanical form."
Compared with the previous two, this "machine rebellion" did not engage in mass extinction. On the contrary, all defeated carbon-based species could survive. But for the vast majority of intelligent species, this method of survival was utterly horrifying.
At least half of the Mechanical Revolution's infamy had been caused by the "Mechanical Cage."
But Gao Gong had truly never expected that someone would go against the trend and use the "Mechanical Cage" model to create an "immortality project."
Yet, after thinking it over, it really wasn't impossible.
First, it did not require the strength of an entire "civilization."
Second, it was one of the few methods capable of permanently changing a "carbon-based form" through mechanical means.
Third, it matched rather well with the "technology tree" of that Wet River civilization.
Because essentially, it used the "Mechanical Cage" to permanently strengthen the "wetware" of the human body.
No wonder he had sensed information, carbon-based, mechanical, and various other means earlier. He had been so startled that he thought someone else had embarked on a path of fusion like his.
Now that Gao Gong had figured everything out,