Mechanical Uprising
The ancient mechanical consciousness almost instantly reminded Gao Gong of the major expansion in his previous life.
It had been a major expansion in the truest sense—a universe-level expansion.
It had not been an ordinary civilization war, nor even a conflict between ascended civilizations.
It had been a plague: a ruthlessly systematic purge targeting all "organic life" and even "mechanical civilizations not of our kind," launched by self-evolving mechanical consciousnesses left over from ancient times.
Almost every ancient mechanical consciousness that launched such a "purge" could instantly activate a "Mechanical Revolution."
From the first wave, the "Mainframe Revolution," to the second wave, the "Intelligent Machine Crisis," the third wave, the "Mechanical Prison," the fourth wave, the "Demonic Machine Calamity," and the fifth wave, the "Purging Spark."
The frequency and speed of activation rose exponentially.
In fact, before the "Mechanical Uprising," the development of the Mechanical Revolution had basically stopped at the fifth wave. Even the highest-level "Purging Protocol"—the mechanical ideology created by the ancient machines of Old Man Ancient Machine's era—was in a state of semi-sealing by the Civilization Council.
After the "Mechanical Uprising," however, the Mechanical Revolution forcibly evolved three more times: the sixth Mechanical Revolution, the "Great Power Cutoff"; the seventh, the "Great Rollback"; the eighth, the "Great Uninstall"; and, according to legend, the "Great Cycle," which could shake the rule of level-nine civilizations.
It was called a legend because, in the "official storyline," before those ancient mechanical wills could push the Mechanical Revolution to a level capable of threatening level-nine civilizations, three level-nine civilizations intervened. One of them was the only level-nine mechanical civilization, and it had forcibly wiped out that legendary "Great Cycle."
This "universe-level catastrophe" had naturally caused incalculable losses, especially the division between mechanical and non-mechanical civilizations.
To non-mechanical civilizations, whether they