In the course of civilization's evolution, some utterly bizarre things would always happen.
For example, all mechanical civilizations were extreme materialists, pursuing the control, dismantling, and transformation of everything through machinery.
Yet during the evolution of civilization, what often merged with extreme materialism was another extreme: fanatic religiosity.
Extreme materialism + fanatic religion
And so the Mechanical Cult was born.
Everything for machinery, all for machinery, machinery in everything.
Even among mechanical civilizations, mechanical civilizations with a "religious" nature formed a major category and represented one of the mainstream directions of mechanical evolution.
Every Mechanical Cult was a master of manipulating "collective consciousness."
Their methods of manipulating "collective consciousness" were collectively known as "mechanical apotheosis."
Through blood-and-flesh evolution, mechanical modification, source-code reconstruction, and other ancestral-hall methods, the Industrial Yuan Clan had stumbled into a trace of the evolution of "mechanical apotheosis."
Without a doubt, the ancestral hall is also a form of clan faith. They formed a server cluster through the clan, yet sought to transcend the computational limits of servers and become a higher-level information lifeform. But they have taken the wrong path.
In High Engineer's view, the Yuan Clan's correct evolutionary direction was to become a true Industrial Yuan Clan. With the ancestral hall at its core, they would establish a planet-scale Yuan Clan factory, manufacture hundreds of millions of Yuan Clan descendants, expand the clan to star vortices, star sectors, and even galaxies, then rely on the faith of the Yuan Clan descendants to turn the Yuan Clan's ancestors into true "Gods of Ten Thousand Machines."
That way, the Yuan Clan would have hope of establishing a third-level civilization.
But it was too late to say anything now.
The one lying on the coffin board had already become a member of the Gao Clan.
After the modification