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Did Yulista truly want to surrender?

The answer was beyond doubt.

High-ranking figures of technological civilizations like Yulista naturally did not wish to perish in war.

Back when the Wizard Civilization had gone to war with the Galente Federation, when the war reached its end stage and the Galente Federation stood on the brink of utter defeat, had there not also been so many Galente Federation higher-ups begging for their lives?

Moreover, as a technological civilization that had put all its points into defense, the fact that the Engineer Civilization had invested the strength of its entire civilization into defensive fields already showed that this civilization possessed little ambitious heart for outward expansion and little of a violent temperament.

It was precisely because they feared death and dreaded the strong that they had put all their points into defense.

Since they feared death... surrendering to the Mechanical Civilization this time was only natural.

If they surrendered to the Light God Race, the overwhelming majority of the Engineer Civilization's upper ranks would suffer disaster. Even the middle ranks might be thoroughly purged in blood.

Only those ignorant, low-level beings would be left behind. After they reproduced for another dozen or so generations—merely several thousand or ten thousand years—they would likely have long forgotten their ancestors' war against the Light God Race and instead become the Light God Race's most devout believers.

Such an outcome was naturally unacceptable to the Engineer Civilization's upper ranks, Yulista included.

Thus, by comparison, surrendering to the Mechanical Civilization seemed far more reliable.

Furthermore, Yulista himself had just concluded that the Transcendent Realm existence of the Mechanical Civilization might harbor a desire to cherish talent and subdue them.

Seeing it this way... quite a few of the senior engineers present could not help but be moved.

However, Yulista did not immediately agree with the words of this trusted top engineer.

He pondered for a long while before saying, "We must first find a way to establish contact with the upper ranks of the Mechanical Civilization. We can talk after learning their exact attitude."

"If the upper ranks of the Mechanical Civilization also refuse to leave us a path to survival and insist on fighting us to the death, then our Engineer Civilization shall naturally accompany them to the end!" Yulista declared.

As a God-level Scientist, he had some fighting spirit in him as well. It was just that there was not very much of it.

"But if the Mechanical Civilization is willing to talk with us..."

"We can talk..." Yulista continued.

His gaze swept toward the other senior engineers within the Heavenly Calamity Project.

The senior engineers present were all intelligent people. Naturally, they understood what he meant.

Words such as "surrender" were far too eye-catching. It was not yet appropriate to say them aloud.

At Yulista's words, the Engineer Civilization's senior engineers all nodded, clearly agreeing with him.

In truth, Yulista and the others also had considerable concerns about deciding to surrender to the Mechanical Civilization.

The beings of the Mechanical Civilization all appeared cold and rigid.

After all, more than eighty percent of the Mechanical Beings were advanced intelligent lifeforms with icy mechanical appearances.

Even if some possessed angelic forms, vehicle forms, or other humanoid appearances, either their numbers were too few, or their biological appearances differed far too greatly from those of the Engineer Civilization.

It truly made it difficult for them to feel much sense of kinship.

Furthermore, Saine had only protected the tens of millions of beings within that portion of the Heavenly Calamity Project. Yet on this Engineer Civilization battlefield, where fierce fighting had already raged for thousands of years, how could the Engineer Civilization beings who had died at the hands of the Mechanical Civilization and the Light God Race amount to merely hundreds of millions or trillions?

Therefore, some matters were not so absolute.

It was best to first communicate with the Mechanical Civilization, test the waters, and probe their attitude.

That was the wise choice.

Afterward, the Engineer Civilization dispatched hundreds of its mid- and lower-level fleet groups toward the surrounding Mechanical Civilization battlefields.

Although more than eighty percent of the Mechanical Beings on the Mechanical Civilization's side appeared to be emotionless metal lifeforms, Sky Net served as the central control system. Thus, when these high-ranking Engineer Civilization beings revealed their intention to submit to the Mechanical Civilization—

As the Mechanical Civilization's supreme leader, Saine naturally learned of the Engineer Civilization's intentions at the first possible moment.

Saine naturally welcomed the Engineer Civilization's declaration.

He had originally intended to leave them hanging for another thousand years, waiting until the Engineer Civilization had been driven into a truly hopeless corner before extending an olive branch.

Unexpectedly, the Engineer Civilization had already failed to hold on at this point.

Sure enough, technological civilizations of this kind did not possess much will to fight.

And the Engineer Civilization's current behavior was likely related to their Mother Plane having just fallen.

Saine could not help looking toward where the Engineer Civilization's homeworld lay behind him.

It had already become a Sea of Fire.

Though it was a Top-Level Plane, it still could not withstand the pincer assault of the Light God Race and the Mechanical Civilization's two great armies. Countless billions upon trillions of beings had been killed or injured within it.

Saine naturally felt not the slightest pity for those beings.

After experiencing years of Dimensional Hegemony and civilization wars, Saine had long grown accustomed to slaughter and death.

Death was merely another form of matter and energy...

Compared with the Engineer Civilization's homeworld, where living beings lay devastated, Saine was far more interested at the moment in the Engineer Civilization's many technologies.

It was not only the Heavenly Calamity Project. The Engineer Civilization's siege warships that possessed Civilization Supreme Treasure-level standards, along with other special technological creations, likely also greatly interested Saine.

Even the Magic Cube in Saine's hand was sending wave after wave of golden ripples in every direction.

The Magic Cube had always possessed the ability to devour technological rule-based objects. The Heavenly Calamity Project before them, which possessed late stage Rank Nine combat power, contained an unknown amount of profoundly mysterious technological source mysteries and rule energy.

It had long made the Magic Cube drool with envy.

However, if Saine truly seized the Heavenly Calamity Project next, he likely would not hand such a late stage Rank Nine engineering creation over to the Magic Cube to devour.

The Magic Cube's current grade had already reached a higher tier, and the limits of that tier were still nowhere in sight.

Giving the Heavenly Calamity Project to the Magic Cube to devour would be too wasteful.

Nor could the Magic Cube undergo any further transformation in the short term on that basis.

The Civilization Supreme Treasures, or fragments of Civilization Supreme Treasures, seized later on the Engineer Civilization battlefield could perhaps be given to the Magic Cube as snacks.

After the Engineer Civilization revealed an obvious intention to surrender—

Saine dispatched Optimus Prime, along with some Dominators skilled at negotiation, to communicate with the Engineer Civilization's upper ranks.

Saine had originally wanted to send Little Tenth over.

With Little Tenth's abilities, experience, and eloquence, she was quite suited to this sort of work.

But at some point, Little Tenth had already hidden herself in the outer fringes of this Civilization Battlefield.

At this moment, she was even huddled together with Lina. Who knew what the two sisters were talking about.

Considering that persuading the Engineer Civilization to surrender carried some risks after all—

If the other side suddenly went back on their word and erupted with full force, even with Little Tenth's strength, she might not be able to withdraw unscathed.

With that in mind... Saine only had Optimus Prime bring some confidential advanced Intelligent Robots skilled at negotiation and depart as envoys.

It was worth mentioning that Optimus Prime was still inside the Super Fusion Mechanical Giant.

Therefore, when Saine gave it this order, Optimus Prime first separated itself from within the Rank Nine Fusion Mechanical Giant.

It also brought out another two or three Rank Seven Mechanical Dominators.

The sight of the Mechanical Dominators separating from the Rank Nine robot naturally drew the attention of the Engineer Civilization's upper ranks as well.

The Super Fusion Mechanical Giant before them, even more magnificent than the Heavenly Calamity Project, had been a key target of observation for the Engineer Civilization's senior engineers ever since this Civilization Battlefield began.

In truth, part of the reason God-level Scientist Yulista was willing to surrender was his unwillingness to resign himself to defeat.

There were too many mysteries in this spacetime that Yulista had yet to unravel. In this respect, these scientists shared much in common with the mages of the Wizard Civilization.

Yulista wanted to live longer and explore more cutting-edge technologies.

Yulista himself was also extremely curious about the Mechanical Civilization before him.

Their contact with Saine's Mechanical Civilization was a meeting born of both sides moving toward one another.