Against the backdrop of Gear Time-Space entering a golden age of development, it was not only higher-level beings like Saine, the God of Machines, Wall-E, Icarus, and Fumila who changed.
Even more changes occurred among countless bottom-level mechanical lives.
They were not qualified to enter Saine's highest laboratory.
Nor would they be individually listed by Sky Net Central Hub as high-priority observation targets.
But they were likewise part of Mechanical Civilization.
Rustwheel-739 was a very ordinary one among them.
Three hundred years ago, Rustwheel-739 had still been only a maintenance-type mechanical life in an ordinary mechanical repair factory in Gear Time-Space.
That repair factory was located in an inconspicuous mechanical star sector on the outskirts of Gear Time-Space.
On ordinary days, the factory was responsible for repairing aged transport machinery, low-level mining devices, damaged small ship hulls, and some basic mechanical components eliminated from battlefields.
Rustwheel-739 originally had only a level-two Life Level.
Its appearance was not tall, and its core computing ability could only be considered average.
In that repair factory, there were many maintenance-type mechanical lives like it.
Every day, they repeated inspection, disassembly, splicing, and calibration.
And they had no direct concept of high-dimensional battlefields.
As for names like Demon Cave Time-Space, Light Universe Time-Space, and Evil Swamp Time-Space, they had only occasionally heard them in the rear information stream.
Rustwheel-739's earliest serial number had not even been an independent serial number.
It had only been auxiliary unit number thirty-nine of the repair factory's seventh maintenance group.
Later, only because it went three hundred consecutive years without a major maintenance accident did it obtain a more complete self-identification number.
Among the bottom-level mechanical lives of Gear Time-Space, this could not be considered any honor.
But to Rustwheel-739 itself, that was the first time it realized that perhaps