A reverse rescue passage
When the complete Source-Devouring Mother Nest restarts, the first thing to light up is not the bright yellow veins around it.
Rather, it was the tracking anchor that Saine had previously seized from the World-Hunting Ancient Emperor.
The coordinate information remaining inside the anchor point gradually overlapped with the signals from the Remnant Star Remnant Domain transmitted back by the Everbright Ark.
Large mechanical supports then extend outwards from around the Mother Nest.
The time-space Stabilization Device left behind by the Alarm Clock Girl was also activated by Skynet.
The Mechanical Civilization did not completely copy the original cross-dimensional methods of the Source-Devouring Mother Nest.
The silver-gray light emitted by the Magic Cube forcibly integrated the communication rules of the Mother Nest network, tracking anchor points, and the Suiming Time-Space.
Three different spacetime systems gradually formed a stable pathway under the regulation of Saine's power.
This project lasted for over a century.
For a normal civilization, the Remnant Star Remnant Domain would likely have been completely destroyed during this period.
However, the Time Flow Rate differs greatly between Higher Dimensional Plane.
According to the intermittent messages sent back by Atar, only a little over ten years had passed in the Remnant Star Remnant Domain.
The Source-Devouring Legion continues to shrink their living area.
However, the most crucial evacuation routes are still in Atar's control for the time being.
After the first spacetime barrier was completely opened, Saine did not only allow the Mechanical Probe to pass through first.
The colossal Rule True Body of the God of Machines appeared directly in the center of the passage.
Countless Mechanical Legion and high-speed Transport Platform followed behind the God of Machines.
Bing Xin stood in the center of an ice-blue lotus platform.
Miluo had already donned his Armor Penetration once more.
His injuries are far from healed.
But this time, those who need to be received are mostly members of the Flame Civilization Remnant Realm for many years.
Miluo insisted on going there in person no matter what.
"The situation at the other end of the passage is still unclear," Saine said.
"Upon arrival, all legions will be subject to unified command by Skynet."
"Yes," Miluo replied.
The God of Machines then stepped into the passage.
The surrounding scenery stretched out rapidly in a very short time.
The primal fluctuations of the Darkness Sword Time-Space quickly vanished from Saine's perception.
Instead, there are countless overlapping Time-Space Folds.
The Remnant Star Time-Space is far too far from here.
Even using the ancient coordinates preserved in the Source-Devouring Mother Nest as a guide, the passage cannot be presented as a simple straight line.
It needs to bypass multiple spacetime voids that cannot be observed normally, and continuously make warps by relying on the residual Rule Nodes along the way.
Some nodes were already on the verge of collapse due to the depletion of their original Dimensional Plane.
There are also some regions where the original fluctuations of Dimensional Plane still remain, but the Time Rules within them have been completely disrupted.
The Mechanical Probe only briefly lingered at the edges of those areas, and the feedback runtime was thousands of times longer than that of the main Skynet system.
Saine did not allow the fleet to risk traversing these chaotic temporal regions.
He manipulated the God of Machines to continuously change the direction of the passage and left silver-gray mechanical marks at several relatively stable nodes.
These markers can serve as road signs on the return journey and also record subsequent changes in the temporal and spatial tides along the way.
If this route can be fully mastered by Mechanical Civilization, the energy and time required to travel to the Remnant Star Time-Space will be even less in the future.
If it were Saine, who had just entered Higher Dimensional Plane in his early years, it would probably take him a very long time just to determine the direction, given the vast spacetime distance.
But he has now reached the Level-12 Peak.
Having experienced multiple Dimension War and encountered the Alarm Clock Girl, the Despair Matriarch, and spacetime systems of different Dimensional Plane, Saine's understanding of these rules is now vastly different.
The space around the God of Machines continued to shrink.
Every time the Magic Cube completes a rule-based calculation, countless incorrect paths ahead are eliminated.
Saine did not miss this opportunity to experience the Time-Space Power up close.
A large amount of channel data continuously poured into his sea of Mental Strength.
In particular, the way the Source-Devouring Mother Nest can maintain its original connection over extremely long distances is what interests Saine.
This connection does not entirely depend on fixed coordinates.
The Source-Devouring Rule itself is like a special road that can continuously extend forward.
As long as there is still a sufficiently dense Source-Devouring Mark at the other end, the Mother Nest can continue to approach by following these patterns.
Saine's knowledge of Node Engineering was also greatly supplemented in this process.
Based on this information, the Magic Cube quickly constructed a more complete spacetime model.
Many of the structures in the model are not the same as the Time Gear held by the Alarm Clock Girl.
The Source-Devouring Mother Nest does not strive for absolute stability of the rules within the passage.
It simply transfers all the chaos and rejection to the Mother Nest structure that can withstand the shock.
This method is simple and domineering, and is especially suitable for transporting large numbers of the Source-Devouring Beast Legion.
Saine even suspected that the ability of the Source-Devouring Time-Space to wage war simultaneously in so many Different Dimensional Plane was directly related to this mature cross-dimensional system.
He didn't rush to modify the passage in front of him, but instead had Skynet record all the data completely.
Real research and improvements can wait until after this rescue operation is over.
The fleet was not significantly separated due to the extremely long-distance voyage.
The God of Machines stabilized the core area of the passage.
Skynet ensures that each Transport Platform maintains a relatively consistent Time Flow Rate.
When the first ray of grayish-white starlight appeared at the end of the passage, Saine even felt that this crossing process was faster than he had expected.
However, the scene that appeared before the Mechanical Fleet was not good.
In the entire starry sky, almost no normal colors can be seen.
The distant stars were either grayish-white or completely extinguished black.
The surfaces of many Plane Worlds are riddled with cracks.
Some worlds may still retain their complete outlines, but their interiors are devoid of any life.
Even the most basic elemental energy and the Law Tide were completely drained.
On several planes closer to the passage, the outlines of civilized cities can still be seen.
But there were no corpses or signs of war damage in those cities.
The living beings living in it slowly perish along with their own life force as their source is continuously drained away.
When some Mechanical Probe landed on the surface, they only stirred up a small amount of grayish-white dust.
Those dust particles still retain extremely faint traces of life, but they are no longer capable of giving rise to any new life.
As soon as the Mechanical Legion left the passage, a noticeable loss of energy appeared in the surrounding area.
Some weak combat units are experiencing uncontrolled energy leakage from their bodies.
Skynet immediately activated its isolation force field.
Saine, on the other hand, looked towards the distant starry sky.
"Is this the Remnant Star Time-Space?" he asked.
"Yes." Miluo's will wavered, tinged with a hint of heaviness.
"The last time I was here was more than 200,000 years ago."
"Back then, the Remnant Star Remnant Domain hadn't yet fallen into such a state of decay."
A diagram of the flow of the Space-Time Origin from the remnant star quickly appeared before Saine.
Countless, now extremely dim, patterns of rules extend outward from different Star Sector.
Ultimately, they all connect to the pasture nodes left behind by the Source-Devouring Time-Space.
The Source-Devouring Time-Space clearly controls the extraction speed.
Unlike some spacetimes that have been completely swallowed up, this place did not collapse entirely in a short period of time.
The remaining world even retains the most basic ability to nurture life.
However, the continuous harvesting over a long period of time inevitably led the Remnant Star Time-Space towards nothingness.
The scene before me bears a striking resemblance to the desolate Dead Silent Dimension now occupied by Decayed Civilization.
The vitality possessed by a complete Higher Dimensional Plane entity is ultimately not infinite.
The Source-Devouring Time-Space attempted to turn this place into a continuously harvestable pasture.
Judging from the results, this approach can hardly be considered successful.
Perhaps in another million years, the Remnant Star Time-Space will lose even its last remaining value.
This also helped Saine better understand why the World-Realm Emperor Monarch wanted to find a new path for the Source-Devouring Time-Space.
If this process of devouring continues, the Source-Devouring Time-Space can indeed obtain a large amount of origin in a short period of time.
But every Dimensional Plane they conquered will eventually be nothing more than a worthless empty shell.
The silver light from the eyes of the God of Machines swept into the depths of the Remnant Star Time-Space.
Large-scale war scenes then appeared on Skynet.
Countless bright yellow Source-Devouring Beasts are besieging a gray defensive line made up of dimensional debris.
Behind the defensive line lay an astonishing fleet of remnants and a vast number of migrating worlds.
A broken, rule-bound staff fell continuously at the forefront of the battlefield.
With each swing, large Source-Devouring Beasts turned into gray powder.
"Your Majesty the Mechanical God Emperor!"
Atar's will finally traversed the chaotic battlefield and reached Saine.
"The outer defenses of the Remnant Star Remnant Domain have fallen."
"We can hold out for at most another thirty years!"
The Destruction Black Wing behind the God of Machines slowly unfurled.
"I'm here," Saine said.
The next moment, a torrent of silver-gray machinery surged into the Remnant Star Remnant Domain!