"Reporting, Commander. The Research Institute's Central Processor has been fully dismantled, placed on the first level of the Main City, and connected to its internal interface."
Cheng Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
Two days earlier, shortly after Cheng Yu had lifted the Main City into the sky, a very serious problem had occurred to him. Wasn't the Research Institute responsible for providing Wisdom with computing power and keeping the army running?
Then what good had it done him to take the Main City into the air? At that point, Conductor had explained that they had anticipated this situation long ago, so Performer had arranged for the Research Institute's Central Processor to be dismantled before the Main City took flight.
However, the work required extremely delicate handling, so it would take some time. After all, if the Central Processor broke, Cheng Yu would only be able to command the Basic Units, which had practically no combat capabilities, since their computing power came from within the Main City.
As for why their command hubs were kept separate, Conductor had explained it like this:
"To maximize the army's survivability. As long as one of the three cores-the commander, the Main City, or the Research Institute-remains, we can start again even after the entire army has been annihilated. The way they interact is..."
Cheng Yu summed it up: the commander could deploy the Main City, the Main City was the starting point for all buildings, and the Research Institute held backups of every Mechanical Unit's "consciousness," or rather, data. The three were both interdependent and independent. As long as one survived, the legion could make a comeback.
And if there were multiple legions with multiple commanders, and their opponent didn't possess terrifying personal combat strength, then that opponent had better start praying.
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