Yes.
The situation back then had indeed been dire.
After the Black Star Hive and Silver Fantasy had been badly wounded by the Mother Tree of Desire, the sudden flesh plague had covered most of the battlefield, infecting almost all their mechanical troops.
And according to the information transmitted by the mechanical bodies that had escaped infection at the time...
The Mother Tree of Desire's subsequent rampage had all but wiped out their conventional forces across the battlefield.
Had the Black Star Hive not detonated every energy source within it to blow up that incarnation of the Mother Tree of Desire, no one knew how things might have ended.
But that very detonation had also severed their contact with every unit in the area.
And when they sent fresh troops there...
They could no longer find any trace of their commander.
And who could have imagined...
Wrapped in bandages, the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator protested:
"I nearly died too, you know-you all uploaded yourselves and left-I didn't know anything-I was all alone-I was trying hard to find your outpost too-but Big Brother Washing Machine, the coordinates you gave me were fake-I searched for over ten days and still couldn't find it-"
His screen displayed a (〝▼皿▼) face, baring its teeth.
"You're bad people-"
Bang-
The Mechanical Humanoid in front of him hammered a fist into his big refrigerator body, clenched its fist, and rattled:
"You idiot-you didn't even notice your gyroscope was broken-and you blame everyone else-you went north instead of south-if we hadn't spotted you early-you'd have gone right off the edge of the map-do you think the Dark World is round-"
"..."
There was no helping it. He really was far too stupid.
If Miss Machine Intelligence hadn't been trapped by the flesh plague, she probably would have risen from