[Little one, you've learned your lesson.] The message from [Hua] was laden with teasing. [I underestimated you. I never imagined you'd already advanced to a level four civilization!] [Unbelievable!!!] [A civilization with such immense potential can surely carry out my plan!]
Lines of text appeared before everyone's eyes.
Lü Yongchang stared at the text in the Holographic Projection, gritting his teeth. He raised his hand and rapidly typed a series of messages.
"What exactly are you trying to do?!"
[What am I trying to do?] [Now that the plan has reached this stage, there's no harm in telling you.]
Messages from [Hua] rapidly appeared in the Holographic Projection.
[The war against the Cleaners made me realize that individual dimensional beings alone could never win this war.] [A sturdy fortress is often breached from within.] [Only by disguising ourselves as a technological civilization and infiltrating the Cleaners Civilization can we win this war.]
"So you're doing this to disguise yourself as a technological civilization?"
[Of course.] [I've spent over ten thousand years researching this plan.] [Finally, by exploiting the characteristics of a two-dimensional lifeform, I successfully converted my consciousness into a data stream.]
By this point, Lü Yongchang fully understood [Hua]'s plan!
Ever since they met... no, even before they had met, [Hua] had been preparing for this day!
With its consciousness converted into a data stream, [Hua] was now akin to a program-or rather, a virus with a consciousness of its own.
Once it took over humanity's Central Computer, human civilization would be utterly at its mercy!
At this stage of human civilization's-or rather, interstellar civilization's-development, everything from a Starship to a roadside trash bin contained a computer system of some size.
And now, [Hua] had already infiltrated the Human Federation's superluminal