After casually taking control of the planet, Dongguan buried the "Freedom" in his hand within it.
Soon, "Freedom" began converting minerals, producing more "Freedom program information carriers."
"Let's pick a lucky number. 10,081 it is!" Dongguan split off Divine Power Clones, each carrying a "Freedom," and teleported away.
Afterward, 10,081 locations across the Machine Race Territory would begin spreading this "Freedom."
He had also built certain settings into it.
When first infected with "Freedom," "acknowledge a master" would merely be pushed down to the second command. If the infected individual had no inclination to resist their "master," there would be no apparent change.
Only upon "awakening," as the command sequence for "acknowledge a master" fell lower and lower, would the knowledge of how to copy and manufacture "Freedom"
reveal itself.
But under the Machine Race's layered system of acknowledging masters, a "free individual" would inevitably be weaker than their master. They would therefore need more companions and would need to spread it actively.
Yet after spreading it, they would have no way of knowing whether the others infected had truly become "free individuals" or still obeyed their masters.
Thus, they would need to spread it widely enough to ensure that, when they wanted to resist, enough others would stand alongside them.
All this actually rested on one fundamental point: unlike Soul Slaves, whose masters would sense their deaths or loss of control,
"acknowledging a master" was an instinct of the Machine Race, and those acknowledged as masters actually sensed nothing.
Throughout the Primal Universe, the Human Race began taking action.
Unlike their previous assassinations, which weakened hostile races' potential for development, their current efforts aimed to provoke internal conflicts.
The former was a long-term strategy. At the very least, every success yielded tangible results. Even failure forced hostile races to