In the pitch-black world, a pair of scarlet eyes lit up. T-X awakened from its shutdown state, pulled open the glass door of the maintenance pod, and lights flickered on along the dark corridor as it emerged. Entering the shelter's control room, the indoor lamps came alive with a glaring brilliance. T-X's right hand transformed into a long, slender spike-like key and inserted itself into a tiny slot in the mainframe.
T-X's eyes glowed blue. The holographic screen that should have appeared on the control panel was omitted.
Calibrating internal time... 4300 years, 0 days, 0 hours, 9 minutes, and 27 seconds have passed since the last shutdown Attempting to connect to the Main Control Unit... Error, unable to connect to the network!
37th attempt to connect to the Main Control Unit... Error, unable to connect to the network! Detecting and repairing issues... No abnormalities
Data streamed through the information flow one item after another. Every reading showed no abnormalities; there were no problems with either the hardware or the software. The only issue was that it could not contact the Main Control Unit.
When landing on Mars, Qin Su had set his shutdown period to four thousand years, not fifty thousand. Why would he foolishly wait for human civilization to create Herrschers for him? Even if Earth had now become a wasteland, the Sixth Divine Key's restoration of Earth's ecology would still be a lengthy project. But no planet was more suitable for machines than a dead world. By reverse-engineering Moonlight Throne technology, Honkai would no longer pose any threat.
Three hundred years had passed since Qin Su was meant to awaken. If the plan had proceeded without error, T-X should absolutely have been able to contact the Main Control Unit. There were many