Capital is cannibalistic, this sentence is not wrong at all.

According to the information Alethea gathered in various ruins, the root cause of the demise of the old humans was military automation and privatization.

When science and technology progress to a certain extent, in order to avoid the loss of fresh lives in war, military automation is bound to go through a stage of development.

There have been scenes of AI rampage against humanity in artworks of various carriers, and the world of Dawn Zero has led to the destruction of the old humanity precisely because of the loss of control of automated warfare weapons.

Of course, from Lu Xiao's point of view, this black pot cannot be completely detained on AI, and Gaia is a typical positive example, she has given everything she has to revive human civilization.

In Lu Xiao's view, the biggest problem with the destruction of the old human race is military privatization, that is, the establishment of small-scale private automated armies by capital groups bypassing the government.

The replacement of human military personnel by robots is all-round, and since the realization of automatic militarization, war is no longer limited by the number of people, and the price to pay to fight a war is pitiful.

As long as there are sufficient resources, the army is nothing more than a machine toy that can be mass-produced at the touch of a button, and it does not matter if it is sacrificed, and there is no need for the government to pay any pension.

Against this backdrop, the private security forces of the capital groups have swelled more and more, and they have gradually begun to have the nature of an army.

As the competition for resources among the world's major corporations intensified, it eventually turned into a violent confrontation between the people without the need for official intervention, and gradually snowballed into a situation where the tail could not be dropped.

Because of this distorted and deformed social background, civilian arms dealers have made money one by one.

It was also during this period that the Faro company abandoned the original concept of producing green robots and stepped into the ranks of arms dealers.

As a result, Ted Farrow fell out with Elizabeth Sobek completely, which directly led to Elizabeth's departure and the establishment of Milian Technology on her own, which continued to pursue her personal philosophy.

Since the 30s of the 21st century, the environmental crisis of the earth has become more and more invented.

By 2038, island nations led by New Zealand and Iceland will be submerged by rising sea levels, causing a series of social problems.

People who have lost their homes due to environmental change have been given a unified term – environmental refugees, and it is said that more than 1 billion people have lost their lives in this round of environmental change.

It was only at this time that mankind began to face up to environmental problems and began to make up for the series of troubles caused by the change of the earth's environment.

In 2040, at the age of 20, Elizabeth completed all her studies and received a double doctorate.

Under the kind guidance of her mother from an early age, she is committed to restoring the earth's original beautiful and harmonious natural environment.

Around the same time, the first self-aware AI unexpectedly appeared.

It was a climate intervention artificial intelligence called "Broad Silver", which was created because of increasingly serious environmental problems, and disappeared in 2044 without a trace.

For a while, humans became wary of the self-consciousness of the birth of AI, which gave rise to the Turing Law, which is dedicated to regulating artificial intelligence.

However, the disappearance did not cause a large-scale riot, and he has been completely missing.

Humanity, obsessed with forgetting, quickly put the sense of crisis behind it and was driven by interests to further expand the scale of military automation and privatization.

At that time, a philosopher made a concerned idea about this situation, and this idea became a prophecy in the near future.

When robots completely replace humans in waging war, we will no longer be able to learn the "blood lesson" from war, but the real lesson will come sooner or later, and the later it comes, the more serious the consequences. ”

There has never been a shortage of visionary men in the history of mankind, but whether they can convince the decision-makers of various countries is the most fundamental question.

As a result, humanity has paid an unbearable price, and the situation is not over yet.

Ted Farrow, the culprit responsible for the demise of human civilization, is not reconciled, and he plans to use Hades's world-destroying function to wipe out new humans who do not meet his wishes, and redraw the picture he wants on the blank earth.

Alethea and Consus locked onto the Odyssey's orbit around the Earth, and with the covert help of a long-lost hidden being, they unwittingly hacked into the Odyssey's main control terminal.

As long as Lu Xiao gives an order, they can take control of the entire Odyssey spacecraft from the half-finished artificial intelligence Faro at any time.

Prior to this, Lu Xiao had always thought that the splendid history of human civilization would die out with the offline of Apollo.

The existence of the Odyssey spacecraft gives new hope to the humanity of this world.

Homer's database backs up most of the materials owned by the Apollo program, and this surviving knowledge is the true treasure of human civilization.

The mechanical beasts and the Faro group controlled by Hades were still rushing towards Meridian City, and its target was the signal amplification tower guarded by Lu Xiao.

After some discussion, Lu Xiao decided to let Consus focus on the Odyssey spaceship, while Alethea stayed by Lu Xiao's side to prepare for the trap.

Just as the Kingdom of Calga and the helpers from all sides were preparing to defend the city desperately, Lu Xiao's eagle pupil caught the unexpected happening.

After Yongzhen left the Sunset Forest, Aloy soon led the badly wounded Nora warriors back to Meridian City.

This vast forest was the last natural line of defense to the west of Meridian City, and as the Faro Fleet swept through the large forest, the surrounding plants were absorbed a lot of biological energy, and large areas of withered yellow began to appear in the forest.

"Boom!"

The withering and withering of the forest allowed Lu Xiao to see the situation in the forest more intuitively, and the ground was emitting a continuous roar in many places.

Awakened from their slumber by Hades, the Faro swarms buried near Meridian City, and they burst from beneath the ground, further growing the mechanical army, including nearly ten Deathbringers and more than 50 Degraders.

Lu Xiao, who was still accumulating the power of the Xuanyuan Sword, frowned: "Hades has long known that there are a huge number of Faro machine groups buried near Meridian City? ”

In fact, it doesn't seem strange when you think about it carefully, the obelisk where Lu Xiao is located is the central signal tower where Minerva Subprogram finally shut down the Faro fleet.

Sensing the source of the code, the Faro group will surely storm the towers in groups, and Gaia will not sit idly by and watch them thwart his mission.

Hundreds of years ago, there must have been a machine war near Meridian City that no one knew about.

The attacking side is the Faro group, and the defending side is the automatons produced by Gaia's Hephaestus subprogram.

Thunderfang, a super-large mechanical beast specially designed for combat, should have been born during this period.

The further expansion of the mechanical army made Avid's eyebrows, which had already arrived at the head of the city, frown.

"Elsa, are you sure that you will hold up until the plan is completed?"

Elsa, who was dressed in military uniform, replied with a solemn expression: "Not sure, we can only do our best." ”

Yavid turned his head to look at the huge metal tablet standing on the top of the mountain in the distance, and ordered the nearby generals with a majestic expression: "All the guns are open!" Fire as soon as the enemy is within range! ”

"Yes!"