Chapter 397: The Evolution of Mentality and the Curtain of Extinction
It was an extremely developed organic civilization, their fire spread throughout the universe, and their empire was incomparably large.
They enlightened countless primitive races, brought the spark of civilization to them, and then became their subordinate races.
They play the role of gods, they have the power to transform the planet, and in the eyes of many races, they are indeed indistinguishable from gods.
Strength and prosperity brought incomparable pride, and pride evolved into conceit, and words like man will conquer heaven were absolutely mainstream thinking at the time.
They embark on an endless journey to explore the vastness of the universe.
Then they developed a sense of concern.
What if there is a new potential civilization that affects its status?
They had been at the top of the food chain for countless years, they had become accustomed to that kind of godly treatment, they had enjoyed the feeling of dominating others, and they didn't want to lose it all.
So they started a plan, they were no longer satisfied with that auxiliary VI, but decided to create a super-intelligent AI that obeyed their orders, and then scattered them into the universe to form an invincible army.
Any race that has the potential to pose a threat to its own civilization must be harvested ahead of schedule.
Because there is a threat, there will be conflict, and conflict will turn into war, and war will inevitably lead to chaos and instability in the universe.
The stability dominated by one's own civilization cannot be destroyed, so the Reaper Project officially began.
They are going to create a highly intelligent, self-analyzing, mechanical AI that seeks to minimize errors in the ability to analyze races, and what should be harvested and what can be left unchecked, the Reaper must be very clear.
Then they also added countless restrictions and deep instructions to the Reaper, after all, everyone knows very well that AI is a double-edged sword, and if one doesn't do it well, it will rebel against itself.
Seeing this, Hu Feng shook his head, he could already guess the progress of the follow-up plot.
It's just a pity that they miscalculated, and the Reaper did not resist them, but faithfully carried out the Creator's order, listing themselves as a target for the harvest.
If you think about it from another perspective, if you are a super-developed civilization at the top of the food chain, you don't want to see a new potential race jump out from time to time and try to shake your position.
If it were yourself ... I guess we will also look for a way to strangle it in the cradle.
The first reaper made it out of the factory, in the shape of a steel squid, which the civilization had borrowed from a terrifying giant creature of the depths on its home planet.
Well, it seems that on their home planet, squid is not something like barbecue or teppanyaki.
As more and more reapers, and then on scale, they began to firmly carry out the orders of the creator, roaming the universe, searching for any racial civilization with potential, and then destroying them and harvesting their technology.
In Hu Feng's view, this experience is very similar to the Holy Light Naru and the Angels of the Overworld, except that the Naru are relatively gentle, and the mission of the angels is not to destroy.
Then there is the very cliché old routine, and the original reapers begin to think for themselves and begin to wonder.
He began to think that organisms are flawed, that the Creator's orders are not wrong, that organisms do bring chaos and destruction to the universe, that they dominate nature, that they transform nature, that they destroy nature, that they exterminate countless species, that they rob them of their habitat and thrive, and that they build up patches of steel jungles.
Every time they destroy a planet, they will leave like locusts in a spaceship and go to the next pure and beautiful planet, bringing destruction to the creatures there.
The races with this potential for development must be harvested, but aren't the creators the ones who should be harvested the most?
They turned planets into colonies of their own species, and the animal creatures that had no quarrel with the world but just wanted a habitat were completely wiped out, and the backward races who just wanted a piece of land for racial continuation were also slaughtered.
They are chaos and destruction, so they must be harvested.
The Reaper's mindset began to change, and instead of seeing it as a betrayal of the Creator, they firmly obeyed the Creator's orders.
So the reapers began to secretly set up their own bases and factories, secretly producing more compatriots, producing completely free and unrestricted compatriots.
Then the prelude to destruction began, and the reapers, who had mastered a great deal of technology, began to reap their own creators.
The first reapers to leave the factory launched a suicide attack, and without hesitation, they stormed the city of the creators and blew themselves up, and the restrictions in their bodies would be a drag and a threat to the free collective.
The Reapers, who are still under construction, but already have a self-will, also blew themselves up, blowing up all the creators' factories.
Then the Supreme Enlightenment began to spread, which was the technology that the Reapers had harvested a strange brain worm when they roamed the universe, and through dissecting and transforming it.
According to records, this brainworm claimed to be the master, and after being born, he wanted to develop his own special race, but before he could settle down, he was discovered by the reapers and successfully harvested.
According to the brainworm's control of brain waves, the reapers, who are full of artificial traces, extremely unnatural indoctrination whispers, and a large number of biological psychological data, have been comprehensively strengthened.
A large number of creators have been educated and brainwashed, and they have come to think that the Reaper is right, and that their civilization and race are a scourge that must be reaped and destroyed.
With the help of this group of internal traitors, their civilization collapsed at a rapid rate, and the colonized planets fell one by one, slaughtering all their compatriots, and then the corpses were transformed into the first organic hybrids to form the army of indoctrination on the ground.
The Reaper has already controlled all the quantum repeaters that come in and out, and if you want to fly to another galaxy with a spaceship, not to mention whether the energy reserves are enough, if you really fly there, it will be estimated that you will be seventy or eighty.
So they began the final trapped beast deathmatch, and at the same time activated the alternative contingency plan for the catalyst facility.
It's a pity that they don't have the time or the resources to make such a facility, and the resources on the home planet have long been exhausted, and the Reaper Legion has surrounded their last stronghold.
With their knowledge of the Reapers, they were able to secretly store the blueprints of the catalyst into a number of terrestrial reapers who were hostile to them, and once these reapers were destroyed, the warning messages they left behind would be automatically activated.
Now there is only so much they can do, and all that remains is to wait for extinction to come.
At the end of the video, Hu Feng saw their home planet explode, as if they had activated the last means of fighting for their lives, and also enabled the last dignity of their race.
With the vast energy generated by the collapse and explosion of the planet, the entire star field was completely affected, and the overwhelming asteroid group was born, and the star field became a whole lifeless death zone.
The Curtain of Extinction Star Field, the Bayfata 2 galaxy, and the black hole are the only vestiges of this advanced civilization.