When the two "ghost signals" began to spread in the galaxy, no matter how much the civilized government tried to hide it, the news about this "signal virus" gradually became known to the public.

However, contrary to the prevalence of "eschatology" as expected by some pessimists, most people maintain a lively attitude towards "ghost signals".

After all, no matter how terrible the signal virus is, it cannot infect living organisms, and it is far from the extent that it will cause the destruction of civilization.

However, for intelligent civilizations and some civilizations that rely heavily on robots, the spread of "ghost signals" is a headache for them.

The Mingbo Technology dictatorship is affected by the "ghost signal" quite severely.

This civilization, which is technologically supreme and pursues materialism, is like the former "far-travelers", and the entire civilization is full of robots.

Since the civilized group is mainly engaged in scientific research, those basic production are basically undertaken by robots.

Not only that, but the atmosphere of prosthetic transformation within Mingbo is also extremely prevalent, almost everyone's body has a prosthetic tissue to a greater or lesser extent, and even has transformed itself to only 10% of the physical tissue.

This kind of seemingly extreme behavior is not something difficult to accept in the Mingberne, their social concept is like this, and the body is not very important.

Even if you only have one brain left, as long as you can still think, then there is no problem.

In this environment, a mad scientist who carried out "synthetic evolution" on his own was born.

There are many opinions in the galaxy as to whether the scientist actually converted consciousness into data and loaded it into a mechanical body, or just used an extremely realistic artificial intelligence to disguise himself as "alive", and gradually fell silent as he died at the hands of antivirus software.

But it is undeniable that most of the people in the Ming Berg are quite serious about science.

Before the outbreak of the "ghost signal", the Mingbo Technology Dictatorship had the most powerful scientific research capabilities in the ordinary civilization of today's galaxy, directly replacing the robots produced at the grassroots level and the extensive use of prosthetic augmentation, allowing them to contribute to science.

However, with the rapid spread of the "ghost signal", Mingbo, who was caught off guard, suffered a big loss.

The firewall they are proud of is like a piece of paper, which does not stop the "ghost signals" at all, and can only watch as the signal viruses swagger around their data networks.

For this reason, Mingbo had to urgently cut off the network system of the entire civilization and use some very primitive means to communicate.

There are also a number of "quarantine" planets that do not use any electronic devices to deal with any suspected "infected" objects.

Although it happened suddenly, Minber was quick to discern which of the "ghost signs" that were raging in the galaxy under their rule were more "good" and which were "dangerous"

The kind of "ghost signal" that has been proven to come from the "guardian" belongs to the category of "good", which also made Mingbo's scientists breathe a sigh of relief.

These "ghost signals" don't show much destructive power, they are like "carpet scanning", never missing any corner that can be touched.

Although it has a literal sense of "goodness", due to the pervasive nature of this "ghost signal", even the inconvenient "shady scenes" of some civilizations have been infected by it.

The high-level people who are afraid that those fierce information will be exposed, which will cause a huge blow to the entire civilization, naturally will not have much affection for this seemingly "good" ghost signal.

But unlike this "ghost signal" from the "guardian", another "ghost signal" of unknown origin is extremely dangerous.

This "ghost signal" of unknown origin appears to be full of confusion and disorder, causing major problems for all devices infected by it.

The most intuitive point is that a program defined as "artificial intelligence" will begin to perform indiscriminate acts of destruction.

The infected programs are not chaotic as they imagined, but rather have a very clear purpose - to destroy everyone, even themselves, with all the resources at their disposal.

In addition to artificial intelligence, other devices that are not able to perform "extinction" due to their functions will paralyze themselves and cannot be used again.

Mingbo suffered a big loss because of this incident, and their robots began to be paralyzed in pieces, or staged a "smart machine crisis" drama.

And the people who use a lot of prosthetics have lost their ability to work under the infection of "ghost signals", and the entire civilization has been almost paralyzed by the sudden "ghost signals".

It can be said that Mingbo almost set the entire civilization back decades because of the "ghost signal", and before the real "crisis" arrived, this situation was enough to cause them to fall back to the natives and even perish in the crisis.

In addition to Mingbo, a civilization like Mingbo, where prosthetics and robots are rampant, the ordinary intelligent civilization has also been greatly affected.

Nearly all sapient automatons infected with the "ghost signal" will directly break away from the control of the center, and even try to infect the control center they once had in turn.

However, the protection measures of the intelligent civilization for its own "mechanical intelligence" are obviously much better than those of ordinary civilizations, and after sensing the influence of the "ghost signal" on them, they quickly cut off a large number of "external nodes" located in other galaxies, forming a circle of "isolation belts".

This barrier prevents the "ghost signal" from spreading with the help of more mechanical relay stations, and it is difficult for the ghost signal without a new "signal emission source" to pass through this "barrier" to infect the intelligent civilization.

Although it can be unaffected by the "ghost signal" for the time being, the intelligent civilization in this situation is also like "closing off the country", and it is difficult to show up in the sea of stars again.

However, since the intelligent civilization itself rarely communicates with other civilizations in the galaxy, their closed attitude has not attracted much attention.

As for the rest of the galactic civilizations, they have not changed much because of the "ghost signal".

They are also studying "ghost signals" with great caution and trying to prevent this "signal virus".

However, given the limited damage caused to them by such "ghost signals", and the fact that even the means of self-lockdown by creating "quarantine zones" can easily prevent the "ghost signals" from affecting them, these civilizations have not paid much attention to the "ghost signals" themselves.

They are more concerned about the possibility behind this incident - what is the abnormality of the "guardian"?

Ghost signals of this magnitude had never happened before, and they were sure that something must have happened inside the "guardians".

Some people associate this with the long-dead "annihilators of civilization":

“…… Is it possible that the mechanical intelligence of the 'Guardian' has made a mistake that we cannot understand, and that he is moving towards 'extremes', and this time the 'ghost signal' is only a prelude......"

However, this speculation was not accepted by the majority, as judging by the ghost signals from the "guardian", it seems that he still remains intact and has no problems.

So, under all kinds of speculation, the time came to a few months later.

During this time, the "ghost signal" has shown a tendency to weaken, whether it is a "ghost signal" of unknown origin or a ghost signal from the "guardian", it seems that it has achieved some purpose, and it is difficult to detect it in the galaxy.

Some galactic civilizations have even become accustomed to the existence of "ghost signals", such as the Mingbo Technology Dictatorship.

Due to the excessive flooding of "ghost signals" in their civilization, the high-level members of their civilization simply put it in order, and hurriedly informed the people that "they will no longer implement the electronic blockade and will not be responsible for all mechanical injuries", and then ran to the "Star Sea Community" to cry miserably and solicit interstellar assistance.

However, the disappearance of the "ghost signal" did not make the galactic civilization breathe a sigh of relief, but instead raised their hearts to their throats.

Everyone understands the truth of "calm before the storm", and this rampant "ghost signal" disappears seems to represent something bigger coming.

Eventually, a series of familiar signal fluctuations covered the entire galaxy.

This signal is familiar to them, as it was used by the former "Guardians" in the resolution of the "Ring Crisis" and the "Civilization Annihilator Crisis".

At that time, the content of the signal made every intellectual life in the galaxy feel a sense of security from the heart, after all, there is nothing more reassuring than the "guardian" taking the initiative to appear to solve the "galactic crisis".

However, before they had time to rejoice, after hearing the content of the signal clearly, each of them had a cold feeling like falling into a cold cave.

【…… Please ##...... Please wait##...... Please wait for ......]

[--Detected-Unexpected Enemy-]

[The "{Data Corrupted} Matrix" is starting...... Initiate...... Open...... Enlightenment – Process Termination】

[Standby Protocol Enabled - Active Decontamination Protocol Takes Effect - ]

[Warning: The galaxy has been infected by an unknown civilization, and the damage has reached catastrophic levels]

【-Purify-Chemical-Open-Start-】

This string of signals seems to be exactly the same as the one used by the "guardian", but the content is not like that that of the "guardian" known to all civilizations.

And the final "purification begins" flicker gibberish from time to time, and it doesn't sound like a good word.

On a little thought, it sounds like they are a group of "galactic vermins" who are about to be purified by the "guardians"?

“…… Could it be that one of our previous guesses was correct? 'Guardian'...... Has it really been corrupted over a long period of time? ”

“…… No, never! The 'guardian' is invincible in the world, how can there be a problem because of just a little time! ”

There were many people in charge of receiving the signal who couldn't believe that the former "Guardian of the Galaxy" was so "crazy".

However, before they could shake off the complex emotions of shock, panic, despair, etc., another signal that was exactly the same as it was detected by them almost at the same time.

This string of signals also seems to be the "guardian", and the content of the signals makes the already chaotic situation even more confusing.

【…… Active "sanitized terminal" detected, "Guardianship Protocol" has been activated......]

(End of chapter)