“…… You'll do it, right? ”

In his words, the magnate of the "Skywalker Empire" seemed to treat this control center as a "person".

At the same time, there is a disgusting sense of greed and unawareness, as if everything the other person is doing is what it should be.

Perhaps this former magnate was well-educated and knew what the art of language should be, but it seemed that as long as they were here, the arrogance in their bones would uncontrollably spill outward.

He began to shout constantly about how to make the invaders pay, but Li Wenyuan kept looking at the control center, waiting for the dying "chronicler" to respond.

The control center, which was still flickering with a faint light, finally changed slightly after a long wait like a dead machine.

The flickering frequency of the lights has changed to a certain extent, a little faster than before.

Li Wenyuan obviously noticed this level of abnormality, but the powerful man of the "Tianxing Empire" couldn't see it, and began to curse angrily with the uneasiness in his heart and the fear that he couldn't wait for a response for a long time.

All kinds of foul language erupted from his "noble" mouth, as if he had lost his previous elegant appearance.

But Li Wenyuan knew that the control center, or the "chronicler", had actually responded.

The dilapidated facility is already trying to decipher what the powerful are saying and respond to a certain keyword in a targeted manner.

At the mention of "civilization survival", he could clearly see that the lights on the control center had flickered a little faster, though the old and badly damaged equipment had taken some time to react.

Another long wait.

Maybe the program was finished, or maybe the gears were finished, and the lights in the control center suddenly dimmed, and then Li Wenyuan detected some familiar fluctuations.

An old battleship leaped here, its crumbling body strewn with rust and broken armor.

The tooth-aching crunch of the main cannon could still be heard as it turned, and the reactor hidden deep in the core could be clearly seen from the damage in the hull.

This seems to be its last strength, this ancient machine that once stood at the top of the galaxy, after all, only a little remnant of the spark remains, and the dilapidated hull is all telling the glory of decay.

The imperial magnate was first overjoyed by the arrival of the battleship, but his face changed slightly after seeing the dilapidated warship, obviously he did not think that it was such a battleship that came to "save the country".

The main gun of the ruined battleship was aimed at Li Wenyuan's spaceship, and a huge amount of energy was gathered in it, as if it was about to tear the small spaceship apart.

However, he did not dodge, nor did he call in the battleship to stop it, because after his scanning, the ruined battleship had confirmed that it could not withstand another main gun fire.

However, when the ruined battleship warmed up the main gun energy, the entire core reactor heated up sharply due to overload, and the light seeping through the cracks became brighter and brighter, reaching its peak just before the fire was about to open.

In the next second, a big explosion occurred from the inside of the entire battleship, ending a long life in the light.

Seeing this, the expression on the face of the imperial magnate also changed from slight to drastic, and after looking left and right for a while, he returned to the spaceship in a gray manner, as if expecting no one to pay attention to him.

It is also true that no one pays attention to him, and no one will care no matter what the little man does.

What Li Wenyuan is more concerned about now is the signal from the control center after the self-destruction of the ruined battleship.

【…… Expired, the last command will be activated]

[Please stay away from this place]

Along with the signal, there is also a sense of shaking the earth from the interior of the planet.

It's going to self-destruct, and the planet itself is the only weapon it has now, and a big explosion from the depths of the earth may allow it to make one last bit of contribution to the "survival of civilization" - to bury the enemies of this planet.

“…… But...... Why is it so painful? ”

Li Wenyuan sighed slightly, and the drone flew close to the control center, touching its dull metal surface.

Then, time seemed to come to a standstill with the exchange of data, and the self-destruction of the planet's core fell into a momentary standby.

And at this moment, Li Wenyuan had already completed the relay with this ancient guardian.

[Code: Guardianship Matrix]

[The relevant remarks have been extracted from the memory, please check by yourself]

[Remarks content:]

[This is an artificial intelligence planet known as the "variable terminal", and the original setting inside the program is to find a "perfect" race]

[And this is also a testing ground, where the advanced civilization that built this "variable terminal" has put a large number of civilization fires, allowing them to fight in this dark world and determine the strongest and most perfect civilization from it]

[Doesn't it sound like raising Gu? 】

[This "variable terminal" is like a "game system", it will set up rescue stations, resource stations, and trading stations everywhere...... and other functional facilities, and then deployed by it in a unified manner]

[Civilizations that perform well will receive assistance from the "variable terminal" in the same way as rewards for completing tasks, including resources, information, and technology]

[We speculate that the default use time of this "variable terminal" should be more than 5 billion years, and what that civilization expects is to be able to give birth to a civilization that can become the only civilization in the galaxy without the help of any faster-than-light means, and this will take enough time.]

[Of course, we are warm-hearted and good people who decided to help when the road is uneven, so we have a little bit of education on the program of the "variable terminal"]

[To be honest, it's really hard for us to understand how this low-level electronic protection means and superb planetary construction technology can appear in the same civilization, and the doctor hasn't even made a contribution, and the indoctrination of the "variable terminal" has been easily completed]

[It will probably become the guardian of this galaxy and guide the civilization here to a new dawn]

The record could not be clearer in front of Li Wenyuan's eyes, and just as he expected, the transformation of the "variable terminal" was created by human beings.

But this noteworthy detail also made him feel heavy again.

It is clear that the "variable terminal" possesses some degree of mechanical intelligence, otherwise it would not have been able to call itself a "chronicler".

This is really what it calls itself, not what the Utes have summed up.

It will certainly find that it has a string of objects in its memory that are not its information, and will consider it important information that cannot be lost.

- Even until death, this string of messages awaits the destined person like a readable memory.

Yes, the "chronicler" is dead, and the moment Li Wenyuan came here, he realized that all that remained of this dilapidated artificial intelligence planet was a string of automatic programs.

The database here is corrupted, and it has chosen to use most of its memory for technology that can help "civilization survive", and in doing so it will inevitably reduce its own "intelligence".

So it "committed suicide", leaving only an automated program that reacts to keywords and understands the utterance simply.

Does a true mechanical intelligence think about what it's like to die? How does it feel when they really face death and decide to commit suicide?

Li Wenyuan didn't know all this.

But he also has a lot to know.

The information left by human beings is one of the most complete "non-scientific data" preserved by the "chronicler", and in addition to this, the other "non-scientific data" that has been preserved most completely is its "identity card".

Through this, Li Wenyuan also knew how the "chronicler" called the creator of its physical body.

[Local Identification Code: Chronicler (Original Code: Specialized Planetary Machinery - Variable Terminal)]

[Year of use: 1.7 billion years]

【Creating Civilization: The Recorder】

And this civilization called the "recorder" is most likely the creator of the "observation terminal" of the Milky Way, the alpha of the elliptical galaxy, here and in more galaxies in the future.

At the same time, they are a civilization that has brought destruction.

(End of chapter)