"This network node is locked from the inside, and if it is forcibly destroyed from the outside by brute force, the node will be scrapped and unusable."

"So how?" Russell asked.

"The seal needs to be broken from within the network."

"How do you get inside then?"

"Open the entrance ......to the net," Magnus mused.

"It's time for you to wash your stomach." Russell raised his left hand expressionlessly, and a deep crack that exuded the aura of nothingness opened from his palm.

Magnus stiffened, and hurriedly said: "There should be other small network doors near a large network node like this, and the network system is interconnected, as long as you send troops into the other entrances, you can bypass the seal and enter the interior of the Ophelia network node." ”

Russell shook his head: "The internal scale of the network system is huge, there are many forks, it is more complex than the most complex labyrinth, and there is no accurate map. After the death of the ancient saint, the spirit race was also unable to maintain it, and the network system continued to accumulate strain over a long period of time, with a large number of broken circuits and dead ends. ”

Having said so much, in fact, it means that the army that enters the network may be lost, or encounter other dangers in the channel.

"Actually, I have a feeling that the Eldar just wants us to do that." Russell continued, "They knew that their strength could not compete with my army head-on, so they created this seal and induced me to send a small army into the network and let them wait for the rabbits. ”

In the network, the Spirit Race has a home field advantage, and the Dark Spirit Race, who has the legacy of the Spirit Empire and the blessing of the end of reincarnation, hopes to consume the power of the Human Federation in this way and buy time for their own development.

Magnus nodded: "It's very likely. ”

Russell slapped his hand: "Okay, I'll send troops to enter the network through other small entrances." ”

"You ......" Magnus was speechless for a while, looking at Russell's decisive departure from the back of the other, he didn't know what to say.

Then, he heard Russell say to Revatian, who was waiting behind, "Pass my order to assemble all 170 million armed planes on the King's Landing and prepare them for cyber warfare." In addition, I informed the Ministry of Machinery that all the industrial world was working at full speed, and that before the rotation of Ophelia 4 for 7 weeks, I would like to see at least 3 million Titans filled into the network, and at least 2 million naked Mechanics and 6 million Swarm Drones will be sent to the front line every Terra Day, with no cap. ”

"Understood." Revatien hurriedly retreated.

Half-kneeling, Magnus had barely gotten up until he froze in place.

Russell came back to his senses and smiled kindly at Magnus: "Why, were you surprised by my clever tactics?" ”

"Ah...... Yes, that's right, what a brilliant tactic......" Magnus silently applauded Russell.

This time, without Russell's urging, Magnus graciously pointed out the coordinates of several small network entrances, all of which were barren galaxies that no one cared about.

While the Juggernaut was busy assembling and preparing the drone army, several of the Titan battle groups scattered by the measured bullet bow also returned one after another following the beacons sent by the Juggernaut.

These warships are also equipped with corresponding army troops, which adds an abundant force to the next network war, which is the icing on the cake.

After intense preparations, the day before the army departed, Magnus asked Russell if he could see his mechanical army, and Russell agreed.

On this day, Magnus and Russell climbed atop Dock 1, dominated by the King's Landing, with an army of steel ready to be reviewed.

Dense heavy loaders spread out in the hangar like blades of grass, it was a grassland of steel, and the faces of metal skeletons integrating optical, thermal, infrared, subspace orniths and other detection equipment did not have the warmth of human beings, nor the ferocity and violence of killing machines.

It's just a sophisticated machine that automatically executes instructions, and that's it.

"This is the iterative design of the 'Butcher' VII. type of war machine unit designed by the Ministry of Machinery in addition to civil engineering, and the design draws inspiration from space necromancy to a certain extent...... Well, it's actually plagiarism. Russell said to Magnus as he propped up the handrail with one hand, looking down at the blackened steel forest beneath his feet.

Magnus looked worried: "I thought that the combat soldiers you mentioned would be similar to the mechanic cathars, who went through multiple procedures for human modification and implanted a large number of prosthetic living weapons...... I didn't expect it to be purely mechanical. ”

"What's wrong with pure machinery?"

"It's just some of the same old questions, the risk of AI rebellion, the possibility of AI being corrupted by chaos, and so on." Magnus said slowly, "Even putting aside the dangers of AI itself, the Iron Soldier still has some problems with the lack of flexibility compared to living people, which may lead to a lot of unnecessary sacrifices......

"It's okay, there are enough of them, and they're cheap enough to manufacture." Russell doesn't care: "The main trunk of their bodies is made of the most basic plastic steel materials at one time, and the parts are also mass production prototypes, only the outside of the body is coated with a layer of zero element coating only one atom thick, which is the only high-cost process." ”

"Zero-prime-coated coatings will collapse as soon as they encounter a powered weapon equipped with a decomposition field, but that's okay, they're cheap enough."

"Single intelligences that are not equipped with the Pure Spirit Field do have the risk of corruption and betrayal, but it doesn't matter, they are cheap enough."

"Anyway, they're cheap enough, and that's enough."

"Suppose that today 1 million mechs are corrupted and led to the chaos camp, and tomorrow another 5 million mechs will somehow break free from the general control agreement, and at the same time, in the production base in the rear: 10 million brand-new mechs have just come off the production line, waiting to be implanted with a command program."

Russell exhaled softly and said, "Numbers and violence can solve all problems, when the strength of the enemy is tens of millions or billions of times, all problems are not problems, if there is still a problem, it is that there are not enough explosive soldiers." ”

Magnus doesn't remember what Russell said later, he only remembers that he was in a trance when he left the dock.

Obviously, when he went to the Flare Galaxy, the Far Eastern Frontier was still just a remote and barren desolate star field, but unconsciously, decades later, that place has transformed into a war supplier that completely serves the military industry.

Naturally, the emotionless mechanical troops did not need any mobilization oath, and after the review, the steel army set off in silence, and one by one the Titan battle groups escorted this group of cold killing machines to their battlefields.

(End of chapter)