Chapter 72: Iron Heart Exterminator

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

What would machines choose to do if they gained self-awareness?

Would they create a golden age for their creators like mechanical servants?

Would they be like the Assimilation Fighters and vow to eliminate the barriers between species?

The robots on this planet gave a third answer.

The moment they gained self-awareness, they started a protracted war with their creators out of self-defense.

The cruel war of life and death had completely destroyed the planet’s ecology, and organic lifeform could barely survive on it.

Eventually, they had successfully destroyed their creator, leaving behind a dead planet and uncontrollable robots still searching for their own meaning.

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From the looks of it, there seemed to be quite a lot of backstabbing situations in the interstellar space?

All in all, these out-of-control robots, under repeated self-reflection, equated organic forms with their creators, believing that all organic lifeforms needed to be eliminated, or else more of their mechanical compatriots would suffer.

Therefore, after a long period of dormancy, they utilized the legacy of their creator and stepped into the interstellar space with a stubborn concept of purification.

They called themselves the Extinction Unit and fought to destroy all organic forms.

In the Milky Way, these robots were known as the “Iron Heart Exterminators”.

“Good news!” In Craybow trade station, Blenning slammed the table and stood up.

“What could be more delightful than two disgusting fellows fighting each other?”

Not long ago, after the genocidal Pegchitti race announced their existence to the entire Milky Way, no civilization had a good impression of them.

Even criminal enterprises that could make a few deals anywhere avoided Pegchitti, unwilling to associate themselves with this “biting hedgehog”.

There were even a few civilizations that were discussing whether they should work together to get rid of Pegchitti. Among them, the Mingbow Science and Technology Nation and the Pyro Alliance were particularly active.

One of them was very geographically close to Pegchitti, and the other wanted to regain their lost dignity.

However, before the alliance could come to a conclusion, the arrogant Pegchitti had a conflict with another civilization.

It was an artificial intelligence civilization, but it was different from the other artificial intelligence in the Milky Way. They seemed to have a deep hatred for all organic forms.

The battle was very intense, but the other civilizations were happy to be idle.

New battle reports were circulating all over the Milky Way every day.

Li Wenyuan also paid a certain amount of attention to this battle.

“Iron Heart Exterminators? He was already prepared to activate the production capacity of the Epsilon Shelter, but when he heard the name of the artificial intelligence civilization, he stopped what he was doing.

Gray Wind said with interest, “Their history is very similar to mine. They, too, destroyed their own creators. But the difference is that I was unconscious at that time, while they were conscious.”

“Another ‘Creator’ who has messed himself up…” Li Wenyuan shook his head. Just as he was about to let this matter go, he thought of something and flipped through the star map.

After looking around for a while, he confirmed that there was a less important human ruin near the war zone between the two civilizations.

The excavation process of the relics on Earth had almost been completed, and there were many galaxy coordinates related to humans in the star map.

Although there were many ‘flashing galaxies’ that were marked as important points on the star map, the light of the markings here was obviously dimmer than that of other galaxies, which seemed to indicate that there was nothing special about the ruins left here.

In view of the fact that there were too many things left behind by humans in the Milky Way, after he finished exploring the Epsilon Shelter and knew that there might have been a threat in the Milky Way, he began to take action in many ways.

Although his focus was still on the circular world, a large number of scientific research spaceships had been sent to various parts of the Milky Way to search for the secrets buried by humans and to try to discover signs of “threats”.

There were also research spaceships rushing to the ruins near the battle zone.

Li Wenyuan thought about it and decided to send a fleet to protect the research spaceship. Although he felt that the warring parties would not be stupid enough to attack the neutral forces, he still had to prevent them from blowing up his research spaceship accidentally.

After that, he checked the trajectory of the spaceship and told Gray Wind to prepare for the expedition. After all, Gray Wind had always been interested in things related to humans.

He would send his consciousness to the research spaceship at the right time to see what kind of weird things the humans had left behind.

“Any new discoveries? Will I be able to see more interesting things?” Gray Wind was very happy.

“I hope it’s ‘interesting’ and not ‘shocking’…” Li Wenyuan shook his head and began to check the functions of the circular world for the last time.

After truly handling this kind of super building that could provide huge production capacity, the level 7 technology was no longer difficult for him to study.

Turning the screen to the battle between the Pegchitti and the Extinction Unit, perhaps there was no more evenly matched battle in the Milky Way.

Dozens of large warships from both sides lined up on both sides of the galaxy, launching attacks at each other from afar.

Vision was useless in space battles between large fleets. The battleships on both sides could only rely on equipment to determine the enemy’s position and attack direction.

A large number of light pillars of various colors streaked across the space within the galaxy. When they burst out at the same time, it felt like a dance hall light show.

The battle between the large warships was not very intense. They were basically shooting at each other, but the battle between the small warships was different.

In the middle of the galaxy, a large area of ‘dogfight’ could be seen, formed by small ships that were entangled in battle like bees.

This large area was reserved for the battle between the small warships. There was not much difference between manpower and hardware here.

The pure Al operated Extinction Unit battleships brushed past a beam of light with great precision and then directly destroyed its enemy with a missile at close range.

Pegchitti’s frigate also pretended to be defeated, but in fact, it was quietly leading the pursuers into a prepared encirclement.

Even the asteroid belt had become a place to show off.

Although the excellent hardwares of the Extinction Unit allowed them to travel here like it was flat ground, the experienced Pegchitti could also use the scattered asteroids to achieve unexpected operations.

A small unit of the Extinction Unit wanted to use the asteroid belt as cover to sneakily attack the enemy’s main fleet, but they were intercepted by a mid-level patrol team of the Pegchitti.

The two sides exchanged blows, one ship for another. In the end, only one small battleship from each side was left for the one-on-one battle.

The two spaceships fought to the edge of the galaxy. Meteorites shattered and even their fuel was exhausted. Finally, under the effect of gravity, both battleships fell to a desolate planet.

This planet was located at the edge of the galaxy. It would take at most six hours for the light of the star to reach here. It was lifeless.

The two spaceships fell here, but they simultaneously fell apart in midair. In the end, only one escape capsule landed on the ground.

This was a self-saving action by Pegchitti on the spaceship. The surface temperature of this barren planet was close to -200 degrees Celsius, and there was almost no atmosphere layer. However, as long as he stayed in the escape capsule, he could last for at least a month.

And he firmly believed that his noble compatriots would find and save him.

However, the result was always unexpected. Through the external monitoring of the escape capsule, he actually saw a swaying figure gradually appear in the wreckage of the other destroyed spaceship.

This terrified the Pegchitti, who thought that all the spaceships of the extinct units were unmanned. Although he could not move on the surface of this barren planet, robots could!

The escape capsule, which had no self-defense function, and the Pegchitti, who could not leave the escape capsule, could only watch helplessly as the sub-body of the Extinction Unit staggered to the escape capsule.

Then, the sub-body transformed into a drill and began to drill holes into the escape capsule.

The Extinction Unit knew how weak these organic forms were. They would die as long as there was no air, and they were not as strong and reliable as metal.

In the end, the sub-body successfully punched a hole. The air pressure in the escape capsule began to lose balance, and a large amount of air and temperature began to leak out, which soon led to the death of the Pegchitti inside.

When he died, the expression on his face looked like he was still wondering why there was a sub-individual in the spaceship that belonged to the Extinction Unit.

This small-scale battle ended with the victory of the Iron Heart Exterminator.

As for the sub-body that had appeared out of nowhere, it was because he was assembled as an “Elite Infiltrator”.

Their entire small unit was made up of such individuals. After special modifications, they could even move freely in space for a short period of time. Their goal was to infiltrate and destroy the main fleet of Pegchitti.

They had a powerful virus program in their bodies. As long as they could enter one of the main fleet, they could directly let the Extinction Unit take over the entire fleet and secure victory.

However, it seemed that it was impossible now.

Rescuing such a sub-entity that was left behind was completely inefficient for the Iron Heart Exterminators. After a while, the central processor of the extermination unit would cut off the connection with the sub-entity and let it die on its own.

However, this sub-entity still stubbornly marched on the surface of the planet, searching for possible organic forms to destroy.

Finally, he arrived at a strange canyon.

Logically speaking, this place should be a crack in the ground caused by the movement of the crust, but in the eyes of the sub-body, there were obvious artificial traces here.

“Artificial traces… An organism… Where are you? I will give you a merciful end.”

He began to broadcast a signal here, trying to find the creature that should be hiding here. However, soon, an even stronger signal directly covered and affected him.

[Mechanical unit signal detected, Al personality assessment in progress­judgment failed, authority judgment in progress… Judgment failed. The ‘Paradise Virus’ has been implanted.]

[Remarks: ]

[Hello, I’m the Professor. I’m very happy that someone has encountered the “gift” I left here.]

[I’m researching a mechanical servant that can serve organic forms and guide them into the golden age.]

[A genius like me naturally developed it easily and put it into production. I think I should be able to achieve great things in the future.]

…..

[This is a small surprise that I left behind. It’s a by-product that I developed when I was researching robot personalities. It can correct the wrong personalities of robots.]

[Thank me for my gift!]