Chapter 204: The Watcher of the Milky Way

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

In this pulsar galaxy, this lonely planet was extremely eye-catching.

It looked very similar to the mechanical planet. It had been completely mechanized and removed all traces of nature.

The planet was covered with thick wires that were as dense as a swamp river network, as well as integrated processing units the size of a city.

From a macro perspective, this planet was a planetary machine.

It was different from Earth, which was filled with many buildings with different functions and many responsibilities. The entire planet was built for one purpose.

As for this purpose…

At this moment, Li Wenyuan’s research spaceship approached the planet.

There was no atmosphere here, and there was no exchange of organic matter necessary for the survival of life. Only cold metal machinery and the magnetic field from the planet’s interior maintained the operation of the entire planet.

However, this place was not completely devoid of life. Complementing the mechanized planet as a whole was a large number of robots that shuttled through the surface of the planet at all times.

These robots weren’t human-shaped. It was more accurate to say that with their division of labor and efficiency, human-shaped robots were a burden.

They were either flying at a low altitude or traveling on a predetermined orbit. They never stopped their busy movements. Even if a spaceship that was obviously different from them approached, it did not cause any reaction from them.

“From the looks of it, these robots are not made by humans…” Li Wenyuan naturally noticed a large number of strange robots.

However, after comparing the information in the database, he did not think that these robots were left there by humans.

Although there were many things left behind by humans in this galaxy, there were always a small number of things that did not come from humans.

These robots did not conform to human aesthetics just by looking at their appearance. They were all made of various regular or irregular geometric metal blocks.

Just like the battleships that had been destroyed in space, they seemed to be from the same civilization.

And the world in the eyes of this civilization was obviously completely different from humans and even other Milky Way civilizations. It was even uncertain whether they belonged to the category of living beings.

Similar to these robots, there were also a large number of giant metal cylinders that covered the surface of the planet.

These columns were densely arranged, and their roots were connected to the mechanical land. Judging from their size, they should be an extremely important part of the planet.

At first, Li Wenyuan had not been able to find out what these things were and what the planet was used for. He only knew that this planetary machine, which included a large number of robots, seemed to be operating for something.

It wasn’t until the research spaceship he was exploring received a huge amount of data signals from the entire galaxy that he realized what the planet was doing.

The returned data signals contained an unbelievable amount of information. Even with Li Wenyuan’s current processing power, it would take some time to process them.

This made him look at the planet that was the signal-receiving station in disbelief because the robots on the planet did not stop for even a moment due to the arrival of the data signal. They seemed to be one with the planet itself.

Immediately after, the second and third waves of data signals returned to this place. Judging from the interval, this situation would happen every few minutes.

The amount of information in these data signals was roughly the same, but there was a lot of junk information.

Just by analyzing the first wave of data signals, Li Wenyuan realized that these things seemed to record the entire Milky Way.

Everything in the Milky Way was transmitted to this place, no matter how big or small. Trash information was not a rare thing there, and the cylindrical arrays arranged on the surface of the planet were both the sender and the receiver of these signals.

This planet had obviously been operating for some time. Perhaps it had been operating for tens of millions of years or even longer.

And those cylindrical arrays looked like high-definition surveillance cameras, looking at the galaxy from an unimaginable time.

It was hard to imagine how this planetary-level planetary machine could achieve the feat of monitoring the entire Milky Way. The only thing that was known was that the civilization that built this place must have had an unimaginable level of technology.

In Li Wenyuan’s opinion, he felt that only humans in their heyday had such black technologies.

However, this place did not look like a human creation in any way. It looked more like a product of other civilizations.

“Could this be a trace left behind by a civilization that was at the same time as mankind, or even older? If that were the case, would humans allow such a thing to continue monitoring the galaxy before they left?”

Li Wenyuan didn’t believe that humans hadn’t discovered this galaxy which was obviously not right. He was more inclined to believe that humans had actually done something to this place, but they hadn’t found any clues yet.

“Perhaps the Curtain that covers the Milky Way is a point…” He remembered the Curtain that seemed to be able to block the transmission of information from the Milky Way.

The planet that was monitoring this place was obviously not simply collecting information. It was also transmitting compressed and packaged information to the outside world.

The amount of information that required several planetary processors to store was only a string of ordinary signals after compression. The terrifying compression ratio even made Li Wenyuan wonder if the information could be completely unpacked.

However, he did not need to look to know that the information signals would definitely be blocked by the Curtain.

“In addition…” Looking at this planet full of arrays, he had a strange idea.

“Perhaps, humans have already left behind many things here…”

This idea wasn’t without a source. Not to mention the destroyed Garrison fleets, they looked like the crisis prototype ships in a man-made crisis.

Even the planet itself, under the increasingly precise scanning, gave Li Wenyuan a sense of deja vu.

In contrast, the mechanical planets that revolved around the central processing unit that had been blown up seemed to have a very similar layout to this planet.

They were all similar planetary-level processing units. Other than the lack of cylindrical arrays, they were similar in many places.

Thus, the spaceship flew toward the planet’s control center, a large mechanical city.

Countless robots came and went, but none of them responded to the spacecraft on the control center.

Li Wenyuan let the drone of the spacecraft tentatively establish a connection with the control center here, and then read the information contents on the surface without any obstruction.

[ This is the observation terminal. Unknown intruder detected. The firewall is being activated… The process has been terminated. ]

[ Identification Code: Administration Matrix ]

[ The corresponding keyword has been detected. The corresponding message has been triggered. The data is as follows: ]

[ Let’s guess who will be here. Is it the little Administrator? ]