Matrix Survival: One random treasure chest per day

Chapter 546 "He said his name is Li Zheng!"

Was the Kron deceiving the ancient race?

The race that caused the mental storm after the original self transmigrated?
Li Zheng looked the crimson robot up and down. It had nothing in common with the mechanical bodies of the ancient races; in fact, it was quite different.

"The reason they deceived my race was that as long as we produced enough robots and gave them intelligence comparable to that of real people, we could resolve the mental storm without losing a single soldier." Kuro recalled the documents left by the Kron race and slowly narrated, "Because there is a fundamental difference between robots and living beings, theoretically even if they possess intelligence comparable to that of real people, they will not be contaminated by the negative characteristics of the mental storm and become monsters."

"Initially, this approach did achieve some results. In several battles against the Twisted Monsters, the first-generation Crimson Robots were indeed unstoppable, inflicting heavy casualties on the Twisted Monsters."

"only……"

At this point, a hint of fear appeared in Kuro's voice: "Until one day, the final conflict finally erupted. Because the robots were given the most real intelligence and thought, they became dissatisfied with our race's behavior of sending them to the battlefield while they hid in the rear, and began to rebel against our race."

They used logic circuits to break the backdoors our race left in their mind chips, and rebelled against all commands issued by our race.

Moreover, after a brief period of mild resistance, the robots finally began to take more bloody and violent actions.

However, at this point, any attempt by our clan to stop them by any means was futile.

"Then they took over the factories that produced robots, mass-produced robots, and researched technologies to convert consciousness?" Li Zheng continued Kuro's words.

“That’s right.” Kuro’s voice was tinged with bitterness. “The robots are smarter than anyone in my race thought. My race originally planned to purchase some EMP weapons targeting electronic devices from other races, but our intentions were discovered. The robots used the super brain system that my race gave them to work together to deduce a tool to counter the EMP weapons.”

This is a classic case of shooting oneself in the foot. The Kron race designed a superbrain as a processor for the robots to enhance their flexibility in combat, but the robots used the superbrain to deduce a weapon that could fight against the Kron race.

"But even so, it's the karma sown by your own Kron race, it has nothing to do with the ancient race, right?" Li Zheng touched his shiny forehead, the feel of which was superb.

"How can there be no connection?" Kuro exclaimed angrily, "The method of creating robots was taught to my race step by step by them, and they lured my race to develop it vigorously!"

That's a bit unreasonable.

In this situation, it can only be described as a result of mutual affection and cooperation.

It seems unfair to place all the blame on the ancient races.

"So what happened next?" Li Zheng asked, "How did you end up trapped inside the robot's body?"

"later……"

For some reason, when Li Zheng brought up this matter, Li Zheng actually saw fear on Kuro's cold, mechanical face.

"Later, our tribe welcomed a special guest who said he had a way to resolve the situation of the Crone tribe at that time."

"Oh? Who is that? How did he solve it?" Li Zheng became interested. If this person claimed to have a way to resolve the situation of the Crohn tribe back then, why did the Crohn tribe end up like this now?

"He...he suggested that our race develop a consciousness-switching device, selecting willing sacrifices to have their consciousness transferred into the robots to salvage the situation." Kuro clenched his mechanical fist. "But after our race developed the device, he secretly handed the data over to the robots, and since then our race has become what it is today. Those robots want our race to experience the despair of using mechanical bodies to go to the battlefield and die, so they've been frantically capturing our people and switching their consciousness."

Our race was naturally unwilling to accept this and rose up in resistance. Only then did we realize that in terms of military strength, our race was no match for the robots. The long war severely damaged our race, and the number of deaths was incalculable.

The number of people whose consciousness has been altered is also terrifying.

The most despairing thing is that even with the transfer of consciousness and our race becoming mechanical beings, we still couldn't gain an advantage in the war.

"Because the robots know your weaknesses perfectly, right?" Li Zheng instantly understood why the Kron race couldn't gain the upper hand. It was because the robots knew them inside and out after their consciousness was converted, and knew how to capture or destroy the robot's body most efficiently.

“That’s right.” Kuro nodded. “As the number of consciousness converters increases, the number of Kron people has decreased sharply. In just ten years, our population has dropped from tens of billions to less than one billion, and it continues to decline.” Ten billion to one billion, a full ninety percent reduction!

Such terrifying data is enough to make one's jaw drop.

“No, at the location I went to before, besides a few life forms, it seemed there were only a few of you converted individuals.” Li Zheng thought for a moment and asked, “Where are the others? I mean, what about the androids who acquired your Kron bodies and the other Kron people who were converted into mechanical bodies?”

"died."

Kuro casually uttered these cold words: "They're all dead. After the mechanical beings were implanted into my body, they didn't know how to reproduce, and most of them naturally died of old age over time."

And the people who were transferred into the robot's body...

At this point, Kuro sighed heavily, "Some were sent to the front lines, and others were captured and destroyed by the enemy like hunters. Only a very few escapees remain, hiding and barely surviving."

"I have another question. How much time has passed since the consciousness transfer began?" Li Zheng glanced at Yi Si beside him. The blood-red robot was silent and obviously knew very little about this history.

"Can not remember."

Kuro shook his head: "I only remember that when I was captured by them, it was the 30,000th batch of Transformers. Later, because the number of people in the tribe decreased sharply, the number of Transformers in each batch also decreased."

By now, there have probably been hundreds of millions of batches...

However, it's pointless to dwell on that now, because as far as I know, Is is the last Transformer of our race; from now on, there will be no more Krones.

"So... the Crone race has been wiped out?" Li Zheng asked in surprise, "But your language and civilization still exist in the outer city..."

How to explain this?

"It wasn't exactly a complete extermination of the entire race."

Li Zheng sensed a complex emotion in Kuro's next words: "Every race has some self-important individuals who are unwilling to conform. When the Kron race was initially tricked back to the Matrix by the ancient remnants, they left their race and remained in the outer city. I think... the reason why our race's script still exists in the outer city is thanks to them."

Li Zheng felt that Kuro was glorifying those people from his current perspective.

In the past, these Crone people who stayed in the outer city would have been called by another name: traitors!
Ironically, it was precisely these "traitors" who ensured the continuation of the Crone clan.

It has to be said, it's somewhat ironic.

"So you two volunteered to follow me just to seek revenge on that 'guest' from back then?" Li Zheng asked.

After all, that outsider was the culprit who caused the Kron race to... no, it should be said that he accelerated the Kron race's demise. Kuro and Is probably trying to find each other in the outer city and then avenge their people, right?
"I guess so. If we run into him, we will definitely take our revenge!" Kuro's voice was resolute.

After hearing the whole story, Li Zheng felt a bit sorry for Kuro and the others, and wanted to help them: "Do you know that person's identity information? What race is he? What's his name? Perhaps we can find him by issuing a mission!"

“We don’t know much about his identity.” Kuro paused, then continued, “But I learned his name from a document left behind by my clan.”

"Oh? What's his name?" Li Zheng's expression shifted. "The outer city has a huge population. If it's a very distinctive name, we might be able to find him."

"He said... his name is Li Zheng!"

(End of this chapter)