MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 341 The Great Filter (2)

Overwhelming electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, photon streams, and mind waves... almost all the information channels that the new city could perceive were frantically occupied by the cold warnings from the mechanical island.

"Huh?" Xincheng almost laughed out of anger, letting out a roar that instantly drowned out all the other channels.

His voice, like a storm, exploded across every signal receiving channel on the mechanical island: "You damn bastard!"

"You, the one who controls the mechanical island, get out here!"

"You damned thing, you killed billions of lives! What do you think life is?!"

However, what responded to him was still that cold, emotionless message that echoed across all channels:
(According to Article 9 of the Deep Space Civilization Control Agreement)
(The target civilization has mastered dangerous technology and failed the ethical test; it must be eliminated immediately.)

(Warning! Warning!)
(Unknown life form, your intervention violates the Observer Neutrality Convention)
(If you continue to attack this unit, you will be considered a target for elimination...)

boom!
Another punch! That indestructible material, which was nothing more than an unknown metal that was twisted and deformed even under the terrifying power of the Giant of Light, was finally blasted with a huge hole.

Like a streak of crimson lightning, the new city rushed into the interior of the mechanical island through the hole, beginning its devastating destruction of the devices whose functions were unknown.

At this moment, all the warnings on all channels abruptly stopped.

Instead, blood-red emergency lights illuminated the interior of the mechanical island.

"What! There's no intelligent life form controlling it?" Shinjo was suddenly shocked after the rampage.

He could not sense any sign of life in this metal maze, nor could he find a central processing unit with a complex information structure.

The seemingly sophisticated mechanical structures he destroyed appeared to have no effect on the operation of the entire island.

Suddenly, his legs went weak, and Shinjo was lifted into the air, but his legs were tightly bound by metal tentacles that appeared out of nowhere.

boom!
With a mighty struggle, the tentacle snapped off.

Xincheng began to dodge at high speed the metallic tentacles attacking from all directions, his eyes scanning the microscopic structure with a blinding light. "So it's a cluster of intelligent mechanical units!"

Recalling the battle they fought together against the god of electromagnetism, Shinjo immediately found a solution.

Whether it is a nanounit or other intelligent unit, as long as they are made up of countless tiny individuals, and as long as they still retain a complex structure that can be freely combined, it means that their combination itself must be relatively weak.

By breaking through the outer shell and impacting from the inside before it can reassemble its defenses, the connection between the structures can be easily severed, causing it to lose its cohesive force.

"Then I'll destroy you all from the inside in one fell swoop!" The crimson giant stopped, his fists pressed against his chest, and flame-like patterns all over his body began to converge towards the gem on his chest.

Without a sound, a full-frequency energy disturbance targeting all intelligent units suddenly exploded.

Those rapidly twisting mechanical tentacles that were trying to grab him instantly went limp and stiffened amidst the vibrations of the crimson light waves.

"Is it over?" Shinjo took a short breath and carefully observed his surroundings.

However, the more he observed, the more shocked he became. "Artificially adjusted intelligent atoms, how could they be so precise?"

Recalling the warnings previously issued by the mechanical island, a strong sense of unease gripped him.

Article 9 of the Deep Space Civilization Control Agreement...

Possessing dangerous technology, failing ethical tests...

And what about the Observer Neutrality Convention?
They simply assumed the other party possessed dangerous technology, then conducted some kind of moral test on their own, and, believing the other party failed, launched a massacre?

What the hell is this disgusting bastard!

What kind of beasts make up this damned Interstellar Alliance?

A strong feeling of nausea welled up inside me.

He immediately returned to the area where the spaceship was located and found a crow-man slave and a nobleman being beaten by the victims.

He stared coldly at the two men who were almost beaten into a pulp.

Ultraman's senses can perceive matter and even touch the soul and heart.

The crow-man slave still retained the spiritual fluctuations of many intelligent beings, representing endless pain and wailing.

The highest-ranking nobleman on the warship, however, harbored almost no resentment.

But the sins of this nobleman were far more heinous than those of the slave.

During the brief skirmish, Newtown, though filled with anger, also noticed the strict caste system within these Ravenfolk. Those in the upper echelons, laughing and chatting at the banquet, didn't need to participate in the ship's maintenance; they could simply enjoy themselves.

The slave class, governed by slaves among the Arakkoa, was responsible for the dirtiest jobs: slaughtering and capturing on the planet, offering up intelligent life to their masters.

Xincheng held the two dying crow-men in his palm, and gentle light energy flowed through his palm, transforming into pure life energy and flowing into their bodies.

In an instant, the two dying bodies were reborn in the light.

When he regained consciousness, the nobleman saw the slave standing right next to him and immediately burst into a piercing rage: "You damned lowly slave! How dare you defile your master's body! Even if I tear you to pieces and torture your soul for ten thousand years, it will not be enough to quell my hatred!"

The slave standing to the side trembled all over, his eyes filled with fear. He tried desperately to kneel down to his master, but Xincheng held him firmly and he could not move.

"Hey!" Xincheng's deep, angry shout snapped the two of them back to their senses like a thunderclap.

The nobleman was stunned for a moment before he reacted, then immediately put on a fawning expression and wailed tearfully, "Giant, spare me! Spare me! My name is Pokhara, and I have some assets in the Interstellar Alliance! I can pay a huge ransom, please don't kill me!"

But his blood-red eyes were swirling wildly in their sockets, and a miniature transmitter inside his body was quietly activating, attempting to send a signal to a device deep within the warship.

However, when Xincheng's icy, murderous gaze swept over him, all his small movements instantly froze.

Xincheng asked coldly, "Answer me, is this mechanical island a weapon sent by your so-called 'Interstellar Alliance' to destroy civilization?"

Recalling the endless wails of the planet's souls when it shattered, and the tragic scene he had estimated with a fleeting glance that nearly 150 billion lives on the entire planet had vanished into nothingness in an instant, Xincheng's rage could no longer be contained.

He roared: “You not only slaughter intelligent life, capture it to serve as slaves, but you even eat it!”

"This kind of behavior, which is even worse than that of animals, actually dares to claim that this civilization 'failed the moral test'?!"

"And then exterminate them?!"

"Who gave you that qualification?!"

"Who set such absurd moral standards for you?!"

"Are all of you in the Interstellar Alliance a bunch of beasts?!"

……

After a heart-wrenching roar and a brief silence, the crow-man noble suddenly burst into maniacal laughter, his laughter filled with mockery.

"Hahaha... I thought it was some interstellar robber eyeing my property, but it turns out to be a country bumpkin from a rural planet who's never seen the world!" He stopped laughing, and his gaze instantly turned cold and sharp, as if he no longer feared death.

“Every few hundred years, one or two of you self-righteous fools will emerge, but what is the result? Without exception, they are all captured by the Alliance, become the finest delicacies on the table, and their souls are extracted to serve as the best gladiators.”

"Just capturing a few slaves and eating some meat, what's with the morality?" He scoffed, then suddenly laughed and asked, "So, you idiot, you attacked... Machine Island?"

He burst into unrestrained laughter again, as if he had witnessed the most ridiculous sight in the world.

"Why do you think we're in such a hurry to capture a batch of slaves! Mechanical Island is conducting a moral test on the inhabitants of this planet, and these idiots dared to attack the test robots sent by Mechanical Island, and were immediately deemed to have failed!"

"This planet should have been extinct, and these slaves should have been cleansed. We kindly captured a group and will raise them in the future. Isn't this a great thing for the continuation of their race and civilization? Hundreds of years later, if their surviving descendants are lucky enough to join the alliance, they will have to thank us!"

"And you, you damned fool! You stupid country bumpkin!" The nobleman's gaze turned to one of utter pity, as if he were looking at a dying man.

"They actually dared to attack the Machine Island..."

He chuckled softly. "Although losing a spaceship and a backup consciousness is a bit of a loss, seeing such a good show makes it not a complete loss."

"What do you mean?" Xincheng's unease grew stronger. "Mechanical Island isn't with your Interstellar Alliance?"

"Heh..." The nobleman let out a cold sneer, "We'd rather be in cahoots with those mad dog-like monsters from Mechanical Island..."

Rumble——!
Just then, a violent tremor in the void suddenly struck, interrupting his words.

Xincheng suddenly turned his head and saw that in the void where the mechanical island had originally been, it was flipping like a shattered mirror, and one after another huge islands exactly the same as the shut-down mechanical island appeared out of thin air.

A vast and terrifying wave spread from the newly formed island, and a cold, emotionless command was issued—

(The individual unit that attacked the shutdown unit has been identified)

(Command priority: Extinction!)

(End of this chapter)