MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 342 The Great Filter (3)

"Has reinforcement from the Mechanical Island arrived?!"

In the vast vacuum, as the aftershocks of the extinction order reverberated, Xincheng's gaze was fixed on that void.

At the original location of the mechanical islands, hundreds of mechanical islands, with slightly different layers of dust and rock but identical overall structure, are rushing out of the space passage.

Do not!
Far more than a hundred!

The scene was as if a giant hornet's nest had been disturbed, with violent subspace fluctuations tearing at the spatial passage and widening the crack.

Immediately afterwards, countless mechanical islands surged out from it like a torrent of steel bursting its banks.

Upon their arrival, these newly formed islands instantly spread out over a range of several astronomical units using short-distance space jumps, weaving a three-dimensional net of death that firmly locked the new city, rendering it unable to move.

"Light particles? No! Not only that! There's something else too!"

"Damn it! There's no time!"

An unprecedented sense of immense threat gripped the new city.

A blurry vision of the future flashed in his eyes. A barrage of light particles and dozens of unknown attacks struck him one after another. His defenseless body exploded in agony, turning into a dissipating ray of light.

The agony of his body collapsing, which he foresaw, had already surfaced deep within his soul.

The attack happened too quickly; he didn't have time to escape.

The mechanical islands surrounding him collectively released a spatial disturbance of a specific frequency.

This fluctuation can destroy all matter at the atomic level, and can even turn space itself into a thick porridge, making space jumps a luxury.

At the same time, as this spatial fluctuation spreads rapidly outward, it will also violently disturb the spatial coordinates, making the space here difficult to lock onto and difficult to reach from the outside.

There was no time to think further; a resolute glint flashed in Xincheng's eyes.

He grabbed the Ravenman warship beside him, unleashed all his energy, and forcibly distorted the locked space slightly, using it as a spatial slingshot to launch the warship into the distance like a bullet!

Almost at the same moment——

boom! ! !
A crimson light of destruction exploded in the starry sky, and the dazzling light particles bloomed like a sky full of shooting stars, creating a poignant and beautiful firework of death.

Even when faced with a single mechanical island, Xincheng could tell that its energy level far exceeded his own, and that he had no chance of winning in a direct confrontation. He needed to penetrate deep into its interior and destroy it to release interference signals in order to paralyze it.

At this moment, facing the devastating attack launched by thousands of islands, even the giant of light, powerful enough to destroy a planet's ecosystem with the aftershocks of its run and turn a life-bearing planet into a dead land with its flight, was now incredibly vulnerable.

The stable body of the light particle was destroyed in an instant, and the pure light carrying its consciousness was also devastated.

The new city "died" at that moment.

If no new vessel can be found to carry his light in the coming time, his consciousness will quickly dissipate.

If his gentle soul light is not treated in time, it will be slowly washed away by the background noise of the cosmic vacuum over the long years, eventually losing all memory and existence.

(Target eliminated.)
(All units, return to your tasks)
A grand, cold signal echoed in the vacuum.

The thousands of mechanical islands began to wait for the spatial interference waves to dissipate, preparing to disappear one by one back into the void and continue their observation mission that had lasted for who knows how many years.

However, suddenly, the island's scanning waves detected a faint but peculiar signal.

(Life signs detected at the target)

(The target is expected to recover after 360 standard time periods.)

(All units, execute the extermination strike again)
(clear)
The evacuation of the mechanical islands suddenly came to a stop.

The massive energy fluctuations intertwined, unfolding a vast and boundless energy field, like an invisible razor, beginning to sweep indiscriminately into the encirclement.

Article 8 of the Observer Neutrality Treaty states: If a neutral target attacks this unit and does not cease its attack after receiving an alert, it will be considered a hostile extermination target…

Until death!

……

Outside the encirclement of the Mechanical Island, in the command center of the Crowman warship that had been launched by New City using a space slingshot and barely escaped danger, everyone received the chilling signal from the Mechanical Island.

On the enormous holographic screen, the Azure Sea People, a race with deep blue skin and human-like forms, along with other cosmic races captured as slaves, witnessed this tragic scene.

"Starfish... has been destroyed..."

"The giant who saved us..."

"The giant... has been killed!!!"

One of the sea creatures couldn't accept this cruel reality. He clutched his head fin tightly, letting out a hysterical scream: "Aaaaaah—!!!"

Pale blue tears slid down his cheeks as he screamed in despair, "Why! Why did this have to happen! Why did we have to go through this..."

"Woooooooo..."

Camien, a world-renowned top artist from Weihaixing, was experiencing a frenzy of images flashing through his mind. Just recently, Weihaixing's scientific community had received exciting news.

They successfully developed a technology that releases enormous energy through the collision and annihilation of positive and negative electrons, and based on this, they achieved a technological breakthrough in the large-scale production of positrons with the help of that terrifying energy.

That almost inexhaustible energy was supposed to be the beginning of a civilization's journey toward a new future...

Clearly, it's a celebration for the whole planet!

It's clear that in just a short time, the people of Weihai will be able to use this almost limitless energy to create spaceships that exceed 90% of the speed of light, truly step into the vast sea of ​​stars, and explore the endless territories of their home star system.

Clearly, that golden age is within reach...

But...but!
why!
Why did such a devastating disaster follow all of this?
Camion was on the verge of losing his mind; he screamed madly, wailing the destruction song of Wei Haixing.

On that day, Weihai Star's first civilian-grade inexhaustible energy device was completed, and began to inject a continuous stream of power into dozens of cities.

On that day, Camille, a world-renowned artist, held an unprecedented global concert.

Countless people from Weihai gathered together to sing songs of hope and celebrate the arrival of an unprecedented and wonderful era.

However, the massacre... began then.

On that day, the blood that flowed from the concert venue pooled together into a blue pool.

That azure blue, as beautiful as the sky and the ocean, was tinged with the scent of death.

This azure blue became Camion's eternal, etched-in-his-soul nightmare.

At the climax of the concert, countless destructive meteors streaked across the sky and rained down.

Those were not meteorites, but rather empty, shell-like metal armor.

After breaking through the atmosphere, they aimed precisely at the newly activated civilian energy plant, the initial device in the laboratory, and the crowd gathered at a nearby concert to sing songs of hope.

The cold, hard machinery unleashed an indiscriminate massacre on the unsuspecting civilians!

The inorganic energy device was reduced to ruins in the explosion, and the violent shockwave leveled almost half of the city.

If Camion hadn't escaped into the underground shelter at the last moment, he would have long since turned into charred bones.

Faced with this invasion that came from the sky, the grief-stricken people of Weihai immediately launched a counterattack.

But they soon discovered what a terrifying existence they were facing.

Those robots completely ignored light firepower attacks. Even if they were blasted into pieces by heavy artillery, they could quickly reassemble and regenerate, eventually coalescing into metal giants that could easily crush cities with their movements!

The planet Weihai, which has long been at peace, already has a very limited stockpile of weapons.

Within a single day, all heavy weapons were exhausted in the fierce battle against the metal giant.

The proud people of Weihai could only watch helplessly as the terrifying metal giant destroyed ten cities in just one day.

When night falls, it enters a brief slumber; and when the sun rises, it moves at a leisurely pace toward the next bustling city.

Day after day, the metal giant's pace was like a countdown to death.

Tens of millions of people in the Weihai region wanted to protect their homeland, but they were ruthlessly harvested like grass in front of the giant beast.

Taking advantage of the gaps in the giants' dormancy, scientists frantically studied the giant fragments.

Engineers and workers worked tirelessly, using their own bodies to build the new energy system.

Armorers and heavy industries around the world are operating at full capacity, day and night.

The assembly line roared as heavy weapons were produced in a continuous stream.

Many workers perished in the accident caused by the rapid conversion of the production line, but the new energy system was miraculously put into operation.

Ultimately, under the feint of heavy firepower, with the full power supply of new energy sources, and guided by the weaknesses of the giants analyzed by scientists…

Through the desperate struggle of the entire civilization and the valiant charge of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, the terrifying giant that had already destroyed hundreds of cities was finally disintegrated by energy waves of a special frequency.

As all the people of Weihai began to celebrate their hard-won victory, mourn their fallen comrades, and silently lick their wounds of war...

The final chapter of destruction descends from the sky once more.

A cold, grand voice, disregarding all physical barriers, resounded simultaneously across all electromagnetic waves, light radiation, and sound channels, echoing in the sky, on the earth, and in the communication devices of every person in Weihai.

The voice, in the official language of the people of Weihai, declared without a trace of emotion:

(The target civilization possesses dangerous technology and failed the ethics test.)

(Erasing must be performed immediately!)
While the people of Weihai were still immersed in doubt and fear, disaster struck again from the sky.

The space station sounded a piercing alarm as a small spacecraft hurtled toward the Earth's surface.

(End of this chapter)