MC Creative Mode: Wholesale Perpetual Motion Machine

Chapter 347 The Great Filter (8)

Not to mention the intelligent atoms created through special editing of microscopic particles.

The intelligent atomic units that the mechanical island initially exhibited, if allowed to grow freely, could assimilate all matter in the entire observable universe within just a few minutes.

Of course, at least from New City's current observations, the intelligent atoms on the Mechanical Island seem to be in a dormant state rather than proliferating rapidly.

Before discovering an enemy that needed to be eliminated, they silently gathered into a mechanical island and drifted in space for countless millions or hundreds of millions of years, with interstellar dust condensing into thick rocks on it.

And with the universe being so vast, what about other civilizations?

Did other civilizations not create intelligent atoms?

Haven't they created a similar self-replicating robot?
It's impossible for all civilizations and all individuals to be so restrained, isn't it?

If any civilization, any individual, could create similar intelligent atomic units, or even more rudimentary self-replicating robots, and then use hyperspace jump technology to spread them throughout the universe...

Theoretically, the entire universe should no longer be in its current state; it should have long ago been overwhelmed by crowded intelligent units that have consumed all available energy.

After leaving Earth, while hunting down the malicious cultural life forms, Shinjo observed the starry sky with his super-space perception as the Giant of Light, but it remained completely silent, with no signs of life or civilization whatsoever.

This means that, at least on a cosmic scale, life and civilization remain extremely rare, so rare that they are almost impossible to detect through conventional means unless their coordinates are known.

In other words, the large filter truly exists.

There are certain things that have imposed targeted restrictions, or even targeted massacres, on civilizations and life forms that may exist, be born, or even flourish!

Shinjo remained silent for a long time, staring silently at Ultraman Tiga's palm.

At this moment, a small universe appeared in Tiga's palm. It was a simulator built with computing power.

The intelligent system, composed of the interaction of three atoms, recklessly assimilates all matter in this simulator according to preset instructions. After reaching a critical mass, it directly constructs a hyperspace engine to travel to more distant spacetimes and continues to assimilate matter to grow.

Once the added value reaches a certain level, these intelligent units will naturally aggregate into a basic unit—the mechanical island.

Each mechanical island releases a signal and then locks onto a coordinate system before jumping, much like a beast with its own territory. Within a minute, it completely occupies the entire observable universe, using minimal power to conduct minimal observations of all the areas it occupies.

Following this, within the simulator constructed by Tiga, a virtual civilization gradually developed, eventually entering the nuclear age. They then began developing more advanced energy sources to explore the stars, successfully obtaining immense amounts of energy through the annihilation effect of electrons and positrons…

The mechanical island that controls that area has been activated by a special energy signal.

First, the activated mechanical island splits off into smaller robots and deploys them to the target planet.

Next, the small robots will locate the completed energy devices within the local civilization and completely destroy them.

During this process, if they encounter any obstruction from the local civilization, the numerous small robots immediately coalesce into a large machine and begin their slaughter.

The slaughter will continue. Before all energy devices are completely destroyed, all intelligent life that stands in the way will be wiped out like insects.

Even after the special energy facilities are completely destroyed, the large robots will remain for a period of time, continuing their slaughter. If resistance is encountered, the slaughter will continue; as long as the resistance persists, the carnage will not stop…

If, in the course of constant resistance, civilization finds a way to destroy those massive robots that slaughter lives, after countless hardships...

So when a single large robot is not enough to suppress the resistance, the extermination of the race begins.

The mechanical island, operating at minimum power, will be fully activated. After a simple assessment of the data, it will use appropriate methods to completely destroy the planet where the rebellious civilization resides.

If the cleanup process encounters resistance again during this process, the machine island's preset program will determine that the cleanup cannot be completed in its current minimum power sleep state. In this case, it will start sending signals to summon machine islands in other areas to complete the cleanup together.

If the second phase of cleanup is still hindered and cannot be completed, then the technology compression package will begin to unfold according to the preset intelligent mechanism.

No matter how strong the resistance, it must be completely suppressed and eradicated.

Within the virtual machine created by Ultraman Tiga, the virtual Ultraman Tiga continuously resists the cleanup efforts on the mechanical island, with increasing intensity, and the technology decompressed by the mechanical island becomes more and more outrageous.

Until the fifth iteration, the starry sky inside the virtual machine shattered...

All the matter and vacuum energy in the entire starry sky are being exploited and extracted by the mechanical island through continuous iteration and decompression of technology, creating some unimaginably terrifying technologies.

The sole purpose is to exterminate all civilizations and individuals who possess a certain level of dangerous technology, provided they fail the "moral test"...

And what are the so-called ethical measures of the Machine Island?
Shinjo saw it: in the virtual machine created by Ultraman Tiga, those who faced slaughter and suppression without resistance, surrendering and waiting to die, until the robots sent by the Machine Island slaughtered most of the civilization, destroyed the planet's ecosystem, and brought the civilization to the brink of destruction, still dared not resist. Those who did not dare to resist were those who passed the moral test...

At this moment, Xincheng finally understood why the bastard crow people on that warship, who wantonly slaughtered other intelligent life forms, treated them as slaves and food, and subjected them to wanton humiliation and toying, and who could be killed a hundred times over, all looked disdainful and said that they were not with those things on the mechanical island.

Because, no matter how beastly their actions are, compared to this mechanical island that is scattered throughout the entire universe and has slaughtered countless lives and civilizations with this damned "moral test," it's not even a fraction of what they are...

At this moment, Xincheng finally understood why the starry sky, which should have been incredibly lively, was so deathly silent.

Now I understand why this starry sky could give birth to malicious cultural life forms and a morally bankrupt interstellar federation.

Because every civilization that reaches a certain technological threshold and should be able to venture into space will undergo such a "moral test".

It's not that I don't want a starry sky, nor that I don't want prosperity, but rather that the universe, like a dark forest, is filled with armed hunters and automated killing machines waiting to kill.

When technology reaches a critical point, the "moral test" begins. When the ignorant in the dark forest make the slightest noise, they will be shot at immediately. Only those who do not resist even when they are seriously injured or wantonly insulted, living like slaves or insects hiding in the dark of the back garden, will be allowed to live.

Any civilization that rises up in rebellion, any entity that possesses universal morality as understood by humankind, has a pitifully small chance of surviving such a "moral test."

At this moment, Shinjo finally understood why Tiga hadn't shown even a trace of anger or killing intent when facing the existence of the mechanical island.

Humans are naturally angered by the evil they witness. But who would feel anger towards a knife or an automated slaughtering machine?
“Damn it…” Shinjo almost lost his voice, letting out a deep sigh: “Beasts…”

(End of this chapter)