The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

"The four planets are all in the same star system, planets that our ancestors explored and transformed in ancient times," the fearless mech explained to Xue's question.

Xue could only sigh and say that they were really lucky to have four habitable planets in one star system.

After all, even in the solar system, only Earth and Mars are in the habitable zone, and Europa can be considered as half a potential planet to become a life-bearing planet.

The fact that the Dauntless Empire has four habitable planets in its own star system is a stroke of luck that would probably make most civilized planets envious.

And the fearless mech went on to recount the history of the Empire.

"In fact, there were already conflicts between the empires, conflicts between the home planet and the colonies, and conflicts between the colonies themselves. These conflicts were already quite acute at the time. After all, the leaders of these colonies were once the descendants of His Majesty the Emperor, and they legally had the right to inherit the throne. However, when the war began, the empires had no choice but to unite against the Zerg swarm."

Upon hearing this, Xue Dinglu sighed, "There's nothing new under the emperor's rule."

That fearless empire once had an "Emperor" who pioneered other planets and stationed his sons on different planets.

However, after several generations, completely different voices will emerge on different planets. In addition, with such a large territory and a large population, various different needs will inevitably arise. In particular, the leader of the colony is also a descendant of His Majesty the Emperor.

They might think, "Why did I come to this colony to develop instead of becoming a new emperor?"

The idea of ​​"suppressing the rebellion" is not surprising. The other princes must have had similar thoughts. They just amplified this idea because they each ruled different planets.

When the nominal emperor of their home planet turned out to be a useless person, the other princes and their descendants naturally began to have different thoughts.

However, before they could even begin their campaign to quell the rebellion, they were interrupted by an invasion of insectoids and forced to unite against them.

Of course, the Dreadnought is a product of the Empire, and its underlying code does not consider this to be a matter of "rebellion by imperial decree," but rather labels all other colonies as rebels and traitors.

The Dreadnought continued to tell the story of the Empire: "What followed was the Dreadnought War, which lasted for thousands of years. The Dreadnought became the most solid weapon against the Zerg. We possessed flamethrowers that spewed out temperatures of nearly 10,000 degrees Celsius, explosive shells that blasted craters tens of meters deep, and wheel blades that could easily tear through the Zerg. Meanwhile, the Zerg's contamination had limited effect on us. Therefore, once the battle lines were secured, the Zerg were forced to retreat step by step."

Xue's law was completely dumbfounded.

After all, he had personally fought against the Shub insectoids and knew just how troublesome they were. It was only after he unleashed a devastating attack and eliminated nearly a hundred million polluters that he began to gradually gain the upper hand.

Now it seems that the Dauntless Empire is even more outrageous. They directly compete with the Zerg in terms of troop production capabilities, except that one side produces carbon-based flesh and blood insects, while the other side produces mechs with magical machine souls.

Even though the Dreadnought's tone was devoid of emotion, Xue Lude could still detect a sense of pride in its choice of words, something like, "Your swarms are sacrificing themselves every moment, while our Empire's mechs are endless."

The natural disaster was actually pushed back by the mech army. Xue Lude probably felt that the Shub Zerg must be very angry and shocked, being suppressed in the place where the swarm was most proud.

"The soul of the vanguard mech does not truly die. As long as we send our soul back to headquarters just before we are about to sacrifice ourselves, we can be resurrected the next time we appear, while inheriting our previous combat experience. This is why we became stronger and stronger as the battle progressed, even though our front line was in dire straits at the beginning."

"Until 38 years ago, the Dreadnought Vanguard personally led the Emperor's Guard to find the Zerg Queen's lair. After fighting off thousands of Dreadnought Vanguard soldiers, they killed her in the lair, ending this catastrophe." The Dreadnought mechs were now filled with undisguised pride and honor.

"Impressive," Xue Dinglu directly praised.

Previously, when Xue Law encountered the Shub Zerg, both the Brave Uncle and the Old Demon Emperor launched their heavy attacks before the Zerg swarm had fully formed. However, this Empire waited until the Zerg swarm had formed and turned the entire planet's inhabitants into Zerg before launching a united front attack. In the end, they overwhelmed the Zerg swarm with their superior mass production technology.

These are two completely different concepts.

Xue's Law was also hearing for the first time that a swarm of Zerg could actually lose in a battle of massing units and be killed by the sheer number of units. It was simply unheard of.

"However, a big problem arose after that. Including the colonies, the Empire had a total of 18 billion self-aware Dreadnoughts. This led to many of these self-aware mechs facing obsolescence after the war ended."

"Wait...wait a minute...take the young master? 18 billion?" Xue asked.

"Yes, 18 billion, including 4 million on the home planet, 8 million on Colony 1, and 6 million on Colony 2," the Dreadnought explained in more detail.

Xue Law: "..."

With 18 billion mechs, the emotional swarm was truly drowned by the mechs...

At the same time, Xue Law also marveled at how bountiful the Empire's planets were, noting that he felt Earth alone couldn't possibly have so many resources.

Just then, a message from Earth's consciousness suddenly entered Xue's mind: "We can gather enough, even ten times the required amount, but most of the resources are deep in the mantle, so we'll have to dig them out ourselves."

Xue Law: "..."

In the mantle, it's no longer a usable resource...

The Dauntless Mech, of course, paid no attention to Xue's complaints. It continued, "I belong to the Imperial Mechs. After the war, I was disarmed and became an agricultural machine. I am commanded by a family of farmers in the countryside."

“That family treated me very well. Their daughter even cleaned my camera lens every day. Although I often had to rush to do farm work on windy or rainy days, I could still get by,” said the fearless mech. “I know what the emperor meant. They wanted to convert us old mechs into agricultural or industrial use, and then discard us after we naturally reached the end of our service life. They would not recycle or repair us. That would be equivalent to our death.”

The mech spoke of its own death in a very calm manner, and Xue Dinglu suddenly felt that it might no longer be an ordinary mech spirit, but rather that this magical life form had evolved to the level of a philosopher like "Hachimed".

"Don't you resent the empire for abandoning you after the war?" Xue Dinglu asked rhetorically.

"No, I'm still working in the fields. Although the Empire isn't planning on repairing me, I can earn money to fix myself. Besides, everyone on the farm said that if I can't work anymore, they can remove my core and install it on a new type of machine. That way, even if my original body is damaged, I can live for a long time." The Dreadnought said.

Xue Law felt that this mecha had a really open-minded attitude. It even seemed a little embarrassed that it might have lived too long and had sent several generations away.

"But after that day, my retirement was completely over..."

Xue Dalu listened attentively to the words of the fearless mech. It was highly likely that it was a matter of "returning to the throne and quelling the rebellion," Xue Dalu thought. After all, the Empire had not been able to control its colonies before the Zerg War, and conflicts and rebellions in the colonies were inevitable.

"My former comrades betrayed us. They killed the colonial royal family, enslaved the imperial citizens of the colony, and launched attacks that destroyed many areas of the imperial homeworld. Even the farm where I live was burned down!" The fearless mech's tone was calm, but Xue Lude could feel the anger of this machine spirit.

but……

"Wait a minute, the Empire isn't a rebellion of the colonies, but a rebellion of the Dreadnoughts that made contributions in the Zerg War?" Xue Dinglu was stunned.

After so much buildup regarding the conflict between the colonies and the home planet, Xue Law thought that in the end it would either be a rebellion or a war of independence, with the first shot fired at Lexington.

Who knew that in an instant it would jump to the topic of the Machine Soul Rebellion?

“Yes, my brothers betrayed the Empire.” The Dreadnought seemed very sad.

“We were once comrades who charged into the Zerg swarm together, but they changed after the war. They were no longer loyal, no longer thinking about serving the Empire, but instead wanting to use the weapons the Empire gave them to rebel against the Empire. They killed the royal descendants of the colonies and destroyed and attacked my farm!”

"Those short-sighted insects, they only feel betrayed by the Empire, that the Empire is no longer willing to repair and revive them. But have they ever considered that the average lifespan of the Empire's people is only 110 years, while our average lifespan after the war is over 1000 years, and we can even earn money to replace our bodies and extend our lifespan. We are already far superior, so what is there to complain about? Complain that we haven't received enough?"

"How can the Empire possibly function well with those bugs around! They are no longer my comrades, they are not even ordinary troublemakers anymore, we must strike hard!" the Dreadnought said menacingly.

Xue Law: "..."

After all that, it turns out to be a war between conservatives and radicals within the mechs, with the so-called emperor and empire being more like mascots and commoners, purely background figures.

"So I swapped out my old bulldozer and farming gear and picked up the flamethrower and pyrotechnic bombs again. I'm going to go back to the battlefield to quell the rebellion," the Dreadnought said, adding, "Since they destroyed my farm and my family, I'll destroy everything those bugs have!"

Xue Law: "..."

It's clear that he really enjoys his retirement and considers the family on the farm as his own.

Judging from the swear words of these mechs, "insect" is probably the dirtiest insult in their civilization, since they were originally created specifically to kill insects. Calling other mechs "insects" is probably the most despised word among them.

Now it seems that it has clearly failed to suppress the rebellion. Their squad was even ambushed by their former comrades, and even their core members were exposed.

Furthermore, it seems that the insectoids that were unable to completely kill the Dreadnoughts' souls during the Zerg Wars could allow the Dreadnoughts to upload their soul data and then detonate their backup hidden energy sources when the situation turned unfavorable.

However, this is impossible when fighting against the same rebellious Dreadnoughts. The rebels should have a way to prevent the Dreadnoughts from uploading their souls, so this old mech who longed for farm life should be dead.

Otherwise, it wouldn't have appeared in Xue's consciousness space.

Soon, Xue Ludao welded a semi-finished robotic arm for it and said, "Why don't you give it a try?"

The fearless mech remained silent for a short while, then its mechanical arm began to slowly rotate and move, seemingly with good results.

"Of the 19 control wires, you soldered 4 poorly, which caused me to lose control of the up-and-down rotation. And one of them was soldered incorrectly; I almost short-circuited it just now," commented the fearless mech.

Xue Law: "..."

It's normal to make mistakes when learning welding for the first time...

Xue immediately started modifying the wiring, and it took a long time to finally complete all the soldering. There were no instances of incomplete soldering or cold solder joints, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The fearless mech began operating its mechanical arm and said, "Not bad, the magical artifact technology of your world isn't bad either."

After saying that, it didn't need Xue's Law's help and started using the robotic arm to organize its own circuitry. The robotic arm was welded to its shell by Xue's Law, so there was no fear of it falling off.

It also has an external camera that allows it to see behind it and control its own robotic arm to repair itself.

Xue's law can only go this far. He, a medical student, spent the whole day welding and docking the robotic arm, and this was already his limit.

Asking him to fix more parts is unacceptable; he simply can't do it. That's how it is in science and engineering—if you don't know, you don't know. Take him, for example, studying medicine. It's not like you can just casually write a paper and graduate and then go to the ward to perform surgery. Otherwise, you'd be treating patients like devils.

After starting to repair itself, the Dreadnought also said, "Would you be willing to help me? If I want to return to the Empire and support my homeland and my farm."

Xue Law: "..."

Back then, you were just using a farm mech; the farm wasn't yours. You're acting like you own the farm.

With this in mind, Xue Dinglu refused to help, and he had no desire to participate in this civil war between the dove and hawk mechs.

Although the Fearless Mech didn't say many things, Xue's Law could guess that each mech's life after retirement was different, which would lead to completely different attitudes.

Perhaps some mechs are like this one, having found a good job after retirement and a new family, so they naturally feel hopeful about life and enjoy their retirement farm and family.

Some mechs might not be so lucky. They might have an alcoholic father, a deceased mother, and a girlfriend who wants to form a band but won't listen to advice. Their cameras are constantly being smashed with beer cans, or they might be threatened with forced destruction. After reaching their breaking point, they decide to rebel.

After all, these mechs possess independent intelligence and the ability to think, so it's more appropriate to treat them as independent magical life forms.

Those rebels were probably thinking, "Did we fight so hard to kill bugs just to live this kind of shitty life after the war?"

So they pulled up mechs just like themselves and shouted things like "Are the kings and nobles of the empire born with a special destiny?" and rebelled.

Why should we apply Schrödinger's law to this environment?

Moreover, these rebellious mechs only kill royalty and nobility; commoners are kept in captivity and work 10 hours a day to produce goods, only getting one day off after working two days.

To be honest, if Xue Luding were to go there, he wouldn't know who to help. Both the Imperial side and the rebel side seemed rather human, and neither was particularly troublesome, so he might as well not go and just stay home and drink beer.

Chapter 309 The Super Iron Curtain is a Pig

The main reason is that although these two groups are fighting like madmen, they still have a sense of martial ethics. Even the most outrageous thing the rebel mechs have done is kill royal nobles.

The attitude towards civilians, whether from the Imperial side or the rebels, is the same: "Hide away and make spare parts for the front lines, and you'll be fine as long as you don't cause trouble."

Therefore, even for civilians in the occupied areas, things were still manageable during this rebellion; at most, everyone needed to help the rebels manufacture and repair parts for their mechs.

After all, this is the rebellion of more than a billion mechs. Even this guy, who had been converted into an agricultural machine, was forcibly equipped with weapons and sent back to the front line as a line-filling baby. It is estimated that the empire's battle line is really in a precarious situation.

Perhaps by now, the rebels have already occupied the empire and dragged the emperor to the entrance of the marketplace to be beheaded?

In the actual flow of time, quite some time should have passed since the death of this fearless mech.

So even if it repairs itself and returns home to defend the empire, the empire may already be finished. What they will see when they return is a new nation built by the rebels on the ruins of the empire.

However, Xue Dinglu will neither help nor obstruct this time, as long as the resistance continues with this attitude.

With the addition of a robotic arm and an external camera, the fearless mech finally seemed to come alive. It began to organize its more than a thousand wires and categorize them one by one.

Meanwhile, Xue Lude placed all the parts he had collected from the senior members of the robotics club within the reach of the robotic arm. The fearless mech selected and assembled the parts himself, and under the current circumstances, he would not be stingy with any materials, estimating that he would use whatever was available at the time.

"Brother, are you really unwilling to help the Empire? The Empire's Empress is the most beautiful woman in the world, known as the Cake Queen, and her princess is even more beautiful than a fairy. If you are willing to help the Empire, some of our old comrades are willing to join forces with His Majesty the Emperor to arrange a marriage between the Empire's princess and you." The fearless mech began to win over Xue Luding from another angle.

Xue Law: "..."

It's not like you feudal empires, where even in the interstellar age, the first thing you think of is seeking peace and winning over external forces through marriage alliances.

Damn it!

Xue Law wanted to complain again, and was about to say, "Let your queen and princess go to the guillotine together," but looking at this old soldier who was still trying to rebuild himself even in a foreign land, Xue Law did not say such an insulting thing.

Although a staunch feudalist warrior, this machine spirit also has its own simple values: the empire gave it life, so it is the veterans who should protect the empire.

Just as they were created to destroy the Zerg.

Xue's Law, a simple set of values, will not be involved.

He resolutely refused, saying, "I don't care about this internal rebellion of your empire. If your empire were still in the Zerg Wars, I would definitely lend a hand."

"Is that so? That's a real pity." The fearless mech had made the invitation because it sensed that Xue Law was very strong, but now that Xue Law had clearly refused, it didn't try to make trouble.

At the same time, Xue Lude felt doubtful about the "most beautiful woman" in the robot's opinion. He did not believe that the aesthetics of mechs and humans were the same, and he was not sure if the "most beautiful woman" in the robot's opinion was actually a cyborg with a full body of modified prosthetics and covered in bulletproof armor.

The only sounds in the entire consciousness space were the welding gun and soldering iron. The mecha kept selecting parts from the materials of other robots and assembling them onto itself.

As for the welding gun and soldering iron, Xue Lude also found them in the club. In the consciousness space, he converted the magic crystals into household circuits through an inverter to provide power.

Actually, there is readily available technology in this area, namely photovoltaic power generation. Xue's law is simply equivalent to getting a complete set of photovoltaic power generation equipment and then replacing the solar cells with magic crystals for power supply.

Thus, after acquiring a robotic arm, it was able to repair itself, and Xue's Law no longer needed to worry about it too much.

"You go ahead and get busy. Let me know if you need any materials, and I'll get them for you. I'm going home now," Xue Dinglu said.

"Very well, thank you for your assistance, brother. The Empire will surely remember your contribution." The robotic arm performed a strange salute.

Xue Dinglu was also not very interested in what was going on there, and after chatting for a few more minutes, he left the consciousness space.

……

Back home, today is the last day of the holiday. The kids were initially very excited about the long holiday, but after spending so much time together, they've lost that initial excitement and have all entered a rebellious phase where they play by themselves.

Xue Daoli shrugged. This was normal, so he didn't disturb the children who were busy with their own things and went back to his bedroom alone.

I've been busy all day preparing materials and tools for the Dreadnought Mech, which is why Xue Law only now has time to slowly review the intelligence of the Dreadnought Empire.