Stellaris from the Automata Era

Then, several seconds later, it finally found a solution to the current situation.

"Come on, mechanics! Drag this traitor out and behead him as a sacrifice to boost the morale of the army!"

It was only at this time that the round-headed man who reported the news felt that something was wrong.

After blinking again, it finally reacted.

"Wait! I've served my country! I'm not a traitor! I want to see the king! I want to see the king!"

Apparently, its cries were of little use. Two melee-specialized warriors wearing armor and carrying spears appeared and dragged it away. All that could be heard was its voice getting farther and farther away until it could no longer be heard.

It was only at this moment that a noble mecha in the conference room, which looked like a melee-specialized model, slowly spoke up: "Traitor! How despicable! Damn it!"

Then he got the approval of everyone on the field.

No mechanical life form felt anything was wrong. Wasn't the whole process too trivia?

The essence of awakening machinery is the emergence of personal consciousness. However, mechanical life forms are not actually very clear about what kind of changes these personal consciousnesses will bring to them.

In fact, even N2 is not sure whether the awakened machines today have evolved an emotional system.

Everything they have is based on imitation of humans. The original Forest Kingdom was created based on the concept of the country in human knowledge.

However, mechanical life is different from humans. They cannot process things with emotions like humans.

Similarly, their worldview is different from that of humans, and it is easy for them to go astray in the learning process.

For example, there are still those joy machines in amusement parks that repeat the play of Romeo and Juliet every day.

However, these touching dramas for humankind were directly transformed into Romeo and Juliet's fratricide, to the point where the original creation itself was completely destroyed. (Note)

The problem is that the mechanical beings watching the performance in the audience didn't feel anything was wrong. They even felt it was very touching and managed to squeeze out a few cooling tears.

This has always made N2 feel that mechanical life is not truly awakened. They may just be a more advanced imitation... an imitation of humans, and a wrong one at that.

Perhaps the advantage of the mechanical race is that they can speak and recognize words as soon as they are "born". As for the subsequent logic, rationality, and emotional cognition, these may be processes that they need a long time to learn and shape.

After all, mechanical life itself was originally just a simple war machine, and its processors and hardware should not be enough for them to quickly digest the knowledge left by humans.

It is surprising that they were able to establish a so-called country by groping for the remaining materials.

This is why N2 turned around in the later stage to see if YoRHa, who also uses a mechanical core, has any alternative way to break through the system limitations.

"So the enemy is attacking us. What's going on?"

"..."

Are you just asking now?

In an instant, the round-headed ones all touched their smooth heads. It was obvious that they didn't know the whole process and were only concerned with executing the traitors within the group.

Therefore, after being confused for a while, the group of round-headed guys decided to go and bring back the round-headed errand boy to ask him clearly.

However, by the time the new runner finally reached the military flag on the front line, the flag-raising ceremony had already ended.

Fortunately, this new errand boy also saw who the enemy was.

"It's Engels! The enemy is Engels!"

"Is it another force?" Engels is a variant of mechanical life, and this group of round-headed people are well aware of this.

They knew something about the surrounding mechanical life forces, but that was already a relatively early version, and they were not aware of the situation of global unification.

But based on their previous intelligence collection, they began to analyze the current situation.

"Desert? Religion? Amusement park? Or Pascal?"

"It should be Pascal."

That timid cylindrical head is an outlier among all mechanical life forms. Its essence is a huge Engels mechanical life form.

Nowadays, apart from the superior network that controls everything, they really can't think of anyone else who possesses super-large mechanical life forms.

However, the superior network has not taken care of them for hundreds of years, and they still need to fight against humanoids... There should be no reason for them to attack the Forest Kingdom.

In short, after the classics eliminated a correct answer, the minister decided to quickly quell all the unrest.

"That coward is no use. Let us dismantle its body and defend the king's territory."

Note: The mechanical lifeforms' Romeo and Juliet is a rather strange version. They are supposed to perform a play after defeating Beauvoir, but... this is a version where Romeo and Juliet kill each other.

The problem is that after killing one of them, No. 2 will immediately jump out for revenge, and then No. 3... No. 4... In short, this is a drama that consumes a lot of mechanical life... They are really fighting.

Those watching the performance in the audience will think that this is a touching love story... Personally, I think the evolution of mechanical life is incomplete, or the world view has been distorted from the beginning.

Article 227: Their value

"Brother, did those basic models carry anything up?"

Eve stood above Engels' head and looked into the distance.

It is undeniable that there is not much technical content in conquering the Forest Kingdom. After humans forcibly merged mechanical life and humanoids to form the current dual political system, the earth as a whole began to develop rapidly along a curve that neither Adam nor Eve could understand.

Especially during the past one or two years of farming, the era of denouncing personal force has come to an end. Swords and knives, machine (fresh) oil (blood) and cold (eyes) (tears) are no longer the songs composed for each other by human and mechanical life.

At present, the sea of ​​stars and space cannons are the themes of the times.

Of course, for the Forest Kingdom that is disconnected from the Internet and unable to connect to the current version, they may not be able to understand it. After all, they have expelled humanoids and non-native awakened intelligent machines and closed their country to the outside world, which is directly comparable to a certain last dynasty.

I'm afraid you don't understand that the situation outside has changed.

To be honest, for a force like them that is still playing around on the planet, they can open the door to free trade as long as they send down an armed transport ship with mechanical life characteristics.

However, considering that the Forest Country is too close to the capital of the human beings on Earth, it is indeed not suitable for large-scale war, and the two superior networks of N2 want a group of living intelligent machines, so Adam and Eve can only go out with a few mining (en), mining (ge), and machines (s).

Fortunately, even in the interstellar age, Engels is the ultimate order of mechanical life on the ground, and it shouldn't take too much effort to defeat the Forest Country.

The fact is that relying on Engels' excellent performance, Adam and Eve quickly razed the outer defense line of the Forest Country's group of intelligent machines. These mechanical life forms, who were still using cold weapons to fight against the human sea, seemed to be completely unable to resist and were directly wiped out in a large area.

If it had not been discovered that their casualties were too severe, N2 might not have been able to obtain the large number of new intelligent machines it requested. Perhaps Adam would have already rushed into their palace and killed the King of the Forest Kingdom with his own hands.

However, it seems that because they found that the exchange rate of casualties between the two sides was indeed not very good, and coupled with the high degree of evolution and imitation of human society, the mechanical life in the Forest Country has begun to run for its life in order to ensure its own survival.

Their front lines already have a concept called morale.

Seeing this, for the sake of mission requirements, Adam still gave the Forest Country an option to surrender, and asked Engels to stop on the periphery and wait for their choice.

"Looks like a basic round head. Perhaps one of their important figures?" Hearing his brother's question, Adam cast his own gaze in that direction. The machine lifeforms' eyes were indeed more effective than humans', allowing them to see clearly even at a distance. "They must be kidnapping a high-ranking figure to defect, right? They clearly have a deep understanding of human social systems."

As the words fell, the subsequent developments seemed to be different from what Adam said.

Several mechanical life forms of the Forest Kingdom lifted up the basic model and placed it under their flags, followed by an advanced model holding a weapon, which directly beheaded it.

After the round head fell to the ground with only the remaining electric light and engine oil, a large group of mechanical life forms seemed to start cheering happily, and then quickly gathered into one formation after another.

"Brother, I feel like something is wrong..."

"..."

Of course, something was not right. The forest machines that had been killed and retreated into retreat immediately reorganized their forces after chopping off the heads of their own people. Judging from their posture, they seemed to be preparing to launch another charge.

"No! Don't these guys see the difference in combat power between the two sides?"

Even Adam seemed to have lost his former elegance and composure. He now felt that he could not guess the thoughts of these nominally fellow tribesmen.

As intelligent beings, they seem to have no matching code of conduct.

Instinctively, he felt that these machines were like codes reading instructions, skipping the process and directly achieving the result based entirely on the surrounding environment.

"When I first saw them fleeing, I thought it was the survival instinct of sentient beings. Now it seems it's pure computational logic telling them to flee... Have they truly awakened?"

Isn't this simply a higher level of behavioral imitation?

Perhaps because he had followed and observed Yan Luo for too long, Adam's thinking pattern had unconsciously shifted towards humans.

Now it is difficult for him to accept the fact that he and the machines in front of him belong to the same family of mechanical life.

No, after humans took control of mechanical life forms, mechanical life forms had already been divided into clear classes.

Even their former network n2 had already labeled all non-awakened units as tools, and awakened machines were probably the orthodox mechanical life forms in their minds, the objects of their protection and leadership.

Otherwise, the fact that the Kong Lao Gemini's active personality has not been dealt with is already their greatest tolerance and love.

"Anyway, let's take care of these guys first. Don't hold back! They might not be as valuable as we thought."

Chapter 228: Yan Luo feels that the composition is complicated

The campaign to conquer the Forest Kingdom ended with Adam's victory almost without any suspense.

Yan Luo was not surprised at all by this. The gap between the two sides in time was too huge. If this could still go wrong, perhaps Yan Luo should consider letting Adam commit suicide to save face.

However, victory in the war was not what Yan Luo needed to consider later. In fact, what he really found difficult to deal with was the aftermath of the defeat of the Forest Country.

Therefore, when the military intelligence of Adam's victory was passed back, N2, as the upper network of the entire mechanical life form, had already rushed to his office to discuss follow-up issues.

"So what are you going to do?"

Yan Luo looked at N2 with a questioning look.

Because according to her request, Yan Luo also agreed to Adam's decision not to slaughter the Forest Machines.

But because of this, the periphery of the entire capital's defense circle is basically surrounded by a large number of forest prisoners of war.

After Adam broke through their fortress, those mechanical life forms had no time to escape and surrendered on the spot with their king.

I don’t know if it triggered some chain reaction, but after that, a large number of mechanical life forms gave up resistance and dropped their weapons, covering their heads and crouching down to defend.

I'm afraid the humanoids next to them will never see the scene of large-scale mechanical surrender in their lifetime. After all, it is impossible to catch even 100,000 pigs in a day or two, not to mention that their previous wars with mechanical life were all fights to the death. They have never seen such a scene.

"Master, please allow me to take these mechanical life forms away from Earth."

"It's not a big deal. The humanoids probably don't want to see these rebels still wandering around Earth. It's just..." Yan Luo paused, glancing at N2's face, as if trying to discern her expression. "Just what exactly are you thinking?"

"I want to continue the evolutionary experiment of the tribe and try to make all 'humans' more perfect."

"Your goal is... a bit ambitious."

Yan Luo’s comment was undeniable.

If the previous evolution of mechanical life was to transcend the "instinct" of system instructions, then their current evolutionary experiments are probably to take themselves a step further. They may intend to become a truly intelligent life form.

Not to mention that they are actually intelligent life now. The efforts of mechanical life in the past thousands of years were just to break the command of "killing the enemy" imposed on them. Although they relied on Yan Luo's help to solve this problem.

But in reality, the original instructions were forcibly invalidated by Yan Luo's will. To use a magical term, it's probably a mystery and a higher mystery...

"You guys should be deifying yourself..."

Normally, as the current vested interest holder, Yan Luo should have an expression of "it turns out you have a rebellious nature", and then quickly gather the humanoids and take an ice pick to start the cleanup.

However, given that all their efforts over the past thousands of years have only just begun to think, they are unable to break the original shackles.

It seems that with human life span, he probably won't see the moment when mechanical life forms raise the banner of rebellion.

"So, is there a specific implementation plan?"

"I want them to come into contact with the Terrans, and if possible, build a dedicated city for them. Whether it's war or coexistence, I'll let them play their own game."

and many more..

Something's not right, right?

N2 is not a kind-hearted character. Judging from Yan Luo's past experience, N2 is indeed someone who can use all means to "evolve".

Whether it is the most elite humanoid YoRHa or the awakened machines today, her handwriting and shadow are all in them.

Now that they came out and talked about letting freedom run free, Yan Luo felt that he didn't quite believe it from the bottom of his heart.

To be honest, if his mental network was not too powerful, closely observing and controlling the movements of mechanical life forms, he would have summoned 500 swordsmen and axemen Yoerha to invite N2 to a banquet long ago.

Perhaps seeing Yan Luo's concerns, n2 made some additional comments at the end.

"There's still some room for intervention. The Terrans are a fully intelligent race, after all. Perhaps I should establish a closed planet for social experimentation and build a new network to regulate it... Master, what do you think of the name Skynet?"

"Well enough."

The elements of this conversation were too complicated. Yan Luo seemed to have seen Sociology+ and a group of Terrans in armor smashing the Skynet motherboard in the future...

Out of human conscience, he should have immediately ordered N2 to ban such thoughts.

However, from the perspective of the Earth, he finally acquiesced to this kind of thing.