Chapter 1547 - The Incident in Heaven (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

It was not difficult to deduce from N-4’s narration that the planet’s First Born lost its brain after the occurrence of a strange meteorite shower.

But how could a meteor shower take out an adult First Born?

The female robot mentioned the Turning Point War, where the First Born opened the crust and mantle, exposing its core. However, it was a big mistake to think that the First Born’s defense abilities had decreased right then. The reduction was a big mistake. First of all, the First Born did not have any core that was deemed weak. Its exposed heart was only its internal tissue organ, which had many back-ups. It would not hurt even if this core suffered damage. Secondly, the defensive capabilities of the First Born did not depend entirely on its physical body. Its mastery of various energy fields was its most potent defense. Its tentacles could create repulsive energy that was high enough to take on the impact of celestial bodies and protect it from outer space threats, just like the meteorite Y’zaks summoned over Beinz. It had been intercepted by the underage First Born.

Compared with the energy field protection and strong physique of the First Born, the crust of the planet was not an indispensable armor.

Did the meteor shower at that time just ignore or rather, penetrate the repulsive force field and cause a lethal blow to the First Born’s brain? Were there such freaking mighty rocks in the world?

“Why did the First Born open the earth’s crust in the first place?” Nangong Wuyue asked not far away. She had some weird thoughts in mind. “Was it just to create some horror effects?”

Nangong Sanba came up and said in a whisper, “I guess it was preparing for some big move. Maybe it wanted to summon a Surge of Killing Intent Fist.”

The whisper of the Nangong siblings had nevertheless drifted into Hao Ren’s ears. But Hao Ren was not interested in why the First Born had opened the crust—it might be planning to shake off the cumbersome shell, launching a more powerful tactical weapon, or merely doing a stretch-out. For a fully-grown First Born the size of a planet, any of its movements could cause this result. This First Born had gone crazy, and it did not make sense to guess a madman’s motive.

“Did the meteor shower crush the defense of the planet devourer?” Hao Ren rubbed his forehead as he asked about the incident three thousand years ago. “Did the planet devourer not launch any counterattack?”

“The details cannot be confirmed.” N-4 shook his head. “The Bibliotheca experienced many damages and reconstructions and suffered nearly 60% data loss over hundreds of disaster emergency backup operations, during which the loss of the history before the Battle of the Turning Point was the most serious. We could not confirm how the meteor shower had destroyed the core of the planet devourer at that time. But there is something that may shed light on it.”

N-4 continued by reading out a record in the Bibliotheca.

“…all radar and optical observation instrument did not capture from where these celestial fragments came from. They seemed to appear out of thin air above the planet’s atmosphere. The initial images recorded by the optical instrument showed that the light in that area was distorted. Starlight from deep space bent and turned into crazy curves at the edge of the atmosphere, and the lower-orbit satellites had malfunctioned once. Following that, the meteor shower appeared and glittered under the sun as if they were metal or ice fragments…”

Hao Ren’s heart skipped a beat. He could not help but look at Vivian, who also turned to look at him.

“Appearing out of thin air, and the light was distorted in the surroundings, and there was the release of high energy.” Hao Ren nodded slightly. “That’s it. It must be the phenomenon at the end of a warp jump. Those so-called ‘meteorites’ had come through hyperspace.”

“I suspect that those meteorites are still stuck in the First Born’s body, deep inside the mantle or near the center of the planet,” Vivian said. “We should find them as they may reveal all the secrets.”

“Of course, we should. But I am more interested in the society in the sky.” Hao Ren nodded. He was attracted to N-4’s eyes, which was almost identical to that of humans. “Now, tell us what happened to the Zenith and lunar base, and the intelligence blockades.”

Something had happened to the Zenith and lunar base, of which N-4 did not elaborate earlier. But it was not difficult to infer from her words. The survivor society, which consisted of 99% of artificial intelligence and one percent of humanity, was unlike what Hao Ren had thought—a community of low-level AI robots that had lost all their intelligent units. On the contrary, whether it was the humans living in the fortress, or the two AI-girls who were almost indistinguishable from humans, they all had their own thinking and judgment. So, their indifference toward the Petrachelys was particularly strange. However rigid and mechanical the AIs were, their commander should have realized the importance of checking out the alien spaceship that had crashed on their planet.

Coupled with the mentioning of information blockade on the Zenith and lunar base by N-4, it was all the more wrong.

N-4 closed her eyes slightly, body humming with a current. It seemed that her logic circuit was undergoing some complicated judgment. At last, she opened her eyes and nodded at Hao Ren as if she had passed a logical safety assessment. “After analyzing the content of our conversations, I have established that you all are in line with our mission.”

“The Cortex Prime has messed up.”

N-6 was the one who appeared surprised the most. “Impossible! Logically impossible!”