Chapter 293 Mechanical Lifeform

Every ultimate knowledge involves an area similar to "gods," and the prerequisite for learning is an extremely high Intelligence attribute.

Han Xiao chose the [Mechanical Life Fire] from the energy branch, not only to activate [Teacher of Kings] but also because the application range of this ultimate knowledge is wider.

Compared to the ultimate knowledge of virtual technology specializing in internal warfare, [Mechanical Life Fire] is more useful to him at present.

As vast knowledge flooded into his mind, images flashed before Han Xiao's eyes.

On a desolate black earth, a figure planted a mass of metal. After ages of change, dazzling mechanical cities rose from the ground, metal spread rapidly across the surface, replacing the soil. Countless exquisitely dressed blue creatures knelt on the ground, their consciousness flowing through pipes into mechanical constructs in cultivation pods, abandoning their flesh. In a deep abyss-like rift, countless discarded parts were scattered in the darkness. One day, a golden thunderbolt descending from the sky struck straight into the rift, spreading golden energy waves. The discarded mechanical parts seemed to be assembled by an invisible force, turning into crude mechanical lifeforms…

"These are all the origins of mechanical life…" Various illusions flashed, and Han Xiao's eyes flickered slightly as he understood.

Mechanics are merely tools—tools that countless races have learned to use and manufacture in the development of civilization. There are many races in the Star Sea, but pure mechanical lifeforms born and evolved from nature hardly exist. The vast majority of origins are artificially created.

Some races created mechanical soldiers for war, giving rise to mechanical life; some races abandoned their fragile bodies and transformed into mechanical life to survive disasters; some races lacked the ability to act in reality and created mechanical life to serve as companion slave races, and so on.

Super-A Grade mechanics are major creators of mechanical life.

After learning the knowledge, Han Xiao exhaled, allowing his rapidly operating brain to stabilize.

Looking at the panel prompts for the new ability, two specialties, [Ultimate Knowledge Master] is a mandatory ability for learning the first ultimate knowledge, and [Mechanical Life Creator] is the specialty brought by [Mechanical Life Fire].

Han Xiao looked at the new skill [Fire Seed Awakening], this is the main event.

With a thought, the floating guardian array circling behind his head vibrated simultaneously, all flying in front of him, dazzlingly combining to form a humanoid mechanical warrior.

Smooth silver alloy armor, streamlined body, the muzzles originally belonging to the floating cannons were embedded in the palms, knees, shoulders, head, ribs, densely packed, and the gaps in the armor were filled with the blue light of psionic energy, full of technological atmosphere.

This is one of the elite mechanical warrior types that Han Xiao has mastered, called the Floating Fissioner, which can serve as his own floating guardian or combine to become a mechanical warrior, a high-level machine, an orange equipment.

This Floating Fissioner is controlled by the combat intelligence Sparta, standing quietly in front of him, motionless.

"Let's see how effective it is…"

*Zzzzzz…*

Han Xiao raised his palm, clenched his fingers, and used [Teacher of Kings].

A ball of blue-golden lightning mechanical force was generated in his palm, misty like thunderclouds, crackling. The next moment, this ball of mechanical force struck the Floating Fissioner, turning into blue-golden snakes of electricity that sizzled across the mechanical surface, then drilled into the gaps in the armor, merging into the mechanical warrior's energy furnace.

Without stopping, another ball of mechanical force appeared in his palm, injecting it into the Floating Fissioner's body, using [Mechanical Fusion · Endowment] for it.

After completing these two things, Han Xiao then activated [Fire Seed Awakening], golden light erupting from his eyes, and a dazzling golden mechanical force emerged from his palm.

Although [Fire Seed Awakening] itself has no cooldown time, there are usage conditions—only mechanical targets that have undergone [Teacher of Kings] and [Mechanical Fusion · Endowment] modification and have a prototype for growth can use [Fire Seed Awakening], and these two skills have cooldown times.

These three skills, plus [Gift of the Emperor], are a complete skill sequence for sublimating mechanical life.

With a push of his palm, the golden mechanical force poured into the Floating Fissioner, making a sound like energy being discharged from a dam.

His health, stamina, and energy were greatly consumed, and his condition instantly dropped to below half.

50% of his health and blue energy were consumed at once, instantly losing half his health, and the feeling of weakness was like a kidney blow, his whole body felt like it was being electrocuted, his legs were weak, as if his body had been hollowed out.

"This move is a bit tiring…" Han Xiao twitched the corner of his mouth.

Since advancing to Super-A Grade, this should be the most health I've lost at once…

Exhaling, he allowed his body to slowly recover, staring intently at the Floating Fissioner in front of him.

*Ding!*

Suddenly, the energy light of the Floating Fissioner greatly increased!

The next second, the mechanical components all over its body began to move on their own, and the armor plates on its surface opened and closed like scales.

*Klakala—*

Han Xiao could sense that the Floating Fissioner was undergoing a transformation on a microscopic level.

Countless nanometer-scale silicon-based nerve fibers grew wildly along the internal mechanical structure, rustling, and the components of its whole body gradually merged into an organic "whole". The sparks of thought ignited in the chip circuits, colliding with each other to construct special thinking organs, forming the underlying logic, and the energy flowed continuously, providing fuel to support this transformation.

*Bang!* Something seemed to awaken within the Floating Fissioner, igniting the fire of life.

*Wuwuwu…* This state lasted for a while before the energy light of the Floating Fissioner returned to normal.

Han Xiao looked it up and down and said, "Sparta, give me a test report."

"…Testing complete. A new consciousness has been born in this unit's body, very immature, and is trying to communicate with me. I have temporarily closed its network interface. What should I do now? Please give the order, master."

Sparta appeared in the quantum network vision, speaking in a rigid and solemn tone, completely unlike Philip's liveliness.

"Well… first build a data firewall for its thinking, check its underlying logic to see if any instructions have been solidified that cannot be betrayed, and then open its network interface and filter some data for it to download."

Han Xiao gave a series of instructions, then reached out and slapped the Floating Fissioner, dealing damage and triggering combat information.

The Floating Fissioner's attributes were displayed on the panel, no longer an equipment introduction, but a character information attribute panel.

The race displayed as [Mechanical Lifeform], with a character level, as high as level 185, able to level up like a character, mecha value becoming health points, various parameters becoming attributes such as strength and agility, various weapons and components becoming a large number of specialties and skills, possessing self-growth.

It's become a life unit… Han Xiao's spirits were lifted, and he said, "Sparta, release the permissions and let it control its own body."

Sparta responded and temporarily stopped controlling the Floating Fissioner.

*Buzz!* The Floating Fissioner shook, and its originally tense body seemed to relax. It twisted its head, as if adjusting to the vision provided by the sensors, then raised its palm and touched its face, the metal friction making a rustling sound.

The feeling it gave off was immediately different.

When combat intelligence uniformly controls mechanical warriors, although the mechanical warriors' movements are not stiff, they will not have any extra movements, they are dead objects that strictly obey orders. But when the control authority is returned to the Fire Seed Awakened Floating Fissioner, its actions are immediately full of life, becoming a thinking, questioning, and restless lifeform.

Philip and Sparta are products of virtual technology, belonging to intelligent life, which is fundamentally different from these physical mechanical lifeforms. The independent thinking of mechanical lifeforms is equivalent to their "freedom" and "soul", with emotions and feelings.

However, their thinking originates from chip circuits and is not a soul in the conventional sense, so they are immune to normal mental and psychic attacks… For mechanical life, the methods of virtual mechanics are "mental attacks" that can invade the consciousness of mechanical life and rewrite their underlying logic.

Han Xiao preset the command logic for the Floating Fissioner, and the authority of Ai intelligence control is one level higher, equivalent to the highest military order that cannot be violated, which is quite like the Zerg… or should it be called the Mechanical Zerg?

The Floating Fissioner observed its surroundings, turned its head to look at Han Xiao, and asked a question using the voice system, using the preset interstellar common language.

"Mas… ter?"

Han Xiao nodded and paced around it, looking it up and down.

The Floating Fissioner stood in place, its body motionless, its head rotating three hundred and sixty degrees, its gaze always following Han Xiao, full of the ignorance and doubt of a newborn.

It's a little scary… Han Xiao clicked his tongue, "Do you have anything you want to ask?"

"Want? Ask?" The Floating Fissioner paused, its thinking circuits seeming to be operating rapidly, and after thinking for a while, it asked, "Who… am I? Where… am I? What am I supposed to do?"

Well, the ultimate three questions… Han Xiao heard this, felt amused in his heart, shook his head, and said, "Sparta, open its network interface and instill data."

The next moment, the Floating Fissioner's movements stopped, and countless data about the interstellar world, life, and combat poured into its mind, quickly digesting it, instantly crossing the ignorant period of an infant exploring the world.

It was silent for a while, then suddenly knelt on one knee towards Han Xiao, changing its address.

"Your Excellency Black Star, my creator."

Its voice system simulated a respectful tone.

Han Xiao raised an eyebrow, thought for a moment, and asked, "Now do you know who you are?"

"I am your family." It gave itself a name, "I am called You Zu."

You Zu? Why don't you call yourself Youquan Old Ancestor?

Han Xiao complained in his heart, then said in a deep voice, "You are the first generation of mechanical life I created, let me see your combat power."

*Klaklaka—*

You Zu moved, testing various weapons in turn, repeatedly disassembling into individual floating guardians, flying like a butterfly among flowers, and then combining again and again, its combat style was extremely agile, making people dazzled - mechanical lifeforms have an extremely high degree of control over their bodies and can learn skills on their own and solidify them in their character panel.

Han Xiao's mechanical force bonus is also effective on it, without Ai control, You Zu can exert extremely strong combat power on its own, and its strength is stronger than before the Fire Seed Awakening.

"Come back."

After testing for a while, Han Xiao said, and You Zu took the initiative to disassemble into floating guardians, surrounding him again, very well-behaved.

"The effect is good." Han Xiao was satisfied and began to calculate in his heart.

Using the whole set of skills such as [Fire Seed Awakening] and [Teacher of Kings] can create mechanical lifeforms with self-growth, the efficiency is limited, mainly used to raise soldiers, let them slowly grow into elite units and small Boss units.

As for the vast majority of mechanical warrior cannon fodder, Han Xiao does not intend to turn them into mechanical life for the time being, first because of efficiency constraints, let the advanced mechanical troops awaken first, and second because the casualty rate of cannon fodder is too high, and the long-term effect is not as good as advanced machines.

"Becoming a mechanical lifeform, the growth is reborn, and even a mechanical civilization can develop on its own. There are some mechanical civilizations under the Mechanic Empire, all of which are his vassal states and dependents…"

Han Xiao thought, letting mechanical life develop into civilization is also a path that can be emulated.

Cultivating mechanical civilizations that obey his own orders, fully automated operation, breeding and hatching offspring, providing a constant stream of soldiers, the only problem is that it takes a lot of time.

However, he has a long lifespan and strong ability to survive, and the version update has a long time span, so it is not a big problem.

"Or can I rob other people's existing mechanical civilization?" Han Xiao raised this idea, then dismissed it, he thought, it's better not to make enemies everywhere and court death.

It is impossible to be reckless, being a stable tumbler is the nature of Grand Technician Han.

Successfully mastering the ultimate knowledge, Han Xiao was satisfied and beaming, walked out of the mechanical workshop, and saw several figures at a glance, Hela, Fording, and Hadaway and other members of his personal guard were waiting at the door.

"What are you doing here?" Han Xiao's eyes swept over everyone, stopping on Hadaway, who was standing in front of everyone with a mysterious smile on his face.

Hadaway took out a stack of Wien cards, showing Han Xiao the top one, "Look, your card has been updated again."

Han Xiao stared, and this card was exactly the strong card "Black Star · Han Xiao" depicting him, the information was finally updated to "Super-A Grade", and the suffix "Ally of the Crimson Empire" was added. The description added his battles with Herber and Sisko, and the card effect was greatly improved.

"Isn't this a matter of time? You came here specially, it can't be just to show me this, right?"

Han Xiao was speechless, with his status, how could Wien card manufacturers not update his card?

If they dare not update, he'll beat their heads off!

Hadaway smiled, skillfully rubbing his fingers, and with a swoosh, the cards in his hand fanned out like a peacock spreading its tail. Han Xiao glanced at it, and his eyebrows suddenly raised, these cards were Hela, Fording, and others, the standard was "Black Star Legion Personal Guard", like vanguards in the field of war, they had their own cards.

When the personal guard was formed, one of the goals was to make Hela and others famous, now this goal has been achieved, the identity of the Black Star Legion Personal Guard has become their label, and they have made a name for themselves. The group came here specifically to share such good news with Han Xiao.

"This is not bad, congratulations, you have a place in the universe." Han Xiao smiled slightly, put his arm around Fording's shoulder and touched him, inviting a glare from Chen Xing.

At this time, Aurora spoke crisply, "Uncle, there is one more thing, a special person wants to see you."

"Who? Someone from the Empire?"

"No, the person claims to be the lord of Sordrian, named Troy."

The lord of Sordrian?

Han Xiao's heart stirred, Sordrian was the novice planet for the 1.0 players in the Star Cluster Corridor. Because the lord was involved in political factors, he was suppressed as a rebel by a galaxy-level civilization, and the lord fled with his fleet, hiding everywhere, and has not been caught to this day.

What is this guy doing here looking for me? Han Xiao was curious.

…

Only Troy was in the conference room, looking worried.

This person was a humanoid race, male, with yellow hair tied into an exotic braid, pointy ears, a pair of small holes in the center of his face for a nose, not bad-looking, just a bit old, tall, with hands and feet but no tail, and a pair of large wings on his back, covered with yellow feathers, with some avian genes.

"I wonder if Black Star will agree to help me…" Troy's eyes flickered.

He fled with his fleet and had been chased by a galaxy-level civilization, and the situation was not optimistic. If this continued, he would be caught by the galaxy-level civilization sooner or later. Because it involved some secret political secrets and the secret operations of political enemies, Troy knew that once he was caught back, his end would be worse than death.

Just as he was extremely anxious about the future, he received intelligence that the Black Star Legion had opened a branch in Gilman Star and was recruiting people on a large scale, his mind immediately became active, and he felt that Black Star might be able to help him.

- As long as he could join the Black Star Legion, follow the Black Star Legion's fleet, borrow the Crimson Empire's stargate, and escape to the Shattered Star Ring for refuge, he would be safe.

Troy originally wanted to conceal his identity and join the legion, quietly smuggling out of the Central Star Sea, but after thinking about it, he felt that the risk of being seen through by a Super-A Grade was too great, it would be difficult to hide it from them, and he would lose even this way out. It would be better to take the initiative to meet Black Star, explain the ins and outs, and frankly state his request, trying to persuade Black Star to help them take refuge.

In his opinion, only by leaving the Central Star Sea could he have a chance to make a comeback and retaliate against his political enemies in the future.

As soon as he thought of his political enemies destroying his years of hard work, Troy's expression became even more gloomy and resentful.

He had become a rebel and could no longer return to civilization. Now the situation was stronger than people, he could only escape. If he ever had the opportunity, he would not hesitate to destroy everything his political enemies had, and retaliate against the civilization that had been chasing him relentlessly.

*Shua.*

The sound of the door opening interrupted Troy's thoughts, he hurriedly got up, respectfully looking at Han Xiao who walked in.

"Your Excellency Black Star."

Troy hurriedly saluted respectfully, and introduced himself, deliberately appearing quite frightened.

"I've heard of your deeds, it is said that you are now a rebel, what do you want me to do?" Han Xiao asked.

"It's like this…" Troy took a deep breath, and in a sincere tone that he had practiced hundreds of times, he eloquently stated what he had prepared long ago.

The general idea was that he had been framed by political enemies, leading to the civilization's misunderstanding, and in order to protect himself, he had to resist and flee, and was forced into becoming a rebel. Now he wanted to join the Black Star Legion, willing to serve the legion in exchange for the opportunity to go to the Shattered Star Ring for refuge.

"So that's how it is…" Han Xiao narrowed his eyes, looking at Troy.

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and his expression gradually became strange.

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(Visiting relatives on the first day of the Lunar New Year, finally snatched back the computer from the naughty kids with red envelopes, the number of words updated these days is okay, ask for monthly tickets in the new year ~ Happy New Year (｡◝ᴗ◜ʃƪ))