Chapter 1010: The Secret of the Existence of the Mechanical Race
But as the saying goes, what is divided for a long time will unite, and what is united for a long time will divide.
After unifying the universe, the Gaia Empire experienced a period of prosperity, and its technological level reached T5.
Just when everyone was thinking about a better life and exploring more distant galaxies.
Some disasters occurred.
That was the first time in the history of the Gaia Empire that it had encountered an attack from an alien interstellar insectoid race.
Those cosmic wormholes, seemingly tearing apart the universe, appeared one after another in various territories of this universe.
Those were a dark decade.
The total number of cosmic wormholes that appeared during that decade was several times the total number of previous ones.
Fortunately, due to the strength of the Gaia Empire, it was not wiped out by these interstellar insectoids, but the Gaia Empire survived this danger.
However, after the disaster caused by the Zerg, the Gaia Empire's strength was greatly weakened.
The biggest problem was the internal divisions within the Gaia Empire, with civil wars breaking out between the various regional lords.
The situation is getting worse.
But at this very moment, a leader, while developing near-T6 technology, also discovered a huge secret!
A secret that would later destroy the entire Gaia Empire.
"What secret? What exactly happened in the final moments of the Gaia Empire! What kind of enemy did they encounter?" Zhao Chen pressed.
In fact, only a portion of the information about the Mechanicus that he obtained was preserved; much of it was missing.
Zhao Chen could only piece together a rough outline of the story.
While the Gaia Empire was embroiled in civil war, an even more powerful force emerged in another world, directly threatening this universe.
Then the Gaia Empire fought a decisive battle against them.
The details of the final battle °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° were missing, and Zhao Chen had no idea what had happened.
Further down, the Gaia Empire vanished without a trace, replaced by the mechanical race.
Faced with Zhao Chen's questioning, the little girl's eyes actually flickered with sadness.
This was the first time Zhao Chen had seen such a human emotional fluctuation in her eyes in all the times they had met.
"I don't have any detailed information about that extraterrestrial invader."
Or rather, I don't have the necessary permissions to view it.
All I know is that it wasn't an enemy from our universe.
But it is about to descend upon our universe, and once it does, our universe will be plunged into chaos, everything will be destroyed, and every galaxy will become a battlefield!
To prevent this from happening, and to defend against enemies and protect our homeland.
At that time, the seven people at the pinnacle of power in the Gaia Empire mobilized almost 95% of the Gaia Empire's military strength to form a super expeditionary fleet.
They used some technology I don't even know to leave our universe.
The little girl stopped there.
"What's next?"
What happened next?
"Since the Gaia Empire was so glorious, why don't we have any related records to this day?" Zhao Chen questioned.
“Because someone erased the records about the Gaia Empire!” the little girl replied.
Zhao Chen was stunned. He hadn't expected this answer, especially such an absurd one.
"How is this possible! Such a vast interstellar empire, even after tens of thousands of years, how could it have left not a single trace of information!" Zhao Chen couldn't believe it.
The little girl replied, "Of course, we also played a part in it."
Zhao Chen didn't say anything more, but stared at the little girl.
We await her next move.
"But the biggest reason is that extraterrestrial civilization. They possess technology far superior to ours, and they are even... like gods."
The little girl recalled, "I don't know when it was."
We discovered that, apart from our mechanical life forms...
All carbon-based life forms had forgotten everything about the Gaia Empire overnight!
As she said this, the little girl had an incredulous expression on her face.
Zhao Chen was also shocked.
Could it make all carbon-based life in a universe forget the existence of an interstellar empire?
This must be a myth.
"I know it's hard for you to believe such a thing."
But as someone who experienced it firsthand, this is the truth.
Do you remember what I told you before? The expeditionary force only took 95% of the Imperial Legion fleet.
The remaining 5% of the Imperial Legion fleet became a powerful interstellar force in this universe.
In the course of a century of conflict, the prototypes of several interstellar empires were eventually born.
That is, the Star Empire, the Holy Radiance Empire, the Warhammer Interstellar Federation Kingdom, as well as the Angels and Demons here, and other scattered interstellar forces.
They were all, in fact, heirs of the Gaia Empire, but at that time, the Angel and Demon races inherited more of it.
"As for the other three empires, they inherited fewer." the little girl said.
Zhao Chen was completely dumbfounded.
"When I was in this situation, I didn't know what to do."
But soon, I made a decision.
Let's assume that all of this is because the Gaia Empire's expeditionary force has been defeated.
Then the Gaia Empire existed in name only.
But what if this situation occurred for other reasons?
The best approach is to first ensure the stability of the universe's order; in that case, the existence of the Gaia Empire would be dispensable.
Because if the expeditionary force wins, they can naturally reclaim everything that belongs to the Gaia Empire from these successors upon their return.
"If the expeditionary force loses, then the Gaia Empire has no reason to exist," the little girl said.
"Then what is the meaning of your existence as a machine race?"
Why do you threaten other interstellar empires and civilizations around you?
"But you clearly have the ability to kill them directly, yet you treat them like a cat playing with a mouse?" Zhao Chen raised a question that he had always had.
"Because of the inherent flaws of you carbon-based life forms," the little girl said bluntly.
Zhao Chen was puzzled.
"Initially, my machine race did not actually have any intention of interfering with other interstellar empires."
However, those years were also very dark, with the death toll far exceeding that of the Gaia Empire civil war and the interstellar Zerg invasion.
It must be said, when it comes to killing, you carbon-based lifeforms know better than your enemies how to kill yourselves!
Zhao Chen was speechless in response to the little girl's words.
"When I saw this scene, I knew I could no longer tolerate this happening."
At the same time, I also had another plan in mind.
If... if the Gaia Empire's expeditionary force fails, and that extraterrestrial civilization wants to invade again, what should we do?
I'll use my machine race to deal with it?
No, my mechanical race lacks the ability to develop new technologies. If the Gaia Empire's expeditionary force lost before, we will lose too.
Therefore, we still need carbon-based life forms to advance technological development.
However, war is also a major factor driving technological development.
"That's tricky." The little girl shook her head, then said, "Then, I had an idea."
You need war to drive technological development.
"Then why don't I become your war target? That way, I can control the scale of the war!"