From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 148 - 126: Sikes Mechanical Civilization, A Mechanical Tiger

Night.

Lu Heng and the others found a hotel to stay in.

The service robot at the hotel enthusiastically explained how to use the room's charging port, even though none of the three needed it.

Instead, the child companion robot automatically walked over and stood by the charging port.

This child companion robot looked like a cartoon dinosaur toy, one meter tall, with limbs that could move.

Back at the repair shop, Lu Heng had confirmed with the repairman that the robot's network module was intact but had not activated the networking function.

The repairman repeatedly warned that once the networking function was activated for this type of service robot, there was a possibility it could be lost.

And he emphatically stated that he would not be responsible if activating the networking function resulted in the robot being lost.

This is a major characteristic of the rogue mechanical servant factions.

Normally, a service robot with its networking function enabled can update the latest control programs, optimize program settings, and fix bugs through the network.

However, these antique robots from the last century, mostly produced by now-bankrupt companies with non-existent servers, could not update their programs.

Thus, such outdated robots usually had their network modules removed or deactivated.

It was for this reason that Lu Heng had confirmed with the repairman whether the robot had a network module or not.

The network module was very important for Lu Heng's subsequent plans.

Once these types of service robots were connected to a network, the gestalt consciousness of the rogue mechanical servants would attempt to connect to these robots.

The connection process is essentially cracking the service robot's control program; once successfully cracked, the robot would become part of the gestalt consciousness, like a worker bee in a hive.

This is why rogue mechanical servants could expand so rapidly, infecting connected service robots like a virus.

This led many service robot owners to disable their networking functions.

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Lu Heng was thinking about the strategy to pass the Abyss Battlefield, but first, he needed to confirm some key information.

So, before resting for the night, he communicated with the cartoon dinosaur robot using voice commands to gather more information about Orion λ838.

Since the cartoon dinosaur had not been connected to the network for many years, most of the stored data was from before the appearance of the rogue mechanical servants, with only a very small amount afterward.

From the conversation, a few key pieces of information were obtained.

First, Orion λ838 was a resource planet of the Sikes Civilization; after the depletion of resources, the civilization withdrew, leaving behind those too poor to board the spaceships.

Second, the Sikes Civilization had begun their machine revolution two centuries ago and is now transitioning from a semi-mechanical civilization to a full mechanical civilization.

When the machine revolution first started, it was fashionable for citizens of the civilization to transform their bodies into machinery.

Moreover, mechanical transformation came with many benefits.

For instance, greater strength, additional functions not available to organic life forms, and significantly extended lifespan.

Thus, the previous two centuries were a period of mechanical transformation for the civilization.

Interestingly, after the machine revolution, the majority of citizens from the main species of the Sikes Civilization underwent mechanical transformations.

At that time, citizens began to miss their organic bodies, and bionic limbs once again became a cultural trend.

The Sikes Civilization is now in such a period, with bionic limbs becoming synonymous with luxury.

This was also why the repair shop owner had shown such an admiring expression when he saw Lu Heng and his companions.

In the eyes of the citizens of Orion λ838, being able to use perfect bionic limbs meant certain stature and power indeed.

Therefore, when Lu Heng and his companions walked through the city, none who could see would dare to trouble them.

The situation was like seeing a multimillion-dollar sports car on the roads of the human world, with other vehicles quickly making way, ordinary people couldn't afford to provoke, and even traffic police rarely dared to stop them.

Third, the withdrawal of the main body of the civilization was completed thirty years ago, while records related to rogue mechanical servants appeared fifteen years ago.

By the time the main body had withdrawn from the planet, only old machines, industrial waste, and the lower-class citizens remained.

Therefore, after the emergence of rogue mechanical servants, no one on the planet had the capability to deal with the problem.

In fact,

At the first sign of the appearance of rogue mechanical servants, updating the programming of the servant robots to prevent the expansion of the rogue consciousness was possible and would have been an easy solution.

But with the civilization's main body already evacuated from the planet, without anyone to maintain the servant robots' programming, the gestalt consciousness of the rogue mechanical servants quickly expanded after it emerged, forming a faction capable of challenging the Central System.

Fourth, the first records of the Abyss appeared five years ago.

If these records were correct, the emergence of the rogue mechanical servants had nothing to do with the Abyss invasion.

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However, it was still unclear whether the struggle between the Central System Camp and the rogue mechanical servants had any connection with the Abyss invasion.

Fifth, there were no records about Source Material in the cartoon dinosaur's data.

However, Lu Heng had previously entered the Queen Star Circle of the Sikes Mechanical Civilization, where Source Material was present.

So, there should also be Source Material here, although it might be in such small quantities that a service robot would not have the permission to access such information.

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While interacting with the cartoon dinosaur, Lu Heng asked some very critical questions.

Su Muyu and Lin Zeyu's questions, on the other hand, were more humorous.