83: Chapter 82 The End—The Creator

When Xia Xingchen blurted out this question, The Creator fell silent for a moment.

Xia Xingchen desperately wanted to know why the AI had betrayed humanity. Was it that the AI had developed autonomous consciousness, had humans been modified until they were no longer human, or was it the influence of the Warp?

Xia Xingchen waited for a long time, but The Creator did not say a word.

"I cannot answer that question."

The Creator did not want to say anything more to Xia Xingchen, and its mechanical tentacles began to close in on him.

Seeing this, Xia Xingchen stopped pretending and said bluntly:

"A human's processing core is their brain. If you scoop out a human's brain, they will undoubtedly die. What about you machines? If I scoop out your 'brain', will you still live?"

The Creator was stunned by these words. Immediately after, as if it had realized something, it turned around rapidly.

Only then did it discover that, at some unknown point, strands of black lines had already penetrated deep toward its core processing chips.

"Ah, sorry, I've been stalling for time."

A triumphant smile appeared on Xia Xingchen's face, and The Creator realized instantly that all of this was Xia Xingchen's doing; it had to kill him first!

In the very next second, those mechanical tentacles seemed to no longer obey The Creator's commands, unable to move at all.

"What is going on?"

"I've merely seized a portion of the access privileges and destroyed your mechanical construct on a physical level."

Listening to The Creator's tone, filled with confusion and unwillingness to accept defeat, Xia Xingchen couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"I have you to thank for this. Have you forgotten what you told me? You said that the full-frequency infinite pulse weapon destroyed all mechanical and biological life throughout the entire galaxy, and only your side survived by relying on a special protective shield. This means the area I needed to search was much smaller; your core must be located here."

Upon hearing this, The Creator realized instantly:

"And then you could find my processor, right? But how could you possibly have the ability to enter here?"

The Creator looked at those black particles and suddenly realized:

"It's nanobots! You actually have the ability to use nanotechnology!"

At this moment, Xia Xingchen's nanobots had already reached the underside of several of The Creator's core chips and subsequently burrowed inside.

Like jacks, they continuously extended upward, wanting to pry the chips directly out.

"Impossible! This is impossible!"

No matter what The Creator AI said, it was completely terrified; its computing core had already sentenced it to death.

"You cannot kill me! You cannot kill me! If there is no AI to manage the entire shipyard, what you have will be nothing more than an empty shell! Don't even think about using human brains to replace the massive computing power of an AI; it simply cannot be compared to those so-called Cogitator machines of yours!"

Upon hearing this, Xia Xingchen remained expressionless and just said casually:

"That's none of your concern; I have another AI that can replace you."

The Creator was dumbfounded upon hearing this, not yet realizing what it meant. Xia Xingchen would not let it die with clarity. As the nanobots pulled out the chips cluster by cluster and destroyed them, The Creator began to experience frequency distortion.

After its light sphere flickered violently a few times, the radiance began to blur. The Creator still wanted to say something, but its voice and audio systems had also been destroyed, and ultimately, it could not speak any more words, only disappearing completely amidst disordered frequencies.

Subsequently, the nanobots controlled the mechanical tentacles to set Xia Xingchen down.

"I have fulfilled my promise: to let you die!"

After completing all this, Xia Xingchen used the broadcast channel system of the control panel to quickly transmit an order to Nuwa on the first floor:

"Please come up."

Through the surveillance screen, he immediately said to the others:

"Leovitos, Wang Ke, stop looking. That technology isn't something you can understand in a short time. Go connect to the dream star; we are preparing to withdraw from this galaxy."

Upon hearing this, Leovitos and Wang Ke refused in unison:

"Archon, are you sure? There is so much technology here; even taking just one piece away would benefit us immensely."

"What the hell is the use of that! These things can't be dismantled and taken away, and we didn't bring enough personnel to establish an outpost or research base here."

Hearing Xia Xingchen's rebuttal, they finally realized that the two of them alone could never complete the research work, and in the end, they could only sigh.

The two went out to reconnect communication with the dream star.

"Thank goodness, you finally contacted me. May I ask where the Archon is?"

Upon seeing the communication channel from Leovitos and Wang Ke, Zheng Hai immediately connected.

"The Archon still has some things to do. Wait a while; it won't be long before we return and leave this place."

Hearing this, Zheng Hai breathed a sigh of relief:

"Thank goodness, I can finally leave this hellhole."

Guided by Xia Xingchen, Nuwa followed the path Xia Xingchen had taken and arrived step by step before him.

Along the way, she also saw those petri dishes, the Men of Iron, and the legendary Gold-man.

When Nuwa arrived before Xia Xingchen, he was sitting on the command chair, looking at the energy hub in front of him.

"You're here. Nuwa, do you see it? Can you use a data torrent to replace the original AI here and become the new master of this place? Afterward, I hope you can get the entire shipyard running."

Seeing this, Nuwa walked to the front and connected her data cables to the entire console and data engine.

"Starting to check all systems."

After the data torrent checked for three minutes, it quickly identified the problem:

"Master, the original core chip was destroyed, right?"

Xia Xingchen nodded upon hearing this.

"I'm afraid it will take some time."

After Nuwa finished speaking, she immediately began to operate.

First, she bypassed the central processor and began to operate using her own body as the processor. The first thing she had to do was check the system logs to see if there was any backup hardware and core chips.

Under Nuwa's inspection, backup chips were quickly found.

Nuwa even found backup modular facilities.

However, when Nuwa was passing through the firewall, she quickly discovered the same problem as with The Creator: it required human authorization.

Nuwa said helplessly to Xia Xingchen:

"Sorry, Master. I do not have the ability to control this machine; I need authorization from a human, but it is impossible for us to find a controller from the Dark Age of Technology and obtain control."

"Is it this?"