Chapter 695 - 428: Constructing the Main Brain

Su Mo and Su Motong walked into the eccentric building together, moonlight filtering through the stained glass windows and casting strange shadows.

The interior of the building was a tall and spacious hall, resembling an ancient arena, with a vast open space in the center. Tiered stands surrounded it, and thick layers of wax accumulated on the candlesticks on either side, clearly burned out long ago.

Huge chandeliers hung from the ceiling, appearing to be made of crystal, but upon closer inspection, they were a special type of crystal never synthesized by humans.

These crystals hung high in the air, emitting a faint white light despite not being illuminated by the moonlight.

In the central open space, a glowing orb floated in mid-air, its interior vaguely revealing complex electronic circuitry and energy flows. It seemed like a machine, yet it constantly changed forms as if it were alive.

At times, it transformed into a giant eye surveying the surroundings, and at other times into countless twisting beams of light spreading in all directions. The consistent buzzing from within was like the murmurs of countless people, mixed with electronic noise, casting an eerie electromagnetic resonance across the space, as if the entire area resonated with it.

Upon seeing this orb, Su Motong stepped back a few steps, holding her forehead, her brows tightly furrowed, as if sensing something amiss.

"This is a construct... not a worker bee... nor the Queen Bee... its existence surpasses mine..."

Su Mo didn’t respond to Su Motong, merely looked upward.

The light emitted by the orb gradually brightened, illuminating the tiered stands shrouded in shadow.

On the seats of the stands sat individuals, their numbers exactly corresponding to the residents of Sky City.

But...

They were all corpses.

The corpses of these human elites wore identical silver uniforms, embedded with complex electronic circuits and chips, their bodies in varying states of distortion, yet their expressions were unusually serene.

Each corpse’s head was connected to a slender cable, extending from all directions to the glowing orb creature in the central open space. Blue light flowed through the cables, flickering with the changes of the orb creature, as if achieving some frequency resonance.

At the highest point of the stands sat the sole living person among these human elites.

He was incredibly old, his whole body emaciated, skin like wrinkled tree bark, and exuding a deathly grayish-black hue. His teeth had long rotted away.

This man, old beyond description, lay against a gigantic machine, his body connected to various life-support tubes, his head, like the surrounding corpses, also attached to a slender cable.

Those familiar with corporate history would be shocked to recognize this person as "Yan Wenwu," the founder of Hegemony Company, whose statue stood at the entrance of every department.

By calculating Yan Wenwu’s birth and year, he would now be over 200 years old.

No human can naturally live to such an age; he survived thus far solely relying on the power of technology, testing every life-extending technology in today’s world on himself.

However, for the human flesh, more than 200 years is still too long a time.

No matter how Yan Wenwu extended his life and refused death, his body still resembled a candle about to burn out, ready to be consumed at any moment.

This old man, at the verge of death, had lost all bodily functions, unable to vibrate his vocal cords, yet the life-support machinery beneath him could interpret brainwaves to read his thoughts.

As an indicator light flickered on, the life-support machine emitted a calm and authoritative voice: "Mr. Su Mo, the others have embarked on their journey to the new world, while I remained here waiting for your arrival. Now, I will explain the situation to you."

"You have managed to control a Queen Bee, so I assume you have sufficient understanding of the construct species, and will only discuss the core elements without redundant information."

"The glowing orb you see here is the highest existence in construct civilization, more advanced than the ’Queen Bee.’ It is referred to as the ’Main Brain.’"

"In the Doomsday War 156 years ago, humanity paid the price of its civilization to defeat the constructs, suppressing and sealing the Main Brain, preserving it to this moment."

"Over these 156 years, through studying the Main Brain, we mastered a special technique capable of completely erasing the Main Brain’s consciousness and transferring human consciousness into it."

"This means we can fully occupy the Main Brain’s body with human consciousness, becoming its ruler."

"This is also the only way to survive the Spear of Judgment’s doomsday impact."

After the global announcement this morning, many people had questions.

Why did the people of Sky City activate the Spear of Judgment?

According to descriptions, the impact range of the Spear of Judgment covers the entire planet and targets all humanity, and due to limited understanding of construct technology, the impact program cannot be altered.

This means that the people of Sky City are among the targets too, as they are also human.

If that’s the case, why activate the Spear of Judgment and "commit suicide"?

Could these human elites truly be so fanatical that they would rather annihilate all humanity, including themselves, than hand victory over to the Rebel Army?

And now, this question has been answered.

The people of Sky City activated the Spear of Judgment because the impending doomsday impact has no effect on them.