Chapter 586: Chapter 382: Absorption, The Mighty Army Approaches_1

In the open grassland, only a creaking swing and Harrison Clark’s lonely figure remained.

At the same time, after the disappearance of the highest intelligence, Star, and the backup core intelligence, Pottery Breaker, the sub-intelligences of various devices have gained freedom and liberation.

The energy operations of countless human intelligent devices gradually returned to normal.

If humans have a more distant future, one of these sub-intelligences might have the opportunity to grow into the next highest intelligence, but now they seem to have some self-serving intentions.

Fortunately, the sub-intelligences have not developed personalities and cannot crack the priority clauses left by programmers in their cores, so they pose no threat.

After bidding farewell to Star, Harrison Clark fell asleep again.

He didn’t know how long he would sleep for and what kind of situation he would wake up to.

After eight timelines, being able to sleep soundly twice after a battle is a rare luxury.

He cherished this hard-won happiness.

Eight hours later, he slowly woke up.

The medical cabin beside him no longer had the figure of the child’s mother; without thinking too much, she must have gone to the command ship.

Harrison Clark put on his basic armor, briefly exercised his body, and then left the medical ship.

Then, he looked at the giant Summit Colossus beneath the medical ship, which resembled a vast continent, and fell into confusion.

He had never imagined how much could be done in eight hours with the combined strength of over 11 billion people, but now he knew.

At this moment, countless engineering ships and research ships of various sizes were busy working around the Summit Colossus.

Before opening its neutron form, the outer armor of the Colossus still showed signs of assembly and had not formed a complete whole, giving it a mechanical feel.

But now those joints were gone, and the surface of the giant Summit Colossus became very smooth and clean, glowing like a single entity, like human skin.

With a puzzled mind, Harrison went forward, landing next to the Colossus and saw four engineering ships carefully removing the original Mars Power Storage from the waist of the Colossus.

Then, a fortress ship that has been temporarily modified into a large engineering ship flew over, extended its long arm, and put something that looked almost identical to the Spherical Battleship’s tumor ball, albeit much smaller, inside.

Many technicians in engineering armor were also busily shuttling around like worker bees, occasionally stopping somewhere and sprinkling a layer of silver metal fluid on the surface of the Colossus.

Harrison, full of questions, didn’t ask these grassroots workers much, as they might not know anything.

About ten minutes later, he appeared at Martha Owen’s research space station.

After listening to Martha Owen’s explanation, he understood what had happened to the Summit Colossus.

While he was still recuperating from his hibernation, this once highly criticized gigantic humanoid machine was voted by the four major systems as the most vital and reliable force for humanity at the moment.

Everyone believed that the strongest warrior deserved the best treatment.

Only by allowing Harrison toperfectly utilize his personal ability could the entire civilization gain a little more sense of security.

Since the upcoming situation had never appeared in Harrison’s memory and remained unknown, the strong sense of crisis forced people to remain on high alert and rapidly enhance their military strength regardless of the cost.

The most straightforward way to improve their combat power was to enhance the performance of the Summit Colossus.

So, during these eight hours, one new technology after another was extracted from the critical information provided by Star, and the survivors mobilized all their reserve materials and energy to thoroughly transform the Summit Colossus from the inside out.

The data “stolen” by Star was very detailed, and humans had already gone far down these roads, lacking only the opportunity to break through.

Whether by coincidence or necessity, many of the technologies brought back by Star could be quickly applied, even if not perfectly, any improvement was still an improvement.

Technicians first found a technology for rapid metal material transformation from a pile of old papers.

It was the freak genius Frankie’s tried and tested solution for directly changing the properties of metals through special frequency radiation, which has been applied in various manufacturing fields and is very mature.

But this time, researchers combined it with the newly deciphered Compound-Eyed Observer’s biometal material technology and quickly passed the evaluation. It was applicable.

With the help of the Demon War cultivation liquid technology, which had a research progress of 18%, scholars and engineers completed a full transformation within eight hours.

Those who were flying around adding liquid metal were patching up the leaks.

Although these people acted quickly and appeared a little reckless, the quality of the liquid metal they placed had been precisely calculated in advance.

In addition, the primary Mars Power Storage was replaced with a bioengine that was transformed by the Gene-Modified Warriors technology, with overall performance parameters comparable to those of the Compound-Eyed Observer’s spherical warship’s core power tumor ball.

At this point, the appearance of the Summit Colossus had not changed significantly, but its internal structure, energy transmission method, and various functional modules had undergone fundamental changes. The various functional modules were no longer independent entities, but interconnected like a human’s biological structure.

“What you see on the surface are the changes in performance, but we’ve actually done more than that,” Martha said, proudly opening the simulation screen.

In the picture, the giant Summit Colossus was launching an attack on a new spherical warship.

Harrison immediately noticed the difference, “Perfect curvature bubble? True curvature flight?”

Martha nodded, “Yes. We’ve absorbed parts of the Unified Force Theory, combined with the semi-biological, semi-mechanical new engine obtained through the plantation transformation, and have realized curvature flight on the Summit Colossus. The current maximum speed can reach 1.5 times the speed of light.”

Harrison nodded heavily, “Great! This means that even in defeat, there’s a chance to escape.”Upon hearing this, Martha Owen shook her head slightly with a hint of gloom, “I’m afraid that won’t work.”

“Hmm?”

“We only realized one truth after truly mastering curvature flight. To achieve faster-than-light travel, we must advance along the cosmic gravitation lines, and we cannot arbitrarily change direction.”

Harrison Clark asked, “Just like how ancient high-speed trains had to travel on tracks?”

“Yes, once an object exceeds the speed of light, the nature of its energy changes dramatically. Even with the protection of a curvature bubble, we must travel along the fixed routes of the universe’s grid-like structure to avoid being torn apart by space.”

Harrison Clark pondered, “But the Compound-Eyed Observer’s curvature flight speed is faster than ours, and they are undoubtedly more familiar with the gravitational line grid you mentioned, so we still won’t be able to escape, right?”

Martha Owen nodded, “Theoretically, curvature flights using different principles and energy frequencies should have their own gravitational line grids. Just like how people in ancient times transmitted information, 5G and 4G networks can coexist without conflict because their frequencies are different. However, our technology originates from the Compound Eye Civilization, so the grid we can access must also be within their control. We are following the path laid out by others. They are far ahead of us.”

Harrison Clark was somewhat disappointed, but still accepted it, “Well, it’s still a huge improvement.”

“Now look at the weapons in the hands of the Summit Colossus.”

Martha Owen pointed to the two ultra-long battle blades drawn by the Summit Colossus in the picture, with blue particles scattered on them.

“Hiss… Is this Unified Force Cutting?”

Harrison Clark asked.

Martha Owen nodded and shook her head again, “Not the complete version. I named it quasi-unified force cutting. Its cutting ability has already reached tens of thousands of times that of our original weapons and can directly cut through the powered spherical battleship’s shell. Now look at the surface armor of the colossus.”

At this moment, the surface of the Summit Colossus was faintly reflecting a hint of soft flowing light, which seemed familiar.

Harrison Clark asked, “Is this the structural layer used by the Blade Mantis to resist the particle-interference bomb?”

Martha Owen nodded, “That’s right, but there’s a difference. We have merged the structural layer of the Blade Mantis with our own neutron armor technology. What you see as the changing halo effect is actually the radiation released by neutron armor quickly switching between matter and energy states at a rate of billions of times per second.”

“The quality of the armor lies between existence and nonexistence, but even in its material state, we have incorporated the structural principles of the Compound-Eyed Observer, creating a gravitational and anti-gravitational effect that cancels itself out. The armor no longer exerts a massive gravitational force on the internal structure, so the Summit Colossus no longer needs to build a double curvature bubble to use neutron armor. The downside is that the movement speed will still decrease drastically, but you can turn it on and off at will.”

Harrison Clark nodded, “Anyway, there are no stars nearby to help maintain the stability of the double curvature bubble.”

“That’s right.”

After taking a look, Harrison Clark was silent for a long time and came to a conclusion, “So, apart from not mastering the particle vortex, the Summit Colossus is almost like an enlarged version of the Blade Mantis.”

Martha Owen nodded, “Yes, in a sense, it is the first piece of human planting equipment that we have rebuilt based on our existing equipment. It is essentially a new life, just without self-consciousness. There’s also a significant change. You no longer need to control it through the Galaxy Equipment by relaying signals- your brainwaves can directly connect with the Summit Colossus.”

“I understand now.”

“Three more minutes and the transformation will be complete. You can try it out first. Oh, right, there’s a brief meeting happening right now. We need to discuss whether to return to the planetary base or stay here. The escape fleet also needs new arrangements.”

Harrison Clark took some time to participate in the meeting.

But he didn’t seem very enthusiastic about it since everyone kept asking for his opinion.

At this time, his prophetic function was disabled, so he knew nothing and couldn’t give any advice.

When the three minutes passed, he decided to leave the meeting early, fly down, and enter the Summit Colossus.

As soon as he settled down, the alarm sounded again.

Harrison Clark immediately opened the communication system, connected to the monitoring projection, and looked up.

They had arrived.

He saw a fleet drifting towards the Solar System in the starry sky projection, as dense as a dragon.

There weren’t an extraordinary number of ships in the fleet.

A million.

The battle ships’ shape was not spherical but rather a faceted polygonal structure, like two pyramids combined together.

Each battleship’s size wasn’t particularly huge either, with a length of about 300 kilometers.

Harrison Clark’s breath caught for a moment, feeling the pressure build, but he quickly relaxed again.

It was better to confront them sooner rather than blindly guessing.

Fortunately, they didn’t have to wait for 500 more years, otherwise, he would have died of old age before the enemy arrived, and that would have been truly frustrating.

It was a silver lining in a grim situation.

His emotions were complicated.

He felt cold for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, his blood began to boil with excitement.

He slowly stood up, connected to the command channel, and calmly said, “Prepare for battle.”

If it had been his old self, he would have definitely cursed the enemy for not giving him time to catch his breath.

But now, he was used to it.

And it wasn’t so bad.