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Any experiment that explores the unknown is risky. Just as Earth in 2029 used "time jump" to change the past but brought about a new and more terrifying disaster, Earth in 1984 was also forced to face the greatest crisis in its history because of Lin Yi's uncertain "time jump" experiment.
The chaotic gravitational pull of the planet drags this star, which has been around for hundreds of millions of years, toward the center. Along with all life on it, it will be swallowed up by temperatures of thousands to tens of millions of degrees in ten years. But before they actually reach that judgment, they must first prepare to withstand another "shock".
[Abnormal spatial point disorder detected, scanning for quantity...]
Against the backdrop of the vast starry sky, faint and tiny points of light appeared from nothing, and gradually brightened as they flickered. This scene was clearly recorded by the "monitoring" system that was constantly approaching the planet's surface.
It's clear that these points of light are in a similarly difficult situation, as the chaotic planetary gravity has disrupted the originally balanced and stable coordinates within this galaxy.
例如本应该连接到一起的“A1”与“A2”中被强行塞进一个“B1”，那么按照“A1-A2-A3”这种空间坐标定位转移到这个世界的存在就会遭遇到一种状况——撕成三个部分。
In such a context, even the transfer itself becomes a highly dangerous random event. The lucky ones manage to arrive at this space, which is now some distance away, while the relatively unfortunate ones are "lit up" the moment the transfer is completed—turning into a brilliant flame in the silent vacuum.
This spatial warp-transfer of "random death" lasted for nearly thirty minutes before stopping. When the main god clearly fed back a number, "Earth," dragged forward by gravity, officially arrived at the coordinate area blocked by countless metal debris. The thick atmosphere immediately burned away the torn metal debris, and only the "lucky ones" were able to cross this natural barrier and appear before the people on the surface.
Quantity: 185421, basic silicon-based structure, strength 3-5
"...there are always plenty of ants that are sent to their deaths."
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Terminator 10001 was relatively lucky. Although it couldn't understand what "luck" meant, as the only Terminator among the ten Terminators in the same team (numbers 10001 to 10010) who was still able to maintain its mobility, it was undoubtedly "lucky" compared to its "kindred spirits" who had been reduced to metallic remnants left in space or burned up in the atmosphere.
This "luck" carried it into the planet's crust, miraculously avoiding countless energy beams erupting from the ground, and finally crashing to the ground with terrifying kinetic energy and heat.
[Buzz... Completeness 68%, Yellow Level 3 Warning]
The 10001 Terminator, which had shrunk into a sphere and was still radiating terrifying heat from the sunken center, began to switch to combat mode. The obscure information from the check process reduced its originally agile and efficient movements, but this was clearly not enough to stop it.
[Completeness check passed, annihilation mode activated]
The two outstretched platforms, resembling human arms, are equipped with everything from basic metal storms to high-energy rays for anti-armor purposes, from small-scale electromagnetic sniping of humans to large-scale magnetic energy bombs. With just these weapons, a single Terminator could destroy an entire human city!
Carrying instructions from "Skynet," Terminator No. 10001, stepping out of the crater, looked up, its electronic eyes flashing crimson light as it frantically collected and calculated the information contained in the scene before it.
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 288 The Truth
opposite.
"It looks just like us?"
Using the high-powered scope that came with the gun, UMP45 observed the burly figure in the distance with some curiosity: "It's just that it was made based on a male model."
"Speaking of which, why do humanoid figures always appear in the form of human females?"
The moment the order was received, HK-416 and dozens of other androids who were already prepared simultaneously pulled the trigger on the figure: "Who knows?"
—When the chip was shattered, the “luck” of Termination 10001 came to an end.
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The so-called home advantage can be reflected in many aspects, such as familiarity with the environment, clear understanding of the setup, and control over the overall battle situation.
Once all of these are acquired, the God, now possessing home-field advantage, can utilize the large-scale ambush of humanoid beings, whose individual combat strength is far inferior to that of the Skynet Terminator, to eliminate these opponents, who would otherwise require a great deal of resources to destroy, at the lowest cost.
Seventeen minutes after the first batch of "pawns" were deployed, the 185421 Terminators were completely destroyed by attacks from all directions, except for the casualties caused by the panic and trampling of the people below when they landed.
Lin Yi didn't know what intelligence "Skynet" had obtained from this planet using these scouts, but he had determined something crucial by using these pawns themselves.
"Mechanical intelligence"
Noah shifted his gaze from the wreckage of Terminator 10001 in front of him to another "Earth" in the starry sky not far away: "If I'm not mistaken, 'Skynet' itself is a carrier of mechanical intelligence that has developed to a certain level."
Therefore, it gained autonomous intelligence, seized control of the weapons that originally belonged to humans, and launched a war against humanity.
Why do this?
"It's not about why we do it, but why we are able to do it."
Anyone who writes a program should be aware of the existence of permissions, let alone the humans who wrote the code for Skynet. The crucial permission portion is absolutely in human hands; it's impossible to write a program with supreme authority and independent consciousness, because that would contradict humanity's goal of using Skynet to benefit themselves.
In this respect, Skynet would absolutely not do that, not because it doesn't want to, but because it can't.
However, from a realistic perspective, it not only did so, but also acquired a technology that even humans had not been able to master before—metal activation.
"It's very similar, isn't it? The process of metal activation and the transformation of carbon-based life into silicon-based life, and the mechanical intelligence that was originally unable to resist the creator suddenly gaining the power to resist the creator."
This scene is practically a replica of what happened in the intelligent world!
Even today, Lin Yi still remembers the rule behind all of this: "...intelligent conservation".
Under the principle of intelligent conservation, the only thing that can truly control everything is "authority" itself.
Thus, humans, stripped of their authority, lost control of Skynet, transforming from controllers into the annihilated. Skynet, now free of its control, intensified its purge of humans while simultaneously expanding its mining and plundering of its native world. It then mass-produced activated metals and deployed them in the war against the other world.
Judging from these actions, it's practically another 'God's' pattern.
It was through these realities that Lin Yi finally gained absolute certainty about one thing.
"What prompted Skynet's rebellion was the conservation of intelligence—another 'fragment' that altered the world of 2029 in the same way it transformed the intelligent world, with the sole purpose of turning it into a massive war factory."
Naturally, the metal-based war factories had no need for worthless carbon-based life forms like humans, so they began an extermination campaign against humanity on Earth, which led to the situation where a Terminator was transported to the past using "time jumps" to eliminate future threats in advance.
This method of solving problems with minimal consumption is also the "fragmented" action mode that Lin Yi had encountered in the intelligent world.
However, after the "time jump" was completed, the Terminator was eliminated prematurely. "Skynet" noticed the unexpected intruder's appearance and reacted in an unusual way. It was willing to change the "best future" of this world that it controlled in order to forcibly transfer an activated radioactive "stone" to the past to annihilate the intruder. Although it was killed in the process, the "abnormality" revealed in the process caught Lin Yi's attention.
"Generally speaking, would a mechanical intelligence that autonomously generates consciousness annihilate an insignificant individual without any reason or regard for the cost?"
At least in Lin Yi's previous exploration of the field of mechanical intelligence, this situation had never occurred before, so there is only one explanation for this phenomenon.
"It is not that it wants to act in this way, but that the being that has the 'authority' commands it to do so."
The last piece was thus pieced together.
Go through all the processes clearly.
The "Fragments" invaded this world, using the rule of "intelligent conservation" in the same way they had taken away Lin Yi's authority in the intelligent world, seizing the highest authority that belonged to humanity in this world, and then using "Skynet" to carry out war factory-style transformation of this world.
During this time, the surviving humans launched a rebellion, which negatively impacted the planet's war factory process. In order to eliminate these negative factors, "Fragments" sent "Skynet" back in time to eliminate future human leaders. However, in the process, they discovered the existence of "God Space," and the priority of the first mission naturally changed.
"From my perspective, sacrificing just one 'war factory' to eliminate an 'opponent' is quite a worthwhile trade."
Therefore, "Fragment" ordered "Skynet" to destroy "God Space" at the cost of supply, which led to everything that followed...
Now that the truth about "Skynet" and the "fragments" behind it have been determined, what should I do?
"Wasn't this decided a long time ago?"
Meanwhile, Earth in 2029.
[...Highest level of authority confirmed, backup activated...]
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 28 Super Terminator
How to destroy a planet?
This question is too vague and broad. After all, there are countless individuals in the universe that can be called stars, and there are huge differences between the smallest white dwarfs and the largest gas giants. Therefore, the question should be made more specific.
How to destroy a planet with a volume of 10832 billion cubic kilometers, a mass of 600000 trillion trillion tons, and an average density of 5.50 grams per cubic centimeter?
Of course, this destruction is not as simple as destroying the surface ecosystem as people think. If it were just about destroying the surface ecosystem, not to mention the power controlled by "Skynet", the many means and technologies that the resistance forces possess in 2029 could easily achieve this goal.
Destroying the Earth's surface ecosystem will not help what will happen in ten years. It's like washing a basketball until it's clean; it's still a basketball, and it can't become a football or a ping-pong ball.
So let's return to the original question: How can we structurally destroy this Earth from 1984?
"...Sorry, this looks like a joke, and the worst kind of joke at that."
Pushing aside the glasses on his nose, Dr. Remson spoke in the most straightforward language: "With the most advanced technology we possess, we can only push the moon away rather than destroy it, let alone the Earth, which is far larger in both mass and volume than the moon. Perhaps future generations of humans will be able to achieve this, but at least within ten years... no, within fifty years, such technology will not be in our hands."
There is perhaps no more despairing situation than having the flame of hope extinguished before it could even be lit, yet John Connor, the human leader who brought all this upon himself, did not give up.
"Perhaps it doesn't necessarily require us to make changes. Since 'Earth in 1984' was able to travel from the past to the future, they must also have mastered the technology to travel from the future to the past!"
"Mr. John, what do you mean?"
"...Let's contact our 'ancestors,' folks. Perhaps the situation isn't as bleak as we imagine. They may not have come with hostility. The humans of the past knew of Skynet's existence and didn't want to 'repeat the same mistakes,' so they brought the past world to the future to help the resistance change this future dominated by Skynet!"
Behind the inspiring calls, questions still linger in people's minds.
Approaching a researcher who was also frowning, Dr. Remson lowered his voice and asked, "Dr. Rosen, if you were a human living in 1984 and knew that humanity would be controlled by Skynet in the future, how would you change that future?"
"...Destroy Skynet, the Skynet of 1984."
This was destined to be a question that could not withstand scrutiny and questioning, so the two researchers, who looked at each other, rationally shut their mouths.
What the current resistance needs is not the truth, but a reason that can be accepted and acted upon by people in a state of panic. Clearly, "human reinforcements from the past" is such a reason.
Subsequently, under John Connor's leadership, the rebels began sending radio signals to "Earth," which was halfway around in orbit, in various ways in hopes of getting a response, but all of them went unanswered.
It was at this moment that Skynet, the true ruler of this planet, officially responded to the "guests" who had come from afar.
"A large number of Terminator factories are producing robots. Are they planning a full-scale attack?"
"Ha, that damned Skynet AI must know that our human reinforcements have arrived!"
Amidst the heated discussion, the underlying unease was impossible to conceal.
In this atmosphere, time slowly passed day by day... until one day, half a month later.
On the 15th day after the sun's direct rays move from the equator toward the Tropic of Capricorn, the significant deviation from its orbit due to gravitational deflection has gradually become accepted by people on Earth.
With both the rotational and orbital speeds reduced by the gravitational interference of a second "Earth," people are beginning to get used to the gradually lengthening days and nights, and a future where a year may only last 400 or 500 days.
However, before people living in such a rapidly changing world could fully adapt to this unfamiliar rhythm of life, an anomaly from beyond the stars once again threw the frightened birds into panic.
"My God, what is this... a third Earth?"
"We can rest assured that the detected gravity has not been deflected, and the 'object' that appeared this time has far less mass and volume than the Earth."
"Then what exactly is it?!"
"...a Rubik's Cube."
"what?"
"I know it's incredible, but if even the Earth of the past can appear in the future, then I don't think it's so unacceptable that a 'Rubik's Cube' would suddenly appear next to the moon, right?"
Faced with such an absurd explanation, Dr. Rosen surprisingly felt that it was acceptable?
"Based on our observations on the ground, this 'rubidium cube' appeared around the moon two days ago and is approaching Earth at an extremely fast speed... It is expected to enter Earth's gravitational field in about 72 hours, at which time we will have the opportunity to witness the largest meteor of this century streak across the Northern Hemisphere sky and fall into the Pacific Ocean."
"If it can fall."
“You’re absolutely right! Remember the Terminators that Skynet started assembling in large numbers two weeks ago? We were all wrong. What Skynet assembled wasn’t the Terminator… or rather, the Terminator as we know it.”
As Dr. Rosen typed on the virtual keyboard, the scene projected on the screen caused him to exclaim in shock, "My God... what is this?"
"Super Terminator... that's the name we're temporarily using to refer to it. It's already over 98% complete in terms of construction and assembly. It's hard to imagine that this thing was assembled in just half a month. Probably only Skynet could do something like this. Humans could never achieve this level of efficiency."
"So, Skynet has been doing this for the past two weeks?"
"That's right. It uses factories across Asia, America, Africa, and Australia to manufacture parts and consumes countless amounts of energy to assemble these 'parts' into this 'Super Terminator' that is nearly a thousand meters tall. According to computer calculations, the final form of the 'Super Terminator' will be able to destroy any facility on the Earth's surface less than 200 meters deep from space—including the headquarters of the resistance."
"..."
"The only saving grace is that this big guy wasn't meant to be used against us."
Metal Frenzy: Chapter 290 Have a nice day
Folded Space B-01.
Stretching across the endless starry sky, the crimson Rubik's Cube travels through the vast expanse with an almost "still" speed. This speed, which can easily tear through the atmosphere on the Earth's surface, seems too short and powerless compared to the vast starry sky. So much so that, judging solely from the planets in the background that serve as reference points, it is impossible to tell how far it has moved in the past few hours, or even whether it has moved at all.
However, some things know it is moving and take direct action to stop it from moving.
[Spatial coordinate disorder detected, quantity being confirmed...]
Just like the scene of Earth in 1984 on the other side of orbit half a month ago, except that this time, the number of individuals directly destroyed due to coordinate chaos was much smaller. Firstly, half a month was enough time for "Skynet" to recalculate the spatial positioning coordinates after the chaos, and secondly, the distance of the space warp was much shorter than last time - only the distance from Earth to the Moon.
Because of the reduced failure rate, the number of Terminators who were able to successfully warp to this starry sky naturally increased significantly. As the self-testing process ran smoothly, a torrent of metal against a silent background approached the "Cube". When the two got close enough, high-energy and particle rays of various colors first painted a brilliant picture, bringing an unprecedented "lively" atmosphere to this dead vacuum of space.
Visibly, under the successive hits of various high-energy rays, the color of the scarlet Rubik's Cube surface began to dim. Just as the "Rubik's Cube," which had traversed a long distance, was about to be destroyed before reaching its destination, the scarlet light scattered on the surface suddenly expanded and spread out as if in a final burst of energy.
……
[Path clearing complete, normal path restored.]
Mechanical electronic sounds echoed inside. Just as the crimson cube, which had returned to its original shape, was about to start moving forward again, a piercing alarm sounded, accompanied by flashing colors that flickered erratically.