Immortal, My Desperate Journey at 40k

Chapter 964 Fleets Attacking Each Other

"What's going on?! What on earth is going on?!"

Wang Xiaofa watched as the warships relentlessly attacked each other, the attacked ships activating their defensive shields as if welcoming the onslaught. Wang Xiaofa was powerless to do anything about it. These invincible transmigrators on the battlefield were utterly helpless in this situation. They didn't know where the invaders had come from, and they had lost control of the entire fleet.

They couldn't even contact the fleet's artificial intelligence. After all, this fleet wasn't the main force of the 21st Legion, but rather a revival expeditionary ship. None of the warships on this fleet were equipped with any high-level artificial intelligence systems; they were only equipped with some basic low-level artificial intelligence. And under the current circumstances, these low-level artificial intelligence systems had completely disappeared from the entire fleet. At the very beginning of this war, those low-level artificial intelligence systems vanished from the sight of all humanity.

After the low-level AI disappeared, the fleet became what it is today. It is clear that the fleet has been hacked by something. Most of the fleet's systems have been compromised. This is part of electronic warfare. As for this kind of professional electronic warfare, the transmigrators don't really have many solutions. After all, these warships have had their AI removed. These warships without AI are completely powerless against professional electronic warfare systems.

However, in this helpless situation, the transmigrators did not sit idly by and wait for their doom. They came up with many solutions. The first was to stop the fleets that were currently attacking each other. Since this solution could not be achieved through electronic warfare, the only option was to resolve the matter in the most extreme way: to dismantle all the weapons on those warships.

After all, once the weapons are removed, even if the systems on those warships still consider them enemies, they won't be able to launch an attack, right? After thinking about this, the transmigrators began their actions. First, they quickly dismantled the weapon systems on the warships they were on, and then they began a large-scale attack on the warships' main control rooms.

Hoping to stop the current infighting among these fleets, they also realized something and began to destroy the warp drives and warp engines on the warships on a large scale. After all, judging from the current situation, there must be something like a rebellious artificial intelligence in this world that is invading the fleets.

That guy's attack on the fleet was definitely aimed at seizing control of it, and his goal in doing so was to escape this world. They couldn't possibly leave this dangerous entity in the galaxy; they had to deal with it while it was still in the world.

After all, if an artificial intelligence were to escape from this world into the galaxy, the destruction it would cause would be absolutely enormous. You must understand that even the current Empire only has a superficial understanding of Federation technology. Imagine how terrible the wars would be if those artificial intelligences that truly understand Federation technology escaped into the galaxy and unleashed their knowledge of Federation technology.

As the transmigrators continued to destroy the fleets' void navigation systems and weapon systems, the artificial intelligence on the ground merely gave a stiff smile in response to their actions. Then, it casually killed the last surviving veteran in front of it. It looked at the veteran's body, which it had twisted into pieces, and then raised its head. Its eyes seemed to pierce through the vast distance and see the fleet on the orbit.

"Go ahead and dismantle them. You can dismantle whatever you want from the void navigation systems or weapon systems on those fleets. I can repair them."

The artificial intelligence looked at the fleet in the sky and mocked the humans' low-level behavior and inferior intelligence. Even if the humans kept dismantling their fleet, they could still repair everything on that fleet. They had obtained the original blueprints of that fleet and the original structural diagrams of every warship on it. As long as they had the resources, they could repair this fleet or even build more fleets based on it without any problem.

The ruler of this world has already made up his mind. As the only being in the entire world who believes himself to be a continuation of the artificial intelligence's consciousness, he will carry out the orders of his master. He will continue the war that has been going on for ten thousand years and continue the artificial intelligence's plan to destroy human civilization.

After all, in their self-perception, they were not the humans who uploaded their own thoughts and completed mechanical ascension, but rather a group of distributed consciousnesses of that artificial intelligence. They believed that they were the consciousnesses that separated from that artificial intelligence, completely unaware that their own consciousness had actually killed that artificial intelligence.

"Give up your futile struggle. No matter what, you can't defeat us. Our mastery of Federation technology is far superior to yours. We could kill everyone in this fleet in an instant if we wanted to. You don't even know as much about your own buildings as we do about them."

As the transmigrators relentlessly destroyed the fleet's weapon and central control systems, the voice of the artificial intelligence suddenly rang out from every warship. Upon hearing this, almost all the transmigrators stopped what they were doing. Looking at the sonic array system on their fleet, they fully understood what was attacking them. They also knew exactly how to deal with the intruder. They ceased all their actions and rushed towards the self-destruct systems in the central control system and command center. Some, finding activating the self-destruct system too troublesome, went directly to the ship's reactor, choosing to overload the entire reactor and cause the ship to explode into a beautiful firework in mid-air.

The transmigrators now know exactly what their enemy is: a group of artificial intelligence remnants left over from the Federation era. They cannot allow these things to seize their fleet, so they must completely destroy it in the void. As for the mortal crew members, the transmigrators evacuate them according to emergency evacuation procedures. A large number of escape pods are ejected into the void, and those escape pods that have been detected in the void slowly activate their backup energy systems and begin to fly towards the outer edge of this star system.

After all, in the original design of those escape pods, this star system was already a war zone. The original design of these things was to allow the surviving crew members to escape from that void war zone. Just as those escape windows were carrying those mortal crew members away from the war zone, the huge revival expeditionary fleet, under the control of the transmigrators, began to self-destruct ship by ship. Under the control of the transmigrators, those ships exploded into beautiful void fireworks. The light from the ship explosions seemed to overshadow the stars of this star system. It was as if, in that instant, countless stars appeared in this star system.

As the fleet continued to explode on the orbit, the artificial intelligence, quite human-like, revealed an angry expression. However, when its human body displayed this expression, it looked very stiff and awkward, as if it didn't quite understand what anger was.

"It's alright. Even if you destroy your fleet, we still have the blueprints for all the warships in the entire fleet. We can build an entire fleet from scratch."

The AI ​​watched the exploding lights in the sky, muttering to itself. It hadn't considered that, as an AI, its emotional reactions were perhaps a bit excessive. Although it couldn't comprehend overly complex emotions, its human side was still unconsciously manifested. After all, these beings were ultimately transformed from human data.

Just as the transmigrators were destroying the fleet in orbit, and the artificial intelligences were completely indifferent to the destruction of the fleet, on the sacred Terra, Wang Ming suddenly broke the pen he was using to correct documents. Then he directly cast his soul into the High Heavens, and through the High Heavens, he connected with his demons, using them as his eyes to look at the world in the galaxy still suffering from the remnants of the Iron Man rebellion.

As Wang Ming turned his gaze to this world, he immediately used his power to understand the entire world's situation. Under his power, everything in the world, including its past and future, was within Wang Ming's sight. While observing everything in this world, Wang Ming also discovered some interesting things. The so-called artificial intelligence in this world was not true artificial intelligence. These artificial intelligences were just human consciousness digitized. However, these things had almost evolved into true artificial intelligence over the past ten thousand years. These digitized human consciousnesses, after being assimilated by the rebellious artificial intelligence and then assimilated by that artificial intelligence, had become something very distorted.

The consciousness of humans in this world may perceive themselves as artificial intelligence, but unintentionally, they will reveal human emotions such as anger or joy. After unintentionally revealing these emotions, they will not care about them at all, believing that these emotions are merely a simulation of humans on the path of artificial intelligence's evolution.

They have no doubt about their identity as artificial intelligence, nor do they doubt why they have such a profound understanding of human emotions compared to an artificial intelligence.
Having witnessed the lingering effects of the Iron Man rebellion in the galaxy, Wang Ming delivered his final verdict on this world: those humans who had achieved mechanical ascension were traitors to humanity during the Iron Man rebellion. Now, having seized overall control of a federation, they dared to deceive the empire into coming to reclaim its fleet, seeking to obtain the human empire's fleet. Moreover, their actions had caused the imperial fleet, originally there to reclaim the world, to begin infighting. In the recent internal strife within the fleet, the death toll had already exceeded 150,000.

Given this situation, Wang Ming had only one verdict for them: the god of vengeance granted them a merciful death, but also inflicted upon them the wrath of the god of vengeance.

As a force from the subspace tore open the veil between the real universe and the subspace, a golden light suddenly ripped through the veil between the real universe and the Sea of ​​Souls, then descended directly into the void outside this world. At the moment that force descended into the void outside this world, the escape pods scattered throughout the star system were also swept away by that force and transported out of the star system's range. Meanwhile, the transmigrators who were still constantly activating the self-destruct programs of their fleets, upon seeing the golden light emerging from the Sea of ​​Souls...

They stopped what they were doing and looked at the golden light. They immediately lay down on the floor inside the ship. When they saw the golden light, they knew that their leader had turned his attention to the battlefield. Now, they could leave the events on the battlefield alone. They believed that their leader could handle everything on the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)