On the Eight Extremes Star, I awakened the twelve talismans.

Human desires are like a boulder rolling down a mountain; once they start, they can never be stopped.

Having one planet, one desires an even bigger one.

Having acquired a large number of planets, they now desire the entire galaxy.

Having one galaxy, one desires more.

Their desires grew so great that eventually, only through constant interstellar plunder could they maintain that distorted expansion model.

The Tonatians were not unaware of the problem, but their entire civilization had been bound to an unstoppable chariot of desire.

If it stops, the internal system will collapse.

Continuing on is heading towards the abyss.

They chose to continue.

The Tonati population grew exponentially during that period.

Mechanical life forms do not require a reproduction cycle; a single production line can produce tens of thousands of new Tonati in a single day.

The larger the population, the more resources are needed.

If resources are insufficient, they can only plunder from more distant star systems.

The plundered resources then fueled further population growth, creating a vicious cycle that seemed to have no end.

As time went on, the resources of many star systems were completely exhausted, and the various factions turned their guns on each other in order to compete for the few remaining survival resources.

A full-scale civil war broke out.

The weapons once used to conquer the stars and the sea were all poured onto their own people, and hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated civilization were shattered in the flames of war.

The star systems occupied by the Tonatians were shattered during the civil war.

It is hard to imagine that a race that has been powerful from beginning to end has conquered countless galaxies, crossed countless light-years, and once stood at the top of the cosmic food chain, looking down on all living beings.

In the end, they did not fall to the guns of foreign invaders, nor did they perish from natural disasters or decline, but rather died by their own hand.

Ultimately, the faction represented by Queen Aiva emerged.

The faction that advocated peaceful coexistence and opposed unlimited expansion was defeated in the civil war and had to flee their home star system with the remaining members of their race.

They struggled to survive in the cracks of the universe, eventually arriving at the Milky Way and finding Jupiter.

At that time, Jupiter was still a habitable planet, and its original inhabitants were still in the industrial civilization stage.

The Tonatians could have easily conquered the native inhabitants and taken over the planet as their new home, just as they had been doing for the past tens of thousands of years, but they didn't.

Queen Aiva sighed deeply, with a sense of vicissitude and relief: "The lessons of that civil war were too painful; it took us thousands of years to digest them."

"Since leaving our home system and arriving on Jupiter, we have completely changed our strategy. We no longer expand, compete for resources, or pursue greater power."

"We learned to coexist peacefully with the native inhabitants and imparted our technology to the local humans on Jupiter without reservation, helping them develop from an industrial civilization to an interstellar civilization."

"When the great god Kusa led the legions of the four races to Jupiter, we chose to stand in front of them, not because we wanted to be heroes, but because this is our new home, and the humans here are our friends. The Tonatians owe the universe a debt, and we want to repay it."

After listening, Ye Han finally understood that the Tonati people had such an experience.

A civilization that lasted for 100,000 years, evolved from flesh and blood into mechanical life, conquered countless star systems, and was ultimately destroyed by its own greed.

He had assumed that the Tonatians were merely victims of the Galactic Eye's genocide.

The truth, however, is far more complex.

They themselves were perpetrators, invaders, and committed crimes almost identical to those committed by Galaxy Eye.

It's truly lamentable that they've fallen to their current state.

This experience was truly beyond my expectations.

Ye Han pointed out the key point: "Since you have this strength, and Aden was able to defeat Kusa, your Tonatti people's technological level far surpasses that of the Galaxy Eye, then why didn't you use Aden to deal with them when the Galaxy Eye launched a genocide against you? With Aden's combat power, wiping out the Galaxy Eye shouldn't be difficult."

Helpless, Aiva recounted what happened back then: "It's not that I didn't want to use it, it's that I couldn't."

"Can't be used?"

"right."

In the early stages of the Galactic Eyes' covert genocide, the situation was actually still under the control of the Tonatians.

But later they resorted to propaganda warfare, spreading rumors, inciting panic, and isolating Jupiter's diplomatic channels, testing the bottom line of the Tonatians step by step.

At that time, the Tonat people were divided into two factions.

One faction advocates using Yaden to intimidate the Galactic Eye with absolute force and nip the threat in the bud.

Aden is the Tonatien's weapon of war and their most powerful armed force. Its mere presence on the battlefield is enough to make any power reconsider the cost of war.

The other faction, however, did not want to resolve the issue through war.

Aiva belongs to the latter category.

Unfortunately, she overestimated Galaxy Eye's bottom line. Once their propaganda war was over, the warships arrived.

The golden window for launching Aden was wasted.

The most crucial step occurred when the genocide reached its most intense stage.

Eva personally orchestrated a decapitation operation against the Galaxy Eye command chain, attempting to sever the snake's head as quickly as possible.

She personally led the team deep into enemy territory.

But the operation failed.

Galaxy Eye seemed to have anticipated her route, and its firepower pressed down in layers, severely damaging her core in an explosion.

The data modules suffered extensive damage, resulting in the loss of a large amount of memory.

It contains some of the most important parts: the exact location of Arden's burial site, and a wealth of underlying information about the core technology of the Tonatians.

All possible countermeasures were locked down at that moment.

This chain reaction, with each link connected to the next, ultimately led to the situation Ye Han was witnessing.

Arden lies quietly buried beneath Jupiter, slumbering for countless years.

Its creators were almost wiped out by the Galaxy Eye's slaughter, leaving only a pink robot who couldn't even remember who it was.

"Ye Han, I am deeply grateful. You helped me repair my core, regain my memories, and gave my people a chance to be resurrected. I will remember this kindness forever."

She raised her mechanical hand, and the armor plate in her palm automatically flipped open, revealing a silver metal plate no bigger than a fingernail.

"Keep this little thing. It contains our spatial containment technology. Put this chip into any mechanical life form, and it will have this ability."

"It's nothing valuable, but it might come in handy in a pinch. If you ever need the Tonati people's help in the future, just ask, and I'll bring Arden with me no matter how far away it is."

Ye Han reached out and took the chip.

Refusing would seem pretentious.

"I've accepted the gifts. If I need any help in the future, I won't hesitate to ask."

Queen Aiva nodded slightly, took two steps back, and stood back at the feet of Arden's enormous body.

"Well then, I should go too."

"I plan to find an energy planet uninhabited by intelligent life, rebuild the Tonatti civilization there, and awaken my people one by one from the data."

After saying that, she raised her hand and waved it gently in the direction of Yaden.

The massive head of the Arden mech lowered slightly, and a soft beam of traction light shone from its eyes, precisely enveloping Aiva's body.

Eva's body slowly rose within the beam of light and was drawn back into Aden's body.

As Aiva fully entered, the eye of the Arden Hollow finally lit up.

As Arden's figure shot into the sky through the gap, the shockwave he created swept up all the ice fragments and dust in the cavity and sent them flying into the air. The giant's tail flames drew an arc through Jupiter's gray-white icy clouds.