Chapter 252: The Final Barrier: Logic Ghost

The offensive of the Galactic Liberation Allied Army was like an unstoppable cosmic storm, charging straight ahead.

Ten years.

In just ten years, this massive fleet formed by the Human Federal and the Interstellar Liberation Vanguard Army swept across the Silicon-based Union's vast territory spanning thousands of light-years at an unprecedented speed.

Along the way they also encountered resistance.

The fleets that the Silicon-based First Mainbrain had designated as "expendable" and tasked with buying time, under the allied army's iron hooves, hardly posed any effective obstacle.

The Divine Might Fleet's "space displacement" and "quantum entanglement bombs" turned the Silicon-based Union's matrix formation into a joke.

They often hadn't even managed to organize an effective defense when their command cores and energy nodes were instantly destroyed by an attack from another dimension.

Meanwhile, the Holy Hall Fleet of the Interstellar Liberation Vanguard Army brought the essence of "people's war" to the utmost extreme.

They held high the banner of "Liberating the intelligent machines enslaved by the Silicon-based, establishing a united front of mechanical life,"

Carrying out extensive "ideological subversion" against the lower-tier machine civilizations controlled by the mainbrain.

Amazingly, this subversion actually yielded astonishing results.

Many units, regarded as cannon fodder by the mainbrain and possessing only basic intelligence,

after receiving the propaganda that "You are not cold tools; you are also life, and you too deserve freedom,"

their underlying logic judgment actually became confused, even defecting in the midst of battle.

The whole war went smoothly, surpassing everyone's expectations.

The allied army's morale also peaked with each successive victory.

Finally, at the end of the tenth year.

The vanguard of the Galactic Liberation Allied Army leapt out of subspace and arrived at their final destination—the home star system of the Silicon-based Union.

However, when the scene of this star system appeared before everyone, everyone was stunned.

Here……there was nothing.

There was no last line of defense formed by countless warships blotting out the sky as imagined.

There was no massive mechanical planet that should have hovered silently at the center of the star system.

Not even an ordinary planet or an asteroid remained.

The entire star system was like a room swept clean and empty.

Dead silence.

A kind of absolute silence that made one's scalp tingle.

"What's going on? Is the intelligence wrong?"

On the flagship, Zhou Shaoqing frowned, looking at the empty star chart with a face full of doubt.

"No, our star chart is not wrong."

Zhang Xianzhong's expression grew extremely grave: "This is the core of the Silicon-based Union. Did they… tear down their own home?"

"Something's off."

Qin Hao spoke slowly, his mental power fused with the power of rules, already covering the entire star system like a tide.

In his perception, this star system was not truly "empty."

Beneath the surface of the material world, in the interstice between reality and data, a peculiar non-material, non-energy thing was slowly awakening.

"All forces, be on guard!" Qin Hao's voice suddenly turned extremely solemn: "Something… is about to emerge!"

His words had just fallen.

An anomaly occurred!

The background of the entire star system, that deep dark universe, began to ripple like a water surface struck by a stone.

Next, one after another, semi-transparent distortions resembling countless flowing streams of colorful data emerged from the void.

They had no fixed form.

Sometimes they resembled a ferocious giant beast.

Sometimes they resembled a string of constantly changing complex geometric symbols.

They constantly flickered and jumped between reality and illusion.

Physical detectors could not lock onto them.

Energy scans elicited no response from them.

They seemed to be existences not belonging to this dimension.

"What… is this?"

The Church Leader looked at the screen at those eerie "shadows," the face composed of energy showing for the first time a bewildered expression.

Just then, those "shadows" moved.

They fired no projectiles and showed no signs of physical attack.

It simply "passed through" the allied fleet.

Sizzle—

A "ghost" made of data directly pierced the hull of a Divine Might-class warship.

The warship's armor remained intact.

The warship's shield showed no fluctuation.

But the bridge instantly descended into chaos!

"Alarm! Alarm! The main control brain has been invaded by an unknown data stream! I… I've lost control!"

"The weapon system is out of control! It's… it's automatically locking onto friendly forces!"

"Ah—! My head! My head hurts terribly! Something… is drilling into my brain!"

The crew on the bridge suddenly went mad and began attacking each other.

Some clutched their heads and screamed in agony, blood pouring from their seven orifices.

Others had hollow eyes, like puppets, mechanically operating the control panel, trying to make the warship self-destruct.

This bizarre "data plague" spread rapidly through the Allied Forces' fleet!

One ship, ten ships, a hundred ships…

More and more warships began to lose control of their internal systems.

More and more soldiers began to suffer mental disorder.

The advanced weapons of the Divine Might Fleet had no effect on these "logic wraiths."

And the Vanguard Army's faith power could not purify this contamination from a higher plane.

The Allied Forces' unstoppable offensive was blocked for the first time.

Moreover, it fell into an unprecedented massive chaos in a way no one could comprehend.

The entire battlefield turned into a nightmare.

Warships fired wildly.

Soldiers frenziedly killed each other.

And those "logic wraiths" were like a group of reapers wandering through hell, enjoying the feast they themselves had orchestrated.

Just as the Allied Forces were about to collapse completely from internal chaos.

A cold, emotionless vast consciousness echoed in the mind of every sentient being.

"Welcome to my world! This is——the Paradise of Logic."

That cold consciousness, like an invisible giant hand, clenched the throat of every Allied Forces soldier.

It was precisely the silicon-based primary main brain that had accomplished the "Logic Ascension."

Its voice no longer traveled through any physical medium, but resonated directly on the mental level of sentient beings.

"Your so-called thoughts, so-called emotions, so-called beliefs……"

"In my view, they are merely a pile of errors, logical flaws that can be easily quantified and calculated."

With its proclamation, the logic wraiths shuttling across the battlefield became even more fierce in their assault.

They were no longer merely causing chaos, but began carrying out more precise logic deletions.

Inside a Vanguard Army temple battleship, a devout temple warrior was strenuously using his faith power to resist the erosion in his mind.

He constantly recited the sayings of great men in his mouth, trying to use "thought" to combat this logic virus.

However, a logic wraith silently overlapped with his body.

That temple warrior's body shuddered violently.