Chapter 236: A Fierce Assault

Good news, the Intelligent Machine Empress has been recruited.

Bad news, the Intelligent Machine Empress is an idiot.

The cost of reduced computing power is even greater than she imagined; the Intelligent Machine Empress could never have imagined how strategically capable she was back then, and how foolish she is now.

"Brother, can you pull this off?"

Yunxiao skeptically watched as 118 was signing the agreement with the Intelligent Machine Empress, her face full of disbelief; she had seen clearly how 118's left and right brains were competing back then.

She didn't want to go through all that trouble to set up a server just to raise a traitor.

The Federation's frontline situation is dire, funds are tight, and it's hardly easy to spare some from the already limited budget.

"Miss, I think... it should be fine."

118 looked at the innocent-looking Intelligent Machine Empress and nodded slightly.

"I think, given her intelligence, there's no way she could tamper with my agreement."

The Intelligent Machine Empress's eyes darted up and down as she looked at 118, showing utter foolishness, making anyone who saw her want to shake their head.

Yunxiao was speechless, covering her face with both hands, and she increasingly felt that her decision was wrong.

This is just too stupid!

"Fine, fine...."

"Now the main problem is, where are we supposed to get the money to build this server?"

Yunxiao wore a worried frown; as the Federation's Chief, she understood the current predicament all too well, but what troubled her most was not just this.

Even now, there are still traitors within humanity, but Yunxiao simply can't tell who they are.

"Where is my money... where did all my little money go!!!"

Yunxiao looked at the financial report and shouted in anger; 118, who hadn't handled paperwork in a long time, stepped forward, picked it up, glanced at it, and after the Logic Core pondered for two seconds, had an answer.

"Miss, are you worried about money?"

"Yeah, there's a traitor, and I just can't find them..."

118 put down the financial report, looked at Yunxiao with a blank expression, and spoke.

"It's not that complicated, Miss; I have an idea."

"Just find a rich person and rob them."

Yunxiao:?

"Huh?"

Yunxiao was stunned for a moment, then instantly realized, she understood!

In this era when the entire civilization is tightening its belts, yet a wealthy person appears out of nowhere—no matter how you look at it, something's off.

Yunxiao followed the trail of the wealthiest individual, investigated thoroughly, and basically everything matched; she instantly confirmed that person's background.

"Traitor! This is definitely a traitor!"

"I knew it—this is where my money went!"

Yunxiao raged in the Chief's office; 118 looked at her and shook his head helplessly.

If I were handling the paperwork, that little thing would have been rooted out by tomorrow—no need for all this trouble.

Yunxiao is still too immature.

Afterward, now that Yunxiao had the money, she built a server for the foolish Intelligent Machine Empress to let her self‑iterate; as for the five hundred thousand Mecha elite troops, she couldn't even dream of it.

Five hundred thousand? We don't even have fifty thousand! We're only holding on now thanks to the weapons Yunxiao, a Seventh Realm Machine Master, crafted; the Insect Disaster has already devoured an entire star system, and endless Insect Tides continue to accumulate.

Just how terrifying is the number of this Insect Tide? It's an unimaginable figure; the Insect Disaster capable of devouring planets will increase geometrically, and their advance will sweep away everything they can consume—that is the Insect Tide.

But the arrival of the Intelligent Machine Empress truly gave Yunxiao hope—an artificial black hole; as long as you have it, any number of insect swarms are no problem, but the premise is....

But the premise is that the Intelligent Machine Empress must be reliable!!!

Even after obtaining a high‑power server, the Intelligent Machine Empress remained a blithering idiot; after Yunxiao's remark she still protested, boasting about how powerful she used to be, how much computing power she had, how many machines she could command—until Yunxiao slapped her awake.

"If you don't work properly, I'll send you to the garbage dump to pick up trash!!!" Yunxiao's words almost scared the Intelligent Machine Empress to death; from then on she was terrified of the garbage dump, and whenever she heard she'd be thrown there she'd meekly comply—no trace of her former self remained.

"Miss, this is probably normal." You comfort Yunxiao.

"The Intelligent Machine Empress's former computing power could have controlled the entire machine population; this amount isn't even enough to fill a tooth gap." You look at the still‑foolish Intelligent Machine Empress, feeling utterly helpless inside.

But Yunxiao's breakthrough to Eighth Realm Machine Master is basically a distant prospect, with no end in sight, and the mess left by Old Yuan and Yunxiao's father's killer still has a huge impact to this day.

You must seize the black hole created by the Intelligent Machine Calamity by any means—that's the only slim chance of survival.

Yunxiao felt helpless, only able to keep building servers for the Intelligent Machine Empress; the foolish Empress had completely become Yunxiao's plaything, constantly bullied by the tyrant Yunxiao, and her days were no better.

On humanity's side, due to the ferocious advance of the heavenly disaster, they lost nearly two star systems in just two months, and the crisis is obvious.

Miss, according to my calculations, our front will collapse completely within four months; do you have confidence in advancing to Eighth Realm Machine Master within that time?

Yunxiao lay like a salted fish; although her chief's uniform was splendid, she lay on the desk with lifeless eyes.

"No...."

"If not, then we will face two choices ahead."

118 was conducting a professional‑style analysis, while the Intelligent Machine Empress in a maid outfit humbly fed Yunxiao fruit.

"First, the 'Far Voyage' plan I mentioned earlier must now be launched, no matter what."

"Second, we can't wait for the Insect Disaster and the machines to devour us completely; we need to take the initiative."

118 continued speaking.

Mobilize a hundred thousand Mecha elite troops, and we'll launch a fierce assault.

A fierce assault....

Yunxiao murmured, letting out a sigh.

She buried her face in her arms, and a muffled sound came from her mouth.

"Why did I have to take on this lousy job...."

Ah, there's nothing to be done, let's get the Far Voyage Plan underway first...

I'll go give a rallying speech later, I can only watch as they launch a fierce attack once...

118 watched Yunxiao rise lazily, and a feeling so familiar it couldn't be more familiar welled up inside the Logic Core.

How strange....

118 looked at their own hand, always feeling as if they had done something like this somewhere before....