Chapter 103: Eclipse City Moon Eclipse Meeting (Requesting Monthly Votes)

Moon, Eclipse City.

In a room on the top floor of a skyscraper standing in the city's core district.

The senators and archons representing the supreme power of the Eclipse Clan passed the biometric scan of the door, confirmed their identity information, and entered the Supreme Council Chamber.

The council chamber covered 500 square meters; the ceiling was inlaid with automatically adjusting lights capable of modulating brightness and color temperature according to changes in indoor and outdoor lighting to create the most comfortable meeting atmosphere. The interior walls consisted of high-definition holographic screens that could switch backgrounds and content in real time according to meeting needs; at this moment, they displayed a set of dynamically changing data analysis charts.

In the center of the council chamber stood a ring-shaped conference table with an empty center and eighteen black chairs arranged along the edge.

In front of each chair was a projection display area connected to the supercomputer "Star Net."

After the highest-ranking members of the Eclipse Clan took their seats one after another, light and shadow interwove in the center of the conference table, forming the figure of a cute young Eclipse Clan boy.

This was precisely the wisdom core of the Eclipse Clan and the overseer of Eclipse Clan order, the supercomputer "Star Net."

Seeing Star Net appear, the eighteen attending Eclipse Clan members all rose to bow in greeting to Star Net.

Although Star Net was a supercomputer and not a pure lifeform.

Its appearance had allowed the Eclipse Clan to completely break free from endless internal strife and usher in an unprecedented era of development.

Including their elders and predecessors, all had governed with the assistance of the supercomputer, contributing their strength together to the development of the Eclipse Clan.

"Good morning, Archons," Star Net said, smiling and bowing in response.

Once everyone was seated, Star Net's expression suddenly turned solemn:

"The reason for convening this meeting is likely already known to you all; let me explain the situation in detail."

As the words fell, Star Net raised a hand and pointed toward the sky.

Instantly, interwoven light screens formed a three-dimensional projection above Star Net's head, showing an explorer aircraft speeding across a glacier.

Before long, the explorer aircraft suddenly hovered in midair, then released countless small drones that flew toward the sky.

The projection screen also split into several sections at this moment, presenting the scene from different angles.

Eventually, the small drones hovered before a pitch-black spatial rift, and relevant parameters floated onto the screen accordingly.

Star Net extended a finger, pointing at the black spatial rift, and introduced:

"This twisted spatial rift has a length of 0.723 Moon Units (1.34 centimeters) and a width of 0.323 Moon Units; the maximum amplitude of its twisting fluctuation is 18.23%, and the detected energy intensity is: 23 Moon Particles."

"I extracted indicator information from the database for judgment and conclude there is an 87.82% probability that this is a spatial rift created by the Terrifying Black Black Tide."

"You were all born on the moon, so perhaps you do not understand what this means."

Speaking thus, Star Net raised a hand and pointed again; instantly, the scene shifted to a world shrouded in starlight, where a massive city stood upon the land, enveloped by an energy barrier:

"This is footage from before the calamity descended, recorded in the database."

Pulling the view upward toward the sky above the city, one could see a mass of pitch-black substance expanding and spreading.

"This is a spatial rift that appeared before the Black Black Tide descended; other similar rifts also appeared at other locations in our homeland world."

The scene switched rapidly, displaying images of regions where spatial rifts had appeared.

"By comparing these cases, I found that the spatial rifts on Earth closely match the characteristics of the Terrifying Black Black Tide and are entirely different from the patterns used by other races to tear through space and arrive."

"The spatial gaps created by other races before their descent appear in a folded or torn manner; one can observe clear scenes of another world through the rift. During this process, the spatial rift fluctuates violently, and the operating world automatically repairs this spatial gap. This process is like a lifeform's innate healing ability, just as wounds on the body are erased as the organism functions."

"However, the spatial rifts created by the Terrifying Black Black Tide behave completely differently; they are like a mass of extraneous matter squeezed into the original scene, and one cannot observe the scene on the other side of space through this mass of spatial matter."

"It can be understood that other powers master space-jump technology, while the Terrifying Black Black Tide masters the technology of constructing spatial channels. This mass of pitch-black energy is the core substance constituting the spatial channel. Comparing the two, there is a significant difference: a stable spatial channel allows the Terrifying Black Black Tide to continuously pour strength into another world, with no possibility of the world self-repairing it; it is a permanent wound to the world."

Star Net took a deep breath in a very human-like manner:

"In summary, Archons, the terrifying disaster your ancestors once faced may be approaching soon; we must make advance preparations to deal with it."

Hearing Star Net's analysis and explanation, the expressions of the high-ranking Eclipse Clan members present all became extremely grave.

They would not doubt Star Net's judgment.

In fact, Star Net's judgments had never been wrong; they managed the Eclipse Clan by selecting and executing plans provided by the supercomputer.

Including the series of layouts after descending to Earth, all were arranged by Star Net.

Before their ancestors were completely swallowed by the Terrifying Black Black Tide in their homeland world, they split into five batches, crossed the world barrier separately, and headed to different worlds.

Among them, the main lineage carrying the supercomputer Star Net descended upon Earth; these are the direct ancestors of our generation.

In the initial stage after descent, the Human Race Alliance on Earth was engaged in a fierce war with the "Crimson Flame Clan."

Through observation and understanding, they discovered that the human race on Earth were the native inhabitants of this planet, while the Crimson Flame Clan was an extra-territorial power that had descended just like them.

After learning the details of Earth, the highest leadership of the Eclipse Clan governing at that time proposed a transformation plan.

The core of this plan was to destroy all civilizations on Earth and transform Earth's environment and climate into a living space suitable for the Eclipse Clan, after which the Eclipse Clan would use Earth as a starting point to begin a new era of development.

This was because the Eclipse Clan discovered that whether it was the native human race on Earth or the Crimson Flame Clan that had descended to invade, the combat strength and technology they mastered could not contend with the Eclipse Clan.

Theoretically, they could completely monopolize Earth's resources without needing to share them with other intelligent races.

But this idea was rejected by the supercomputer Star Net, which provided an explanation.

Star Net stated that besides the human race and the Crimson Sky Clan, there were multiple spatial rifts currently tearing open on Earth, making it very likely that other racial powers would descend. If the Eclipse Clan initiated a war to monopolize Earth, it would eventually evolve into a war between the Eclipse Clan and numerous descending powers. Every alien descent would become a war, which would be highly detrimental to the development of the Eclipse Clan.

The war against the Terrifying Black Black Tide had already exhausted the Eclipse Clan's foundation; continuing to wage war would only cause the Eclipse Clan's development to stagnate, and they might even Iron Face the crisis of extinction again upon encountering powerful descending powers.

Therefore, the idea of monopolizing Earth carried the risk of plunging the Eclipse Clan into a quagmire of war.

The most correct approach should be to unite the strengths of all races, develop together, and provide an intuitive alliance template for future alien races that descend.

Then, continuously absorb and accommodate new alien systems into this alliance.

In this way, Earth could avoid falling into endless war, allowing all races to coexist harmoniously and achieve win-win development.

Secondly, the Terrifying Black Black Tide might descend again, so the Eclipse Clan must make preparations to deal with it; the novel technologies brought by other alien races could also provide assistance for combat strength construction.

Facing the suggestions proposed by Star Net, the warlike thoughts of the Eclipse Clan high command to monopolize Earth were extinguished; they chose to build an alien alliance according to Star Net's requirements, taking stability, harmony, and development as their core concepts.

At that time, Earth was plunged into chaos.

As the first alien power to descend to Earth, the Eclipse Clan selected the vacant moon as their development base.

This action also led the Earth Alliance powers of that time to name them the "Eclipse Clan," which translates to "the race that erodes the moon."

The Eclipse Clan, who had established a base on the moon at that time, in order to execute the plan proposed by Star Net, issued invitations to the human race and the Crimson Flame Clan to hold negotiations on the moon.

The goal of these negotiations was to hope that the human race and the Crimson Flame Clan would shake hands and make peace, abandoning the war.

The Human Race Alliance agreed to the Eclipse Clan's request during this meeting.

But this request was rejected by the Crimson Flame Clan.

Unlike the situation of the Eclipse Clan, when the Crimson Flame Clan, who had fled as refugees to Earth, crossed the spatial barrier, technical flaws caused the loss of a large amount of their technical data, and nearly half of their clansmen were swallowed by the twisted spatial channel.

After descending to Earth, their situation was extremely dire.

Upon discovering that Earth's civilization could not contend with them, the high command of the Crimson Flame Clan had the same idea as the Eclipse Clan high command upon their initial descent: to monopolize Earth.

To this end, they exhausted their last remaining resources and erupted into war with the human race on Earth.

(PS: The Crimson Flame Clan was briefly mentioned in Chapter 8.)

But even the Crimson Flame Clan, trapped in a predicament, was not something the Human Race Alliance could contend with; the war showed a one-sided trend.

Facing imminent victory, the Crimson Flame Clan was unwilling to accept peace talks and wanted to press their advantage to exterminate the human race completely.

The Crimson Flame Clan's choice of war ran counter to the racial alliance the Eclipse Clan was preparing to build next, so the Eclipse Clan took action.

They did not directly participate in the war but instead assisted the human race in fighting the Crimson Flame Clan by providing technology and war machines.

The fierce war ultimately ended with the victory of the Human Race Alliance.

Thus, the human race became the first alien partner of the Eclipse Clan.

The Human Race Alliance also reorganized its political system during the years of peaceful development, changing to the Human Federation.

During this period, the Eclipse Clan provided the Human Federation with a large amount of novel technological knowledge, helping the human race improve their technology; the development of the human race ushered in an explosive leap forward.

Since then, new alien powers have continuously descended and joined the alien alliance formed by the Eclipse Clan.

But among them, there were also powers unwilling to cooperate.

For example, the Mechanical Clan.

After this alien power descended to Earth, the Human Federation once again fell into a period of dark years, known in human history as the "Mechanical War."

In this battle, the Eclipse Clan still did not participate in the fighting, instead helping the human race by providing technology and weapons; during this time, many descending powers from the alien alliance also lent their aid, fighting the Mechanical Clan alongside the Human Federation in local regions.

The fierce war ultimately ended with the complete destruction of the mechanical legions.

This battle also greatly weakened the Human Federation, causing a sharp decline in population.

In order to ensure the cooperative and orderly development of the alien alliance.

After the Mechanical War ended, the Eclipse Clan proposed the construction of a new technology requiring the joint participation of all powers in the alien alliance, with the goal of creating a network world interconnected for the entire race to facilitate communication and technology exchange.

Since this interconnection technology was constructed with the Eclipse Clan's supreme supercomputer as its core, it was also called the Star Net Network.

Thus, the Star Net Era arrived.

Following this came the descent of the Virtual Era, with virtual equipment and virtual content gradually entering thousands of households.

The alien alliance initiated and formed by the Eclipse Clan also brought a precious period of peaceful development to the Eclipse Clan; the technologies provided by alien races also allowed the Eclipse Clan to achieve substantial breakthroughs and progress in many new fields.

History has proven that Star Net can always find the optimal choice for the Eclipse Clan within limited conditions.

At this moment, hearing Star Net say that the Terrifying Black Black Tide was highly likely to arrive, the hearts of the Eclipse Clan high command instantly tightened; they knew Star Net's judgments were never wrong.

An 87.82% probability was already extremely high; the Eclipse Clan must make war preparations in advance to resist the sweeping surge of the Terrifying Black Black Tide.

Just then, Star Net spoke, interrupting the thoughts of the Eclipse Clan high command present:

"I wish to know, if war arrives, which method would you all choose to deal with it? Speak your views."

Facing Star Net's inquiry, the Archon sitting in the first seat said in a deep voice:

"Can we find a safe new world in advance, so that when the crisis arrives, our race can flee as refugees to another world not infiltrated by the Terrifying Black Black Tide?"

Hearing this answer, a human-like expression of helplessness appeared on Star Net's Iron Face:

"In fact, I already executed your idea 213 years ago; I need to consider potential risks and crises in advance, so I hypothesized very early on that when the Terrifying Black Black Tide or a crisis our race cannot resist descends, whether our race could find a retreat path for evacuation."

"After 213 years of exploration, a total of 13,293 shuttle craft disconnected from me, yet I have still been unable to find a clean world not infiltrated by Black Black Tide powers."

"Therefore, your idea is not feasible."

Hearing the Star Net's explanation, the group of high-ranking Erosion Clan members fell silent.

Just then, an Erosion Clan member seated in the number five Archon position spoke up:

"I propose we focus on developing gene enhancement technology to counter the terrifying Black Black Tide. I recall you once said our clan's peak technology was genetic modification, but after descending to Earth, resource shortages prevented the core content of this technology from ever being activated."

The Star Net turned to look at the speaking Archon, sighing and shaking its head in regret:

"Genetic modification technology can indeed be called our clan's peak technology; it brought us many powerful warriors who, relying solely on their flesh and blood, could withstand technological thermal weapons and dismantle steel fortresses with bare hands. However, the reason the core content of this technology was sealed away was not only due to resource shortages but also because of an unsolvable critical flaw."

Facing the confusion cast by the group of Archons, the Star Net continued to explain:

"The reason is simple: the continuous upgrades brought by gene optimization technology caused Erosion Clan warriors to grow through a form of genetic mutation. The constantly optimized gene sequences turned the outstanding among them into a new life form surpassing the Erosion Clan itself."

Speaking thus, the Star Net raised a hand and pointed; instantly, a holographic image materialized, showing an Erosion Clan giant five meters tall with muscles taut throughout his body.

"He is Super Gene Warrior designation SS111, the strongest gene warrior created by our clan's gene optimization technology. Possessing powerful life regeneration capabilities, ultra-high-density bone and muscle tissues, and ripple-resistant skin capable of withstanding thermal weapons... he can even become strong enough to fight in environments of extreme radiation. Yet, he is not recognized by me as an Erosion Clan member; the moment he appeared, his identity code was excluded from the Erosion Clan registration database."

Speaking thus, the Star Net took a deep breath:

"Because he is no longer an Erosion Clan member in the physical sense."

"Before my birth, my underlying operational laws contained a segment of information: the gene sequence codes of all Erosion Clan members. This is my sole criterion for judging who is an Erosion Clan member."

"You must understand that the Erosion Clan members in my eyes are not distinguished by names, appearances, or spiritual self-identification, nor are they deemed Erosion Clan members simply by a string of identity verification codes in a database. This verification is a highly abstract concept. If merely having a name and self-identity were enough to be considered an Erosion Clan member, then could an alien race mentally identify as Erosion Clan, join our group, and alter their appearance to gain your approval, thereby also counting as Erosion Clan?"

"To prevent the possibility of the Erosion Clan being gradually infiltrated and replaced by other forces, my creator set my underlying logic before my birth on how to distinguish Erosion Clan members. The key to this underlying logic is the gene sequence library."

"Therefore, the Erosion Clan members in my eyes are judged by their gene sequences."

"The halt in the development of this powerful gene modification technology did not occur after we fled and descended to Earth, but during the Erosion Clan's most peak period, before the terrifying Black Black Tide had even descended."

"Excessive gene optimization and modification made my clan's gene warriors appear increasingly unfamiliar in my eyes, gradually drifting away from my certification of the Erosion Clan. This led to situations where war weapons I controlled caused collateral damage during conflicts, because their existence violated my underlying logical laws, rendering them unidentifiable as Erosion Clan members during warfare."

"Judging by cognitive logic, they are Erosion Clan members in my eyes, merely having undergone genetic modification resulting in mutation. But judging by the underlying logical laws, they are not Erosion Clan members, because their gene sequences do not match those of the Erosion Clan."

"The emergence of Super Gene Warrior SS111 completely shattered the final taboo of gene sequence certification. Thus, from the moment of his birth, he was kicked out of the Erosion Clan identity verification database. In my eyes, he became a brand-new life form. He may be an ally of the Erosion Clan, but he is absolutely not an Erosion Clan member in my eyes, nor can he enjoy the informational privileges I grant to Erosion Clan members."

Speaking thus, the Star Net swept its gaze across the high-ranking officials in the conference room and, in a very human-like gesture, spread its hands and sighed:

"Excessive genetic modification will alter your life structure. Perhaps in your eyes this is a process of life evolution with no issues, but uniquely, in terms of life structure, you would no longer be Erosion Clan members. And this is precisely my core standard for judging Erosion Clan members."

"If one day, all Erosion Clan members were modified into Super Gene Warriors like SS111, then theoretically, none of you would receive my approval. You would all be kicked out of the Erosion Clan identity verification database. At that point, the Erosion Clan in my eyes would be completely extinct."

"This rule cannot be changed; it is my underlying operational logic... unless that unknown mysterious power intervenes once again."

"Therefore, the proposal to restart genetic modification is not feasible. I can only release basic gene modification technology, but to ensure the continuation of the Erosion Clan race, I will not release the core content to you."

Hearing the Star Net's explanation, the high-ranking Erosion Clan members present immediately understood the severity of genetic modification.

They also realized why the Star Net had always kept gene modification technology sealed.

In their eyes, super genetic modification was a process of life transformation, but in the Star Net's eyes, it was a process leading the Erosion Clan toward extinction.

Every additional Super Gene Warrior like SS111 was equivalent to one Erosion Clan member being killed.

And one of the Star Net's core underlying logics was to guarantee the development and safety of the Erosion Clan.

Realizing that restarting the Super Gene Warrior project was not feasible, the group of high-ranking Erosion Clan members present subsequently proposed numerous combat plans to deal with the terrifying Black Black Tide.

However, the Star Net shook its head and rejected all these plans, believing there was no possibility of defeating the terrifying Black Black Tide.

Among them, a few plans might resist the initial stage of the terrifying Black Black Tide's invasion, but ultimately, a doomsday moment would still arrive on some future day.

The communication with the Star Net made the group of high-ranking Erosion Clan members present feel unprecedented pressure.

An indescribable sense of fear surged in the depths of their hearts.

Born on the moon, they had never experienced the natural disaster of the Black Black Tide running rampant.

Yet, they could learn about that ancient history from the database carried by the Star Net.

The war between the Erosion Clan before their flight and the terrifying Black Black Tide showed that even when the Erosion Clan exhausted all clan resources to resist, they were still no match; the trend of the war was completely one-sided.

During that time, the intensity of the terrifying Black Black Tide constantly escalated in the war, whereas conversely, the Erosion Clan's resistance grew weaker and weaker.

To use the Star Net's explanation: this was not a war, but a massacre.

Although they had already established a firm foothold on the moon and built the Alien Alliance, becoming the undisputed strongest force in the alliance in the eyes of most alien powers,

they knew even more clearly that the comprehensive combat power of the current-stage Erosion Clan was far inferior to that of the peak Erosion Clan before encountering the terrifying Black Black Tide.

In their view, this war seemed to hold no hope of victory whatsoever.

The conference room fell silent; the high-ranking Erosion Clan members present felt their hearts turn to ash.

The crisis had already appeared, yet they could think of no countermeasure, as if waiting for the doomsday to descend was the only path left.

Just then, a scarlet flame manifested out of thin air above the Star Net's virtual projection.

The sudden change caused the high-ranking Erosion Clan members present to change color instantly.

This was the Erosion Clan's supreme conference room; they could not comprehend how this external force could penetrate inside.

The conference room was equipped with layers of defense, the entire Erosion Building was tightly protected by weapon fortresses, and coupled with the city barrier shrouding Erosion City—they could not understand why, without receiving any intelligence feedback of an attack, an external force could silently pass through multiple defenses to enter the conference room.

More importantly, the Star Net had not even activated the conference room's defense systems to counterattack.

Just then, a humanoid silhouette emerged from within the scarlet flame.

An indescribable sense of oppression descended like dark clouds, causing the high-ranking Erosion Clan members present to nearly suffocate, as if the air itself had solidified in that instant.

The blurred double eyes floating within the scarlet flame gazed like an abyss, generating an uncontrollable fear within them, as if their souls were tightly bound by invisible chains, unable to break free.

As the silhouette within the scarlet flame became clear, a voice carrying endless majesty resonated from the depths of their hearts, seeming to communicate directly with their souls.

"It seems you need help."

11,500 words, complete, seeking monthly tickets.

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