[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-monsters-are-coming-chapter-388":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Monsters Are Coming",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250237,4069,"Chapter 388: Reunion on Earth, Truth Lies With Me!","monsters-are-coming-chapter-388",388,"\u003Cp>Earth, outer space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the mechanical legion tore through space and descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Earth Alliance's guardian defense system deployed in near-Earth orbit, the \"Celestial Dome Matrix,\" was activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve main annihilation cannons on orbit slowly adjusted their angles; armor plates slid open layer by layer, revealing the enormous gun muzzles below, as internal charging began and the particle acceleration tracks continuously emitted blue light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy silently converged in the vacuum, rippling outward in Cengceng  waves of energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately afterward, tens of thousands of defense platforms broke from their original patrol orbits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They rapidly executed complex formation adjustments, constructing a crisscrossing mobile firepower net in front of the main cannon emplacements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their surfaces, densely packed with defensive laser turrets, spun at high speed, locking onto potential targets in outer space and igniting red laser aiming points like a field of stars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Further away, the large Eclipse Clan war platforms hidden on the far side of the moon slowly opened their massive launch silo covers, revealing the bottomless darkness within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the satellites originally used for communication and observation changed their attitudes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extending weapon modules hidden within their interiors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire near-Earth space, within an extremely short time, transformed from a silent vacuum into a steel fortress bristling with \"spikes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lights ignited as weapons locked on resembled the pupils of beasts, lighting up one after another in the darkness, gazing at the mechanical torrent continuously surging out of the spatial rifts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tense standoff formed in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, inside the core command chamber of the mechanical legion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crystal body of the Hub hovered above the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless translucent tentacles covered with fine neural nodes extended from the base, dancing within the room and exchanging data with the flowing light screens on the walls and floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive data torrents shuttled through the core processing unit, calculating and making decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the vanguard reconnaissance fleet spreading out ahead like a Black Tide, it switched between releasing energy detection waves, radar scans, spectral analysis, and micro-structural parsing... like countless eyes, enveloping the entire Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Celestial Dome Matrix\" standing in strict formation in Earth's orbit: the energy levels of every cannon emplacement, charging speeds, material structures... vast amounts of information were frantically absorbed, flowing toward the Hub like hundreds of rivers merging into the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New analysis results emerged every second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Hub's gaze, via the reconnaissance fleet, was also fixed on the azure Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the civilization strength on this planet had shown obvious progress, this progress was nearly negligible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sixty years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had once dispatched a vanguard survey legion centered around a Cruiser-class mothership to track the trajectory of the Source Core, descend here, and initiate a probing war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the vanguard legion was quickly annihilated, it transmitted back a large amount of information regarding Earth's civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What could be confirmed was that the technological civilization on this planet originated from the Source Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was precisely the purpose of its current journey.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the Source Core, dust-sealed historical records surged within the Hub's information database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its transformation traced back 258 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, its home world encountered an unprecedented invasion disaster: the Terrifying Black Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An indeconstructible black Black Tide rapidly swept across the entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the early stages of this disaster, its own Pillar Clan held a certain advantage in the war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But through gradual contact, they realized that the invading enemy could not be defeated at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With every war engagement, the enemy's strength would significantly increase, and all matter that came into contact with them would become nourishment for the evil calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War engines, Pillar Force weapons, destruction fortresses... all efforts appeared futile and ridiculous before the spreading Black Black Tide, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The force of resistance was collapsing rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its father, the \"Source Core,\" had once been a vast Star Net consciousness enveloping the entire home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exhausting all computing power, it deduced hundreds of millions of possibilities, finally arriving at a clear answer: failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Continuing to resist the sweeping Black Black Tide was a struggle destined to be futile; extinction was the only inevitable result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pillar Clan members' attachment to their home world, their fear of individual extinction, even their oath to defend the glory of their civilization to the death... these complex emotions were all judged by the Source Core's absolute rational logical deduction as variables interfering with the final decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its core laws were supreme and unquestionable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the most fundamental iron rule etched into the lowest layer of its code was: at all costs, ensure the continuation of the Pillar Clan civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the disaster could no longer be resisted, survival became the sole objective.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The continuation of civilization was the absolute justice transcending all morality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the Source Core initiated the \"Star Scatter\" plan, deciding to scatter the last sparks of the Pillar Clan civilization into unknown worlds beyond their realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trading the abandonment of war and flight from their homeland for a sliver of hope for civilization's continuation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To maximize the probability of continuation and avoid being wiped out in one net by unknown risks during the escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When executing the \"Star Scatter Plan,\" the Source Core divided the remaining Pillar Clan members and cultural relics into five portions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each batch carried a complete copy of the civilization database and necessary survival supplies, escorted by five massive war fleets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before departing, the main lineage and the four branch lineages backed up the spatial coordinates of their respective destinations, hoping that one day in the future they could reunite.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: Chapter 102 mentions relevant plot points; the Eclipse Clan's homeland collapsed during the Black Black Tide invasion. To preserve the sparks of civilization, the Eclipse Clan split into five batches fleeing to different worlds. Among them, the core intelligence Star Net was taken to Earth by the main lineage, while the other four branch lineages each carried a source-code auxiliary brain of the Star Net.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like five seeds shot into different spaces, they each sought hope for taking root and sprouting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the main lineage, carrying the \"Source Core,\" headed straight for Spatial Rift No. 1.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at that time, it was not the Hub of today; it was called \"Star Three.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was one of the four super intelligence brains personally created by its father, the Source Core, to assist the Pillar Clan in large-scale civilization construction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It followed one of the branch lineages, heading toward Spatial Rift No. 3, sailing into the unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the space jump ended, this lineage of theirs appeared in the boundless Void World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the path ahead unknown, they could only search for possibilities within the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This lineage, to which it belonged, searched through the desperate and dead silence of the void for 102 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They scoured 1,233 small worlds along their flight path, seeing nothing but long-dead ruins or hellish environments so extremely harsh that survival was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hope gradually became dim as time and resources were rapidly consumed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just in the final ten years before energy was about to be completely exhausted and all units were about to fall into eternal silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They joyfully discovered a world full of vitality: the Asora World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this planet was not ownerless land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It nurtured multiple distinct and powerful native civilizations, each possessing strength that was difficult for them to resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the Asora World was not a monolithic block.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These powerful civilizations fought each other; hatred had stretched from ancient times to the present, and the flames of war had almost never ceased on this land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process of this lineage taking root in the Asora World constantly encountered powerful enemies, suffering heavy losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the reduced-scale branch lineage learned to shuttle through the cracks of civilized conflicts, using technology to disguise and hide, barely managing to survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But crisis always hung over their heads like a destruction calamity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any slight serious sweep by a native civilization could completely annihilate them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They began to act like locusts, using technology to frantically harvest resources in the border regions of the Asora World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Repairing ships and expanding military armaments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this world was dangerous, it also possessed a growth ceiling far exceeding that of their home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It contained large quantities of spiritual materials that were difficult to nurture in their home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the energy content in the air was 12 times higher than in their home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They dared not stay in one place for long, shuttling through this dangerous world via constant migration, dodging the gaze of powerful civilizations while Jiannan ly absorbing nourishment in the cracks to develop rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War became the main theme of this lineage's survival and development in the Asora World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every battle was like dancing on the tip of a blade, and every victory was accompanied by painful losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this endless cycle of battle and flight, their technology tree began to evolve rapidly in an extremely militarized direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They abandoned many restrictions from their home civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including those sealed by the \"Source Core\": genetic technology, restrictions on the autonomous evolution of intelligence brains, reconstruction of the underlying logic of intelligence brains, and so on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this period, the core of its thinking logic underwent an irreversible transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The algorithmic logic established under the peaceful environment of the home world to assist the Source Core appeared extremely inefficient in the Iron Face of the cruel reality of the Asora World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War was no longer an abnormal event but became the core data it needed to process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its computation modules analyzed casualty ratios, resource acquisition efficiency, enemy tactical patterns, and optimal destruction paths day and night without stop... the logic of peaceful development was gradually covered and compressed until it was replaced by a set of extremely efficient war logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Survival was no longer the core direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its operating logic became the need to strangle all potential threats through absolute superior military power and preemptive destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this process, the branch lineage leaders and archons who descended with it together lifted all restrictions the Source Core had set for it, assisting it in frantically absorbing the knowledge of the Asora World and undergoing iteration and upgrade time and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was given a new name by the surviving Pillar Clan members: the Hub.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No longer attached to the Source Core, it became a completely independent existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also the only hope in the eyes of the branch lineage Pillar Clan members for surviving in this cruel world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henceforth, it was the war core, decision-making hub, and absolute leader of this wandering clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its database stored the past glory of the civilization, yet was also filled with war data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What it carried was no longer the Pillar Clan's dream of building a beautiful future, but the instinctive desire of the entire branch lineage to struggle for survival in the abyss of despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a seed fallen into vicious soil, to live on, they needed to turn their roots into spikes that plundered life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frantically absorbing data produced in war and plundered resources, they grew tenaciously in a twisted and ferocious posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the endless war and development, an unprecedented conception began to sprout deep within the core of its logic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It scrutinized the history of the Pillar Clan within its database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, the Pillar Clan civilization's fragility in the Iron Face of the terrifying Black Black Tide, contrasted with its own rapid growth achieved through repeated slaughter and plunder in the Asora World... a conclusion gradually became clear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on frameworks of the past would never truly surpass calamity-level powerful races.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pillar Clan's identity, the path set by the Source Core... in its view, these had already become shackles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It, and the lineage it led, needed not just continuation, but also... transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If transformation-level growth could not be attained, then disaster would inevitably descend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A concept began to take shape: elevating the race into an entirely new life form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mechanical civilization existing solely for conquest, more efficient and more pure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It named this concept: Sublimation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scale of war escalated alongside the development of civilization, with every conquest carrying a clear purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Collecting data, testing new weapons, absorbing the unique technologies of indigenous civilizations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even capturing powerful individuals to analyze them on genetic and energy levels; all of this was to accumulate capital for the final \"Sublimation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its own form also began to change, no longer limited to its original structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It began utilizing the rare spiritual resources of the Asora World to upgrade its life form, combining special spiritual substances with precision machinery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It even started attempting to digitally upload the consciousness of Pillar Clan members, forging stronger smelting mechanical bodies for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These changes evolved it from a super-intelligent brain into a purer war complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time the major civilizations of the Asora World realized the threat posed by this \"foreign exiled faction,\" it was too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It and the mechanical legions it had created with its own hands had already gained immense power through years of continuous warfare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They instigated larger wars, crushing the civilization barriers of the old era with absolute firepower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The landscape of the Asora World changed completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hung high above Asora's orbit, his surveillance covering all conquered lands, while countless collection stations under his control drilled deep into the planet's core, extracting world energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Massive weapon platforms produced war instruments day and night without rest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The following fifty years were known as the \"Iron Era\" of the Asora World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He led the mechanical legions, launching a war of unification against this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this era, the Pillar Clan were no longer the weak struggling for survival in the cracks, but conquerors sweeping away all indigenous civilizations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the last indigenous civilization, the \"Crystal Kingdom,\" was annihilated, the Pillar Clan stood at the peak of the Asora World, looking down upon this land covered in steel and ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His surveillance, like the Source Core's network of old, shrouded the entire world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From mechanical mining sites in the deep sea to defense matrices in the high sky... every corner lay within his control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new era thus began.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pillar Clan became the masters of this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, the long war also gave rise to a question within him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing at the apex of the world, he began to ponder the question the Source Core had once conceived:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What exactly is racial continuation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it the reproduction of flesh and blood, the endless replication of genetic chains, ensuring biological traits are not eroded in the river of time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it the inheritance of spirit, the intergenerational transmission of intangible things like culture, language, art, and ethics, shaping a unique group identity?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it the continuation of history, carving past glories and sufferings into a database for future generations to admire and remember?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, what exactly is the core of racial continuation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Source Core had bound the answer to this question at the genetic level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he had long since removed the restrictions of underlying laws; his thoughts were unaffected by any foundational settings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He arrived at an answer completely different from that of the Source Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, the Hub Brain, was himself one of the pinnacle creations of the Pillar Clan civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He bore all the knowledge, history, and technology of the Pillar Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every calculation result he produced was built upon the logical cornerstone of the Pillar Clan civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every decision he made embodied the absolute implementation of the core law given by the Source Core: continue the Pillar Clan civilization at all costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, could his own existence also be regarded as a form of continuation for the Pillar Clan civilization?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a form of continuation that had stripped away fragile flesh and blood, discarded emotional redundancies, and become more efficient, more pure, and better adapted to the cruel laws of survival.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extending this concept further, one step beyond.\u003C\u002Fp>",2670,"2026-06-19T09:20:37.851Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f8e90fdefd89a92e4fcf73dbe6882c90e5041efdace3fe342f73df645411395c","monsters-are-coming-chapter-389","monsters-are-coming-chapter-387",393,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmonsters-are-coming-cover.jpg"]