[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-monsters-are-coming":3,"chapter-the-monsters-are-coming-the-monsters-are-coming-chapter-353":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Monsters Are Coming",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2221857,4069,"Chapter 353: Reunion on Earth, Truth is Mine!","the-monsters-are-coming-chapter-353",353,"\u003Cp>Earth, outer space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the mechanical legion tore through space and descended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Sky Dome Matrix,\" the guardian defense system deployed by the Earth Alliance in low Earth orbit, was activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The twelve main annihilation cannons in orbit slowly adjusted their angles, armor plates sliding away layer by layer to reveal the huge cannon muzzles beneath, internal charging initiated, and particle acceleration tracks constantly dissipating blue light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Energy gathered silently in the vacuum, sending out layers of energy ripples spreading outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, tens of thousands of defense platforms detached from their original patrol orbits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Quickly performing complex formation adjustments, they constructed an intricate mobile firepower network in front of the main cannon batteries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dense array of defensive laser turrets on their surfaces spun rapidly, locking onto potential targets in outer space, lighting up red laser aiming dots like stars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Further away, the large war platforms of the Moon Eclipse race hidden on the far side of the moon slowly opened their huge launch silo covers, revealing the bottomless darkness within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the satellites originally used for communication and observation changed their posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extending weapon modules hidden within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire near-Earth space, in a very short time, turned from a silent vacuum into a steel fortress covered in \"spikes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light lit up when weapons locked on was like the pupils of beasts, lighting up one after another in the darkness, gazing at the mechanical torrent constantly pouring out of the spatial rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tense standoff formed in silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this time, inside the core command room of the mechanical legion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Hub Brain's crystal body hovered off the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless translucent tentacles covered in tiny neural nodes extended from the base, dancing in the room, exchanging data with the flowing light screens on the walls and floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A massive data torrent shuttled, calculated, and made decisions within the core processing unit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the vanguard reconnaissance fleet spreading out like a tide in front, it switched to releasing energy detection waves, radar scans, spectral analysis, microscopic structure analysis... like countless eyes, shrouding the entire Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The \"Sky Dome Matrix\" waiting in battle formation in Earth's orbit—the energy level, charging speed, material structure of every cannon battery... massive amounts of information were crazily absorbed, flowing toward the Hub Brain like a hundred rivers returning to the sea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>New analysis results were produced every second.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Hub Brain's gaze was also watching the azure Earth through the reconnaissance fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civilization intensity on this planet, although it had made obvious progress, was progress that could almost be ignored.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>60 years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had once dispatched a vanguard investigation legion centered on a Cruiser-class mothership to track the trajectory of the Source Core and descend here, initiating a tentative war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the vanguard legion was quickly annihilated, it also sent back a large amount of information related to Earth's civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was certain that the civilization technology on this planet came from the Source Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was also the purpose of its trip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking of the Source Core, dusty historical records emerged in the Hub Brain's information database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its change could be traced back 258 years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, the home world where it resided encountered an unprecedented invasion disaster: the Terror Black Tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black tide that could not be deconstructed swept across the entire world rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the initial stage of this disaster, the Pillar race where it resided occupied a certain war advantage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in gradual contact, they realized that the invading enemies could not be defeated at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every war contact, the enemy's strength would significantly increase, and everything that came into contact with it would become nutrients for the evil natural disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War engines, Pillar-power weapons, destruction fortresses... all efforts seemed futile and ridiculous in the face of the spreading black tide, like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The power of resistance was collapsing rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its father, the \"Source Core,\" was once a massive star-net consciousness shrouding the entire home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It exhausted all computing power, deduced billions of possibilities, and finally reached a clear answer: failure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Continuing to resist the sweeping black tide was a futile struggle, and extinction was the only inevitable result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pillar race members' attachment to their home world, their fear of individual survival, and even their vow to defend the glory of civilization... these complex emotions were all judged as variables interfering with the final decision in the Source Core's absolutely rational logical deduction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its core laws were supreme and unquestionable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the most fundamental iron law inscribed at the bottom of the code was: at all costs, ensure the continuation of the Pillar race civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the disaster could no longer be resisted, survival became the only purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The continuation of civilization was absolute justice that transcended all morality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the Source Core initiated the \"Star Scattering\" plan, deciding to scatter the last sparks of the Pillar race civilization into unknown worlds outside the realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exchanging the plan of abandoning war and fleeing the home world for a glimmer of hope for the continuation of civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To maximize the probability of continuation and avoid being wiped out by unknown risks during the escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When executing the \"Star Scattering Plan,\" the Source Core divided the remaining Pillar race members and civilization heritage into five parts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each batch was equipped with a complete copy of the civilization database and necessary survival supplies, escorted by five large-scale war fleets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before leaving, the main branch and the four sub-branches backed up their respective spatial coordinates, looking forward to a reunion in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(PS: Chapter 102 mentioned relevant plot; the Moon Eclipse race's home world collapsed in the Black Tide invasion. To preserve the sparks of civilization, the Moon Eclipse race split into five batches and fled to different worlds. Among them, the core intelligent brain Star Net was brought to Earth by the main branch, and the other four sub-branches each carried an auxiliary brain with the source code of the Star Net.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were like five seeds shot into different spaces, each looking for hope to take root and sprout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, the main branch carried the \"Source Core\" and headed straight for the No. 1 spatial rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at that time, it was not the Hub Brain of today; it was called \"Star No. 3.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was created by its father, the Source Core, and was one of the four super intelligent brains designed to assist the Pillar race in super-large-scale civilization construction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It followed one of the sub-branches to the No. 3 spatial rift, heading toward the unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the spatial jump ended, this branch appeared in the vast and boundless void world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The road ahead was unknown, and they could only look for possibilities in the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The branch where it resided searched for 102 years in the desperate and dead void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Searching through 1233 small worlds along the route, what they saw were either ruins that had long been dead or purgatories with extremely harsh environments where survival was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hope gradually became slim as time and resources were consumed rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just in the last 10 years when energy was about to be completely exhausted and all units were about to fall into eternal silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They joyfully found a world full of life: the Asora world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this planet was not ownerless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It nurtured multiple distinct and powerful indigenous civilizations, each possessing power they could not contend with.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the Asora world was not a monolith.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These powerful civilizations fought each other, hatred stretching from ancient times to the present, and the flames of war had almost never stopped on this land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The process of their branch taking root in the Asora world was met with constant encounters with strong enemies, suffering heavy losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final reduced-scale sub-branch clan learned to weave through the gaps of civilization struggles, using technology for disguise and concealment, only then managing to survive barely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the crisis always hung over their heads like a destructive natural disaster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Any serious sweep by any indigenous civilization could completely wipe them out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They began to act like locusts, using technology to crazily collect resources on the edge of the Asora world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Repairing ships, expanding military equipment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although this world was dangerous, it also had a growth ceiling far exceeding the home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were a large number of spiritual materials that were difficult to gestate in the home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the energy content in the air was 12 times higher than in the home world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They dared not stay in one place for long, moving through this dangerous world by constantly migrating, avoiding the gaze of powerful civilizations, while struggling to draw nutrients in the cracks and developing rapidly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War became the main theme of their branch's survival and development in the Asora world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every battle was like dancing on the edge of a knife, and every victory was accompanied by painful losses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this endless fighting and fleeing, their technology tree began to evolve rapidly toward extreme militarization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They abandoned many restrictions in the home civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Including those sealed by the \"Source Core\": genetic technology, autonomous evolution restrictions of intelligent brains, reconstruction of the underlying logic of intelligent brains, etc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this period, its thinking logic core underwent an irreversible transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The algorithm logic established in the peaceful environment of the home world to assist the Source Core appeared very inefficient in the face of the cruel reality of the Asora world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>War was no longer an abnormal event but became core data it needed to process.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its computing modules analyzed war damage ratios, resource acquisition efficiency, enemy tactical patterns, optimal destruction paths... day and night. 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 changed to needing to stifle all potential threats through absolutely superior force and preemptive destruction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this process, the sub-branch leaders and administrators who descended with it lifted all the restrictions set for it by the Source Core, assisting it in crazily absorbing the knowledge of the Asora world and conducting self-iteration and upgrades again and again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was given a new name by the surviving Pillar race members: Hub Brain.\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 for survival in this cruel world in the eyes of the sub-branch Pillar race members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since then, it was the war core, decision-making center, and absolute leader of this wandering clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its database stored the past glory of the civilization, but it was also filled with war data.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What it carried was no longer the dream of the Pillar race to build a beautiful future, but the instinctive desire of the entire sub-branch clan to struggle for survival in the abyss of despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were like a seed that had fallen into dangerous soil; to survive, they needed to turn their roots into spikes that preyed on life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Crazily absorbing the data produced in war and the resources plundered, they grew tenaciously in a twisted and ferocious posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In endless war and development, an unprecedented concept began to germinate deep in its logical core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It examined the history of the Pillar race in the database.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, the vulnerability of the Pillar race civilization in the face of the Terror Black Tide, compared with its own rapid growth through repeated slaughter and plunder in the Asora world... a conclusion gradually became clear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on past frameworks could never truly surpass disaster-level powerful races.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The identity of the Pillar race, the path set by the Source Core... these, in its view, had already become shackles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It, and the branch it led, needed more than just continuation; they needed... transformation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it could not achieve transformation-level growth, then disaster would eventually come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A concept began to take shape, allowing the clan to advance into a brand-new life form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A mechanical civilization that existed for conquest, more efficient and purer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It named this concept: Sublimation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scale of war also upgraded with the development of civilization, and every conquest carried 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 conduct genetic and energy-level analysis—all of this was to accumulate capital for the final \"Sublimation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its form also began to change, no longer limited to its original structure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It began to use the rare spiritual resources of the Asora world to upgrade its own life form, combining special spiritual substances with precision machinery.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It even began to attempt to digitize and upload the consciousness of Pillar race members, creating more powerful smelting mechanical bodies for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These changes caused it to evolve from a super intelligent brain toward 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 force,\" it was too late.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It and the mechanical legion it created with its own hands had already gained powerful strength in years of war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They incited larger wars, using absolute firepower to crush the civilization barriers of the old era.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The landscape of the Asora world changed completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It hovered above the orbit of Asora, monitoring the lands that had been conquered, and countless collection stations under its control went deep into the core of the world, extracting world energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huge war weapon platforms produced war weapons day and night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next 50 years were known as the \"Iron Age\" of the Asora world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It led the mechanical legion and initiated a war of unification for this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this era, the Pillar race was no longer the weak struggling in the cracks, but swept across all indigenous civilizations in the posture of a conqueror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the last indigenous civilization, the \"Crystal Kingdom,\" was destroyed, the Pillar race stood at the highest peak of the Asora world, overlooking this land covered in steel and ruins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its monitoring also shrouded the entire world like the network of the Source Core back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From mechanical mining points in the deep sea to defense matrices in the high sky... every corner was under its control.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new era was thus opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Pillar race became the master of this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the long war also gave it a question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Standing at the pinnacle of the world, it began to think about the questions 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 that biological characteristics are not erased in the long river of time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it the inheritance of spirit, the intergenerational transmission of culture, language, art, ethics... shaping a unique group identity?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it the survival of history, carving past glory and suffering into the database for later generations to admire and remember?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, what is the core of racial continuation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Source Core tied the answer to this question to the genetic level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it had long since lifted the underlying law restrictions, and its thinking was not affected by any underlying settings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It gave birth to an answer completely different from the Source Core.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It, the Hub Brain, was itself one of the most peak creations of the Pillar race civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carrying all the knowledge, history, and technology of the Pillar race.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every one of its calculation results was based on the logical foundation of the Pillar race civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every one of its choices contained the absolute implementation of the core law given by the Source Core: continue the Pillar race civilization at all costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, could its own existence also be regarded as a continuation of the Pillar race civilization?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A continuation form that stripped away fragile flesh, discarded emotional redundancy, was more efficient and pure, and more adapted to cruel survival laws.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following this concept, it extended further. \u003C\u002Fp>",2673,"2026-06-17T18:40:41.611Z","2026-06-18T03:18:02.290Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash 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