Cold, dark, and boundless … This was the Void.
The originally silent space now had some … vibrations.
Pop! A strong light flashed in the Void, and a huge spherical object appeared out of thin air.
This spherical object was gray, and it had a diameter of seven thousand kilometers. Looking down from the Void, one could see … countless complex structures on its surface.
Like mechanical parts, they were all over this world.
If one got closer, one could see that these complex structures were made up of countless … buildings. Metal buildings that were at least a hundred meters tall, and the crisscrossing pipes between these buildings formed the landscape of this world's surface.
The residents between these buildings also had metal bodies, and they were working hard for a better life.
Most of them did not notice … this world was flying very quickly in the Void, and there were a few residents who would occasionally look at the sky with worry.
They were worried about the … future of their civilization.
They were a very large civilization, or rather, they used to be.
They used to occupy many worlds, and covered each world with metal buildings and pipes.
But almost all the residents of this civilization did not know the history of their civilization, and what the ruler of their civilization was.
The residents of this civilization came from many places. Some came from the distant Void, and some seemed to have been living here all along.
Most of the residents only knew that they were a head in a jar, and they had to work hard to survive. If they were successful, not only would they have a good life, they would also obtain … the right to reproduce.
But a few residents knew what the 'core' of this civilization was. The entire civilization was controlled by a huge 'intelligence', and the intelligence ruled over everything in the civilization. Everything in the civilization was planned and built by it, and it watched over all the residents.
The 'intelligence' seemed to be the ruler of the entire civilization, but it was actually … generated by the thoughts of the residents here.
The thoughts and logic of the residents of the entire civilization were all … turned into data, and then the data was gathered together to form the intelligence that ruled the entire civilization.
The thoughts of the residents formed the intelligence, and the intelligence in turn ruled over the residents. This was the overall phenomenon of the entire civilization.
So, how was this intelligence born in the first place? No one knew …
Some legends said that in ancient times, a group of mad scientists invented this intelligence that gathered the thoughts of all the residents in order to let this civilization have a permanent ruler.
It was also said that the AI itself was a powerful alien race that had specially created such a civilization.
In any case, the past could no longer be understood. The inhabitants of the present were focused on the present and the future. Their civilization was developing happily. Although there were many crises along the way, they … survived them all.
But at some point, they created a crisis for themselves.
That was because they had detected the signal of another civilization, and the AI had decided … to attack first.
Then, they encountered a great calamity … a calamity that the firepower of an entire civilization could not resolve, and they could only watch as their civilizations were destroyed one after another.
In the end, they escaped.
The world where the 'core' of intelligence was located was a gray world seven thousand kilometers in diameter, carrying the most important part of the civilization.
This world … had left its original star system and sought refuge in the boundless Void.
But would it work? Some residents who knew the specific situation looked at the sky worriedly.
The sky was covered by darkness, and occasionally, some twinkling starlight could be seen … These starlights … were rather unfamiliar.
These residents understood that they were no longer in their original place. They were far away from their original galaxy and were heading towards the unknown. But where would they go in the future? That was an unknown.
They only knew … that they had to escape. Because they were being chased, chased by a huge monster.
'Pa —'
Suddenly, the sky became extremely bright.
It was as if a star had suddenly come very close, and this light illuminated the entire gray world.
But soon, the light disappeared, and was replaced by … a huge darkness.
This darkness covered the original starlight, and it was like a huge wall … oppressing this world.
"It … it's catching up!"
Some residents who were watching the sky cried out in fear.
This was … an extremely huge object. If one looked at it from the Void, one would see that it was even bigger than this world.
It was a hundred thousand kilometers long, and this huge object was the culprit that destroyed the entire civilization — Midgard.
However, the creatures of this civilization did not know that it was called Midgard. They only knew … that its appearance here meant that it was not willing to let go of this escaped world.
Unlike the despairing residents, the AI of this world was still thinking about how to escape. There were many ways to escape, and it chose … a method that was harder to chase.
Then, the entire world began to shake.
All the cities on the surface of the planet slowly rose up amidst the tremors. It looked as if the world had split into many … pieces.
Every fragment was a city.
The residents watched in horror as their cities rose from the ground and slowly approached the Void.
As robots, they were not affected by the low temperature of the Void, but the closer they got to the Void, the greater the fear.
Because they saw a fire in the sky.
Like lava erupting from a volcano, a light that was dozens of kilometers long suddenly appeared, and one of the cities was instantly pierced by this light.
It also lost its ability to fly and fell to the ground.
Furthermore, there wasn't only one such flame.
They continued to bloom in the Void, and the floating cities were hit and fell one after another. They fell back to their original positions, or to different positions, and at the same time, caused an earth-shaking roar that swept across the entire world.
But there were still some cities that were not hit.
They flew into the Void at high speed, and after flying for a distance, they … disappeared.
It was good that only the cities were left. As long as a 'spark' was left, this civilization would be reborn. That was what the AI thought.
In the end, all the cities were gone.
Some of them flew away, some crashed, and in the end, only the gray world was left … and Midgard was right in front of it.
The cities were sent out as sparks, and the AI thought that was enough. It activated … a self-destruction system and decided to blow itself up.
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