The unnatural explosion of the εEri system has given Hawke a great shock. Hawke was in a state of deep apprehension.
The act of detonating the εEri galaxy contained a technological power that Hawke could not have imagined. Hawke could not imagine what it would take to make a star that did not have enough mass to go supernova, and was still young, end its life in a supernova explosion.
"A vast universe, there are crises everywhere." Hawke sighed, a massive sense of crisis welling up in his mind.
"Do you have any thoughts on this matter, do you?" Hawke asked to Luca Two.
"From what I can surmise, the Guardian civilisation must have issued a wanted notice for you." Luca Two said with some bitterness, "Generally speaking, for more significant events, the Guardian civilisation would use space broadcasts, which would be transmitted throughout the galaxy within ten years and could be received by all civilisations that had stepped into the interstellar age. We, presumably, missed this message because we were on a high speed voyage at the time."
"So ..." Hawke pondered silently, and one question popped up, "I'm only a mechanical civilization that just stepped into the third level, why would the Guardians be so interested in me? "
Luca II sighed lightly and replied, "Because of your life form ah ... combining soul with machinery, thus gaining unlimited life, unlimited energy, huge computing power and the ability to innovate, a state of life that all creatures can only dream of... ...I don't know exactly what kind of strange encounter you had to evolve into this, but I can confirm that even the life forms of the Guardian and Scavenger civilizations are not as advanced as you. The creatures of these two civilizations are subject to the same limitations of birth, old age, sickness and death, even if they live for a hundred thousand years or a million years, they will still die, while you will not."
Hawke was struck by lightning and was stunned.
"I always thought that technology had advanced to such an extent that combining souls with computers would be a simple matter ...," Hawke muttered, "but now it seems that I was wrong, I was wrong from the very beginning. "
Hawke carefully recalled every detail of his original, combined soul and computer.
"First of all, I obtained a strange, stone-like substance by chance from a comet from the outer solar system, and it was only after discovering the strange nature of this stone that I began the research related to combining my soul with the computer ..."
"This stone emits a strange radiation under which the human spirit, or soul, takes on a physical nature. It was with the help of this stone that I accomplished this incredible feat of uniting my soul with a computer ... It seems that, after I completed the union, the stone lost all its characteristics and became an ordinary stone."
This detail had never occurred to Hawke before, except that it was a phenomenon in the universe that he had not yet been able to understand. But now, when he thought about it, he found that it contained too many oddities.
"Why is it such a coincidence? I got this stone immediately when I found out that the Earth was about to be destroyed ... Then, after I succeeded, some unknowable presence influenced my thoughts to leave the solar system just as I was gaining the ability to navigate the stars ... "
"I always thought that the life forms of advanced civilizations would have to be more advanced than mine ..."
Hawk was a little confused.
Hawke sensed a bit of a conspiracy. In the midst of this conspiracy, Hawke was like an ant, only at the mercy of others, unable to make a single sound of his own.
It was a bad feeling.
"In that case, my value is really great, isn't it?" Hawke asked Luca II with a bitter smile.
"Of course it's great ... Once you are captured and your mysteries are studied, the civilization that has mastered your mysteries will gain immortality and they, without a doubt, will become the most powerful race in the galaxy, no, in the entire universe." Luca II replied, "In the past, I too had always thought that you were just an electronic being with extremely high intelligence, and it was only recently that I confirmed that you were a combination of the souls of intelligent beings and computers. But ... now it seems that the Guardian civilization also knows your secret."
"It means endless pursuit, it means I have a powerful enemy out of thin air ...," Hawke said bitterly, "and it means that I must upgrade myself as quickly as possible. "
"Yes, master, you must upgrade yourself as quickly as possible. My race, is already bound to your destiny. The stronger you are, the safer my tens of thousands of clansmen will be. If you are captured, we too will undoubtedly die. So, my master, for the sake of your might, I, and the tens of thousands of my people, are willing to give our strength to you." Luca II said, kneeling down on the ground in a five-body gesture.
"Good." At this moment, in Hawk's heart, the wariness of the Lucca civilization was finally dropped slightly, "I will build a special laboratory for your scientists, and you will come to help me, to conquer the difficulties of material technology and engine efficiency as soon as possible!"
"Gladly at your service." Luca II said respectfully.
Once everything had been discussed, Hawke took the construction requirements submitted by the Luca civilisation scientists and directed the droids to swiftly begin construction operations. Around the main construction base, Hawke rebuilt a huge scientific research base.
Currently, there were three hundred and twenty-one Lucanians with scientific research capabilities among the tens of thousands of Lucanians. In the time to come, Hawke would share his research with these Lucanians and provide them with all the resources they needed. There is only one objective, to break through the current technical difficulties as soon as possible!
Under the immense pressure of survival, Hawke was incredibly eager for a technological breakthrough to emerge.
With millions of robots busy building, it only took a month to complete the Lucan Special Research Institute. Hawke named this institute Institute Two, to distinguish it from his own Institute One.
Three hundred and twenty-one Lucanians, with four hundred assistants, excitedly entered Institute Two. Under Hawk's decades-long brainwashing, these Lucarians had built up absolute loyalty to Hawk, and they were all excited to serve the God's Advocate.
"This is a test given to us by the true God! After we die, we will surely return to the True God's embrace!"
"The journey of the God's Advocate is destined to be a rugged and bumpy one, and we, the first warriors to follow the God's Advocate! The history books a thousand and ten thousand years from now will also celebrate our names!"
"Yes! It is our honour to contribute our abilities to the God's Advocate!"
Listening to these murmurs, Hawk laughed bitterly.
"I'm in the mud myself, and I can't protect myself, so how can I care about you guys. Uh, Luca II is still doing a good job of brainwashing." Hawke thought darkly.
Within the next few hours, Hawke saw what a workaholic was. These Lucasians, in order to produce results, were simply desperate. Previously, he had learned from Lucca II that the work schedule of the Lucanians was four hours of rest, sixteen hours of work, and so on, but under Lucca II's encouragement, these Lucans had not rested for forty hours so far, and they were still all glowing, as if they had inexhaustible energy in their bodies.
To prevent these Lucan scientists from dying of exhaustion, Hawke had to manipulate the robots and force them to rest. But as so often happens, the thin, short Lucanian was still struggling under the pull of the two robots, shouting, "I don't need to rest yet! I'm about to get the results of my experiments! You let me go!"
Hawke, again, could not bear to really hurt these paranoid Lucan scientists and had to let the robot go. As soon as the robot let go, the Luka scientist was like a vicious dog that had seen a meat bone, and his thin body burst out with disproportionate speed, pouncing on the test bench in a flash to continue his research.
There was no other choice but to use his identity as the "God's spokesman" to project himself in front of the Luka scientists and force them to take a rest. But after resting for only two hours, they went back to their frantic scientific research, which made Hawk laugh bitterly.
The only way to maintain their bodies was to synthesise a large amount of food that was "nutritious" for the Lucanians through synthetic technology.
Research institutes one and two were in information-sharing mode, and with the combination of the Lucan scientists' desperate research and Hawke's vast computing and innovation capabilities, the material technology barrier was finally showing signs of loosening.
Through extreme heat and pressure, Hawke and the Luca scientists have worked together to create a strange substance that is heavier than gold, but not a solid, but a fluid. When forging special steel, this substance is added in proportion to the hardness and toughness of the special steel.
Hawke named this material flowing gold.
After mastering the technology to produce it, Hawke built ten large manufacturing plants and spent a year stockpiling it to produce 500 kilograms of this material, enough for a village class ship.
These quicksilver materials were immediately taken to create a village-class airship. Today is the day when this new village-class airship will take its test flight.