"I knew it!!!"
"I knew it! The central AI wouldn't abandon us! As expected, the AI must be demonstrating its newly developed wormhole technology to the entire Octopus race!"
"..."
Many Octopuses in the Upper Level District stared at the massive Star Gate with bewilderment, but even more of them let out a long sigh of relief.
In any case, the situation wasn't the worst-case scenario they had envisioned, and that was good enough.
"Wormhole technology?"
"Impossible! That kind of technology should only exist in theory! It's only been three hundred-odd years. Even for an Intelligent Mechanism lifeform, it should be absolutely impossible to achieve this!"
At this moment, on the ground level, some descendants of the Octopus race's political leaders from three hundred years ago were hiding in a Bunker, watching the scene unfold in disbelief.
