"Loren, what is the matter you called us for this ti?"
Sissoko was slightly dissatisfied: "Recently, you have summoned us a bit too often. How many matters can there be that we must discuss together?"
He was different from the others. His physical condition was abnormally miserable; it could even be said that if he wasn't imrsed in high-concentration Life Substance, his Vital Signs would head toward decline.
If possible, he didn't even want to produce thought fluctuations.
"Just received news. Not long ago, the Black Hole Network suddenly went offline." Loren glanced at him, not paying mind to his dissatisfaction.
"What does that have to do with us?" Sissoko frowned slightly.
"Because Li Yu blocked the Black Hole Network's external connection, thereby causing the offline incident," Loren added.
"Hm?" Sissoko's expression changed drastically: "He finally dared to appear in the outside world? Where is he? We can initiate the plan."
"Be patient and let Lord Loren finish speaking," soone next to them reminded. With you two asking and answering like this, when will he finish speaking?
"It's not that he didn't dare to appear in the outside world; it's just that his whereabouts wouldn't be grasped by us. Currently, he has already left the headquarters of the Black Hole Network." Loren's gaze was calm:
"Subsequently, people from the Black Hole Network secretly contacted us and submitted a piece of docunt information."
Speaking of this, everyone's expressions changed slightly, knowing the main event was coming.
"Inside the Black Hole Network's terminal server, he reviewed a massive amount of information regarding the Ancient Starpath."
"The Ancient Starpath?" The crowd paused. The Ancient Starpath was a bizarre place; even they hadn't thoroughly explored it clearly.
The information they understood wasn't much more than what the Black Hole Network had.
Suddenly bringing up the Ancient Starpath at this mont, they didn't know where to start talking about it either.
"Why did he suddenly set his sights on the Ancient Starpath again?" Sissoko wondered. "Did anything major happen in the Ancient Starpath recently?"
"Nothing major has happened." Loren shook his head, but then changed his tone: "But there have indeed been so unusual occurrences."
"During this recent period, the casualty rate within the Ancient Starpath has increased dramatically. So scavengers who make a living there have even stayed away from the Ancient Starpath."
"It is said that The Fallen City is also considering evacuation."
"Oh..." Morgan's expression flickered slightly, saying: "The Fallen City has resided in the Ancient Starpath for a long ti. Their understanding of the Ancient Starpath is extrely deep. That is their ho turf and the foundation they rely on for survival."
"For even them to consider evacuating, I'm afraid it's not just an issue of an increased casualty rate."
The external information received by the Star Glory Empire at every mont was massive. Even with a large number of intelligence personnel analyzing it constantly,
without concrete evidence, they couldn't distinguish whether the gathered information was valuable or not.
If Loren hadn't specifically gone to investigate it, he also wouldn't know what had been happening in the Ancient Starpath recently.
"Correct. My people have already contacted them. There should be results very soon." Loren nodded.
"Aren't they extrely xenophobic? Relying on their familiarity with the Ancient Starpath to look down on everything. The cost of annihilating them is too high, so the major civilizations have all turned a blind eye."
"Why are they being so cooperative now?"
A Certain Noble Controller was quite surprised, then looked thoughtful and said, "It seems the situation has indeed reached a critical level, perhaps even causing them to completely withdraw from the Ancient Starpath. It looks like they don't dare to face outsiders with their previous attitude anymore."
"That's right. Sothing we don't know about must have happened inside the Ancient Starpath, and the Other-Dinsional Camp should be quite interested in this."
Loren looked around: "If that's the case, I believe the plan can be initiated."
"Set up a trap in the Ancient Starpath? We aren't familiar with that place; the difficulty will probably increase by a lot." Sissoko was sowhat hesitant.
"No matter how high the difficulty, it's always better than the current situation of having no clues." Loren's tone was very firm: "Furthermore, since they have desires for the Ancient Starpath, they inevitably have their own interests and goals."
"Allowing them to achieve their goals is, to so extent, detrintal to us."
The others nodded in strong agreent. Since things had already developed to this point,
there was no room for alleviation between them and the other party. Otherwise, they had to think of every possible way to destroy the other party's plans.
And vice versa.
"It's just that, since the other party found the location of the Black Hole Network server, why didn't they directly take down this organization, but instead only reviewed information?" Morgan raised a question.
Almost all civilizations and organizations extrely coveted that dark side of the Interstellar Network.
Since the Other-Dinsional Camp found their location, why didn't they take action directly?
The current Black Hole Network was absolutely no match for the Other-Dinsional Camp.
This was an issue with a huge hidden danger.
"If we can't figure out this problem, then regarding the Ancient Starpath, it's still unknown whether we are setting up the trap or walking into one." His tone was indifferent, but it made the atmosphere here beco solemn.
"You an there's a problem here?" Sissoko shifted his gaze to this young Noble Controller.
"What we want is rely his accurate whereabouts and an opportunity to start a war."
"Regardless of whose trap it is, having this opportunity is enough." Loren didn't have any other emotions.
In a head-on battle, the Star Glory Empire didn't have any fearful thoughts toward the Other-Dinsional Camp.
They had long been prepared for war; however, the other party had consistently refused to give them this opportunity.
Loren naturally thought of the hidden dangers in this matter, but he didn't care.
If this wasn't a trap by the Other-Dinsional Camp, then that was the best.
Even if it was, it rely gave them an opportunity for a head-on war.
He couldn't ask for anything more!
They had been stifled for too long by this feeling of having power but nowhere to use it.
"Prepare yourselves. This ti, we must definitely lift the veil off this mysterious faction." The Emperor made the final conclusion.
The few people looked at each other, suppressed their inner emotions, and began to discuss specific action plans.
......
At the sa ti, Li Yu, who hadn't left the Black Hole Network for long, had already used the Jade Void Palace as a Transfer Station to arrive near the Ancient Starpath.
When he ca to the Ancient Starpath last ti, he was still just a nobody; this ti, it was completely different.
The massive Ancient Starpath connected tens to hundreds of civilizations and was divided into several tiers.
The shallow section, the middle section, the high-risk section, and the unknown section.
Last ti, Li Yu was just a small fish wandering around the shallow and middle sections.
Last ti, he even had to go through a Navigation Point to purchase sothing akin to a navigation device. This ti, he completely didn't need to.
He headed straight for the location where the two Broodmothers were.
Inside the Ancient Starpath, he couldn't open portals at will; he could only pilot a Spaceship forward.
The location they were at started in the middle section, then extended toward the shallow and high-risk sections.
Li Yu nad it the "Xenomite Civilization," a simple and clear naming convention.
It hadn't even been half a year since the ti he deployed them, but the developnt of the Xenomite Civilization was extrely astonishing.
During the initial stage of developnt, the Transforrs escorted and protected them. Once they reached a certain scale, they could develop on their own.
According to the data reported from ti to ti, the Xenomite Civilization had already taken control of over a hundred planets.
Inside the Ancient Starpath, Life Planets were extrely rare; most were so Barren Planets.
However, for the highly adaptable Wise Zerg, this wasn't a difficult problem at all.
Even if the surface was a Barren Planet, the interior contained various mineral veins, sufficient to serve as the resources for their survival.
And here was the headquarters of the Xenomite Civilization.
What presented itself before him could be considered a rather terrifying scene.
A gigantic erald-green planet floated in the starry sky, covered in flowing, unknown gelatinous substances. A massive tentacle-style connection network linked to over fifty "satellites" nearby.
They were called satellites, but in reality, they were each tumor-like objects with giant holes on them.
From ti to ti, bizarre-looking Biological Warships flew out from the holes.
Most of them possessed the characteristics of biological entities, and their sizes were quite massive. Although lacking a fra of reference, he visually estimated their body length to be around ten thousand ters.
So of the Zerg Warships structurally bore the characteristics of beetles, covered entirely in a black exoskeleton. They presented an elongated shape with distinct segnts; at first glance, they looked a bit like legless centipedes.
Their inner cavities were hollow, featuring various biological structures, like a biological Engine furnace resembling an Abyss Maw, operating with special Biomass Energy to provide an energy supply.
On their bodies, there was a limb-like bone joint at intervals, the ends of which were hollow bone tubes resembling respiratory organs, continuously breathing in and out Spatial Turbulence.
This was what they used for long-distance navigation. However, navigating space within the Ancient Starpath was much more dangerous; if not careful, one would encounter so bizarre Cosmic Calamity.
On their abdons grew two rows of symtrical, giant pincers extending all the way to the tail, covered in dense holes that made one shudder.
Miserable green Light Beams spewed out from the holes, quickly vanishing into the starry sky; it seed they were testing their factory performance.
Their heads had no visual organs or mouthparts, only a giant cone, the end of which was a massive hole, which should be sothing similar to a Main Cannon.
"This is too outrageous. Does a Zerg Civilization have to make things so creepy?" Li Yu cursed silently.
Zerg Warships with this kind of appearance were considered relatively normal. There were even so that were even more grotesque; Li Yu felt his eyes burning just looking at them.
And just as he was observing the Xenomite Civilization, his gaze suddenly flickered, looking toward a certain direction.
Not far from the howorld of the Xenomite Civilization, a patch of black-purple dark clouds suddenly appeared.
"It appeared, the specialty of the Ancient Starpath." Li Yu was quite speechless.
Last ti, he frequently encountered this kind of situation. While perfectly fine, an inexplicable Cosmic Calamity would dart out from who knows where.
From a distance, it looked like a dark cloud, but in reality, it was ford from a massive number of monsters.
The grotesqueness of these monsters could rival that of the Xenomite Civilization. Their bodies were elongated like white bones, but their skulls had complete organs and were extrely hideous.
He saw monster after monster suddenly spew out black-purple lightning, which road over their bodies before shooting out abruptly, assaulting the Xenomite Civilization.
Li Yu originally wanted to make a move, but from within the Xenomite Civilization, multiple strong auras suddenly erupted, rushing toward the enemies.
It's the Xenomorphs!
Buzz!
Light lit up in the eyes of a humanoid Xenomorph, popping out a giant energy Shield. All the black-purple lightning bombarded it, exploding into streaks of electric light.
Its arms were like Bone Blades, its body extrely agile. In the blink of an eye, it rushed into the group of monsters and began to slaughter wantonly.
These Xenomorphs were like the advanced lifeforms in the civilization, clearing obstacles across the entire battlefield.
And those Zerg Warships weren't idle either; green cannon light bombarded the monsters, blowing scorched, gaping holes on their exoskeletons.
Under the large-scale focused fire, monster after monster was easily blasted to pieces, exploding into scattered biological tissue.
At this mont, more and more creatures surfaced from the void, their numbers seemingly endless. Without the slightest fear, they advanced wave upon wave to fight and slaughter with the Xenomite Civilization.
And the Biomass Energy on the Zerg Warships resonated and connected with each other, constructing an extrely thick Shield that covered the warships, drastically reducing their losses.
As more and more Zerg Warships gathered, the strength of their attacks and Shields also continuously rose; the greater the number, the higher the Amplification.
"Combat power isn't bad..." A trace of astonishnt flashed through Li Yu's eyes.
He didn't expect that in such a short ti, the Xenomite Civilization would reach this level, and had even developed specialized Biotechnology that complented the Xenomorphs.
He even discovered a few Xenomorph bodies with Energy Fluctuations comparable to the A4-tier.
"As expected, barbaric growth and unlimited plundering of resources is the correct way to operate this kind of civilization."
This small patch of Starpath Calamity couldn't pose a threat to the Xenomite Civilization; the battle quickly ended.
A large number of bottom-tier Zerg began to clean the battlefield. They dragged those monsters that weren't completely dead yet and transported them neatly to a certain location.
Then, from a crimson, fleshy stan, they extracted a Xenomorph egg and placed it on the monster's body. Very soon, a small Facehugger hatched, drilling into the monster's body.
The parasitized monster was then transported into a large biological cabin, swallowed by a translucent, constantly squirming oval object.
Subsequently, crimson matter covered its entire body. One could clearly see that the injuries sustained during the battle just now began to recover rapidly.
Moreover, various parts of the body began to undergo mutations under the nourishnt of this liquid.
This once again surprised him: "Hmm... repair and enhancent, making the hatched Xenomorph even stronger."
The combination of these two species was far better than Li Yu had imagined.
(End of this chapter)
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