Dai Chengzhou left.
He then issued orders decisively, sending more personnel to investigate Flying Civilization and the entire Destiny Ring Star.
These were his duties.
In fact, he had already made arrangements in many places.
For example, he bribed the Zerg, having them use swarm tactics to gather information about the Destiny Ring Star.
Although the required funds were enormous, the information obtained was indeed extensive.
Especially the information from the Destiny Ring Star.
Previously, Human Civilization did not know of the Destiny Ring Star's existence until the Zerg captured a Stellar System of the Destiny Ring Star and tortured a large number of creatures to extract information.
Only then did the full picture of the Destiny Ring Star finally appear before Human Civilization.
This vast Civilization alliance, its sheer size, was even more terrifying than all previous Human Civilization's conjectures.
"Director, the Zerg have brought news; they have already captured a second Stellar System of the Destiny Ring Star Civilization."
A major general from the intelligence bureau was primarily responsible for liaison with the Zerg.
Dai Chengzhou's tightly furrowed brows relaxed at this news.
"Those bugs really did hide something!"
Boyi showed a troubled expression.
"But, Director, the Zerg are asking for an exorbitant price; the latest information will cost us 20 trillion energy coins!"
Upon hearing this, Dai Chengzhou's eyes widened.
In his mind, only words like "kicking someone when they're down" and "taking advantage of a fire" came to mind.
"They really dare to think that!"
"20 trillion? Why not say 200 trillion?"
"That's just a piece of information, and they only need to expend some insignificant bugs; that's nothing to them."
"Tell them we'll accept a maximum of 5 trillion."
This price was actually already very high.
5 trillion, in the Federation, was enough to develop a Star City with a billion people.
For the Zerg, that much money was enough to produce hundreds of billions of bugs.
Boyi said with difficulty, "I already proposed that, but they said it must be 20 trillion, and they said the new information will definitely be worth more than its price."
Dai Chengzhou fell into contemplation.
The Zerg had been doing business for over a hundred thousand years, and their reputation was excellent; they wouldn't tarnish their brand.
Moreover, he was currently representing the entire Federation in trading for this information.
If the Zerg dared to speak like this and ask for such an exorbitant price at this time, they definitely had something good.
"Go to the finance bureau to approve the budget; what I say won't be enough."
"No, I'll go myself!"
...
Destiny Ring Star.
Outer perimeter of the Main Abandoned Area.
Jie Er Wu Star System.
Dense swarms of Zerg poured in from outside the Stellar System, devouring all internal structures and matter; they flew to the surface of the Star, building 【Hives】 on the Star's surface to produce more bugs.
After countless years of development, the Zerg's main combat units were compressed to within 20 types.
The individual strength of each unit was terrifyingly powerful, already approaching the combat power of some spaceships in the Star Country region.
Although they still couldn't compare to a warship.
But if one considered the number of these bugs, it would be alarming.
In fact, they also lived up to their combat power.
Under the swarm tactics, even the Destiny Ring Star, which was significantly stronger than the Federation, could not resist in terms of territory.
The Zerg attacking in the Jie Er Wu Star System were led by Earl Feida Ya.
The Zerg's rank hierarchy was Emperor, Monarch, Grand Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, Baron.
Bimos, as the Zerg Queen, belonged to the Emperor level.
However, the Bimos Zerg Star State now had more than one Emperor; Bimos's true level actually surpassed all other Emperors, but no separate tier was designated. Within the Zerg, Bimos was referred to as the "Mother Bug."
As for the other ranks, they were essentially determined by the number of Zerg controlled.
The Bimos Zerg Star State was essentially a giant Gu cauldron.
All Brain Bugs would fight each other, either being killed or submitting.
Having over 100 Brain Bugs under one's command was considered a Baron, and each Brain Bug could control approximately 2 million to 3 million Soldier Bugs.
This meant that a Baron's subordinate Soldier Bug count would not be less than 200 million.
Above that, a Viscount had 1,000 Brain Bugs and 2 billion Soldier Bugs.
An Earl had 10,000 Brain Bugs and 20 billion Soldier Bugs.
Earl Feida Ya was a relatively powerful Earl, otherwise he wouldn't have taken on this mission. He had over 80,000 Brain Bugs and more than 160 billion Soldier Bugs.
Each Soldier Bug's combat power was close to an armed spaceship; even if five bugs could deal with one spaceship.
Then Feida Ya's combat power was equivalent to over 30 billion spaceships.
A small Stellar System of the Destiny Ring Star was simply not enough to stop these.
Unless millions of warships were dispatched, only then could such a large number of bugs be crushed.
Bugs were, after all, just bugs; being able to break a spaceship's defense didn't mean they could break a warship's. So, in a realistic scenario, perhaps a few hundred spaceships could gang up on one warship, but it would take tens of thousands of Soldier Bugs to truly destroy a warship.
However, at this stage, the Jie Er Wu Star System could not produce so many warships.
They were in the Main Abandoned Area.
The so-called Main Abandoned Area was actually where the Destiny Ring Star couldn't take everyone; they considered some people a burden, so they were left within the Milky Way.
These lives could also serve as eyes in the Milky Way, observing changes in the Milky Way.
After all, not all Civilizations in the Destiny Ring Star were like the Cai Yu Three Civilizations, which focused on "small" things, and their own scale was relatively small.
In fact, the Civilization that the Zerg were currently attacking was very large, controlling over 500,000 Stellar Systems. Although it couldn't compare to Human Civilization, it was definitely not too small.
It also had to be considered that this Civilization itself was not a Level 2.7 Civilization, but merely a Level 2.6 Civilization.
The Destiny Ring Star itself was an alliance. Flying Civilization could not attack other Civilizations within the alliance, nor could they trust these Civilizations, which is why they wanted to attack Human Civilization.
And then they completely fell into war, leading to a series of subsequent events.
All this information was interrogated by Feida Ya.
He was currently enjoying watching the desperate Shero.
Shero, this was the name the Zerg gave to the creatures of this Civilization. Their bodies were like plump spheres with six limbs.
In fact, they even looked like mammals, just with some more bizarre features.
Feida Ya believed these creatures were excellent incubators. He captured these creatures and had some bugs lay eggs inside their bodies.
"Beasts, you will die a horrible death!"
"Human Civilization, a disgusting Civilization, you will die a terrible death, worse than us."
These Shero, whose bodies were filled with bug eggs, were still alive, cursing Feida Ya.
Feida Ya indifferently ordered a bug to carry a Shero over.
That was considered a young female among the Shero.
"I don't want to hear these things."
"You know what I want to know!"
"If you don't satisfy me, then my children would be very willing to leave their offspring inside its body."
To these Shero, Feida Ya was a true demon.
"You dare!"
"I swear, I will kill you!"
Feida Ya remained unmoved in the face of the threat.
Over there, a bug was already approaching that Shero.
"Since you don't care about it so much, then let it die."
Feida Ya had already investigated thoroughly; this Shero was like the daughter of those Shero who had already become incubators.
Indeed, they were those.
Shero were different from humans; their reproductive mode was group reproduction.
Perhaps a hundred or a thousand individuals would mate with each other to produce offspring.
"No!"
One of the Shero shouted.
"Don't hurt it, come at me with anything!"
Shero also had emotions similar to humans.
In fact, any intelligent creature would have basic emotions, and any Civilization would have very developed emotions.
Civilization meant they were social, and being social meant communication, and emotion was a way of communication.
"Then speak, your intelligence."
"I can feel that you are in a hurry."
"Although you are desperately propagating, saying that you were left behind to serve as eyes, to gather intelligence."
"But fear cannot lie!"
Overall, Shero society was filled with panic.
Feida Ya had always been unclear about the specific reason; he had guesses, but they were only guesses and had not been confirmed.
Seeing the other party fall silent again, Feida Ya's heart turned cold.
"Hmph, it seems you want your daughter to suffer the same pain as you!"
Being an incubator originally wouldn't be very painful; even a corpse would suffice.
However, Feida Ya specifically intensified this point and made living beings endure it. During incubation, the parasitized individuals even remained in a state of excitement, constantly enduring pain.
This was also Feida Ya's goal; there was no gentleness in Civilization warfare. He needed to extract information from these Shero, so naturally, he couldn't be soft.
If the Zerg were not proficient in machinery, he would not have been willing to use such primitive methods.
Instead, he would have directly extracted their memories!
Feida Ya had the egg bug raise the needle on its rear, poised to pierce the Shero's body.
"No, I'll speak! I'll speak!"
Seeing the oviduct needle about to pierce, a Shero immediately shouted.
"That's right."
"Why didn't you do this earlier!"
Feida Ya had the egg bug stop its actions, then took that Shero away to a special room to interrogate for information.
The information these guys collectively protected should have some value!
