Astral Ants

[Time: 83th Era-357 Yuan-011 Years]

The fleet returned with zero gains and made its final jump close to the Baiwei star system.

The Zeqihao intelligent system was upgraded from 'Xiao Luoli' and its name was also changed to 'Lao Luoli'...

Lao Luoli awakened the flame spider warrior who was dormant and meditating in the cabin.

...

——25 years!
——I’m back!

In the survival mothership's Arctic location, in the spacious cockpit with a diameter of one kilometer, a holographic projection displays a high-definition panoramic view of the star system ahead.

A spherical mothership with a diameter of 13 kilometers must not dock at a star port. To avoid gravitational interference with the ecological climate of a planet with life, it usually orbits around a star at a distance from the star.

Poison Bean and Poison Wheat professionally calculated and planned the mothership's orbital altitude and speed.

Nan Di, Qing Tao, Zhu Ban, Tian Jie and other insects walked into the cockpit leisurely. After briefly greeting the four presidents of the Chamber of Commerce,

Zhuban glanced at the holographic projection and muttered, "Finally back."

Wu Ju followed up and said, "The vibrant Baiwei star system still looks more friendly."

The conversation started, and the spiders all followed suit and sighed,

"Interstellar expeditions are too boring."

"Desolate and lonely."

"Boring."

"Two hundred and fifty thousand years! I, the spider, am almost going crazy."

"This is not a job for a smart spider at all."

"Now I just want to be a quiet spider, stay in my nest in the mountains, sleep, meditate, eat meat, and enjoy the scenery."

"Since you all said so, I won't go next time."

"I'm not going either."

"I told you long ago not to follow those idiots from Xianglan Chamber of Commerce around."

"Without the Second King leading them, they are nothing."

“Zero gain.”

"..."

What everyone could not accept the most was that this trip yielded nothing.

After Poison Bean finished his work and listened to the conversation, he suddenly became energetic and said, "See. See. Rebellion. Rebellion. All rebellion. Rebellion is the right thing to do. I have long suggested not to build a deep space aircraft carrier. If you had listened to me and built a cargo starship, circulated between the three major star systems of Amber, Lizhu and Baijing, and traded in bulk goods across star systems, you would have paid back in 100,000 years and you would have made a fortune now..."

Boom!Boom!Boom!
Bai Wei stepped forward, raised her claws and started beating him, angrily scolding, "Shipping! Shipping! You are such a loser, you only know how to ship shipping!"

"Bai Wei, you are wrong..."

Poison Bean refused to accept the offer and hid behind Zeqi, saying with deep sorrow, "We are orthodox Flame Spider Merchants, not adventurers or speculators. Flame Spider Merchants should pursue certain returns and stay away from uncertain factors. Investing huge amounts of resources, insect power, and time costs in deep space exploration to pursue the illusory opportunity of getting rich overnight with almost zero chance is pure adventure and speculation."

"It makes sense!"

"Danger Beans is right!"

"Danger Bean can speak Spider language now. I'm so relieved."

"..."

The spiders all agreed.

"President Zeqi, please tell me something. Do you think I am right?"

Poison Beans insisted, "Don't ignore the facts and go against the principles of being a spider just because this survival mothership is named after you."

Zeqi: “…”

Before Zeqi could think of what to say, Feiyang agreed and said, "If we use this batch of materials to make a privateer leader ship with a speed of 2000 times the speed of light, or a star destroyer with space capabilities, and send it to the Dawn Galaxy and sell it at a sky-high price, we will also make a fortune now."

"Fei Yang is more promising than Du Dou~"

Bai Wei was furious. She turned sideways to hold Fei Yang down and slammed him with her claws...

"Stop it. Stop it."

"President Bai Wei, please stop fighting."

Tianjie shouted, raised his claws and pointed at the holographic projection, and asked in surprise: "Look, who is that? What are you doing?"

As Tianjie raised his paw and pointed, the holographic projection image moved closer.

In the deep space far away from the Baiwei star system, a khaki-colored flame spider warrior was instructing a crystal-white flame spider warrior to practice his frost ability.

--peanut!
——Didn’t Peanut go with the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce fleet on an expedition to search for the Star God Alliance?
——Why is Peanut back?
The spiders were stunned.

As soon as Tianjie thought about it, the holographic projection zoomed out and took a closer look.

In the screen,
Peanut is instructing a large group of Snow Iron Flame Spider warriors to practice their abilities.

He looked quite formal and stern, teleporting from time to time, staring at all the spiders and instructing them one by one.

The holographic projection perspective switched, and not far away, a large group of Snow Iron Flame Spider warriors at the Su Realm level were also pulled out. They were practicing their combined attack capabilities in groups of three, five, or nine.

"What are you doing?"

"Troop training?"

"fight?"

"not……"

"Could it be..."

"Have you found the Star God Alliance?"

"Ask!"

"..."

The Zeqi has finished accumulating energy and is approaching the jump.

The Flame Spider Warriors who were training hard were attracted by the violent spatial fluctuations. They all stopped their movements and looked around.

The mothership's equatorial portal opened wide, and dense swarms of Flame Spider warriors poured out of the cabin.

"President Bai Wei!"

"President Zeqi..."

Peanut teleported forward and greeted everyone in turn.

The spiders also arrived, greeting each other with their mental powers and thoughts crossing each other.

After 250,000 years, there are still many Flame Spider Warriors at the Star Realm who don't know the older generation of spiders in the Chamber of Commerce, and they keep asking who is who...

"Quiet! Quiet!"

Bai Wei called out solemnly, and asked sternly, "Peanut, why are you back? When did you come back? What happened? Where's Yu Teng?"

Peanut activated his soul-fixing ability and wrote his experience of following the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce fleet on the expedition, as well as the information about the Peregrine star destroyer, directly into the soul consciousness of the insects.

"!!!" The spiders were awed, shocked, and then envious.

——The seven-colored sacred tree!
——Three galaxies!
——Make a fortune!

Huasheng said: "At present, whether from the perspective of the safety of the Divine Tree Civilization or the interests of the Chamber of Commerce, the most important thing is to find the Divine King Chi and eliminate him!"

"The plan of Chief Longbai is that our Baiwei Chamber of Commerce will train a group of Snow Iron Flame Spiders who are dedicated to combat and drive Peregrine Star Destroyers to participate in the war."

Peanut added: "During his journey, Yu Teng successfully broke through the Evolutionary Domination Realm. The scale and distance of the Coolie Gate's transmission increased greatly. He stayed in the Wangbai Star System to help transmit matter and build the star system."

"Oh--"

Bai Wei asked, "So, you are doing combat training?"

"Yes!"

Peanut: "My idea is that our Baiwei Chamber of Commerce can also train specialized combat spiders and form a formal war corps. Actively respond, deeply participate, and reap more benefits."

Peanut explained: "The Peregrine series of star destroyers require 3, 5, or 8 Snow Iron Flame Spider warriors to pilot them, depending on the specifications. We are currently conducting coordination exercises according to these specifications."

"The Peregrine series of star destroyers consists of 43 ships of different sizes, forming a complete formation, a joint fleet. It requires 147 second-generation Snow Iron Flame Spider warriors of different evolutionary levels to pilot them. Therefore, we organize them into 'fir squadrons' with 147 warriors. At present, we have organized 7 fir squadrons of formal Flame Spider warriors..."

"A complete Peregrine Joint Fleet can carry 22.8 warriors. I heard from Chief Longbai that he wants to unite with the Amber and White Crystal Chambers of Commerce to organize a joint army of 500 to 600 million elite warriors."

"A rough estimate is that we need to build 20 to 26 Peregrine Falcon Joint Fleets, which will require about 3000 to 3800 Snow Iron Flame Spider warriors to participate in the battle."

"The number is not a big problem. The biggest problem is that we need 40 to 50 Snow Iron Flame Spider warriors at the Domination level..."

Peanut raised his paw and pointed at the large group of little flame spider warriors who were desperately rushing towards this side, and said:

"So, I organized all the young Flame Spiders in the Chamber of Commerce who are above the Three Trace Realm and below the Su Realm, and regularly train them in abilities and combat. In the future, no matter if they are professional combat spiders or not, if they successfully break through and advance to the Domination Realm, they will all have to participate in the battle."

"In a large-scale battle, teamwork is more important than the combat effectiveness of a single individual."

"..."

There was silence.

Zeqi asked, "Where is Chief Longbai?"

Huasheng said, "They set out more than 40,000 years ago and went to the Baijing Galaxy. According to Juniper, they stayed on Fenglun Star."

"It has been 100% confirmed that both the Amber Galaxy and the White Crystal Galaxy will join the war, and a tripartite alliance has been reached. Both the Amber and White Crystal Chambers of Commerce have begun mass-producing the Shadow Reconnaissance Ship."

"What remains is the war planning and distribution of post-war benefits. Great Chief Longbai is waiting for Lord Manchi, and then they will go to the White Crystal Sacred Tree to negotiate together."

"About 16,000 years ago, news came that the expeditionary fleet led by Lord Manchi had returned. If there were no other delays, Great Chief Longbai and Lord Manchi should be on their way back to the Amber Galaxy by now."

"..."

There was another moment of silence.

Bai Wei asked, "What about the distribution of profits after the war? Is our Bai Wei Chamber of Commerce not qualified to participate in the discussion?"

peanut:"……"

Huasheng said: "Neither Citibank nor Tunnel Bee Chamber of Commerce sent insects to participate. Chief Longbai meant that we are considered a force and he wants to fight for the supreme command of the United Army. With the supreme command, it is natural that he should share the most benefits."

Peanut added: "The main thing is to get back the power system and energy system of the Black Law. To this end, the Xianglanshan Chamber of Commerce has already prepaid the cost of 20 third-level source points. According to the character of the great leader Longbai, our Baiwei Chamber of Commerce, Citi Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Tunnel Bee and Boshuwan Chamber of Commerce must have them."

"Oh……"

Bai Wei looked at Zeqi and asked, "President Zeqi, what do you think?"

Zeqi: "Let's wait for Chief Longbai to come back and see what he says..."

Zeqi analyzed, "At this stage, our Chamber of Commerce has reached its limit and cannot provide more jobs. Not all Flame Spider Warriors trained on a large scale will become qualified warriors. On the contrary, only one in a hundred will reach the standard of elite warriors. According to this ratio, according to what Peanut said, we need to train 30 to 38 Flame Spider Warriors? After the warriors are trained, they have no jobs and are purely funded by the Chamber of Commerce? This is a huge expense."

Bai Wei retorted, "I didn't say they could be trained all at once. The war will take at least five million years, or even tens of millions of years, right? I don't think soldiers will be a problem."

After Bai Wei finished speaking, she looked at Luo Li.

Luo Li said: "The source points on the True Seven Dolphin Line can only be developed into resource mining stars. Only the second-level and third-level source point star systems are valuable, and their value is greatly reduced. However, if you can have ten or eight of them, you won't lose money."

Bai Wei looked at Hong Tao.

Seeing that the spiders including Zeqi, Caolong, Yudou, Dudou, Nandi, and Zhuban were all hesitant, Hongtao said in detail:

"Three points. First, let me repeat. The Chamber of Commerce has grown to its current size and life has evolved to its current level. Everyone's mentality, worldview, and values ​​should change accordingly. We can no longer pursue direct benefits as we did before. Instead, we should consider influence and dominance. Our main focus should be on pursuing a higher level of individual evolution."

"In fact, the current Baiwei Chamber of Commerce is still highly dependent on the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce in terms of its core business, and has no say. The only way out is to explore and discover a new galaxy of their own."

"Whether it's the Zerg or the Tree Clan, everyone is very realistic. Only by ruling a galaxy can one truly own a territory. Only then can the Baiwei Chamber of Commerce have an equal status with the Liming, Lizhu, Baijing, Amber, and Xianglan Chambers of Commerce. Only President Zeqi can have an equal status with the Lord of Time and Space, the Lord of Dragon Bamboo, the Lord of Samsara, the Lord of Manchi, and the Lord of Longbai."

Zeqi: “…”

spider:"……"

Hong Tao continued, "Secondly, as time goes by, the trillions of galaxies in the universe are gradually moving from chaos to order. This is an unquestionable and obvious trend of evolution. What follows is a magnificent era of great exploration and development. The Baiwei Chamber of Commerce not only needs to organize a fleet for deep space exploration, but also must continue to devote itself to it to the best of its ability."

"Don't hoard resources or save money. Take the maximum loan amount you can. The Chamber of Commerce's resources are mainly used to train warriors to expand the Chamber of Commerce's power, while also expanding the size of the fleet."

"Longbai Ant King had already understood this when he was in the Qiming Star System. After entering the Baijing Star System, he had been overdrawing resources to train warriors. This was the fundamental reason why the Xianglan Chamber of Commerce was able to seize the opportunity, suddenly rise, and grow stronger."

"There are countless opportunities in the universe. Bug population and fleet are the most important factors to seize the opportunities."

"Third, in the new era of the universe, the power of the Protoss civilization will no longer be limited to one, two, or three supergiant star clusters. It will not even be limited to a certain cosmic line or cosmic wall. The footprints of Zerg warriors will be all over the universe, and the glory of the God Tree civilization will illuminate the entire dark deep space. The three star systems of the True Seven Dolphin Line are very important. They are not only mining sites for producing raw energy materials and building fleets, but also strongholds, bases, and springboards for the future expansion of the Chamber of Commerce."

"While hunting down the God King Chi, we have obtained rare treasures, but the good stuff will definitely not be ours. The ones that do come to us are definitely not that valuable, so we don't have to hold out too high hopes. It is more realistic to strive for a few more third-level source points. For details, we will discuss it with Chief Longbai later."

"Um--"

"Hongtao's analysis is the most comprehensive and reasonable."

Bai Wei strongly agreed and said, "Is everyone clear now? From now on, the main direction of the development of Baiwei Chamber of Commerce will be to develop insect population, explore the starry sky, and develop interstellar space."

President Zeqi also expressed his approval and finally decided: "Hongtao is responsible for the development direction and strategy formulation of the Chamber of Commerce. So far, there has been no mistakes. Everyone should just do as Hongtao says. There is no need to question or discuss too much."

Zeqi asked, "Peanut, what's going on in the Citistar system?"

"Everyone is actively preparing for war."

Peanut replied, "The Citibank Chamber of Commerce and the Tunnel Bee Chamber of Commerce are also training new fighters, selecting elite fighters, and conducting drills to prepare for war."

"The Boshuwan Chamber of Commerce is special. They are mainly composed of more than a thousand bee queens and ant kings from the original mother planet Boshuwan Alliance. Their clan consciousness is relatively weak, and they have no plans to cultivate new ant kings and bee queens. The scale of their power remains almost unchanged. I heard that they have cultivated a batch of assistant kings and moved all the force plants to the main planet of Xianglan, preparing the entire chamber of commerce to go on an expedition with all its members."

Luo Li asked, "What about the Seven-Colored Chamber of Commerce? Did Longbai bring back the Seven-Colored Sacred Tree? Did it also take root on the Xianglan Main Star?"

"Yes."

Peanut raised his claws and pointed at the younger generation of Snow Iron Flame Spider warriors, saying, "Spiders such as the Flat-eared Shrike, Stone Dragon, Mountain Mustard, and Sea Mustard have all used the Seven-Colored Maple Fruit at the Star Realm level. They awakened the seven elemental talents simultaneously, greatly strengthened their elemental talents, comprehended the seven elemental forms, unified the seven elements, and initially touched upon the power of the cosmic material realm."

Peanut: "It's a very powerful law fruit, but unfortunately, it doesn't match the growth and evolution of the Snow Iron Flame Spider Warrior. We used ten of them for testing, but the improvement was limited, so we didn't use them again."

"okay."

Bai Wei waved her claws and beckoned, "Let's go! Let's go back to the headquarters and talk."

...

He returned to the headquarters and convened a meeting of senior leaders to listen to the Chamber of Commerce's business development over the past 250,000 years.

Done,

Zeqi, Luoli, Baiwei, Hongtao and a group of insects set off in a hurry to the Xianglan star system. (End of this chapter)