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Chapter 22 The Overlord's Request for Help Was Too Dawdling

The tests on the planetary creatures took about five days. During this time, Lu Shang and these planetary creatures developed many abilities together.

For example, accelerating thinking by utilizing spacetime expansion.

Space and time are inherently one. When space is compressed, the passage of time slows down significantly relative to normal space. Conversely, when space expands, the passage of time speeds up significantly relative to normal space.

Imagine that if only one second passes in normal spacetime, it would be equivalent to one year passing in expanded spacetime. Would planetary life forms still experience a situation where their brains cannot keep up?

Obviously not. Planetary beings could even play chess and fight at the same time, without missing a beat.

For example, holistic psionic warp can be used to create spacetime warp bubbles within a spacetime region centered on planetary life forms and with a radius of 100 million kilometers.

This way, the entire Scout Nebula can be enveloped in a spacetime warp bubble and warped faster than light, without having to wait for planetary life forms to arrive on the battlefield before the Scout Nebula is generated.

It's important to understand that the Star Alliance fleet won't sit idly by and wait for the planetary creatures to deploy their scout nebulae before attacking.

In the game of war, it's all about taking advantage of your weakness to kill you. No matter what means are used, the one who survives to the end is the winner.

Just as Lu Shang was on high alert, preparing for the Star River Alliance's all-out attack, something unexpected happened.

The Star River Alliance didn't attack him first, but instead attacked the new Overlord's side.

One of the mainframes that had a friendly exchange with Lu Shang last time specially rode a Behemoth behemoth to come and ask Lu Shang for help.

"Requesting reinforcements? Didn't you already hold off four attacks from the Star River Alliance?" Lu Shang asked, puzzled.

The mastermind replied, "The enemy's military strength is very strong. The size of their fleet is unprecedented, far exceeding the total strength of the previous four attacks."

"Since it's such a huge undertaking, how can I help you?" Lu Shang asked dismissively.

The mainframe seemed oblivious to the perfunctory tone in Lu Shang's words and stated the purpose of the trip directly.

"You can support us."

Lu Shang casually made up an excuse and replied, "Stop joking, okay? My swarm isn't that big. Even though we've taken down dozens of administrative stars of the Dias Empire, a large part of the reason is that the infected administrative stars don't require me to specifically allocate resources to defend them."

"Why don't you gather all the existing Behemoths together and let them fight the enemy using psionic energy? Let me tell you, psionic energy is more effective than any acid cannonball. Quantity is meaningless in the face of psionic energy."

The AI ​​replied helplessly, "After I came back last time, I followed your example and deployed the brains of the Behemoth on all the nesting planets. Thanks to the existence of these mobile nesting planets, we have been able to hold out for so long, but now we have reached our limit."

Damn it! Shamelessly plagiarizing my idea! And they even have the audacity to call it "imitating"? Lu Shang cursed inwardly.

The mainframe had no idea what Lu Shang was thinking at that moment, and it continued to describe the battlefield situation on the new ruler's side.

"The Star Alliance used an attack we couldn't understand at all. Their fleet could conjure up many strange devouring objects out of thin air and appear near the mobile nesting planet. The psionic energy of the mobile nesting planet was completely ineffective against these devouring objects; it could only push them away with its own psionic energy..."

As the mainframe spoke, it didn't forget to share its memories of the battlefield with Lu Shang through the psionic network, indicating that it was truly an emergency.

The Lu Shang side has studied the black hole-induced attack to the point of exhaustion, and the swarm has even personally experienced the power of this attack. The battlefield information shared by the main brain can be said to be of virtually no value.

"Alright, no need to describe it anymore, I roughly know what it is."

"How about this, I can share my resources to support you, but I need you to provide a copy of the new Overlord's gene."

Originally, Lu Shang did not intend to provide support, but then he thought about it again. The new ruler had level twelve spiritual energy, which was unprecedented in the history of the hive. All previous rulers had only level ten spiritual energy.

If such a biological template is killed by the Star River Alliance, will he be able to find a psionic brain of level 10 or above again in the future?

The universe is vast, so the probability is hard to say, but in Lu Shang's opinion, the probability seems rather low.

To put it another way, the new Overlord has a large swarm of bee creatures.

The swarm is currently facing a severe shortage of individual combatants. If Lu Shang were to transform these newly dominant swarms into the same type of swarms he currently leads, wouldn't the strength of his swarms be rapidly enhanced?

Moreover, even if Lu Shang doesn't provide support, the Star River Alliance will still send a fleet to fight his swarm. Although during the test, they tried their best to align themselves with the Star River Alliance's fleet, it was still just a simulation. Who knows what the actual situation would be like in real combat?

If something unexpected happens on the battlefield and the planetary creatures don't perform well, they'll be completely crushed. It's better to get involved in the Star River Alliance's war against the new Overlord. That way, even if they are crushed, the enemy's priority will be to destroy the new Overlord of the swarm, not Lu Shang.

This can buy him some time to react and solve problems that only become apparent in actual combat.

After careful consideration, Lu Shang felt it was necessary to support the new ruler.

Little did they know that while Lu Shang had already decided to send troops, the mastermind sent by the new ruler was still hesitating.

After hearing Lu Shang's proposed conditions for sending troops, the main AI said, "This requires the Overlord's permission."

This condition concerns the Sovereign, and the Mastermind has no right to make the decision for the Sovereign.

But Lu Shang didn't care about that, and rolled his eyes, saying, "Do whatever you want, I'm not the one in a hurry anyway."

As he spoke, he intended to end the psionic communication. There was nothing to negotiate about this; it wasn't like he was begging to go and support the new Overlord.

However, at that moment, the mainframe suddenly called out to Lu Shang.

"Wait, the Overlord has agreed to your proposal, Lu Shang Mainframe."

Just now, it contacted the new Overlord of the Swarm through the psionic network. Perhaps the offensive from the Star Alliance was too fierce, and the new Overlord agreed to Lu Shang's conditions.

"Wouldn't it have been over sooner? This dawdling is a waste of everyone's time. It's a wonder you're all still alive. I really don't know if the Star River Alliance is deliberately letting you off the hook, or if you're just incredibly lucky!"

Lu Shang finished his communication with the swarm's mainframe while cursing, and then issued new instructions to the planetary creatures of the swarm through the swarm network.

"Depart! Towards the Banner Consortium's star system!"

Solid planets, orbiting a star and shrouded in a cloud of mist, released immense spiritual energy upon Lu Shang's command. This energy warped space with a radius of 100 million kilometers centered on the solid planets, creating faster-than-light warp bubbles, before abruptly disappearing without a trace!

(End of this chapter)