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Chapter 29 The Human Brain is Too Resentful

The news of the victory in destroying a large number of Star River Alliance war machines quickly reached Lu Shang.

"My Lord, I always thought that only you people act without thinking, but I never expected..." Lu Shang said to the Lord with mixed feelings.

"Didn't expect what?" The Overlord didn't understand what Lu Shang was trying to say.

"I didn't expect the Star River Alliance to act so thoughtlessly, just like you guys," Lu Shang said seriously.

"..."

The ruler was momentarily at a loss for words; was this a compliment or an insult?

Ignoring the reactions of the Overlord and the other mainframes, Lu Shang continued, "Normally speaking, if resources are not lacking, shouldn't we install warp drives or something similar in the armory?"

"That way, even if the arsenals in the star orbit encounter any unforeseen circumstances, we can immediately make a strategic relocation, ensuring the arsenals remain intact. If I had known earlier that these Star Alliance arsenals couldn't escape, I wouldn't have spent so much time and energy planning this, wasting my brain cells..."

Lu Shang rambled on and on about a lot of things, but in the end, it was just a little bit of resentment on his part.

He hadn't expected the planetary creatures he sent to raid the Star Alliance war machine group to return alive.

In Lu Shang's vision, the enemy's arms factory must be equipped with something like a faster-than-light engine, and may even have firepower more powerful than the fleet.

Therefore, he planned to have the planetary creatures launching the sneak attack suddenly appear when the enemy's arsenal was about to warp to faster-than-light speed, and use psionic energy to prevent the arsenal from entering faster-than-light speed, so that they could both perish together and be blown up by the planet's explosion.

Although the swarm sent over represents almost 99% of Lu Shang's military force, excluding the Nebula outpost, it would be worthwhile to exchange one for one if they could wipe out a large number of Star River Alliance war machines in one fell swoop.

Although there are still remaining war machines to continue manufacturing warships, those locations are too far away, so the supply lines have to be lengthened as a result.

Meanwhile, the bee swarm can hatch planetary life directly on any solid planet. If there is no solid planet, it can also hatch planetary life by extracting stellar matter, gathering nebulae, collecting meteorites, and plundering gaseous planetary matter.

The hive's path is much wider than that of the Star Alliance.

In fact, the Star River Alliance never expected that Lu Shang would pull such a stunt on them.

The War Machines were not immune to attacks from the Babel swarms during the Old Overlord era.

But back then, the Babel swarms didn't destroy the stars; they used spore shells and swarm acid, and the war machine swarms were able to hold out by relying on their heavy armor and fixed turrets.

Moreover, most of the time, the Babel swarm attacks the administrative planets of various Star Alliance factions. War machines with strong defensive firepower and few casualties are not the swarm's primary targets.

Since attacks are infrequent and defenses and firepower are reliable, is there any need to equip war machine swarms with faster-than-light engines?

On the battlefield, if there are no tanks and various heavy armored equipment, what is the point of developing anti-tank weapons and armor-piercing weapons?

There is demand, and that's what drives the design and production.

After developing the black hole-induced strike, although some people have realized the insecurity of the planet, there is no longer enough time to modify the war machine fleet.

It's important to understand that a war machine swarm is a giant man-made structure orbiting a star. For such a giant man-made structure to reach faster-than-light speeds, the warp drive would naturally also have to be star-level. Even with the technology, it's impossible to build it instantly.

With the combined effect of multiple factors, the current war myth of hundreds of thousands of planetary creatures destroying hundreds of thousands of war machines without any damage has been created.

After listening to Lu Shang finish his rant, the Overlord couldn't help but ask, "So, what's next for the swarm?"

Destroying hundreds of thousands of war machines in one fell swoop gave the swarm a significant strategic advantage in the nearby star system, but this does not equate to the swarm having an absolute strategic advantage that would allow it to win the war.

As its name suggests, the Star Alliance is an alliance that spans the entire galaxy, with millions of war machines. For the swarm to gain an absolute advantage in the war, it must at least destroy all of these millions of war machines.

"Of course, the fighting will continue. It's obvious that the war is not over yet," Lu Shang said.

"Another arsenal? I don't think this time it will go as smoothly as before; there will be considerable losses."

Based on the information fed back by individual swarm members, the Overlord determined that the Star Alliance's strategy against the swarm had shifted from offense to defense. If the Star Alliance continued to use its previous mutual support strategy, the swarm would have no chance of continuing to destroy the enemy's war machine swarm without losses.

Lu Shang rolled his eyes and said, "What you can think of, they can naturally think of too, and so can I."

"This time, we're going to attack their administrative planet."

……

Another administrative star of the Banner Consortium has been coerced and lured into accepting the infection by the entire Babel bee swarm!

Moreover, as time went on, the star systems near the Babel Swarm, whether it was the Dias Empire or the Banner Union, were falling at an increasingly faster pace!

In fact, after learning about the tragic state of Planet Milo, no administrative planet had the courage to refuse infection.

A planetary governor who dares to refuse infection will be betrayed by his subordinates in the next second, and then a new leader will be installed to accept the infection.

After all, those who are not afraid of death are always in the minority, and those who are not afraid of the death of people they care about are even more so.

Because the Star Alliance adopts a strategy that focuses on defending against the war machine swarms, the fleet strength protecting the administrative star will naturally decrease. When the swarms attack, the star system where the administrative star is located cannot exert even the slightest resistance.

In addition, the bee swarms are very trustworthy; as long as someone is willing to be infected, they will never kill them, and those who are infected will get better and better. This has created a huge mass base, and many administrative stars have even taken the initiative to invite Lu Shang's bee swarms to infect them.

Yes, reality is indeed that surreal.

In the eyes of these administrative stars, the sooner they are infected by the swarm, the sooner they can extricate themselves from the quagmire of war.

The infected planets will no longer be attacked by the Babel swarms or the Star Alliance fleets, and the people's health will improve. It's an incredibly profitable venture.

When the swarm's ruler and the main brains learned of this news, they thought there was something wrong with their brains. They never dared to imagine that they would actively seek to be infected.

The only ones feeling anxious were the Star River Alliance's decision-makers.

"We must do something! A swarm of bees is brewing, ready to wreak havoc on the galaxy!"

At the Star Alliance meeting, representatives from many factions made loud appeals, with the representatives of the Dias Empire and the Banner Union making the loudest calls.

(End of this chapter)