A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 314 The Alien Chieftain's Excitement

Other civilizations did not fail to emulate the tactics and strategies of the Principe civilization; rather, they adopted them, but to no avail.

The strategic decision-makers of the Princau civilization seemed to have mind-reading abilities, instantly seeing through the ambushes laid by these civilizations.

Those whose schemes were seen through were considered lucky. Those who weren't so lucky would be ambushed by the Pulinka civilization's fleet, and would be completely wiped out before they even realized what was happening.

The idea was to use space-based strike weapons to wipe out a wave of the Pulinka civilization fleet, but opportunities to use them were rare, and even when they were used, the number of Pulinka warships wiped out was not large, far from enough to cause serious damage.

After a series of battles, other interstellar civilizations that fought against the Pulinka civilization discovered that tactics such as luring the enemy into an ambush, besieging a point to attack reinforcements, and launching surprise attacks were of no use to the Pulinka civilization. The only effective tactic was open warfare.

The problem is that the Principe civilization is no less capable in terms of open strategies, and these interstellar civilizations can't gain any advantage no matter what they do. In the end, they can only resort to forming alliances and counter-alliances.

The Pulinka civilization was keenly aware of this, but now they were in a difficult situation. The Pulinka civilization also wanted to win over some of their allied civilizations to share the burden.

However, the reason why those interstellar civilizations that have reached an alliance is that they assume the Pulinka civilization is the strongest in terms of military strength among the civilizations currently participating in the war. Therefore, they want to unite to fight against it first, and after defeating the Pulinka civilization, they will separate again and compete for spacetime nodes based on their own abilities.

If we unite with the Pulinka civilization and wipe out all of their opponents, wouldn't all those time nodes then belong to the Pulinka civilization?

It would be better to just withdraw from this interstellar war.

As the medium through which the bee colony intervened in the Pulinka civilization, the status of the Fuwahu within the Pulinka civilization rose with the intensity of the war.

At the headquarters, Fuwahu had become a figure akin to a "war god".

Although the other military staff in the general command had also done their best, when faced with a colleague who was on a winning streak, their efforts were like trying to race against a spaceship at the speed of light with human strength. Not only was the gap clearly visible, but they themselves had to admit defeat wholeheartedly.

It's a mindset where, when faced with an insurmountable chasm, even the desire to compare oneself to others is extinguished.

Do fireflies try to outshine the sun?

Obviously not.

Of course, Lu Shang also paid attention to the "talent" he displayed. In some military decisions, he deliberately made some wrong predictions, which led to the failure of some small-scale battles commanded by Lu Shang.

Even so, it was inevitable that the people of Plinka would regard him as a "god of war".

Throughout the entire Prinkia civilization, the Vova family was the greatest beneficiary and the happiest.

Influenced by Lu Shang, the Fuwa family rapidly rose to become a military family, and was even privately referred to as the "God of War Family" by some military families.

This kind of upward social mobility and sense of honor was like a celestial river pouring down, directly overwhelming Chief Fuwa so much that he lost all sense of direction and was hospitalized due to excessive excitement.

Finally, unable to handle clan affairs, and with Lu Shang's overt and covert instructions, the clan leader's direct descendant became the new clan leader of the Fuwa clan. Incidentally, the new clan leader was also asked to arrange a marriage alliance with the Nasu clan, so that the other party would not always keep an eye on him and harbor some unrealistic fantasies.

Overall, the plan went very smoothly, even more smoothly than the swarm had anticipated. The only problem was that the high-tech civilizations, by uniting together, made their alliance strategy quite troublesome.

Within the swarm network, a planetary being asked Lu Shang with some concern, "What are we going to do about those advanced civilizations forming alliances and betrayals?"

The Principe civilization is crucial to the successful implementation of the Swarm Project. Now that the project has finally progressed to this point, the Swarm is unwilling to accept failure.

Lu Shang replied, "That's simple. Alliances aren't complete unions. Their military systems don't connect. At most, they share intelligence and support each other. They were enemies before, and after destroying the Pulinka civilization, they're preparing to continue fighting. It's impossible for them to act as a unified civilization."

The planetary being said, "That's still very strong. In terms of size, it crushes the current Pulinka civilization."

Planetary beings are well aware of the terrifying scale of their own existence; for example, they would simply crush any psionic being of the same level.

Why?

Naturally, it's because of its size.

Planetary life forms contain a vast number of psionic brains, while ordinary psionic life forms only have one brain. Ordinary psionic cultivators have two psionic brains: one original biological brain and one condensed second brain.

This magnitude difference means that the intensity of psionic energy released by planetary beings and psionic beings is worlds apart.

Lu Shang said, "If the size is insufficient, we can increase the size. It's not a big deal."

If there's too much flour, add water; if there's too much water, add flour. Just add more wherever there's a shortage. In Lu Shang's view, these are no big deal.

Upon hearing this, the planetary creature hesitated for a moment before reminding him, "Uh... Lu Shang's mainframe, I need to remind you that the Pulinka civilization is not a swarm of bees."

Lu Shang said, "So what? In the current situation, if they don't listen to me, then the only outcome is the destruction of their civilization. Can the Plinka people accept such a result?"

"Whether it's a bee colony or not is irrelevant; as long as they don't want to see their mother civilization perish, that's enough."

The wars between interstellar civilizations are so brutal that they can lead to the extinction of entire races. Is the extinction of a race something that a civilization can easily accept?

Obviously not.

In order to avoid the extinction of their own civilization, even the most outrageous and extreme things are acceptable.

In any case, these things only happen temporarily because of the war, and they will naturally be canceled and things will return to normal after the war ends.

Some time later, Lu Shang entered the virtual space of the headquarters with his designed plan.

"The enemy has now united, but such a unity is meaningless. Times have changed. The past was the age of people, now it is the age of material things."

"I propose implementing a propagation program, and here are the details of that program."

As he spoke, Lu Shang submitted the plan he had spent some time drafting in the virtual space.

The proliferation plan is not complicated; it mainly revolves around "proliferation." If there are not enough people, clone them; if industrial productivity is insufficient, expand production capacity. Design a special industrial template so that even if only one person remains and is thrown into an unfamiliar space environment, the entire Pulinka civilization can be reproduced.

This is Lu Shang's expansion plan. Once the plan is implemented, the size of the Pulinka civilization will inevitably increase dramatically.

As for whether the Pulinka civilization will split up due to its large size, that's not something Lu Shang should be concerned about.

(End of this chapter)