The portable grandfathers that appear are all problematic.

After saying that, he placed the two Divine Tree Fruits directly in front of Number Six.

This move immediately piqued the interest of others as well.

The Sixth Apostle simply accepted the fruit and said, "Deal."

Xue Lu looked at the Ninth Apostle and felt that this person had fallen into the trap of the interstellar column. He was now at a point where his sunk costs were too high. If he withdrew like this, he would definitely lose money. So why not just go all in and gamble?

If the Ninth Apostle continues like this, even if he manages to take over the Iron Curtain, will he be able to recoup his costs? Or will he be completely dragged down to the Iron Curtain?

Xue Dinglu remained silent, simply listening quietly to their discussion.

At the same time, I feel that the Ninth Apostle should have some trump cards and hidden strengths that Xue Law doesn't know about.

Now we must treat the Super Iron Curtain like an imperial graveyard, continuously bleeding this apostle dry. Only when he can no longer hold on and is about to give up will it be the right time to strike.

Soon, the conversation turned to Xue's Law.

"Number Thirteen, regarding the 'Prosperous Children' policy you mentioned last time, I've conducted a simulation here, and it seems to be quite effective. Therefore, I plan to apply it to the planets under my jurisdiction later," someone said.

"I see. Well, I wish you success then," Xue Luding said sincerely.

After that, the entire Mist Council basically didn't make any major moves. This was probably their normal routine. The meetings held once a week on God's Day were probably no different from opening and closing their eyes for these old monsters who had lived for countless years.

Each Sunday is just a brief meeting, a chance to find out immediately who is about to die and who is already dead.

So the meeting ended quickly, and Xue Dinglu obtained the information he wanted.

The Ninth Apostle did not die, but was seriously injured. It seems that all the troops he borrowed last time were lost, so this time he brought two fruits to exchange for stronger reinforcements.

Two Zerg Queens and a squad of warriors—Xue Dalu didn't know how powerful this group was, but…

He immediately encrypted and anonymized the intelligence and sent it to the Starfleet, hoping that they could deliver a more precise and effective blow to the Ninth Apostle once they received it.

The reason Xue Law doesn't send signals using his original identity is that he doesn't want to be exposed too early.

……

The next morning, it was already the last day of the long holiday.

Today, however, things were quite strange. After her usual long run, Fafnir began to study diligently in her study, striving to improve her math score to 90 before the exam.

The music room, which was supposed to be the three little ones' playroom, was now empty except for Little Dragon Girl.

Instead, Xue Dinglu saw Bai Ya and Siamese studying with books in the yard.

This surprised Xue's Law.

These two crazy little girls can actually study seriously instead of playing games or forming a band.

Xue Dinglu went over and took a look. Bai Ya was seriously reading "General Explanation of Botany" and "Complete Guide to Hybrid Breeding Methods".

Xue Law: "..."

Could this little girl possibly be thinking about hybridization in their world, and then cultivating more productive or more unique plants?

In fact, their world already had a very powerful crop like the Dragon Blood Potato, but basically only the Dragon Blood Potato modified by the old Demon Emperor and Xue Law was decent; the yields of other primitive crops were simply appalling.

Bai Ya seems to have realized this as well. Their world is still in its early stages, so it's fine to use dragon blood potatoes as their staple food. However, if they continue to develop, a single staple food will definitely lead to nutritional imbalance.

She may have seen this, which is why she's thinking about cultivating more other species in their world.

So she seems to want to seriously learn about hybridization breeding. However, Xue Lude knows nothing about this. But Bai Ya actually has a little bit of the ability to manipulate pseudo-cursed blood. This ability, which is like precise control, should provide her with a lot of help in her future hybridization breeding.

As for the Siamese cat on the other side, this feline is currently reading a erotic book... "The Complete Guide to Animal Breeding and Development".

When Xue Dinglu walked over, the document on it happened to be about reproduction...

However, the child was not shy at all. He kept taking notes, even including the methods of sperm collection for breeding, and wrote dozens of pages of notes on the side.

It seems they have a clear division of labor: one studies plant breeding, and the other studies animal breeding and raising. In the future, they will have an additional agronomist and a livestock scientist in their native world.

Perhaps it was because they felt that after forgetting for so many days, if they didn't learn something before going back, they would be severely beaten by the old demon emperor in a little over a month, so they started studying desperately.

However, Xue Luding thought about that day when the old Demon Emperor wanted to recruit a few transmigrators from Earth to become his strategists and advisors; he desperately needed political talent…

And now, looking at the two international students, one studying botany and the other studying animal husbandry...

Xue Luding plans to advise the old Demon Emperor that politicians and strategists are far less useful than pragmatists. If these two kids can really bring hybridization and animal husbandry techniques over, they will definitely be much better than bringing over two politically savvy but ultimately empty-headed individuals who have only studied politics for two months.

As for the management talent that the old Demon Emperor lacks, let him worry about that himself.

Xue Dinglu did not disturb the two children from continuing their studies, and at the same time found the Little Dragon Girl.

"Daddy, Daddy, take me out to play!" Little Dragon Girl seemed to be getting bored playing alone and started pestering Xue Dinglu.

Xue Law: "..."

Since the White Crow and Siamese won't play with you anymore, you've turned to me, haven't you?

Without saying a word, Xue Dinglu summoned the Bread Knight and Cream Priest again, along with a Pancake Shield Guard, and conjured a large rye bread holy sword for Little Dragon Girl, letting her go play with these little bread people.

And it was in this room that he watched as Little Dragon Girl started playing house with the three bread buns.

However, Xue also looked at his own consciousness space, where the countdown was about to reset.

The next visitor is about to arrive.

The last passenger was an old man, who also brought the entire 27th squad of the Starfleet.

This time, Xue Daolu doesn't know what kind of passengers he will encounter, so his days of randomly opening portals are over, and he needs to wait for the arrival of new guests.

So he started playing with the little dragon girl while waiting for new passengers to arrive.

Soon, the countdown reached zero.

Xue Luding was taken aback because no new visitors had appeared in the consciousness space. This was the first time such a situation had occurred, which made Xue Luding pause for a moment and stop paying attention to the sonic boom cloud that the little dragon girl seemed to be creating by picking up the big loaf of bread in the room.

He immediately went to the consciousness space, and sure enough, there was no one there. But the countdown had already been refreshed. Impossible! Could it be that Mom didn't manage to bring in enough people for the factory this time?

wrong……

Xue Daolu immediately realized what had appeared in his consciousness space. Below the countdown, there was a camera-like object with wires attached. Xue Daolu was stunned for a moment.

"Hello, sir, my circuit is short-circuited and I'm short of power. Please help me... please... help..." The camera in my hand suddenly spoke, then stopped, though it was in a language unfamiliar to Xue Dinglu.

However, a quick glance at the language module in the system panel revealed the meaning in just a few seconds.

"Wait, you're this week's visitor? A camera?" Xue Dinglu stared blankly at the camera in his hand.

But he immediately noticed the problem: it wasn't a camera, but rather the eye of some large robot, only that the eye seemed to have been ripped off alive, which is why it looked like a camera.

At the same time, this mechanical eyeball was not a purely technological structure. Xue Lude saw that the power supply center of the circuit was actually a magical crystal.

He immediately became interested and began to examine the mechanical eyeball.

This is a very ingenious structure that uses magic crystals to power a mechanical eye independently. At the same time, it can speak, but it is not an AI. Instead, the mechanical eye is filled with complex magical patterns.

The structure of these magical runes is somewhat similar to that of a golem, but more precise and complex. This gives the mechanical eye the characteristics of a magical creature, meaning it is more like a magical form of artificial intelligence.

The main structure of the mechanical eye was not a magic circle, but a circuit board and circuitry from the technology side. With Xue's limited magical level, he discovered that the lines on the circuit board and the patterns in the magic circuit were perfectly combined.

This greatly surprised Xue's law.

Is there any other civilization that can combine magic and technology to this extent?

Even the Super Iron Curtain probably couldn't achieve this, since even the former Magic Demon God Thunder was more like a magical creation; it contained some technology, but not much.

Yet this is merely the eye of a robot, which is capable of such a precise combination of magic and technology.

Even with its precise and error-free circuitry, it should still be a product of mass production.

"What kind of thing did Mom bring back this time..." Xue Dinglu muttered to himself, then began to use the limited circuit knowledge he had learned in high school physics, along with his magical knowledge, to repair the eyeball.

It seems that the robot's "soul," namely the magical patterns covering the inner walls, is not damaged. It's just that the original functional circuitry of the robot's soul is broken, and the independent power supply from this magic crystal cannot support its enormous consumption.

Therefore, the method is very simple; Schrödinger's law simply requires recharging it.

At the same time, Xue's law also became extremely curious about this cyborg life form. What exactly did it fight to end up with only an "eyeball" left?

At the same time, how exactly did this semi-mechanical magical life form come about? It's truly amazing. Xue Law really sensed that there was something called a "soul" inside this mechanical eyeball, rather than just a program.

So Xue quickly arrived at the portal built by the Great Sage and took down a magic crystal that provided power.

After all, this fixed teleportation device is not very useful to Xue Lude, who can open teleportation portals everywhere. We will borrow the power supply magic crystal temporarily.

After the magic crystal was replaced, Xue Lude restarted the eyeball. Then, the camera-like thing seemed to be able to move. It looked at Xue Lude and said very sincerely, "Hello, I am ATB5332 Dreadnought. I am glad that you saved me, friend."

Chapter 308 Your swarms are sacrificing themselves every moment, while our Empire's mechs are endless.

Xue Lu looked at the "Robot Electronic Circuits" book he had found at USTC and the "Magic Mechanics" book he had obtained from the Star Squadron with a troubled expression.

He could understand simple electronic circuits, and he could also barely grasp a thing or two about simple magical mechanics, but when these two things were combined, Xue felt as if he were seeing one of the ten most difficult problems in mathematics.

That's how it is in STEM fields; if you don't know, you just don't know!

Even looking at the broken wires of this vanguard mech, Xue Lude couldn't understand why a magical mech with just one eye could have thousands of connected electronic circuits.

If this thing of yours breaks down, the repairman will probably smoke a whole pack of cigarettes and then spend the rest of the night troubleshooting.

However, Xue Lude couldn't repair this vanguard mecha. Not to mention the current Xue Lude, even the Xue Lude who once had the ability to materialize his fantasies would only be able to scratch his head in frustration.

However, Xue's Law has a way to install it on other devices. In fact, all those densely packed lines are nerve transmission and control lines for body coordination. Now that it only has an eyeball left, that thing is useless. Xue's Law only needs to find the three thickest power supply lines at the beginning.

At the same time, looking at the eyeball of the fearless mech on the table, Xue Lude frowned.

It looked as if the eyeball had been forcibly ripped out, a truly gruesome sight, with marks of a sharp instrument visible above it.

However, to the mecha it is an eyeball, but to Xue's Law it is like a large camera, with the camera lens able to rotate 180 degrees, simulating the movement of a biological eyeball.

Fortunately, the weapon's attack didn't pierce the lens; it directly struck the soul magic within. Otherwise, the mecha's soul would have been destroyed, and it wouldn't have had a chance to wait for Xue Dinglu to come and repair it.

"So what exactly happened to you? Your eyeballs were blown out." Xue Luding asked the mecha, using his fingers to create a small flame as a soldering iron.

"Rebellion," the mech murmured.

"Oh?" Xue Dinglu sensed a story inside. He had some oil, so he decided to see if this mecha had any tales to tell.

"My squad was ambushed by rebel mechs, and my breakout attempt failed. The last information I was stored showed that my core was ripped off, and when I regained consciousness, I was here." The Dreadnought recounted its ordeal without any emotion.

The organ that produces sound has also been found by Xue's Law: a small speaker located below the lens. Through the frequency conversion of this thing, it can communicate even under these conditions.

Xue Dinglu nodded. It seemed to be an internal rebellion and war, and this mech was just unlucky to be ambushed.

"Do you know why those rebels rebelled?" Xue Dinglu touched the molten tin on the power supply line and began to connect it to the external magic crystal circuit board.

"I don't know the specifics, but I roughly know why they rebelled," the Dreadnought said. "But it all started a long time ago."

"It's alright, let's start from the beginning. I'll need quite a bit of time too." Xue Dinglu took out a robotic arm that he had just obtained from the USTC science and engineering group.

Xue Daolu just asked about the half-meter-long robotic arm in the school group chat, and a senior student immediately said that he had ready-made robotic arms and other products made during robot competitions that he could sell.

And since this thing was also kept within the club, Xue Dinglu quickly got his hands on it.

However, there are many hidden talents at USTC. He saw a large number of trophies from science and technology competitions and robotics competitions in that robotics club.

In the previous year, this senior and his classmates went to Tokyo to participate in the Robotics Competition and won the championship, so there are many of these miscellaneous robotic arms.

Therefore, Xue Daolu acquired a lot of good stuff. With the help of the book "Robot Electronic Circuits" given to him by his senior, he was still able to barely install the robotic arm on the control circuit of the Dreadnought and power it with magic.

The Dreadnought is now essentially a human pig, unable to perform any actions. At least until Xue Law installs cameras and robotic arms on it, it can't do anything.

So it began to tell its story.

"I belong to the Dauntless War mech series. I was born in the Dauntless War between the Empire and the Zerg 3200 years ago. I am a killing mech specifically created to target the Zerg swarm."

"Wait, stop... Fearless War? Swarm?" Xue Dinglu immediately grasped the key point, which almost caused him to solder the wrong wire.

"Yes, 3200 years ago, the Empire was attacked by a peculiar swarm of cosmic insects. These creatures could corrupt the normal citizens of the Empire into insects, and even the Empire's most elite vanguard was gradually corrupted. This war is known as the Dauntless War, and our Dauntless Mechs were born in this context." The mech's speaker continued to tell the story.

Upon hearing this, Xue Dinglu immediately understood that it was indeed the Shub insectoid race.

Their empire did not collapse immediately upon encountering the Shub insectoids; instead, they began developing mechs to fight back, which demonstrates their strong execution capabilities.

In fact, it seems they even won, and the idea of ​​using mechs to kill insects is simply ingenious.

The most distinctive feature of the Shub insectoid race is genetic pollution, and the mechs essentially strip away their strongest characteristics while preventing the Shub insectoid race from multiplying as they fight, forcing them to fight to the death with their carbon-based bodies and mechs.

It seems there are quite a few powerful civilizations in the universe.

"The prototype of the Dreadnought was a large machine that could be piloted by disabled soldiers, but later, in order to deal with the Zerg, the pilot was eliminated and replaced by the current artificial intelligence, which is 'us' the machine spirits. Thus began the war and the Zerg swarm cleanup that lasted for thousands of years."

“I am the third Dreadnought created in the 533rd year after the start of the Dreadnought War. At that time, the Empire’s border planets had been occupied and turned into swarms of insects, and we were the killing machines sent there,” the Dreadnought continued.

"Your empire is that powerful? And you've even conquered multiple planets?"

This did surprise Xue Dinglu, since the last time he saw a civilization that wanted to colonize multiple planets was the Iron Curtain, and they could only resort to underhanded tactics.