Chapter 3488: Reaching the Peak

Inside the hive chamber, Su Xiao, the Undead Sister, and the Priest were all silent. Even if only one person had used 【Beginning of the Nightmare】, the danger level of this world would already be high enough; right now, it was a triple-stacked super-multiplier.

Since the situation was set in stone, Su Xiao was more concerned about one thing: whether anyone other than the three people present had used 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 to enter this world.

Estimating by the rankings on the Reputation Leaderboard, among the top ten, besides Su Xiao and the other two, the remaining seven—including the Valhalla leader Cain and the Black Demon—had the possibility of having used 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 to enter this world.

Under normal circumstances, few people actually use this item because it is too dangerous. If one person uses it, nine times out of ten, it means a poor start or being located in a high-danger zone.

For example, Su Xiao's status as an Imperial wanted criminal counted as a poor start. He had originally thought the side effects of 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 had already manifested, but now it seemed that wasn't the case.

In layman's terms, if only one person uses 【Beginning of the Nightmare】, it is equivalent to that individual experiencing a nightmare-level difficulty. If the scale of the world they are in is large enough, it won't easily cause a world-wide impact.

The scale of this world is large enough: Pan Duola Star (main star), O'Kai Star (Imperial mother star), Good Fortune Star (colony), Gray Hunter Star (colony), ζXV367 Star (colony), Banini Star (colony)...

A main star plus a mother star, along with over a dozen colony stars—so many planets inhabited by intelligent lifeforms indicate that the scale of this world is vast. Logically, one person using 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 to enter this world should only trigger a personal nightmare difficulty.

But since Su Xiao entered this world, apart from being imprisoned at the start, he hadn't been targeted by the Empire in other aspects. The development of the Zerg hive had been very smooth. Today was the third day since entering this world; in such a short time, Zhila had already promoted to "Mother Empress" rank, stepping into the top tier of the Zerg in this world.

Being this smooth, Su Xiao had previously felt that the nightmare difficulty didn't live up to its name. But at this moment, he knew what was going on. Why had it been so smooth before? Because the nightmare difficulty wasn't coming yet; a greater terror was about to descend.

All three of them had used 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 to enter this world. The world had already begun to hold back a massive ultimate move. The initial peace was as if it were saying: cherish the current clear skies and pleasant weather, eat whatever you want to eat quickly, because there might not be a chance later.

"Analyzing rationally, I don't think Cain would use 【Beginning of the Nightmare】. He brought an adventure team this time."

The Undead Sister spoke. The three people present had seen all kinds of major situations. Although the current situation was terrifying, the three remained calm, even composed.

"Reasonable."

The Priest agreed with the Undead Sister's statement. If Cain didn't want his adventure team to suffer massive casualties, he wouldn't use 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 to enter this world.

"What kind of disaster do you think will descend?"

The Undead Sister had a worried look on her face. Compared to strong enemies she could see, she was more wary of this kind of unknown danger.

"Initially, I thought it was the Empire's wanted status."

The Priest spoke. Hearing this, the Undead Sister asked in a tone of amusement: "Oh? You were wanted? For what reason?"

"Supposedly for organizing an evil cult."

As the Priest spoke, he slowly shook his head, wearing an expression of having been slandered.

"That really fits your temperament."

The Undead Sister laughed a little happily, clearly having had conflicts with the Priest before.

"Thank you for the compliment."

"I wasn't praising you. Speaking of which, with the situation reaching this point, shouldn't we join forces?" The Undead Sister's eyes were bright.

"Hmm, we should indeed unite. Bai Ye, what is your opinion?"

The Priest looked toward Su Xiao.

"Hmm."

Su Xiao naturally agreed to cooperate. In his view, no matter what was going to happen next, having two more teammates was quite good. At critical moments, teammates are truly useful, whether for splitting the danger or being sacrificed like a hidden weapon.

"Then let's agree on this: if we cooperate, we must at least be united."

The Undead Sister's gaze swept across Su Xiao and the Priest's faces. For some reason, she suddenly felt that this squad had a dark future.

Actually, it's no wonder the Undead Sister had this thought. The squad members were either former hunters or current hunters, and even more absurdly, there was a rule-breaker among them.

After discussion, the three decided to cooperate to continue developing within this world, conducting low-price mutual trades regarding resources.

As for joining forces to develop Su Xiao's hive, that was basically impossible. The current situation was indeed dangerous, but before this, the three were either hostile or had only stayed at the level of trading acquaintances. No one knew if the Priest had a secret plan to suddenly strike and devour Zhila; such a thing was not impossible.

Furthermore, even if the three joined forces to develop this hive, the effect wouldn't be very high. The development of the hive relied more on worker-type Zerg or combat-type Zerg. Rather than all being dragged here, it was better for each to be responsible for different fields.

Su Xiao would continue to develop the Mother Hive, while the Priest would go find the Black Demon to ask if the other party had also used 【Beginning of the Nightmare】. No matter how dangerous the situation became, at the very least, one had to be aware of it.

If the Black Demon had also used 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 to enter this world, Su Xiao's existing plans would all be changed; he would develop at a higher risk and faster speed.

Besides finding the Black Demon, the Priest would also go to trick more cannon fodder... *cough*, go to recruit more teammates to deal with the current situation together.

Besides that, the Priest's methods were strange and varied, so it was most suitable for him to investigate the source of the danger.

The Undead Sister would contact the Empire. She had previously soloed an Eighth-Tier hive and slaughtered a Mother Empress-level Zerg host, which greatly shocked the Empire. Although they had the ability to destroy an Eighth-Tier hive, they couldn't do it by soloing one.

The Empire was trying hard to win the Undead Sister over. She had previously chosen to refuse, knowing the Empire's recruitment was not out of goodwill, so she couldn't be bothered to play mind games with them. Now, forced by the situation, she could only temporarily agree to the Empire's recruitment, using their perfect intelligence channels to investigate the origin of the crisis and what type of danger it was.

The Undead Sister had destroyed an Eighth-Tier hive. Su Xiao had originally prepared to trade for some "Life Ore" from her, but unfortunately, let alone "Life Ore," not even the enemy Zerg corpses were left behind.

The undead army summoned by the Undead Sister was not only fierce in combat but also so brutal in style that when that battle subsided, the enemy hive had been eaten clean by the undead creatures, let alone Life Ore. The only remaining underground mineral vein had been sold to a corporate faction yesterday noon. In the Undead Sister's words: "If I had known, I wouldn't have sold it."

Having settled their respective responsibilities, the Undead Sister and the Priest left. In front of the Mother Hive entrance, Su Xiao watched their retreating backs and had a plan in mind. He decided to change his strategy and start the war-development mode.

The so-called war-development mode was actually going to plunder resources. Su Xiao had originally prepared to play it safe, but the environment didn't give him the chance to do so.

Last night after 12:00, Zhila completed her promotion, and their hive was promoted to an Eighth-Tier hive. At this time, the horizon was already turning white. The bio-energy obtained from 340,000 worker scorpions digging for nearly six hours was all used by Su Xiao to build Zerg structures.

The "Research Lab" had been built and was now located in the middle layer inside the Mother Hive. As for what the "Host-Melting Worm" inside the lab looked like, Su Xiao hadn't seen it, but he could sense it and communicate with it.

The "Host-Melting Worm" was a high-intelligence unit among the Zerg, or it could be said that it was a hero-level unit. In layman's terms, it was a Zerg scientist. It would use all existing knowledge and the genetic reserves within the hive to develop Zerg structures according to Zhila or Su Xiao's requirements.

What surprised Su Xiao even more was that not long after the "Host-Melting Worm" appeared, it submitted a request to Su Xiao and Zhila, asking for a unique title or name, or a code name, to distinguish it from the combat Zerg and worker Zerg.

Such strong self-awareness was undoubtedly pleasant news. The "Host-Melting Worm" was responsible for development and innovation; without strong enough self-awareness, creativity and imagination wouldn't be particularly strong.

But there was one problem: Su Xiao and Zhila's naming skills were generally somewhat...

Zhila gave a mental command to the "Host-Melting Worm," granting it independent naming rights. Thus, the hero-level unit, the Zerg scientist, named itself Pros.

Pros was the fourth hero-level unit of their hive. The first three were: Mantis Armor·Bulu, Leader-level Demon Beast·Abaddon, and Leader-level Demon Flame Dragon·Barbados.

Bulu had no combat power. After completing the initial construction of the Mother Hive, it became Zhila's little errand runner. Back on the Primitive Continent, it had been bullied by Barbados and would come to Su Xiao and Zhila to complain.

As for the Leader-level Demon Beast·Abaddon and Leader-level Demon Flame Dragon·Barbados, they were currently in a state of conscious slumber. Only when their hive could cultivate Leader-level individuals could they be awakened.

At the current stage, the creep around their hive had been improved once by Pros, covering an area with a diameter of 5 kilometers, which was 20 square kilometers. This area was sufficient for now.

On the overall circular creep, the Mother Hive sat in the very center, and behind the Mother Hive was the newly built "Thorn Star Spiral Tower (Eighth-Tier)."

The Thorn Star Spiral Tower presented a spiral shape, like a dark red sharp cone shooting into the sky, reaching a height of 140 meters, 20 meters taller than the Mother Hive. This was a representative structure.

With it, the Mother Hive's health increased by 120,000 points and external defense by 196 points. The health bonus wasn't much for the Mother Hive, but the external defense increase was particularly top-tier. Increasing defense by dozens of points was already remarkable; an increase of nearly 200 points was something only architectural units could achieve so heavily.

Right now, the most numerous things on the creep were "Earth Nests" several meters high. The number of "Earth Nests" was in the hundreds, of varying heights, forming a loose distribution around the Mother Hive, creating a Zerg-style architectural complex with the Mother Hive and various Zerg structures.

The "Earth Nests" had many functions. When the bio-energy within their Zerg units was about to be exhausted, they would enter the "Earth Nest" to rest for a short while, and their bio-energy would be full, which was several times better than recovering while lying on the creep.

The "Earth Nest" was also an exclusive hospital for Zerg units. After combat Zerg were injured, they could crawl into the "Earth Nest" to recover.

Besides that, the "Bio-Reaction Stack" for charging various Zerg structures had also been completed.

Finally, there was the position-attack Zerg structure, the Killing Sentry Tower. Su Xiao looked up; the Killing Sentry Tower stood diagonally in front of the Mother Hive. This thing was very ugly, about 35 meters high and nearly 17 meters thick. The upper part hung down like an elephant's trunk; this was the launcher. Once the sensing tower discovered enemy troops approaching, the upper part of the Killing Sentry Tower would adjust its angle according to the enemy's method. Every 20 seconds, it could fire a giant chitin spear cone from within.

The Killing Sentry Tower was a very old model of Zerg structure, with poor performance, and the design wasn't great. In Baha's words, this thing looked like a male's "little brother." If it attacked enemies, the attack power wasn't strong, but the insult was extreme.

Su Xiao's first task for Pros was to develop two types of "Defense Towers." One was to deal with enemies that were numerous and had already rushed near their creep—that is, a defense tower for dealing with cannon fodder. This must have a fast attack frequency and low construction cost; after all, this kind of defense tower would definitely be built in a pile.

The other type of defense tower was for hitting ultra-long-distance flying targets, preferably capable of shooting outside the atmosphere. The frequency didn't need to be high, but the power had to be stunning—the kind that would scrap an enemy's large flying unit in one hit.

This type of defense tower, of course, had to be developed toward the plasma system, but considering the construction cost of plasma-system structures, the large mineral vein they currently occupied suddenly didn't feel rich anymore.

Su Xiao didn't consider these for now. He sat cross-legged on top of the Mother Hive, watching the sunrise while organizing his existing assets: one Eighth-Tier Mother Hive, followed by a sensing tower, laboratory, Killing Sentry Tower, Thorn Star Spiral Tower, and Bio-Reaction Stack.

Regarding Zerg units: 1,001 Mantis Armors, 340,000 elite worker scorpions, 30 spore tanks, and 12,053 demon beasts.

Now that the hive had been promoted to Eighth-Tier, the existing combat units needed to be replaced with elite demon beasts as the main force, with a certain amount of demon flame dragons as the breakthrough sharp weapons.

The problem was that the Mother Hive currently stored only 650 points of bio-energy, enough to cultivate only 10 elite demon beasts.

Su Xiao estimated that to fight the Zerg Mother Empress of this world, one needed at least 100,000 or more elite demon beasts to form a suppression in combat power, eventually breaking through the enemy hive to quickly obtain "Life Ore."

For 100,000 demon beasts, it would take a full 5 million points of bio-energy to cultivate them, which meant 500,000 units of Life Ore. Digging out the large mineral vein under the Mother Hive could indeed achieve this. The problem was, at the current mining speed of 17,000 units of Life Ore per day, it would take a month to mine 500,000 units of Life Ore.

Su Xiao estimated that he wouldn't even need to dig for a month; perhaps after digging for ten more days, he would be in the ground. He had to find a way to get rich quickly now.

Thinking of the word "get rich quickly," a figure appeared in Su Xiao's mind. If that guy could come, the situation might still have a solution, and the probability of surviving this world would definitely increase greatly.

The problem was, if that guy sensed the situation in this world, there was a 99.999% chance he wouldn't come. That guy put his little life first and money second. That's right, this person was Caesar.

Su Xiao didn't consider whether he could trick Caesar into coming for now; the success rate was very low. The cooperation just now with the Priest and the Undead Sister had yielded zero help in terms of resources, but a rich harvest in intelligence.

First was the Zerg Alliance. This alliance was formed by five Zerg Mother Empresses. These five Zerg Mother Empresses were:

Crimson Empress: The strongest Zerg Mother Empress in this world. It is said that she is about to be promoted from Mother Empress rank to Sovereign rank.

Brutal·Kara: A neighbor of their hive. Her personality is cruel. The Zerg combat units under her command are relatively weak, but the Zerg structures are strong. She often fails when taking the initiative to attack, but she is a particularly terrifying existence when defending her home.

Isaiah: Comprehensive strength is above average, very low-key.

Guy: The most cowardly Zerg Mother Empress. She advocated for peace talks many times, only to be beaten by the Empire's Third Fleet until she doubted life.

Spider Queen: Her Zerg combat units and Zerg structures are both at an above-average level, and her worker Zerg are top-tier, with the strongest mining ability. The previously destroyed Spider Sister was driven out from the Spider Queen's group. Compared to her strength, the Spider Queen's fame for lending money is even greater. She often lends out "Life Ore" and then collects the principal + high interest exceeding the principal.

Among the five Zerg Mother Empresses, the Crimson Empress was the leader. After learning this intelligence, Su Xiao found that the power structure of this world was simpler than he had imagined.

The Empire's Third Fleet was hostile to the Crimson Empress, while the corporate faction was ostensibly the Empire's lackey, but in reality, they had secret dealings with the Crimson Empress.

Of the five Zerg factions, Su Xiao was most concerned about their leader, the Crimson Empress. Under the Crimson Empress's hive was the largest Life Ore vein in this world, which was also the main reason the Imperial faction went to war with her.

Su Xiao felt that to withstand the disaster that was getting closer and closer, he had to seize that super-giant Life Ore vein under the Crimson Empress. Otherwise, there was a more than 90% chance he would die in this world this time. The disaster accumulated by three copies of 【Beginning of the Nightmare】 was frightening just to think about.

Among these five Zerg Mother Empresses, the one Su Xiao most wanted to contact was, of course, the Spider Queen. She was a loan shark. For example, if you borrowed 10 units of Life Ore today, after a week, it would at least double to 300 units; even compound interest couldn't roll that fast.

Regarding such unscrupulous behavior as loan sharking, Su Xiao decided to let the other party know the dangers of the world. He was currently lacking Life Ore. Borrowing 500,000 units of Life Ore from her was impossible, but borrowing 100,000 units was still possible.

Su Xiao wasn't trying to get something for nothing. Under their hive was a large mineral vein that could produce a total of 30–50 units of Life Ore. Using this as collateral, the Spider Queen would likely be willing to lend.

If he could have 100,000 units of Life Ore, the current situation would be different. Thinking of this, Su Xiao flashed and disappeared from the top of the hive. After returning to the creep, he had Mantis Armor·Bulu call Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha over.

A moment later.

"Woof."

"Boss, what's up?"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha all arrived in the hive chamber. Zhila, who had just woken up, sat on the bed yawning.

"Zhila, can you determine the location of the Spider Queen?"

"I can. There are five existences here at the same rank as me. They can also sense me. Among them, the red mental wavelength is the strongest. As for the spider, she is over there."

Zhila pointed to the northwest.

Su Xiao's gaze turned to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha, saying: "You two go as representatives to find the Spider Queen and negotiate a loan. As for the amount... no upper limit, the lower limit is 100,000 units."

Hearing this, Baha asked: "Boss, what are we using as collateral?"

"Use the mineral vein. Tell the Spider Queen that we urgently need a large amount of Life Ore for initial development."

Su Xiao said this, of course, not just talking nonsense. Now they had 340,000 worker scorpions and 12,000 demon beasts; the worker Zerg and combat Zerg were disproportionate.

Su Xiao was certain that the Spider Queen wouldn't lend money casually; the other party would definitely come to investigate. At that time, Su Xiao would reduce the number of worker scorpions to 30,000 using the creep. In this way, at the cost of losing a certain amount of bio-energy, he would let the scouts sent by the Spider Queen see that they were indeed in urgent need of Life Ore for initial development.

The Spider Queen's method was that after lending money, about 2–3 days later, she would come to demand interest. If you didn't pay, she would use force.

For the Zerg in this world, 2–3 days were not enough to digest such a large amount of Life Ore. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been beaten into this state by a fleet from the Empire.

In this way, the exploitation by the Spider Queen would begin. She would recover the principal in a short time and, through coercion, continue to eat interest until the borrower's mineral resources were eaten clean, and finally destroy the borrower.

After Su Xiao borrowed the money, he would, of course, not be oppressed by that loan shark queen. He didn't intend to pay back this loan at all. The Spider Queen's threat of force? Great, he was just worried that no one would take the initiative to attack. Having Zerg take the initiative to attack them was much faster than mining for development.

"Understood, Boss. Xiang Bubu and I will go now. Just watch me when the time comes..."

"Talk less when the time comes."

Hearing Su Xiao say this, Baha gave an awkward smile. Last time he went to borrow money in a primitive world, he was the one who went, and the result... let's not mention it.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked, meaning "leave it to me." Its 237 points of real charm attribute were not for nothing. A moment later, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha set off.

Su Xiao checked the prompt that had just appeared.

【Prompt (Tree of the Void): Hunter's current Reputation Leaderboard rank: 4th.】

【You have obtained 1,000 Soul Coins.】

The Reputation Leaderboard distributed rewards at 6:00 AM every two days. A reward of 1,000 Soul Coins for 4th place was already quite good.

After checking, Su Xiao learned that for the reward settlement every two days, the first place received 5,000 Soul Coins, the second place 3,000, the third place 2,000, the fourth place 1,000, and the fifth place 600.

This income was quite good. If he could maintain first place for 10 days, 25,000 Soul Coins would be in hand.

Su Xiao glanced at the current ranking. The Valhalla leader in first place had strong momentum and was heading toward the 5,000 mark.

8:00 AM, clear skies without a cloud. An airship with a large screen billboard flew slowly overhead. This was O'Kai Star, the Empire's mother star.

Compared to "Heva City," the center of Imperial power, "Genmouth," as a small place, although not filled with floating cars, was still a clean city. Occasionally, floating cars shuttled between high-rises filled with various billboards.

No matter how advanced technology became, people's lives would still retain the "smoke and fire" of daily life. This was something carbon-based organisms couldn't lose.

There were many pedestrians on the street in the early morning. On the ten-meter-wide three-way main street, dozens of pedestrians were waiting for the pedestrian light. Some of them were holding breakfast, and some were reading newspapers. The headline of the newspaper was: "Different Surrender Postures of the Zerg."

Although this wasn't a major newspaper, one could see the orientation problem. For a long time, the Imperial officialdom had been beautifying war, making young people mistakenly believe that as long as they had courage, they could get promoted and rich on the battlefield. Those photos of flesh and blood flying and organs spilling all over the ground were only reported by a few newspapers that still insisted on such reporting.

The pedestrian light high above emitted a soft prompt sound. The old man reading the newspaper or the young people looking at their terminals all looked up ahead. Just at this moment, a refined middle-aged man suddenly collapsed. He was in shock, his whole body trembling, his pale eyes first turning blood-red, then transforming into a black-green, or rather, a deep, ghostly green.

*Beep beep beep~*

The middle-aged man's emergency rescue wristband emitted a harsh alarm sound, representing that this had exceeded the limit of what the citizen wristband could rescue. The surrounding onlookers just watched, or rather, they didn't know what to do at all. This was the disadvantage of over-reliance on technology: the more advanced the technology, the lazier the people who enjoy it, and the less they like to use their brains.

The collapsed middle-aged man arched his chest and abdomen like a dead fish, making a wheezing sound in his throat. Suddenly, he seemed to lose all his strength, and his back slammed onto the ground.

Looking at him now, ghostly green and black liquid flowed from his seven orifices. This liquid had a slow evaporation phenomenon.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man's dilated pupils contracted, making the ghostly green in the center of his pupils brighter.

"Buxiu, Shefeiwagu (Unknown Language)."

The middle-aged man, in a lying position, stood up straight from the ground. He raised his hand and gripped the air with one hand.

"Ah!!"

A shrill scream spread across the surrounding dozen blocks. This wasn't one or two people screaming, but thousands. Their flesh and blood were torn and stripped away at a speed visible to the naked eye. Some people were left with only skeletons, still running forward following instinct.

In a very short time, the surroundings became quiet. The middle-aged man with ghostly green eyes still maintained the posture of gripping the air with one hand. A round core compressed from flesh and blood floated in his hand. Just as this core turned ghostly green and spread root-like structures, continuously infecting the surrounding space, a muffled sound came from afar.

*Boom! *

A cannon beam fell, and the ground of most of the block was flipped up. In the energy explosion, the middle-aged man was blown back by the impact. After flying back hundreds of meters, he landed in a kneeling position. From beginning to end, his gaze was very cold—no, it was indifferent, more terrifying than cold.

*Bang! * A metal spike surging with electric arcs pierced the middle-aged man's chest and was nailed diagonally into the road surface behind him. This metal spike was about three meters long and had many holes on it.

The middle-aged man's arm liquefied first, turning into a ghostly green semi-fluid, and then his whole body liquefied, breaking free from the restraint of the sonic vibration's mobility.

A fighter jet stopped sharply above. Just as it was about to carry out a firepower sweep, the middle-aged man on the street had disappeared. When the fighter pilot received a warning from the tracking function, the middle-aged man was already half-squatting on top of the fighter jet. He pressed one hand on the fighter jet, and in an instant, the fighter jet turned ghostly green and black, and eyes appeared on it one by one. This fighter jet actually transformed from a dead object into half a living creature.

Just as the middle-aged man and the fighter jet were about to fuse together to carry out a firepower sweep on the residential area below, a scorching red beam of light fell from above.

When everything subsided, a well-dressed Imperial official walked quickly to the remains left by the fighter jet. The Imperial official's expression was ugly. He asked: "How long did this intrusion take in total?"

"5 minutes."

A girl with glasses pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose. Among the elite squad drawn this time, she was specifically responsible for detecting spatial signals.

"It's getting faster and faster. What on earth is this?"

The well-dressed Imperial official sighed, lit a cigarette, and turned to walk toward a small spaceship parked on the side.

The scorching sun was in the sky, Pan Duola Star, 11:00 AM.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang played a video. This was the negotiation process between it and Baha with the Spider Queen. The result was not smooth; the Spider Queen did not agree to the loan, or rather, the other party asked Su Xiao to change the collateral.

The other side didn't directly refuse, which meant they wanted to lend, but they didn't dare to be too obvious and active, fearing they would scare Su Xiao away. Therefore, the Spider Queen played "hard to get," and was prepared to be "half-pushed and half-yielding" later.

In fact, the Spider Queen didn't need to do this at all. She definitely couldn't scare Su Xiao away, because Su Xiao didn't intend to pay back this loan shark loan at all. As for signing a contract with the power of a contract, *heh*, showing off one's axe before a master.

Looking at the Spider Queen's flirtatious attitude of playing hard to get, by this evening at the latest, the other side would loosen up, and the loan amount would be about 100,000 to 150,000 units of active ore.

"Very good."

Su Xiao patted Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's dog head. This matter was done beautifully. Just as he was preparing to heat up some meals packed from Xia and have a sumptuous lunch with Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, Baha, and Zhila, the Priest and the Undead Sister came.

It was still the same hive chamber as before. The three sat around a black chitin round table. The Priest said:

"Bai Ye, I've confirmed it. The Black Demon didn't use the Beginning of the Nightmare."

Hearing this, Su Xiao felt relieved. If four people had used 【Beginning of the Nightmare】, the effect would stack together...

The Undead Sister on the side was in a good mood. Since cooperating with Su Xiao and the Priest, there was finally some good news.

Su Xiao pondered for a moment. If it was only three people's worth of 【Beginning of the Nightmare】, then if he "slightly" embellished the rhetoric, perhaps he could trick Caesar into coming.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out a "Tree Page" and 150 ounces of space-time power, trying to contact Caesar. He didn't believe Caesar could resist these 150 ounces of space-time power.

Su Xiao just tried to contact Caesar and found something wrong. The "Tree Page" was ineffective, which meant... Caesar was also in this world.

Confirming this, Su Xiao contacted Caesar in a conventional way. A few seconds later, he received an email, the content of which was: "My dear friend, this is truly a wonderful fate. Where are you?"

Su Xiao chose to provide his coordinates. If he wanted to trick Caesar onto the pirate ship, he had to show some sincerity. A few seconds later, Caesar replied again, the content of which was: "I'll be there in 5 minutes."

Seeing this message, Su Xiao's expression stiffened. He had been preparing to trick Caesar into coming, but now, the other party was rushing over in a hurry. This was wrong, this was very wrong.

Not knowing what item Caesar used, he didn't take 5 minutes, but arrived in 3 minutes. Caesar walked into the hive in a hurry. As soon as they met, he revealed his signature treacherous smile.

"My dear friend, save me~"

Caesar's last "ah" even had a tremolo. Hearing him say this, Su Xiao, the Priest, and the Undead Sister all felt something was wrong.

"Caesar, you didn't use the Beginning of the Nightmare to enter this world, did you?"

Baha swallowed as he spoke.

"Beginning of the Nightmare? How is that possible? I..."

Caesar's expression gradually became solemn. He seemed to think of something and made a gesture for them to slow down. He tentatively asked: "Bai Ye, you wouldn't be..."

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He took out a Withered Heart. The Priest and the Undead Sister opposite were both embarrassed and each took out a Withered Heart.

Seeing this, Caesar had an expression like he had seen a ghost. A moment later, he recovered.

Caesar turned his head to look at the door, confirming that no one was blocking it and wouldn't kick him in the room, he gave a "shy" smile, then took out the Abyss Jar that was emitting ghostly green smoke from his bosom. At this moment, it seemed the air in the room went quiet.

If Su Xiao, the Undead Sister, and the Priest had successively played four 2s, four As, and four Ks, and were previously worried about the Black Demon throwing out four Qs, they didn't need to worry now, because Caesar had thrown out the ultimate bomb, reaching the peak in one step. ===== CHAPTER 3489 =====