Chapter 3490: Creditor

Inside the ancient hall, after some investigation, Su Xiao confirmed that this unknown evil god had already run away overnight, rather than setting up some kind of plan and pretending to leave while waiting.

First of all, this evil god was also injured. Eighth-Tier top Overlord-level creatures are not to be trifled with. For the sake of its Overlord Essence and a large amount of Source Blood, this evil god also went all out, confronting this Overlord creature head-on and killing it.

From various clues, this evil god was definitely a big shot among the Eighth Tier. However, this time the other party encountered Waterloo. After cross-boundary space travel at a great cost, it came to this world.

Obviously, this evil god was very comfortable when it first arrived, and even subdued many intelligent creatures in this world.

However, after Su Xiao and others entered this world, the hidden dangers that originally existed in this world were drawn out.

To be precise, it wasn't because Su Xiao and others entered this world that it became like this, but because this world was about to become like this that it became the destination for those using 【Beginning of the Nightmare】. To be precise, Su Xiao and others accelerated this process.

Two days ago, the evil god who originally wanted to expand its influence here suddenly frowned, discovering that this place was not simple. Therefore, this evil god incited believers to hunt extraordinary creatures, and it also went to find trouble with Overlord creatures, finally constructing a formation diagram with a large amount of Source Blood and running away overnight.

Su Xiao still had some gains from this trip, such as the ritual formation diagram left by the evil god.

Su Xiao couldn't peek into the cross-boundary ultra-long-distance teleportation of this formation diagram. The gap between alchemy and ritual studies is simply like the gap between chemistry and astronomy. Let a chemistry professor teach someone astronomy, and their head will definitely buzz.

Regarding this type of ritual formation, Su Xiao had one aspect he could refer to. This formation was constructed using Source Blood and belonged to a deeply developed "Blood Power" technique. If he thought from a different perspective, could he replicate this method of utilizing "Blood Power"?

If this could be done, could Su Xiao use blood energy to construct alchemy formation diagrams? Not to mention anything else, the key was saving money. Some basic materials required for alchemy formation diagrams were so expensive that they made one's heart bleed.

After selecting several core points of the ritual formation diagram, Su Xiao took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha and left, taking the demon flame dragon back to the base camp.

The sky was clear without a cloud. Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the dragon's back, considering how to deal with the subsequent situation. The intelligence provided by Caesar was that from today, within the next 10 days, there wouldn't be any major changes. The Netherworld faction was more likely to be making preparations before the invasion.

How big the Netherworld faction was, this was still unknown, but wanting to invade on a large scale from the outer world was definitely not something that could be done in a day or two. This was a different concept from the evil god coming into this world. The evil god only needed to complete a one-way entry, while the Netherworld faction needed to construct a stable boundary channel to form a large-scale invasion.

Right now, Pan Duola Star had no signs at all. The Priest actively went to the Empire's mother star, clearly having confirmed intelligence that the initial infiltration point of the Netherworld faction was "O'Kai Star."

Since that was the case, Su Xiao prepared not to consider the Netherworld faction at the current stage. Actually, it was useless to consider it; there was too little intelligence. What he should do right now was to stabilize the situation on Pan Duola Star.

The three major factions here—the Empire, the company, and the Crimson Empress—none of them could be united. Telling them that the Netherworld was about to invade was like playing the lute to a cow. Compared to those invisible threats, they cared more about the enemies in front of them.

Taking a step back, even if these three major factions agreed to cooperate, in the process of resisting the Netherworld later, there would definitely be the problem of decision-makers from several sides influencing each other, leading to an inability to make quick decisions, and the whole game would collapse.

Su Xiao would rather arrange these three major factions and seize resources for development than cooperate with pig teammates. Not to mention other sides, the company side was definitely pig teammates; this point could be 100% confirmed.

The Empire was arrogant, and the company was shameless, so Su Xiao decided to beat the Crimson Empress camp first. It wasn't because of anything else, mainly because it was close.

Their base camp was in the south, the Empire was in the north directly in front, and between the two sides was the Crimson Empress's territory. If he didn't arrange the Crimson Empress and went to fight the Empire or the company, he would either be stabbed in the chrysanthemum or hit on the flank. He definitely had to beat the Crimson Empress to death first.

The problem right now was that the Crimson Empress camp was formed by five Zerg Mother Empresses holding together: Brutal·Kara, the low-key Isaiah, the peace-faction Guy, and finally the Spider Queen, all of whom were supporters of the Crimson Empress.

This resulted in fighting one being equivalent to provoking five. This wasn't the situation Su Xiao wanted to see.

His original idea was to unite with the Empire and surround the Crimson Empress camp from front and back. The problem was, the Empire was preparing to station a new fleet on Pan Duola Star. The existing Third Fleet wouldn't move, and then the Eighth and Ninth Fleets would be stationed in.

Besides that, the immigrant area that had been built for a long time was also put into use a month ago, and citizens had been moved here one after another.

The Empire's attitude was that they had eaten Pan Duola Star. But because they had to station fleets and move citizens, the war between the Third Fleet and the Crimson Empress camp had temporarily subsided.

Now asking the Empire to start a war would likely get a promise, but when the war really started, the other side would not send a single soldier, watching Su Xiao and the Crimson Empress fight to the death, and finally reaping the benefits as a fisherman.

Since he couldn't get external aid, he had to weaken the enemy from within. Su Xiao estimated that after the Zerg Alliance and the Empire stopped fighting, the five Zerg Mother Empresses of the Zerg Alliance might have small conflicts.

No matter what, the ceasefire was proposed by the Empire. The Zerg Alliance side could be considered a small victory. The victory of the war, even if it was just a small victory, definitely had benefits following it.

If he could make the four Zerg Mother Empresses below have uneven distribution of spoils, it would definitely aggravate the contradictions. Even the Crimson Empress, as the leader of the Zerg Alliance, could at most mediate and couldn't suppress them by force.

Analyzing from another angle, why did the Zerg Alliance stop fighting so easily? Su Xiao estimated that the Empire side was 90% likely to have proposed the saying of coexistence, and later tried to find ways to make the Zerg fight among themselves.

This kind of method of giving a punch at the beginning, then giving candy to coax, and finally disintegrating the enemy internally, the Empire used very smoothly. Among the dozen colony stars they controlled, more than half were taken down like this.

Looking from another perspective, in the perspective of the Zerg Alliance, they would usher in a long period of peace. This was not Su Xiao's delusion. If the Zerg side didn't think they were entering a peace period, the Spider Queen wouldn't continue to lend loan shark loans.

Thinking of the Spider Queen, Su Xiao thought of a breakthrough point. The Spider Queen had once split her mental body at the cost of damaging her origin, shaped a mental clone, and then cultivated a body that was exactly the same as the human race to carry this mental clone.

Originally, the Spider Queen wanted to infiltrate the human race to collapse the enemy from within, but just two days after infiltrating, she was backstabbed.

Who was the person who backstabbed the Spider Queen? To this day, the Spider Queen hadn't found out. The only thing that could be determined was that this was done by the Zerg.

Su Xiao prepared to do something about this matter. Before this evening, the Spider Queen would personally bring her subordinates to deliver 150,000 units of Life Ore. By then, the Spider Queen would be their creditor.

Once the other party became a creditor, it would be easy to handle. For example, Su Xiao's side, through "special channels," discovered who exactly backstabbed the Spider Queen and solved this problem for the creditor.

First of all, the person who backstabbed the Spider Queen was definitely not the Crimson Empress, because Su Xiao couldn't beat the Crimson Empress's tribe yet.

Of the remaining three parties—Brutal·Kara, the low-key Isaiah, and the peace-faction Guy—Su Xiao decided to choose the peace-faction Guy. Not only because the other party was not far from their side, but also because Guy was not a real peace-faction. That side just wanted to avoid war and let others be cannon fodder, which had made the other four Zerg Mother Empresses dissatisfied with her for a long time.

Su Xiao would start a war with the other party on the grounds that Guy had backstabbed the Spider Queen. The benefit of doing this was that even if the Crimson Empress wanted to intervene, she would first find the Spider Queen. The reason was that in the perspective of the outside world, Su Xiao's side seemed to be under the Spider Queen.

When the Crimson Empress found the Spider Queen because of this matter, the other party would definitely be confused, and carry out a triple denial of "I didn't, I'm not, I never thought of doing this at all."

By then, if Su Xiao could hammer Guy down, it would be a successful revenge for the Spider Queen. If he couldn't hammer her down, he would say that this matter was driven by the Spider Queen, and since he still owed the other side a loan shark loan, the possibility of the Spider Queen directly attacking was minimal.

What was more critical was that at this time, the Zerg Alliance had already stopped fighting with the Empire. In addition to the various betrayals of teammates by the peace-faction Guy during the war, at this time she was being hammered, and the other four Zerg factions, even if they didn't applaud, would be eating melons and watching the show with smiles, and saying: "You have today too! Heaven has eyes!"

The plan was gradually conceived in Su Xiao's mind. Right now, he was just waiting for the Spider Queen to send that batch of 150,000 units of Life Ore and become their creditor.

The demon flame dragon flying high in the sky dived down and landed in front of the base camp Mother Hive. Su Xiao leaped down from the dragon's back and walked into a two-story wooden small building. This building looked like it was intertwined with tree roots. It was a strange seed given by the Mushroom Prophet when they parted in the previous world.

Inside the spacious and bright second floor, Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the ground. To attack other Zerg Mother Empresses to develop quickly, having only the 150,000 units of Life Ore borrowed from the Spider Queen wasn't enough.

1.5 million points of bio-energy could cultivate a total of 30,000 elite demon beasts. Even if the peace-faction Guy's strength was at the bottom of all Zerg Empresses, it wasn't something that could be taken down with 30,000-plus elite demon beasts and 10 demon flame dragons.

*Beep beep beep~*

An electronic sound came from the side. Su Xiao picked up the communicator. It was from Caesar. After answering, Caesar's deliberately lowered voice came:

"My dear friend, the electronic route map and time intelligence will be sent to you in a moment. There are two pieces of news, one good and one bad. Which one do you want to hear first?"

"Bad."

"The bad news is that those responsible for this escort include three top-tier company employees and an Imperial executioner."

"Executioner?"

Su Xiao hadn't heard intelligence in this area.

"A simple analogy is the strongest single-soldier combat power. He is not only strong, but at the moment of his death, he will also detonate his energy core. *Boom*, everything within seven or eight kilometers nearby will be gone."

"Hmm, and the good news?"

"The good news is that I have confirmed one thing: because there is a huge consciousness body on Pan Duola Star where we are, the Netherworld faction can only carry out violent invasion and cannot infiltrate. I don't know the specific reason yet. Simply put, before the Empire's mother star, O'Kai Star, and those dozen colony stars fall, we are safe here."

"Hmm."

After speaking, Su Xiao hung up the communication. This was indeed good news. He estimated that this might not be because of the huge consciousness body on Pan Duola Star, but because this place was being notarized by the Tree of the Void, so it avoided suffering from early infiltration.

Not long after, Caesar sent the data. The company's base camp was on the east side, which was the right front direction of their base camp. The company's plan was for the transport spaceship responsible for this mission to trigger at 3:00 PM today, expected to arrive at the Third Fleet station, which was "Nova City" in the north, between 6:10 PM and 6:15 PM.

On this journey from the company's base camp to Nova City, the hundreds of people on the transport spaceship had to perform a sclera and voiceprint authentication every 5 minutes. This equipment was carried on their person. If there was anything slightly wrong, it would trigger an alarm.

Not only that, the entire spaceship had monitoring facilities and was subject to real-time monitoring by Nova City. What was even more unsolvable was that once there was any abnormality here, causing the control station of Nova City and the control station of the company's base camp to not receive the signal of the transport spaceship, Nova City would unilaterally detonate the "Fission-type Gravity Bomb" within the cargo, causing the entire transport spaceship to be compressed to the size of a basketball.

Su Xiao projected the route map and transport spaceship structure map onto the table. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Baha, Amu, and Zhila gathered around the table. It is worth mentioning that the latter two were here to join the fun.

"Boss, the strength of the company's three top-tier employees is at the Eighth-Tier top echelon. Besides them, there is an Imperial executioner. The executioner's combat power is likely a notch stronger than the top-tier employees. The key is that if you kill him, he explodes, and there is a 'Fission-type Gravity Bomb' in the cargo hold. It's hard to handle."

Baha had a worried look. Hearing this, Zhila and Amu both pondered and nodded.

"..."

Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Baha all felt a bit speechless. Zhila and Amu weren't participating in this operation, but it looked like they were the main force.

Su Xiao took out a large box of spicy crayfish made by Xia. Amu and Zhila's eyes began to shine. A few seconds later, they went to the side to eat crayfish, completely losing interest in the plan to rob the spaceship.

"This transport spaceship will sail for 3 hours and 10 minutes. We will make a move here."

Su Xiao pointed to the map in the upper middle. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha both nodded to indicate they understood.

"This area is a high-gravity zone. Unless the company's transport spaceship takes a detour for several hours, it will definitely pass through here. Passing through this high-gravity zone, the transport spaceship's signal will be slightly affected. Xiang Bubu, at that time, you hack into the transport spaceship's control system and make the signal interference severe. Baha, you solve the 'Fission-type Gravity Bomb' in the cargo hold. Any problems?"

"None."

"Good. Xiang Bubu, after making a move, you immediately cut off the transport spaceship's main line control, making all the cabins of the spaceship become prison cells separated from each other."

"Woof!"

"Hmm, it depends on you then. The plan is basically like this. Any additions?"

"Boss, you're handling those top-tier employees and the executioner all by yourself? The time left for you to make a move is too short. Do you want to contact the Undead Sister..."

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"No need."

"Hmm, then I'll listen to you. Just do it! Go for it!"

"..."

Su Xiao closed the terminal projection and took Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha to leave the second-floor wooden building, heading straight for the company's base camp, which was the "Aitaiqi Research Institute."

At the same time, in the central part, a hive over 200 meters high stood here. With this hive as the center, various Zerg structures stood. This large architectural complex covered an area of over 2,000 square kilometers. Looking from afar, this was a city with Zerg style, and there were even city walls made of biological tissue on the edge, as well as defense towers every 500 meters that were integrated with the city walls.

This was the Crimson Empress's group, the strongest Zerg Mother Empress in this world. It was not just a name. In the war with the Empire, the Zerg troops under the Crimson Empress were the absolute main force.

At this moment, in the central hive, in the Mother Empress's sleeping chamber.

Sunlight shone in through the floor-to-ceiling windows. The Crimson Empress sat in a place where the sunlight couldn't reach. She held a cup of black tea in her hand, with a faint smile on her face. Just at this moment, a voice came from beside her:

"Bored to death. No tension or excitement of development. Fickle~"

Moon Apostle lay on a lounge chair, swaying back and forth.

Beside her, Morey and Hao Mei were there. One was repairing a mining shovel, and the other was meditating. Hao Mei was a sword master, after all, and meditated every day.

This time, Moon Apostle could be said to be the MVP of the squad. Originally, the three of them, as Su Xiao's neighbors, developed Zerg together. As a result, on the first day of the start, they found that their neighbor had developed a Seventh-Tier hive. Morey's mood at that time could only be described as being struck by lightning.

Heaven finally favored the Apocalypse Sisters once. Moon Apostle, who originally wanted to take the Zerg Mother host to defect to the Zerg Alliance, found that she seemed to know the Crimson Empress. When the two sides met, Moon Apostle just wanted to look up to the sky and laugh three times, because the Crimson Empress was actually her former "co-contractor."

The so-called "co-contractor" is the exclusive advantage of the summoning-type. Summoning-types often contact existences from other worlds or gods. Facing some high-tier existences, even if the summoning-type cannot reach a contractual subordinate relationship with the other party, they can conduct transactions in a sacrificial mode with the other party, so that both sides benefit.

In fact, Su Xiao's transactions with the Overgrowth Frenzy and the Old Days Lord were somewhat similar to the summoning-type's "co-contract," except that the transaction parties Su Xiao dealt with were one more terrifying than the other, the kind that summoning-types would exclaim "holy shit" when seeing.

At this moment, the meeting between the Crimson Empress and Moon Apostle made the feelings in both their hearts complex.

This time, the Crimson Empress decided to cooperate with Moon Apostle, Morey, and Hao Mei. Of course, besides the personal feelings between the Crimson Empress and Moon Apostle, the Crimson Empress was also somewhat defeated by Moon Apostle's wealth.

Morey and Hao Mei were stunned when they learned that the cooperation was successful. In Morey's words: "Moon Apostle, before I knew you, I always heard you were a thigh (big shot). But after I knew you, I found you were not right. It's been so long, you finally acted as a thigh once. Slap me, let me confirm this isn't a dream."

Moon Apostle didn't humble herself either, raising her chin, almost saying: "You two, each hug one of my thighs, and I'll take you to fly."

The Apocalypse Sisters could be said to have reached the peak in one step, but the three didn't float. After testing, they found that the Crimson Empress was really sincere in wanting to cooperate with them. The Crimson Empress was also quite difficult. Now she didn't have anyone she could trust around her. Since the war stopped, the "friendly neighbor" Brutal·Kara had always been eager to replace the Crimson Empress.

"Moon Apostle, with your followers joining, our mining speed will increase by at least three times. I am prepared to continue to expand the group size."

The Crimson Empress spoke and put down the black tea cup.

"Why don't you promote to Sovereign rank first?"

Moon Apostle's suggestion made the Crimson Empress shake her head helplessly, saying: "It's not that simple. If I want to promote to Sovereign rank, I need a kind of resource."

"What resource? Just say it."

"This... I actually don't know either."

When the Crimson Empress said this, she laughed herself. Moon Apostle and Morey had expressions of being lovelorn.

"Speaking of which, that hive you mentioned before, in your words, a Seventh-Tier hive, I have sent subordinates to investigate."

"Is that side strong!"

Morey was a bit excited.

"According to existing intelligence, it's not strong. If you want, you can take a combat unit and destroy that hive."

"This..."

Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei looked at each other. Every time they clashed with Su Xiao before, they were beaten, and they were a bit traumatized.

"Revenge!"

Moon Apostle suddenly became firm. She wanted to overcome herself and cross the psychological shadow that had always existed.

"When are we setting off?"

"Right now!"

*Boom!! *

As soon as Morey finished speaking, she heard a loud noise. The vibration caused by this loud noise shook her off the chair.

*Boom! Boom! Boom! *

The earth trembled. Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Mei quickly walked to the floor-to-ceiling window. The scene before them left them dumbfounded.

A dozen giant skeletons over a hundred meters high walked from afar. In the sky were dense, sky-covering withered pterosaurs. As for the ground, a sea of bones surged from the horizon.

"This... this monster!"

Moon Apostle naturally knew who had come. The monster recognized by their summoning-type, the Undead Sister.

On top of a giant skeleton over a hundred meters high, the Undead Sister stood. She held an Immortal-grade +14 undead-type staff embedded with three full-score Immortal-grade gems. This staff was named 【Endless Undead】.

The Undead Sister raised the staff in her hand, and her pupils turned gray.

"Return of the Dead."

*Dong~*

A shockwave spread out with the Undead Sister as the center point. After a brief silence, bone claws poked out from the mud one by one.

1:00 PM, Eastern part, in the dense forest near "Aitaiqi Research Institute."

This area was all the company's territory. Aitaiqi Research Institute was just a collective name. The overall area here was about the size of a city. Entering this place was not much different from entering a modernized city.

However, within half a year of the establishment of the Empire's "Nova City," the corporate faction didn't dare to call this place a city. If they snatched the Empire's limelight, they would suffer.

Located around the entire architectural complex, there was a protective wall made of magnetic electric nets. Su Xiao looked at the magnetic electric net in front. He didn't intend to sneak in like this. He had already agreed with Caesar before that the other party would come to meet him.

There were two hours left before the transport spaceship set off. Caesar didn't let Su Xiao wait long. A few minutes later, he arrived.

Caesar used his ID card to deactivate the magnetic electric net. He wore a suit that was a few sizes too big and walked with his hands behind his back. It is said that people rely on clothes, but this sentence had nothing to do with Caesar. Even if he wore a dragon robe, he would look like a yellow weasel essence.

"Quick, it's about to set off."

Caesar waved his hand and turned to walk toward the gap between the buildings where he came. Su Xiao followed. After walking for more than ten minutes, they arrived in front of a hole in the ground, leaped down, passed through an underground drainage channel, and after several turns, Su Xiao actually arrived in front of an elevator, took the elevator up, passed through the corridor, and Su Xiao stopped in front of room 307.

Opening the door with a room card, Su Xiao followed Caesar to a wall. Caesar said:

"My dear friend, I have already calculated that 45 meters diagonally opposite is the maintenance area of the transport spaceship."

"Wait, the transport spaceship is about to set off. Why are we going to the maintenance area?"

Baha was very puzzled.

"It's like this. The escort team this time, besides the company's three top-tier employees and one executioner, also has 129 company guards and 52 Imperial soldiers. I did something to the lunch of several company guards, so they will be urgent to pee. So they have two choices: 1. Solve it in their pants, 2. Come to the toilet closest to the apron, which is this maintenance area."

After Caesar finished speaking, he snapped his fingers. Suddenly, the alarm on his body beeped. He nodded to indicate that company guards were coming.

Su Xiao activated his Dragon Shadow Flash ability and disappeared from the spot. When he appeared again, he was already in a corridor. On the metal cabinets on both sides, various tools and parts were piled up in a mess.

A guard wearing single-soldier armor and a full protective helmet walked toward him. He carried kinetic firearms, had a terminal on his forearm, and a small communication device hanging on his belt.

Su Xiao's location was carefully selected by Caesar. In this corridor, there were monitoring devices on both sides. Only the 3 meters where Su Xiao was located were in the blind spot between the two monitors. This was not an oversight; it was deliberately created by Caesar.

The guard walking toward him naturally saw Su Xiao standing in the corridor. He was slightly puzzled but didn't ask much. Just as he was about to pass Su Xiao, a crystal thorn slid out from Su Xiao's cuff.

*Pfft~*

The crystal thorn suddenly pierced from the guard's chin. Su Xiao's hand dragged, and the crystal thorn sank into the guard's brain marrow. After that, this part of the crystal thorn split into a coral shape, and the guard died instantly.

Su Xiao tore off the terminal, communicator, and other equipment from the guard, then took out the Ancient Mask and buckled it on the guard's face. The Ancient Mask revealed the "Daddy-level" potential. The scarlet tentacles devoured the guard's corpse in a short time. The moment the scarlet tentacles disappeared, Su Xiao wore the Ancient Mask on his face.

At this time in the monitoring room, the picture in the corridor had been monitored. A company security guard was drinking coffee, staring at the monitor boredly. In his vision, the guard in the corridor suddenly walked out of the monitoring range for a second or two, and then appeared on another screen, with no abnormality.

Seeing this, the security guard raised his eyebrows. After he adjusted the range of the two monitors, the blind spot between the monitors disappeared. As for reporting this matter, he wouldn't look for trouble for himself.

A moment later, Su Xiao walked out of the restroom at the end of the corridor. He had already disguised himself as a guard. This guard was one of the escorts of this transport spaceship. The infiltration was successful.

Su Xiao walked in the corridor with the guard's image. After passing the corner, he entered a spacious maintenance area like a warehouse. After leaving this place, outside was a large apron. A heavy transport spaceship was parked here, giving people a sense of steel and heaviness.

Su Xiao's gaze swept around. The next second, a figure appeared in his vision. This person was sturdy, but didn't have the feeling of a bodybuilder. Overall, this man had an inexplicable sense of majesty. This person was named Cain, the reserve "scapegoat brother" Caesar chose. ===== CHAPTER 3491 =====