Chapter 3494: Eight Digits

Watching the guard team escorting the Crimson Empress go far away, Su Xiao turned back into the wooden building.

Destroying the peace faction's Guyi today made the situation gradually clear. From another perspective, if they couldn't fully open the situation here before the Netherworld forces invaded Pan Duola Star, then it would basically be gone.

Through the priest's side, Su Xiao obtained some intelligence on the Empire's mother star, Oukai Star. The situation there seemed stable, but in reality, the style there was almost changing, from technology-side to weird, supernatural-side technology-side.

A bunch of monsters and ghosts popped up from nowhere there, and various sects popped up like mushrooms after rain.

This was still a small matter. The key was that there were more and more weird events on Oukai Star. At first, they could be classified as folk supernatural events, mostly bizarre murder cases, but the next day, there was a large-scale area blockade there.

According to the news sent back by the priest, "death" disappeared in that area. Strands of ghostly green smoke stood between heaven and earth. Each strand of ghostly green smoke represented an "Un-Dead." Like those weird existences, these "Un-Dead" were equally dangerous.

When the Empire encountered this situation, they didn't have a very good way, so they could only package these "Un-Dead" and leave them in place. It wasn't that they didn't want to move, but if these "Un-Dead" were allowed to leave the death place too far, they would "come alive" and carry out indiscriminate attacks.

In short, the situation on the priest's side was one sentence: the Empire could still hold on, but how long they could hold on was really hard to say.

This was not the worst news. The Empire had a total of fifteen colonial stars, and now they were basically all subjected to the initial invasion of the Netherworld forces. Colonial stars like Lucky Star were better, but a colonial star called Gray Hunter Star had completely turned into a human purgatory.

The situation there was such that even the Empire's fleet couldn't enter to investigate. According to reliable information, Gray Hunter Star was originally a planet that worshipped mystery and soul. When invaded by the Empire, the various forces and schools here resisted particularly strongly. To this day, there were still resistance forces hidden in the dark there.

According to information released by the Empire's intelligence personnel, after Gray Hunter Star was initially invaded by the Netherworld, several secret forces united with each other and, in cooperation with the Netherworld forces, formed the base of the space channel inside Gray Hunter Star.

That night, all communications with Gray Hunter Star were cut off. The last audio segment transmitted back by the satellite tower there was a banshee-like screech, and then the entire Gray Hunter Star seemed to be dead, silent.

After losing two airships, the Empire side decisively retreated and completely abandoned Gray Hunter Star.

This caused Pan Duola Star, which had not been invaded by the Netherworld forces, to become the last pure land. The Empire had already begun to move a large number of citizens from the mother star to Pan Duola Star.

In fact, the Empire should have had a small amount of understanding of the Netherworld forces early on, but it had always been hidden, and the Empire seemed to know that Pan Duola Star would not be subjected to the first wave of Netherworld invasion.

This could be seen from the fact that after the Empire's Third Fleet stabilized its position on Pan Duola Star, it played hard to engage in construction. How long had it been, and it had already built a super-large city · Nova City.

The company's attitude was also worth pondering. Those company high-level officials had always been proud of the company building on the mother star. As a result, this time they entered Pan Duola Star, and the high-level officials of the company actually brought their families to Pan Duola Star and built a city gathering place only smaller than Nova City, almost naming the place.

No matter how you looked at it, the Empire and the company had advance precautions against the Netherworld invasion, but this precaution was more like phased development, expected to be completed within a few years.

The reason they were so unhurried was that it could be seen that the Empire and the company had calculated the approximate time of the Netherworld invasion, but couldn't stop it, so they could only make sufficient preparations and receive it passively.

The problem at the current stage was that the Netherworld forces, which were originally expected to invade initially in a few years, were shortened to ten days under the catalysis of three super-doubles and one king bomb.

A simple metaphor was that in the eyes of the Netherworld forces, they could invade the Empire side before, or they could not come to invade, so they didn't put their main force into this side before, but threw in some small fry to slowly invade and swallow the big cake of the Empire. While invading and swallowing, the Empire would recover, so they could invade for a longer time, so there was an invasion time of several years. In other words, the Netherworld forces' attention before was not on this side.

Now it was different. The Netherworld forces were crushing toward the Empire side with an irresistible posture. The Empire's garrison on Gray Hunter Star was not defeated, but suddenly lost contact. This was what was more terrifying.

The preparations of the Empire and the company were disrupted at once, but the crisis response capabilities of those two sides were not for show, and some necessary facilities had been built with the highest priority.

In Su Xiao's view, the most ideal situation at the moment was to achieve the coexistence of three parties: the Zerg faction, the Empire, and the company, with the three parties occupying the east, south, and north directions, and the base camps of the three parties presenting a triangular trend, relative to each other.

If they could build teleportation arrays with each other, it would be even better, so as not to become isolated islands after the Netherworld invaded Pan Duola Star.

As for why they didn't unite and work together, that was impossible. Teammates had two sides. For example, the company's high-level officials, if they were in charge of the company, they were all decisive and ruthless superiors, but if the three parties allied, they might really become pig teammates. Different forces had different styles and different decision-making methods. Things like talking to each other, if they could not happen, try not to let them happen.

There were many other benefits to not allying. When the Netherworld forces really attacked, the three parties could share the firepower, and this was not putting eggs in one basket.

Imagine that after the base camps of the three parties built interconnected teleportation arrays, if one side fell, the people there would at least have a way out, not to be surrounded and killed.

The situation now was that the Empire and the company had already tacitly agreed that the other side was one family, and who this third family would eventually fall to would be decided among the Crimson Empress, Brutal · Kara, and Su Xiao.

Presumably, the Empire and the company supported Brutal · Kara more than the current Zerg leader · Crimson Empress, because their old grievances with the Crimson Empress were too deep. Disaster was coming, and those two sides wanted to minimize the risk. Kara was their best choice.

In Su Xiao's view, at the current stage, Brutal · Kara should have already learned about the terrible disaster of the Netherworld invasion, which was why she was so eager to try, attempting to become the absolute leader of the Zerg faction and become the third family in this world.

These intelligence reports conveyed back by the priest could be said to be critical. It could only be said that after this old guy became a good teammate, the degree of power was extraordinary.

The Undead Sister's side was equally top-notch. She didn't know what method she used, but she had been monitoring the Crimson Empress. The Undead Sister's original words were that there were three contractors on the Crimson Empress's side, attempting to bewitch the Crimson Empress to attack Su Xiao's side.

This made Su Xiao feel somewhat puzzled. When did he make enemies? Or was it a group of three, and the tone there was that they specifically instructed the Crimson Empress to capture him alive, and then blackmail him to wash away the shame.

Through the Undead Sister's description, Su Xiao knew who these three people were: they were Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Sister. They actually got together, and they had gained a high right to speak on the Crimson Empress's side.

The Undead Sister's side didn't have a good solution for this, so she chose the simplest way: directly let the Undead Army attack the Crimson Empress's base camp.

It could be said that the Undead Sister's side was both helping to block a disaster and blocking an opportunity. With the existence of the fungus carpet, their own Mother Nest was not afraid of anyone coming to attack, but was afraid of all enemies hiding.

The problem now was just like this. Of the remaining four Zerg, Brutal · Kara was a home-defense fanatic, Isaiah was particularly low-key and never took the initiative to attack.

The Spider Queen was better at resource mining. Letting her lend usury was fine, but if she could not take the initiative to attack, she would never take the initiative to attack.

The Crimson Empress would not easily move either. She was constantly guarding against Brutal · Kara.

Calculating this way, the four Zerg were one more able to hide than the other. Now it was the fourth day since Su Xiao entered this world. According to the intelligence given by Caesar, counting from entering this world, about ten days later, the Netherworld would invade Pan Duola Star.

Time was running out. Now it was not only about leveling the four Zerg, but also about gathering the resources of the entire south. Even if it was violent mining, it needed time, not to mention, let Zhila promote to the Sovereign tier. Only in that way could there be a glimmer of survival.

Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the wooden chair on the second floor of the wooden building, the front window wide open. He looked at the oxbow lake in the distance. The good news now was that among the remaining four, the Spider Queen's side had already been taken down. The other party signed 23 contracts and had been arranged clearly.

Su Xiao could even predict the subsequent situation. After the Crimson Empress took that letter of contract to find the Spider Queen, the other party would try various methods to explain, and finally promised to pay a certain amount of resources to appease the Crimson Empress's anger, but this resource would not be paid immediately, but would come to him to blackmail.

Su Xiao took out his pocket watch and looked at it. The time should be about right. The Spider Queen was coming soon. He estimated that the first sentence after the other party came had a 70% probability of being "You are looking for death," a 20% probability of being "What do you want," and a 10% probability of staring at him silently.

Su Xiao was thinking like this when the sound of breaking through the air came. A bird-like and dragon-like creature flew over. This creature reminded Su Xiao of the Storm Dragon he rode on Ser Star.

"Roar."

After a roar, the flying creature above dived down and landed in front of the wooden building in a rough way.

The Spider Queen on the back of the Flying Feather Dragon walked into the room from the window on the second floor along the dragon's wing. Her face was gloomy, and she said coldly as soon as she came: "You are looking for death."

Consistent with Su Xiao's estimate, after the Spider Queen came, she directly said "You are looking for death." Before, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha all expressed disbelief and even bet their pocket money on it.

"Fa ker~"

Baha spat out fragrance. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang's small expression gradually became painful. Amu scratched his head, a bit silly. The three of them each took out 100 Soul Coins from their small treasuries. These were all pocket money saved up, which could be spent casually in the Reincarnation Paradise. At this time, they were naturally heartbroken to lose.

"Give you one last chance, destroy this contract."

The Spider Queen spoke coldly. She had no choice now and could only gamble that Su Xiao would not go to war with her now.

"Okay."

Su Xiao took the contract parchment from the Spider Queen's hand. There were parts of the content on this contract that were very unfavorable to the Spider Queen. He thought the other party had already tried to destroy this parchment, but a contract notarized by the Reincarnation Paradise was something the Spider Queen could destroy? It was simply a fantasy.

Su Xiao canceled this contract, the content of which was to help the Spider Queen destroy the Guyi tribe, and afterward, the Spider Queen paid various rewards.

Flames ignited on the parchment, and it burned out in a very short time. The falling fly ash gradually dissipated in the air.

At this moment, the Spider Queen opposite felt that the contract power that was so strong that it made her heart palpitate was lifted. This power was too obscure, and before it was lifted, she didn't perceive its existence at all.

With the lifting of the contract, the Spider Queen's expression eased a bit. She simply sat down opposite Su Xiao, looking at Su Xiao with a smile that was not a smile.

"I underestimated you."

As the Spider Queen spoke, her thin red lips curled into an arc.

"I overestimated you."

Su Xiao's gaze always stayed on the book in his hand. This was knowledge about crystals, obtained from the Dragon Academy side.

Hearing this, the Spider Queen's face turned black. Because Su Xiao had so decisively lifted the contract just now, she didn't flare up, but took out the IOU. Before she could speak, Su Xiao said:

"Let's talk about the debt problem."

With a slap, the ancient book in Su Xiao's right hand was closed and handed to the Spider Queen opposite.

"?"

The Spider Queen was stunned, because this sentence "Let's talk about the debt problem" was what she wanted to say.

"That's good, let's talk. I borrowed a total of 200,000 units of life ore from you. After deducting the interest of the first period, the life ore that actually reached your hands was 150,000 units, but this cannot deny the fact that you borrowed 200,000 units of life ore. From the beginning of the loan, the interest per hour is..."

The Spider Queen pulled over a small round table and calculated the debt with paper and pen.

After waiting for nearly half an hour, Su Xiao felt a bit sleepy. The Spider Queen pointed at the paper with the pen in her hand and said: "Calculated this way, you owe me a total of 370,000 units of life ore. Do you admit it?"

The Spider Queen's lion's opening of the mouth was not without reason. In the morning, Su Xiao destroyed the Guyi tribe. After learning the news, the Spider Queen was not lightly shocked. She knew how difficult it was to fight the home-defense fanatic Guyi, who was second only to Brutal · Kara. Now that she was destroyed so suddenly, the Spider Queen was naturally both surprised and palpitating.

However, the Spider Queen learned one thing: attacking the Guyi tribe, Su Xiao's side also suffered heavy losses. At least within today, they couldn't recover to their previous combat power, so the Spider Queen rushed over.

The Crimson Empress was also wary of Su Xiao's side, so she had already promised the Spider Queen that if the Spider Queen really went to war with Su Xiao, the Crimson Empress was willing to stand on the Spider Queen's side and join forces with her to destroy Su Xiao.

This was the reason why the Spider Queen dared to come and open her mouth like a lion. She was here to blackmail resources, so as not to let Su Xiao's side explode troops again.

The Spider Queen sat opposite with her legs crossed. In her long-nailed hand was an IOU. She just pinched the two ends of the IOU and showed it to Su Xiao. The debt figure on it had changed from 150,000 to 370,000. Judging from the smile on the Spider Queen's face, she was showing Su Xiao her use of contract power.

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Baha were buzzing in their heads from being shown. The difference between the Spider Queen's behavior at this time and performing a sliding shovel in front of a tiger was really not big, and she was so confident.

"Do you admit the accounts above?"

The tip of the Spider Queen's index finger brushed over the top edge of the IOU.

"I'll admit it for now. As long as you are happy."

"What do you mean by as long as I am happy?"

Although the Spider Queen didn't understand the meaning of this sentence, she instinctively felt that it was not a good word.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak again. He took out a stack of contract parchment from his arms, searched for a while, found one of them, and handed it to the Spider Queen.

The first thing the Spider Queen saw was the spider imprint below, and that this contract was closely connected to her. She suppressed the uneasiness in her heart and began to check the content above, but after seeing that the debtor was herself, her cheeks twitched, and her gaze turned to the debt amount: one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand, million...

Seeing the eighth digit, the Spider Queen felt a dizziness in her brain. Millions of life ore, even if she sold all her family assets, she couldn't pay it back. Moreover, this debt amount was 9,999,999.

"You are scamming me."

The Spider Queen was already a bit unwilling to accept the facts.

"..."

Su Xiao didn't speak. He took out the Fate Sovereign lighter, lit it, and scorched a corner of the parchment in the Spider Queen's hand. Ten seconds later, he said to the Spider Queen with some surprise:

"I didn't see it, you have such strong tolerance in terms of soul. I have three types of potions that act on the soul. You drink them and let me observe the changes in you during the period. Afterward, this debt will be written off."

Su Xiao closed the Fate Sovereign lighter and no longer scorched the contract parchment. The Spider Queen's face opposite improved a lot immediately.

The Spider Queen never expected that she would one day be trapped by debt. She had used usury to pit many Zerg mother bodies or Zerg leaders to death, and now she finally suffered retribution.

"Take out those potions, I'll consider it."

The Spider Queen knew that this contract was not a joke. If this debt wasn't paid back, the consequences would be extremely serious.

A moment later, the Spider Queen sat there with a livid face and didn't speak. Su Xiao took out the three types of potions, and she had seen them all. There was no one she dared to drink. Any one of the potions, that ominous feeling that made the soul tremble, represented the risk of drinking it.

"Make your real conditions, I lost."

The Spider Queen looked at the wooden floor under her feet, but in the depths of her eyes was intense unwillingness.

Su Xiao didn't mention conditions, but handed the stack of contract parchment in his hand to the Spider Queen.

"These... are all!?"

The Spider Queen's gaze wandered between Su Xiao's face and the stack of parchment in his hand, as if she couldn't accept this earth-shattering fact.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Su Xiao gave Baha a look. After Baha made an OK gesture with his wings, he went downstairs to find Caesar.

Soon, Caesar, with seven parts of treachery and three parts of obscenity, went upstairs. Seeing his attire, the Spider Queen frowned, recognizing that Caesar was a company person.

"This lady, have you heard of the Netherworld forces?"

Caesar snapped his fingers, and a small blackboard appeared on the wall behind him. He didn't know when a thin wooden stick appeared in his hand. After clearing his throat, he began to explain the terrible degree of the Netherworld forces.

The more the Spider Queen listened, the less blood on her face. In fact, she had been puzzled by the various confusing behaviors of the Empire and the company a long time ago. In her view, these humans were simply brain-damaged, but now that she learned about the Netherworld invasion, all the actions of the Empire and the company seemed so normal, and the few bits of determination and hysteria revealed in the normality.

The existence of the Netherworld forces was not a question of whether the Spider Queen believed the information provided by Su Xiao and others, but that the Spider Queen couldn't not believe it. This was like the last piece of the puzzle of this world. After putting it on, everything was connected. If she didn't believe it again, it was typical self-deception.

"Are the three families guarding Pan Duola Star? The Empire is the first, the company is the second, then... who is the third? Crimson Empress? Or Kara?"

The Spider Queen completely realized that the situation was bad.

"No, it's us. As long as we clean them all up, we are the third family."

Baha made a gesture of clenching his wings, indicating that he had the power.

Seeing this, the Spider Queen nodded thoughtfully. This was not her voluntary joining, but there were those 22 contracts. If she didn't join, it was absolutely impossible for her to walk out of here. Even if she didn't come with her main body, her main body far away in the base camp would also die suddenly.

Su Xiao pulled the Spider Queen in mainly because he took a fancy to the other party's worker Zerg. Of the original six Zerg forces, the Spider Queen's worker Zerg was definitely the strongest in mining ability.

Su Xiao was too busy with war aspects now, and in terms of resource mining, it was best to have a partner responsible. Originally, he planned to cooperate with the Spider Sister, but unfortunately, wanting to cultivate the other party required not only time but also resources.

Su Xiao's idea was to get the gene sequence of the Spider Queen's worker Zerg, and then cultivate it using their own Mother Nest. Zhila would have the dominant power over the cultivated worker Zerg, while the Spider Queen could perform a certain degree of control.

Subsequent branch nest management would all be the responsibility of the Spider Queen. Simply put, Su Xiao and Zhila were responsible for the war aspect. They fought in the front, and the Spider Queen built branch nests in the back.

In this way, it was not as simple as being able to occupy five large mineral veins and one source mine, but being able to swallow all the medium, large, and super-large mineral veins in the southern region.

After listening to this layout, the Spider Queen looked at Su Xiao in confusion, completely unable to understand. Could the Mother Nest and Zhila withstand such high-intensity troop explosion and Zerg control?

The Spider Queen was overthinking. Zhila's longest war record was that she had a conflict with the Sea Clan on the other side of the continent on the Primitive Continent. The two sides fought for more than two months, and finally, the Sea Clan on that side was completely beaten to their knees, beaten to the point of being convinced.

"There is one more critical thing."

Baha spoke. The Spider Queen looked at it. Baha smiled and asked: "Spider Queen, how much life ore do you have left?"

"There are 30,000 units left."

"Nonsense, you are a Zerg Mother Emperor, just this little life ore reserve?"

"I lent it all to you!"

The Spider Queen glared at Baha.

"Uh~"

Baha was speechless and smiled slightly awkwardly.

"Are you starting your plan now?"

After the Spider Queen realized the seriousness of the situation, her attitude became positive, because she didn't want to die.

"Not in a hurry for now, there is one more thing that needs you to do."

Su Xiao put away all the contract parchment. This was the guarantee to ensure that the Spider Queen wouldn't make any trouble.

The situation on the Zerg faction side had begun to clear up. The Crimson Empress and Brutal · Kara were fighting for the position of leader, and the low-key Isaiah had never expressed her position, meaning that whoever won, she would continue to follow whoever.

This plan was made by Caesar. Caesar's point of view was that there was no need to fight hard with the Crimson Empress and Brutal · Kara. Their current advantage was that they had united with the Spider Queen. They could completely let the Spider Queen choose to support the Crimson Empress, thereby completely provoking a great war between the Crimson Empress and Brutal · Kara.

After these two sides started fighting, their side and the Spider Queen would unite with the Crimson Empress to hammer Brutal · Kara to death three-on-one.

After hammering Brutal · Kara to death, their side and the Spider Queen would hammer the Crimson Empress, who hadn't recovered, to death together, and finally go to deal with the low-key Isaiah.

In this way, their side always upheld the advantage of fighting more with less, which not only solved the enemy quickly but also avoided waste in terms of resources.

The Spider Queen could be said to be more and more frightened as she listened. They Zerg didn't have so many conspiracies and tricks; they just fought each other, belonging to tactics X, strategy E.

A moment later, the Spider Queen left. In fact, during her previous meeting with the Crimson Empress, the other party had the intention to win over, and now it just happened to respond to this win over.

Besides this, the Spider Queen would also give the Crimson Empress a surprise, telling the Crimson Empress the intelligence of the Netherworld invasion, increasing the other party's sense of crisis, and striving to let the other party go to attack Brutal · Kara today.

Not long after the Spider Queen left, representatives from the Empire and the company entered the chat room built by Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang to participate in this online auction.

The 150 kg of "C5N2-type superconductor" to be auctioned this time had a base price of 200,000 units of active ore. As the situation became more and more dangerous, the Empire side urgently wanted to turn these superconductors into weapons.

This was also the situation Su Xiao wanted to see. The Empire side could fight better, representing that they could attract more firepower later, which was not a bad thing in the end.

Su Xiao put on wireless headphones. The virtual 3D projection projected in front. He had seen one of them before; it was the Empire's Hand · Rhine Gold. The other big-bellied man was the company's representative. This auction was entirely the performance of the company representative.

A few minutes later, the Crimson Empress's projection appeared. Seeing this, Caesar, who was wearing a shit-yellow hood, coughed lightly and said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this auction. Regarding the goods, you all know. That's right, it's 150 kg of 'C5N2-type superconductor'. The base price for this auction is 200,000 units of life ore, with no cap. The auction begins."

"2..."

The company representative was about to speak.

"500,000, I bid 500,000."

The Crimson Empress spoke. Hearing this, the company representative's fat face trembled. He now had the heart to kill the Crimson Empress.

"Crimson, don't go too far."

The company representative spoke coldly.

"I do need this thing."

The Crimson Empress's expression was cold. Looking at her appearance, she seemed to really need the "C5N2-type superconductor."

Rhine Gold looked at the company representative and realized that something was wrong. Originally, he thought the Crimson Empress was here to raise the price. Now it seemed that this was clearly a competitor.

"I bid... 600,000!!"

After the company representative shouted this sentence, he hurriedly took out antihypertensive drugs and took several pills before he could catch his breath.

The Crimson Empress was moved by the company's wealth. Although she wanted to increase the price again, she couldn't take out so many life ores. As for making a fake bid, in the Crimson Empress's view, Su Xiao even dared to rob the Empire and the company's things, so there was nothing he didn't dare to do.

The auction was completed very smoothly. Just as Xiang Bubu was about to close the projection, Su Xiao signaled to wait a moment, letting Xiang Bubu cut off the contact with the Empire and the company, leaving only the Crimson Empress's wave frequency.

"Crimson Empress, are you in your own Insect Nest?"

Su Xiao spoke in a calm tone. The Crimson Empress didn't deny it, which was considered a default.

"That is to say, the three of them are also watching."

"..."

The Crimson Empress still didn't speak.

Su Xiao signaled Xiang Bubu to cut off the communication. Since he already knew that the Apocalypse Three Sisters were on that side, he naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity. Recently, he was very short of Soul Coins.

At the same time, inside the Crimson Empress's sleeping nest, Su Xiao's 3D projection disappeared, and the technology device on the table was scrapped.

Behind the Crimson Empress, Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Sister looked at each other, feeling a bit panicked in their hearts.

"Steady, we can win."

Morey took the lead in expressing her position.

"Yes, as long as we hide, he can't do anything to us."

"Or... should we try giving money directly?"

Moon Apostle spoke tentatively. Hearing this, Morey and Hao Sister glared at her, as if saying, you coward who gives money if you don't get beaten!

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 3495 =====