Chapter 3495: Kara

The auction process was smooth, but this was just the beginning. How to complete the subsequent handover was the top priority.

The company side bid 600,000 units of life ore to buy this batch of "C5N2-type superconductors," and they must be very unwilling in their hearts. To complete the subsequent transaction, they had to enter the face-to-face transaction link. Undoubtedly, this link was very likely to develop into a melee between the two sides.

The company's bid was higher than expected, reaching 600,000 units of life ore. After Su Xiao obtained this life ore, and saved up a bit more, it would be enough for Zhila to consume for promotion to the Sovereign tier.

Su Xiao's previous plan was indeed to fish a sum from the company, the Empire, and the Crimson Empress. Now it was unlikely. The pattern of this world had already moved toward the trend of three families rising together.

If they became the third family, it was obviously more important than completing the subsequent transaction with the company side immediately. The reason was that after they became the third family, the possibility of the company and them going to war head-on was minimal. Added to the pressure from the Empire side, the company would likely grit their teeth and pay 600,000 units of life ore to buy back the "C5N2-type superconductors," and then treat it as if nothing had happened.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao decided not to contact the company side for the time being, and refocused his attention back to the Crimson Empress and Brutal · Kara.

"My dear friend, the company high-level officials want to set a location to complete the subsequent transaction."

Caesar spoke, with a heartbroken look. The original plan was to go to the company side to "stock up," but unfortunately, the trend of three families rising together was becoming more and more obvious, so the "stocking up" plan naturally ended in nothing.

"Arrange to meet them at the Howling Canyon."

The Howling Canyon that Su Xiao mentioned was located in the central region. Because of the terrain of the canyon, it would make a woo-woo wind whistling sound in strong wind weather, hence the name.

It was worth mentioning that the native humans of this world basically lived in the central region. They belonged to the information-backward-to-relying-on-roaring type, but their combat power was surprisingly high.

Initially, the Empire prepared to drive away these primitive people, until a spear wrapped in golden thunder power broke through the sky and shot down an airship. The Empire's high-level officials discovered that things were not simple. The combat power of these primitive people was a bit too high.

It wasn't that they couldn't deal with them, but it wasn't worth it. Defeating those primitive tribes would at most gain a pile of wooden houses and artifacts with mysterious-side power. A blood loss.

Su Xiao arranged this transaction at the "Howling Canyon" without any special reason. He didn't intend to go either, so it was the same wherever it was arranged. He could be 100% sure that if he went this time, he would definitely be ambushed by the Empire and the company.

"Understood, then I'll go back first."

Caesar left, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang sent a message to the company side, agreeing to meet at the "Howling Canyon" at 5:00 PM tonight. During this period, no airships, airships, etc., could be seen. Once discovered, the transaction would be immediately canceled.

Half an hour later, Nova City, inside the main ship's conference room.

General Sander sat in the first seat, with an OL-dressed secretary standing beside him. In the second seat was the Empire's Hand · Rhine Gold, and further out was the representative sent by the company to deal with this event, Pedi.

Pedi's image was different from ordinary people. His physique was fat and short, but when he smiled, he gave people the feeling that this person was honest and trustworthy.

The company's high-level officials trusted Pedi very much, so he was sent to handle this matter. As for why those high-level officials didn't come in person, no one was willing to come forward in person.

"Mr. Pedi, are you sure Kuku Lin · Bai Ye agreed to complete the transaction at the Howling Canyon? And at 5:00 PM this afternoon?"

The OL-dressed secretary pushed her glasses, her gaze having a sharpness not weaker than the military officers present.

"This must be a trap. Would he trade with us so directly? Is he not afraid of us setting an ambush?"

A bearded military officer with a heavy Heva accent, holding a cigar between his fingertips, spoke. While speaking, he tapped the table with his fingers, and the cigar between his fingers kept dropping burning crumbs.

"That makes sense. That side is likely just mentioning it casually. I guess that side is deliberately delaying time."

A weaker-looking Empire military officer spoke, and many people nodded in response.

"I don't think so. This person even dared to rob our 'C5N2-type superconductor'."

"It's not the same thing. Agreeing to complete the transaction at the Howling Canyon is contrary to conventional thinking."

"Then you tell me, can a normal person do the thing of robbing 'C5N2-type superconductors'?"

Hearing this question, the weak military officer was suddenly speechless. He wanted to argue a few more words, but for a moment he didn't know what to say. Yes, a normal person couldn't do the thing of robbing "C5N2-type superconductors" at all, let alone after robbing them, wanting to sell them back.

"Stop arguing, go set an ambush at the Howling Canyon now."

General Sander made a decision, and the group of military officers stopped discussing.

"Gold."

General Sander looked at his nephew, Rhine Gold. Rhine Gold, who was looking ahead and thinking about something, showed an attitude of listening to orders.

"This ambush will be led by you."

"Yes."

Rhine Gold stood up. Seeing this, General Sander nodded with satisfaction and left.

As soon as General Sander left, Rhine Gold's face turned black. He took out two concert tickets from his arms. He had pulled strings to get these. He knew nothing about music, but he couldn't stand that his fiancée liked it. He had made an appointment with his fiancée for dinner tonight, then go to the Grand Theater, and finally return to the hotel to do some happy things.

Unfortunately, all this was ruined. Thinking that he would likely spend the night in a mountain ditch, blowing cold wind, a "friendly" smile gradually appeared on Rhine Gold's face.

"Bai Ye, you must, definitely come."

Saying that, Rhine Gold patted the two concert tickets on the table and left with his coat.

Inside the general's office, General Sander finished signing the documents and signaled the OL-dressed secretary to take the documents away to handle things. The OL-dressed secretary took the documents, bowed slightly, and left the office.

Only General Sander was left in the office. As the supreme commander of the Third Fleet, he was usually not busy.

The office was very quiet, and General Sander just sat there quietly. Suddenly, a small crack appeared on his face, like a ceramic cracking.

General Sander calmly opened the drawer, took out a tin box, and then took out a black pill from inside. He swallowed the black pill the size of a grain of rice, and the cracks on his face disappeared quickly, and the ghostly green in his eyes flashed away.

"Ugh~"

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang squatted on the ground in a slightly tilted posture, making a retching sound in his mouth. Beside him was the Mantis Armor · Bulu, who had already fallen to the ground, foaming at the mouth.

The reason for this was because Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Bulu had nothing to do and compared their strength. After a round of pecking at each other, Baha came up with a bad idea, saying, you should compare willpower, for example, who can spin in circles more, so there was this scene.

The reason for being so idle was because Su Xiao was waiting for news from the Spider Queen's side. The contradiction between the Crimson Empress and Brutal · Kara had intensified completely at noon today. Both sides had probes, but they didn't go to war comprehensively.

Brutal · Kara was a home-defense fanatic. The base camps of other Zerg Mother Emperors had 150–200 defensive towers, which was already quite a lot. Building 300 "Bloody Eye Guard" defensive towers like the peace faction · Guyi was already considered a home-defense fanatic.

Around Brutal · Kara's base camp, at least 700 defensive towers had been built. The difficulty of attacking could be imagined.

Just the statement from the Spider Queen's side was not enough to make the Crimson Empress make up her mind to attack Brutal · Kara.

Facing this situation, Su Xiao felt that their side should stand out and give the Crimson Empress a shot in the arm, letting her take action as soon as possible.

Destroying the peace faction · Guyi in the morning, their Mother Nest obtained a total of 2.52 million points of biological energy. Su Xiao was going to use all these biological energies to cultivate Sun Flame Dragons. In this way, their Sun Flame Dragons reached 1,319.

Su Xiao's idea was that these 1,319 Sun Flame Dragons would not be fully revealed, hiding more than 600, and only showing the combat power of 700 to reinforce the Crimson Empress.

This not only hid their own troop explosion speed but also left a trump card. After their side, the Crimson Empress, and the Spider Queen joined forces to defeat Brutal · Kara, they would immediately arrange the Crimson Empress.

Thinking of this, Su Xiao took out the communicator, preparing to contact the Spider Queen. He had just taken out the communicator when the communicator vibrated twice. Someone contacted him. Looking at the wave frequency, it was actually the Spider Queen.

After connecting, Su Xiao only said a few words and hung up. Although the content of the call was simple, the amount of information was very large. First of all, the Crimson Empress's side was assassinated and almost died suddenly.

The implementation of this assassination was by people from the Empire side, but it was not the style of the Empire military.

Su Xiao chose to contact the Undead Sister to inquire about intelligence. Now the Undead Sister was a guest of the Empire. Through this channel, Su Xiao learned that the one who prepared and implemented this assassination was an "acquaintance," the Hall of Valor led by Cain.

Last time he took the blame, Cain stood up again so quickly, which showed his ability. Now the other party was still at the top of the reputation ranking, clearly operating again on the Empire side.

The assassination from the Hall of Valor almost took the Crimson Empress's life. Contractors were really good at this aspect.

But don't forget, Morey, Moon Apostle, and Hao Sister were all on the Crimson Empress's side. After they learned about this, they rushed to rescue. Although by the time they arrived, the battle had already ended, the subsequent part was the truly wonderful part.

The Apocalypse Three Sisters and the Hall of Valor members could communicate through the World Contact Platform. At first, the attitude of the Apocalypse Three Sisters was that both sides should resolve this matter peacefully. The Hall of Valor was just being a dog for the Empire, and they wouldn't have a good end either.

However, the Hall of Valor was crowded and noisy. A melee powerhouse nicknamed Yeti started a group fight on the spot, shouting, "Apocalypse trash, come fight if you're not convinced! One-on-one, whoever chickens out is a grandson."

Regarding this, Hao Sister took her sharp sword and went, almost slaughtering Snow Monster on the spot. I don't know what made this brother misunderstand that the Apocalypse Paradise side couldn't fight.

Let alone facing Snow Monster, Hao Sister and the Hall of Valor's leader · Cain had a 50-50 win rate in a one-on-one fight.

Hao Sister was really not weak at all. She just couldn't beat Su Xiao's tier. Her casual and lazy attitude of drinking every day made the Hall of Valor members mistakenly think that Hao Sister was actually not very strong, but after they really started fighting, they found that Hao Sister's Boundary Thunder was not generally strong.

This was like a keyboard warrior making an appointment to fight a girl on the Internet and then losing. The degree of shame could be imagined. This made a sentence appear in the World Contact Platform: "You, a bit Snow Monster."

The person was lost, so the Hall of Valor simply upheld the crowd, preparing to arrange the Apocalypse Three Sisters. But they ignored a problem, which was that the Apocalypse Three Sisters were very rich, no, very, very rich.

When both sides completely turned against each other, a few seconds ago, the Apocalypse Three Sisters issued a bounty.

Su Xiao opened the World Contact Platform, and the bounty was indeed pinned at the very top.

Moon Apostle (Apocalypse Paradise): "Bounty on all members of the Hall of Valor in this world. For every kill, you can get a reward of 3,000 Soul Coins. Deputy leader 7,000 Soul Coins, leader · Cain 15,000 Soul Coins. This bounty has been notarized by the Void Tree. After completing the kill, you can use this bounty to claim the Soul Coins temporarily notarized by the Void Tree. Now our side has deposited 96,000 Soul Coins in the Void Tree."

Morey (Apocalypse Paradise): "Bai Ye."

Moon Apostle (Apocalypse Paradise): "Bai Ye, Undead Sister, Priest, Black Demon."

Hao Sister (Apocalypse Paradise): "The smile gradually becomes wicked."

Wild Boar King (Watchman Paradise): "Is this the power of wealth? I bow down."

Anonymous (Apocalypse Paradise): "Yes."

Snow Monster (Death Paradise): "Having many Soul Coins doesn't represent anything."

Sheep Man (Death Paradise): "Shut up if you lose the fight. You are the hardest in your whole body. Shut up quickly, don't lose face to the Death Paradise faction, otherwise, I will slaughter you first."

The news in the contact platform was very lively. This bounty was issued, and the Hall of Valor members were very uncomfortable. At the very least, they didn't dare to go out alone. Killing one person was 3,000. Hunting a few weaker members of the Hall of Valor in one day was over 10,000 Soul Coins, which was equivalent to an Immortal-grade · full score equipment, and combat power would immediately improve by a notch.

This bounty probably wouldn't last long, more as a warning, letting the Hall of Valor weigh the price of offending the Crimson Empress faction.

This aspect had nothing to do with Su Xiao. His situation was that the Crimson Empress was assassinated and almost died. This assassination seemed to be done by the Hall of Valor, but in reality, it was instigated by the Empire side.

The Empire did this to indirectly help Brutal · Kara become the third family in this world, and before the situation completely got out of control, let Pan Duola Star reach the situation of three families standing together.

The Empire's method was quite brilliant, delegating the Hall of Valor to do this. Even if any hidden dangers were caused, it was the Hall of Valor's back, and it wouldn't involve the Empire, just like now.

In fact, the Hall of Valor didn't want to wade into this muddy water, but they really had no way. Cain had already learned the biggest secret of this world: Netherworld invasion.

After learning about this, he got some confidential intelligence of the Empire from the group members, including the secret order to abandon the mother star, abandon all colonial stars, and fully guard Pan Duola Star.

After seeing this secret order, Cain's scalp went numb. How terrible was the Netherworld invasion that the Empire was willing to abandon so much and move... no, it should be escape to Pan Duola Star.

If Cain didn't agree to this assassination of the Crimson Empress, the pot of the previous airship robbery would still be carried by him. Among the several parties involved in this matter, Su Xiao's side couldn't be caught, and the company was willing to pay, so it was definitely catching Cain to carry the black pot.

Not carrying this black pot was also fine, that was to assassinate the Crimson Empress. The Hall of Valor not only failed but also completely offended the Apocalypse Three Sisters, and finally was hammered to the ground by the "Little Rich Woman Power."

Now Su Xiao received the message passed by the Spider Queen. The Crimson Empress's attitude was that if Su Xiao's side was willing to help her destroy Brutal · Kara, afterward she would join forces with Su Xiao to wait and meet the Netherworld invasion on the same front.

Regarding this, Su Xiao naturally wouldn't refuse. He just wanted to let the Crimson Empress and Brutal · Kara start fighting as soon as possible.

Half an hour later, inside the nest room of the Mother Nest.

Su Xiao, Spider Queen, and Crimson Empress sat opposite each other at a round table. The latter two both came as incarnations.

"Lord Bai Ye, this time attacking the Kara tribe, how much combat power can you send at most? I mean those flame dragons outside."

The Crimson Empress spoke. Hearing this, Su Xiao pondered slightly and said: "At most 400 flame dragons."

"Too few. Brutal · Kara's station is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the periphery is covered with crystalline matter. Ordinary means are difficult to break. High temperature is an excellent means to solve this house layer. On your side, at least send 900 flame dragons."

"Impossible."

Su Xiao flatly denied it. His psychological expectation was to send at most 700, leaving more than 600 as a trump card in his hand.

After some discussion, it was finally decided that Su Xiao's side would send 650 Sun Flame Dragons as siege power, the Crimson Empress's side would send 1,600 Death Wings. The so-called Death Wings were a kind of flying Zerg that looked like dragons and were red all over. They could spray corrosive and decomposing breath rays from their mouths.

The Crimson Empress's side was obviously also on the elite route. As for the Spider Queen, she would send 120,000 Terror Wolf Spiders. These Terror Wolf Spiders were very imposing in normal times, but compared to Sun Flame Dragons and Death Wings, they were like miscellaneous soldiers.

After finalizing the attack plan, Su Xiao, the Crimson Empress, and the Spider Queen decided to set off for Brutal · Kara at dusk.

4:45 PM, central region, near Howling Canyon.

Empire's Hand · Rhine Gold leaned behind the mountain stone. He looked at the time. It was almost 5:00, only 15 minutes away from the agreed transaction time.

Rhine Gold took off his gloves, took out a cigarette and lit it, and said: "Do you think Kuku Lin · Bai Ye will come?"

Rhine Gold spoke in a deep voice. Hearing this, the adjutant and several personal guards beside him were shocked. They knew that their adult had an appointment with his fiancée tonight, but he caught up with this matter.

Several people were silent. In fact, they didn't say it clearly, it would be a ghost if the other party could come.

Seeing this, Rhine Gold, who was spitting out smoke, laughed angrily. He took out his pocket watch, opened it, and looked at his fiancée's photo, but he was even more uncomfortable. Rhine Gold looked like a tough military officer, but besides loyalty to the Empire and strength, he was also a 24-year-old young man. Regarding the matter of craving his fiancée's body, he was the same as the vast majority of male compatriots.

Just at this time, Rhine Gold's adjutant suddenly poked his head out from behind the cover. He sensed something approaching.

On the open gravel beach, a figure walked from afar. This was a chubby boy wearing a motorcycle suit with a pineapple head. He stepped on spiked shoes, his hands inserted in his clothes pockets, and a small metal scissor hung on his right ear, his expression smiling but not smiling.

This chubby boy walked with metal accessories on his body clanging, and the casual pace that swayed left and right made him look like he was full of flaws.

"This is?"

The adjutant put down the telescope. He didn't think it was a coincidence that this person came here.

"You guys retreat first."

Rhine Gold spoke. Hearing this, his adjutant and several confidants were shocked.

"Sir..."

"Stop talking nonsense. You guys will definitely die if you stay. Even if you want to serve the Empire, it's not served like this. You work under me, you can die, but you can't die without value. Take your troops and get out of my sight within 15 seconds."

Rhine Gold pulled out the pistol at his waist. The meaning was very obvious. If these subordinates didn't leave, he would name them one by one and blow their heads off.

As the saying goes, if an expert makes a move, you know if there is one. Rhine Gold's combat power was similar to Su Xiao's. He judged at the first sight of Black Demon that this thing could not be dealt with by collective or human sea tactics.

Several subordinates took the troops ambushed around and retreated quickly. Seeing this, Rhine Gold extinguished the cigarette in his hand. He walked out of the hiding point and walked toward the Black Demon chubby boy naturally.

At dusk, the setting sun in the sky was like blood. Su Xiao looked at the time and felt that the time was about right. He jumped onto the back of a Sun Flame Dragon, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang followed closely, Baha flew by himself, and Amu stayed to guard the house.

Su Xiao gave a mental command, and the Sun Flame Dragon under his feet spread its wings and flew up. The surrounding 649 Sun Flame Dragons also took off one after another.

Brutal · Kara's base camp was located

The Crimson Queen and the Spider Queen were still present only as avatars and clones; the former stood atop the back of a Death Wing, looking down condescendingly, while the latter's lower body was fused into the body of an elite wolf-kin.

"Kara's brood nest is just ahead."

Leaving behind these words, the Crimson Queen, standing on the Death Wing's back, issued an order, letting 1,600 Death Wings fly at the very front.

Su Xiao had the Sun Flame Dragon flock follow at a position slightly further back; this time they were here to assist in the battle, so naturally, they wouldn't lead the charge.

The wind whistled in his ears. Su Xiao sat cross-legged on the dragon's back. For some reason, he felt a faint sense of unease in his heart, as if the Nether invasion had passed a certain stage, and the speed of the subsequent invasion would suddenly skyrocket.

Suppressing this thought, half an hour later, Su Xiao saw the Kara tribe nestled ahead. He could only say, they were worthy of being home-defense fanatics.

The Kara tribe's brood nest was over 200 meters high, surrounded by a large number of Zerg buildings, with the outermost ring consisting of several hundred defensive high towers.

Do not underestimate these defensive high towers that were only 50-plus meters tall. The tracking missiles they fired were only half a meter long and as thick as an arm, but the quantity of these tracking missiles was terrifyingly high; a single defensive high tower could fire 6,000 to 7,000 such tracking missiles within 1 minute.

After engaging the Kara tribe, the sky was filled with tracking missiles, reaching the point of forming a barrage wall. Even more troublesome was that these tracking missiles would continuously reduce defense, armor, and plating, eventually reaching 0 defense and causing high amounts of stacked damage.

What was even more disgusting was that this massive quantity of tracking missiles also had a "concussion effect." Once a biological unit was hit, there was a certain probability of falling into a concussed state, feeling dizzy and having blurred vision.

Kara could be called a powerhouse killer. Besides these defensive high towers that fired tracking missiles, she also had a defensive method with extremely high power but a slow firing frequency.

The Crimson Queen, standing proudly in the sky, pointed forward with one hand. Just as she was about to declare the start of the war, a sudden mutation occurred within the Kara tribe's building complex.

One by one, the oily, bright red horn-dogs dissolved. Not only did they dissolve, but within Kara's main base, except for the brood nest, all other Zerg buildings began to dissolve, turning into a semi-fluid state and gathering toward the brood nest. The speed was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye, this large-scale fusion was completed; it was clearly not the first time they had performed such a fusion.

When the fusion was complete, Kara's main base looked much emptier, with only a giant monster remaining at the very center. This giant monster's height was just over 300 meters, and its lower body was a ring of thick, sturdy armored legs that could support this massive body in all directions.

The giant monster's upper body was humanoid. It had eight thick, long giant arms, and its head had no face, only a single vertical eye, while its mouth was a spiracle.

The originally planned attack on the Kara tribe was no longer possible. At this moment, this giant monster was Brutal Kara. It had evolved in another direction, reaching a state where Kara was the entire tribe.

Kara's giant eye opened, looking at the Crimson Queen in the sky. The next second, countless tracking missiles flew out from behind it, turned around, and attacked the Death Wings. For a time, the tracking missiles blocked the view, making it impossible to see the giant monster form of Kara clearly.

【Alert: You have engaged in battle with a world-class creature!】

【This creature is the ultimate form of the Zerg in this world and is the only one of its kind in this world. If you kill this creature, you will obtain a large amount of World Source and have a high probability of obtaining a world-class treasure chest.】