Chapter 149: Preparation for Cooperation and Expansion
Hernandas would rather commit suicide than compromise with the swarm. He called the swarm and Xuehua "traitors" and threatened that more so-called "high-level ascenders" would come to trouble them.
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But Xue Hua didn't take this empty threat to heart.
Because that Xel'Naga - whether it is Narud or not - should have no more power left to deal with him now.
The defeat of Hernandas will weaken the Xel'Naga's strength a lot, and its plan obviously needs more support. Therefore, it must make a choice between the swarm and its own plan.
Or temporarily stop the implementation of the plan and put all your energy into eliminating the threat of the insect swarm.
Or just let go of the swarm for the time being and focus all your efforts on your own plan.
Hernandas' last words revealed a lot of information. At least Xue Hua learned from his words that there was more than one so-called "high-level upgrader" like him under Xel'Naga.
However, Xue Hua also believed that there would never be too many such powerful beings.
Otherwise, Xel'Naga wouldn't just hide in the dark and engage in sneaky things.
The fact that it chose to hide itself in the war between High Heaven and Chaos Purgatory proves that its current power is far from as powerful as Hernandas boasted.
This gives the insect swarm a very good opportunity for development.
Especially after cutting off part of its wings, the development space of the insect swarm will be greatly improved.
And now, the swarm has a powerful ally - the protoss.
After the fleet war, Xue Hua handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to Stukov and ordered him to drag all the wreckage of the Xel'Naga biological battleship back to the asteroid base for Abathur to study.
Then he appointed the Protoss Phase Technician Keleth to temporarily act as the ambassador between the Zerg Swarm and the Protoss, and discussed with the Protoss Executive Harens the matter of comprehensive cooperation between the two races.
In the previous fleet battle, the fleets of the two races showed sufficient sincerity in cooperation, which provided a basic basis of trust for the subsequent negotiations.
Harens's attitude towards Keles was no longer a vicious rebuke, but turned into a truly calm discussion and exchange.
The protoss fleet has been wandering in this vast universe for so long, and the information they have obtained about star areas in various parts of the universe is exactly what the insect swarm, which has been developing in a closed manner, urgently needs.
In turn, the information about the Xel'Naga obtained by the swarm from the Sanctuary World, as well as the relationship between the High Heaven, Chaos Purgatory, and humans in this universe, etc., are also of great significance to the protoss.
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Negotiations on cooperation between the two communities began with the exchange of information and began calmly.
Seeing that the atmosphere of the negotiations was quite friendly, Xue Hua, who was not good at diplomacy, left the whole matter to Keles, and did not set up any so-called restrictions or surveillance. He only sent Isa to observe and provide information.
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This is the sincerity he showed to the protoss, which means that he and the swarm sincerely hope to cooperate with the protoss.
After being handed over in negotiations, Xue Hua shifted his main focus back to the first world.
The First Fleet won this time, but it also suffered heavy losses. If he wanted to complete the next plan of rapid expansion and accumulation of resources, he needed to restore the vitality of the First Fleet immediately.
Fortunately, the insect swarm is an expert in attacking troops. As long as you have the resources, you can quickly explode any number of troops.
So the most important issue now is resources.
The several resource stars activated by Zuzad supplied all the resources to the hatching of Leviathan and Behemoth, and did not give anything back to the insect swarm at all.
On the contrary, Jiagong has been collecting additional resources to supplement the incubation needs of resource stars, so the resource mining in this part has been basically zero in recent times.
At present, the main resource income in the insect swarm resource pool basically comes from several underground insect nests in the first world.
However, as the size of the insect swarm continues to grow, these insect nests alone have begun to be unable to maintain the population growth rate of the insect swarm.
Xue Hua must find other resource collection channels as soon as possible so that the insect swarm's resource pool can be filled quickly.
With this question in mind, he visited Zuzade, hoping that the master of ecological transformation could bring him good news.
"Master, the activation of the fourth resource star has entered the final stage. You only need to wait for a while, and the insect swarm will have new resource collection channels."
Zuzade has indeed lived up to Xue Hua's expectations. The first batch of resource stars that started to be activated have now gradually achieved their goals.
The last resource star No. 4 is also in a state of being activated. Its internal ecological environment system is slowly recovering under the intervention of Zuzade. The planet is beginning to be enveloped by the atmosphere, and the internal environment is gradually becoming suitable for biological growth.
Geological phenomena and weather phenomena began to appear. Water vapor in the underground gathered and was evaporated under the action of the special bacteria carpet used by Zuzade. Then it formed rainfall. The rainwater gathered and formed the most rudimentary lake in the depressions on the surface of the planet.
and the prototype of the ocean.
The most elementary carbon-based life forms began to sprout, and Zuzade's special bacteria nourished the ecological environment of the entire planet.
These bacteria are like higher-level guides, guiding those lower-level forms of life to rapidly evolve step by step towards higher-level forms.
Although frankly speaking, this method similar to "pushing seedlings to encourage growth" actually does more harm than good to the evolution of life. The ecological environment guided by this is likely to become monotonous and lack competition, eventually leading to a complete stagnant state of biological evolution.
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But to Xue Hua, this doesn't matter at all. All he needs is the resource bonus given after the planet is activated.
This planet is located in the orbit of the sixth planet in the star system where Sanctuary World is located. It is far away from the star, and its rotation speed is as fast as lightning. Without the interference of the insect swarm, it alone would not be able to create the environment needed for the reproduction of life.
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It's enough that Zuzade can do this, and asking for more is just nitpicking.
After roughly understanding the time required for the fourth resource star to be fully activated, Xue Hua once again turned his attention to the interior of the sanctuary world, preparing to take a look at the "golden insect swarm" that Abathur and Keles had been working on before.
"How is the plan going?
Now that the cooperation between the insect swarm and the protoss is about to begin, it should not be a problem to borrow two phase technicians from Harlans. In this case, this plan that has been progressing slowly seems to have a real possibility of success.
But when he actually visited the wild insect nest experimental base in the mysterious sand dunes, he found that things were not as simple as he imagined.
Abathur told him that the results of the first batch of "Golden Zerg" experiments in the wild Zerg Hive had come out, but the gene editing effect of the protoss' psychic weapons through the Worldstone solution was not satisfactory.
The genetic sequence of springtails in that experimental insect nest has begun to undergo large-scale collapse.
Just as Abathur feared, this genetic collapse is spreading to the genetic incubation sequence of the entire wild insect hive. (To be continued)
