Astral Ants

A weapon 'sword' with a strong aura of fire?
Not a weapon.

Not exactly an artifact...

Sword-shaped intelligent machine?

It's a bit like a sword-shaped mechanical heart...

It’s strange that all Zerg warriors are named after plants. What plant is 'Baba'?
It turns out to be an intelligent machine!
It is suspected that he has reached the peak level of domination!
This breath and temperament are a little familiar...

Long Bai's thoughts raced, and he immediately contacted the super-giant star destroyer docked in outer space!

Sword-shaped intelligent machine!

The mechanical heart resides in a sword-shaped 'device'.

The sword is its body.

According to Blackfa, that supergiant star destroyer is one of the 'combat devices' it controls.

In other words, it controls the entire fleet of battleships.

Long Bai was shocked, but he quickly realized the situation and calmed down.

...

"Master Baba, this is the chief of Xianglanshan Chamber of Commerce, Longbai."

Manchi Lord waved his tentacles to give instructions.

"Meet Lord Baba!"

Long Bai greeted him respectfully.

"Ants...male..."

The immature, irritable, and fierce information thought, "I know you. The Great King Bai Sacred Tree, Wang Baizi. You have been trading with the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce through a chamber of commerce called Baiwei."

Long Bai: "Yes——"

Lord Manchi introduced: "Lord Longzhu has an expeditionary corps composed of one million combat intelligent machines under his command. Lord Baba is the commander-in-chief of the corps. He also serves as the leader of the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce, in charge of the finances of the chamber of commerce and the production and manufacturing of the subordinate intelligent machine chambers. It is no exaggeration to say that half of the Lizhu galaxy is under the control of Lord Baba."

Lord Manchi introduced: "It is no coincidence that Great Chief Longbai owns the Law Tree. The Xianglan Chamber of Commerce led by Great Chief Longbai is the first chamber of commerce to arrive at the Amber Galaxy, and so far, its harvest is far ahead."

"We have successfully found the third level three source point. Together with the one we exchanged with me, we now have control over four level three source points. Chief Longbai still has a great chance to obtain the fifth level three source point."

"Organizing warriors on a large scale, searching for the source, and competing with tens or hundreds of millions of Zerg warriors is not a war, but it is worse than a war. It tests the leadership, command, and judgment abilities of the leaders of the forces."

"Look at other large chambers of commerce that have sent out hundreds of thousands or even millions of insects. The most they have ever received is two. If we ignore the process and only look at the results, we can intuitively see the difference."

Lord Manchi introduced him warmly, solemnly, and seriously, and then said:

"Captain Longbai, I came to you mainly to introduce you to Lord Baba. In the future, we can all make a fortune in the same galaxy and take care of each other."

Long Bai: "It's my turn to thank Lord Manchi and Lord Baba for their care!"

"No!"

Lord Manchi raised his paw to deny it, paused, pondered and considered his words, and slowly said: "I have shared the knowledge and technology of the Vafa civilization with Lord Baba. Great Chief Longbai, we should thank you."

"This also means that, at present, the three of us have the semi-god-level manufacturing technology of the Vafa civilization. It only takes a certain amount of time to develop and accumulate, and we can reach the level of semi-god-level technological civilization..."

"Scientific and technological civilization has one characteristic, which is that it is easy to spread..."

"Captain Longbai, Lord Baba, I hope that we can reach an agreement, or a tacit understanding, together."

"Two core points."

"First, the knowledge of the Vafa civilization will no longer be spread to any other forces. The technology and creations related to the demigod realm cannot be easily sold to others. We can use them ourselves, but we need to obtain the consent of the other two parties to sell them to others, and require them to sign a confidentiality agreement with the three of us. Especially for human civilization, we must keep it strictly confidential and not allow them to have any contact with it. What I mean is, beware of humans."

"Second...intercommunication of scientific research results."

"Demigod-level technology is not enough. Lord Baba and I are aiming for god-level technology. We want to reproduce the god-level technology of the Eternal Stars civilization, crack the secrets of manufacturing god-level materials, and build god-level starships. We will organize our forces and invest financial resources at all costs to quickly verify and reproduce the demigod technology of the Vafa civilization, and continue to invest and explore upwards."

Lord Manchi paused and said, "I heard that Xingshen'ao optimized the 'Pei Diernan Civilization Clan' with the help of Hei Fa. It should have certain scientific research and development capabilities, right? Chief Longbai, do you have any plans in this regard?"

"This one……"

Long Bai helped Xing Shen'ao revive civilization. His main purpose was to produce and manufacture technological products to make money. His second goal was to independently build a deep space fleet. He didn't think too much about it...

Long Bai thought about it, tapped his tentacles vigorously, and said, "I don't have any plans in this regard for now, but I can have one!"

"As for the confidentiality agreement, there will definitely be no problem!"

Lord Manchi: "Well, we have reached an agreement. We cannot sign a contract for this matter, but we are all leaders standing at the pinnacle of the Divine Tree Civilization. I believe we will not break our promises."

Long Bai said in a deep tone, "I can formally promise and strictly abide by the promise."

"Captain Longbai, I trust you!"

Lord Manchi paused for a moment and said, "That's a benefit! This way, the three of us will now monopolize the semi-god-level technology of the Divine Tree Civilization..."

The true God of nature does not allow monopoly, and Lord Manchi’s words are just that.

Longbai tapped his antennae to show his understanding.

Suddenly silent,

Baba Overlord broke the silence and asked, "Ant, the space capabilities used by the starship you just took came from a civilization that is good at space technology? Not the Vafa civilization."

Long Bai replied, "They are from another, distant, half-technological, half-Force civilization called the White Tower Civilization. They are just some relics that I picked up."

Baba Overlord: "White Tower Civilization? Never heard of it."

Longbai directly activated the ability of the tree flower heart world, and summarized the entire process of discovering the "One-Horned Wolf" ruins, obtaining the artist's inheritance, and the artist's escape from the White Tower civilization for unknown reasons and being killed by the Star God Ao into a piece of information, and directly wrote it into Baba's dominant consciousness.

"..."

"It turns out to be the Crystal Throne!"

"The old universe was destroyed 20 billion years in advance. There must be a civilization deliberately destroying it..."

Baba said: "It's too far. When you have time in the future, you can go there and grab the crystal throne."

Long Bai: "..."

Omnics also have their own personalities.

Black Mage is a logistics management and auxiliary type of intelligent machine, so his personality is relatively easy-going and gentle.

This Baba Overlord is clearly a combat robot. Its words and actions are full of aggression. It is not easy to talk to and it seems difficult to get along with. At the same time, it seems to have no scruples when it speaks...

Long Bai's mind raced as he slowly said, "In the early years, when I had just left my home planet and entered the White Crystal Galaxy, I had the honor of conversing with the tree-shaped clone of the True God of Nature on the Red Robin Star, and consulted him about the White Tower Civilization and the Crystal Throne."

Long Bai: "I instinctively feel that the Crystal Throne is a potential threat, but the True God of Nature doesn't take it seriously at all. He just perfunctorily asked me to go over and take a look..."

Baba dominates: "This is not perfunctory. Little ant, be more confident. When you grow up, you have the strength and ability to handle such problems independently."

"Thank you for the compliment..."

Long Bai probed, "I also heard from the tree-shaped clone of the True God of Nature that the Zerg civilization has listed a thousand 'severely threatening' civilizations that may have survived from the old universe and may threaten the survival of our Divine Tree civilization. They are organizing forces to search for them at specific points and eliminate them..."

The surface of Baba's sword glowed red, and she said in surprise, "Little Ant! When you first entered the universe, the tree-shaped clone of the True God of Nature told you all this? It must have high hopes for you! Did you do something good on your home planet?"

"Good thing..."

"That's right..."

Long Bai: "I was born in the Ten Thousand Races Continent. Because I am a male ant, I was sent to the Ten Thousand Nations Continent by the Flame Spider Chamber of Commerce to develop. However, no ant country of the same race was willing to accept me, so I was sent to the neighboring Yunji Continent, which was in a period of dormancy of the Force..."

The important things were over, and now it was more like a small talk. Long Bai briefly recounted his experience on his home planet, and how he led the Kingdom of Boshu Bay to fight against the Kingdom of Blue Island Ants to compete for the Scepter of the God of the Ocean...

Baba said: "An ant that is very good at fighting! That is not hard to understand! The True God of Nature must be intending to promote you to lead the army on an expedition in the future."

Long Bai asked: "Leading a legion to go on an expedition? To fight against other civilizations?"

"nonsense!"

Baba said: "In the old universe, the Divine Tree civilization developed from a life planet and gradually expanded to dominate the entire Kaia supergiant star system. In this process, part of the civilization was completely wiped out, part of the civilization was incorporated, and part of it ran away."

"Along with the strong rise of the Divine Tree Civilization, there was also a major historical event, which was the fall of the Eternal Star Civilization! The God-level technological civilization collapsed in the form of internal rebellion and civil war. A large amount of territory was turned into wasteland, and a large amount of knowledge, technology, materials, and artifacts were scattered across the starry sky. The combination of the two gave rise to a large number of third-level civilizations and demigod civilizations on the wasteland."

"Most of the civilizations that escaped are semi-god civilizations. They have the potential to survive the cosmic catastrophe and make a comeback. Some of them even have the potential to advance further and become god-level civilizations."

"In the new era of the universe, now is the best time. We should visit them one by one and eliminate them before they are weak and have not recovered their vitality."

Lord Manchi said: "There are currently three official expeditionary corps, led by the Lord of Spacetime, the Lord of Dragon Bamboo, and the Lord of Samsara, and they are acting separately."

At this point, Lord Baba became excited and gloated, "Ant, let me tell you a secret. About four million years ago, the Lord of Space and Time almost died."

"???"

Longbai's expression froze, his antennae twitched, and he stood upright, waiting for what was to come.

Baba Overlord: "A demigod-level civilization called 'Brasib', similar in size to humans, a pure force civilization, with a leader called 'Star-Eating Queen'. The big spider accidentally fell for it, and it took millions of years and exhausted all its savings to save its life."

Is there such a thing?
The library's historical materials record the Brasibu civilization, a carbon-based life group that is highly similar to the natural god system. It also needs to give birth to Force life forms from ordinary tribes and evolve from junior warriors.

This civilization also cultivates plants on a large scale, and has mastered the secret technique of raising ordinary plants to create Force plants. Through the God-given Force food, they gain enhanced strength and evolve and grow rapidly. The Star-Eating Queen is a demigod-level warrior who controls a demigod-level star destroyer named the Star-Eating. It is said that she joined Plutonium, one of the Eternal Twins, during the destruction of the Eternal Stars civilization and the riot of the Omnics. The ship was tailor-made for her by Plutonium.

The Star-Eating Queen’s combat strength is average, but no one can catch up with her when she runs, and she has always been against the Divine Tree Civilization.

Long Bai asked in confusion: "What kind of attack injured the Lord of Time and Space that would take millions of years to heal and exhaust all his energy?"

Baba Overlord: "An extremely strange rule ability that sacrifices energy materials, sets traps, and imposes an extremely unique corrosion curse on those who step into the trap. The higher the level of the sacrificed energy materials and the greater the quantity, the stronger the curse power."

"The Lord of Time and Space relied on his spatial talent and spatial ability, thinking he was invincible in the universe. He walked straight into the trap and almost died in it."

"The curse affects the laws of the universe. As long as it is within the universe, it will continue to be effective. Only by escaping to the outer void can one save his life. The True God of Nature deduced and designed a corresponding reverse sacrificial array to break the curse. The price was that the Lord of Time and Space spent all the wealth he had accumulated with great effort."

"Forehead……"

"There is also this strange ability..."

Long Bai asked: "What about the Star Devouring Empress? Is she destroyed? Her Star Devouring Ship..."

"Ran."

"The Master of Time and Space is powerful enough, but not smart enough..."

Baba Overlord sneered and said regretfully: "The Star Devourer Queen is very cunning. She found out that the New Era Divine Tree Civilization had awakened the space talent of the Zerg, and had the power to restrain the Star Devourer, so she decisively chose to run away. We guess that she must have run far away and hidden herself, and it will be difficult to find her. The universe is infinite, at least it will not be found in a short time."

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai looked at Lord Manchi and asked, "Lord Manchi, according to the rules, will you also organize an expedition?"

"Yes."

Lord Manchi said: "The development of the Amber Galaxy is on the right track. I will also form the Fourth Expeditionary Corps of the Divine Tree Civilization. But I still lack a lot of strength. I will try it out first and try to find a Star God ally and sharpen my claws with the Star God's fire."

"Captain Longbai, if you are interested, you can come with me. I will give you the position of deputy commander of the legion and commander-in-chief of the war. The ants are naturally good at war, and you will command the legion to fight."

"Well... I'm only at the Star Realm... I'm afraid I can't help you in this short period of time..."

Long Bai politely refused and quickly changed the subject, asking, "Lord Manchi, you seem to be very repulsive to human civilization?"

Lord Manchi said: "The human race reproduces at a terrifying speed. On any planet with life, they can develop into tens of billions of people. My attitude has always been clear and firm. We must control the number of human populations and guard against quantitative changes leading to qualitative changes. We must prevent the situation from brewing into troubles or even disasters that are difficult to resolve within our Shenshu civilization one day in the future."

"But due to historical reasons, the God of Nature has great trust in the human race. Some of the powerful Zerg leaders don't seem to be aware of the potential crisis... I can't make decisions for other star systems, but I can make decisions for the Amber Galaxy. Humans are not allowed in the Amber Galaxy, so the words of the God of Nature are useless, not to mention his clone, even if he comes in person."

"..."

Long Bai focused and moved his tentacles in agreement.

This is the truth.

Having seen human warriors, my only impression is that they are weak.

It's hard to comment without any communication or interaction.

"laugh--"

Baba Lord sent out a sneering thought message and asked bluntly, "Ant, are you really stupid or are you just pretending to be stupid? Do you believe this?"

"I'll tell you the reason. When Manchi was in the Lizhu Galaxy, it mainly made money to support its people through technological manufacturing. The intelligent machines under its command were worse than each other. The things they made were more expensive than those of humans, and their performance was worse than that of humans. They couldn't compete, so they held a grudge against them."

"Manchi is a worm. He appears to be generous, but in fact he is very greedy and stingy. He appears to be generous and magnanimous, but in fact he has no tolerance and holds grudges."

Long Bai: "..."

Manchi Lord: "..."

Manchi Lord: "I am not that kind of insect."

"Don't make excuses. You are that kind of worm."

Baba Overlord changed the subject and said, "One level three source point is not enough, can you give me two more?"

"Okay. I admit it. I'm a cheapskate."

Lord Manchi turned his head to look at Longbai and continued the topic: "Lord Longzhu led the army to the expedition. The defense force of the Lizhu Galaxy is not sufficient, so the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce did not participate in the search for the source point of the Amber Galaxy. I donated a third-level source point, officially named the Sword God Seat, the Sword God Star Region. However, it will not be announced publicly, it will not be displayed on the star map, and the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce's intelligent machines will not move around at will."

"My idea is that the Amber Galaxy should remain a pure survival galaxy for Zerg warriors. Both the Ferdinand civilization of Star Shen'ao and the omnics under my command should be hidden from the star map. The coordinates should only be communicated to the 7th-level and above Chambers of Commerce and some 6th-level Flame Spider Chambers of Commerce for private exchanges and transactions."

"Captain Longbai, I have seen the development plan of your Xianglan Mountain. Do you plan to make do with the Black Law and transform the Tree Flower Constellation into a pure mining planet? And the Black Orchid Constellation, are you going to transform it into a treasure planet? Then you can arrange for the Pei Diernan civilization of Xingshenao to survive in these two third-level source points. If there is not enough space for activities, pick two second-level source points, and a few first-level and zero-level source points as their survival planets. I will help with the operation here and hide them all."

"It's not that I exclude people of different races, but there should be a limit to tolerance."

"You must have visited the Liming and Lizhu star systems and seen it, right? In two of the three major star systems of the Shenshu civilization, on most planets, there are more alien races walking on the streets than Zerg. This doesn't make sense!"

"The Amber Galaxy adopts a similar management method to the White Crystal Galaxy. On the surface, there should be no activities of alien races other than the Zerg."

Longbai agreed: "Okay! No problem!"

Long Bai carefully observed the reaction of Baba Lord. This issue should have been communicated in advance, so there was no overreaction.

Long Bai continued to change the topic and asked, "Lord Manchi, what you just said about the exchange of scientific research results means..."

Lord Manchi said: "The Lizhu Chamber of Commerce has built a complete scientific research system. With a certain amount of resources invested, it can quickly rise to the demigod level. I also plan to take out a batch of source points to build a scientific research base to cultivate intelligent machines with potential in theoretical research and technological development, and specialize in scientific research."

"As for you, Chief Longbai, just do what you can."

"Everyone, based on the semi-god-level technology of the Vafa civilization, continue to develop. If you have any gains, remember to inform and share them with each other, so that we can make progress together."

Research base? Long Bai knew a little about it, but he was not very clear about the specific operations. However, there was no need to ask. He would find out when he went back to ask Hei Fa and Xing Shen Ao. He readily agreed:

"No problem! I'll also build a small base and invest some insect manpower and financial resources to give it a try."

Long Bai followed up and changed the topic, asking: "Lord Manchi, has the second phase of the Star Network trunk road been planned? Is there any possibility of adding or modifying it? At least open up the Baiwei Seat first."

"Of course!"

Manchi Lord: "One of the important matters in this joint meeting is to discuss the construction of the Amber Galaxy star network and the development of source points. When building a star network, the third-level source points will always be given priority..."

Lord Baba found it boring and said nothing. He turned into a beam of light and rushed out of the hall and disappeared.

Lord Manchi happily sat back on his throne.

Long Bai: "..."

Long Bai suppressed his mental power and asked, "After all, Baba Overlord is an omnic, and a combat omnic. Isn't his status in the Lizhu Chamber of Commerce too high?"

"seems like it……"

Lord Manchi: "But I also heard that Lord Baba has a special origin. It existed in the last era and followed Lord Longzhu out of the mother planet. I don't know the details."

"Oh--"

Long Bai: "Lord Manchi, let's talk about the Star Network..."

Long Bai inquired in detail about the content that would be announced at this meeting.

There are three more important decisions:
First, the taxation of scientific and technological creations is consistent with that of the Baijing Galaxy, and the taxation catalog of the Baijing Galaxy is directly adopted and used.

Second, the Amber Galaxy must also implement the rule of law and copy the existing laws and regulations of Dawn and Dawn Galaxy.

The Lord of Time and Space has recovered from his injuries, but his wealth is gone. He is now sitting in the Dawn Galaxy and amassing wealth like crazy. Invite him over to build three "Sea of ​​Time Prisons" to detain serious criminals.

Third, the land rent of the Amber Galaxy is consistent with that of the Lizhu Galaxy. In the early stages of development, in order to attract more insects to settle and develop, all the chambers of commerce, big and small, must reduce the rent uniformly. Starting from 78th Era-500 Yuan-000, the rent cannot exceed 30% of the rent of the Lizhu Galaxy. Afterwards, it will increase by 10% every 5 years until it is consistent with the Lizhu Galaxy.

This is detrimental to the interests of all chambers of commerce. But if we think rationally and look at it in the long run, rent reduction will be beneficial to the development of small and medium-sized chambers of commerce and the development of the Amber Galaxy.

Long Bai had no objection. After learning the details, he said goodbye and left, heading straight for the Shuhua Chamber of Commerce's branch in Yongtengxing.

Caolong and Yudou have been stationed in the Manchi Star System Shop for many years, guiding the new Zerg forces to re-register the Chamber of Commerce and open a Star Network account. They purchase source gems, world gems, chaos ore, and various precious materials from them at high prices.

Received a lot of good things.

A lot of level 3 primary energy metal materials were recorded.

Save up,

He turned back to ask Lord Manchi for help and built a starship tailor-made for Yu Chong with a speed of over 1000 times the speed of light.

After getting a brief understanding, Longbai temporarily stayed in the shop managed by Yudou.

...

[Time: 78th Era-460 Yuan-000 Years]

The lacquer tree, giant cypress, oak, four-digit insects and other insects formed a team and arrived on time to meet with the dragon cypress and attend the meeting.

The content is not complicated.

The main dispute was over taxation and rent reduction. After negotiation, the tax list was partially adjusted, but the rent reduction was not negotiable.

There is no problem with anything else.

An agreement was reached in just one day and the meeting ended.

Long Bai returns to the Lingxiao star system to check on the progress of Pei Diernan's civilization recovery and discusses technological production-related matters with Xing Shen'ao in detail. (End of this chapter)