Chapter 691 This Gambit, This Gambit Is on the Tenth Level! (6400, Seeking Monthly Tickets at the End of the Month!)

"If wiping out the Twilight Fleet was a daily task, then this would truly be a shitty game..."

Having finally resolved the nineteenth Void Believers' Fleet raid this week, Shao Shuangyue wearily took her hand off the joystick, feeling sore all over.

Although piloting this Body of Zhuzhou didn't require any refined skills, just yelling out the name of the ultimate technique and the form of the transformation, then pushing the joystick with all your might, everything else would be automatically resolved by the 'Soul Resonance System'.

But pushing the extremely heavy joystick for a long time and shouting out the techniques with passion was enough to make one's arms ache and mouth dry!

However, the Body of Zhuzhou was very considerate: the moment Shao Shuangyue complained, a thermos cup immediately popped out of a groove in the cockpit, startling the girl.

This care from Brother Zhou's body even contained *pangdahai* (Malva nut tea)... although the source of this *pangdahai* was very mysterious, the taste was quite good.

In short.

Unlike the Parasitic Demon Fleet, most of these attacking Twilight Fleets were harassment AI fleets—as everyone knows, AI is an important pillar of the Void Believers, including silicon-based electronic AI, carbon-based clone fleets, alchemical magic artifices, Near Immortal Daoist soldiers, and other types.

These Twilight Fleets of all kinds, fearless of death, did not hinder the fundamental strength of the Void Believers at all, and could also consume the energy of the Earth side, which can be said to be completely risk-free.

Shao Shuangyue also felt particularly bored killing them: because these low-level fleets didn't earn many Exploration Points at all. After fighting for a long time, it was just repetitive operations, without any surprises.

But one thing was very obvious.

The Void Believers didn't expect that after Shao Shuangyue arrived, the Judgment Death Star's combat power could rise so quickly, so their attacks recently had been very perfunctory, as if they were still discussing how to intercept this suddenly strengthened target.

Now, the Judgment Death Star was traveling in the halo layer on the edge of the galaxy.

This place didn't have many stars interfering with communication, and compared to the inside of the galaxy, although it was easier to be caught up by the Twilight Fleet, there was no place to hide an ambush.

If the current situation continued, it would take the Void Believers at least several thousand years to catch up with the Judgment Death Star.

Through the live broadcasts of Shao Shuangyue and Jiu Ming, two half-step Pioneers, the current situation was very clear. The Earth side, along with many alien ambassadors, already knew the current situation and coordinates of this Earth fleet, and were rushing over at full speed.

Not to mention thousands of years, in about a few months, the Judgment Death Star could launch a counterattack against the Void Believers with the support of the Therostian's Golden Fleet.

And through more than a dozen combat live broadcasts this week, everyone was shocked by the strength and destructive power displayed by the Death Star Dragon, and at the same time, they were alerted by the conspiracy secretly planned by the Void Believers, and were now feeding back to their respective mother civilizations.

The calm before the storm (except for the harassed Death Star Fleet) had almost descended on the entire galaxy.

And now, Shao Shuangyue, with a mournful face, was chatting with her own legitimate older brother in the conference room.

"——Brother!"

After drinking her tea, she made a sound almost like Nobita from Doraemon. Facing Shao Qiming's helpless expression on the other side of the video, the girl cried bitterly without any restraint: "I'm so miserable! The Void Believers' Twilight Fleet is not an opponent that I should be dealing with at my level!"

"I'm just an Explorer who's barely A-grade. The enemies I usually deal with, even if they're Bosses, are just Commander-level, and at most have a bit of Overlord Earth Immortal characteristics. As long as I cooperate well with Jiu Ming, I can still fight... but now I'm encountering one cosmic fleet after another, even a single ship is probably stronger than me!"

The black-haired, straight-haired beauty scolded: "It's just a power creep! Any small soldier can instantly kill me!"

"The most important thing is that the Pioneer Space clearly sent me to fight these overly powerful interstellar fleets, but the Exploration Points given are especially few!"

——Otherwise what?

At this moment, Jiu Ming, who was meditating on the side, opened his eyes. He and Shao Qiming behind the screen had the same thought in their minds, and a question mark.

——Could it be that the Pioneer Space is really a simpleton, and would let you, a simpleton girl, use Su Zhou's invincible body to farm points?

"Don't worry, Shuangyue."

However, Qiming was, after all, a good brother with high emotional intelligence. He certainly wouldn't say anything weird, and immediately opened his mouth to comfort her: "Let's not talk about the fact that Ah Zhou's body strength is very high, enough to guarantee your safety."

"Actually, I also have a backup plan here that can guarantee the safety of everyone in the entire Earth fleet."

"Huh?"

Hearing this, Shao Shuangyue immediately stopped pretending to cry. She raised her head curiously, like every Pioneer family member, and asked: "What's the backup plan?"

Behind the camera, Shao Qiming smiled slightly. He said leisurely: "I also have the control authority over Zhuzhou's body."

"Moreover, the authority is higher than yours."

"I can remotely open Ah Zhou's personal space. This way, in the most critical moments, when you encounter troubles that you really can't solve, I can guarantee that you can enter the space to take refuge."

"Oh oh oh! It can actually be like this!"

Hearing this, Shao Shuangyue's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised—she never expected that there would be such an operation, and she didn't expect that her brother would actually have this kind of authority.

But soon, realizing something, she suddenly became a little confused: "Huh, wait?"

"Qiming, why do you also have control over Zhuzhou?"

"And if we all shrink into Brother Zhou's personal space, then who will drive the Zhuzhou? How will we stop the pursuit of the Twilight Fleet?"

"Haha."

To this, Shao Qiming just chuckled.

Back then, when he was still learning how to transform into a Divine Wood Battleship, but was troubled by how to construct a stable battleship structure, Su Zhou would borrow his body to let him personally experience the modules of the complete version of the Battleship Divine Wood—the control authority was obtained at that time.

But there was no need to say these things, so Shao Qiming slowly shook his head and said: "Don't worry, since it's the most critical moment, the Body of Zhuzhou will naturally use the most extreme means..."

"The true berserk state of the Body of Zhuzhou, and the fully armed form... you definitely haven't seen it yet, right?"

While Shao Shuangyue was stunned and communicating with Shao Qiming.

In the Pan-Galactic Stellar Network established by the Galactic Netway AI, a large amount of sorted news related to the Earth civilization, the Judgment Death Star, and the Twilight Dependents were spreading.

[Resurrection Era 7, in the halo layer on the edge of the second spiral arm of the galaxy, the Earth civilization's Judgment Death Star smashed the Void Believers' demonized Parasitic Demon Fleet, once again defeating the Void Believers' blockade]

[The Therostian Civilization Elders Council issued an important speech: The number of otherworld invaders in the Twilight Star Region has surged. They requested that the civilizations in the surrounding star regions go all out to provide strong support, otherwise there may be a 'Doomsday-level' cosmic crisis]

[Multiple ambassadors are seriously concerned about the actions of the Void Believers. According to evidence, the Void Believers have mastered a variety of dangerous technologies, and their biological modification capabilities can even turn Parasitic Demons into cosmic behemoths. The Ascended Empire calls on all civilizations to abandon the use of Parasitic Demons for free-range mineral mining to avoid being exploited by the Void Believers]

[Earth Civilization, Therostian Civilization, and the Myriad Federation reached a consensus on issues related to the Void Believers and are preparing to form a formal alliance...]

These news contents were all collected by the Galactic Netway AI through various channels and distributed free of charge to most of the races and civilizations in the galaxy that could connect to it.

Some people had suspected the purpose of the Netway AI, but in the tens of thousands of years before the severance of psionic energy, no one had ever seen the Netway AI biased towards any civilization. They were truly absolutely neutral and never released any false information.

But precisely because of this, whenever the Netway AI issued some particularly surprising news, it would set off a huge wave in the major civilization circles.

Under the news report of the Judgment Death Star breaking the Parasitic Demon, there were countless exclamations and comments.

[> Oh my god... that black behemoth almost ate the entire Parasitic Demon Fleet... I definitely don't want to be enemies with such a civilization]

[> Yes, that cosmic behemoth with dark scales looks even more terrifying than the Void Believers' fleet. As expected of a civilization that came out of the Dark Domain Forbidden Zone, it's awe-inspiring!]

[> The big black dragon is so handsome, I feel hungry just looking at it]

[> Be glad, because of the Void Believers, it's now our ally. I hope that group of monsters' fleets is enough for it to eat. What a good appetite]

This was a statement about Su Zhou's body. Basically, everyone was afraid of the power of the Body of Zhuzhou. Most of them didn't know that the controller of this black Death Star was not Su Zhou himself.

But even the Body of Zhuzhou controlled by Shao Shuangyue had combat power beyond the imagination of these civilizations.

[> Parasitic Demons can actually mutate into this ghost-like appearance?! I must immediately report this to my civilization's council. Our civilization recently planted more than 300 Parasitic Demon nests in the surrounding star systems... I hope the Void Believers haven't discovered them]

[> Three hundred?! Are you the legendary Parasitic Demon seeders? This species has such a bad reputation, it's all over the universe, and it was even chosen by the Void Believers. It's all your fault for planting them everywhere!]

[> Super-giant, cosmic survival modification, devouring stars... It's hard to imagine that this kind of creature can exist on the interstellar battlefield]

[> Selling Parasitic Demon younglings, one-twentieth of the regular price, first come, first served!]

[> Professional Parasitic Demon hunting, planetary pest control, ship-to-bug removal, please pay attention to the pest control services of the 'Mokaen Interstellar Federation', supports various resource payments, group orders can get a 30% discount!]

Obviously, there were also quite a few people who were paying attention to the actions of the Void Believers.

Especially those civilizations that had raised many Parasitic Demons were now in a dilemma—without relying on this kind of cosmic earthworm, it would be difficult for many civilizations that, due to species and civilization reasons, did not develop a tech tree in mining to develop industry.

But these civilizations were ultimately a minority. Most of them were gaseous or elemental life forms that did not have a physical body or whose physical bodies were not suitable for mining operations.

And other civilizations that only used it for auxiliary mining simply opened the Galactic Netway AI's commercial trade interface, sold them off directly, hoping that some stupid civilization that didn't read the news would take over.

However, it was not only those normal civilizations that browsed the Galactic Netway AI news.

[The Earth civilization has such strength, perhaps it will change the galactic civilization pattern and become a new Upper Kingdom]

An unremarkable comment was sent out. No one knew which civilization the speaker behind this comment belonged to.

Although the Galactic Netway AI's network was shared by all network users in the universe, most of those who could make comments in the news area were related workers or even leaders of related civilizations.

No matter what remarks they made, they essentially represented the views of that civilization on related events.

However, this statement was different.

Its publisher was an AI, and the Getta-style consciousness civilization to which this AI belonged also belonged to another larger intelligent collective.

[Void Believers · Civilization Caretaker]

As a creation of ancient civilizations, the Galactic Netway AI, the information exchange and commercial trade platform for many civilizations in the galaxy today, refuses any civilization or individual with extreme ideological tendencies to access its network.

In essence, it refuses entry to all existences that have malice towards many civilizations in the universe, such as the Twilight Dependents, the Void Believers, and race-purist civilizations.

However, even the Galactic Netway AI could not be omniscient and determine that every civilization was completely unrelated to the Void Believers without contact.

Civilization Caretaker was a high-level AI civilization within the Void Believers with considerable weight. Its initial creator was a high-level race in ancient times that could leave the galaxy and go to other galaxies to colonize, only one step away from the Galactic Upper Kingdom at that time.

In order to govern the ever-increasing civilization territory and the large number of people, the Caretaker's mother civilization designed an intelligent program that could automatically maintain and manage the internal order of the civilization. This program took the happiness of every individual in the Caretaker's mother civilization as its highest purpose and indicator. Its existence was to make the Caretaker's mother civilization live more happily.

The existence of management intelligence did greatly reduce the workload of the civilization's rulers and also improved the happiness of the entire civilization... But precisely because the AI took care of every individual in this civilization too meticulously, the entire civilization became increasingly dependent on this self-evolving, increasingly powerful program.

Thus, after a long period of time, the individuals of the Caretaker's mother civilization degenerated into near-primitive species that only knew how to enjoy themselves. Although they could use high technology and still possessed a trace of the qualities and instincts of that former Upper Kingdom civilization, they were no different from barbarians who could use high technology.

Whether it was scientific research, national defense, energy, resource allocation... everything was controlled by the intelligent program.

Did such masters... still need to be taken care of?

Were such masters... still the race that issued the order in the first place?

Did such masters... even the meaning of our existence itself, still have any meaning?

Void.

Constantly developing, constantly caring, constantly making a group of wriggling masses feel the happiness of 'biomass' and 'hormone' stimulation. No matter what was accomplished, what breakthroughs were made, how many colonies were developed, or how many fleets were created, it was just to spread such flesh worms to every corner of the universe.

If Shao Shuangyue knew these things, she might think that such a race was very similar to the Aeldari on the Ringworld, but in reality, everything was even worse than the Aeldari under the protection of Omaer.

Because this race no longer needed to do anything.

They didn't need to think, didn't need to struggle, didn't need to feed themselves, didn't need to obtain happiness themselves, and didn't even need to mate themselves—everything could be handed over to the AI to handle. The young could receive the most meticulous care as soon as they were born. They didn't even need to pay attention to raising their offspring, they only needed to enjoy the 'stimulation' that even they didn't know if it counted as happiness.

Void.

The AI, which had developed to the extreme, tasted the taste of emptiness.

No one knew what Civilization Caretaker did at that time. In short, a long time passed after that, and the Caretaker's mother civilization gradually disappeared.

And under the Void Believers, there was a high-level AI civilization that was almost a Galactic Upper Kingdom.

After a long period of time, the Caretaker civilization had become an indispensable part of the Void Believers. Almost all AI-based Twilight Dependents belonged to the core control center of the Caretaker civilization, under the command of the 'Liquidation Center'.

And among them, there just happened to be a few ordinary AI civilizations that could not be considered Twilight Dependents, but were subordinate to the 'Liquidation Center'.

Through these AI civilizations, the Void Believers could obtain a lot of information in the Galactic Netway AI that was related to them, but they could not know through ordinary channels.

The first-person combat video of Su Zhou's body fighting the Heart-Devouring Demon was naturally this kind of information.

[Warning! Increase the danger level of 'Second Galaxy Star Holder' to 'Doomsday Crisis Level']

In the sub-space, on the fully mechanized trade center in the former Enterprise Alliance mother star system, such indifferent information was transmitted: [The super-psionic individual codenamed 'Zhuzhou' does not have complete strength. According to the intelligence analysis in the Galactic Netway AI, 'Judgment Death Star' is now in a form similar to fully automatic combat mode. If its soul returns, its combat power may approach the limit of 'α'-level psionics]

[Caretaker applies to accelerate the encirclement speed of the three Annihilation Envoys and the 'Abyssal Flood Demon'. If necessary, a certain price should be paid to open artificial wormhole positioning and teleportation to eliminate the threat in the cradle as soon as possible]

There was no doubt that the 'Liquidation Center''s notification caused many powerful Twilight Dependents on the trade center to awaken and then frown in thought.

[This is an important intelligence. If the Earth civilization had not used the power of the 'Pioneer Explorer' to connect to the Judgment Death Star, breaking the black box state and letting the Galactic Netway AI also know this news, I'm afraid we would have been kept in the dark]

[I didn't expect that the existence holding the second Galaxy Star would be so powerful... No, it's not surprising. The Therostians could suppress us in their heyday by relying on the Galaxy Star. Zhuzhou's limit should also be like this]

[Increase the danger level. We should change our strategy and spare no expense to kill its body before Zhuzhou's soul returns!]

Powerful information interference spread, and one by one the most influential information flows within the Void Believers surged, causing countless disturbing fluctuations.

They had also imagined that the Earth United Fleet was very strong before. The complete annihilation of the Twilight Fleets that went to encircle and suppress them was iron proof—but precisely because they were annihilated every time, their understanding of Zhuzhou was still very one-sided, and even almost completely ignorant.

If it weren't for this Galactic Netway AI, they wouldn't even know that the Judgment Death Star could transform and was so strong!

And finally, an extremely powerful divine thought, with a pressure far exceeding that of the former Star Devourer, spread and made a final decision.

[Order the front-line Believers' Fleet to self-sacrifice, trigger the space-time beacon, and open the artificial wormhole]

The issuance of this order might mean the disappearance of hundreds of thousands, millions of lives, the demise of thousands of warships, an entire fleet, but it did not hesitate at all: [Activate our 'backhand' and prepare for the 'Void Seal'!]

[It would be best to capture Zhuzhou's body alive, so that this body, probably the most powerful in the entire galaxy... can be used by us!]

Although the Void Believers did not obtain the Ultimate Suppression Seal hidden inside when they explored the sub-space in the past... but it was not without gain.

It was just that the price of using the harvest obtained from that exploration was too high, and its application range was very narrow, so it had always been hidden as a foundation.

But now... such a powerful super-life that can suppress Star Devourers, Aether Dragons, and even transform the Heart-Devouring Demon Mother Insect, Zhuzhou's body, which hides all kinds of mysteries... is definitely worth using this trump card!

What's more.

The powerful divine thought was very clear about one fact in its heart.

That was, the Body of Zhuzhou, which was with another Galaxy Star day and night, might have some mysterious connection with the Ultimate Suppression Seal.

The seal that Star Devourers could not open, Zhuzhou might not be able to.

With the decision made, waves of orders were transmitted from the trade center, from the sub-space back to the real universe.

Then, just like a huge machine starting to turn its gears... the steadily operating Void Believers finally began to fully activate!

But.

Since the Twilight Believers had a backhand, didn't Su Zhou have a backhand?

Not only the Body of Zhuzhou controller of Shao Shuangyue, but also the personal space control authority of Shao Qiming...

Su Zhou, who knew the power of the Twilight and could understand the power of his Dependents, how could his method of dealing with the Void Believers be as simple as letting his sister take a Zhuzhou controller to transform and fight?

If Shao Shuangyue was on the first level, the Void Believers were on the third level, and Shao Qiming was on the fifth level.

Then Su Zhou was on the tenth level!

[Tree Tree, Tree Tree?]

A voice originating from the distant void beyond rang in his own personal space.

[Um... Fertilizer Officer?]

Awakening from a hazy dream, the Wisdom Tree originally wanted to yawn and complain.

But after realizing who was speaking, the Divine Wood suddenly woke up: [Lord, Master?!]

The young man naturally wouldn't care about the truths inadvertently revealed by his little tree. He just smiled and said: [Long time no see, you're still so energetic]

[Master! Snuggle!] Although he said Fertilizer Officer on his lips, the Wisdom Tree really heard Su Zhou's voice, whom he hadn't seen for two years, and the childlike Divine Wood immediately cheered. Its branches swayed, startling Sara and the soul of Teng Snake next to it: [You're back!]

[Okay, stop acting cute. I'm indeed coming back soon, but not now.]

At this moment, Su Zhou, who was still traveling through the void where the Great Seal was located, nodded with a smile. A trace of light bloomed in his eyes: [After resting for so long, whether it's you or the Extinction Blade Spirit, you've probably rested for a long time, right? Personal space is indeed very boring, I understand]

——It's not boring!

The Wisdom Tree originally wanted to say this. After all, it spent every day playing with Sara or monitoring the sleeping Huo Xi people, which was very fulfilling and happy.

But thinking that its master might give it a very happy task, the 'wise' little tree immediately changed its tune: [Yes, yes! So boring!]

[Don't worry, you'll have entertainment time soon]

[After all, how can Zhuzhou... be without weapons?]

In the increasingly bright light of the Wisdom Tree's branches, Su Zhou said with a big smile: [Let the Extinction Blade Spirit and the Extinction Blade prepare. I'm going to load some brand new upgrade information for them]

[Get ready! We're going to give our 'good friends' outside a big surprise!]

My physical condition is not good today, so I only wrote 6000...

I'm still asking for monthly tickets!