"Help?"
Darkseid laughed when he heard the Bug King's words. "Of course I need your help. It just depends on whether you're willing to give it."
Xik asked, "What do you want?"
"I want your genes. Your genes are no less valuable than those of Kryptonians. With them, I can create even more powerful lifeforms."
Darkseid said excitedly. Apokolips possessed advanced technology, more than enough to fuse Xik's genes.
"My genes?"
Xik hesitated. His genes were a core secret of the Zerg and could not be handed over lightly. If Wade had not leaked his own genes, how could the Zerg have achieved their current glory?
At that moment, Thanos's voice rang out in Xik's mind. "Give them to him. As long as the Zerg Overlord is successfully born, Darkseid will be nothing. No matter how highly he thinks of himself, he is merely a tool meant to restrain the Mechanical Demon King."
"That's true. Once the Zerg Overlord is born, if Darkseid knows his place, we can allow him to join the Zerg. If he does not, then he and his Apokolips will become prey for the Zerg."
Xik stopped hesitating and gave his genes to Darkseid. Darkseid was overjoyed and had Xik cast Time Magic. Then, together with Apokolips's scientists, he began researching Zerg Gene and Kryptonian Gene.
I will never fail on Earth a third time. Never.
After persuading Xik, Thanos quietly connected his consciousness to a chaotic individual. That's right—it was Joker.
Thanos had actually wanted to contact Joker long ago, but he feared the Mechanical Demon King would discover it, so he had never acted.
Given Joker's destructive power, after turning him into a statue, the Mechanical Demon King would definitely have tampered with it to prevent others from contacting Joker.
Therefore, Thanos had needed