Song Chen began to understand. "You mean the Blood-Eclipse Clan treats the entire star system as a breeding farm, and the Flesh Stations are its granaries."
"More or less, but they're even more important than granaries. Those stations are the reason the Blood-Eclipse Civilization's rear can hold out."
He began to digest this information. Shelly spoke calmly, but he knew what lay behind it.
A civilization that fed its descendants on the flesh and blood of an entire star system. A civilization that maintained its strength through harvesting.
Such a civilization would never stop. The stronger they became, the stronger they wanted to be.
To grow stronger, they had to harvest more. And to harvest more, they would turn every civilization around them into prey.
That was why they would attack the Milky Way, why they wanted to turn it into a second Azure Galaxy.
Song Chen suddenly understood why the civilizations of the Milky Way had formed the United Defense Association this time, no matter how poorly they usually got along.
Because once the Blood-Eclipse Clan arrived, no one would be allowed to live as a person.
"You think I should raid a Flesh Station?"
"Yes," Shelly said bluntly.
"But it's very dangerous. I was captured while raiding a station with my companions. We walked into a Blood-Eclipse Clan ambush. Those things are heavily guarded. Getting in is easy; getting out is hard."
Song Chen did not answer immediately. He neither agreed nor refused.
He was not someone who rushed into things on another person's word. Even if Shelly said those stations were the entire Blood-Eclipse Clan's weak point, he still needed to see one for himself first.
With the war at this stage, no intelligence could be trusted completely.
He trusted that Shelly would not lie to him,