The Only Way Out

"Save us? Why do you need to save us?"

The Collectors asked, and the cross communicating with them replied.

"You are in a state of war with the Coordination Council as your opponent, and you are currently at an absolute disadvantage. You are paying a huge sacrifice to maintain this current situation, but even this situation cannot be maintained much longer."

"We, the Herdsmen, can save you."

The latter sentence was heavily emphasized by the Herdsmen. They seemed to have presumed that the Collectors were currently in a very critical moment, and their attitude was very resolute.

From this, the Collectors deduced in reverse that the Herdsmen were unaware of the true strength of the grand colony.

Admittedly, in the war with the Coordination Council, the Collectors were at a very obvious disadvantage. The combat power of the Coordination Council's combat units was above theirs, but this proved nothing because war compared the overall strength of civilizations. For now, the resources invested by the Amoeba in fighting the Coordination Council did not even count as one hair from nine oxen.

This could not be called a major war; at most, it was just small-scale skirmishing before a major war. As time went on, the mass of the dismantled star grew smaller and smaller, and the number of leap organisms joining the battlefield would multiply geometrically.

However, these Collectors would not inform the opposite Herdsmen. It was still hard to say whether the other party was an enemy or a friend, and even if they were friends, there was no guarantee that they would not transmit this intelligence to the Coordination Council.

"Can you defeat the Coordination Council?"

The Collectors in turn began to probe the Herdsmen. Calculating against the unprepared, the Herdsmen, who believed they had already grasped the Amoeba's