Hope You Won't Regret It

By direct order of the Supreme Governor, the Astronomical Center once again transmitted radio signals to the Leaping Bio-cluster in outer space.

Before long, the Collectors replied.

The message was quickly displayed before the Kex higher-ups gathered in the conference room.

[We are Amoeba. Having received your distress signal, we came here with the intention of incorporating you as a subordinate civilization under our jurisdiction. Tell us your choice.]

Another extraterrestrial civilization besides the Zerg?!

The conference room fell silent again. This silence was far quieter than before; even their breathing was barely audible.

The Kex had encountered few extraterrestrial civilizations. The Zerg had been the first alien civilization to contact them, and unfortunately, the Zerg were highly aggressive. Contact had meant inevitable war.

Prompted by the Collectors' reply, the Kex finally remembered their engineering project in close stellar orbit—the interstellar message-delivery project that used stellar gravitational waves to extend the range of their radio calls.

Most of the Kex higher-ups had never expected this project to succeed. The odds had been far too slim: receiving that fleeting, momentary signal amid the vast sea of cosmic noise.

"...An, another alien civilization."

At last, one of the higher-ups broke the silence in the conference room, and the other Kex gradually came back to their senses.

With that, everything made sense!

The Kex higher-ups now understood that the organisms outside the barrier belonged to Amoeba, not the Zerg, because the other side had personally stated that the Zerg had been completely wiped out.

Since they had been wiped out, those horrifying organisms outside the barrier could only belong to Amoeba.

They all displayed their indignation toward Amoeba. Though Amoeba had come from afar, defeated the Zerg's spaceborne biocluster, and purged the Zerg organisms on Shaking Star, it demanded that they become subordinates