The Human Main Brain Was Too Resentful

The results of destroying a large number of Galactic Alliance war machine clusters quickly reached Lu Shang.

"Overlord, I always thought only you lot did things without using your brains. Never did I imagine..." Lu Shang said to the Overlord with mixed feelings.

"What didn't you imagine?" The Overlord did not understand what Lu Shang was trying to say.

"I didn't imagine the Galactic Alliance would also do things without using their brains, just like you," Lu Shang said seriously.

"..."

For a moment, the Overlord did not know how to respond. Was this praise or an insult?

Ignoring the reactions of the Overlord and the other main brains, Lu Shang continued on his own. "Normally speaking, when resources aren't lacking, shouldn't factories be fitted with things like warp engines?"

"That way, if a factory in stellar orbit encountered some emergency, it could immediately relocate strategically. Keeping an entire factory intact... If I'd known these Galactic Alliance factories couldn't run, I wouldn't have spent so long planning this and wasting brain cells..."

Lu Shang rambled on with a whole lot of complaints, but in the end, it was simply a small grievance of his own.

He had never expected the planetary organisms sent to ambush the Galactic Alliance war machine clusters to return alive.

In Lu Shang's original plan, the enemy's factories would certainly be equipped with things like faster-than-light engines, and might even possess firepower stronger than a fleet's.

Therefore, he had intended for the planetary organisms launching the ambush to suddenly appear just as the enemy factories were about to make a faster-than-light jump, use psychic power to prevent the factories from entering faster-than-light travel, and then perish together by taking a stellar explosion head-on.

Although the swarm sent out accounted for nearly ninety-nine percent of Lu Shang's military strength, excluding the nebula garrison point, it was well worth the trade if they could wipe out a massive number of Galactic Alliance war machine clusters in one go.

Though there were still remaining war machine clusters continuing to produce warships, those locations were too far away, forcing their supply lines to stretch longer.

As for the swarm, it could directly hatch planetary organisms by casually finding a solid planet. Even without a solid planet, it could still hatch planetary organisms by extracting stellar matter, gathering nebulae, collecting meteorites, or plundering matter from gas giants.

The swarm had far more options than the Galactic Alliance.

In truth, the Galactic Alliance had never expected Lu Shang to pull something like this on them.

It was not as if war machine clusters had never been attacked by the Babel Swarm during the era of the old Overlord.

But back then, the Babel Swarm did not blow up stars. It used spore bombs, swarm acid, and the like. Relying on heavy armor and fixed turrets, the war machine clusters could hold their ground.

Moreover, most of the time, the Babel Swarm attacked the administrative planets of the Galactic Alliance's various factions. War machine clusters had powerful defensive firepower and little flesh to harvest, so they truly were not the swarm's preferred targets.

Since attacks were rare, and their defenses and firepower were reliable, was there any need to install faster-than-light engines on the war machine clusters?

On a human battlefield, if there were no tanks or various heavy armored units, why would anyone develop anti-tank weapons or armor-piercing weapons?

Only with demand would people conceive and manufacture them.

After the Black-Hole-Induced Strike was developed, although some people had realized that stars were unsafe, there was no longer enough time to modify the war machine clusters.

After all, war machine clusters were giant artificial constructs orbiting stars. To allow such massive artificial constructs to enter faster-than-light travel, the curvature engines naturally had to be stellar-class. Even with the technology, they could not possibly be built overnight.

With all these factors combined, a legendary battle was born, in which over a hundred thousand planetary organisms destroyed over a hundred thousand war machine clusters without losses.

After listening to Lu Shang finish venting all the complaints he wanted to make, the Overlord could not help asking, "What should the swarm do next?"

Destroying over a hundred thousand war machine clusters in one go had given the swarm an enormous strategic advantage in the surrounding star regions, but that did not mean the swarm now possessed an absolute strategic advantage capable of winning the war.

Just as its name implied, the Galactic Alliance was an alliance spread across the entire galaxy. It possessed several million war machine clusters. For the swarm to gain an absolute advantage in the war, it would at least have to take down all those millions of war machine clusters.

"Obviously, we keep fighting. The war clearly isn't over yet," Lu Shang said.

"Factories again? I don't think it'll go as smoothly as last time. We'll suffer considerable losses."

Based on the information fed back by the reconnaissance swarm units, the Overlord had determined that the Galactic Alliance's strategy had shifted from offense to defense. If the Galactic Alliance continued using its previous mutual-support strategy, there was no way the swarm could keep destroying the enemy's war machine clusters without losses.

Lu Shang rolled his eyes. "If you can think of it, then they can naturally think of it too. So can I."

"This time, we'll attack their administrative planets."

Another administrative planet of the Banner Coalition accepted total infection under the Babel Swarm's threats and inducements!

Moreover, as time passed, the star regions near the Babel Swarm, whether belonging to the Dias Empire or the Banner Coalition, were falling at an increasingly rapid rate?!

In fact, after learning of Miro Star's miserable fate, not a single administrative planet had the courage to refuse infection.

Any planetary governor who dared refuse infection would be betrayed by their subordinates the next second, who would then install a new ruler to accept the infection.

After all, those who were unafraid of death were always a minority. Those unafraid of the deaths of people they cared about were an even smaller minority.

Because the Galactic Alliance had adopted a strategy of heavily defending its war machine clusters, the fleet strength protecting administrative planets naturally declined. When the swarm attacked, the stellar systems containing those administrative planets could not put up even the slightest resistance.

Furthermore, the swarm kept its word. As long as a planet was willing to accept infection, it would never kill anyone. And after infection, people's bodies would only grow healthier and healthier. This gave it a tremendous popular foundation, and quite a few administrative planets even took the initiative to invite Lu Shang's swarm to infect them.

That was right. Reality was just that absurd.

To these administrative planets, being infected by the swarm sooner meant escaping the mire of war sooner.

An infected planet would no longer be attacked by the Babel Swarm, nor would it be attacked by Galactic Alliance fleets. Its people's bodies would also grow healthier and healthier. It was practically a business with nothing but profit.

When the swarm's Overlord and the other main brains learned this news, they thought something had gone wrong with their minds. People actively begging to be infected was something they had never dared imagine before.

The only ones growing anxious were the Galactic Alliance's decision-makers.

"We must do something! The swarm tide ravaging the galaxy is gradually building up!"

At the Galactic Alliance conference, representatives from many factions called out loudly. Among them, the representatives of the Dias Empire and the Banner Coalition shouted the loudest.