“My Queen, this might be a bit troublesome this time.”
Hearing the words of Brain Bug No. 1, Xia Jin could only rub her temples.
“It seems so.”
Based on past experience, encountering a civilization stronger than oneself was a very troublesome matter if the other party held hostile intentions.
Even for a civilization like the Zerg, there were risks.
In fact, when placed within the context of the entire universe, the current Zerg were undoubtedly a newborn civilization.
Of course, due to their terrifying potential and the rapid increase in power over a short period, they were considered exceptionally powerful among civilizations that had just stepped off their home planets.
“Keep the overseers in a state of complete silent floating; they only need to continuously monitor the stars. I will deploy another batch of overseers into the upper atmosphere,” Xia Jin ordered after a moment of thought.
“No, My Queen, I believe we have a better way.”
“Oh?” Xia Jin raised an eyebrow.
“This is not Zerg territory; it belongs to the Dulu,” Brain Bug No. 1 said. “If we are discovered, we can simply shift the blame onto the Dulu.”
Hearing this, Xia Jin’s mind began to race.
In truth, if the target civilization was already paying attention to this star system, the probability of the Zerg being discovered would be very high as long as they conducted relevant scans.
The wisest course of action now was to make the other party believe the Zerg were the Dulu.
It wasn't that the Swarm was afraid of contacting aliens, but they were truly too weak at the moment. Navigation between nearby star systems often took years, and they needed a period of buffer time to develop.
“Prepare for the worst. Find a way to withdraw the Swarm first, leaving only a tiny amount to spread creep. By the way... what about the Dulu natives? If the aliens come and actually conquer them, the Dulu will surely reveal information related to us.”
The brain bug thought for a moment and replied, “Clear out the Dulu lives on the home planet. The Zerg will create a batch of fake Dulu based on their genes to act as a disguise.”
“Good.”
One could only say they were sorry.
The universe was just that cruel.
The destruction of a civilization could happen in an instant during wars between interstellar civilizations.
Civilizations like the Dulu vanished every single moment.
The Zerg did not care.
Furthermore, in Xia Jin’s eyes, these creatures were honestly a bit ugly.
Over the next two months, the Zerg gradually withdrew all the swarms on the ground back into space and built their first large transport ship, carrying all the main forces away.
Of course, before leaving, the Zerg spent another ten days completely clearing out the Dulu.
As the main force departed, a group of new... Dulu forged by the Zerg took the place of the original ones and began a stable life on this planet.
Creep was being spread slowly.
In space, only a portion of the overseers remained, and a Hive was placed inside an asteroid that was completely unsuitable for normal biological life to serve as a relay station for energy collection.
With everything ready, the entire fleet initiated an interstellar jump in the lowest power mode possible.
The curvature engines were operating at such low power that the residual energy was negligible. In just two months, it would weaken to a level nearly approaching zero.
After that amount of time, the intensity of the microwave background radiation would be enough to completely mask those minor spatial fluctuations.
Half a year after the fleet left, several giant ships suddenly appeared in the Dulu system.
Xia Jin immediately had all overseers hide inside asteroids and ordered the queens on Planet Dulu to hide deep underground.
This concealment was very effective. Unless the other party’s technology was significantly more advanced, it would be extremely difficult to discover overseer units in a disguised state with few distinct features.
After observing in secret for a while, the ships actually arrived above Planet Dulu.
The other party did not attempt to send messages but instead spent the entire time observing the situation on the ground.
The surface of Planet Dulu now presented a scene of ruin following a nuclear war.
In fact, the Zerg’s wave of invasion had been comparable to a nuclear war.
...
“Based on scans of the target civilization, they are confirmed to be a typical technological civilization. Their ships generally do not exceed 500 meters in length. Like the Zerg, they tend to build small warships. It is inferred they have mature force field shield technology, but no pure energy shields have been detected yet.”
This string of information made Xia Jin hesitant about how to face them.
“Forget it, let’s wait.”
Currently, the Zerg had spread creep in many locations, and their income was not low.
The mining of Stellar Azure Crystals and Zero Point Nuclei was also ongoing.
After all, if they didn't upgrade the Hive quickly, the enemy might discover this mining area and wipe them out in a single attack.
To hide the location of the mining area, the Zerg even began producing interference bugs with deflection force fields, deploying them into space to weave a massive web to jam signals.
Even if the other party noticed this place, they would likely determine the location of the mining area to be in another direction due to the deflection.
This likely saved her life.
“20 billion units of high-energy crystals, 1 trillion tons of interstellar minerals, 1,000 units of Stellar Azure Crystals, and 20 units of Zero Point Nuclei. Interstellar mineral collection is fast and almost complete. As for the Stellar Azure Crystals and Zero Point Nuclei, it will probably take another half a year.”
Xia Jin waited patiently for a long time, keeping her eyes on space the entire time.
The target civilization took no action.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
The time for the Hive's next level was almost here.
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