Chapter 1304
Exorbitant Reward
Chapter 1304 Exorbitant Reward
Yunxi listened to the whole thing and felt that the three of them had too many concerns, so the next second she appeared in the small conference room. She was wearing her signature red robe and sat elegantly opposite Yin Tong. She also nodded to Adams and Black War as a greeting.
Because it was a last-minute meeting, only Yin Tong herself was in the small meeting room; the other two were holographic projections. However, this did not prevent them from seeing Yun Xi's appearance.
Yin Tong was somewhat surprised that Yun Xi would appear, so after a polite greeting, she introduced her to Hei Zhan and Adams. After that, the meeting room fell silent, and the three of them didn't know what to say.
Yunxi smiled slightly and said:
"The three of you, I came to your star system by accident. I can help you for a while, but I can't always cover for you, and I won't stay here for long."
The Cloud Sea Galaxy is vast, with numerous resource-rich planets. The Zerg, who have unexpectedly connected to this place, will not give up easily. To prevent you from facing annihilation, I'm saying this out of curiosity.
If you hand over the Zerg corpses to the researchers, they will use regeneration technology to create Zerg with even more perfect genes, and then make the entire Cloud Sea Galaxy a breeding ground for Zerg regeneration.
I've done the math. In just fifty years, the entire Cloud Sea Galaxy will become a dead galaxy. All its resources will be plundered, and the Zerg will migrate to the next galaxy to begin a new round of resource plunder.
Yunxi's tone was so confident that it made the three commanders' faces turn ugly, and their furrowed brows betrayed their feelings.
After a long pause, Yin Tong took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and said:
"Sage Yun, if we ask you to annihilate all the Zerg, what price would we have to pay?"
Yunxi raised an eyebrow and smiled. This was exactly what she was waiting for, so she didn't mince words and said directly:
"I want a fully functional warship, and ten top-of-the-line combat mechs, including one of the latest bio-mechs."
Yunxi's words made the three of them gasp. If it were mechs or decommissioned warships, they might be able to find a way, but the other party clearly wanted active warships and the latest bio-mechs. Their three major army groups had not yet been able to equip them all, and even if there were any damaged ones, they would be recycled. They couldn't even get the scrapped ones.
Moreover, this kind of bio-mechanical armor is custom-made based on the genes of its controller, and the Cloud Saint may not be willing to give up his own genetic blood, so they simply cannot afford this reward.
Yunxi looked at the three people who looked troubled and said calmly:
"If you want me to take action, these are the prices you must pay. You can consider them and contact me when you've made your decision."
If you're in a difficult position, I can take the payment myself; it won't implicate you.
After saying that, he revealed a sly smile and then disappeared from the three people's sight.
The small conference room was quiet for a while before Adams stroked his beard and said:
"Does Sage Yun mean to simply take our warships and mechs?"
Black War coughed lightly and said:
"That seems to be the idea. Although it's a bit crude and simplistic, it's a good way to completely absolve us of our responsibility."
Yin Tong opened her mouth, but finally said:
"Let's see how the research department reacts first. If they're not too aggressive, we'll stall them and then quickly annihilate the Zerg. Once we've destroyed all the Zerg corpses, they naturally won't be able to extract anything."
Black Warfare Path:
"We're using the method you suggested right now, but we don't know how long it will last. What if they act on their own?" Adams scoffed.
"We won't stop them if they want to die. You can't bring back the Zerg corpses. Besides, they're acting on their own, so we can shift all the blame. We're the commander-in-chief; we don't have time to keep an eye on just one research ship."
Yin Tong delivered the final concluding remarks:
"You've all heard the conditions under which the Cloud Saint intervened. We can't afford that price right now. I think dealing with the Zerg ourselves is the best option."
As for the federal order, although we've accepted it, its implementation will take time. We'll delay it for as long as possible, and then it's up to our luck.
After reaching an agreement, the three tacitly increased the speed of eliminating the Zerg and intentionally or unintentionally cut off the communication channels of the research ship, leaving the enemy in a helpless situation.
No matter how many times the scientists on the research ship urged them, they always received the reply "underway". After a while, they realized something was wrong, and then the enterprising scientists on the research ship made a bold decision: to do it themselves.
So, on the fifteenth day of the great battle with the Zerg, an exploration ship flew out from the research ship, bypassed the three lines of defense, and went to the front line.
Yunxi saw the movements of the sneaky spaceship clearly. She rested her chin on her hand and shook her head helplessly. It was obvious that the three big shots had deliberately let them pass through to the front line without any obstacles. Otherwise, with their level, they probably wouldn't even have been able to fly out of the research ship. So she uttered the words "courting death" and stopped paying attention.
Just as Yunxi had predicted, the exploration spaceship was surrounded by Yin-Yang worms the moment it entered the front line of the battle. Within a minute, the spaceship's power was exhausted, and the three people on board became food for the worms, disappearing without a trace, leaving only a wrecked spaceship drifting in the starry sky.
Yin Tong, Hei Zhan, and Adams received the news immediately, but they pretended not to know until the captain of the research ship reported the disappearance of the researchers. Only then did they pretend to send people to investigate.
The investigation revealed that they had acted on their own, bypassing the defenses to enter the battlefield, and their fate was now unknown. In the end, it was the mech warriors who entered the battlefield who dragged the wreckage of the exploration spaceship back to the research ship.
The death of three highly skilled researchers naturally displeased the research department, which immediately sent a letter of condemnation to the military, demanding that the combat troops be punished.
The military was in a real bind. The three commanders were busy fighting the Zerg every day, so they had no time to pay attention to those crazy researchers. It was their own fault for piloting their own spaceships into the battlefield without reporting it, and they were killed by the Zerg.
Therefore, the military used the excuse that the researchers had disobeyed battlefield orders to start a back-and-forth wrangling with the research department, perfectly avoiding the order to capture Zerg alive for research.
But the research department wasn't stupid. They realized that the military was deliberately delaying, so they quickly dispatched a second research ship. This time, they got the Ninth Army Group to escort it, determined to capture the Zerg alive for their research.
The three leaders at the front received the news immediately. They had connections in the military and reliable sources in the research department, so the three of them met again for a meeting.
Yin Tong rubbed her temples and said:
"At our current pace, we can eliminate 90% of the invading Zerg in another 15 days. However, if the Ninth Army rotates with us, we will be unable to stop the research department's efforts to capture and study the Zerg."
Adams stroked his chin, a slightly sly smile on his face, and said:
"Yin Tong, Hei Zhan, the payment has been delivered right to our door."
See you tomorrow! Goodnight~