This was not an impromptu decision.

In fact, during the war with the Devouring Zerg, the Mind Civilization had already made preparations in this regard.

They were, after all, weak and everything was for survival.

For the Zerg, this was definitely an unexpected surprise.

The Mind Civilization contacted them and intended to cling to them.

The “Group Honored” of this Devouring Zerg was named Kran, a long-standing Zerg that crawled out from the shadows of the Bimos Star Country.

The Bimos Zerg Star State itself was not necessarily stable over tens of thousands of years.

Although Bimos was the absolute ruler, the Brainworm inherited the name of Human, and there would always be challengers to authority.

The three major Zerg were not completely separated due to their own abilities.

The Devouring Zerg was actually the bottom layer of the Bimos Zerg Star State at that time.

They did not want to live in the dirty shadows anymore and chose to leave the Bimos Zerg Star State.

This choice was undoubtedly correct.

The powerful Devouring Zerg was born, and half of the Milky Way trembled.

Kran had heard the story of another distant Devouring Zerg, which had defeated a powerful Unknown Civilization, using Civilization as a breeding ground for development, and its own strength was already close to that of the Bimos Zerg Star State.

Some of the elders believed they could go back for revenge and pull Bimos off her pedestal.

The other part, however, believed that the universe was vast, so why look back to the past.

No matter which one, it was a symbol of taking destiny into their own hands.

Kran envied them, so he was full of desire to take down the Claw Star Cluster, and he never thought of giving up.

However, that behemoth, even more terrifying than the Bimos Zerg Star State, intervened.

Even though he had never truly made contact, Kran felt the immense power of the other side just from the brief messages transmitted via Quanta Communication.

The core of Human Civilization.

It was actually a sacred place that all Brainworms yearned for.

They were created and given the name of Human, but few Zerg were truly active in the Civilization Federation, and every Zerg yearned for that place immensely, and also feared it immensely.

“It’s a pity, if the Mind Civilization had defected earlier, perhaps it could have bypassed it.”

Kran felt that it was a very good challenge.

Snatching food from the tiger’s mouth!

No Zerg had ever tried it.

If he became the first, he might be recorded in history.

Afterward, he could use the Claw Star Cluster to negotiate with the Civilization Federation and receive technological support from the Civilization Federation.

At that time, his tribe would also become as powerful as the Insect Star Kingdom.

“But taking them down now is already a gift!”

Kran’s compound eyes glittered.

In front of him, a robust creature lay on the ground, looking somewhat dull.

If one observed carefully, one could see a bug crawling on its spine-like bones.

Half of the bug’s body was outside, while the other half extended into the creature’s body.

After a long while, the creature regained its vitality and crawled up from the ground.

“Great Group Honored, I share this moment with you; the two Civilizations have finally found a turning point for peace in the war, and all of this comes from your wisdom.”

The Zerg are not just those enormous fellows.

In fact, the entire Zerg species is very complex; for example, the swarm led by Kran alone has as many as 682,117 species.

Among the 680,000 Zerg species, Zerg smaller than 1cm account for one-third, and there are also over 100,000 species with a body size under 1m.

This includes many parasitic Zerg, which parasitize living organisms, causing various problems, or eavesdropping on intelligence.

There are also service-type Zerg within the Zerg.

They provide medical care for large bugs, or act as porters for the Zerg hive, handling some delicate work.

Within the vast system, the number of “Soldier Bug” species is very small.

Smaller swarms only have a few hundred species, while Kran has over 1,200 species in his hands.

And the one in front of him is the newly born “Soldier Bug”: the Neural Manipulator.

In the past thousand years, Kran had been attacking the Gaotan Civilization, and the two sides fought fiercely, so much so that Kran could not attend to the Claw Star Cluster.

The Gaotan Civilization itself was not actually strong, weaker than the Claw Civilization Alliance, but their resistance was very fierce.

Some fearless fellows made Kran feel a sense of dread.

Kran once thought that such a Civilization could only be destroyed, not controlled.

But he would now admit he was wrong.

In the age of technology, nothing is impossible.

The leader of the Gaotan Civilization was captured by the Devouring Zerg very early on, but this still did not deter the Gaotan Civilization; instead, their resistance became increasingly fierce.

And now, controlling the leader of the Gaotan Civilization, although it cannot make all Gaotan Civilization beings submit, it can cause internal division within the Gaotan Civilization.

The Zerg war against the Gaotan Civilization should soon come to an end.

“What a pity!”

It would have been better if it had been a little later.

Taking down the Gaotan Civilization, the Claw Star Cluster would not be so difficult anymore.

Although Kran felt regret, the situation was not too bad after all.

The Civilization Federation would also pay them a certain compensation in this matter.

He instructed his subordinates.

“Let us complete the prelude to the Claw Star Cluster!”

The prelude to death!

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The Storm Civilization Leader thought that as long as the Mind Civilization was informed, the so-called “defection to the Zerg” fake news would not be able to gain traction.

The Claw Star Cluster itself had Eight Great Civilizations.

Two Civilizations banding together were enough to deal with some fabricated accusations.

However, in another leader meeting, the Mind Civilization Leader, who should have helped him, avoided the issue.

To shift the blame, the Storm Civilization Leader put the accusation of defecting to the Zerg on the Lishou Civilization.

He always felt that the previous incident was a bit strange.

At this moment, if the Mind Civilization Leader just spoke up for him, the situation would become chaotic and confusing.

The Storm Civilization could then extricate itself from this matter.

However, the silence of the Mind Civilization Leader immediately made the Storm Civilization a target once again.

The Storm Civilization Leader was very puzzled; he questioned the Mind Civilization Leader after the meeting but received no reply.

Immediately after.

A statement from the Mind Civilization swept through the Claw Star Cluster.

The Mind Civilization had obtained evidence of the Storm Civilization’s defection to the Zerg.

The Storm Civilization Leader found the evidence presented to be ridiculous.

It was a clumsy fake evidence.

But because of this fake evidence, the Mind Civilization directly announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Storm Civilization, and at the same time, closed all trade between the two Civilizations.

The action was so swift that the other six Civilizations did not even have time to react.

Subsequently, the Mind Civilization released another vague recording, which contained a conversation between the Storm Civilization Leader and the Mind Civilization Leader.

The Storm Civilization Leader listened to it; most of the content was true, but a part of it was perfectly forged, making it sound as if the Storm Civilization Leader was implying to the Mind Civilization Leader, “I have already defected to the Zerg; if you do not defect, only destruction awaits.”

If the Storm Civilization had previously thought that all of this was merely a decision by the middle ranks of the Mind Civilization.

Now he knew that the Mind Civilization Leader was also involved.

The Storm Civilization and the Mind Civilization were “brother Civilizations” and had cooperated for tens of thousands of years.

The second piece of evidence provided by the Mind Civilization put him at a great disadvantage.

The first piece of evidence looked very childish, as if it was a display of weakness.

Using this to say that their forgery skills were actually very clumsy, it instead highlighted the authenticity of the second piece of information.

From the perspective of most onlookers.

The first one should have been an information leak, where the leaker used fabricated false information to trigger a strong reaction within the Mind Civilization.

The Mind Civilization itself wanted to contain this fire, but due to the leak, it had no choice but to distance itself from the Storm Civilization, which is why there was a second, more authentic piece of evidence.

This is how the Mind Civilization disguised itself.

Except for the Storm Civilization Leader, who was the party involved, all parties were deceived.

The Lishou Civilization, which was accused of being a traitor by the Storm Civilization Leader in the previous meeting, also took this opportunity to accuse the Storm Civilization of defecting to an external enemy.

The Sacred Civilization was enraged, and its leader directly cursed in public!

“What a good frame-up!”

The Storm Civilization Leader was pondering why the Mind Civilization suddenly attacked at this moment, as if to put him to death.

Could it be that the Mind Civilization had also defected to the Zerg?

“No, no, Lishou Civilization, Mind Civilization… then wouldn’t that be!”

The Storm Civilization Leader’s expression changed slightly.

Could it be that several Civilizations had already defected to the Zerg?

If this were true, would the Claw Star Cluster still have a future?

“No, no, no, perhaps all Civilizations have not betrayed, but they have all been deceived by the Zerg.”

“The Zerg must have collected information about my contacts very early on and used it to create trouble, making other Civilizations, and even the Mind Civilization, think that I betrayed them!”

The Storm Civilization Leader felt that this was just a conspiracy, and as long as everyone talked it through, everything would be resolved.

Subsequently, in the next meeting, he prepared some evidence of Zerg slander and decided to make some compromises in many places to ease the current situation.

However.

The Mind Civilization Leader, who had been silent in the previous two leader meetings, now stood up directly and denounced the Storm Civilization Leader.

And immediately threw out a large amount of evidence on the spot.

This evidence stunned the Storm Civilization Leader.

The evidence did not come from within the Claw Star Cluster, but from the Original Channel.

The Storm Civilization funded the Zerg on the Original Channel, providing them with a large amount of energy; piece after piece of information was laid on the table, and the Storm Civilization Leader was even powerless to refute.

Because they were all true.

However, this was not something that only their Civilization did; some organizations of the Eight Great Civilizations on the Original Channel would all pay tribute to the Zerg.

If not for this, the Original Channel would have been cut off by the Zerg long ago.

However, these energy supplies had no impact on the overall war situation at all.

It’s just that, in this report from the Mind Civilization, the energy supplied by the Storm Civilization to the Zerg was hundreds of times more than the total amount of other Civilizations.

This was enough to influence a war!

However, this was still a slander.

“This is fake!”

“We don’t have that much energy on the Original Channel at all!”

“This is the Zerg trying to divide us internally; we cannot fall for the Zerg’s trick.”

The leaders of the other six Civilizations felt the same way.

Although there had been a lot of commotion before, everyone was still seeking their own interests, only intending to suppress the Storm Civilization, and did not truly believe that the Storm Civilization had defected to the Zerg.

However, the Mind Civilization Leader simply refused to give up.

“Fake?”

“When we got these materials, we also thought they were fake, so I dispatched a team to investigate secretly.”

“And we found that the Storm Civilization really does have that much energy on the Original Channel!”

When the Storm Civilization Leader heard this, his face suddenly changed.

This was holding him accountable and not letting go.

The Storm Civilization did have some energy arrangements on the Original Channel; that was a secret, and the major Civilizations certainly had them too.

If the Mind Civilization were to make an issue of this, it really could succeed.

He took a deep look at the Mind Civilization Leader, as if seeing this guy, who was once considered a “partner,” for the first time.

Now he could not just be attacked without fighting back.

Otherwise, he would quickly fall into a passive position.

So he directly took out what he had prepared long ago, some false evidence.

“I think the Mind Civilization is the one that defected to the Zerg!”

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