690: Chapter 690: Surrender in Exchange for Food

The shield can absorb energy from a maximum of 30 laser firing points simultaneously; any more and it won't be able to absorb it.

And there are at least a thousand Insect battleships in the air.

Almost instantly, a turret was destroyed.

Then came the second, the third…

In two minutes, at most two minutes, all 10 turrets were scrapped.

These Insect battleships landed in a swarm, and their hatches opened. Massive numbers of giant Tasman Ants poured out, beginning to search around the turrets.

The construction Antss, meanwhile, looked for advantageous spots and began digging holes.

Their goal was simple: find food.

There were turrets here, and in their view, there must be a colony.

Where there was a colony, there was food.

This was why they didn't detour, but fought desperately to eliminate these turrets.

Oriental Chen didn't care about losing a few turrets.

Now, he was even a little happy.

Bringing heads from a thousand miles away, the gift was heavy, and the 'sentiment' was also heavy.

The Great Sun Country base in Southeast Asia was now a major producer of crystalss, consuming massive amounts of feed daily.

With so many giant Antss right before him, it would be rude not to accept them.

So, a base exit not far from the turret ruins quietly opened, and a large number of Simulation Spider Robots swarmed out.

A single giant Tasman Ants has low intelligence and extremely poor defense; one could say it has almost no defense.

In this situation, it was completely a one-sided slaughter.

The first to suffer losses were the reddish-brown predatory Antss. They had split into multiple groups, wandering nearby, and were just caught in a mass extermination.

After realizing something was wrong, they began to retreat rapidly towards the battleships.

How could leaving be so easy?

Boarding the ship takes time.

During the waiting period, massive numbers of Tasman Ants surrounded the battleships, becoming living targets.

However, the number of Simulation Spider Robots was limited, and the enemy battleships were numerous. It would not be easy to keep all of them before the battleships took off.

In half an hour, only over 100 ships were successfully cleared, with nearly 900 remaining successfully taking off and escaping back.

There was no other way.

The numbers were simply too great to consume them all.

Even if only over 100 ships were eliminated, at least 100,000 Tasman Ants were gained.

Calculated at 50 jin per Ants, that's 5 million jin of protein.

Enough to produce 3 million jin of feed.

This 3 million jin of feed could raise 1 million mice.

This corresponds to 1 million crystalss.

Even after deducting the loss of 10 turrets, a net profit of 900,000 crystalss could still be made.

This volume can only be described as a small gain.

On the other side: Australia, Melbourne.

Oriental Chen had Xiao Lin issue an order to the Bee Queen, dispatching 100,000 Simulation Spider Robots to attack the Tasman Ants underground nest there.

This was not the first time an attack had been launched.

In the past, the Bee Queen would regularly send Robots to sweep through. After harvesting a certain amount of Tasman Ants corpses, all of them would withdraw.

On one hand, it controlled the size of their population, and on the other, it gathered some corpses for feed.

This time, it was a destructive strike.

Why not continue 'raising fish'?

Because after Australia was frozen, the Tasman Insect Civilization had lost the potential for further development.

Without food, their organized Insect society would quickly collapse.

The underground nests were basically filled with defenseless Ants species, making it a completely one-sided slaughter.

Some Simulation Spider Robots were responsible for clearing, while others were responsible for transport. All Robots performed their duties, moving back and forth like shuttles in the narrow tunnels.

The Tasman Ants nest in Melbourne was enormous, and completely clearing it would be very time-consuming.

"Commander, the Tasman Ants request communication."

The other side became anxious shortly after the battle erupted.

"Answer it."

A single Tasman Ants does not possess the ability to communicate. Therefore, such communications are initiated by the knowledge Antss using the biological network after the Queen issues an order.

"Humans, stop fighting."

Their prophecies were concise, using very few words to express their thoughts.

"Impossible."

Oriental Chen was concerned they wouldn't understand, so his reply was also very concise.

"We exchange."

They sent another message.

Oriental Chen didn't immediately understand and asked:

"Exchange what?"

"Food."

"We don't need food," Oriental Chen replied.

"Surrender for food."

Oriental Chen understood; they wanted to surrender.

But surrender and still exchange? What logic was that?

"What do you have?" Oriental Chen asked.

He wasn't sure if the other party would understand this sentence.

"Knowledge." After a few seconds, the other party replied.

"I also have knowledge."

"Knowledge, leave." The other party replied.

To be honest, communication was a bit too difficult.

It required imagination to complete.

What was the connection between the words 'knowledge' and 'leave'?

Oriental Chen pondered for a moment and concluded that what they were referring to might be a way to leave this place.

Perhaps for them, technology was also knowledge.

But why leave, and where would they go if they left here?

He didn't understand and continued to ask:

"Where to leave for?"