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Chapter 317 The End of the Zerg Has Arrived
The situation at the Super Iron Curtain already met the conditions for the Star Destroyer's elimination.

The entire planet has been completely transformed into a swarm of billions of insects. All life on the planet has been devoured by the swarm, including the deep sea and vegetation, which have been completely converted into nutrients by the insects.

Once the planet's organic matter is completely devoured, the next step for the swarm will be to directly absorb the planet's ley line energy. From this point on, the entire planet will become a dead star, and the world's consciousness will gradually die.

Once the planet's energy is completely depleted, the swarm of insects will break free of their nest and become a wandering calamity that spreads throughout the universe.

Among them, the insects with spirituality become nourishment for the divine tree, while the remaining insects continue to invade the next world, and so on.

Now, the swarms of insects within the super iron curtain have begun to wipe out the vegetation and are preparing to drain the earth's veins, putting the consciousness of the entire world in grave danger.

In such situations, the interstellar column often responds with a three-part salutation of "It's hopeless, just wait to die, goodbye," followed by a single planet-destroying cannon shot.

After all, the entire world's life forms have turned into swarms of insects. Any member who goes to rescue the planet will face an extremely high degree of threat to their life. In general, under such circumstances, all life on the world has already been wiped out, and there is almost no need to save them.

At most, we might be able to rescue a few survivors, but in areas ravaged by insects, it's very difficult to find survivors.

However, this time, the Freedom Curtain still has nearly 10,000 people, and their civilization and race are still intact. Not only the Freedom Curtain, but also the Super Beast Force and even the Dauntless Mechs are willing to rush to the aid of their comrades in the Freedom Curtain to reclaim their homeland.

Nearly 100,000 people fled to the Behemoth under the Iron Curtain of Freedom, but now, less than 10,000 remain. For the sake of other civilizations unrelated to them, they were willing to suffer a 90% casualty rate, yet they still rushed into space to snipe the Zerg Queen and prevent the swarm from expanding.

On the planet Behemoth, both comrades who had shared life and death and members of the council were determined to help the Free Iron Curtain restore its nation.

This is what they see as an alliance of a community of civilizations, more like an unbreakable alliance.

Just as the Starfleet adjutant said, they have formed an alliance similar to the original Starfleet.

According to the adjutant, the Starfleet initially consisted of a few civilizations banding together for mutual support. As more and more civilizations joined and more like-minded individuals embarked on this path, the Starfleet gradually grew stronger.

At the same time, in this atmosphere, the Starfleet gradually broke away from the concept of a single civilization and planet, and became an organization that fights for all civilizations and does not interfere with the development of civilizations themselves.

Their actions would also elicit a feedback from the world's consciousness, allowing the members of the interstellar column to accomplish great deeds and elevate their Noble Phantasms through repeated actions, thus forming a perfect cycle.

As the portal opened, leading to the passage behind the Super Iron Curtain, countless insects glared menacingly at us.

Their mouthparts are incredibly sharp, their exoskeletons are incredibly hard, they are cosmic calamities, natural enemies of organic matter, swarms of calamity insects that devour and assimilate all organic matter...

But what does it mean that hundreds of millions of inorganic life forms, totaling nearly 100,000 tons, have come to attack?
We're fighting the Dreadnoughts?
"Buzz!" The fearless mech that cleared the way immediately turned red-eyed, and its green indicator light instantly turned blood red.

The nearly 100,000-ton alloy steel behemoth trampled on the earth, its chest reactor powering the exoskeleton emitting dazzling blue flames, and the flames spewed from its hands capable of burning the earth into glass.

The insects were immediately stunned by the sea of ​​fire from the fearless mech.

In particular, these pseudo-insects, once they encounter this sea of ​​fire, can only pose a threat to the Dreadnoughts when they use the original heavy firepower of the Super Iron Curtain.

However, for the Zerg swarm, the weapons of the Super Iron Curtain had already been almost completely consumed by them, since they were all energy...

The mechs instantly burned down a city and occupied it. Then, the professionals from Super Iron Curtain and Behemoth Star immediately set up outposts and supply depots on the glass-like surface, opened stable portals, and provided all material support and logistical supplies.

Even the scorched earth flamethrowers of the fearless mechs consume a considerable amount of fuel. The technology for this fuel has been obtained by the behemoth star, and with the help of the world consciousness, the mixture was successfully prepared yesterday and sent to the front lines.

In other words, the Dreadnoughts can refuel directly at this outpost without having to return to the Empire for the extremely troublesome recharging process.

Regarding their own energy supply, Xue Law asked the 5332 about this. The reactor on the chest of their scorched earth machine soldiers uses neutron fusion technology, which is a technology that fuses an electron and a proton of elemental hydrogen to synthesize a molecule.

In theory, this is a clean energy source on the level of a near perpetual motion machine; as long as hydrogen is added, neutron fusion can be carried out indefinitely.

Hydrogen, on the planet Behemoth, is a material that can be produced simply by decomposing water.

Although I didn't quite understand Xue's law, I was still greatly impressed.

Although the Empire is a magical kingdom, its technology tree is not much different from Earth's. The only difference is that they rely on magical technology as a foundation, but when they develop to advanced levels, they seem to be no different from science and technology.

When Xue Dinglu set foot on this land, the entire outpost had already been rapidly built up like building blocks.

And you can clearly feel that the ground beneath your feet seems to have been burned into a combination of obsidian and glass.

At such temperatures, the entire earth would turn into molten lava, and even insect eggs buried tens of meters deep underground would be burned to ashes, making it a complete extermination plan.

At the same time, the moment Xue Lude stepped onto this land, the world consciousness of the Super Iron Curtain instantly connected with Xue Lude.

It was an extremely complex emotion, a mixture of anger, resentment, and pleading.

The world consciousness of the Super Iron Curtain realized that it was probably about to die.

When the insect swarm destroys the ecosystem and begins to plunder the earth's veins, it's actually similar to humans reaching the late stage of a parasitic disease.

The swarm of insects was rampaging through his body, and he could already sense that his death was imminent.

He knew that these enemies were actually brought here by Xue's Law broadcast coordinates, and he also knew the cause and effect of this matter.

Now that Xue Lude has come to save Him, His emotions are very complex, including resentment and anger, as well as pleading and regret.

Moreover, He was already very weak and unable to even offer the people of the Iron Curtain some basic blessings.

No matter how much the world consciousness of the Beast Star is shrouded in fog, it can still do its best to buff everyone to level 4 or higher, while simultaneously exerting several times the gravity of the swarm to suppress and repel it.

In this world, He could do nothing but eke out a living. When He saw that the person who came to save Him was actually His enemy, this feeling immediately gave Xue Dinglu the same feeling as that of a young lady in a female-oriented novel who had to submit to her enemy for the sake of her family and future.

In short, it's very abstract.

Perhaps He didn't really want to submit to Xue's law; He just knew He was about to die and was desperately grasping at the last straw.

But how should I put it... there are many other people here, including quite a few members of the interstellar column, but the person the world consciousness ultimately chose to submit to is still Xue Law, its "enemy." This makes Xue Law seem like he just likes the SM genre.

Although the metaphor is abstract, that's roughly the idea.

Xue's Law, however, did not care about His attitude at all; He simply accepted the final blessing of this world's consciousness and the Seed of the World.

Regardless of His attitude—whether it's hatred or animosity—He doesn't actually care about the attitude of the world's consciousness.

Regardless of His attitude, Xue's Law will definitely come, that's all, as always.

After realizing that he was now living in the world of a young lady who had submitted to her enemy, Xue's research and progress went much more smoothly.

The Innovation Century is activated directly, without the need for complicated ceremonies and arrangements. As long as Xue Dinglu wants it, he can immediately launch a seven-day creation across the entire world.

This is Xue's plan to restore the ecosystem, and it's also the reason why he directly told 5332 to carry out the scorched earth plan to their heart's content.

Even if the entire planet's surface is burned to glass, as long as the core remains intact and the planet's materials remain unchanged, Genesis can at least restore the surface to a basic ecological state.

The only problem is that this world is almost destroyed, and the seven-day prologue to the apocalypse cannot be activated. Otherwise, Xue's Law would have a simpler way to eliminate those pseudo-insects.

At that time, the Dreadnoughts will only need to face a small number of Shub Zerg, Zerg warriors, and the last remaining Zerg King.

However, even the Dreadnoughts will suffer heavy losses when facing the Warriors and the Insect Royal.

These mechs, with weapons far more powerful than those of the Zerg, superior troop production technology, and unwavering morale, showed Xue the best way to deal with natural disasters: another natural disaster!
Otherwise, relying solely on the killing efficiency of the Dreadnoughts would likely result in an exceptionally long war.

Therefore, are there other natural disasters in the universe?
Demons (Undead)!

Xue Dinglu immediately thought of the Impure World Reincarnation or the Summoning of Heroic Spirits, which involved enslaving the dead, but he quickly dismissed the idea, as he was not yet capable of using such a technique.

However, there is another natural disaster in the universe.

The divine tree has descended!

Furthermore, the Divine Tree can infect other life forms, causing them to be covered in fungal spores and turn into a "plant monster." Actually, according to the name used by the angels in Rachel's world, "Deadpool" sounds better.

Similarly, Deadpool is also part of the Second Catastrophe. And coincidentally, Xue Law has the materials for the Divine Tree, which is essentially an ancient prokaryotic organism called "Wild Fungus," only it appears as a plant.

Without hesitation, Xue Dinglu jumped out and said, "Gentlemen, are there any insects here? I need a real Shub insect, preferably a juvenile, for my research."

This requirement stunned everyone else at the outpost; they couldn't understand why Xue's Law would make such a request.

However, they wouldn't question it. After Xue Lude set up the isolation barrier, a Dreadnought brought over the charred corpse of the Shub insectoid, saying, "Not completely dead yet, but it should be about half-cooked. It shouldn't affect your research, right?"

"OK!"

Xue Dinglu immediately began to study the cells of the Divine Tree and the Zerg. With the knowledge of his two doctoral degrees from his parallel world self, plus the cheat-like modification by the Cursed Blood, he indeed discovered the problem.

After the cells of the Divine Tree enter the bodies of the Shub insectoids, they are able to devour the insectoids' energy and grow within their bodies!
Just minutes later, the insect stopped struggling, and a branch grew from its corpse, seemingly growing exceptionally well.

It doesn't even require much processing or modification. Xue's Law only needs to consider that after using this thing to wipe out the swarm, the rest is the outbreak of the God Tree Dead Servants catastrophe, just like how Earth in a parallel world still has hundreds of millions of Dead Servants.

Therefore, Xue's Law quickly modified a divine tree cell using the cursed blood, that is, by hiding the bacteriophage in the divine tree cell through a simple membrane, and then hiding it in the source nucleus of the divine tree cell.

Under normal circumstances, the reproduction and growth of the divine tree cells will not trigger the bacteriophages of the source nucleus. However, once the divine tree begins to absorb spiritual energy and reproduces, the membrane will rupture, and the bacteriophages will swarm out to destroy the divine tree.

Then Xue Luding asked for another Shab insect. This time, he used the blood of the curse to cultivate special divine tree cells, which gradually grew into a plant. Xue Luding simply plucked a branch as a bullet, and the wooden divine tree bullet hit the corpse of the Shab insect directly.

"Crack!"

The hard shell of the Shub insectoid was rooted the moment the Divine Tree bullet hit it, and then the roots of the Divine Tree frantically burrowed into the insect's carapace, rapidly draining the insect's life force.

"Brother, what are you doing..." When 5332 returned to refuel the flamethrower, he suddenly saw the experimental progress on Xue's side. He saw the divine tree growing wildly inside the insect's body, bursting out branches and wood spikes from the inside out, turning the still-living insect into a monster like a sea urchin.

That wasn't all. Immediately afterward, the branches and thorns seemed to have encountered a natural enemy, quickly decaying and withering. Within minutes, the once vibrant and flourishing divine tree died, turning into withered branches indistinguishable from ordinary rotten wood.

Xue Dinglu's lips curled up, and he even shouted excitedly, "Yada thief! We did it!"

During the battle with the Ninth Apostle, Xue Lude also learned from the Star Squadron's data that those non-pure insects would become nutrients for the Divine Tree. At this moment, Xue Lude understood that, at least in terms of status and strength, the Divine Tree must far surpass the insects.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be the sacred tree sucking up insects, but the Zerg eating the tree.

Xue's Law is essentially just inserting a branch into the insect's body and letting it grow wildly; at most, it's just adding a self-destruct system to the branch.

Upon seeing 5332, Xue's Law said something that left 5332 completely baffled.

"5332, have everyone collect the insect corpses and create an environment similar to the biological broth. I've found a way to specifically attack the insect race. With this weapon, you can easily defeat any insect monster except for the Insect God!" Xue Luding excitedly pointed to the insect that was being burst open by the branches from the inside out and said excitedly.

This is a strategy of using one tiger to devour another.

The sacred tree is used to kill insects, then bacteriophages are used to kill the sacred tree seedlings. Finally, the bacteriophages fall into nature and die collectively within a few minutes, achieving a perfect cycle.

He didn't even intend to keep this method a secret. Since there were many members of the Starfleet here, Xue Lude decided to give this gift to everyone in the Starfleet.

……

Soon after receiving the news, a man over two meters tall, somewhat resembling an elf, arrived at Xue Luding's place and said, "Sage, I heard that you have developed a weapon specifically for attacking the Shub insectoid race?"

Starfleet has never had a good way to deal with the Shub Zerg, and often starts with the Star Destroyer Cannon.

Or simply monitor the insect swarm's movements continuously and eliminate these damned creatures before the insect plague breaks out.

Their method of eliminating the Zerg was to use the purest energy attack to completely annihilate them, thus rendering their contamination ineffective.

Furthermore, the swarms are numerous and their individual combat capabilities are also strong. The pure-blooded Zerg queens are at least near-Tier 5, which makes them difficult for many ordinary Starfleet members to deal with.

It can be said that the Zerg swarm accounts for at least half of the workload of the entire Starfleet.

They have studied many viruses or poisons targeting insect swarms, but often after killing some insects, the remaining swarms quickly adapt, rendering the viruses ineffective.

However, Xue, who was also an apostle, understood that the vast majority of insects' fate was to become nourishment for the divine tree. Therefore, even under the control of the sixth apostle, he would not allow the insect swarm to have the ability to turn against the divine tree.

Therefore, at least in the underlying code of the insect swarm under the Sixth Apostle, the insects' status is always lower than that of the Divine Tree.

Then let's use magic to defeat magic, use natural disasters to fight natural disasters, and use the divine tree to kill the insects!
Xue Lude looked at the Starfleet member who had come to meet him and asked, "Didn't the Starfleet ever consider using the power of the Divine Tree to deal with the Zerg?"

In the old man's memory, Xue Law knew that the ancient predecessors of the interstellar column would also ride the divine tree to accomplish some impossible things, and they even had the absurd plan of having a divine tree the size of a planet push a black hole.

To everyone's surprise, this high elf-like fellow instantly wore a constipated expression and then said, "We've done similar technology before... but the result was that the Divine Tree Saplings proliferated on several planets."

Xue Law: "..."

"After killing the insects with the Divine Tree, the Divine Tree would grow into an even more troublesome enemy, which would cause even greater disasters, so we abandoned this research. But you, Sage, are different; you have actually created a product that can restrain the Divine Tree." The high elf did not hold back his praise.

However, Xue was a little embarrassed, since this bacteriophage was another one he had researched, and he had only further modified the original strain.

Soon after, Xue Lude handed over the divine tree and the bacteriophages within it to the high elf, who excitedly returned to headquarters with the research findings.

After initial testing, the commander-in-chief of the Starfleet immediately declared, "Mass production!"

……

Under Xue's arrangement, a large number of insect corpses were piled into a cooled glass pit, densely filled with tens of thousands of insectoid corpses.

And Xue Dinglu did what he was supposed to do as the "Thirteenth Apostle" for the first time: plant trees!
He planted the divine trees on the corpses, and soon, these divine trees absorbed the nutrients from the insect corpses and grew wildly.

However, once it grows to the height of a person, the cursed blood and the bacteriophages within it can be controlled to suppress its growth rate. Then, branches can be continuously pulled out and crafted into special weapons.

Whether it's bullets, arrows, cannonballs, javelins, or even crafted into longswords and spears, they will all be among the weapons used in the special attack against the insects.

The shields made from them will also provide special protection against swarms of insects.

However, the drawback of making it into a melee weapon is that after using the Divine Tree Greatsword to cut down an insect, the sword might immediately and eagerly parasitize the insect's body, completely disregarding who the host is.

Furthermore, if someone is accidentally injured by their own weapon, the Divine Tree Cells may instantly go berserk and devour the host through the wound. Although the bacteriophage will also act immediately, by the time the bacteriophage takes effect, the host being devoured will probably be almost dead.

This could be considered a very dangerous weapon, but for the world today...

For those who yearn to reclaim their homeland, launch a counterattack on Rongdu, and rightfully reclaim their planet from the Iron Curtain, such a price is entirely acceptable.

The main reason is that the cost is low.

Soon after Xue Lude taught them the technical details, a Divine Tree processing assembly line factory and the production of Divine Tree warheads were established here.

……

In just two days, this weapon with the Divine Tree warhead was put into actual combat.

The army had already conquered several cities, and when they arrived in a major economic city that was once part of the super Iron Curtain, they discovered Tier 5 Zerg warriors there.

This warrior seemed to have absorbed a lot of nutrients from the earth's veins, making it extremely large. Even when lying on the ground, it was over a hundred meters tall, resembling a terrifying prehistoric monster.

then……

After being swept by the divine tree's bullets several times, its entire body was covered with branches that eroded it. The plant's roots desperately absorbed nutrients from its body and continued to grow inside. The dense branches and roots completely imploded this Tier 5 warrior from the inside out.

According to the recollections of humans who witnessed this scene:

I used to think that insects were inherently evil. All living things feel pain, fear, and terror, but insects don't. But that day, after witnessing the hysterical roars of the Zerg warrior and watching the branches crush its carapace, and the tree completely exploding from the inside out, I understood...

These insects have probably met their true demise! From today onwards, the swarm's doomsday has arrived.

(End of this chapter)