Super God: Industrial Cthulhu Doesn't Believe in Aliens

Even though she was already attracted to him, she still had to partly blame Pan Zhen for the "betrayal".

Pan Zhen was happy to give Nusa a way out, saying, "Since that's the case, let's proceed according to my plan. We should..."

Pan Zhen seized the opportunity and told Nusa about his plans.

The first step of the plan is to make contact with Earthlings before engaging in war with Earth's civilization.

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In Huang Ke's office on North Star, Huang Ke received a call from Elder Huang: "Communication signals have been received from Pluto? Requesting to negotiate with us?"

This was beyond Huang Ke's expectations. When did the Taotie civilization become so polite?

Do we need to coordinate and align our granularity before even engaging in war?

Huang Ke pondered for a moment: who was instructing the Taotie fleet to do this?

Karl?

It's impossible!

Given Karl's ambition and intelligence, he would never have realized that Earth's civilization was the biggest obstacle to his arrival in the void.

In the terms of the cultivation world, this is a battle for the Great Dao!

It's definitely a fight to the death.

There is absolutely no possibility of reconciliation between Carl and Earth civilization.

It can be said that the major civilizations in the known universe are currently engaged in a race.

It's a contest of who can surpass all civilizations, regain free passage throughout the entire universe, and rapidly expand their war-making power.

This is even more evident between Earth civilizations and the River Styx.

Because of the existence of the Great Insect Bridge, Huang Ke and Carl are practically neighbors, and the conflict will only become more intense.

Between Earth and the Styx, either Karl will complete his research first, achieve a void descent, and destroy Huang Ke.

Either Huang Ke develops a completely new technology tree first and wipes out Karl's illusionary body completely.

Of course, another possibility is that Huang Ke will complete the development of spacetime technology first again. In that case, even if Karl is able to complete the Void Descent, Huang Ke may still have the opportunity to overturn the table and restart.

In short, Karl had no need to have any contact with Earth's civilization.

After thinking for a while, Huang Ke said to Huang Lao, "I request to obtain the data synchronization during the communication between the two parties."

Unable to guess who was behind it all, Huang Ke could only start by investigating the purpose of the communication.

Once the objective is exposed, the reason can be deduced, and the mastermind behind it can be found by following the clues.

Mr. Huang would naturally not refuse Huang Ke's request, and the process was not complicated.

North Star Aerospace Industry Group is a special organization, and Huang Ke himself holds the title of "special expert" in the international coalition government.

Since this concerns interstellar warfare, synchronizing the data with Huang Ke is entirely in accordance with procedure.

According to Huang Lao, the communication will take place in about a day. Taotie will send a small spaceship to Mars to achieve zero-delay communication with Earth through the communication project led by Qiangwei.

Huang Ke pondered for a while longer and decided to call Morgana over to share the details of the negotiations.

……

"The Taotie civilization? Taking the initiative to contact Earth? That's not Karl's style."

Morgana reached the same conclusion as Huang Ke.

"But the problem is, if it wasn't Karl, does that mean the Taotie's decision to come to Earth via the Great Insect Bridge was entirely their own?"

Huang Ke didn't believe that Taotie would do something so risky.

The Taotie civilization had fought against Earth, and they knew perfectly well that even if the Dark Dimension was destroyed, Earth's civilization was not to be underestimated.

Even compared to when the Dark Dimension still existed, Earth's civilization's relative combat power was even more exaggerated.

"That's impossible too. The location of the Styx Worm Bridge is very close to the Death Song Academy. The Taotie must have already negotiated with Karl."

Morgana shook her head, then continued to plan.

"Logically speaking, the Styx should be in a state of divine collapse, but Karl most likely reconstructed divine authority through some method."

"If divine authority is reconstructed, then the Void Knights under his command will surely become his greatest asset at this moment."

"They are all divine-level warriors, and even without the Dark Dimension, they should not be underestimated. Perhaps the reconstruction of divine authority relies on those so-called Void Knights."

"Based on what I know, there are only two Void Knights on the surface, Nusa and Snow, but neither of them seems like the type to do such a thing."

"Wait a minute! I suddenly thought of a possibility!"

Morgana has lived long enough and seen enough, and as she pondered, she opened up new avenues of thought.

"what?"

Huang Ke asked why he had Morgana come to his office; he wanted her to participate in the analysis.

Both sides share common interests in opposing Karl, and can be trusted.

Who do you think is still at Deathsong Academy right now?

"Besides those Void Knights, I think there's another person at Deathsong Academy."

"Back then, Karl must have done this in order to destroy Holy Keisha..."

Huang Ke guessed Morgana's words before she even finished speaking.

Pan Zhen!

Pan Zhen is most likely not in Lieyang, but with Karl.

If Pan Zhen hadn't been there, there would have been no way to destroy the Holy Keisha.

"No wonder I felt this was going on; it really does sound like something Pan Zhen would do."

Two-faced and treacherous, that's so much like Pan Zhen!

Chapter 179: He who knows the current affairs is a hero

If Pan Zhen is behind the Taotie civilization, then all of this makes sense.

But whether it is indeed Pan Zhen or not will only be known once the two sides begin their conversation.

……

"Xiao Ke, the communication signal has been synchronized to you. Can you receive it?"

Old Huang personally gave Huang Ke the signal.

Huang Ke responded: "The signal has been successfully received and is very stable. At present, space communication technology can be put into preliminary use."

“That’s right, but look who’s leading the research and development of the project,” Morgana said from the side.

Old Huang continued to say to Huang Ke, "The communications with Taotie will be handled by Comrade Wei Guodong, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the International United Government. If you have any instructions, you can discuss them with Comrade Wei Guodong now."

For a civilization to function properly, everyone should perform their respective duties, rather than having one person wield absolute power.

Huang Ke was relatively confident in the work of the international coalition government, after all, it was a strong team with more than 70% Chinese nationality.

"Deputy Director Wei Guodong can handle the negotiations himself; I'll just listen," Huang Ke stated.

After saying a few more words, Old Huang ended the call with Huang Ke.

Of course, as the chairman of the International Joint Government Committee, Mr. Huang would also be monitoring this communication between the two sides.

……

"This is the Earth United Government. I am Wei Guodong, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Department, from the Taotie Civilization. Please state your purpose. If you wish to wage war, Earth is happy to oblige!"

From the very beginning of the communications between the two sides, the Foreign Affairs Department displayed a tough stance.

During this year of development, the Earth's industrial production capacity exploded.

The once rare Xuan Nu, Bai Di, and Cheng Ying have now reached a considerable scale.

It is more than enough to wage a small-scale interstellar war.

Based on observations of the location of the Bug Bridge on Pluto, the Taotie's warships were not numerous.

It is foreseeable that the Taotie civilization had lost so many warships in the previous wars that they were severely weakened.

In addition, the sudden failure of the Dark Dimension led to the sudden death of a large number of Taotie cyborg warriors.

The Taotie's fighting strength is far less than it was a year ago.

On the other end of the call, Nusa responded in standard Styx language: "I am a Void Knight under the command of Karl, the former Lord God of the Styx. You may call me Nusa."

"The Taotie civilization, under the orders of Death God Karl, has come to conquer Earth's civilization."

These words seemed to be an indication of their purpose.

But whether it was Huang Ke and Huang Lao who were listening to the call, or Wei Guodong, the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Department, they were all shrewd people who understood the implication.

The words "once" and "Death God Karl" reveal not a trace of respect for Karl.

It gives the impression that Karl is no longer the supreme god.

Deputy Director Wei Guodong seized upon the key information and asked, "Using this attitude to address Karl? Does the Taotie civilization intend to betray us?"

This statement sounds somewhat provocative; the stronger Earth becomes, the more confident Earthlings stand.

Fearless of war!

Deputy Director Wei Guodong’s son serves in the Earth Aerospace Force. All he knows is that young soldiers are eager to make a name for themselves!

As for Nusa, he was not angry at all after hearing these words. He simply replied, "I am in charge of the Taotie Civilization as a Void Knight, but the Taotie Civilization cannot eavesdrop on this communication. I am negotiating with the Earth Civilization in my personal capacity."

"To be honest, I don't think the known universe of the new era can support the ship of the Styx at sunset."

“I am not just a Void Knight under Karl’s command, I also have my own civilization to protect.”

"I have read the dark messages of Earth's civilization, and one sentence from you Earthlings has left a deep impression on me."

"Those who understand the times are wise. On behalf of myself, I hope to establish friendly relations with civilization on Earth."

"Although Death God Karl can no longer monitor the known universe through the Dark Dimension, another Void Knight, Snow, has already gone to Taotie Star. I cannot openly cooperate with Earth's civilization."

"I hope……"