It seems that after the neighbor next to him becomes weak, he can obtain all the interests of the other party, so that he can develop and grow, but in fact, for truly smart people, this is actually the stupidest decision.
After all, when the strength of two forces is not much different, being in competition with each other will continuously improve their strength. More importantly, when two forces of similar strength exist in the same place at the same time, for other forces It is also a powerful deterrent to external forces.
When a certain force weakens, the neighbor next to it takes advantage of the victory and directly destroys this force. It seems that it has absorbed the remaining power of this force and directly made itself stronger. But for foreign invaders, the fact is When they lost the other force as a guard of honor and only had one other person left, they were no longer able to resist the other party.
The fact that two forces coexist in the same place does not mean that they cannot annex each other's forces, but the process of annexation should be like boiling a frog in warm water, proceeding bit by bit, rather than bursting out and trying to eat it in one bite. As a big fat man, with similar strength, if the other party is defeated, there is a high probability that both sides will suffer.
And now what they want to ask the protective umbrella to do for them is to weaken the strength of their hostile forces bit by bit, and then bleed the opponent bit by bit, so that the opponent will become weaker bit by bit, and in this case In the process, they absorbed each other's power bit by bit, making themselves stronger.
After the balance of power between the two sides showed a huge tilt, their strength had also grown, but by that time the opponent's strength had weakened, so that there was no longer an effective way to stop them. In this way, they could Devour each other's in one bite.
The most important thing is to do this, even after swallowing the other person in one gulp, it will not have any impact on you.
This is an effective path for the development of civilization, but many times people simply cannot see this. They only care about immediate interests. When the power around them weakens, they always want to take a piece of flesh from the other party's body. Come, even with the idea of taking advantage of your illness to kill you, kill the opponent with one blow when he is weak, and kill the entire force.
But after this force collapsed, they themselves did not actually annex the other's force and then grow stronger as expected. Instead, they weakened little by little without the other's encouragement.
So when they saw a powerful predatory force like Protective Umbrella appear at this time, their first reaction was to directly invite the other party over to help them fight against their hostile forces.
It is not that they want to make the other party very weak, but that they want to use this method to break the deadlock in strength between them after their hostile forces are weakened. In this way, after the balance of strength between the two sides is broken, Only then can they slowly eat away at the other party's power.
Rather than as many people imagine, they are either the ones besieging the umbrella, or they want to find the identity of the leader of the umbrella, directly find out the identity of the other party, kill the other party, and take over the entire umbrella force.
Or maybe they want to incorporate the entire umbrella. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that with the expanded power of the umbrella now, it is no longer possible for just a middle-to-high-level force to incorporate them.
As the saying goes, it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. With such a strong strength, ordinary civilization has no attraction for him at all. If he wants to include him in his own power, he can What kind of position should be assigned to the leader of the umbrella?
If he cannot be given a satisfactory position, he might as well become the boss of his own umbrella.
Of course, at this time, Xu Luo had no idea that anyone wanted to invite him to do what a mercenary did. At this time, he had been concentrating on accumulating the power of his Zerg race, and he was only paying a little attention to external affairs. It was just for a moment, and at this moment he had no time to be distracted.
Now in his divine domain, arsenals have been established one after another, and then there are assembly lines, and the workers in the assembly lines are his engineering bugs.
After these engineering bugs learned the forging skills from Mercado, all subsequent engineering bugs were able to share their experience, and then one by one they became veterans proficient in engineering forging. After establishing construction workshops one by one, they He acted as one of the assembly line workers. Each of them was a veteran with rich forging experience, so they worked very quickly. It was precisely because of them that Xu Luo decided to start forming his own at this time. The purpose of the arsenal is to build goblin engineering equipment one by one.
After all, nowadays, every civilization is in full swing. This is when his engineering equipment becomes more powerful. Of course, he needs to take advantage of this wave of firepower to build these things and quickly sell them to these people. Accumulate wealth for yourself.
If he misses this opportunity, when he needs to sell these things to others, he won't be able to get a good price.
You can sell it, but you can't decide the price like now.
Everything has a timeliness, and Xu Luo is very clear about this, so of course he needs to grasp it clearly at this time.
Others don't know that he is holding such a big move in his heart at this time, and wants to earn huge benefits from them. Everyone is fighting bloody battles in their respective battlefields, just to obtain greater results.
Each of the predators wanted to bite off a piece of flesh from each other's body so that they could gain greater benefits from this invasion.
But those who are defending their homeland want to protect their homeland at this time and prevent their resources from being robbed by these intruders. In fact, it is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong between the two sides. One is for protection. My own home, a place to make myself stronger. As the saying goes, weakness is the original sin.
If I really want to make a right or wrong, it's because you are weaker than me, so I came to invade you!
In fact, in such an environment where the jungle prevails, invasion and being invaded is a common thing, and most people are used to this kind of life.
So many times when faced with the invasion of others, they actually don't have any reaction. It's just that when they encounter the invasion, some of them lament their bad luck. Other than that, there are basically no more reacted.
There is no friendship between civilizations. They are bound by interests. Now that invading others can gain greater benefits, naturally no one will use the so-called kindness. Compliance was carried out.
The most important thing is that they can get huge benefits by following the umbrella, and Xu Luo can bring them even greater benefits, so they are willing to follow Xu Luo and help him conquer cities and territories.
In addition to the elite teams mobilized by each civilization, in fact, a large number of umbrella members are also following them at this time. However, a large number of umbrella members are actually unwilling to follow others to pick up the slack, so they are actually the ones who Formed a team and went to invade some weak civilizations alone!
Many of these weak civilizations cannot even occupy an entire star field, but instead occupy an entire star field together with other civilizations.
With such strength, even if they invaded in the past, there would be no strong reinforcements coming to help them. In this way, even if Xu Luo is not around to protect them, they do not need to worry about the invasion. What problems may arise during the process? Although invading such people cannot bring them much harvest, they are still some civilizations after all. There are still three nails in the rotten ships. Searching and looting can always gain something.
The war continued and countless star regions were affected. Moreover, after the group of people under the protective umbrella spread the war to them, a large number of powerful civilizations reacted at this time and sent their own members to join. Arriving at each of these teams, they took advantage of the situation and robbed them.
Anyway, everyone is under the banner of protective umbrella. Suddenly, the figures of protective umbrellas can be seen everywhere in countless star fields. As for the truth or falsehood, only the parties involved know it. Anyway, countless people are gnashing their teeth at the protective umbrella. There is nothing to do.
Even some star domains that are thousands of divine domain coordinate points away from the current protected sphere of influence have been invaded, and the banner they are flying belongs to the protective umbrella!
At that time, that civilization was still confused when it was invaded by these people. It had never heard of what the Umbrella was. It was not until watching the regional channel information in the next area that I realized that the Umbrella was a powerful predator organization. , but what makes the other party puzzled is that their place where there is no shit can be said to be thousands of miles away from the protective umbrella. Why did the other party suddenly come to them?
But no matter what, the current protective umbrella has made its name in front of countless civilizations in the interstellar world, making those seventh- and eighth-level civilizations aware of their existence.
It's just that the seventh- and eighth-level civilizations don't pay much attention to the protective umbrella at this time. First of all, they are very far away from each other, and more importantly, because they are very confident in their own strength and understand that even if the protective umbrella encounters them, You can be beaten by them at that time, so there is no need to take it too seriously.
It seems that there is only one level difference between the sixth-level civilization and the seventh-level civilization, but this level is the gap between the intermediate civilization and the high-level civilization. It is a distance like a natural chasm. No matter how they climb, There is simply no way to cross it.
The real strength of today's protective umbrella, even if it integrates some of the surrounding lower civilizations, is just barely comparable to a low-level sixth-level civilization. There are obvious differences between these seven-level civilizations. Of course they won't take it to heart.
After all, the gap in strength between higher civilizations and middle-lower civilizations cannot be rationalized, but many people do not understand what kind of strength they possess without actually going through war with these higher civilizations.
The reason why Xu Luo first encouraged these low-level civilizations to help him explore the road was because he was somewhat wary of the strength of these high-level civilizations and was unwilling to risk his own starship. Others will explore the way.
What he didn't expect was that as each civilization was raging, those high-level civilizations just watched all of this happening. As a result, things got worse and worse, causing countless civilizations to collapse. Being dragged into the water, the main force launching these wars is actually no longer the civilizations under the leadership of the umbrella. Many people are joining this carnival feast under the banner of the umbrella.
However, no matter how they are fighting, those high-level civilizations remain still and just watch quietly from the side!
When entering the state of melee, the civilizations that launched the war were also very clear that these high-level civilizations were not something they could provoke, so during the battle, they still consciously avoided the locations of these high-level civilizations. direction to avoid being beaten to death by the opponent with a stick.
At this moment, Xu Luo could not help but feel excited as he quietly looked at the floating city full of science fiction texture rising into the sky in his divine domain.
He found that he was still looking down on the old goblin, and he did not expect that the other party would actually create such a floating city for him after a lot of tinkering in his own divine domain.
There are no houses or anything like that in this city, only assembly lines one after another. These assembly lines make up this floating city. There are countless engineering bugs currently working inside, and countless materials are flowing from their hands. After being continuously transported up, processed into various parts, and then entered into other workshops for assembly, they became parts of engineering equipment one by one, and then they were assembled into goblin engineering equipment one by one.
These engineering equipment are reproduced in this world.
Ancient goblin craftsmanship is recognized as the most powerful among all known civilizations, and has reached its pinnacle.
Many people are even speculating that it is because their manufacturing technology is too unnatural and has touched the realm of the gods, so they will be punished by the gods, and they will be completely destroyed.
Even if no one has seen that glorious era at that time, the products from various goblin ruins today have allowed these people to see some of the handicrafts from that time.
And even now, no one can achieve the top level at that time. You can imagine how far the goblin manufacturing technology has reached at that time, and now these products made by Mercado Engineering equipment, for those goblins at that time, was not actually the most advanced technology.
After all, as an arcanist, what he pursues is the truth, and he is mainly responsible for combat matters. Although he is occasionally involved in these engineering aspects, because he is not a person who specializes in this area of work, he does not know the best. The top technologies.
Now it is just a matter of making the drawings in the memory that remain in my mind, but even this is enough for Xu Luo today.
Whether it is various armors and equipment produced, or aircraft that can fly in the sky, or magic cannonballs used in engineering, they are all very popular items for various civilizations, and Xu Luo is trying After using it, I found that the power is quite good.
Basically, the attack of this kind of magic cannon requires about five million Stam ray bugs to attack in one round to be comparable.
Of course, the consumption of such a shell is not small, but for Xu Luo, consumption has never been something he needs to consider. He feels that the power is pretty good. Of course, using psychic insects to attack and block At that time, it was discovered that such a shell would require a psychic shield formed by about half a million psychic bugs to withstand it. After all, in terms of destructive power, it would take about five million Stam ray bugs to withstand it. exert the same power.
But in fact, the attack of Stamm's ray bugs is more concentrated, so half a million psychic bugs can never stop the light-speed attack of five million Stamm's ray bugs.
But when defending against such magic shells, because the attack surface is not as concentrated as the beam strike of the Stam ray bug, it is easier to defend against.
With this understanding, Xu Luo confidently and boldly prepared to manufacture these things and sell them in large quantities.
After all, for him, if any weapon cannot be defended and poses a great threat to himself, he will certainly not sell such a thing to others, so he needs to test it first and find that it does not pose any threat to him before he can put it away. Go to market.
If he sells a large number of magic cannonballs to others at this time, and finally others use this thing against him, or even knock down his own fleet, it will be really ridiculous. Such a thing must not happen. In his own body, so at this moment he put an end to all these things.
At this time, he watched helplessly as the engineering bugs were constantly operating in this floating city. After processing a large amount of raw materials into parts, they were then armed to form various engineering equipment, constantly Create value for yourself.
He found that the raw materials required for these engineering equipment were actually very common, just various metals or some ordinary extraordinary materials. In today's world of gods, these things are actually very easy to find and valuable. It is not high, even because the assembly workers are all handled by their own engineering bugs. They do not need to be paid wages, and they only need to maintain their energy consumption. The cost is pitifully low. Moreover, these Zerg races are not afraid of hardship or fatigue, and even have very little time to rest. They are simply the favorite workers of the black-hearted boss.
After Xu Luo made these things, he did not put them out immediately and start looking for buyers. Instead, he wanted to accumulate them for a while. For him, he had no worries about buyers for these things. Sell when you need a price, and then invite people over to discuss the price after you have a larger quantity in your hand.
Nowadays, it is a seller's market. At that time, everyone can only accept their own kneading. What's more, nowadays, various star fields are constantly entering a war posture, so these people are in great demand for these things. If If he pushes something like this out, it will be their lucky star.
It's just that he needs to take advantage of this time to purchase a large amount of the raw materials he needs from various channels, so that when the other party sells what he needs from the raw materials he purchased, his costs will gradually increase.
After all, when he was buying things on a large scale, he couldn't hide his information at all, and it was easy for others to find out the clues. Of course, in fact, he didn't care even if the clues were discovered, but at this time, he had all the necessary information in advance. The materials were purchased mainly to reduce my own costs.
After all, he needs to make money. The less costs he pays, the more profits he will make from selling things.
Nowadays, he no longer wants to attack cities and conquer lands by himself and constantly plunder others.
Not only is this time-consuming and labor-intensive, but more importantly, the efficiency is very low. After deducting the cost of a plundering activity, what is obtained is actually not much at all, not to mention that now a large area belongs to the umbrella territory. Under the circumstances, his starships can only move farther, and by then, even if these starships have obtained a lot of benefits, in the process of continuous transportation back, in fact, almost all the profits will be lost. It has become a consumption along the way, so many times, he allows these marching troops to be self-sufficient during the march, and rarely lets them come back. Even if they need something, he will pass it through. Ultra-long-distance teleportation transports things there instead of transporting them back.
After all, even if they are far apart, they may encounter a lot of troubles along the way. In addition to promoting the reputation of the protective umbrella, these starships mainly help him go to various places to explore the reality of those people, and prepare for his own future. He is ready to invade, and if he wants to make money, there are now many ways to do it.
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