"I bet the taste of human blood buns is really good, huh?" Constant Star Lu Chen sneered again.
The Bose Civilization said, "Stop wasting time with concepts we don’t understand. Hand over the relevant technologies you hold immediately. That is the only way to resolve the grudge between us."
Bose Civilization doesn’t have buns, much less wheat, so they found it difficult to understand what Constant Star Lu Chen meant. However, they could feel deep malice in the words of Constant Star Lu Chen that were clearly not well-intentioned.
Constant Star Lu Chen said, "I think you might have misunderstood something. We have never intended to settle this grudge, let alone address it by kneeling before you. Besides, under the current circumstances, you have only ten Planet Battle Stars, you really have no right to make demands of us. If anyone should be making demands, it should be us towards you!"
While Constant Star Lu Chen was communicating with the Bose Civilization, the science team from the Wandering Base also carried out a careful check of the surroundings.
In the end, they didn’t find any lurking Battle Stars nearby, nor were there any signs of Space Wormhole fluctuations in the distance. This indicated that the Intermediate Color Star Team from the Bose Civilization really had come alone, without any reinforcements, which set Constant Star Lu Chen’s mind at ease, making his words more forceful.
"Even though we only have ten Battle Stars, the civilization we represent is not one you can afford to provoke."
Hearing what Constant Star Lu Chen said, the Intermediate Color Battle Star Team from the Bose Civilization realized that their bluff had been seen through. They stopped using that tactic and resorted to intimidation, still trying to coerce the Wandering Alliance into submission.
Constant Star Lu Chen said forcibly, "Whether we can be provoked is not for you to decide, it’s our call. At this stage, your bravado is pointless. I’m tired of wasting my words on you. I’ll give you two options: surrender or death."
"Remember the decision you make today, because one day, your Wandering Alliance will pay the price for it!"
Seeing that all their scheming had been seen through by the Wandering Alliance and faced with an ultimatum, the Intermediate Color Star Team realized that war was the only option left. However, considering their current combat power, they were certainly no match for the Wandering Alliance. To avoid a sure defeat, the Intermediate Color Star Team had no choice but to decide to retreat.
Actually, their original plan was merely to come to the aid of the Ghost Civilization, but unfortunately, they arrived a step too late.
Upon receiving this news, the headquarters of the Bose Civilization instructed the Intermediate Color Star Team to try to obtain the Wandering Alliance’s technology related to eradicating Black Hole Intentions and controlling black holes.
However, the Intermediate Color Star Team, realizing that they did not have the strength to simply take it by force, could only resort to diplomatic threats and coercion, which was their only tactic—a rather clever strategy. Unfortunately, the Wandering Alliance was impervious to both hard and soft approaches, and their tactic failed.
Of course, although the Intermediate Color Star Team was defeated in all their confrontations with the Wandering Alliance, they still had their plans. They never assumed a hundred percent success in forcing the Wandering Alliance into submission, so they had two strategies prepared, which is what a smart, advanced civilization should have. Besides the coercion plan, they also had a retreat plan, which was to immediately withdraw if the Wandering Alliance initiated war.
With two different contingency plans in place, this explained why the Intermediate Color Star Team did not approach the Wandering Alliance from the outset.
They maintained a distance of roughly one light year or more—a distance sufficient to ensure a smooth activation of a Space Wormhole for retreat.
Of course, the Wandering Alliance would not readily let them slip away.
Constant Star Lu Chen immediately arranged three interception strategies. The first was long-distance interception—by having a Science and Martial Battle Star fire a Unified Energy Beam while another, the Eternal Life, opened a Space Wormhole to transport the beam at maximum speed for interception. The second was close combat interception, where another group of Battle Stars opened up a Space Wormhole, then Dark Gold, White Dwarf, and other Battle Stars sequentially passed through the wormhole to the frontlines.
Unfortunately, due to the great distance and the Intermediate Color Star Team’s preparedness, the first two Wandering Alliance interception plans failed.
By the time the Unified Energy Beam launched by the Wandering Alliance arrived via the Space Wormhole, the ten Intermediate Color Battle Stars were already inside their own wormhole, resulting in empty efforts. When Dark Gold, White Dwarf, and other Battle Stars flew out of the Space Wormhole, the Intermediate Color Star Team’s wormhole had closed, stripping them of the opportunity to directly intercept or pursue. To chase in this scenario would mean opening their own Space Wormholes.
Of course, this action was risky, and Constant Star Lu Chen had no intention to pursue.
His attitude was to take down the opponent if possible, but if not, so be it. The Wandering Alliance had its plans and did not need to squander time and energy unnecessarily.
Just then, a shrill, piercing sound echoed through the area.
A golden Gravity Wave, like a universe of golden waves, harshly struck a certain part of space, attempting to tear it apart.
The Intermediate Color Star Team had been maintaining the stability of the wormhole with energy. These two forces clashed violently, causing the space to distort and then recover, resembling a giant hideous face.
Eventually, the external Gravity Gold Wave slightly prevailed, forcibly tearing a tiny spatial crack and creating massive spatial turbulence. The ten Intermediate Color Battle Stars inside the wormhole suffered various degrees of damage, with one Battle Star severely damaged, as it passed right through the crack, destroying one-third of its systems and killing about twenty percent of its personnel in this spatial calamity. The Intermediate Color Star Team quickly stabilized the wormhole with their devices and fled with the seriously damaged Battle Star.
"You can go, but not without learning a lesson, or else you’ll really think the Wandering Alliance is a pushover?"
Watching the effects of the Gravity Gold Wave attack, Constant Star Lu Chen was very satisfied—this was his third intercept plan—and although it still ended in failure, it at least achieved something, leaving a "scar" on those Bose Civilization’s arrogant Battle Stars.
"Demon Star, was that Gravity Gold Wave just now used by you?"
After the scene settled, Green Star sent a message filled with excitement and curiosity.