In war movies and television, the image of war is solidified as soldiers charging into battle, artillery roaring, bullets raining, nuclear bomb explosions, etc., but in fact this is not the case.

War is a game, a game in which no rules are the only and greatest rule, and participants can use any means as long as they can achieve the final victory.

This is war.

The Gatherers didn't think about going head-to-head with the fleets of the New Empire.

For one thing, it doesn't fit their mission, and they didn't come here to kill people.

The second is the hard-hitting method, which is too time-consuming and laborious, just like a missile soldier can launch a nuclear bomb to raze a city at the touch of a button, and it is too stupid to have to cut down everyone in a city in person.

After confirming that the new Imperial fleet had set sail, the collectors used high-powered radar to confirm the course of the new Imperial fleet, and then projected a large number of fleshy cannonballs with electromagnetic cannons.

These fleshy shells split into many small pieces of flesh after being fired, each of which was the size of a fist, which also caused the radar of the new imperial fleet to fail to catch them, the size was too small, and the kinetic energy was not large, and it was automatically judged harmless by the AI.

After successfully making contact with the outer armor of the New Empire's battleship, these small pieces of flesh use chemical coordination to erode holes as thin as two hairs in the outer armor, and then change their genes to evolve into a filamentous organism that invades the New Empire's warships from the holes.

In addition, the new empire was born out of the old empire, and there is only a great deal of commonality in technology and design ideas between them, and the collectors who have long been familiar with the design ideas and concepts of the Serens can easily avoid the monitoring in various warships, and it doesn't take much trouble to find the big canteen in the battleship.

In the end, while the chef of the Seren people was cooking, he unknowingly mixed into the food.

After these filamentous gatherers were eaten by the Serenes, the gatherers, with their knowledge of the body structure of the Serenes, quietly took control of their bodies without touching the nervous tissues of the Serenes.

When the last Seren in the New Imperial Fleet is seized by the Gatherers for physical control, the New Imperial Fleet has essentially lost, and there is no point in choosing to fight or not to fight in the future.

The participants in this war are gatherers and new empires, with a battle loss ratio of 0:0, and the final winner is the gatherer.

The Empress awoke from her slumber and saw a gatherer in front of her, and looking past the gatherer, she observed the environment and found herself still on the bridge, covered with lying Serenes.

There was no smell of blood in the air, which reassured the Empress, at least these amoeba monsters hadn't gone on a killing spree.

At this moment, she sat in a corner, unable to turn her head except for her eyes and face, and her body seemed to have become someone else's thing.

Without thinking too much, the empress had already guessed that it was the gatherers who had done it, and in connection with the previous defeat, she vaguely guessed the reason for this.

"Hello, Your Majesty."

"How do you know...... I? ”

The Empress's gaze focused on the gatherer, not forgetting to use her afterglow to be alert to her surroundings.

"Ask the others." The gatherer pointed to the Serens who were lying on the ground with his tentacle finger, and naturally replied to the Empress's question, "In the same way you have always used, divide a group, win over a group, suppress a group, and simply tell them that we accept the captives, and those who refuse to cooperate will be killed by themselves and their families." ”

"Even if they are all very loyal to your new empire, they can't be sure if the others are so loyal, as long as they are awakened at different times and suspicious of each other, they will naturally answer our questions honestly."

"You ......"

The empress couldn't help but widen her eyes and stared at the gatherer in front of her in surprise, and the words and deeds of this gatherer completely refreshed her three views.

In the Empress's impression, the amoeba's monsters have no brains, and their IQ is very low, according to the information recorded in the Imperial Seed, they should only be brainless and reckless, constantly increasing the value of individuals, and relying on a huge group to achieve strong combat effectiveness.

But what did she see now? A collector is telling her how easily it can play with hearts and humanity and pull out the information it wants to know from the mouths of captured Imperial soldiers through interrogation!

"Don't be so surprised, these are the little tricks we learned from the Empire."

"In addition to this little skill, we also used the tactical idea of infiltration and implosion that we learned from the empire in this operation, not to mention, it is very useful."

"You are far worse than the Imperial fleet in the exercise, since you know of our existence, you should have prepared a life field probe in advance, so you can be infiltrated into the battleship by us so easily, you are the weakest Seren fleet we have ever encountered."

The Gatherers' outspokenness illustrates the arrogance and ignorance of the New Empire's fleet, and despite the New Empire's full efforts, the Gatherers see their unguardedness as a contempt for the entire cluster.

“…… Did you wake me up to humiliate me? The Empress asked.

"Not really, we just wanted to tell you something." The gatherer replied.

"What's the matter?"

The Empress had a vague premonition of unease, and she immediately thought of the source of her uneasiness, and began to pray to herself that the amoeba monster wanted to tell her that things would not be the same as she thought.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

"Actually, your attack with such fanfare is just a front to draw all our attention to your side and get a ship out of this star system, right?"

The Empress ...... did not answer, but such silence was already the answer.

The empress in charge of the new empire was in turmoil, secretly scolding the traitors who leaked information, and swore that if there was still a chance, she would kill all these traitors who had survived by stealing their lives.

The gatherer saw the Empress's thoughts and replied thoughtfully.

"Actually, no one told us about your plan, and you did a good job of secrecy, but we already guessed from the beginning, after all, there is a precedent."

If you can't beat it, you can escape, it's a very simple idea, the strength of the gatherers themselves They believe that the Serens must be very clear, and at the same time, they also believe that the Serens will definitely try their best to escape from this star system, just like the initial star when the empire put out the seeds, and the collectors have always been concerned about this.

In fact, the actual situation is indeed as expected by the gatherers, the new empire has also dropped their own seeds, and due to the substandard industrial capacity, the new empire cannot do the same level as the old empire, and the intention to escape the star system is nothing more than a large immigration ship, with antimatter propulsion, a few leaping creatures can easily intercept the migration ship.

The defeat was complete, and there was no power to fight back—the empress sighed deeply and melancholy.

"Now that we've been defeated, what do you want? Do you want to make my rebel die a more painful death? ”

"Why are you so brainless, if we want to kill you, is it necessary to be so troublesome? With all due respect, you are ridiculously weak, and you are not enough to be our opponent, do you understand? Don't make it harder for our cluster. ”

“……”