What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

Chapter 321 The Ruthlessness of a Coward

"I guess so. They probably learned about the black crystal from those alien races beforehand, and they might even help with the mining."

Xavier sneered as he spoke of this, "These fools should also consider whether they have the ability. They might even risk their lives to mine."

Although Xavier had never mined black crystals, he had a good intuition and used it to avoid many dangers while also seizing many opportunities, such as his current cooperation with Lu Yize, which was a result of his intuition.

Lu Yize himself had mined black crystals, so he was naturally more aware of the dangers of mining than Xavier. Even if those people were alive and wanted to serve the alien race, they could only risk their lives to mine black crystals.

Since they had agreed to cooperate, Xavier naturally had to show some sincerity and share what he knew with Lu Yize.

“I estimate that Donggu’s connections with the alien races are even closer than those of my former leader. Take Jiang Qinghai for example; he should have already been in contact with the Zerg before the apocalypse. This is what I learned from my former leader.”

After speaking, he glanced at Jiang Yue, knowing that she was Lu Yize's wife and also Jiang Qinghai's daughter. However, judging from the previous situation, the relationship between the father and daughter was not very good.

“Yes, Jiang Qinghai was probably among the first group of people to come into contact with the Zerg.” Lu Yize wasn’t too surprised by this, and even had a basic understanding of how Jiang Yue was abducted.

"This time, the Donggu base has actually reached a certain consensus with the alien race, and then offered conditions to negotiate with our other two bases. They promised that they would not invade our territory for fifty years."

As Xavier spoke of these things, a hint of disgust lingered in his eyes. "However, like the previous leader, they required us to regularly provide them with crystal cores and live alien zombies as their slaves."

"Jiang Qinghai and his team believe this is the best option for us right now. Sacrificing those alien beasts and zombies can give us fifty years of rest and recuperation. There is no better choice than this."

"However, they are also aware of the hatred many people in the base harbor towards the alien race, so they do not want to expose their cooperation with the alien race."

"They wanted to cover this up and incite the people in the base to deepen their hatred for the alien beasts and zombies, so that any amount of fighting could be explained as a matter of survival."

"Even if one day their cooperation with other races is exposed, they can confidently say to those who have enjoyed decades of peace because of their choices, 'It was all for their own good!'"

It was indeed a good plan. Lu Yize remained silent. He had originally thought that these alien races would all be like Amos, directly crushing them with force, but that was not the case.

They did nothing, gave nothing, and simply used promises that might not even be kept to turn them into opposing camps, causing them to kill each other.

Meanwhile, those alien races, in their sky cities, watched with amusement as these ants below fought each other for survival.

These lowly ants, out of fear of their power, would humbly offer up crystal cores, power cores, and their own kind who were supposed to fight alongside them, thus placing them in the position of slaves.

"I thought we would first face those alien races, but I didn't expect that we would first face humans."

Xavier recalled that when he and the former leader were on opposing sides, the former leader's first reaction was to kill him to silence him.

A coward who fears the strength of the Zerg, yet ruthless enough to kill his comrades for peace.