Chapter 679

Chapter 679: Waiting for Help

On a deserted star not far from the headquarters of the Federal Parliament,

Lu Qingxian, accompanied by a group of federal High-ranking Leaders, approached Bunier and Blake for assistance.

Faced with increasingly fierce attacks and harassment from various tribes, they had tried every possible way but still could not find a solution.

Upon learning the purpose of Lu Qingxian and his team’s visit, Bunier and Blake also felt a bit troubled.

They did not expect that, after completing only one of their three major tasks, they would encounter the troublesome issue of being targeted by the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, known for their tracking and searching techniques. This delay forced them to temporarily set aside the other two tasks after dealing with the Soul Clan.

To their surprise, even the goal of helping the human federation unify the star cluster ran into difficulties.

On the side of the foreign affairs department, this issue was merely a trivial matter, not even worth being called a task.

In Bunier and Blake’s eyes, this was an easy task.

After all, two thousand members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe had joined the human federation’s military.

Among these two thousand, the strongest reached level 210.

Even the weakest member still had a strength of one hundred eighty level.

A strength of one hundred eighty level, among the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, just barely qualified as high-end combatants.

In the star cluster, they were nearly invincible.

All the strongest members of various tribes combined wouldn’t be enough to defeat even the weakest member of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

No one expected that the various tribes would come up with a countermeasure, breaking into smaller groups and launching frenzied attacks and harassment on the garrisons of the major life planets.

This strategy was effective only against the human federation.

If it were other tribes, once the garrison discovered attacking armies, they could easily fend off the attacks while retreating.

If they couldn’t win, holding their ground for a while wouldn’t be a problem.

As long as they could hold out for some time, it would be enough to wait for reinforcements.

However, the human federation’s garrisons couldn’t do this.

This was due to the lack of mobility of large battleships.

While their attacks were powerful and their energy shields equally formidable, the large battleships could not intercept the quick and responsive high-end combatants of the various tribes because of their insufficient mobility.

Once the enemy got in close, large battleships turned into sitting ducks.

Even with their scanners’ advantage of detecting enemies from farther away, the human federation’s garrisons couldn’t escape immediately after spotting an attack.

This was because each large battleship required two to three thousand crew members to operate.

They could not always be on high alert; otherwise, the number of operators would increase several times.

By the time all those operators got into position, the enemy would have already arrived.

Even if the number of operators was increased several times to ensure the large battleships maintained an emergency state, ready to flee at the sight of enemy forces, it wouldn’t help.

Large battleships needed continuous acceleration to reach faster-than-light speed.

During this process, the enemy’s strong combatants could easily arrive and destroy the large battleships.

The large battleships of the human federation are more suited for large-scale wars rather than small-scale attacks and defenses.

Moreover, this is with the assumption that the people of the human federation have significantly improved their perception ability and speed by secretly learning various skills created by Yi Chen, which has greatly enhanced the flexibility of the large battleships.

Otherwise, the situation would be even worse.

The garrisons stationed on the major life planets face even more dire circumstances.

The various ground defense and attack systems are only barely constructed and do not compare to the garrison fleets.

In the end, the root cause is that the strength of the human federation is insufficient to unify the entire star cluster.

With the power of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, even if all the strongest fighters and armies of the various tribes unite, they are still no match.

The human federation could easily unify the entire star cluster.

However, unless they completely annihilate the races on each conquered life planet, rendering the scattered strong fighters and armies rootless, the constant attacks and harassment will only lead to more targets as the human federation occupies more life planets, trapping them further in trouble.

“Can we find out where the strongest members and High-ranking Leaders of the various tribes are hiding?”

Bunier asked.

Marshal Iron Blood shook his head. “Although our human federation has developed a number of insiders and undercover agents among the various tribes, many of whom are strong fighters, the tribes are obviously wary of this. The strongest members of various tribes communicate exclusively through communication stones.”

“The High-ranking Leaders each oversee a specific area and do not know each other’s hiding places. The same goes for those strong fighters and their armies.”

“Based on the information provided by our insiders and undercover agents, we can only find a small number of hiding places for the armies of the various tribes.”

Bunier and Blake frowned.

If they could find the hiding places of the strongest members and High-ranking Leaders, things would be much simpler. They could send a few members of the Tree-Dwelling Tribe to handle the situation.

Then, by forcing these strongest members and High-ranking Leaders to surrender, they could gain control over the tribes’ members, effectively resolving the problems at their source.

Unfortunately, they could not find this information.

If the three Tree-Dwelling Tribe members, skilled in tracking and searching techniques, were still alive, this matter would be easily solved.

As long as they were provided with the aura or items used by the strongest members and leaders of the various tribes, they could determine their exact locations.

But alas, these three skilled members had been killed by the Shadow King and the Soul Kings of the Soul Clan.

“The only option left is to launch a carpet search to locate and eliminate the various tribes responsible for the attacks,” Bunier said, looking helplessly at Blake.

Though this method seems good, it is quite troublesome.

They only had a limited number of people to conduct the search, namely himself, Blake, six two hundred level strong fighters, and twenty level 200 strong fighters.

The two thousand one hundred eighty level and one hundred ninety level Tree-Dwelling Tribe high-end combatants cannot be dispersed, as they would face a significant risk of being attacked by the Shadow King.

Furthermore, although the attacking armies of the various tribes are hiding in outer space near the major life planets, there is surely a considerable distance from the planets, making it impossible for ordinary high-end combatants from the Tree-Dwelling Tribe to search the entire area in a short time.

Even with twenty strong fighters using their perception ability to scan the area, they would need a significant amount of time.

Thus, to execute this plan means that the Tree-Dwelling Tribe members would have to serve as the vanguard for the human federation long-term, continuously traveling back and forth to search for the tribes’ armies.

“Let’s wait until the foreign affairs department sends over members who are skilled in tracking and searching techniques!”

Blake said reluctantly.

As a two hundred twenty level strong fighter, he is a prominent middle-ranking leader within the Tree-Dwelling Tribe.

Coming to this star cluster outside our main region, where the maximum strength is only one hundred fifty level, and taking on tasks as vanguard and scouts feels embarrassing.

If he reported back, it would be hard to face people.

If it weren’t for the incompatibility between this star cluster and the Tree-Dwelling Tribe, he would want to leave this place quickly.

Otherwise, he would never consider such a plan.

Bunier nodded; he also did not want to lower himself to do something so humiliating.

Waiting for the foreign affairs department to send the skilled Tree-Dwelling Tribe members to resolve the trouble at its source is the most straightforward and effective solution.