Going to war with a black brother for a billion pound gold mine?
There was no need to think about the answer to this question.
No matter how weak the black brother was, it was still a country, and the cost of war might be more than a billion pounds.
Plus, the gold mine still needed to be mined, which was another cost, not to mention that William didn't lack gold at all.
Nobody would go to war if they didn't lack money and gold wasn't a necessity.
With this thought, William immediately understood the Predator leader's meaning. The Predator Tribe didn't lack energy crystals, and they had a modified Predator as their opponent, so it was impossible for them to go to war with the Zergs.
Moreover, the Predator Tribe probably thought that with the Healing Talisman, they would only need a few years to end the war that would take them hundreds of years.
After a few years, William, who hadn't formed his own power, might even dare to go to war with the Zergs.
At that time, the relationship between the Predator Tribe and William, who had already jumped out of the whirlpool of war, might be reversed.
Thinking of this, William's expression became uncertain. These Predators didn't lack energy crystals, so he was losing out by selling one jade talisman for one energy crystal?
Since these Predators were in the star system where the main planet was located thousands of years ago, there were also Zergs.
Did that mean that most of their energy crystals came from that star system, and the reserves seemed to be very large?
The Predator leader said, "We can raise the price, in addition to the previously agreed deal, the extra share will be two energy crystals for each Healing Talisman."
This time, William was even more convinced that he was selling at a cheap price. Previously, when there was a need for energy crystals, he first got what he needed and sold it at a cheap price.
How could he look at the deal on planet X17 if he was losing out?
A habitable planet three times the size of Blue Planet, if it wasn't sold by the Predator Tribe, William wouldn't have been able to buy it even if he had money.
But now, he would be an idiot if he didn't dare to ask for an exorbitant price. Moreover, by raising the price, he would give the other party room to bargain.
"One Healing Talisman, one hundred energy crystals. As long as you agree, I will apply to other mages to make it together.
By then, it's not impossible to make a hundred a day. "
"There are mages like you?"
"Of course," William said with a smile, "Without inheritance, where can I learn magic?"
The Predator leader's heart skipped a beat. He silently thought that they had no other way to deal with a magician other than using the warship's energy cannons.
If there were a few or dozens of them and they started fighting, they would never be able to appear on land again.
He immediately shook his head and suppressed the anger in his heart. He patiently explained, "It's impossible for the price to be 1: 100. Even if we can afford it, we can't afford to use it.
Previously, we were only able to use it when the price was right. But the new price will prevent us from using them in the future unless we have no other choice.
Ten legions, four hundred people, and three Healing Talismans for each person, would cost one hundred and twenty thousand energy crystals. "
The Predator leader himself was shocked by this number. "If that's the case, we might as well drag things out and focus on compressing and transforming the Predators' living space. We'll wait for them to decline and die out."
"This …"
William was speechless. Large-scale, long-lasting battles often determined the direction of a battle based on the logistics ability.
Life-saving items were too expensive, so everyone had to buy them even if they had to grit their teeth.
However, for a large force or race, if the cost of the war was too high, it would be better to sacrifice manpower and even target the other party's weak points and key points. They would fight small-scale battles and force the other party to negotiate.
Although the possibility of the two Predators negotiating and reconciling was not high, once the negotiations were successful, William would immediately become the common enemy of the two races.
One would hate him for disregarding friendship by selling things at too high a price and oppressing them too much. The other would probably treat William as a mortal enemy.
William, who had already planned to bargain with the Predators, did not want to see the war turn into a game.
After thinking silently for a while, he said, "One for ten, that's my bottom line."
"Wait a moment, I have to report to the elders." After saying that, the Predator leader silently waited for the decision of the person behind him.
After waiting for almost two hours, William was already impatient. The leader replied, "We need 1,200 Healing Talismans in ten days."
"No problem."
As long as the war continued, the price would increase tenfold, and now that he had the support of a magician, William immediately became easy to talk to.
With his current strength, he could make 50 Healing Talismans in an hour. At the limit, he could make 20 Healing Talismans in a day, so 1,200 Healing Talismans could be completed.
After sending away the Predator leader, who did not look happy, William did not care whether the other party was pained by the price or not. Since they agreed, it meant that it was still within their acceptable range.
Instead, he thought that according to the transmission speed of the communicator, it would take two hours for a message to be transmitted. It seemed that it would not be easy to find the new home planet of the Predators for thousands of years.
As for whether to fight those bugs and snatch the energy crystal mines, he would have to think about it carefully.
Moreover, in a month, other than the agreement of 600 Jade Talismans in exchange for 600 energy crystals, there were 1,000 energy crystals in total.
As for the other 1,000 jade talismans, there would be 10,000 energy crystals. That would be 30,000 crystals a month. This made him even less anxious.
Even if they wanted to fight, they had to find out the strength of the bugs first. Plus, they also needed time to build spaceships and combat robots.
Therefore, William said to Sunday, "After the third spaceship is built, according to the Predator's interstellar navigation chart, let the spaceship take a detector and explore the bugs a thousand light-years away."
"Understood, Sir."
"By the way, after this spaceship is done, don't let it come back, in case it gets stuck to some hidden bugs and follows back to planet X17."
After giving the order, William opened the door and went back to the underground of the castle in Oxford.
However, he did not know that in the few hours he was on planet X17, not only were the American higher-ups confused, but even the Decepticons were in a complete mess.
After searching for Megatron and the AllSpark for hundreds of years, they finally received news that someone had beat them to it and they had disappeared. How could the Decepticons not panic?
On the American side, District 7, who had previously imprisoned and studied Megatron, only reported to the president alone.
Now, something had happened. Not only were most of the people in District 7 killed, but the alien robot that had been studied for nearly a hundred years had disappeared along with the energy body, the AllSpark, which they did not know the name of.
This was no longer something that Benjamin Arthur, the president who had been plagued with disasters since he took office, could handle alone.
For a time, the Secretary of State, the Minister of Defense, and four or five generals with stars on their heads appeared in the White Palace to discuss the investigation and how to deal with the aftermath.
After watching the surveillance video in District 7, Benjamin Arthur was shocked as he pointed at the Predator that appeared and disappeared from time to time.
Then, he looked at the information given to him by the Minister of Defense and said, "You mean, fifteen years ago, in 1987, we already had contact with these aliens?"
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