A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 1: An Incredibly Unlucky Start

The endless, murky swamp stretched to the horizon, outlining a slight curve in the distance.

Countless indescribable creatures wriggle in this vast swamp. Every now and then, some worm-like creatures would emerge from the dark swamp mud, hissing and opening their terrifying, blood-red maws, large enough to swallow an adult whole.

Or some strip-shaped creatures covered in egg follicles would emerge from the swamp, shake off the dark green egg follicles, and then dive back into the swamp. The sticky, dark green egg follicles would extend their segments and crawl in groups in a certain direction.

However, these scenes that resembled a demon's lair were not what attracted Lu Shang's attention the most; his attention was drawn to the man-made objects in the sky.

Above the sky was a circular hole that occupied one-tenth of the firmament. Inside this hole, there was a faint light, but this light did not feel like a weak, flickering candlelight. Instead, it felt like the heartbeat of a giant, steady and powerful, and as heart-pounding as the pulse of the earth.

That was the muzzle of a giant cannon, its size reaching the level of a celestial body!

Lu Shang didn't know what he was so sure of that it was a giant cannon, but he was certain that it was a giant cannon.

In the flickering light, the light from the cannon's muzzle grew increasingly intense and dazzling. In contrast, more and more creatures with membranous wings and crab claws emerged from the swamp around Lu Shang.

They swelled and wriggled into chunks of flesh as tall as skyscrapers, then exploded, transforming into large creatures covered in keratinous shells, breathing out scorching plasma beams and dark green acid, relentlessly unleashing their firepower upon the sky. The hissing sounds of their breath echoed in Lu Shang's ears.

As the brightness at the center of the cannon in the sky reached a certain threshold, a terrifying force, too powerful to be accurately described in words, suddenly shattered everything around Lu Shang, submerging it in that dazzling sea of ​​light!

Lu Shang broke free from gravity, and his vision gradually expanded. He detached from the swampy planet where he had been standing, and what came into view were countless wrecks, corpses, and fragments in space. This huge space graveyard even formed a nebula that enveloped the star, making the blazing sun appear much dimmer.

In addition, Lu Shang also saw an interstellar fleet so large that he couldn't count it all, and the quality of its performance had even affected the trajectories of major celestial bodies within the star system.

At the very center of the fleet stood the unparalleled celestial-class cannon, its high-energy strikes creating an extremely dazzling blue-white beam of light amidst the scattering planetary dust!

The core of Crimson Lotus was completely exposed, and magma sprayed through space like blood. The solid planet, which was originally covered by swamps, shattered, disintegrated, and headed for utter destruction under the baptism of this beam of light, which could be described as divine punishment.

……

"Holy crap!"

Lu Shang sat up with a startled cry.

Subconsciously looking around, Lu Shang found himself lying in a not-so-large cave.

The cave was dark, and Lu Shang could only make out his surroundings by the faint green glow of some fungi on the rock walls.

"Where...where am I...hiss!"

A piercing pain shot through his brain, and fragments of memories flooded into Lu Shang's still somewhat dazed mind. He clutched his head in agony, his eyes shifting from initial confusion to horror.

There exists a civilization in the universe called the Babel Bee Swarm, which is extremely brutal and bloodthirsty. Relying on swarm mentality and numbers, they spread across the entire planet in a very short time, wiping out all species on the surface and transforming their home planet into their first nesting planet.

However, because their gene-editing technology is always limited to the chemical level, the bottleneck of chemical propulsion prevents the bee colony from reaching even the nearest neighboring star, even if it takes hundreds of millions of years. Therefore, the Babel Tower bee colony has always been trapped in the mother star system.

Four hundred and thirty thousand years later, a Void God found them and took a liking to the centralized nature of the swarm.

The Void God granted them a power called "psychic energy," a power that can arbitrarily influence spacetime. Individual swarms can use psychic energy to create spacetime warp bubbles, allowing them to move faster than the speed of light and achieve light-year-scale displacement. However, in return, the swarm must be absolutely loyal to the Void God.

The swarm overlord readily accepted these conditions, thus igniting a galactic war that would affect countless civilizations.

Under the orders of the Void God, the brutal and bloodthirsty swarm of bees, together with several other races under the Void God's command, launched a genocide that swept across the entire galaxy, leading to the destruction of hundreds of millions of civilizations.

However, this period of prosperity was short-lived. The civilizations that struggled to develop amidst the rampage of the Babel swarm united to form the Star Alliance. The fusion of their cultures led to a series of technological explosions. At the same time, they reverse-engineered psionic energy from the corpses of the swarm and developed a technology capable of sealing the Void God.

In the final battle, the Void God was sealed in the Frozen Cycle, and the Swarm and several other races under the Void God's command were also completely destroyed by the supernova explosion triggered by the Star Alliance. The defeat of extinction was irreversible.

In this critical moment, the Swarm Overlord decided to use all its spiritual energy to traverse time and space and release the Void God trapped in the frozen cycle of reincarnation.

Unfortunately, something went wrong at the end, and the Void God in the Frozen Reincarnation failed to be released. Instead, it dragged Lu Shang, a human from Earth, to this side...

"...I want to swear right now."

The key question is whether the Babel swarm's mastermind saw him as pitifully weak and incapable of contributing anything to the swarm, and with the Star Alliance's main fleet about to arrive, simply abandoned him on this nest planet to fend for himself?

The Star Alliance's main fleet is no pushover. Before bombing a planet, they will land on it to check if there are any people on it. When they see an enemy planet, especially a nest planet with a surface covered in swamps, they will launch a planet-shattering attack without hesitation!

That is, the kind of dream Lu Shang had when he received the memories of the bee swarm, which even blew out the Earth's core!

"What the hell! These inhuman bastards dragged me from Earth for no reason and then just abandoned me like this?!"

"Pah! What am I saying! These bastards aren't even human, where do they get any humanity?"

"That's not right! Now's not the time to complain! The Star Alliance fleet is almost here, and Earthburst Star is no joke! What if they get away?"

Lost in confusion, Lu Shang cursed and berated himself, pacing anxiously in place. If this continued, his life would be in danger!

Lu Shang racked his brains but couldn't figure out how he, a mere mortal, could survive the firepower of an interstellar fleet.

"Or maybe I should just find myself a grave in advance... But that's not right! Earth Explosion Star can even shatter the Earth's core, so what kind of grave can remain unscathed?" Lu Shang muttered to himself in frustration.

Suddenly, a voice interrupted his thoughts. Lu Shang turned his head and saw a floating creature with a keratinous exoskeleton covering its body, thin webbed feet on both sides, and pincers larger than Lu Shang's head, which made his scalp tingle.

Worker bees in a bee colony!

(End of this chapter)