A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 107 This bee swarm dares to take risks

After obtaining the experimental results he needed from the testing ground, Lu Shang used the bee colony network to summon all the organisms in the colony to allocate a portion of their attention to the network.

As usual, he had important announcements to make, something the bee colony was already used to.

"I imagine you're all very curious about what I've gathered you all here to discuss..."

Before Lu Shang could finish speaking, a group of planetary creatures denied it, saying, "No, we are not curious."

"..."

This sudden rebuttal left Lu Shang speechless.

Although Lu Shang had long been familiar with the straightforward thinking of bees after living together for so long, he still couldn't shake off some human habits. After all, he was a human, and humans should have human habits and ways of doing things.

Lu Shang coughed lightly and continued, "Whether you're curious or not is not important."

"The important thing is what I'm about to talk about."

Upon hearing Lu Shang's clear and direct approach, the bee swarm focused their attention.

"The swarm needs to launch a raid on other universes," Lu Shang said.

The bees: ? ? ?

The mastermind, Nunnally, tentatively asked, "Is it to attack other universes whose physical rules are not significantly different from those of the main universe?"

Plunder implies war, because civilizations certainly exist in other universes, and these civilizations would obviously regard the matter in their own universe as their own resources. The plunder of resources is inevitably equivalent to war.

However, in universes with different physical rules, the bee swarm cannot forcibly seize resources there.

Because the organisms in the bee colony have no way of entering areas where the physical rules have changed, and how to mine those alien materials that are significantly different from the main universe's matter becomes an extremely difficult problem.

Therefore, Nanali's first thought was that Lu Shang had discovered an alien universe that was not much different from the physical rules of the main universe without her knowledge, and thus prepared to use it as an invasion target.

However, Nanali was wrong. Lu Shang's intention this time was to invade a different universe with different physical rules. Lu Shang was not so keen on invading universes with physical rules similar to or even the same as the main universe.

"No, it's about randomly selecting a universe to launch an attack," Lu Shang said.

The mainframes all understood the meaning behind Lu Shang's words: he wanted to lead the swarm to invade another universe with different physical rules than the main universe.

Mastermind Moston cautioned, "The swarm doesn't have that technology right now."

Lu Shang confidently retorted, "No, the swarm has such technology. It's a new combat method that was discovered recently, and I'm going to try it out and see how it works."

Grana didn't care whether to fight or not; it was more concerned with winning or losing. So it asked, "Lu Shang, how confident are you of winning?"

Lu Shang habitually shrugged and said, "I've never fought one, so I don't know. This time, we also don't have any intelligence to rely on. You could say it's a bit like your previous situation—like opening a blind box."

Because of the differences in physical laws, intelligence warfare becomes extremely difficult, even to the point of being almost impossible.

With different physical rules, atomic biology cannot pass through, bee spore infection cannot be achieved, and even light information transmitted from other universes may be missing or distorted due to the different physical rules.

Therefore, the war proposed by Lu Shang is essentially similar to what the swarm did before; it's like opening a blind box.

This naturally met with opposition from some swarm creatures. When they fought against the Star River Alliance, the swarm was routed and could not even maintain its battle lines. Part of the reason was that they did not pay attention to intelligence warfare and always engaged in open-box warfare.

The swarm only began to change after Lu Shang made his intervention and pointed it out.

The mastermind, Kasha, said, "I oppose doing this. It's too risky, and without military intelligence, victory in war cannot be achieved by relying on good luck when opening blind boxes. This is a war summary that you, Lu Shang, made clear a long time ago."

Lu Shang was also helpless. He knew this all too well, but the problem at the moment was that he had no choice.

"Of course I know there are risks involved in doing this, and it could even get out of control, but this is a step the swarm has to take. The swarm currently lacks combat experience outside the main universe, which is a very bad situation."

"I don't want to wait until the day when the swarm starts accumulating combat experience outside the main universe because of the invasion of other races outside the main universe. That would be too late. The swarm cannot rely on the enemy's mercy and underestimation of the enemy, or on the swarm's own good luck, to gain experience in fighting other universe civilizations. That would be no different from relying on the luck of opening a blind box."

After Lu Shang expressed his views, the bee colony gradually tended to agree with them.

The bees, though not versed in the passage about being prepared for danger in times of peace, understood the underlying principle.

The chief rabbi said, "Agreed. Risk is not a problem; it can be controlled. River system bee farms are very risky, but currently, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks for the bee colony."

After the selection of the swarm was finalized, the plan to invade other universes was settled, and the remaining task was to figure out the specifics of how to do so.

After a final discussion, Lu Shang and his team concluded that, in order to control the risks, the invasion should rely on the microcosm as a springboard for the invasion.

First, create a small universe, then create a wormhole within that small universe that randomly connects to any other universe, and then invade the universe at the other end of the wormhole.

The advantage of doing this is that even if the civilization on the other side of the universe is extremely powerful, the swarm of bees is no match for them and may even be pushed through the wormhole by them.

The swarm ultimately only loses a small universe, not a universe like the main universe with a large amount of matter, so its fundamental structure is less likely to suffer major problems.

Even if the situation evolves into the worst-case scenario, the overall loss to the Babel bee colony will not be very serious.

Near the end of the discussion about invasions of other universes, Kasha casually raised a question to the swarm collectively, a question recently discovered at the galactic farm.

"Currently, the river system aquaculture area is operating well. Apart from the loss of control during the previous No. 3 river system aquaculture farm, there have been no major problems. However, as the psionic level of the psionic creatures in the river system aquaculture farm continues to increase, there is a problem that the bee colony has to solve."

How can the bee swarm prevent powerful psionic creatures from escaping the civilized farming area by creating wormholes?

……

In the vast universe, there are always things that the Talc people do not know, such as what exists on the other side of the starry sky.

From the moment the first Taq looked up at the stars, Taq society has been filled with longing and curiosity about the cosmos above. In the past, religion concealed the heavens with lies, answering all the Taq's questions and freeing them from the need to ponder what existed in those stars.

As technology advances, religious lies are gradually exposed, forcing the Takar people to once again muster the courage to confront the problems that have plagued their race since their ancestors.

(End of this chapter)