A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 112 Space Warfare is Too Blind

Before long, the mass that the swarm had plundered from the alien universe was gathered in batches by a group of planetary creatures using psionic energy to build solid planets. Then they began to transform these celestial bodies into planetary creatures of the swarm.

Seeing that no alien civilization had intervened in the experiment, the swarm's mainframes couldn't help but wonder if there was any possibility that an alien civilization would intervene until all the mass in the alien universe had been plundered.

This is not impossible. Not all universes can definitely give birth to life, and then life can give birth to civilization. Just like the celestial bodies in the main universe, whether or not they can give birth to life and civilization is a matter of probability.

However, once the issue is brought up to probability, things become mysterious.

For example, if a coin is tossed 100 million times and the number of heads and tails is roughly equal, can we guarantee that the next coin tossed randomly will be heads?

There's definitely no way to guarantee it; we can only say there's a one-in-five chance it will face up.

Therefore, the swarm's masterminds focused their thinking on the experiment of plundering other universes itself.

The mastermind rabbi said, "I'm a little curious now, what would happen if all the mass in a universe were plundered?"

Kasha guessed, "I estimate it will disappear. Without mass, there is no energy. Mass and energy are the same thing. Without energy, spacetime loses its meaning."

"If spacetime loses its meaning, what form would it take? Would it cease to exist? Or something else?" A certain beehive joined in.

More and more bee swarms joined the discussion, but Lu Shang did not, because he needed to focus on guarding against possible battles during the experiment.

In the alien universe, as the swarm's plundering mass increased, the various stars surrounding the Turk mother star system were quickly and significantly affected.

If someone were looking at the night sky from a nearby planet at this time, they would see that the glowing stars in the sky have undergone a significant change in position, and they are all converging towards a single point.

Once you reach this point, you can't see anything anymore, as if you've disappeared.

This shrinking scale corresponds to the expansion of spacetime in the universe and is also faster than light speed, because matter itself is not moving; it is spacetime that is moving. These star systems are merely being "pulled" along by the ever-shrinking spacetime.

This terrifying change undoubtedly alarmed the interstellar civilizations in this galaxy, but they didn't have a good solution. These were neutrons from another universe, and it was difficult for these civilizations to make physical contact with them. Just as Lu Shang's side saw all matter in this universe as dark matter, all the civilizations in this universe also felt that they were looking at the matter in Lu Shang's universe as dark matter.

Most interstellar civilizations in this galaxy have chosen to flee their home star systems.

Survival is the primary need of civilization. No matter how much one cherishes the home star system, it cannot come at the expense of civilization's survival.

Some of the remaining interstellar civilizations considered using the creation of time-deceleration zones to seal off this region that they did not yet understand.

But the actual results were far from ideal, or rather, they had no effect at all.

Because the swarm's concept of time exists within a microcosm, and the microscopic wormholes controlled by planetary beings have no mass, they can freely exceed the speed of light and move through the universe at any speed. Even if these civilizations reduce the rate of time flow to 100 million times, it will not affect the swarm's plunder of matter.

As for those neutrons that plunder the mass of other universes?

They are enveloped in a spacetime slowdown environment to slow down the particle decay process. The movement of particles is caused by planetary life forms dragging that spacetime, rather than the particles themselves moving.

No matter how much time slows down civilizations from other universes try, it will be meaningless.

However, life always finds a way, and with the help of scientific knowledge, the civilization in the other universe discovered a way to prevent the plundering of matter.

That means throwing all the alien neutrons, which to them are no different from dark matter, into the black hole.

They thought this way and acted accordingly. As a result, the observations presented to the Babel Tower swarm showed that a large number of black holes suddenly appeared in the alien universe. These black holes continuously devoured the swarm's neutrons, which were used to plunder the mass of the alien universe.

Something's up!

The planetary creature that first discovers the anomaly sends an alert broadcast throughout the Babel beehive network.

The big fish that had been waiting finally took the bait, and Lu Shang, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately began to issue orders.

"Attention all units of the hive, prepare for battle!"

Lu Shang was unaware of the situation in the other universe. Apart from the faint gravitational waves, the Babel Tower swarm could not obtain any usable information. Therefore, it was like fighting someone blindfolded, and Lu Shang was puzzled.

But Lu Shang also knew that the Babel Tower swarm had to overcome this hurdle. There were universes beyond universes, and if the swarm didn't prepare as soon as possible, it might perish one day.

For the survival of himself and the Babel bee colony, the current risks are worth Lu Shang's taking.

Regarding the black holes created by these alien civilizations, Lu Shang came up with a solution: to use psionic energy to randomly throw these black holes around.

The terrifying nature of black holes is obvious to all. Lu Shang doesn't believe that civilizations from other universes can withstand the tearing force of black holes. Since they don't know where the enemy is, they might as well guide these black holes to fly around randomly.

Then, Lu Shang dispatched more planetary creatures to join the plunder of the alien universe's mass.

This time, Lu Shang was more astute. He instructed the planetary lifeforms to move all the plundered mass back into their microcosms to multiply the planetary lifeforms. With more planetary lifeforms, they could control more quark pairs and dismantle and plunder more mass at once.

As for other actions, Lu Shang did not order the swarm of bees to take any action. The situation was already clear, and all that was left to do was to see what the opponent would do.

Now we can only react to each move as it comes. Lu Shang has never fought a cross-universe war before. Psychological warfare, intelligence warfare, blitzkrieg, and so on—none of his past strategic ideas are applicable. We are now feeling our way across the river.

Those civilizations from other universes are the "stones" that helped the Babel bees cross the river!

In the galaxies of an alien universe, many civilizations are astonished to discover that their home star system is shrinking, and at a rate that is quite close to the speed of light!

Later, they discovered that the rate of shrinkage seemed to be constantly increasing, and it seemed to be surpassing the speed of light!

The interstellar civilization in this galaxy of the alien universe was in complete panic.

The remaining interstellar civilizations in this galaxy began a large-scale exodus away from their home star system.

(End of this chapter)