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Chapter 116 Wormhole Exploration Too Large

"Isn't this a bit too risky?"

With some doubt, the mastermind Grana asked Lu Shang, "Putting yourself in their shoes, if any civilization were to choose to invade the swarm's microcosm or its base, the swarm would undoubtedly prioritize viewing that civilization as a hostile force."

"No, no, no, it's not reckless at all. The swarm of bees has already communicated with the other side."

Although the communication partners are not humans, and the swarm's dialogue takes place within the swarm network, Lu Shang still habitually shook his finger.

Taking a sip of the chilled sugar water from his wine glass, Lu Shang explained to the mainframe Grana.

"You need to understand that the other side possesses time acceleration technology, which means the technological gap between the swarm and them can't be that large. Ignoring such a powerful force in the universe isn't a wise choice. What if they suddenly decide to stab the swarm in the back?"

"Our act of spying is actually another form of communication and expression of ideas. If this unknown civilization still has a brain, it will not continue to ignore the swarm and will inevitably make its own statement in terms of communication and war."

Some Granasers are confused: behavioral communication? What is being communicated? Is voyeurism considered a form of communication?

Grana couldn't see any connection between his actions of entering the time acceleration zone, obtaining information from an unknown civilization, and expressing his thoughts.

Grana then asked, "Expressing thoughts? What thoughts does this behavior of the bee colony express?"

Lu Shang calmly explained the deeper meaning behind the bee swarm's sudden intrusion and spying.

"If no statement is made, the swarm's spying will become increasingly unscrupulous. War is nothing more than how to better utilize information and resources. Once information is leaked to another civilization on a large scale, even if the civilization that leaked the information has advanced technology, it will become extremely passive in the war, or even vulnerable."

Survival is the first necessity of civilization.

For a civilization to survive, it cannot allow itself to be in a dangerous situation.

Therefore, it can be deduced that a technologically advanced civilization will inevitably be cautious about the leakage of its own information, and if other civilizations attempt to spy on it, it will inevitably incur the other party's resentment.

Grana's doubts were actually based on this kind of thinking, but he failed to clarify the cause-and-effect relationship.

Land entropy is a further extension of this; if you are unwilling to communicate with the bees, then the bee swarm will spy on your civilization's information.

Did they instigate a war out of dislike?

It's alright. Not to mention that the swarm definitely has the advantage in terms of information due to the prior spying, even if the swarm is defeated, it can escape the main universe and hide in a smaller universe.

If it were a sufficiently rational civilization, the best course of action would be to establish communication with the bee swarm and issue a serious warning.

Ignoring warnings is the beginning of war.

If it's a war-mongering civilization, that's fine too. If the other side is war-mongering, how can you expect to coexist peacefully with them? Impossible!

……

In a void, a planetary being used psionic energy to open a microscopic wormhole connecting to that unknown time-accelerated region.

These microscopic wormholes are only large enough for a single iron atom to pass through.

Planetary beings used psionic energy to send atomic beings to the other side of a microscopic wormhole.

After analyzing the Star Alliance's original wormhole technology, the swarm can now open wormholes at will using only coordinates.

Planetary life near the galactic-level time acceleration region provides coordinates to the bee swarm through observation, and then, through mathematical calculations and fine-tuning, the coordinates inside the time acceleration region are obtained.

Opening a wormhole and sending atomic organisms through it completes an invasion.

While this is a very discreet approach, the possibility of it being discovered by an unknown civilization cannot be ruled out. After all, the swarm has always been wary of such information spying, spreading atomic life forms everywhere to observe the microscopic world within its control.

Lu Shang believes that these atomic beings will soon be discovered by this unknown civilization, whose technology is no weaker than that of the swarm. There is no reason not to be wary of the aspects that the swarm has been guarding against.

His goal was to force this unknown civilization to give a statement so that he could make the next decision.

After the atomic beings passed through the wormhole, because time was accelerated inside, Lu Shang and the main brains quickly received reports from the atomic beings who had entered the time-accelerated zone.

"We've successfully breached the enemy's stronghold."

"In good condition, no abnormalities."

After Lu Shang and his group received this news, quite some time had already passed on the atomic organisms' side. They had even conducted a simple exploration of the surrounding environment and constructed a star map.

This situation was far beyond what Lu Shang and the main brains had anticipated.

The bee swarm was being extremely cautious, but the other side, despite possessing such advanced technology, was so incompetent, completely unprepared in the microscopic world.

Surely not?

Lu Shang was speechless. If he had known that it would be so easy to break in and obtain information, why did he waste so many brain cells?

You're not on guard, are you?

Then I'll find out everything about you!

Lu Shang, with some resentment and dissatisfaction, demanded that the atomic beings conduct a full investigation of the time-accelerated region to find out what was happening there.

Thanks to the planetary life forms' ability to create wormholes, atomic life forms can achieve faster-than-light exploration even if they can only move at the speed of light.

For example, if a planetary creature opens a wormhole connecting to point A, and another planetary creature nearby opens a wormhole connecting to point B, then the atomic creature can pass through the wormhole from point A to the planetary creature, and then enter another wormhole nearby to reach point B.

That's the general principle, but to prevent any accidents, these planetary creatures that have created wormholes try their best to hide themselves.

With the acceleration of time, coupled with faster-than-light travel and exploration, the Babel bee swarm quickly learned about the entire situation inside the time-accelerated zone.

There is no civilization in this area, not even any large life forms. If you have to say there is life, there are only some microorganisms.

The time acceleration was generated by a man-made ruin at the center of the region. There were many meteorites but no stars. More matter was pulled by a powerful force, forming a super-giant particle energy ring that moved around the central ruin, with a diameter of about 60,000 light-years.

"We haven't seen any low-entropy entities that are massively consuming entropy. There's no civilization here, only very ordinary microorganisms," the atomic beings reported.

"How could this be? This is the ruins of a civilization?"

"That's the only way to understand it, but if that's the case, then who caused all of this?"

The ruins left behind by a civilization whose technology was no less advanced than that of the Tower of Babel bees contain a wealth of information.

This area may have been abandoned, attacked, or for some other reason forced this unknown civilization to leave hastily.

In short, there are many possibilities, and the truth still needs to be explored more deeply by the bee colony.

"Change the exploration mission to prioritize the exploration of quasars."

Upon receiving Lu Shang's order, a group of planetary beings began to select spacetime coordinates near quasars in the cosmic background as connection points for microscopic wormholes.

More atomic life forms are heading to the coordinates of the quasar.

(End of this chapter)