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Chapter 117 This swarm of bees is too alarming

The universe itself is transparent. As long as your eyes can see, you can look as far as you want. It always presents itself to everyone in its most authentic form.

But the more transparent something is, the more mysterious it becomes. Whenever you think you understand all or most of the mysteries of the universe, and then you study and think about them carefully, you will find that what you call understanding "all" or "most" is just a tiny part of the entire universe.

With the discovery that quasars are actually time-accelerated regions in the universe set up by an unknown civilization, the entire Babel swarm changed its original exploration strategy, prioritizing the creation of wormholes across billions and tens of billions of light-years to explore all quasars in the universe.

Wormhole exploration is not complicated. First, observe the coordinates of a quasar in the cosmic background, and then open a wormhole connecting to those coordinates.

Admittedly, due to the physical limitations of light-speed information transmission, this information is already billions or tens of billions of years out of date, and the quasar may have moved to a different location. But that doesn't matter, because the swarm can pass through the wormhole and continue to observe the quasar's coordinates at a shorter distance. After obtaining more accurate location information, it can continue to open wormholes connecting to the past.

After repeating this process several times, the Babel bee swarm completed its journey to the vicinity of other quasars.

All that's left to do is communicate. The specific operations are similar to when the swarm made contact with other civilizations before. They create an identity for themselves from another civilization, or if they're too lazy to create one, they randomly pick an identity from a civilization in the Vorsotis system.

"Feed?"

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"We are the XX race/XX civilization. We have developed for a long time before stepping into the universe. We yearn for love, beauty and dreams, and we hope to connect with your civilization to build a great family of civilizations together."

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After several unsuccessful attempts to communicate, the Babel Tower swarm launched a surprise exploration of these time-accelerated areas. They discovered that these areas, similar to the previously explored areas, contained traces of a past civilization, but no evidence of its existence.

From the architectural remains in these time-accelerated areas, it can be roughly determined that they were not left behind by a single civilization. In other words, they were multiple technologically advanced civilizations that were collectively wiped out, or that collectively chose to leave due to certain factors.

Just when Lu Shang thought that the civilization that created these time-accelerated regions was no longer around, a quasar gave the Babel Tower swarm a message.

"Don't lie, it only complicates communication, like the Babel swarm."

It was just a brief electromagnetic wave signal, but it was enough to make the bee colony feel uneasy.

The fact that the other party saw through the swarm's lie was not a serious matter, because the Babel swarm did not expect their fabricated lies to deceive all the civilizations they had come into contact with.

But when the other party revealed the true identity of the Babel Tower bee swarm, the situation changed.

This is a warning, a warning and demonstration from the information level. It should be understood that once war breaks out between the two sides, the side that has more intelligence will undoubtedly have a huge advantage.

If the Star River Alliance had possessed any technology back then, they would have undoubtedly had all the information about the Babel Bee Swarm. Even if they had developed microcosm-type planetary creatures, they would have had no chance of defeating the Star River Alliance.

"Don't be nervous. There is no conflict of interest between us. On the contrary, your existence is also beneficial to me. I am glad that you have reached the heights you have achieved."

Such electromagnetic wave information is transmitted from quasars.

However, neither Lu Shang nor the bee swarm creatures relaxed their vigilance in the slightest. Under Lu Shang's command, many planetary creatures selectively closed some of their wormholes, allowing them to briefly and quickly change their connection points with the main universe's spacetime and complete their displacement.

It's unclear whether this unknown civilization has a shallow understanding of the microscopic world, but the quasar didn't react to the Babel swarm's defensive maneuvers.

Of course, it could also be that they adopt an indifferent attitude. If the technological gap is large enough, no matter how much the ants try to defend themselves, they can still be crushed in an instant.

In order to obtain more intelligence, Lu Shang connected with a planetary organism near the quasar and then sent electromagnetic wave information to the quasar through it.

"The best way to eliminate unease is through information parity. Tell us who you are. What do you mean by saying that the swarm is beneficial to you?" Lu Shang asked.

Now that the other party already knows about the Babel Tower bee swarm, Lu Shang no longer needs to be too secretive.

Because there's no point in hiding it; people already know it's the Tower of Babel bee colony, and they might even know a lot more.

"Given your suspicious mindset, would you believe me if I told you?" the unknown civilization retorted.

Lu Shangdao said, "The bee colony will judge the validity of the information itself."

The quasar released electromagnetic waves and explained, "A specific name is no longer meaningful. My title has been changing over the long years. You can call me 'Unity,' a member of the Cosmic Union."

"In the endless ocean of the universe, the more powerful civilizations exist in universes with the same physical laws, the more stable that universe will be. This is because the civilizations born in that universe will inevitably maintain and protect the universe itself. Even if they don't protect it, they will still create a new universe with the same physical laws."

"The reason I can understand you is because during your development, countless particles in the universe will come into contact with you and disperse outward into the universe after colliding with you. I only need to read the information carried by these particles to learn about your Tower of Babel swarm. The information wall you have built is not of much significance to a technologically advanced civilization."

Lu Shang ignored the previous explanations. Anyone can make up stories and exaggerate. The bee swarm had lied a lot when it came into contact with other civilizations before. It wasn't until the other party finally explained how to break through the information Great Wall built by the Babel Tower bee swarm and obtain information from the Babel Tower bee swarm that Lu Shang began to believe it with some skepticism.

If wormhole observation is combined with the acquisition of information about stray particles, it is indeed possible to bypass the information Great Wall built by the Babel swarm, because no matter what, the swarm will inevitably come into contact with many particles as it operates normally in the main universe.

For example, using photons, if a faster-than-light civilization wants to understand all the information about another civilization that has been developing for billions of years, it only needs to travel faster than light to a location billions of light-years away from that civilization, and approach it one light-year at a time. By collecting the photons that civilization has dissipated over billions of years, it can understand the entire development process of that civilization over those billions of years.

There should be similar ones, but Lu Shang hasn't thought of any yet.

After considering for a moment, Lu Shang cautiously asked, "Why is there no conflict of interest between civilizations operating under the same physical rules?"

(End of this chapter)