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Chapter 118 This swarm of bees is too greedy

Lu Shang doesn't believe there's no conflict of interest. Differences in ideology and perspectives can easily lead to conflict between civilizations.

The Unity Civilization said, "At this level, what conflicts of interest could there be? Stealing mass from other universes is a very simple matter, while the struggle between civilizations is a time-consuming and laborious thing that is meaningless except for wasting resources."

"Given the development level of your Babel Tower bee colony, the Order Keeper should have led you into the Federation. However, it seems that the Order Keeper also died during my rest period."

Lu Shang was taken aback, then frowned and asked, "The Order Maintainer? Dead?"

Despite being an unfamiliar term, judging from its meaning, it seems to refer to a very powerful civilization or some kind of man-made object.

The Unified Civilization explained: "The Order Keepers are responsible for maintaining the order of the universe and periodically eliminating invaders from other universes. This position is usually held in rotation by the various civilizations within the consortium."

"Life is a phenomenon. If it lives, it will inevitably die one day. This is a predetermined physical cause and effect. The same is true for civilizations built by life. They will live and then suddenly die one day. It's just that the time of death for civilizations is not as fixed as that for life."

Lu Shang frowned in thought. After a brief exchange of opinions with the other mainframes, he tentatively asked the Unity Civilization, "Was that Order Keeper destroyed while fighting invaders from other universes?"

This actually implies two things: first, to determine how the Order Keepers were destroyed; and second, to determine who destroyed the Order Keepers.

A civilization capable of maintaining order in the universe must possess a high level of technology. Logically, the only civilization capable of destroying such a powerful one must be an even more powerful one, and one from another universe.

Therefore, such an alien civilization would be a natural enemy to the Babel beehive.

Since the other party's invasion of the main universe is definitely not as simple as just coming over for tea and a chat, but rather to plunder the universe's mass or even change the physical laws of the main universe.

Either way, it goes against the interests of the Babel bee colony.

However, the response from the Guiyi Civilization caught Lu Shang and the bee swarm creatures completely off guard.

"No, they killed themselves."

Did a civilization kill itself?

The suicide of civilization?

Does this logic make sense?

Neither Lu Shang nor the Babel bee swarm could accept this explanation. After all, survival is the primary need of civilization. In order to meet this need, civilization constantly plunders anti-entropy from the outside world and develops technology. This is a truth that Lu Shang and the bee swarm creatures have always firmly believed in.

Now, a life form is telling them that a civilization killed itself... What a joke! At least consider your target before lying, okay?

"...Return to One Civilization, you seem to be fooling us." Lu Shang subtly expressed his dissatisfaction through the electromagnetic waves.

It's unclear whether the Guiyi Civilization failed to detect the dissatisfaction implied in Lu Shang's electromagnetic wave information, but the electromagnetic wave stated directly: "This is the truth. The destruction of a civilization is never solely caused by external factors, but also by internal factors. Over a long period of time, even the most powerful civilization cannot escape the destruction brought about by internal factors. A civilization's greatest enemy is actually itself, which is why the cosmic sea has never been able to stabilize."

As he spoke, the Guiyi Civilization added with a hint of disappointment, "Actually, I don't have long to live either."

Lu Shang and the bee swarm creatures' dissatisfaction temporarily disappeared, and they returned to their original skeptical attitude.

Lu Shang asked, "Are you going to die too?"

The Unity Civilization readily admitted, "Yes, in the last cosmic war, all members of the Cosmic Union who participated were subjected to information interference from the enemy and lost their curiosity about the unknown."

"Without this driving force for the progress of civilization, it is impossible to reduce the occurrence of death factors. When civilization stops progressing, it is equivalent to entering the countdown to death."

"Do you have any further questions? While I'm still alive, I can answer them for you."

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Contact with the Unity Civilization allowed the Babel Bees to learn more about the mysteries of their main universe.

For example, in order to maintain and protect the main universe, a cosmic alliance was built by many powerful entities in the main universe, thus forming a civilized society among powerful civilizations.

Because every powerful civilization, race, culture, and form in the main universe is incredibly diverse, the framework of this cosmic union is also extremely simple.

As long as your strength is recognized by at least one member of the Cosmic Union, and you have the ability to invade other universes, then you are qualified to join the Cosmic Union, regardless of your beliefs, morals, or conduct.

The Order Keepers operate on a rotating system, with each member serving as a protector of the universe for a period of time. They are responsible for maintaining the universe and clearing out intruders, and have a certain degree of authority to request support from other members.

Finally, there's the internal conflict among members. The Cosmic Union doesn't care whether its members fight amongst themselves, as long as they don't destroy the main universe or cause losses to other members outside the conflict. They can fight however they want, as long as the lost mass of the universe is replenished after the conflict ends.

Like a swarm of bees, scooping up galaxies one after another and turning them into a galactic farm in a microcosm is something that will get you investigated by the Order Keepers.

Unfortunately, the Order Keeper in charge of this cycle, in an attempt to restore civilization's thirst for knowledge, tried to solve the problem by replacing races, but ended up killing himself. The other members, focused on solving the problem of the thirst for knowledge, were all busy with their own tasks and were completely unaware of this.

This allowed Lu Shang and his group to develop peacefully for a long time until they made contact with the Guiyi Civilization.

In addition to these, the Babel Swarm also learned from the Unity Civilization that there was a universe named 'G' by the Cosmic Union that had been attempting to launch a large-scale invasion of the main universe.

It seems that this universe is very attractive to the civilizations of the G universe. At most, they can only plunder mass from other universes, but the civilizations of the G universe always try every means to cross the cosmic barrier and reach this universe.

The physical laws of the G universe are not consistent with those of the main universe, but they have a strange compatibility. Life forms from that universe can enter the main universe of the swarm in an extreme way, becoming very difficult to kill. The psionic energy used by the swarm comes from that G universe.

Therefore, it can be inferred that the Void Gods originated from the G Universe, at least according to the descriptions of the Unity Civilization.

Regardless of whether this G universe is as aggressive as the Unity Civilization claims, its very existence is excellent news for the Babel Tower swarm.

What does a G-universe mean to the Babel swarm?

Those are naturally countless Void Gods that can be used to study biological properties!

That day, the bees at the Tower of Babel were hungry...

(End of this chapter)