A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 12 The Mainframe's Mind is Too Empty

Due to the intricate internal workings of the Behemoth's body, coupled with harassment from some hostile bee swarms, the worker bees, unfamiliar with the environment, spent two days searching inside the Behemoth's swarm.

Finally, they found the swarm's mastermind, which was the size of a truck, inside the body of the largest Behemoth.

In appearance, this swarm leader looks like an enlarged version of a silkworm, all white, long and fat, with no visible eyes.

Unlike typical bee colony creatures, its body is relatively soft, with the only hardened part being its mouthparts.

It appears to be usable as a weapon. When the worker bees first discovered this swarm leader, they were caught off guard and pierced through by its sharp mouthparts.

However, in the face of powerful psychic confinement, all fancy tricks are meaningless.

Following Lu Shang's orders, the worker bees carried the enormous silkworm, the size of a truck, to Lu Shang's front.

Upon first glance at Lu Shang, the swarm mastermind recognized him as the swarm mastermind.

Suddenly, a very clear stream of information appeared in Lu Shang's mind.

"You are not the mastermind behind the choices."

Compared to other bee-like creatures, the information from the bee colony's mastermind is very clear, and Lu Shang doesn't need to consciously sense it to understand its general meaning.

"The swarm chose me, so I am the mastermind," Lu Shang replied.

"That's wrong. Choosing the mastermind is the master's job. An inferior individual like you is not qualified to be the mastermind of the hive," the mastermind replied.

Lu Shang raised an eyebrow and asked with amusement, "An inferior individual leading a swarm of bees defeated a swarm led by a superior individual?"

The swarm's mastermind fell silent.

The facts are undeniable: Lu Shang's bee swarm is incredibly powerful, beyond imagination. The bee creatures led by the swarm's mastermind are utterly powerless to resist.

Honestly, the swarm's mastermind couldn't understand why it had lost to this individual in front of it, which had no sharp teeth or claws, was not as strong, had a smaller brain, and whose psionic energy was negligible.

"This shouldn't be happening, there must be something wrong here..."

The swarm's mastermind was incredulous. It was clearly the one whose genes had been optimized by the master, and its physical performance was far superior. It should have been the one with the advantage!

The reality was that this weak and incompetent creature commanded the swarm of bees to defeat it!

"That's right, there's definitely a problem here," Lu Shang said.

"What's the problem?"

"You may have a big brain, but you never use it. If you don't use good things, it's no different from them not existing," Lu Shang said seriously.

High emotional intelligence means that good things are as good as non-existent if you don't use them.

Low emotional intelligence—your mind is blank!

"..."

……

By capturing the swarm mastermind of a Babel bee colony, gene editing has been fundamentally solved.

Using the mastermind's brain as a genetic blueprint, it is cloned and replicated in large quantities.

Although these cloned brains are rigid in their thinking, they can still be genetically edited.

The brain directs the hives on how to connect the genetic fragments of the master brain with the hive. Once completed, both the hive and the brain hatch on the spot. The brain hatches into a hive, while the hive upgrades its own brain during the hatching process.

As for the swarm's mastermind that Lu Shang captured, he planned to discard it directly after its usefulness had been completely exploited.

However, before taking action, he received a message from the swarm's mastermind that dispelled the idea.

The Babel bee colony has a new ruler!

The swarm brain that Lu Shang captured was not actually created by the previous ruler, but by the new ruler!

"Go back to where you came from. You're no longer of any use to me."

Lu Shang stuffed the captured swarm's main brain into the body of a captured Behemoth behemoth, and commanded the vast psionic energy to throw the behemoth directly outside the nest star.

It wasn't that he was afraid of the other party's background, but he didn't want to make enemies of the whole world. He was already hostile to the Star River Alliance, so did he have to fight the Babel Tower Swarm, which was on the same side, as well?

No, no, he's not a combat maniac, and his allies also have psionic energy. Lu Shang doesn't have much of an advantage. According to this swarm overlord, the new overlord seems to have level twelve psionic energy, and its swarm even blocked four attacks from the Star River Alliance...

He didn't want to take action until he had a clear understanding of the situation.

"Aren't you going to return to the hive?" the hive's mastermind asked, puzzled. It assumed that Lu Shang would join the new ruler's hive after learning the news.

After all, that's the master of the bee colony.

"Why should I come back? I'm doing just fine here, and you want me to give up this territory that I snatched from the Star River Alliance with just a message? Why don't you just explode on the spot?" Lu Shang rolled his eyes, even though he knew the other person couldn't see it.

Although it didn't understand the specific meaning of "exploding on the spot," the swarm's mastermind still understood what Lu Shang meant.

As the Behemoth behemoth carrying the swarm's main brain into faster-than-light speed disappeared from the vicinity of the nest star, Lu Shang gradually revealed a thoughtful expression.

The colony lord has absolute control over the colony.

The problem is, Lu Shang doesn't want to have a big boss above him; living a life of dependence is not what he wants.

Am I destined to be an enemy of the whole world?

……

Four months after the Battle of the Bogu Nebula, a binary star system located in the southwestern corner of the Franlo Nebula.

A spaceship the size of a typical Star Alliance battleship is anchored in the Stellar System, its axial cannons pointed at a solid planet.

Inside the spaceship's bridge, two aliens who resemble octopuses are having a conversation.

"Commander Rayford, thanks to your persuasion of the Alliance to allocate funds, we were able to build this prototype weapon."

"No need for further words. I just want to see you do what you said in the report." Commander Rayford waved his tentacles.

Upon hearing this, its fellow creatures around it began to wag their tentacles.

"Okay, you'll see it soon."

As he said this, he turned to the operator and ordered, "Charge!"

"Power at 50%!"

"Power at 74%!"

"Power at 92%!"

"Power 100%"

"emission!"

About a minute later, a huge crater inexplicably appeared on the solid planetary surface that served as the target. This crater did not resemble a pit formed by a heavy impact, but rather looked like a large whirlpool in the ocean, with countless planetary materials constantly falling towards the center of the whirlpool.

At the center of the vortex, extremely intense light was continuously emitted, with an energy level reaching that of gamma rays produced during a supernova explosion.

With an extremely violent burst of light, the optical sensors on the spacecraft were instantly burned out.

"Activate the backup detection equipment immediately!"

After a flurry of frantic operations by the operators, the spacecraft's backup detection equipment was quickly activated.

What came into view was a solid planet that looked as if it had been bitten by some invisible behemoth, its core still emitting a faint crimson glow.

The aliens on the spaceship stared intently at the devastation on the planet.

"Commander Rayford, is this power sufficient?"

"That's enough, more than enough!" Commander Rayford replied blankly, but he quickly recovered and pressed, "Is this the only one?"

The other person replied, "Of course there are others."

(End of this chapter)