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Chapter 124 Suspicion Exists Between Life

The intelligence that the Cosmic Union has about the G Universe cannot possibly be comprehensive.

Even if it was very comprehensive when it was written, it has become incomplete after a long period of evolution.

This is the effect of time. Everything is in a state of perpetual motion. The ocean can become a mulberry field, races can become civilizations, and civilizations can be destroyed. Nothing is ever truly still.

Lu Shang praised, "Well done. To find the life forms of the Guiyi Civilization, it is necessary to obtain some information from the psionic beings in the G universe."

The mastermind, Rabbi, said with great concern, "I'm worried that the beings in the G universe might lie and give the swarm the wrong information."

The mainframes have encountered lies quite often, especially Nanali, who is in charge of handling diplomatic affairs with the Star Alliance. She has even seen aliens tell the truth as a lie.

Currently, the bee colony is working hard to learn how to lie and how to distinguish lies.

According to the vision of civilization provided by Lu Shang, the most terrifying civilization is one that can control information.

Civilizations are made up of living organisms, and living organisms take purposeful actions by receiving information from the outside world. If a civilization can control information and use it skillfully, it can interfere with the behavior of other civilizations by inputting information, thereby achieving the goal of civilizational control.

So, what's the use of other civilizations being powerful when faced with a civilization that can easily dominate them?

It is important to understand that any attack requires information about the adversary before it can be completed. In other words, according to the law of cause and effect, the dominant civilization will inevitably gain the first-mover advantage.

Other civilizations can easily become puppets controlled by the dominant civilization, rendering their power useless.

Hearing the rabbi's concerns, Lu Shang said with ease, "There's no need to worry. Life forms are low-entropy entities, maintaining their own state by absorbing external reverse entropy, with the sole purpose of survival."

"The will to survive is a fundamental thought that every living being possesses. Separate and imprison those psionic beings that can communicate, then interrogate them one by one with the same questions, and tell them that if the swarm discovers that they are lying, it will wipe out the individual lives they care about."

Rabbi hesitated for a moment, then asked, "Would this effectively prevent psionic beings in the G universe from lying?"

Lu Shang smiled and nodded, saying, "Yes, it's very effective. It works on almost any living being, as long as you can find the life forms or objects they care about."

"What's the underlying principle?"

After careful consideration, the rabbi still couldn't figure out the cause-and-effect relationship.

Lu Shang explained: "A chain of suspicion between lives."

"If you don't say it, others might. But if you do say it, things won't get much worse. In order to prevent the weakness of others from killing the life you care about or destroying the things you care about, it becomes necessary to choose not to lie about trivial matters."

"So that's how it is."

The mastermind, Rabi, seemed to be deep in thought, but then it remembered what Lu Shang had just said and couldn't help but wonder if such an interrogation would still be effective against the Tower of Babel bees.

Having thought this through, the rabbi asked the question.

"Would this also be effective for bee colonies?"

Lu Shang didn't intend to hide anything and said frankly, "Of course it's useful. For example, if an unknown civilization captures all the creatures in the swarm, then blocks the swarm network, making it impossible for each individual to communicate, and then this unknown civilization interrogates you, while telling you that they will also interrogate other swarm creatures. If the answers from both sides are inconsistent, confirming that someone is lying, they will immediately destroy the Tower of Babel swarm."

"At a time like this, would you still dare to lie?"

"I wouldn't dare."

Faced with Lu Shang's question, the main brain Rabi fell silent.

As Lu Shang said, under such circumstances, the rabbi would indeed not dare to lie or deceive the enemy.

Because survival and development are the primary needs of the Babel bee colony, rabbis are willing to do anything to maintain the colony's existence, including eliminating the overlord.

For bee colonies, the destruction of the colony is something they absolutely cannot accept; it is something that can drive them collectively into madness.

No person or thing can stand in front of the swarm. If someone or anything tries to block them, the swarm will destroy them with overwhelming force, reducing them to nothingness.

This is the Babel bee swarm; they are such a blind race.

However, blind faith also has its drawbacks, such as making one vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation...

Having resolved his doubts, Rabbi pondered for a moment and then asked Lu Shang, "After obtaining the intelligence, what should we do with the psionic beings who were interrogated?"

Lu Shang replied, "Don't rush to kill them. The swarm doesn't know much about the G universe. Their only source of information is the intelligence gathered by the Cosmic Union after its counterattack."

"After the interrogation, you can ask them if they are willing to be slaves to the bee colony. Those who are willing can live, and those who are not can die."

On the battlefield, taking in prisoners is essential, because prisoners can always bring unexpected new intelligence, as has been proven during the war with the Star Alliance.

The Babel swarm was able to win the war against the Star Alliance, but only thanks to the aliens infected by the swarm spores.

If these aliens hadn't been infected and liked to wander around, it would have been much more difficult for the swarm to infiltrate the Star Alliance and obtain military intelligence.

If there is no need for intelligence on a battlefield, then whether or not prisoners are captured is irrelevant.

However, the G universe is an unfamiliar battlefield, and the swarm has too few intelligence sources, which means that the swarm needs more intelligence sources.

Rabi thought for a moment, then asked Lu Shang, "What if they were all willing to be slave creatures?"

Lu Shang said, "Then they can all live. With such a group of submissive living subjects, the difficulty of researching high-level psionic energy will be much less, won't it?"

"However, I think that the number of native G-universe creatures that would choose to become swarm slave creatures should not be large, and it is even less likely that they are all of them."

After all, that's being a slave. Regardless of whether it's a good term, being a slave to the bee colony means being constantly studied every day.

They were called slaves, but in reality, they were lab rats.

Rabbis hold a different view on this point.

"I don't think there would be very few native G-universe creatures willing to become slaves to the swarm."

"Why?" Lu Shang asked, taken aback.

Rabbi replied, "The bottom line is broken through time and time again, and then gradually lowered further and further. This can be clearly observed in the various races of the Star River Alliance."

"According to your previous plan, Lu Shang, and based on the deduction of the thinking template of intelligent beings, the conclusion is that after the native beings of the G universe chose to submit in the initial interrogation, subsequent submissions will become much easier."

(End of this chapter)