A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 152 This swarm of bees is too suspicious

"It unfolds in a one-dimensional form."

This was accompanied by an instruction issued by the swarm's mastermind.

Within the microcosm, numerous wormholes appeared, through which batches of macromolecular matter passed.

When these macromolecules enter this spacetime, the matter immediately begins to decay and release electromagnetic waves of various wavelengths.

The final product of decay is long, thin threads that extend at a speed close to the speed of light.

If the speed of matter were not limited to the speed of light, the thread might extend even faster.

After extending for about one light-second, the threads broke apart, becoming countless tiny segments of varying lengths, drifting in the void of space.

The length of the longest line segment is approximately equal to the width of a human fingernail.

"Begin the renovation and adjustment."

Through the wormhole, streams of powerful psychic energy permeated this universe, distorting spacetime and influencing the changes in each and every thread.

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At the other end of the microcosm wormhole lies the new main universe of the Babel Tower swarm.

The swarm's masterminds are busy directing the planetary creatures to physically interfere with the one-dimensional filaments in the microcosm, altering their structure.

In one-dimensional space, these filaments are the most basic material structures.

"By making particles one-dimensional, modifying them, and then returning them to a three-dimensional state... we can obtain biological individuals smaller than quarks."

"When the basic particles in the breeding area are all bee colony organisms, the bee colony will be able to completely monitor everything in the breeding area," said one of the main brains.

The other main brain said, "It's still a long way from forming a living organism. Right now, we're only in the stage of creating simple machines. We're still quite far from transforming it into a life form that feeds on negative entropy."

The other mainframes said, "We still need to resolve this as soon as possible. The bee colony needs a breeding area and needs to make further progress in psionic energy."

"That's true."

After about two months, with a huge investment of resources, the Babel bee colony has overcome more microscopic biotechnology challenges.

Using ground-state filaments in the quantum vacuum, microscopic organisms with masses equivalent to neutrinos were constructed.

Atomic organisms and these microscopic organisms are like a solar system compared to a human being.

This can be considered a huge advancement in swarm physics technology, but Lu Shang has not paid much attention to it.

Another matter caused a long debate among the hive's management.

That is, how to deal with the satellite civilizations of the Star River Alliance in the future.

Mastermind Moston stated, "I oppose any form of interference or technological development by those civilizations in the Vorsotis system."

Nanali replied, "There's no need for that. The swarm keeps them around in the hope that they will continue to improve. Haven't you noticed that the swarm's progress in physics and technology has slowed down considerably?"

Originally, the purpose of the bee colony keeping these satellite civilizations of the Star Alliance was to make up for the Babel Tower bee colony's shortcomings in physics research.

If we obstruct this, wouldn't that be putting the cart before the horse?

What's the point of keeping these satellite civilizations around?

The mastermind, Kasha, agreed: "That's right. Civilizations like the Unity Civilization are extremely well-hidden. It's almost impossible for the swarm to extract clues about their accelerated development from their information."

The mastermind, Rabbi, asked curiously, "If that's the case, why doesn't the swarm try using time to accelerate their development?"

According to the rabbi, time-accelerated catalysis can obviously achieve the bee colony's goals more efficiently.

Nanali explained, "This is not a good idea. Time acceleration means that the swarm will be unable to directly interfere with the Star Alliance's satellite civilizations for a very long time."

"The Star Alliance civilization conducted related experiments. They selected a planetary civilization that was still in a state of ignorance and acted as gods to physically influence it for nearly a century."

"Over the past century, the intelligent beings of this civilization have held a deep belief in the existence of God."

"Then, the civilizations that played the role of gods all withdrew. In just a thousand years, the intelligent beings of this civilization began to doubt the existence of gods. After more than five thousand years, they completely stopped believing that gods existed in the world."

"If the swarm cannot interact and communicate with the satellite civilizations at the information level as the sovereign civilization, the end result will be that these satellite civilizations will lose their awe of the swarm, then develop rebellious thoughts, and then an unavoidable war will follow."

"Of course, bee colonies are not afraid of any war, but it is not worth it. The development of physical technology is about understanding the world and then utilizing it. The system in beekeeping areas is meaningless for the development of physical technology, because confinement directly limits their cognition. Physical technology is destined to be unable to develop, and therefore it is of little use to bee colonies."

"All things considered, not directly interfering with the development of satellite civilization is in the best interest of the swarm."

On this matter, the mastermind Grana and Moston share the same view because of the recent events in the Radia Federation. A civilization that is significantly less developed than the Hive has developed technologies that the Hive does not have, which makes it feel threatened.

Even though it's only a tiny threat, a threat is still a threat.

"Can maintaining constant interference at the information level guarantee that these satellite civilizations won't rebel?" Grana asked.

Nanali replied, "Of course, that can't be guaranteed, but it can minimize the probability of rebellion, and that's enough."

"After countless years, we may part ways with them, or one side may outlive the other."

The swarm's masterminds argued endlessly, eventually throwing the question to Lu Shang.

"Lu Shang, what do you think?" Moston asked.

From the very beginning of the discussion, Lu Shang remained completely silent, and the other main brains wanted to know what Lu Shang was thinking.

However, Lu Shang didn't have any thoughts on this matter.

What can he think?

Of course he was lying down to watch!

The future is full of infinite possibilities; who can say for sure?

These satellite civilizations of the Star River Alliance may rebel, or they may not, and for some reason, they may even die before the Tower of Babel swarm.

In fact, if the entire swarm hadn't been subconsciously worried about this, Lu Shang wouldn't have wanted to get involved in the discussion at all.

Just then, Lu Shang frowned slightly; he had received a message from the swarm's mastermind.

This message is a warning message. Every time this type of message appears in the swarm network, it means something serious has happened.

"What's wrong?" Lu Shang asked the swarm's mastermind, who was delivering the information.

The main AI immediately replied, "The Unity Civilization is dead."

"Who did you say died?"

Lu Shang immediately suspected that there was an error in the information he received, or that the other party had made a mistake in conveying the information.

The mainframe repeated, "Unified Civilization."

Lu Shang quickly asked, "When did this happen?"

The mastermind replied, "Ten million years ago."

"I just had diplomatic communication with the Guiyi Civilization yesterday, and you're telling me it was ten million years ago?" Lu Shang retorted.

"Based on the atomic decay analysis at the scene, that's correct."

The mastermind's words silenced Lu Shang.

Things are getting complicated...

(End of this chapter)