A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 157 This swarm of bees is too warlike

Lu Shang searched for a year about the sudden demise of the Guiyi Civilization without any results.

There is no evidence to suggest that this is related to psychic powers, and the entire investigation has come to a complete standstill.

At this moment, Lu Shang's feelings were complicated, because if the investigation found that psychic energy did indeed exist in some form and could lead to the destruction of an entire civilization.

Therefore, Lu Shang had no choice but to make the bee swarm abandon psionic energy and find a substitute.

During this process, the strength of the swarm will inevitably be greatly reduced, because the swarm's current technology tree places psionic energy at its core.

Spacetime distortion requires psionic energy, faster-than-light travel requires psionic energy, the movement of planetary life forms, and swarms of bees plundering mass from nothingness, other universes, and stars all require psionic energy.

But the bee colony has no choice but to do so.

Since survival is the primary need of civilization, and psionic energy carries the risk of destroying civilization, the swarm naturally needs to find another way out.

Otherwise, what's the difference between that and sticking your head to a nuclear bomb that could explode at any time?

The fact that no connection was found between the self-destruction of the Unity Civilization and psionic energy is a good result, as the swarm has no reason to abandon psionic energy and seek alternatives.

Lu Shang, however, dared not relax. What if there was a real problem with the psionic energy, and the bee swarm assumed it was harmless just because they hadn't found anything, resulting in the destruction of the Babel Tower bee swarm?

This is not impossible.

Just as Lu Shang was struggling with this dilemma, he received an alert from the Order Keepers of the Cosmic Union.

A cosmic life form far larger than the nascent universe is approaching the main universe!

Its intention to approach is obvious: it plans to launch an attack on this universe!

At this moment, Lu Shang was no longer in the mood to investigate the self-destruction of the Guiyi Civilization. Instead, he used the swarm network to send warning messages about the impending war to swarm creatures throughout the universe.

Summon all planetary creatures used for combat, as well as those swarms of cosmic creatures, and begin preparations for war!

……

Lu Shang was invited to attend the operational consultation meeting of the Cosmic Union.

As before, they discussed in advance the division of labor among their respective civilizations in the intergalactic war, and then assigned military tasks to each member civilization based on these divisions.

The battlefield can be divided into three main aspects.

One is the defensive battlefield of our own universe, preventing the enemy from using wormholes to directly cross the universe and invade.

One is the battlefield for attacking the enemy's universe, using wormholes to directly attack the enemy's universe.

The last one is the battlefield outside the universe, where void entities can directly attack the enemy's universe itself, or defend against the enemy's void entities to directly attack one's own universe.

At the meeting, because we didn't know much about cosmic life that had evolved naturally outside the universe, in order to avoid putting the swarm at an intelligence disadvantage, Lu Shang directly inquired about relevant information about cosmic life.

The Order Keeper civilization, which hosted the meeting, explained: "Naturally born cosmic life forms are divided into three types: autotrophic, heterotrophic, and semi-autotrophic/semi-heterotrophic. Autotrophic cosmic life forms are not very aggressive, and the civilizations they raise mainly focus on surrounding the universe."

"Heterotrophic and semi-autotrophic/semi-heterotrophic life forms are highly aggressive. Heterotrophic cosmic life forms need to constantly plunder things from the outside world. These things can be spacetime, matter, or even information. If they don't do this, the heterotrophic cosmic life forms themselves will have serious problems. Therefore, they and the civilizations they raise will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, and they are extremely aggressive."

"The semi-autotrophic and semi-heterotrophic type is similar to the heterotrophic type in terms of aggression, but what makes them special is that they can switch between the autotrophic and heterotrophic types. Some cycles are in the autotrophic state and some cycles are in the heterotrophic state. When a semi-autotrophic and semi-heterotrophic cosmic life enters the heterotrophic cycle, it will begin to change from a conservative defense to an aggressive offense."

Lu Shang thought for a moment and asked, "Are autotrophic and heterotrophic cosmic life forms equally powerful?"

The Order Maintainer denied this, saying, "It's different. Heterogeneous cosmic life is far stronger than autotrophic life because they are highly aggressive. Unless it is a newly born heterogeneous cosmic life, a heterogeneous cosmic life must have faced multiple inter-universe wars. The longer it exists, the stronger the civilization it has nurtured and the cosmic life it has become."

After briefly introducing the combat capabilities of heterogeneous cosmic life forms, the Order Keepers added, "This time, we are not facing a newly born cosmic life form."

The implication is that the risks of this war are no less than those of the one in the G universe, and may even be greater.

Having learned about the general classification of life in the universe, Lu Shang didn't ask any more questions. The meeting proceeded smoothly, clarifying the division of labor among the various civilizations, and soon came to an end.

"So, does anyone have any objections regarding the war deployment?" asked the representative of the Order Keeper civilization.

"Our bee colony has objections," Lu Shang said.

"Please speak," said the representative of the Order Keeper civilization.

Lu Shang said seriously, "The swarm hopes to participate in the war outside the universe."

In the division of labor just now, due to the performance of the Babel Tower swarm on the battlefield of the G universe, it was assigned to attack the enemy universe.

But Lu Shang is not satisfied with attacking enemy universes; he hopes that the swarm can set foot on battlefields outside the universe.

Now that the swarm has cosmic creatures, it's time to try fighting on battlefields outside of space.

It's unrealistic to expect other civilizations' empty entities to shelter the swarm from the elements outside the universe.

Relying on mountains will lead to their collapse, relying on people will lead to their departure, relying on oneself is the most practical thing to do.

Unexpectedly, the Babel Swarm would propose this, and the representative of the Order of the Civilization asked with great surprise, "Does your Babel Swarm want to participate in two battlefields?"

Intercosmic wars are not small skirmishes between one or two civilizations; their scale and scope are outrageously large, and the Babel swarm actually has to take on two battlefields!

"If you don't mind, our swarm would like to participate in three battlefields," Lu Shang replied.

After a brief re-evaluation, the representative of the Order Keeper civilization of the Babel Tower swarm replied, "We didn't expect you to be so enthusiastic about intercosmic warfare; we were quite surprised."

"We can grant your request, but we expect that the void entities your swarm uses for extraterrestrial warfare will be subject to unified command and deployment."

Lu Shang shrugged without objection to the request: "Isn't this a matter of course? We, the swarm, are not familiar with the rules of war outside the universe, so naturally we are not qualified to command operations."

……

"Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!"

"Attack the target universe, and remove all obstacles to our great immortality!"

"Everything is for the continuation of our civilization!"

Clusters of purple flames appeared in outer space, much like will-o'-the-wisps drifting in a graveyard, except these flames were larger and, instead of drifting in a graveyard, were in the vacuum of space.

Countless wormholes were opened, and these purple flames rushed towards the unfolded wormholes, heading towards their target.

Meanwhile, the Babel Tower beehive also received inquiries from the Order Keepers civilization.

"Babel Tower bee swarm, are you ready?"

According to the offensive strategy, the Babel swarm will repeat the same negative quantum attack that occurred in Universe G against the enemy universe.

This would deliver a direct and unexpected blow to the enemy, rendering the cosmic life forms that pose the greatest challenge to the Cosmic Union, a void entity, incapable of fighting.

The swarm replied, "We've been preparing all along, just waiting for you to provide us with the precise strike coordinates."

The two sides have built a communication system under a time acceleration state. In normal spacetime, each Planck time is equivalent to one minute for the Order Keeper civilization and the Tower of Babel bees under this acceleration state. Even if ten minutes have passed, it is only ten Planck times.

The Order Keepers civilization replied: "The enemy is very experienced; they are constantly changing their own cosmic coordinates in an attempt to disrupt our coordinate positioning."

"These are the enemy's cosmic coordinates at this moment. You must complete the strike as soon as possible. The enemy is expected to change their cosmic coordinates in four moments."

After speaking, the Order Keepers transmitted the cosmic coordinates they had detected to the swarm via quantum entanglement.

"They won't have four moments, not even a single moment; wormhole-like attacks are real-time," the Babel swarm replied.

Subsequently, the swarm began its attack based on the cosmic coordinates provided by the Order Keeper civilization, and countless microscopic wormholes connecting the enemy universes began to be constructed.

"Negative quantum strike preparation! Plunder the mass of the enemy's universe!"

(End of this chapter)