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Chapter 158 Negative Energy Strike Effect Too Small

Microscopic wormholes are very inconspicuous and invisible to the naked eye. They require extremely precise instruments to be observed.

The neutralization reaction of negative quanta to energy is extremely peaceful, because nothingness itself cannot affect the state of matter.

This results in the physical effects of the Babel swarm's negative quantum strikes on a cosmic scale not being as impressive as they sound.

If a human who cannot access the swarm network were to be floating in the orbit of a planetary creature, this person would not notice any changes other than that the enormous eyes on the surface of the planetary creature were no longer looking around aimlessly as before.

However, in reality, countless wormholes appear in the microscopic world, and countless stored negative quanta, guided by psionic energy, travel through these microscopic wormholes to reach the enemy universe.

By acquiring a coordinate point in the enemy universe and setting this coordinate point as the origin of a coordinate system, incorporating spatial dimensions such as length, width, and height, countless coordinate points in the enemy universe can be derived.

With the coordinates in place, all that's left is the process of striking.

However, the situation developed in a way that differed somewhat from what the bee colony had anticipated.

The overall mass of the enemy's cosmic life forms appears to have not been neutralized?

"invalid?"

Lu Shang frowned slightly, then his expression changed abruptly as if he had just thought of something.

"broken!"

At the same time, the army of void entities belonging to the Cosmic Union outside the universe instantly decreased by one-fifth. These reduced void entities were not destroyed by violence, but neutralized by negative quanta.

Upon learning of this outcome from the shared intelligence, Lu Shang's expression darkened even further.

When a negative quantum comes into contact with energy, the neutralization reaction of that energy cannot be prevented, because that is the fundamental force of everything.

But what if we could control these negative quanta before they come into contact with energy?

While this makes sense in theory, it is extremely difficult in practice because it involves the defense range of an entire universe.

For a swarm of bees to achieve such comprehensive defense, it would first require a large number of planetary beings to cover the entire universe with psionic energy and to know in advance that the enemy is going to use negative quantum strikes, so as to prepare in advance. Otherwise, it would be impossible to achieve such a defensive effect.

But the enemy did it!

At this moment, numerous wormholes appeared in the newly formed main universe of the swarm, from which large amounts of plasma resembling flames emerged.

With the arrival of these flame-like plasmas, the nature of spacetime in the nascent main universe of the swarm changed, exhibiting a boiling state.

This boiling state is not easily detected on a macroscopic scale; at most, one might notice that the chemical reactivity of the substance is significantly higher than before.

However, if a high-performance computer is moved into these regions where the spatiotemporal properties are altered, it will be found that the computing units of the high-performance computer become useless. The more microscopic the chip manufacturing process, the greater the impact on the computer. Conversely, the more macroscopic the physical mechanical operation of the machine, the less impact it is.

For calculators such as abacuses, the impact is negligible.

Meanwhile, on the battlefield outside the universe, the enemy's cosmic life forms have extended numerous tentacles, waving them to blast away any void entities that attempt to approach them.

The void entity that was pulled away simply vanished.

This wasn't because the Cosmic Union was too fragile, but because the moment the cosmic life form used its tentacles to knock away the target, it caused an uncontrollable spacetime distortion in the affected area. The cosmic life form took advantage of this uncontrollable spacetime state to open a wormhole and inject a large number of negative quanta into the void entity on the Cosmic Union's side, causing it to disappear directly.

In just one simple exchange, Lu Shang could clearly feel the pressure.

"How about using psionic energy to launch a cosmic-level black hole strike?" the mastermind Grana suggested to Lu Shang.

The black hole strike is the same cosmic-level attack method that the swarm used against the G universe last time.

No matter needs to be invested; all that is needed is to open a microscopic wormhole, allowing the swarm's psionic energy to extend into the enemy's universe. Then, in one swift motion, the swarm's psionic energy can be used to distort the spacetime of the enemy's universe to the extreme, forming countless zero-mass black holes without singularities.

These massless black holes, although they have no mass themselves, are able to devour matter, thus acquiring their own singularity by "getting on board first and buying a ticket later".

In this way, a significant portion of the enemy's universe would collapse into black holes, resulting in physical effects that would be cosmic in scale.

Lu Shang rejected the suggestion: "There's no point in doing that. Since the enemy can control the negative quanta they send out so efficiently, defending against the black hole attack from the swarm isn't that difficult."

As long as negative quanta exist, black holes are unlikely to pose a threat to enemies. After matter collapses into a black hole, the enemy is fully capable of injecting negative quanta to neutralize the singularity of the black hole, rendering it harmless.

Using psionic energy to maintain a zero-mass black hole for an extended period is also unacceptable. Judging from the enemy's demonstrated method of defending against a cosmic-level negative quantum attack, their surveillance of the microscopic world is likely quite rigorous.

Opening microscopic wormholes for a short period of time is not a big problem, but if they are open for a long period of time, enemies may use these microscopic wormholes to pose a serious threat to the planetary creatures of the swarm.

Fortunately, Lu Shang had already come up with a solution. He said to Grana, "The swarm is not without ways to deal with the enemy. To win, the swarm needs more individuals."

"Is quantity useful?" Grana asked strangely.

Lu Shang replied, "Simply having a large number of them is useless. In a battlefield of this scale that spans the universe, even if there were more of those swarms of bees that spew acid and plasma, they would be nothing but a burden and have no combat power. Quantity needs to be combined with appropriate tactics and technology. Specific problems require specific analysis, and only then will they be useful."

"The swarm needs more planetary life... no, let's make them all cosmic life."

Later, Lu Shang changed his tune and told the bee swarm to multiply cosmic life.

This is mainly because Lu Shang considered that planetary creatures would likely need to compete with their enemies in terms of psionic energy, and the psionic energy of a single planetary creature is very limited.

Judging from the negative quanta that the enemy used to control the swarm to attack in a short period of time, Lu Shang has assumed that the enemy possesses a kind of psionic power similar to that of a swarm.

Since it is not energy, it cannot be neutralized by negative quanta.

It also has these high utilization rates; otherwise, it would be impossible to defend against the negative quantum attack of the bee swarm so quickly.

In order to increase the survival probability of planetary life forms and reduce the risk of their destruction, the planetary life forms of the swarm need to collaboratively gather stronger psionic energy.

"Okay," Grana replied.

(End of this chapter)