A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 173 Cosmic Beings Prefer Efficiency

Originally, according to the Princeton civilization's war plan, after opening the wormhole, fleets would pass through the wormhole to complete the beach landing of the enemy civilization's small universe. Then, relying on the vast mass of the larger universe, they would directly invade the small universe dominated by the Tower of Babel swarm.

Then, through this microcosm of the Babel beehive, we can learn what kind of civilization the Babel beehive we are fighting against, as well as other usable military information.

In order to achieve the strategic goal of landing on the enemy's Babel Tower swarm of small universes, the Princeton civilization planned to further expand its production capacity. Since the enemy's annihilation would be delayed due to the size of the fleet, they could simply manufacture more fleets that the enemy could not completely destroy, and then seize the small universes.

However, the decision-makers of the Princeton civilization were unaware that these were merely the result of the swarm of cosmic beings deliberately slowing down the annihilation process, with the aim of luring the Princeton civilization into their spacetime bodies and actively transferring more matter into them.

Regardless of the type of attack or the number of fleets deployed, it essentially amounts to nothing more than gifting a large amount of matter into the bodies of cosmic beings.

To effectively strike cosmic life forms, one should use negative quantum strikes, since those are not energy and can destroy energy. If introduced into a cosmic life form, they will lose mass.

In the decision-making process of the Princeton civilization, one decision-maker proposed: "Simply expanding production capacity is not enough; our Princeton civilization needs more allies to jointly stop the evil ambitions of the Tower of Babel swarm."

Other decision-makers were surprised because many civilizations in the universe chose to surrender unconditionally to the Tower of Babel swarm, and quite a few of the less technologically advanced civilizations near the Princeton civilization surrendered.

Of course, these civilizations merely expressed their willingness to submit to the Tower of Babel swarm. Without the Tower of Babel swarm's active request, no civilization would proactively attack those civilizations that wanted to confront the Tower of Babel swarm.

Because these surrendering civilizations surrendered because they didn't want to fight the Babel swarm or get involved in interstellar war, they naturally wouldn't actively cause trouble.

Any civilization that dares to challenge the Tower of Babel swarm must be a powerful one in that star system.

"Does such a civilization exist in the universe?" one decision-maker asked uncertainly.

The proposer replied, "Yes, and many. I just received their message not long ago. Many civilizations have now chosen to unite and form a united front against the Tower of Babel swarm."

The proposer said earnestly, "The Babel bee swarm aims to conquer the entire universe. Their technology is advanced, but they are also arrogant and blindly make enemies, declaring war on all civilizations in the universe."

"Therefore, it is not only we, the Princetons, who are attacking the Tower of Babel bees. The fact that the Tower of Babel bees are not attacking us, the Princetons, can only mean that their main force is tied down by some force and they do not have enough strength to deal with our attack."

At this point, the person who made the suggestion was already quite excited.

When the decision was made to confront the Babel Swarm, a malicious civilization that sought to seize the entire universe, the entire Princeton civilization was filled with a heavy atmosphere of pessimism from top to bottom.

But now they've discovered that things aren't as bad as they'd like to be.

It turns out that there are so many like-minded interstellar civilizations in the universe opposing the brutal rule of the Tower of Babel swarm, while the Tower of Babel swarm that issued the announcement to the entire universe seems to be too busy to do anything effective.

Based on the black hole attack methods used by the early Babel swarm, the decision-makers of the Princeton civilization have reason to believe that the powerful Babel swarm was restrained by an unknown force, namely the combined force of many rebellious civilizations in this universe.

Now is the perfect time for their Princeton civilization to give a push in this conflict!

The proposer stated, "If we can find these civilizations that jointly attacked the Tower of Babel swarm, we can organize a united front against the swarm, engage in deeper military cooperation, maximize technological advancement, and further expand our military achievements..."

At that moment, an alarm message quickly spread throughout the virtual network of the Princeton civilization.

[Warning! The VPN structure has suffered multiple breaches and is collapsing!]

[Warning! The VPN structure has suffered multiple breaches and is collapsing!]

[Warning! Multiple parts of the VPN structure have been damaged, $#&$^#^#……]

The void was boiling, and the potential barrier of quantum superposition was raised, which led to a large number of calculation bugs in all computers, followed by system crashes, freezes, and so on.

Because no matter what type of computer it is, including biological brain computers, their essence is to complete the process of inputting and outputting information, and to perform calculations.

Now, the process of inputting and outputting information is messed up. The information quantum of circuit A suddenly teleports from circuit A to circuit B, and the information quantum of circuit B does the same.

Some information quanta teleport directly outside the computer, causing the computer to lose this information. How can it then perform calculations?

And so on. Not to mention the biological brain, as the threshold of quantum superposition gradually increased, all intelligent beings in the entire Princeton civilization began to exhibit signs of intellectual disability, amnesia, bestiality, and madness.

The entire edifice of civilization collapsed in an instant. After all, you can't expect a bunch of mentally challenged people, people with intermittent amnesia, wild beasts, or crazy lunatics to complete the inheritance of civilization, can you?

This is not realistic.

The most frightening thing is that the upregulation of this particle superposition state has not stopped. When it is upregulated to the macromolecular level, macroscopically, this galaxy does not seem to have changed much, but if you explore carefully, you will find that there is no intelligent life in this galaxy.

Only those organisms that do not rely on brains and have simple structures are still alive.

Why is this happening?

The answer is simple: when the threshold of particle superposition states is raised to the macromolecular level, pheromones in the biological brain begin to roam freely.

What happens when the biological brain can no longer provide the body with the correct information to react?

Naturally, it leads to the collapse of bodily functions; in more serious cases, it results in direct brain death.

Organisms with simple structures, because their structures are so simple, although some may die, are least affected.

Because their structure is too simple, losing some pheromones, biological hormones and other chemical substances has little impact on them. After all, they don't have brains and their biological structures aren't very sophisticated. They can still live well even if they are missing an arm or a leg, so what does losing some biological macromolecules matter?

Similar attacks are playing out in every corner of the universe, with swarms of interference in spacetime. Therefore, the range to which these quantum superposition state thresholds rise does not expand to affect the entire universe, but is confined to a region.

Not long afterward, the same radio messages that had previously covered the entire universe began to spread throughout the cosmos once again.

[The civilizations that have been destroyed by the Babel Swarm include: the Zhenxing Empire, the Belaga Symbiote, the Dark Star Alliance... the Princeton Civilization, the Great Summoning Democratic Group, the Trade Alliance... the Brubek Dictatorship, the Lord Civilization, the Xantir Confederation...]

On that day, the fear in the hearts of many civilizations in the universe rose to a new level.

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Lu Shang learned about the attack methods chosen by the cosmic beings through the swarm network.

"How did you come up with the idea of ​​using this method of attack?" Lu Shang asked, puzzled.

Civilizations can be destroyed in many ways, and Lu Shang found it strange that these cosmic beings would use such an unfamiliar method of attack, which they had learned from other cosmic civilizations.

The extraterrestrial beings answered truthfully: "Because this method is very convenient."

"If other types of attacks are used, we also need to find out if the targets have left any cultural heritage or if there are any people hiding who have not been attacked."

"This method of attack is much more convenient now. Unlike black hole attacks, which require dealing with mass points after the attack, this method of attack does not require cleanup or involve explosive scenes."

"Simply designate a region in the universe, and all intelligent life, computers, and other entities within that region can be completely destroyed, without even needing to carefully check whether any escaped..."

After listening for a while, Lu Shang roughly understood the thoughts of the cosmic beings.

As the saying goes, it's better to avoid trouble, so the cosmic beings thought of using the simplest, most efficient, and fastest way they could to wipe out these civilizations.

They believe that attacking by raising the threshold of quantum superposition states is the most convenient attack method when combined with other methods.

After understanding the situation, Lu Shang didn't say anything more, after all, he himself was an efficiency enthusiast.

He instructed the cosmic beings to use their spacetime tentacles to manipulate electromagnetic waves in spacetime, sending radio messages to advanced interstellar civilizations that had not been attacked and were willing to surrender from the start.

"From this day forward, there will only be one voice in this universe, and that is the voice of the Babel Hive. The Hive allows you to live freely in this universe, but you must also unconditionally obey the leadership of the Hive."

"You have the right to choose, and we have the right to destroy you. Please do not repeat the mistakes of those extinct civilizations, or try to understand our thoughts with any kindness, because what is just trouble for our hive is an obstacle to your survival."

After some time, the advanced civilizations in this universe began to use stars, or neutron stars and pulsars, to send radio broadcasts into the universe.

The messages varied in content, but the meaning was similar: as the leader of this civilization, I am willing to accept any conditions proposed by the Babel bees on behalf of our civilization, as long as the continuation of our civilization can be guaranteed, our civilization will unconditionally obey the leadership of the Babel bees.

(End of this chapter)