A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 183 This bee swarm is inexplicably blamed

Lu Shang said firmly, "This won't do. This is a necessary spur to prevent you from being dominated by arrogance again. You must fully learn from this lesson and not be careless again, otherwise the next containment failure may happen even sooner."

"Yes, yes, I'll definitely do it next time," the rabbi said.

"Um?"

Lu Shang frowned, and the long whip that Rabbi was waving next to him suddenly increased the frequency of its movements.

"Stop! Stop! I misspoke! I promise I won't make that careless mistake again! I'll be more careful next time! Stop hitting me!"

Lu Shang rubbed his forehead, looking somewhat troubled. "Rabbi, how can I entrust such an important matter as the Civilized Breeding Farm to you with complete peace of mind if you're like this?"

Seeing that there was still a long time before the end of his education, Lu Shang decided to ignore the rabbi who was still receiving physics education and started watching some alien TV series.

Although he is now one of the masterminds of the hive, he still needs a private life as a human being, and he can enjoy all of these things, including eating, drinking, defecating, sleeping, and so on.

Ultimately, Lu Shang has no shortage of subordinates or resources, so there's no need for him to live like an ascetic.

While browsing a TV series called "The Rise of Civilization," Lu Shang noticed something strange about the second half. In one frame of the second half, a cube code was hidden in a corner.

The cubic code is similar to the Earth's QR code, except that it can store a much larger amount of information. It can be displayed on a two-dimensional plane or on a stereoscopic projection.

Among the various civilizations of the Star Alliance, there are many instances of extraterrestrials using this method to encrypt information before carrying and disseminating it.

Although the bee colony doesn't use this kind of thing, Lu Shang, who has seen many cultural products from various civilizations in the Star River Alliance, can recognize what it is at a glance.

However, Lu Shang never expected that the TV series he bought from the Star River Alliance would contain such a thing, which aroused his curiosity.

Lu Shang uploaded the cubic code to the swarm network. Because he knew the decryption algorithm, the information in the cubic code was presented to Lu Shang in just a few seconds.

The information was brief, consisting mainly of what the TV series producers wanted to say to Lu Shang himself.

【Dear Mastermind of the Tower of Babel, Lu Shang, I am glad that you are able to view my work.】

I am the producer of this work. It is my honor that you are willing to watch the TV series I produced, and I am also very grateful that you like my work.

However, there are some things I've always wanted to tell you, and these words have been weighing on my mind for a long time.

Could you please reduce the war expenditures that our Confederation is being paid out? Our people are truly at their breaking point.

Admittedly, we know that the Babel Swarm is waging a cosmic war for the entire Alliance and has voluntarily borne the vast majority of the war expenses in the intergalactic war. The war expenses transferred from the Star Alliance to our Lyonas Confederation are only a small part.

Even such a small portion is still an immense and unbearable pressure for the people of Lyonnais.

Please believe me, every satellite civilization fully understands your difficulties as the sovereign civilization and sincerely hopes to help the respected sovereign civilization.

What I'm pleading for is not to shirk the responsibilities and obligations that satellite civilizations should have towards their overlord civilization. I simply hope that the esteemed Babel Bee Swarm can realize that not all races can be as powerful as you.

We are far more vulnerable than you imagine.

Lu Shang frowned as he read through the information.

"War expenses?"

There is a clear division of labor among the tasks of a bee colony.

Rabbis are in charge of the civilized breeding farms and inducing the birth of beings with higher levels of psionic energy.

Nanali was in charge of handling matters with the Star Alliance and also overseeing general diplomacy with the Swarm.

Lu Shang himself was in charge of the swarm's military affairs and controlled the entire swarm's armed forces.

Therefore, no one in the entire swarm knows the costs of swarm warfare better than Lu Shang.

The swarms waged intercosmic wars, but they never took a single atom from the other side of the Vorsotis galaxy.

Because that's useless; the Vorsotis Galaxy, as a galaxy cluster, is indeed very large.

However, in the context of intercosmic warfare, they are extremely insignificant. The diameter of the universe is on the order of billions of light-years. A galaxy is like a speck of dust in the universe, and you might not even be able to see it clearly with a magnifying glass.

Not to mention that the swarm has other ways of obtaining matter; other universes can have as much matter as they want, and the Void Formula can also extract matter on a large scale.

Each of these methods of obtaining matter is larger in scale and quantity than obtaining matter from the Vorsotis Galaxy or the Star Alliance.

Leaving these materials from the Vorsotis galaxy to the Star Alliance to develop on its own will be more beneficial to the swarm.

Therefore, in the intercosmic war, Lu Shang did not send the bee swarm to the Fusottis galaxy to take even a single atom.

After thinking for a moment, Lu Shang connected to the swarm network: "Nanali, I have something to ask you."

"What is it?" Nanali asked, taking a moment from her busy schedule to mediate the contractual dispute between the two satellite civilizations.

Lu Shang asked, "Did the swarm demand war expenses from the Star Alliance?"

Nanali was taken aback: "War expenses? Isn't that part of the responsibility for war expenses? Why are you asking me?"

Lu Shang replied, "I just received a message that someone in the Star River Alliance said that the Swarm has shared some of the war expenses with the satellite civilization."

Nanali said speechlessly, "What can the resources of the Vorsotis system do? Don't you even consider the plausibility of your lies?"

Even Nunnally, who did not participate in the space war due to the division of labor, knew about the resource gap involved.

Therefore, Nanali's first reaction was that the messenger was transmitting false information to the bee colony.

Lu Shang disagreed, saying, "It's also possible that he's not lying."

Nanali was taken aback: "You're not lying? But the Hive really hasn't received any resources for war expenses. The Hive hasn't bought much from the Star Alliance either, and they've all been trading in antimatter, which is hard currency. The economic trade between civilizations hasn't been affected much."

Lu Shang didn't say much, but just smiled and said, "We need to investigate to find out the cause and effect of this kind of thing."

"No matter what, the bee colony will absolutely not take the blame for this inexplicable mistake."

If the messenger was not lying, then there must be some 'war expense' involved.

Since the swarm didn't take this "war expense," then someone else must have taken it—it's a simple deduction.

They keep all the benefits for themselves and let the bees bear the brunt of the bad reputation... That's bold! Absolutely bold!

Lu Shang was eager to know who had the courage to use the bee swarm for profit.

Or should we just wipe out some civilizations this time?

P.S.: Sorry for the late update, the 710 incident completely shattered my faith.

(End of this chapter)