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Chapter 189 The Negative Energy Attack Was Too Sudden

The universe that was forcibly seized by the Babel swarm was destroyed.

The universe was destroyed, but not completely destroyed; a portion of its mass was preserved.

Even so, not many of the many civilizations in the universe remain, and not a single advanced civilization has survived.

The attackers came from another universe and created numerous temporary microscopic wormholes, spanning billions of light-years.

Then, at the microscopic scale, a large number of negative quanta are released from the other end of the wormhole.

The attack came very suddenly, taking only one Planck's time, so fast that the swarm was caught off guard.

Each microscopic wormhole is extremely small, allowing only one negative quantum to pass through, yet the scale of microscopic wormholes is incredibly vast, even exceeding the total number of wormholes opened in all the wars of the swarm.

This makes the process of negative quanta transferring from one universe to another extremely short.

By the time the swarm realized what was happening, the universe that had been forcibly taken over by the swarm had very little mass left.

The most disgusting thing is that the bee colony doesn't know who attacked them, and they can't even retaliate or settle scores.

Although Lu Shang learned of this matter immediately through the swarm network, it was already too late. The microscopic wormhole through which the unknown enemy transferred negative quanta was severed, and the two universes were no longer connected. He also did not have a good way to find the other party.

Leaving a trace in the universe is extremely difficult, let alone leaving a trace outside of the universe.

Unless the other party happens to be one of the many universes that the swarm has already explored and has been monitoring, the sudden increase in the mass of that universe suggests that it is very likely an unknown enemy that is plundering the swarm's control over the universe.

However, after inquiring with numerous cosmic organisms exploring beyond the universe, they found no universes with such a sudden increase in mass.

"The bee colony needs to make changes."

Lu Shang expressed his thoughts in the context of swarm networks: "This attack only proves one thing, that is, the swarm is far from powerful enough."

"If the bee swarm is strong enough, it should be able to detect the enemy before the enemy launches an attack, and trace the source of the attack to eliminate it."

"But in reality, the bee colony failed to do that."

One beehive asked, "What should the bees do?"

Lu Shang said, "In this incident, I saw that the swarm's defense capabilities are not strong enough, its combat response capabilities are not strong enough, and its information tracing capabilities are far from sufficient, etc. In short, the swarm still has many aspects that need to be strengthened, and these are directions that the swarm has neglected in its previous development..."

Just as Lu Shang was about to explain his ideas in more detail, Nanali conveyed a message to him.

"Lu Shang, the Cosmic Alliance has responded. They will try to search for the coordinates of the unknown enemy controlling the universe's mass by the plundering swarm."

Lu Shang was taken aback. "They can find it?"

Nanali replied, "I'm not sure, it's just a tentative search to see if there are any traces."

After a moment's thought, Lu Shang said, "Regardless of whether they can find it or not, the swarm's next objective has been set."

Nanali asked, "What is the goal?"

"Capture a cosmic creature from the cosmic ocean," Lu Shang replied.

……

News of the cosmic mass plundering event spread quietly throughout the Vorsotis galaxy.

Of course, this is mainly because the swarm didn't intend to hide anything; otherwise, with information censorship, no satellite civilization would dare to spread the information.

The satellite civilizations that learned of the news were terrified, because if such a thing happened in the main universe, they would be wiped out in a Planck time, which was absolutely unacceptable.

Panic permeated the entire Star Alliance. Representatives of various civilizations in the alliance, during their diplomatic dialogues with Nanali, would subtly probe whether the Swarm had any methods to deal with this type of cosmic attack.

To these questions, Nanali gave a clear answer: it has always existed, but it's not perfect yet.

Having participated in numerous cosmic wars, the swarm naturally considered how to defend against wormhole-type negative quantum attacks.

The solution has always existed: to biologicalize the universe.

In fact, the universe that was originally plundered by the swarm was also biologicalized by the swarm. It can detect every tiny spacetime fluctuation in the universe immediately, with the purpose of preventing anyone from secretly opening a wormhole to that universe and then plundering matter.

However, the bee colony overlooked one point during the design process: the reaction speed limit of this bio-universe.

The enemy's attack was completed in just one Planck time, which was far too short for the biological universe to react and respond in time. That's why the enemy successfully took away 99% of the mass.

If the bio-universe could be given even a little more time, the unknown enemy would not only fail to steal its mass, but might even find its coordinates through the microscopic wormholes.

Therefore, the direction of this technological development of bee colonies is how to make the biological universe think more efficiently.

Therefore, Lu Shang turned his attention to the naturally occurring cosmic life forms in the cosmic sea.

Instead of diligently figuring out how to make biological universe thinking more efficient, it would be better to capture these existing cosmic life forms and glean some improvement methods from their life structures.

At the very least, their life templates can be used to optimize the life structure of the bee colony's cosmic biota.

After weighing the options, this method is the most cost-effective and efficient.

As a result, the cosmic life forms that had been explored and secretly monitored by the swarm of cosmic creatures in these cosmic seas suffered one after another.

First, a cosmic life form is selected, and then a large group of cosmic creatures suddenly launch a surprise attack from outside the universe, engulfing the unsuspecting cosmic life form.

Each cosmic being changes its shape, one tightly linked to another, forming a vast net composed of scattered microcosms and spacetime, tightly enveloping the cosmic life forms.

The first thing a cosmic life form would naturally do is struggle; it would change its shape in an attempt to break free from the swarm of cosmic organisms.

Therefore, this kind of raid has a second step: sending a large number of planetary creatures to extend psionic energy into the internal spacetime of cosmic life forms through wormholes.

The spiritual energy of numerous planetary beings layered upon each other, covering all spacetime within the entire cosmic life form and preventing spacetime from being distorted by the will of the cosmic life form. Naturally, the cosmic life form was unable to change its own shape and thus break free from its cage.

Completely bound by the swarm of bees from the inside out.

The only troublesome thing is the civilizations living inside those cosmic life forms. They vary in strength and have all sorts of strange methods. Some even know how to increase the difficulty of suppressing the cosmic life forms' distortion of spacetime.

Therefore, the swarm treats these civilizations within the bodies of these cosmic life forms much more ruthlessly than it treats other civilizations, annihilating them immediately upon discovery and giving them no chance whatsoever.

(End of this chapter)