A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 2 The Colossus Above Our Heads Was Too Nightmatic

Without any thought, Lu Shang's first impression of the worker bee came to mind the moment he saw it.

What's even more subtle is that Lu Shang can actually read the other party's meaning directly. This worker bee came to help Lu Shang dig up his grave, probably because it heard Lu Shang's crazy rant just now.

"Are you trying to kill me already, so you came here to piss me off and inherit my Alipay account?" Lu Shang gave the worker bee the middle finger.

However, Lu Shang, having calmed down a bit, was quickly stunned. How could a human like him communicate normally with a swarm of bees?!

After careful examination, Lu Shang understood the reason.

The psionic network of the Tower of Babel beehive!

Perhaps due to infection by the swarm gene, or some kind of modification made to his body by the departed mastermind, or some other unknown reason, Lu Shang's brain is now connected to the swarm network of the Nest Star.

"You... can you understand what I'm saying?" Lu Shang asked tentatively, staring at the worker bee in the cave.

The worker bees didn't move, but Lu Shang could naturally sense their response in his mind.

It understands...

Could it be because my brain is also connected to this psionic network, so they see me as a member of the swarm?

With these questions in mind, Lu Shang temporarily suppressed his curiosity. The critical situation did not allow him to waste any more time, as the Star River Alliance fleet was still lurking in space.

Lu Shang hurriedly told the worker bees his request: "I need to know what's happening outside the hive star."

Almost the instant Lu Shang made his request, his field of vision expanded dramatically, and the entire Nest Star was laid out before him.

This God's-eye view is subtle, but it's impossible to stay away from the hive planet. After studying Lu Shang, he roughly understood the principle. He connected the senses of all the swarm units on the hive planet through the psionic network and obtained information about the hive planet and its vicinity through these senses.

When Lu Shang saw the massive interstellar fleet that had been anchored near the Nest Star for who knows how long, and the planet-destroying cannon that had been charging for who knows how long, his face darkened.

The situation he least wanted to see still happened!

The Star Alliance's main fleet arrived at this star system, and no space unit of the Babel Swarm could escape its terrifying firepower.

In other words, Lu Shang's newly ignited hope of escape was extinguished in the blink of an eye!

This swarm of bee-like creatures' nest planet is about to explode!

Lu Shang slumped to the ground, his expression stiff. He was so young, he hadn't even found a girlfriend, and now he was leaving this world like this, blasted away by alien planet-destroying weapons, leaving not a single cell behind...

Lu Shang grew angrier the more he thought about it, and then glanced at the worker bee next to him who was staring blankly, wondering how to help him dig a grave.

"What are you looking at? Just because I'm not doing well, does that mean your swarm is doing better? Do you think that any bee species that leave here can continue their lineage? Let me tell you, wishful thinking!"

Why?

The worker bees looked at Lu Shang with confusion, while Lu Shang, burning with anger, said, "Don't understand? Then let me ask you, has a bee colony developed if it's trapped inside its own home star system for 430,000 years?"

"For 430,000 years, our technology has remained confined to the realm of chemical molecules! For 430,000 years, we've still been using chemical propulsion without any change! For 430,000 years, our military thinking has remained solely focused on human wave tactics! For 430,000 years, we haven't been able to research faster-than-light travel, and we still need some unknown Void God to give us a 'psychic power boost' so we can conquer the galaxy!"

"Look at your opponents! Facing you, who possess faster-than-light capabilities and numerical superiority, they not only managed to preserve the flame of civilization through strategy, but also went further to seize opportunities for development, struggling step by step to achieve a technological explosion, developing faster-than-light technology, and ultimately reversing the tide of battle!"

"Can't all of this even bring a tiny bit of clarity to your mush-like brains?"

"A distorted development model like yours, a useless civilization that likes to flaunt its power all day long, relies on psychic energy to escape and survive for a while. Does that mean you can survive forever? I'm sure that in a hundred years at most, your enemies will develop technology that can match or even surpass psychic energy."

"That will be the day the Babel bee swarm is wiped out!"

Upon hearing this, the swarm network on the hive star fell silent, as if a turbulent river had suddenly become a calm, mirror-like lake.

What should be done with the bee colony?

The worker bee stared blankly at Lu Shang, and the other bee colonies on the nest star also stared blankly at Lu Shang through the network-connected sensory system of the worker bee.

"What do you mean, what to do? Just ignore it. Do you even know how big the gap is between the Star Alliance and your basic science? The only reason your swarm has been able to fight them this far is because of the 'psychic power cheat' given to you by the Void God. What makes you think you can catch up with the enemy's technological gap...?"

Lu Shang, who had given up on himself, was still thinking of continuing to mock and ridicule, when he suddenly froze, his tone becoming more and more gentle, and his displeased expression gradually turning into a thoughtful look.

"Wait, psionic energy?"

"Psionic... If it's psionic..." Lu Shang frowned, his hand stroking his chin.

The Babel swarm utilizes the properties of psychic energy to influence spacetime, creating spacetime warp bubbles that can travel faster than the speed of light, traversing vast distances on the scale of light-years.

Then... he didn't need to go to space at all!

Why can't we just create a spacetime warp bubble on the nest planet and escape at faster-than-light speed?

Or, why not just envelop the entire nesting planet in a spacetime warp bubble and escape at superluminal speed?

Lu Shang thought about it more and more and it seemed to work. There didn't seem to be any problems, so he directly transmitted his idea to the swarm network.

Soon, the bee swarm creatures on the nest planet responded through the swarm network.

Neither of these options is feasible.

The former is due to the fragility of spacetime warp bubbles. With the interference of planetary mass, spacetime warp bubbles created on planets are difficult to exist stably. Therefore, swarm creatures usually need to first use psionic energy to distort spacetime to create an anti-gravity field to escape from the planet and enter space before creating spacetime warp bubbles to envelop themselves.

The latter is because the mass and size of the planet are too large. To create a spacetime warp bubble of this celestial scale, an extremely large amount of psionic energy is needed to bend spacetime. However, the largest creature in the Babel Bee colony is about ten kilometers long. It would take the highest level ten psionic creature in the Babel Bee colony to achieve faster-than-light speed. The Nest Star is more than 12,000 kilometers in diameter. How many levels of psionic creature would be needed for that?

At this point, where would the swarm find such an incredibly powerful psionic creature?

"Only level ten is the highest?"

Lu Shang was taken aback. He hadn't digested enough of the swarm's memories, and his understanding of psionic power was still very limited.

After thinking for a while, Lu Shang's brows relaxed again, and he turned to look at the worker bee next to him who was still figuring out how to dig a grave for him.

"Then we'll use level 10."

(End of this chapter)