A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 200 Civilization's Luck Is Too Bad

According to the information the swarm obtained from the Cosmic Union, advanced civilizations within the same universe that use the same set of physical rules are unlikely to fight each other, because there are many alien civilizations outside that could invade at any time. Under such external pressure, advanced civilizations within the same universe are more likely to cooperate.

However, the situation in the mega-universe seems to be different. Each one is trying to dominate the mother universe, and even weaves physical rules that only benefit their own civilization, so as to become the absolute ruler.

"I think this is probably because the civilizations in the mega-universe are all too powerful. Every civilization in the mega-universe is very strong, which makes the crisis in the cosmic sea less intense. As a result, the civilizations within the mega-universe do not have enough cohesion, so they may be constantly fighting civil wars for various reasons," Lu Shang speculated.

"This is good news for the bee colony."

After pondering for a moment, Lu Shang ordered: "Construct a coordinate system with the Dier homeworld as the center, extend coordinate points outwards, and open microscopic wormholes to explore the physical environment of the giant universe outside the two-dimensional space. After the exploration of all areas of the giant universe is completed, the strategic plan will enter the final strike phase."

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Through numerous microscopic wormhole experiments conducted by the bee colony on the unknown environment outside the two-dimensional space of the giant universe, they finally discovered why microscopic organisms lose contact when exploring those places.

In that physical space, quantum effects are extremely intense, and the frequency of naturally occurring microscopic wormholes is dozens of orders of magnitude higher than that of naturally occurring microscopic wormholes in the main universe of the swarm. Microscopic organisms may have fallen into these naturally occurring microscopic wormholes and been thrown into other universes, thus completely losing contact with the swarm.

If we compare two-dimensional space to a flat ground, then the region outside with its extremely intense quantum effects is a place full of traps, and these traps can appear and disappear at will, making them impossible to predict.

This is probably the work of some highly technological civilization in the vast universe.

Exploring this area is not difficult; the swarm can suppress the intense quantum effects in this area with psionic energy. However, doing so would alert the enemy, so the swarm has temporarily shelved this area.

Anyway, this region with intense quantum effects isn't very large, only about 30 light-years in diameter, and the two-dimensional space is in contact with other regions of the giant universe with different physical rules.

Just three months after Lu Shang ordered a larger-scale exploration, the exploration of microscopic wormholes attracted the attention of some advanced civilizations in the vast universe.

They successfully captured some microscopic organisms, and although these organisms self-destructed in time, they still managed to obtain some information from the advanced civilizations of the vast universe.

However, these advanced civilizations did not take it too seriously and did not choose to unite with other advanced civilizations in the vicinity, treating it as just an ordinary cosmic war.

Some even believe that this is a disguise by other high-tech civilizations in the universe to deceive others.

The more cautious ones, deliberately guided by the swarm, traced the origins to the Deir interstellar empire in that two-dimensional space. If a highly technological civilization in a mega-universe were to question this, the Deir would not have the capability to conduct such a probe.

It's also natural to think that all of this was done behind the scenes by a high-tech civilization that created two-dimensional space.

The various civilizations in the vast universe continue to change as always, with wars and peace, some as insignificant as ants, others as powerful as gods...

Then, on that day, the entire mega-universe was different.

The mass of the mega-universe suddenly doubled, a process that lasted for one minute, and the regions where the mass doubled did not double simultaneously.

Where does this increased mass come from? Naturally, from other universes.

The swarm uses psionic energy to separate negative quanta and quanta. Once it has accumulated to a certain amount, it throws the quanta into the mega-universe and the negative quanta into other randomly opened universes.

As a result, the mass of other universes began to shift massively towards the giant universe. Some universes even lost half of their mass in just ten seconds.

The direct consequence of this behavior is that it directly angers advanced civilizations in other universes.

There were civilizations from other universes plundering mass, attempting to destroy their universes. How could this be tolerated? They immediately discovered the coordinates of the mega-universe from the traces deliberately left by the swarm and launched an attack.

The entire universe was like a powder keg that had been ignited, engulfed in flames of war.

The attackers are a high-tech civilization that is being invaded from other universes, and what they are doing is simple: they are constantly plundering matter from the mega-universe through negative quanta.

When the native advanced civilization of the mega-universe collapses and other civilizations continuously inject negative quanta into the wormhole, the other civilizations will create new wormholes and continue to inject negative quanta. In order to ensure that the mass of the mega-universe is not lost, the native advanced civilization of the mega-universe can only follow suit, and the two sides thus enter a tug-of-war.

Large-scale void entities also appeared outside the mega-universe, launching an attack on the mega-universe in an attempt to seize its outer walls and fiercely clashing with the defensive system deployed by the mega-universe's native civilization outside the universe.

However, the native civilizations of the mega-universe were more advanced. Although they were initially caught off guard and hastily engaged in battles with other advanced civilizations from different universes, once they stabilized the situation, they began to gradually shift the balance of power in their favor by leveraging their own civilization's formidable combat capabilities.

In the midst of conflict, the native civilization of the mega-universe obtains the coordinates of the enemy civilization and dispatches a weapon called the "Cosmic Combat Entity" to penetrate the enemy civilization's universe through a wormhole. After destroying the enemy within the enemy universe, it hinders the enemy's wormhole-based negative quantum attack. Then, after gaining the advantage, the native civilization uses negative quantum attacks to plunder all the mass of the enemy universe.

Lu Shang once sent out a cosmic planetary creature to briefly engage in combat with this cosmic combat entity, but did not gain any advantage. On the contrary, the planetary creature was almost pulled out of the opponent's microcosm.

This space combat entity is a space-based weapon that uses biological creativity as its destructive force.

No attack is absolute, nor is any defense absolute. Perfection does not exist in this world. Therefore, no matter what kind of attack or defense there is, there is a way to break it. The factors for finding such a way to break it are creativity and a sufficient amount of material.

Once time acceleration is taken into account, creativity combined with material resources can be directly equated to a near-perfect attack and defense.

If two space combatants were to fight, it would come down to which combatant had greater creativity.

Other advanced civilizations in the universe either didn't think of such a technological product, or although they did, they lacked the creativity to compete with the native civilizations of the giant universe. Only a few advanced civilizations were able to stabilize their gradually declining disadvantage.

Victory seems to be not far away for the native civilization of the giant universe.

However, this is on the premise that the Babel bee swarm, the instigator, did not interfere.

After successfully generating initial aggression, the swarm, under Lu Shang's command, continued to generate aggression throughout the vast universe.

This time it was even harder to detect than the last, because the native civilization of the mega-universe had been plundering the mass of other universes to maintain balance in order to ensure that the mass of the universe itself was not plundered by civilizations of other universes.

Therefore, the behavior of swarms of bees extracting other universes into the mega-universe has become less noticeable than before.

The mass of the mega-universe continues to multiply, and along with its multiplying mass, the hatred of the advanced civilizations in other universes within the cosmic ocean also increases!

"I didn't expect it to go so smoothly."

Lu Shang sighed for a moment, then his expression suddenly changed. "Hmm?"

A planetary creature lurking in a microcosm has been attacked.

A ball of light suddenly appeared near the microscopic wormhole that the planetary creature had spread out in the vast universe. After opening the microscopic wormhole, it took control of the planetary creature.

The planetary creatures resisted with their immense spiritual power, only to be crushed by the sphere of light with even greater energy, much like when they faced the cultivators in the civilized breeding farm, utterly powerless to resist.

"You culprits, don't think you can get away with this!"

"We, the Lodag civilization, will find you all one by one and then destroy you!"

This information was directly infused into the planetary beings, into all the psionic brains, and also, through these swarm beings, was disseminated throughout the entire Babel swarm via the swarm network.

Monolithic civilization is a special kind of civilization that the swarm discovered while exploring the vast universe. In order to eliminate their differences, they merged their bodies into one, sharing their consciousness in one body. They were also highly unified, somewhat similar to split personality, but with some differences.

The combat methods of this type of civilization are quite outrageous, similar to cosmic combat entities, using creativity as a weapon. In the vast universe, the combat power of this type of civilization is quite high. Their combat efficiency and overall coordination are almost overwhelming to other civilizations of the same level.

This native civilization of the giant universe must have discovered the culprit, the swarm, by following clues. It's also possible that all civilizations in the giant universe discovered the Babel swarm, but were too busy dealing with civilizations from other universes to send out their most powerful individual civilizations.

"You want to destroy us? You're not qualified!" Lu Shang replied through the captured planetary creatures.

Subsequently, Lu Shang ordered: "Strategy unchanged! All other participating units continue! Inform all non-participating cosmic creatures exploring the cosmic sea to gather all your psionic energy; the swarm is about to hunt its prey!"

"receive."

With a simple report from the swarm network, a surge of psionic energy that completely solidified space directly filled the microcosm created by the planetary beings.

To ensure the connectivity of the swarm network, microscopic wormholes connect the various microcosms. And to mobilize the psionic energy of a massive number of swarm creatures to gather at a specific point in the microcosm opened up by the swarm, all it takes is a single command from Lu Shang.

The so-called solidification means that there is not even the slightest quantum fluctuation in that space, all naturally generated microscopic wormholes disappear, and the entropy increases to zero.

Freeze the cycle of reincarnation!

No matter how strong your fighting power is, so what?

So what if one can directly transform one's powerful civilizational potential into combat capability?

Even the strongest combat capabilities need time to be realized. When time stands still, the so-called strength is like a dream, meaningless.

As the war in the vast universe spreads and stirs up hatred everywhere, the battles of the native civilizations are becoming increasingly difficult. They have enough strength, that's for sure.

However, facing an increasing number of enemies, all of whom use technologies based on different physical laws, the hope of winning this war is becoming increasingly slim.

Many indigenous civilizations in the mega-universes have begun to gradually relocate their civilization's seeds, or even their entire civilization, into smaller universes for escape.

Just when Lu Shang thought that this war in the cosmos would eventually end with the mass of the cosmos being plundered, an unexpected and enormous change suddenly occurred.

A sharp thorn rapidly extended from one end of the cosmic sea, piercing directly into the giant universe and violently penetrating it, ultimately tearing the entire universe's spacetime to shreds.

Within the vast universe, those native civilizations that have not yet evacuated their mother universes have no chance of escape. The tearing of spacetime, the collapse of the universe, and the sudden changes in constants are all fatal to unprepared native civilizations.

The spacetime fragments of the universe eventually evolved into new universes of smaller scale and different rules, and the giant universes thus completely disappeared from the cosmic ocean.

Lu Shang stared blankly at the other side of the cosmic sea through the vision of the cosmic creatures.

"What the hell is that thing?"

That spike is a spacetime, or rather, part of a universe, because outside of the universe itself, no other matter can exist.

But if that spike is part of a universe, then the size of that universe...

Lu Shang then realized that the giant universe might not be so huge. Deep within the cosmic sea, there might exist a vast universe many times larger than the giant universe, inhabited by civilizations far beyond his imagination.

"It's necessary to investigate this thoroughly," Lu Shang decided.

Civilization always progresses, and now that they have seen such an advanced civilization, the bee swarm should hurry up and catch up.

After all, falling behind means being vulnerable to attack. The fact that the bee swarm hasn't been attacked yet is simply because the other side doesn't know about the bee swarm and has no interest in attacking it.

……

The war in the vast universe has come to an end.

Although we don't know which civilization in the giant universe plundered the mass of the universe dominated by the swarm, wiping out all the civilizations in the entire giant universe would surely include that original civilization, which could be considered revenge.

Putting everything else aside, the various satellite civilizations on the Star River Alliance side were incredibly moved, especially those satellite civilizations that survived the attack on the universe. Their gratitude towards the swarm was almost overflowing. Even though the opponent was so powerful, their sovereign civilization, the Tower of Babel swarm, was still willing to avenge them, which was something they never expected.

Although the Babel swarm did not see it that way, from the perspective of Lu Shang and other mainbrains, attacking the universe dominated by the swarm and plundering its mass was tantamount to robbing the swarm of its resources, and was tantamount to being directly slapped in the face.

The swarm certainly doesn't lack the mass of one or two universes, and can accept the loss. If it really needs more matter, it can secretly scoop some out from other universes in the cosmic ocean. But being humiliated can't be left so easily. The swarm itself is not weak, so there's no reason for it to swallow its anger after being robbed. It must make the other party pay the price.

The giant universe has really messed up this time, provoking the Babel swarm. It didn't do its job cleanly either, secretly leaving some traces of its own universe. And it wasn't lucky either, as the cosmic creatures of the Babel swarm discovered them.

If any one of these factors were missing, it wouldn't have led to the subsequent destruction of the universe.

Unfortunately, the civilization in that universe was not so lucky.

(End of this chapter)