A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 21 Pre-battle Tests: Numerous Problems

The victory in the Battle of Kao Star greatly boosted the morale of the Star Alliance.

The Dias Empire, in particular, is a direct victim of the mutated bee swarms, with dozens of its administrative planets now occupied.

What angered the Dias Empire the most was the fall of its capital planet.

Therefore, at the Star River Alliance conference, the Dias Empire's ambassador repeatedly and firmly declared that the Alliance forces should seize the occupied territories from the mutated bee swarms as soon as possible.

At the same time, they vigorously promoted the "mutability" of the mutant bee colony.

Simply put, any problem that the Babel bee colony encounters can be solved with a simple genetic mutation, and this process is very short.

This kind of "mutation" does not require a special understanding of objective factors, nor does it require special gene design. It can even bypass the law of causality and mutate into a form that can solve problems before they are encountered.

Lu Shang didn't know what others were thinking; he only knew that when he learned about these things through the live intelligence network, he was in a state of complete bewilderment, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

If the Babel bee swarm can even violate basic causality, how could it possibly be overpowered by the Star Alliance Colossus?

How could they possibly become a follower of the Void God?

However, the Star Alliance actually believed this argument that disregarded objective facts.

It's unclear where the Dias Empire's delegation found such a large amount of information to support their argument, which can only be described as 'absurd,' but the entire decision-making meeting passed unanimously in just four days.

"These bastards want to kill someone, but they have to beat around the bush and cover it up to make their actions seem reasonable and legal. Aren't they tired of living?" Lu Shang complained about the Star River Alliance Council.

There are many similar cases on Earth, such as a certain brand of laundry detergent labeled "weapons of mass destruction".

"But this is good too. I'm the one who's short on time the most. The more time these aliens waste, the more advantageous it is for me."

Lu Shang muttered to himself, then gave orders to the planetary beings in a star system.

"Begin pre-combat testing."

In a vast, empty region between stars, nine planets with enormous eyes exist.

Nine planetary creatures, commanded by the land entropy, have gathered here to conduct final tests on the swarm's new sensory expansion mode.

The planetary creatures split into two groups. One group, located more than 100 million kilometers away from eight planets, acted as the space force of the swarm on the battlefield, while the other eight planetary creatures acted as the Star Alliance fleet to carry out the attack.

The test began at Lu Shang's command.

The first to change were the planetary creatures of the swarm, as a layer of mist gradually spread around them.

Over time, this fog completely covered the 100 million kilometers within the range of the level 10 psionic energy.

If someone were to pilot a spaceship to salvage some of the mist and examine it under a microscope in a laboratory, they would discover that the mist is not interstellar dust, but rather microorganisms the size of tardigrades.

These microorganisms have a very simple structure: an organelle that can photosynthesize, a few cilia that are sensitive nerves, a vacuole that serves as a chemobioenergy storage device, and a nucleus that is connected to a psionic network.

They minimize their energy consumption by hibernating, allowing them to survive in the space environment, enduring the low temperatures, lack of oxygen, weightlessness, and vacuum conditions of space.

The newly designed bee swarm organisms called "scouts" are called "scouts" because they function like ancient battlefield scouts on Earth, enabling them to transmit battlefield intelligence to their own side more quickly.

The hives on the planetary creature playing the role of the swarm are constantly breeding these microorganisms, which are then dispersed into space by the planetary creature using psionic energy.

If someone were standing on the surface of the planet's inhabitants at this moment, they would clearly see how the sky on this planet, which was always shrouded in darkness and stars, was gradually being obscured by 'smog'.

Once the planetary creatures of the swarm have completed the deployment of their scouts, covering a nebula of 100 million kilometers within their psionic range, the other eight planetary creatures will work together to concentrate all their psionic energy into a single point.

Targeting the planetary creatures of the swarm, they impart extremely high kinetic energy to the interstellar atoms bound by psionic energy, thus mimicking the black hole-induced particle design of the Star Alliance fleet.

The micro black hole, which should have been formed after colliding with a star, was instead formed by a collision with the swarm of bees a hundred million kilometers away due to the presence of the swarm of bees.

Then, due to the death of these scouts, the planetary beings through the psionic network instantly learned the location of the miniature black hole at a speed faster than the speed of light, and in the next moment used psionic energy to throw the miniature black hole that was attacking it away.

However, this is not the end. In order to perfectly simulate the black hole-induced attack of the Star Alliance fleet, the planetary creatures playing the role of the swarm need to face continuous black hole-induced attacks.

A large number of interstellar atoms were accelerated to terrifying speeds by the psionic energy of the eight planetary beings, continuously bombarding the living nebula constructed by the scouts. This directly caused the density of the scout nebula to gradually thin out, and many interstellar atoms were only induced to form micro black holes when they penetrated deep into the middle of the scout nebula.

During this period, although the planetary creatures of the swarm were constantly generating scouts to replenish the scout nebula, they could not keep up with the rate at which the scouts were consumed, since the deployment of scouts also takes time to complete.

To avoid being struck by the miniature black hole, planetary life forms can only gradually retreat, leaving behind a large number of scouts to fill the gap between the number of scouts and the black hole-induced impact.

Lu Shang stroked his chin, as if deep in thought, and then ordered, "Begin the counterattack test."

After receiving the order, the planetary creatures of the swarm shared a portion of their psionic energy to propel the stones on their surface into space, using psionic energy to accelerate the stones as always. However, this time the planetary creatures could no longer use sub-light-speed throwing as before.

In the scouting nebula, a high-speed rock is rapidly worn away in the blink of an eye.

"Stop! Terminate the test!"

The eight planetary creatures immediately halted their offensive of accelerating interstellar atoms, and the planetary creatures acting as the swarm also stopped after discarding the remaining miniature black holes.

"Luckily, we conducted the test this time, otherwise we wouldn't have noticed so many problems." Lu Shang scratched his head in exasperation.

The Scout Nebula enveloped the entire planetary life form. Although the psionic ability enabled the planetary life form to perceive speeds exceeding the speed of light, its reaction speed remained below the speed of light.

This means that during the process of the planetary organism's brain reacting to the micro black hole, the existing micro black hole will inevitably devour many scouts, making the scout nebula thinner and thus reducing its ability to block the micro black hole.

That's not the worst of it. The more critical problem is that the only thing the planetary creatures enveloped in the Scout Nebula can use to strike objects outside the range of psionic attacks—sub-light-speed projectiles—is now unusable.

These rocks, moving at increasingly higher speeds, will rub against the Overseer Nebula and be worn away at an extremely high speed in the process. At the same time, a large number of individuals in the Overseer Nebula will die as a result, making it even thinner.

"What can we do? If we hold out for too long, we will surely lose. If we can't fight back, then we are destined to lose the Star River Alliance fleet," Lu Shang said in distress.

At this moment, the planetary creature that had just played the role of the swarm asked a strange question.

"Mastermind, why do I have to throw rocks? I could simply throw the incoming miniature black holes back in retaliation."

Lu Shang rolled his eyes and said, "What are you thinking? The enemy isn't stupid. They know you can throw back a microscopic black hole, so they don't need to rush to use a black hole-induced attack."

"If we discover the role of scouts, we can first use lasers to thin out the scout nebula, and then carry out a black hole-induced attack."

Although he had never encountered them before, Lu Shang figured that the Star River Alliance should have no shortage of battlefield analysts and military strategists. In addition, the battlefield was littered with wreckage, so the role of scouts should not be hidden for long.

The planetary creature then asked, "If there are no microscopic black holes to throw at, why can't I just send out scouts to launch a black hole-induced attack? This kind of attack is clearly more powerful than a sub-light-speed kinetic energy attack."

Lu Shang was taken aback and asked in surprise, "You just said... you lost scouts?"

"Yes, if sending out particles can induce the formation of microscopic black holes, then sending out scouts can also induce the formation of microscopic black holes."

Exactly! Since the previous sub-light speed kinetic energy strikes are no longer usable, the swarm can use a more covert black hole-induced strike!

Once you send out scouts at the edge of the psionic field's range, you don't need to worry about friction at all!

(End of this chapter)