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Chapter 213 Technological Explosion Too Easy

The member civilizations of the Cosmic Union reacted strongly after learning about the Dream World.

The reason for the strong reaction was not that the unified civilization after the technological explosion was killed by some unknown thing in the cosmic sea, and that it was afraid of the unknown hidden in the cosmic sea.

Instead, the Unity Civilization traded the psionic technology tree of the Babel Tower bees and successfully resolved its own thirst for knowledge, which caused a great reaction from them.

Because all the member civilizations of the Cosmic Union are also troubled by the problem of the desire for knowledge.

If the psionic technology tree of the Babel Beehive can solve the problem of the Unity Civilization's thirst for knowledge, then can't it also solve the problem of the thirst for knowledge of their member civilizations?

As a result, the Babel beehive suddenly became a highly sought-after prize for all the member civilizations of the Cosmic Union.

If the Babel Swarm hadn't possessed sufficient power, the member civilizations of the Cosmic Union would probably have directly seized the Swarm's psionic technology tree.

Of course, there are also member civilizations within the cosmic alliance that do not intend to trade with the bees, but instead begin to research psionic energy on their own.

However, they quickly gave up on the saltfish-like civilization, which had virtually no thirst for knowledge, because conducting research themselves was far too troublesome; it was much easier and faster to go to the Tower of Babel bees.

Lu Shang's public response to this matter was: "Trade is possible, but it must be a fair and equivalent exchange; otherwise, it's out of the question."

"However, let me be clear from the start: you are not entirely the same as the Unity Civilization. While your technology is advanced, your internal structure, culture, mindset, technology tree, and so on are completely different. The Unity Civilization may have found a breakthrough in the technology tree of the Beehive Trade, but that doesn't mean it will work for you. If you don't achieve your desired goals after trading technology, don't come back and blame us, the Tower of Babel Beehive."

In this way, the member civilizations of the Cosmic Union exchanged some of their technologies for the psionic technology trees of the Tower of Babel.

Because of the technologies traded among the civilizations of the Cosmic Union, the Babel swarm was able to understand the structural principles of how the dream world operates.

The principle of the dream world is based on spacetime, with the addition of an artificial singularity. This artificial singularity has a very low energy level, but it is indeed a singularity. It has no volume, only energy, and belongs to zero-dimensional matter.

Lu Shang named them "point particles." Point particles possess a certain degree of intelligence, can detect the thoughts of intelligent beings, and make a series of physical changes based on their thoughts.

It's roughly equivalent to the relationship between the brain and the arm. The brain sends bioelectrical signals as instructions, and then the arm moves after receiving the instructions.

The same applies to these particles. After receiving instructions from the brain, they also become active, thus producing the physical effect of "matter changing because of thought".

Because point particles can react to the individual will of intelligent beings, and point particles are part of the spacetime structure of the dream world, a physical rule emerges in the dream world that "will is equivalent to energy".

Thought influences particles. As a part of spacetime, a change in a particle means a change in spacetime. Once spacetime changes, matter must change accordingly, ultimately fulfilling the initial instructions given by thought.

I figured this would work, so I did.

This framework of the dream world can be applied to the life structure of cosmic organisms, giving them a greater degree of control over their own constitutive spacetime.

Previously, cosmic beings could at most change their own shape using psychic energy. However, after adopting the structure of the dream world, cosmic beings can arbitrarily change the physical rules of their internal spacetime.

Want to see a universe where 1+1=3?

No problem, it's just a small matter for a cosmic being.

Want to see cow dung turn into gold?

No problem. Just change the standard of the particle ground state, set the gold atom as the ground state of matter, and then increase the excited state level of other substances, and cow dung will naturally turn into a lump of gold.

After a technological explosion, the productivity of the Babel bee colony reached an unprecedented level.

Because the physical rules within cosmic organisms can be arbitrarily altered, the Babel bee swarm can set up cosmic organisms as a kind of physical black box.

For example, if Lu Shang wanted a chair, he would command the cosmic beings to set their internal spacetime as "the most stable macroscopic composition of matter molecules, and the ground state is not a triangular or sphere, but a chair. In that spacetime, the shape of the chair is the most stable under force." Then, he would inject mass into the cosmic beings' internal spacetime through a wormhole.

Once the molecular matter forms the most basic and stable "chair" in that spacetime, it will be taken out through the wormhole.

A chair, composed entirely of Brownian motion of matter particles without any human intervention, is thus completed.

Similarly, warships, chips, massage chairs, wives, and so on can all be realized through this almost omnipotent machine.

Cosmic life evolved from a microcosm-like collective life form formed by the warping of spacetime by multiple planetary life forms into the largest single mother hive life form in the Babel bee colony.

They can set the ground state standard of their own internal spacetime to all swarm units such as planetary organisms and Behemoth behemoths, and then continuously devour mass from other universes. After entering the internal spacetime of cosmic organisms, this mass will spontaneously fall from the excited state to the ground state.

In other words, all the swallowed material particles will spontaneously generate arbitrary swarm units without the need for external intervention.

When the first new type of cosmic creature using the dream world structure was created under the psionic intervention of planetary creatures, Lu Shang was caught in a dilemma.

"What should we name him? How about 'Cosmic Creature'?"

Lu Shang frowned. This new type of cosmic creature is vastly different from previous cosmic creatures in terms of internal structure and abilities, so it should be given a different name.

Considering that this new type of cosmic life form can serve as a productive force like a beehive, and can also conduct inter-space combat and transportation like a mothership, Lu Shang decided: "...Let's call it 'Mother Nest Universe'."

Thus, the first mother hive universe of the Tower of Babel beehive was born.

"Next are the experimental subjects."

Lu Shang's thoughts sank into the swarm network, viewing the cosmic map that the cosmic biota had already explored from a God's-eye view.

In this cosmic map, some universes are highlighted.

These universes are highly aggressive and technologically advanced, having reached the point where they can deploy defensive systems outside of the universe.

However, these aggressive universes are still quite far from being mega-universes, as can be seen from their sheer size.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that these highly aggressive universes may follow a path similar to the swarm, the Tucker superintelligence, or the Oneness civilization, dominating multiple universes, so we cannot be too careless.

Lu Shang, who wanted to conduct both testing and exploration at the same time, marked the farthest universe on the cosmic map as the target for the swarm test, and then issued orders to the mother universe.

"Let's go. That's your target. Let the swarm see the power of the Mother Hive universe."

"OK."

The Mother Universe responds, moving through the cosmic ocean.

(End of this chapter)