A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 239 These beehives are too ferocious

The biological rocket returned smoothly. Although the swarm currently has no psionic energy to use, the bio-genetic technology can still be used normally.

After capturing the Ska's probe satellite, the bio-rocket wrapped itself, along with the still-undeployed cylindrical probe satellite, inside a fleshy cocoon. After wriggling for a while, the cocoon broke open, and the bio-rocket was now connected to the Ska's probe satellite. Just like the connection between bones and flesh, the Ska's probe satellite became part of the bio-rocket.

The bio-rocket, connected to the probe satellite, has many propulsion nozzles at one end of its slender body. Once it gets close enough to the planetary creature, the bio-rocket's propulsion nozzles emit dazzling tail flames, reducing its descent speed, and finally it lands steadily on a flat area that the bee swarm had already prepared.

The probe satellite was immediately sent to the nearest hive to decipher the text and analyze the specific technologies that the civilization that created it possessed.

Soon, Lu Shang received the analysis results from the Hives.

"We've already applied electronic technology, developed nuclear energy technology and the Internet, and even discovered antimatter. I just don't know what level our automated industry has reached," Lu Shang muttered to himself.

From the radio receivers, electronic control systems, computers, and small nuclear batteries that use isotopes to release nuclear energy, we can roughly deduce what technologies this civilization possesses.

As for the information about antimatter, it was obtained through remote access to that civilization's internet.

Radio signals decrease with distance, but if the receiving antenna is large enough, this decrease can be eliminated, and the diminished radio signal can be read.

Because of the probe satellite as a sample, the swarm quickly learned about the underlying operating logic of the civilization's computer system by reading the operating system inside the probe satellite. With this knowledge, they were able to use the enormous biological antennas, comparable to mountains, to receive network signals from the Ska people's home planet, Reka, and successfully access the internet.

After going online, collecting information about this civilization becomes much easier. You can simply enter what you want to ask into the search bar of a search engine, or search online for various papers published by scholars of this civilization on the Internet.

Although the internet latency is very high due to the distance, there is no problem accessing information on the internet.

"What a civilization with absolutely no sense of crisis! It's so easy for other civilizations to read so much information. This civilization could easily perish," one of the beehives commented.

Another hive member said, "They're already planning to fight the swarm and prepare to build a large-scale space industry in planetary orbit."

Another Hive commented, "I don't know what this civilization is thinking. It harbors such great hostility towards other civilizations, yet it dares to so blatantly publish information about its mother civilization. It's either extremely ignorant or extremely idiotic."

Information is the Achilles' heel of civilization. Nothing in the world is perfect, and civilization is no exception. Even the most powerful civilization has its own weaknesses.

For example, the Unity Civilization, after being targeted by the Ultimate Destruction and having its weaknesses exploited, was wiped out in an instant by this powerful inter-universe civilization.

For example, the Babel bee swarm, after its psychic power was cut off, directly fell from a trans-universe civilization to a low-light civilization that couldn't even achieve faster-than-light speeds.

"No matter what, this is a threat. The swarm is still very weak after the attack, and this civilization is so close and hostile and wary of the swarm. It really should be dealt with." Lu Shang said to the swarm creatures in the new swarm network.

Suddenly, the bee swarm became active, offering their suggestions one after another.

"How about using spores made of fungal organisms to launch a long-range bombardment of that planet? It's both direct and efficient," a beehive suggested to Lu Shang.

Microbial organisms refer to an improved version of the first two generations of scouts in a bee colony.

Because psionic energy cannot be used, swarm creatures cannot use psionic energy to directly 'grab' basic particles to combine them into atoms or even more microscopic organisms; molecular-level organisms are the limit.

Although the swarm is now severely weakened, it can still easily destroy an indigenous civilization that hasn't even left its home planet system.

If the microbial organisms pollute the planet's air, oceans, soil, people, plants, and animals, that indigenous civilization will perish on its own.

However, this idea was quickly opposed by other hives.

"No good. Microorganisms can be dealt with by temperature. They can be dealt with by flames and high temperatures. Even if they are treated to withstand high temperatures, they can be dealt with by low temperatures, or by first using low temperatures and then high temperatures, and so on repeatedly."

"Let's drop the beehive eggs into the ocean on that planet. These hives only need to build a small, simple biological rocket. One hive can produce ten simple biological rockets per hour, and each biological rocket carries a beehive egg."

"The number of biological rockets will increase exponentially due to the hives, from ten rockets per hive at the beginning, to a hundred rockets per hive, a thousand rockets per hive... Before long, biological rockets will rain down from the sky, bombarding the planet's surface and making it completely uninhabitable."

The disadvantages of microbial organisms are obvious. Besides being easy to deal with, their global spread is relatively slow. After all, their structure is very simple, and there are no biological propulsion systems to propel them. In addition, there is resistance from indigenous civilizations, so it may take several years to solve the problem.

Therefore, the opposing Hive proposed a second plan for the destruction of the indigenous civilization—a rocket rain strategy.

The swarm doesn't need to do anything; they just need to launch a beehive egg from the planetary creatures onto the native civilization's home planet.

After the beehive eggs hatch, a simplified version of a small biological rocket is made from local materials. It can fly around like an intercontinental ballistic missile. Ten rockets are made, each loaded with beehive eggs and sent to a relatively distant place to hatch new beehives.

This process repeats itself, with an exponential increase in biological rockets. Within a few days, the entire planet will be raining biological rockets.

Biological rockets can travel at supersonic speeds, which means that this expansion can proceed at supersonic speeds. Based on the intelligence we have so far, the natives simply cannot intercept them.

"If the beehive is blown up, won't the population stop increasing soon?" one of the beehives asked, puzzled.

The hive that made the suggestion said, "It's okay, we don't need to explode. We can use acid splash to kill it instead. Unless the hive is unlucky enough to be crushed by a biological rocket falling from the sky, it will only be damaged by the shock wave and will recover quickly."

Then, another beehive had a sudden inspiration: "This plan can actually be improved."

"Transfer some materials directly from planetary life forms, then use a meteor shower to directly bombard the surface of that planet, completing the first wave of attack."

"After that, there will definitely be survivors in that civilization, and there may even be some resistance. The swarm can then use this rocket rain strategy again to launch a second wave of global strikes, meticulously cleaning up the entire planet. They can wipe them all out in just a few days..."

Before the beehive could finish speaking, Lu Shang interrupted their enthusiastic discussion speechlessly.

"Stop right there! Isn't the difference between how I'm handling this and how you understand it a bit too big?"

The hive was taken aback. "Huh? Weren't we supposed to destroy that civilization?"

Lu Shang replied, "Doing it that way wouldn't maximize profits."

"It's not like before. No matter how many other civilizations we kill, there are always replacements. If all else fails, we can use time acceleration to create a new civilization."

"The swarm can't use psionic energy right now, and it takes a long time to even reach the nearest star system. Instead of destroying this indigenous civilization, it would be better to capture them and use them as technological batteries, so that the swarm can recover faster."

(End of this chapter)