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Chapter 245 Spore Infection Too Well Controlled

Everything that happens in the Ska people's surface society is observed by the swarm spores that parasitize the Ska people's brains through their sensory organs.

Just like the Star Alliance before, all the Ska people infected by the swarm spores became living eyes and ears of the swarm on Reka.

"Sometimes, I just can't understand the behavior of these Ska people," a spore in the bee colony complained.

In the radio swarm network, each infected Skar is a living wireless power source.

The method of generating radio waves is very simple: changing the current intensity in a conductor will generate radio waves. Every Ska human body has conductors and bioelectric currents. With a little utilization of existing materials, a radio swarm network can be built.

The fact that all the Ska people on the surface were infected by the swarm spores means that the swarm's radio network has completely covered the Ska people's civilized society on the surface.

Another spore from the bee colony replied, "It is precisely because they cannot understand them that they have the value of being captured as part of a satellite civilization. Technological development requires the collision of different ideas."

Some individuals within the bee spore colony asked, "When will the final strategy be implemented?"

The other spores replied, "That depends on when the Skaians make their move. If they don't, the swarm can't act either, since the swarm wants to incorporate this civilization into its satellite civilization."

The original plan for the swarm war was to send a Behemoth behemoth to Reka to spread swarm spores, infecting all the Ska people on Reka, thereby gaining absolute dominance over the Ska civilization with minimal losses.

The plan itself isn't complicated, it's just a bit cumbersome to execute and takes a lot of time.

Currently, all the Ska people on the surface have been infected by the swarm spores, leaving only the Ska people in the underground base uninfected.

The Ska's underground military base is difficult to penetrate using only the power of bee spores.

Although the Skas lacked the technological capability to understand bee colony spores, they could deduce from their macroscopic appearance that bee colony spores were a highly infectious virus, and based on this, they modified the disinfection system for the base.

For example, air disinfection involves introducing surface air into a high-temperature disinfection chamber in an underground military base. This is the necessary passage for the high-temperature exhaust gases emitted from underground arsenals, where the temperature remains constant at 500 degrees Celsius for extended periods. After the high-temperature disinfection chamber, there is a radiation disinfection chamber, located where the fission reactor of the underground military base is situated. Then there are low-temperature disinfection chambers, chemical disinfection chambers, filter disinfection chambers, and so on...

The same situation applies to water disinfection, which prevents bee spores from penetrating various underground military bases through air and water.

"What a hassle. If only we still had psionic energy, we could have captured the entire civilization in no time," the spores of the bee swarm complained and reminisced.

"The current predicament is precisely because the hive relied too much on psionic energy in the past, which is also a shortcoming that the hive has always ignored. What the hive needs to do now is to make up for this shortcoming."

The opportunity that the bee spores had been waiting for didn't come for long.

The military bases of various countries underground were well aware of the urgency of solving memory disorders, so they needed to bring some of the affected Ska people from the surface into the underground military bases.

Next, various drugs and vaccines were tested on the sick Ska people.

If bee spores were mindless, thoughtless viruses, then the Ska people's approach wouldn't be a problem. The problem is that bee spores are a group of microscopic organisms with brains and the ability to think.

The swarm spores in the test subjects' brains cooperated by shutting down their influence on the infected individuals' brains, making these drugs and vaccines "effective".

After discovering the positive effects, the Ska people in the underground military bases believed they had found the key to victory and began to treat patients on the surface with the drugs on a large scale, while also promoting the vaccine in various underground military bases.

The memory disorder orchestrated by the bee spores disappeared completely in just two weeks.

Then, due to personnel changes for various reasons, infected individuals with bee spores began to join underground military bases in various countries. All the Ska people thought the treatment was successful, so they had no vigilance or precautions against the cured individuals and began to prepare how to deal with the Babel bee swarm's spaceships in the orbit of Reka Star.

In this situation, through contact infection that does not produce any abnormalities, the bee swarm can quickly and effortlessly infect all the remaining Ska people.

The day after the entire Ska civilization was infected, the old disease that should have been cured relapsed, and it was even more serious. Not only did the Ska civilization have memory problems, but it also had problems with physical movement.

After the swarm spores infect the brains of the Ska people, they do more than just interfere with their memory abilities.

On the same day, the Behemoth, representing the Babel bees, confronted the Ska civilization.

It was only then that the governments of the various Ska peoples belatedly realized that the war with the alien civilization was not merely a violent conflict of iron and fire.

There was no orbital bombing, no alien soldiers occupying the city. What they had always thought was just a harassing memory disorder turned out to be the main attack method of the Babel swarm. By invading their brains with a virus, they effortlessly took control of their entire civilization.

With everyone's brains now under control, all Skaians are forced to submit, because matter determines consciousness.

On the same day that Behemoth sent its showdown message, the various Ska peoples all sent surrender requests to the Babel Swarm, and the space war ended with relatively few casualties.

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Lu Shang was not surprised when he heard the news; the Ska people's surrender was an outcome he had long anticipated.

The Behemoth received a message from Lushang that after the war with the Ska civilization ended, it used pulse propulsion to break free of its orbit and head towards the main sequence star orbit of this star system.

The Skars, who had already surrendered, had no idea what the Babel Bees were planning. They simply breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the alien spaceship representing the Babel Bees leave their home planet's orbit.

But soon they discovered that they had relaxed a little too soon. It wasn't just the alien spaceship from the Babel swarm heading towards the orbit of their mother star; there were also a large number of unidentified objects originating from various planets. Their scale was so enormous that they formed flowing rivers on the Ska's observation instruments.

The Ska people were once again filled with fear and unease.

"So soon we can start mining stellar material?"

After browsing the follow-up tasks sent by Lu Shang, the Behemoth was quite surprised by the reply. It hadn't expected that the swarm's technology would advance so quickly.

After a delay, Lu Shang replied: "There are no technological barriers. It's just that digesting past technological reserves will take some time. After some physical technologies are biologicalized, the bee swarm will be able to return to the faster-than-light civilization."

"The rest is to restore the activity of the mother hive organisms, regain dominance over the current universe, and then re-establish connections with the hives of other universes."

Thinking back to the shock and predicament he felt when he first lost his psionic power, Lu Shang sighed, "I just wonder how the swarms of bees in other universes are doing now. I hope they haven't been wiped out."

(End of this chapter)