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Chapter 248 This bee swarm is too industrial

After the gravitational ring around the star was completed, the material resource problem of the Babel beehive was solved all at once, and in the following period, a large number of Behemoth behemoths were hatched.

However, the purpose of hatching these Behemoths was not for war, but for production.

Each Behemoth receives plasma extracted from the stars via the gravitational ring. This plasma is then introduced into the reactor within the Behemoth's body to undergo nuclear fusion, releasing heat and radiation.

The radiation released by nuclear fusion includes electromagnetic waves and high-energy particles. The Behemoth behemoth will capture these high-energy charged particles with an electric field, then export them from the nuclear fusion reactor. Using the electric field, it will continuously accelerate them, and eventually the high-energy charged particles will bombard the target, thus producing antiprotons.

The generated antiprotons are stored in an ion container. The container is not large, about the size of a small gas cylinder in human civilization. The inner wall of the container has a strong electric field to prevent the antiprotons from contacting the inner wall and triggering an annihilation reaction.

In addition to the Gravity Ring periodically supplying plasma to the Behemoths, another type of swarm of bees also throws things at them.

This swarm of bees looks somewhat like a spider, with a small body and slender, segmented legs.

However, unlike spiders, the long, arthropod legs of this swarming creature are not for walking, but for extending electric fields in space.

Its structure is very simple, consisting of a miniaturized nuclear fusion reactor, a biological brain, and multiple ion containers. Its long, segmented legs are conductive, and through the current generated from the reactor, it unfolds an invisible electric field wall in space, equivalent to the size of three hundred football fields.

Through this electric field wall, the bee colony will sift and collect positrons, the antiparticles of electrons, from the stellar wind.

This type of bee colony was named the "web bee" by Lu Shang because it collects essential growth substances for the colony, much like worker bees, by spreading out a huge electric field to collect positrons.

Positrons are collected into the ion container through the huge electric field gaps created by the beehive.

Once the ion container has collected a certain number of positrons, it will be released by the Web Bees to the Behemoths.

After obtaining these ion containers that store positrons, the Behemoths would extract the positrons and allow them to combine with antiprotons under the influence of an electric field to form antihydrogen atoms, which would then be encapsulated in a special ion container.

The reason why this ion container is special is that its internal structure differs from that of ion containers that encapsulate antiprotons and positrons.

That is, it contains lasers and a miniaturized nuclear fusion reactor, which makes it about the size of a tanker truck.

The purpose of installing a laser is to periodically heat the antihydrogen clusters, keeping them in a plasma state.

Otherwise, once the antihydrogen atom group cools down, the electrically neutral antihydrogen atoms will be less likely to be affected and constrained by the strong electric field of the inner wall of the ion container, thus making contact with the inner wall of the ion container and triggering an annihilation reaction.

In order to further expand antimatter production capacity, the size of the Behemoth and the Web Bees within the Star System is increasing exponentially.

During this period, the gravitational ring's work became much busier. It needed to mine stellar matter for the bee colony, divide the stellar matter into two parts: one part was cooled and used to hatch Behemoths and Web Bees, another part was used as fusion fuel for each bee colony's bio-nuclear reactor, and it also needed to cultivate a sufficiently large bio-laser for the bee colony's future development, thereby completing the construction of the wormhole generation device.

With the incubation of such a colossal object as the Gravitational Ring, the number of Behemoths and Web Bees increased over time to the point that they could cover the entire star, even reducing its brightness by 3%.

"What a beautiful view."

Lu Shang observed the star controlled by the swarm of bees through remote observation by planetary creatures.

The enormous fireball was surrounded by an even larger ring. The plasma on the star gathered towards the ring like clouds, and further out were densely packed, meteoroid-like objects—the Behemoth and the Web Bees.

The Behemoth and the Web Bee move in the same direction and at the same speed as the Gravity Ring, thus remaining relatively stationary. They also communicate radio with each other at all times to coordinate the disturbances caused by gravity and avoid collisions.

"This is the beauty of industry! How come I never noticed it before?"

Lu Shang leaned back on the sofa in his residence, took a sip of purple tea, and complained as he did so.

At that moment, a swarm radio signal from the direction of Hengxing interrupted Lu Shang's slacking off.

"The collection is complete."

The things they collect naturally refer to antimatter. Currently, whether the swarm is creating a faster-than-light spacetime bubble or a short-lived wormhole, it needs to use antimatter.

Because antimatter plays a vital role in industry, the major satellite civilizations of the past regarded it as a hard currency for trade.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Lu Shang issued orders to the bee swarms near Hengxing via radio.

"Create wormholes and begin to expand and occupy nearby star systems, bringing those stars under their control."

After issuing the order, Lu Shang frowned and fell into thought, then asked the beehives on the planetary creatures.

"Has the problem of faster-than-light communication not been solved yet?"

"The swarm has now begun to expand to other star systems. Although the swarm's cohesion prevents it from disintegrating, if it encounters an enemy, the swarms in each star system will inevitably fall into a state of fighting independently due to the light-year time delay."

Among the many hives, one hive responded to Lu Shang: "The technology is readily available, and the biologicalization is not difficult, but some problems cannot be solved for the time being."

Upon hearing this, Lu Shang asked in confusion, "What's the problem?"

"We lack the configuration of a negative spacetime field," the hive organism replied.

Lu Shang was taken aback and asked, puzzled, "Negative spacetime field?"

A beehive explained to Lu Shang: "A spacetime field that can exhibit a negative energy state can influence wormholes, making them exist stably."

Lu Shang frowned and thought for a moment, then asked, "Negative quantum?"

The hives countered, "It's not a negative quantum, but a spacetime field distorted by energy. It can't neutralize quantum particles and return them to nothingness like a negative quantum."

The positive energy spacetime field, simply put, is the gravitational field around positive matter when it exists in spacetime.

In contrast, the negative energy spacetime field is the repulsive force field surrounding a negative quantum when it exists in spacetime.

However, having a chicken doesn't necessarily mean having an egg, and having an egg doesn't necessarily mean having a chicken.

The swarm used psionic energy to distort and concave a spacetime devoid of matter, creating a black hole with no mass.

Conversely, spacetime can also be based on the distortion of energy to form a repulsive field similar to that around a negative quantum, which is negative energy spacetime.

(End of this chapter)