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Chapter 250 Bee colony diet is diverse

An attack requires certain prerequisites; it can only be carried out after those prerequisites are met.

The Babel bee swarm, having been attacked by an unknown civilization, decides to retaliate in kind. The first thing they must do is locate the enemy in the universe.

To this end, Lu Shang dispatched a large number of exploration bees to explore the universe.

Explorer bees are small, uncomplicated bee colonies. 60% of their bodies are miniaturized fusion reactors. In other words, an explorer bee is a miniaturized nuclear fusion-based bee colony that has become biological.

In addition to serving as an energy source to ensure the normal life activities of the exploration bees, the nuclear fusion reactor also extracts plasma from its interior to be used as a pulse propulsion propellant when the exploration bees need to change direction.

However, this is not the primary mode of movement for the Explorer Bee in the universe. Its main mode of movement is to achieve faster-than-light displacement by wrapping itself in a spacetime bubble. It has an ion container for storing antimatter and a biological faster-than-light engine inside its body, with pulse propulsion being only an auxiliary method.

To minimize the consumption of antimatter, the Explorer Bee is spherical in shape, with the spacetime bubble less than one centimeter away from the Explorer Bee. The surface of the sphere is covered with compound eyes and sensitive cilia. The swarm has specialized the Explorer Bee in information acquisition, and its size is only about the size of a car. The amount of antimatter consumed each time it travels faster than light is far less than that of the Behemoth, making it the cheapest means of intelligence acquisition currently available to the swarm.

After sending out the explorer bees, all that's left is to wait for them to bring back the news. Currently, the bee colony's faster-than-light communication has not yet been solved, and information communication is limited to below the speed of light. The explorer bees need to go to unknown areas to observe and then bring back the observed information so that the bee colony can know about the unknown areas.

However, while intelligence matters need to wait, it doesn't mean Lu Shang can be idle. Strategic preparations are still waiting for him to handle.

Wars are fought over resources. In the present era of the loss of psionic energy, the swarm needs to use antimatter to escape the speed of light. Therefore, with the outbreak of the Civilization War, the demand for antimatter has naturally skyrocketed.

Therefore, the swarm needs more Behemoths to produce more antimatter.

Regarding the issue of positron collection, considering that the enemy would not allow the swarm to collect positrons safely near the star, the swarm could only use nuclear fusion to produce positrons. As a result, the work of the web bees was abolished. In addition to producing antiprotons, the Behemoths also had to collect the positrons released by their own nuclear fusion reactors, directly synthesize antihydrogen atom clusters in their bodies and store them.

"The bee colony needs more resources."

The hives reminded Lu Shang that both nuclear fusion and the creation of the Behemoth behemoth required matter, but the swarm's gravitational rings had been destroyed by an enemy attack, and their material resources were now critically low.

"The bee colony needs a creature that can directly mine celestial matter," Lu Shang said.

The beehives asked, "How do we do it?"

Lu Shang replied: "Using small gravitational rings as the main body, we designed and manufactured a swarm of bees that directly extracts celestial matter using powerful gravity."

With the experience gained from building the first gravity ring, the construction of subsequent rings was much faster.

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Although it is called a small gravitational ring, this is only relative to stars. The small gravitational ring created by the swarm has a diameter of 20,000 kilometers, which is more than enough for the Earth to pass through.

After expending mass to build the gravitational ring, the organisms of the Tower of Babel bee colony combined themselves with the gravitational ring.

It is cylindrical in shape, but not long, and looks like a Baumkuchen from a distance.

At the center of the gravity ring is a high-energy laser encased in a metal skeleton. When connected to the current generated by the nuclear fusion reactor on the gravity ring, it releases a powerful high-energy laser beam.

The physical effects are similar to those of the Star Alliance's previous Colossus, but the purposes are different. The Colossus's high-energy particle beams were for efficient cleanup, while the giant laser at the center of the Gravity Ring fired high-energy lasers to mine matter.

When approaching a star, the high-energy laser does not need to be activated. It only needs to be guided by a small gravitational ring and a strong electric field to draw out the matter on the star as if it were being pumped out by a water pump.

The giant laser will only be activated when it gets close to the planet. When the planetary material encounters the high-energy laser, it will be burned into a plasma state, which will then be affected by the strong electric field, preventing these room-temperature materials from directly impacting the gravitational ring and forming a material accumulation.

Whether it's a gas giant, a solid planet, a dwarf planet the size of Pluto, or a Kuiper Belt meteorite, this method of mining materials using strong gravity, strong magnetic fields, and strong lasers is applicable.

When a single gravitational ring creature cannot extract the mass of a celestial body in one go, multiple gravitational ring creatures will team up to extract it together. While attracting matter, the gravitational ring creatures will also revolve around the sun, using sufficient inertial centrifugal force to avoid colliding with the celestial body whose mass cannot be extracted all at once.

In addition to this material-mining organism designed with a gravitational ring as its main structure, the bee colony has also designed another organism specifically for transporting matter across stars.

These storage organisms are modified from the Explorer Bee template. They are spherical and can make the most of spacetime bubbles. However, unlike the Explorer Bee, they do not have densely packed compound eyes on their surface and do not have the ability to observe the complex battlefield environment across the entire frequency range.

Compared to the expansion of the internal nuclear fusion reactor, plasma-state matter can be injected into the nuclear fusion reactor through physical docking from the gravitational ring organisms.

When the bee colony needs ordinary matter, the plasma in the nuclear fusion reactor is guided out of the strong magnetic field by the stored organisms and then cooled by cryogenic substances in the cavity under the metal skeleton shell. When plasma is needed to replenish the nuclear fusion reactor fuel, it can be transferred directly through physical docking.

After the Babel bee colony has designed all the necessary colony organisms, there is only one thing left to do, and that is to eat!

Apart from extreme celestial bodies such as black holes and neutron stars, stars, planets, meteorites, and so on, have all become food for the Tower of Babel bee swarm since the day the gravitational ring organisms were designed.

……

Lu Shang calmly reviewed the star map formed by the information from the returning explorers in his mind.

The star map revealed many spherical regions in the cosmic environment, which were marked as extremely dangerous and were discovered by the swarm's exploratory bees at great risk.

(End of this chapter)