A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 253 A New Storm is Appearing

After receiving strategic instructions from Lu Shang, the Gravity Ring creatures launched a suicide attack on the region of the invisible cavitation bubble.

They travel at faster-than-light speeds to the vicinity of the invisible cavitation, and once these substances enter, they immediately disappear without a trace, surrounding the area.

Then, relying on the negative energy state spacetime formed after the emergence of strong gravity and negative quanta, at the cost of being destroyed by negative quanta, all these invisible vacuolar regions were packed into the frozen cycle.

Faced with an environment devoid of time, even if unknown enemies lurk within these invisible vacuoles, there is absolutely no possibility of breaking through the frozen cycle from the inside without external intervention.

Thus, under the fearless onslaught of the gravitational ring creatures of the swarm, the exploratory bees could no longer find the invisible cavitation region within the area they had already explored.

As the exploratory bees expanded their exploration at superluminal speed, the gravitational ring creatures discovered an invisible vacuolar region and quickly sealed it into the frozen cycle, unknowingly sealing a frozen cycle that reached seven figures.

It's unclear whether it's because the Babel Tower bee swarm's faster-than-light expansion was too rapid, but the further out they explored, the more scattered the invisible vacuoles became, instead of forming a continuous encircling network as the swarm had anticipated.

During their expansion, the swarm of bees also encountered cosmic catastrophes at the speed of light, such as star explosions, singularity bursts, high-energy pulse beams from pulsars, and vacuum decay.

However, these are minor issues in the face of faster-than-light speeds. Relying on their wormhole technology, the swarm creatures sacrificed themselves, using all their antimatter to open temporary wormholes and transmit news of these light-speed cosmic catastrophes to other swarm creatures that had not yet been affected.

Then, based on the information, and at the cost of sacrificing some gravitational ring creatures, all these light-speed cosmic catastrophes were imprisoned in a frozen cycle, easily averting disaster.

Without a doubt, these light-speed cosmic catastrophes must be high-energy attacks from that unknown civilization. Unfortunately, these are things that the swarm has already mastered. After understanding them, they can figure out solutions without much thought.

The Babel bee swarms maintained this expansion pattern of responding to every attack and flood, expanding from one end of the river system to the other. The speed of expansion did not decrease due to the unexpected attacks; on the contrary, it continued to accelerate.

Taking the moment when the expansion reached two-thirds of the galaxy as the turning point, the creatures of the Tower of Babel bee swarm clearly felt that the number of these invisible cavitation bubbles, star explosions, singularity eruptions, and so on, were all decreasing exponentially.

Later on, as the swarm expanded at faster-than-light speeds beyond this galaxy, the unknown vacuoles that would immediately disappear upon encountering this substance simply stopped appearing altogether.

The luminous object that had been captured before has not reappeared.

Lu Shang frowned upon seeing this situation. Perhaps the enemy had already escaped, or perhaps they were secretly plotting some other strategy.

Faced with this situation where there was no indication of anything happening, Lu Shang could only remain unchanged and let the exploration bees continue to expand their exploration at faster-than-light speed until they reached the nearest galaxy.

During the exploration bees' faster-than-light exploration, Lu Shang's sense of crisis remained at a very high level. He would ask the exploration bees from time to time if they had brought back any new information.

Lu Shang's performance was naturally because the exploration bee hadn't found anything.

The swarm is currently waging a civilization war, and the enemy has not been detected at all. Who knows where the swarm's enemy is hiding, plotting a terrible strategy that could destroy the swarm.

The greatest danger is finding nothing!

"They are a strategically flawless opponent, and haven't shown any weaknesses so far."

"Could it be that they've already guessed the swarm's next strategy, and are therefore lying in wait for their chance? They're really troublesome," Lu Shang muttered to himself, caught in a dilemma.

The war has dragged on for so long, and the swarm still hasn't figured out what their enemy's race or civilization looks like. Apart from that luminous being, they haven't captured a single prisoner.

In the intelligence war, Lu Shang did not gain any advantage and was therefore unable to adopt any targeted strategies.

Just as Lu Shang was considering whether he should sacrifice some swarm creatures to lure the enemy into attacking the swarm, thereby tracing the source of the attack and pinpointing the location of the enemy's combat units, a message from the hives was quickly transmitted to Lu Shang's mind via the radio-based swarm network.

The control of negative quanta has been successful!

"Finally, we succeeded!" Lu Shang exclaimed with delight, standing up abruptly from the sofa.

"In this way, the bee colony can ignore the speed of light, allowing information to be transmitted at speeds exceeding the speed of light!"

This impact is enormous. As long as information transmission speeds exceeding the speed of light can be achieved, the swarm can quickly rebuild another swarm network with performance no less than that of the swarm network, without relying on psionic energy at all.

Once negative quanta are controllable, the gravitational ring creatures can use negative quanta without fear of being devoured by them. Actions such as negative quantum attacks, wormhole attacks, and creation out of thin air, which were previously used by bee swarms, can be achieved once again.

Thinking that wormholes could exist stably and could be opened to any size after being controlled by negative quanta, Lu Shang, who was struggling to find clues about the enemy, thought of the luminous body imprisoned in the frozen cycle of reincarnation.

It doesn't matter if the enemy's strategy is airtight; the swarm still has prisoners. Whatever that luminous object is, it must contain some traces of a hostile civilization.

Lu Shang immediately issued instructions to the swarm of bees through the still-unupgraded radio-based swarm network.

"Expansion terminates, collective evolution leads to faster-than-light communication organs!"

"After evolution is complete, prepare a group of gravitational ring organisms. The swarm needs to open a microscopic wormhole to interrogate the prisoners frozen in the cycle of reincarnation!"

"In addition, another group of gravitational ring organisms will undergo various spacetime distortion tests, and will report the results to me immediately after the tests are completed."

On the planet, beehives and other bee colonies evolved faster-than-light communication organs on the spot. The explorer bees that travel between planetary organisms and other bee colonies as information transmission mediums also carry the structural information of the faster-than-light communication organs and head towards other bee colonies.

With the emergence of negative quantum and gravitational ring technologies, the expansion and contraction of spacetime can be realized. This means that even without the aid of psionic energy, bee swarms can perform many operations that were previously only possible with psionic energy.

Of course, a 100% reproduction is unlikely. The combination of negative quanta and gravitational rings alone cannot achieve the situation where one naturally detaches from the universe after reaching level 100 psionic energy.

He wondered how much of his peak strength he could recover to, hoping that the swarm would have enough power to re-establish contact with the mother universe... Lu Shang thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)