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Chapter 254 This war is too absurd

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As Lu Shang browsed the information within the swarm network built using a new type of faster-than-light communication method, he spat out the sip of purple tea he had just taken.

Having mastered the technology of gravitational rings, which allows for arbitrary manipulation of gravity, and the technology of negative quantum production and control, which can arbitrarily cause spacetime expansion, the technology for distorting spacetime in other ways without relying on psychic energy has been fully developed.

Microscopic wormholes thus become controllable and stable.

The swarm of bees is bombarding the void with high-energy lasers to create a microscopic wormhole connecting the previously frozen cycles of reincarnation. Through these microscopic wormholes, they are analyzing the composition of the luminous object belonging to the unknown civilization that they captured, as well as the information it carries.

Analyzing the constituent matter is not difficult. The solution is to find a way to allow some particles of the luminescent body to pass through the microscopic wormhole of the bee swarm, and then have the bee swarm capture these particles at the other end of the wormhole for analysis.

Carrying information internally is much more complicated because the bee colony doesn't know the information storage format inside the luminescent body, and there's a possibility of misinterpretation or inability to interpret it.

Lu Shang didn't have a good solution to this either, so he passed the problem on to the hive, the main brain, the Behemoth behemoth, and other bee-like creatures with brains within the swarm.

He then went to process the aggregated information from the new swarm network after the connection was completed.

About a month later, the information contained within the luminous body was successfully extracted by the main brain and other bee-like creatures with brains.

As soon as Lu Shang browsed through this information, he couldn't help but spit out the sip of purple tea he had just taken.

The unknown civilization he was so wary of turned out to be not "one" one, but a large group of civilizations of different races, different planets, and different cultures.

Furthermore, the "unknown civilization" did not remain silent out of caution regarding the swarm's next move, but simply because they had all been trapped in the frozen cycle by the swarm!

Where is the cycle of reincarnation frozen?

That was a place where time had no limit and entropy increased to zero. How could an "unknown civilization" locked up in such a place possibly take any further action?

So, I've been outsmarting the void all along?

Lu Shang sighed and rubbed his forehead in disbelief. He couldn't accept the absurdity of the situation. During this time, he had been very serious and cautious in planning and strategizing the war of civilizations, but the reality was like this.

"Is it possible that the luminous object is lying?" Lu Shang asked the hives and the mainframes that had deciphered this information about the luminous object through the swarm network.

One of the mainframes replied, "This is not an interrogation, but rather the direct decoding of information derived from the material composition of the luminous body."

"Moreover, although the frozen cycle was disrupted from its original static state of spacetime by the microscopic wormhole opened by the bee swarm, the passage of time was still extremely slow, and the speed of light was less than the radius of a proton. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that the luminous body did not realize that the bee swarm was using the microscopic wormhole to spy on its material composition."

"Therefore, there is no reason for 'lying' to exist as a biologically subjective behavior."

Similar to an attack, lying is based on "who to deceive". The luminous body was suddenly trapped in the frozen cycle by the swarm. Before that, it had no idea that such a troublesome civilization as the swarm existed, so it was caught off guard by the swarm.

"In that case, the information is indeed highly credible."

"But then again, how come there isn't a single civilization among these that can stably travel faster than light?" Lu Shang couldn't help but complain.

The "unknown civilization" that is hostile to the swarm is actually a group of civilizations.

After these civilizations ventured into the universe, they were unable to develop a cost-effective way to travel faster than light. The only way they mastered to travel faster than light was by using stellar energy to open short-distance, temporary wormholes.

This technology was called "Light Sea Jump" by the mother civilization of the luminous body. The spaceships that travel through the temporary wormholes are like making a jump in space, jumping from one star system to another.

However, without a feasible faster-than-light communication method, light-years would directly tear these civilizations that have ventured into the universe apart, since not every civilization can be as united as the Tower of Babel swarm.

Moreover, if different star systems are isolated from each other for hundreds or thousands of years, even if they initially originated from the same civilization and the same race, they will eventually become two different races with reproductive isolation.

However, the development of civilizations is accompanied by an increase in the demand for resources and the expansion of their territories. As time goes by, these civilizations will inevitably move to other star systems.

Under this pressure to develop, planetary civilizations transformed into starship civilizations. These civilizations abandoned their home planets and used starships as their homes. Upon arriving at a new star system, they would extensively mine the resources within that system until all the resources available for mining were exhausted. Then, they would jump to the next star system.

Over time, these starship civilizations grew increasingly large in size, eventually having to split into multiple fleets scattered across different star systems, bringing these systems under the control of their parent civilization.

Starship civilizations periodically allow their fleets to exchange and jump to their respective star systems to ensure racial unity. Coupled with a shared culture, they thus entered a stage of civilization capable of carving out their own territory within a galaxy.

The resources of a galaxy are limited. Although there are many stars, their numbers will not increase with the increase of civilizations. When the various interstellar civilizations in the galaxy develop to the point of carving out their own territories, friction in interstellar territory will be inevitable.

This led to the outbreak of interstellar war.

When the civilizations within the galaxy reached this stage of development, they were shocked to discover how easily the previous model could lead to the destruction of the parent civilization.

Hostile civilizations can use stellar energy to launch faster-than-light jump attacks, targeting stars. Once the main sequence star within a star system is destroyed—a highly flammable and explosive bomb—most star systems will be destroyed.

In the early stages of interstellar warfare, various interstellar civilizations either launched preemptive or reactive attacks, employing wormhole-based faster-than-light strikes against the planets of opposing civilizations.

Due to the high frequency of faster-than-light attacks, interstellar civilizations with insufficient cohesion on a light-year scale are forced to disintegrate.

Those interstellar civilizations with strong cohesion, in order to avoid present and future enemies using stellar energy to carry out faster-than-light jump attacks, simply deployed a kind of light-speed-moving, stealthy strike platform into the universe.

This attack platform would indiscriminately strike any civilization other than its own parent civilization that is about to utilize star energy.

The luminous object captured by the bee swarm is one type of this stealthy strike platform. There are many similar strike platforms in the galaxy, all of which are protected by light cones and are difficult to detect.

The luminous mother civilization directly used living humans for biological modification, and then further expanded a stealthy strike platform based on this biological modification. Bypassing the complex problems of artificial intelligence, it solved the problem of the strike platform's ability to handle complex situations in one step.

As time went on, the turbulent situation within the galaxy was fundamentally altered by a new mode of warfare developed by the mother civilization of the luminous beings.

(End of this chapter)