A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 259 These resistances were too weak

With Lu Shang's command, starting with gravitational ring creatures anchored 400 light-years away from the galaxy, a massive spacetime distortion enveloped the three galaxies into a distorted spacetime bubble.

To prevent interference from other civilizations from enveloping the spacetime bubble, the swarm dispatched an extremely large number of gravitational ring creatures. The distance between them was only about one light-second, and their gravity spread at the speed of light. They could affect their neighboring counterparts in just one second. The gravitational balance between them was maintained by the repulsive force field generated by negative quanta.

From a more macroscopic, God-like perspective, one would see an extremely fantastical scene: three galaxies, hundreds of billions of stars, and galactic nuclei possessing immense energy, constantly releasing jets of high-energy rays spanning more than ten light-years, are being scaled up and down like a distorted three-dimensional image, and are gradually shrinking.

This shrinking was faster than the speed of light, because spacetime is not limited by the speed of light, and the massive galaxy-scale project was completed in just a few days.

Subsequently, a large number of explorers began to flood into the three star systems A, B, and C, traveling at faster-than-light speeds to all the star systems in the three star systems and broadcasting the same message to these star systems.

"We, the Babel Swarm, hereby declare ownership of this galaxy! All civilizations born within this galaxy will unconditionally belong to the Swarm and become satellite civilizations! Do not attempt to resist in any form; the Swarm will only take one unified approach to those who dare to resist—civilization destruction! Do not say you were not warned!"

Strands of high-frequency radio waves from the stars were released, centered on the explorers, and gradually covered the three star systems as the explorers moved.

As expected, a number of rebellious civilizations emerged in all three star systems. However, the civilizations in star systems B and C did not cause much of a stir. The native civilizations in these two star systems followed a path of modifying the physical environment and constantly killing newer civilizations in order to maintain their own technological advantage.

Such a civilization is an extremely terrifying killer for later civilizations, but for civilizations that have mastered higher levels of technology, it is not even worthy of carrying their shoes.

Putting aside everything else, for native civilizations that cannot flexibly exceed the speed of light, the time scale alone is an insurmountable chasm when facing the Babel swarm, which has already normalized exceeding the speed of light. Even if the Babel swarm takes a few decades to catch up, it can still crush these native civilizations that cannot flexibly exceed the speed of light.

Therefore, the most intense resistance comes from Galaxy A, the galaxy where a civilization with a normalized faster-than-light travel exists.

However, there are not many such civilizations in Galaxy A, only a few hundred.

Upon receiving the radio broadcast from the explorers, these faster-than-light civilizations in Galaxy A immediately began a large-scale manhunt for the explorers, responding to the swarm's call for submission with their actions. They also dispatched their main fleets to cruise through the galaxy, searching for the location and main force of the Babel Tower swarm.

The space arsenal was also running at full power, frantically extracting the mass of star after star and turning it into massive warships.

The exploration bees faced significant difficulties in their radio broadcasting process due to being hunted by these faster-than-light civilizations.

However, the swarm did not rush to destroy these ungrateful native high-tech civilizations. Instead, it allowed the exploratory bees to flee for a while, and then sent out media creatures to secretly observe what technologies these native high-tech civilizations in the star system possessed.

This is naturally done to eliminate any potential threats at the outset. High-tech civilizations have many ways to perpetuate their civilizations. Since the decision has been made to destroy these civilizations, they must be eliminated completely, leaving no future troubles.

After several chases, an exploratory bee stopped near a neutron star.

"Report! The target has stopped!"

"Immediately deploy jamming waves to prevent the target from escaping at faster-than-light speed again!"

On the bridge, the captain of the pursuing warship was overjoyed. None of the other pursuing warships had yet reported capturing the signal source, so he was probably the first captain to successfully capture it.

No matter what, being number one always leaves a lasting impression, and his future career is likely bright.

Filled with indescribable joy and excitement, the captain gave orders to his adjutant.

"Send the exploration ship over there and see what technology this Babel bee swarm is using."

"yes!"

The exploration vessel quickly detached itself from the pursuing warship and approached the exploration bee, which had ceased its movement and was now orbiting the neutron star due to inertia.

Before the exploration vessel could even make close contact with the exploration bee, it received a radio message from the exploration bee.

"Hello, strangers who are pursuing me."

This radio broadcast caused a stir among the pursuers, who never imagined that their target was a living person.

"The answer might be that we can extract some information before the interrogation."

With the captain's authorization, the exploration ship responded with a radio message.

"What is your position in the Babel hive? How should we address you?"

The Explorer Bee replied, "You can just call me Explorer Bee, I don't need a name."

The exploration spacecraft continued its radio inquiry: "Exploration Bee, what is the purpose of your Babel swarm disseminating those messages throughout the galaxy?"

"I have received a mission. The swarm has taken over the entire galaxy, so I am issuing a notification to you native civilizations," the Explorer Bee replied.

"Does this mean a declaration of war?"

The Explorer Bee said with a hint of mockery, "Declare war? No, no, no. A declaration of war is only used when dealing with an equal. You are not equal to the swarm. You are already surrounded and are the defeated party."

The pursuing warships immediately went on alert because of this information, worried that enemy ships from the Tower of Babel swarm might suddenly appear.

Although the pursuing warship has combat capabilities, it is ultimately just a warship. If the enemy ambushes it and engages it with numerical superiority, the pursuing warship's chances of winning are actually not high.

The pursuers' exploration vessel pressed, "Surrounded? What do you mean? What has surrounded us?"

The original intention of asking this question was to extract some information about the ambushers, but the explorer bee's answer was something these pursuers never expected.

"Didn't you notice? I thought that after you mastered faster-than-light travel, you would have known long ago that the galaxy had broken away from the main body of spacetime and was surrounded by our swarm," the Explorer Bee said strangely.

Galaxy? Surrounded?

The pursuers were overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information.

"..."

The exploration ship remained silent for a moment, then said, "You're lying to us."

The idea of ​​enveloping galaxies was utterly absurd, and the pursuers naturally couldn't easily believe it.

"Aren't you wondering why I've stopped after running away for so long?" the explorer bee asked.

The pursuers, with a mix of ulterior motives—gathering intelligence and probing questions—asked, "Isn't it because of the gravitational well of the neutron star?"

The explorer bee, however, had fewer thoughts and honestly told its pursuers, "Because I have no reason to run anymore; this is the end of your civilization."

This information left the pursuers completely bewildered, but before they could ask any further questions, their thoughts froze. Not only them, but even their mother civilization's thoughts froze.

Freeze the cycle of reincarnation!

Following the freezing of reincarnation, the microscopic wormhole-like negative quantum strike was launched. All civilizations in Galaxy A that had expressed their opposition to the rule of the Tower of Babel swarm through actions or words were neutralized into nothingness by the massive amount of negative quanta that suddenly appeared in space.

(End of this chapter)