A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 260 This envoy is too annoying

"...the leader...the leader...the leader."

The leader, still half-asleep, was woken by the person beside him and subconsciously asked, "Hmm? Have the messengers of the Babel swarm arrived?"

The subordinate beside him replied respectfully, "They haven't arrived yet, but we just received information that the messengers of the Tower of Babel bees will be here soon."

"Your Excellency, so many things have happened lately, and you haven't had a proper rest. Why don't you rest in the reception vehicle for a while? I'll wake you up when the envoy arrives."

After some thought, the leader realized that it was not a good idea for him to receive the messengers from the Tower of Babel bees in his exhausted state, so he agreed to his subordinate's suggestion.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Crow."

With that, the leader turned and got into the reception vehicle parked on the spaceship landing platform.

As the leader closed the door of the reception vehicle, a colleague whispered to Crow, "Why is the messenger from the Babel Bees, which possesses faster-than-light technology, late?"

Crow waved his tentacles. "Who knows, maybe something delayed it."

"Regardless of the reason, we must receive visiting envoys with the highest courtesy and never allow misunderstandings to affect the harmonious relationship between our two civilizations."

My colleague nodded in deep agreement. Although this period of time is almost equivalent to a few seconds in the time scale of a light-speed interstellar civilization, the major events that have occurred are far more numerous than in the past several interstellar eras.

The collective destruction of interstellar powers capable of traveling faster than light, the direct imprisonment of an entire galaxy, and the conquest notices covering the entire galaxy... The instigator of all this was a faster-than-light intergalactic civilization called the Tower of Babel, which suddenly appeared from outside the galaxy.

The surviving civilizations within these star systems are experiencing very complex emotions.

They were originally enjoying hotpot and singing songs as they developed and grew within their own home star system, sometimes fiercely competing and sometimes cooperating. Then one day, a sovereign civilization suddenly appeared, and with a wave of its hand, it turned them all into satellite civilizations. The chaotic home star system suddenly became as peaceful as a still lake...

The two aliens waiting for the Babel swarm messengers on the spaceship landing platform were unaware that their every move was being monitored by the creatures of the Babel swarm.

The Babel Tower bee swarm, which possesses faster-than-light technologies such as warp bubbles and wormholes, is late for a simple reason: the swarm's messengers, who are preparing to travel to this satellite civilization, want to observe the series of biological behaviors that occur because of its lateness.

Furthermore, we can observe the entire satellite civilization.

After completing the complete occupation of the three river systems, every single one of the local civilizations that dared to resist, were dissatisfied, or were courting death was killed by the swarm.

The remaining interstellar civilizations in star systems A, B, and C suddenly became as obedient as docile sheep, easier than training a pet.

Following this, in order to gain a more intuitive understanding of the value of each newly incorporated satellite civilization, the decision to assess the value of the swarm is made by Lu Shang, who sends a swarm envoy to each satellite civilization to make contact and then evaluate the value of these satellite civilizations.

The swarm's subsequent combat plan will be aimed at the entire mother universe. In the process, they may encounter some formidable opponents, and the impact of war is inevitable. Therefore, they will classify satellite civilizations into different protection levels, giving more attention to those with higher value.

The satellite civilizations were completely unaware of all this. They only assumed that the Babel swarm had sent envoys to formally establish diplomatic relations with their civilization, unaware that this was related to their civilization's survival in the near future.

"Remote observation of the Belan group is complete; the next step is in-person observation."

With the data collection nearly complete, the scout bees, acting as messengers of the swarm, set off for Solam, the home planet of the Belan collective, the agreed-upon contact point with the Belan people.

Although it was more than 10,000 light-years away from Solam, the explorer bee traveled at faster-than-light speed among the stars and arrived above Solam in no time, and began its reverse-propulsion landing.

The high-ranking Belan people on the spaceship landing platform cheered with delight upon seeing the Explorer Bee land.

"Look! The messengers of the Babel bee swarm have arrived!"

"Is that the Babel swarm's spaceship? It looks so advanced!"

"Quickly! Wake up the leader! Quickly!"

The Beilan people on the landing platform were in a state of turmoil, which gradually subsided when the leader, after being informed by his subordinates, stepped out of the reception vehicle.

To facilitate contact observation, the exploration bee created a body of similar size to that of the Belan human.

It adopted the appearance of a quadrupedal intelligent species it had seen before to make contact with the Beilan people.

Since bee colonies often breed organisms on-site, a rather terrifying scene unfolded on the landing platform.

A fleshy cocoon grew on the side of the landing explorer bee, and this cocoon expanded rapidly at a visible speed, eventually cracking open, and a four-legged creature covered in slime crawled out.

In short, it looks extremely disgusting.

All eyes of the Beilan people present were focused on their leader, their gazes conveying a clear message: "Why don't you hurry up and go over there?"

The head of the Belan Group forcibly suppressed his discomfort and walked over, extending a tentacle representing their civilized and friendly intentions to the small body of the explorer bee, which was still covered in slime.

"Welcome, messenger of the Tower of Babel bees, to our Solam. Your arrival has made even the sun shine brighter."

The bee seemed to understand, extending its four-fingered hand to grasp the extended tentacle.

Upon seeing this, all the people of Beilan breathed a sigh of relief, as if a huge weight had been lifted from their hearts.

For some time now, the people of Beilan have been uneasy because they are unsure of the attitude of the Babel bees towards their civilization. Now, from the actions of the bee messengers, they have seen the attitude of the Babel bees behind them, and their anxiety has been relieved.

The only downside was the Belan chief who shook hands with me; his tentacles were covered in a sticky, slippery liquid, which made me feel very uncomfortable.

However, as the leader of a civilization, he possessed a strong mental fortitude, suppressing his unease and subtly observing the messenger from the Babel beehive.

Similarly, the exploratory bees were also observing this leader of the Belan civilization.

The Belan people look like jellyfish, with a mushroom-shaped head and a bunch of tentacles below.

However, unlike jellyfish, these Belan people are not transparent, and their tentacles are strong and powerful, unlike the soft and flabby tentacles of jellyfish.

The mushroom-shaped head only has a pair of eyes, while the mouth and ears are piled up at the base of the tentacles. So, whenever the Belan people eat, they use their tentacles to roll up the food and stuff it into the bottom of their mushroom heads.

Their clothing consisted of cloth wrapped around the base of their tentacles. Some were like grass skirts made of strips of cloth, some were like pleated skirts made of a single piece of cloth with many folds, and others were like gauze skirts.

The formal attire is similar to a long gown with a split hem, and consists of four pieces of fabric: front, back, left, and right. The tentacles of the Beilan people can extend out from the gaps between the fabrics.

The four-legged creatures bred by the Exploratory Bees are naked, but due to racial differences, the Belan people view this state of being unclothed much like humans view the Greys.

(End of this chapter)