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Chapter 263 The Mother Universe is Too Stupid

Lu Shang asked, "You mean that our Babel Tower swarm is destined for utter defeat in this operation that confronts all civilizations in the entire universe, and that our civilization itself will be destroyed?"

The representative of that civilization said, "Yes, this is an operation that is doomed to failure. No matter how powerful the sovereign civilization is, it is still very small on a cosmic scale. There will always be civilizations in the universe that are more powerful than you."

"Insignificant... pfft..."

Lu Shang couldn't help but burst out laughing.

These civilization representatives didn't understand the meaning of the human smiles, mistaking them for the swarm's AI expressing anger. They were all terrified. The representative who spoke, with a death wish, said, "Honorable representative of the sovereign civilization, offending you is my personal fault. As an individual, I am willing to bear all your wrath, but I hope you can consider the difference in civilizations more rationally!"

"I don't object to you leading your great sovereign civilization to conquer the universe, but now is not the right time!"

Lu Shang suppressed his smile and said, "I'm not angry, I just find it a little funny."

"As the bee colony has come this far, some say we are brutal and bloodthirsty, some say we are cunning and treacherous, and some say we are cold-blooded and ruthless. Of course, some also praise us as noble and great. You and the others are the first to be called insignificant and reckless like we are today."

"..." The representatives of the satellite civilizations fell silent.

Lu Shang continued, "The so-called conquest of the entire universe is just a fantasy for you, but for us, the Babel Bee Swarm, it is something we have done before."

"Right now, we are simply repeating what we have done before, not just realizing a simple fantasy. This is the fundamental difference between us and you. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean we can't. Don't use your outdated understanding to measure the height of the bee colony."

……

Time flies, and after a period of time, Lu Shang finally accumulated enough antimatter.

Thanks to the application of time acceleration technology, otherwise even if we used the mass of several galaxies to produce antimatter, it would probably take hundreds of years.

Lu Shang ordered, "Although the preparation time has been a bit long, caution is the prudent approach. Let's begin."

The swarm collectively responded via the swarm network: "Okay, let's begin, Great Universe Exploration Strategy."

The next moment, countless microscopic wormholes appeared in the Mother Nest universe, connecting a vast area between galaxies.

This open area is a gathering place for medium organisms. The moment the microscopic wormholes open, they pass through them at faster-than-light speed and then begin a large-scale exploration of the environment on the other side of the wormholes.

The results of the bee colony's exploration were unexpected; the previously assumed existence of numerous regions with different physical rules, formed by disrupting spacetime, did not exist.

In fact, such regions do exist, but they are not as large as the swarm imagines. They are limited to a small area within the galaxy and are not visible on a cosmic scale.

But this is illogical, because according to the hive's concept, the mother hive universe is likely in a fragmented and incomplete state, which is why it has never made contact with the hive.

This is a very likely scenario. Of the four conquered star systems, the initial star system and three star systems A, B, and C, all except for star system A are developing in the direction of disrupting the spacetime structure and changing the physical rules.

"Strange, it wasn't damaged? I thought it would be badly damaged," Lu Shang muttered.

"Since the damage wasn't severe, why hasn't the Mother Universe re-established contact with the Hive?"

With these questions in mind, Lu Shang decided to let the bee swarm continue its in-depth exploration.

"Continue exploring; there must be something unknown to the swarm hidden in the uncharted regions of the universe."

With Lu Shang's order, the microscopic wormholes were deployed more aggressively, cautiously avoiding areas where civilizations might exist, and prioritizing the completion of the microscopic wormhole deployment across the entire universe.

Because no civilization was disturbed, the process went smoothly without encountering any resistance.

The anticipated damage to the spacetime structure did not materialize, and the general outline of the Mother Nest universe, observed by the medium beings, showed that it remained unchanged.

In other words, the structure of the Mother Universe is intact, and it possesses the ability to think and alter its internal physical rules.

Not only Lu Shang couldn't understand what was going on, but even the bee swarm creatures couldn't understand what was happening.

After fruitless discussions, Lu Shang finally decided to take a more risky approach: exploring areas inhabited by advanced technological civilizations in the universe, as these were the only places that had not yet been explored.

"Explore the areas inhabited by those intergalactic civilizations," Lu Shang said.

These civilizations are well hidden, but civilizations are low-entropy aggregates. As long as a civilization is still operating normally, it will inevitably absorb entropy reduction from the outside world and release entropy increase.

This problem is unsolvable unless an anti-entropy technique similar to the Void Formula is developed.

By leveraging entropy increase, a swarm can easily determine the approximate location of an intergalactic civilization. Furthermore, by observing some clues, it can determine the general area inhabited by that civilization.

The Great Exploration of the Universe also relied on this method to bypass these intergalactic civilizations and achieve its objectives.

The riskier approach did not disappoint Lu Shang; the exploration of these intergalactic civilization-inhabited areas did indeed lead the swarm to discover some strange things.

These intergalactic civilizations achieve their goals by influencing spacetime when engaging in various civilizational activities such as war and industry.

To be more precise, they seem to be able to manipulate the Mother Universe to achieve this.

This discovery shook the entire hive, from the bottom to the decision-making level; the mother hive universe had been taken over.

But how is that possible? The Mother Universe has its own thoughts, and it is in a perfect state, possessing a strong ability to control its own spacetime. How could it be forcibly controlled?

Was it a voluntary betrayal?

This is even more outrageous!

The more you learn, the less the bee colony understands what's going on.

"Explore these civilizations in depth, immediately!" Lu Shang said.

"OK."

The exploring mediums, under the command of the land entropy, moved towards the area with the highest entropy increase within the exploration zone.

Intergalactic civilizations, at this level, have entropy increases far exceeding the normal entropy increases of a single star. Although they release the entropy increase in an invisible way to conceal it, this cannot escape the eyes of the swarm.

Soon, Lu Shang and the bee swarm received unencrypted radio messages released from these intergalactic civilizations.

[I am Lu Shang: Coordinates UIO, WRR, FGH, SDF... Change the physics rule to 1+1=8.]

[Lu Shang is me: coordinates DFGH, WYEW, LKJF, ASGD... Rule changes terminated.]

[Lu Shang: Launch a wide-area attack on coordinates ADHSH, AGSTW, RYTRG.]

[This is the Tower of Babel: All rule changes are prohibited within the coordinate ranges GHGFD, ADGTE, and QWTWU.]

[The hive is centered at coordinates 44216, 83232, 64214, extending outwards for 40,000 light-years. All alterations to the physical rules are strictly prohibited.]

……

This information is a combination of the swarm language and the native language of intergalactic civilizations. The first part, the "self-identification," is the language of the swarm, which the swarm creatures can understand directly without translation. However, the latter part requires translation to comprehend.

"..."

Lu Shang and the bee swarm creatures fell silent.

They had considered that the Mother Nest universe, because of the various civilizations born within it, had been fragmented and broken, making it impossible for them to contact it.

I've also considered that the Mother Nest Universe might have fallen into a dormant state for some reason and is unable to contact the hive.

I've even wondered what might be keeping the Mother Nest universe occupied, preventing it from establishing contact with the swarm.

However, Lu Shang and his team never imagined that the Mother Nest Universe was misled into not knowing which way was north, south, east, or west, which was why it was unable to establish contact with the hive...

It's possible that the Mother Universe is still smugly believing it has established a connection with the hive.

Since the connection has already been established, there is no need to "find a bee colony" to complete the connection.

"Damn it, you made me worry for so long..." Lu Shang didn't know what to say for a moment.

However, reality didn't wait for Lu Shang to complain. His expression suddenly changed as he received radio strike orders from these intergalactic civilizations to target the medium life form.

Clearly, these intergalactic civilizations have already discovered the swarm's clandestine surveillance and are highly vigilant.

Within the scope defined by these instructions, the spatiotemporal structure is changing rapidly.

"not good!"

Before Lu Shang could even give the order, the medium beings exploring the areas inhabited by those intergalactic civilizations perished en masse due to the strangulation of spacetime.

Lu Shang's face was extremely ugly. If it were the enemy who stabbed him in the back, that would be one thing, since fighting is supposed to be mutual brawls. But now he was stabbed in the back by his own people.

"Mother Universe, you traitorous fool!"

(End of this chapter)