A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 27 The Mainframe's Thinking is Too Simple

The planetary life forms have perished!

The news, following the death of the first planetary creature induced by the Star Alliance's black hole attack, spread rapidly through the psionic network of the Babel Hive at faster-than-light speed, causing quite a stir.

The swarm's mastermind knew that the planetary creatures were improved versions of the Lu Shang swarm after the war on Kao Star, specifically designed to counter the Star Alliance's black hole-induced attacks.

They had heard Lu Shang explain the principles behind the planetary beings' ability to fight against the Star River Alliance's new warships. While admiring Lu Shang's wisdom, they did not believe that the planetary beings would be defeated by the Star River Alliance's fleet.

However, reality has shattered this understanding of the masters.

The scouting nebula for planetary life forms isn't working?!

Does this further mean that the entire plan to destroy planets and create nebulae will also become ineffective?

"What's the panic? This is something that the main brain, Lu Shang, anticipated long ago."

The Overlord reprimanded Lu Shang within the swarm network, while simultaneously expressing immense admiration for Lu Shang's wisdom.

The Overlord remembered what Lu Shang had told it before: the current military strategy against the Star River Alliance was not sustainable, and the Star River Alliance would soon find a solution.

What do you call that? Absolutely prophetic!

Predicting events with uncanny foresight is not uncommon in human history, but such beings are unprecedented in the history of the Tower of Babel bees.

The number of individuals in a bee colony who use their brains is already small, which directly limits the basic pool for nurturing talent.

Furthermore, since the mainframes have virtually no lifespan limit and are not easily killed, the probability of a resourceful genius being born in the Babel swarm is even lower than winning the lottery jackpot.

"Mastermind Lu Shang, the Star River Alliance has already devised a strategy to counter the swarm. What should the swarm do next?" The Overlord asked Lu Shang through the psionic network.

Lu Shang, who hadn't participated much in the dialogue between the mainframes, suddenly said, "Before answering this question, I'd like to know what you've learned during this time."

"Suppose you were now in charge of the bee colony, how would you make decisions?"

The Overlords and the main brains were taken aback, not expecting Lu Shang to suddenly ask them this.

The mainframes did not answer; they couldn't think of a good way to solve the problem of the colossus fleet for the time being.

The swarm relied on the nebula to contend with the Star Alliance's new warships, but now the Colossus fleet has joined in, hiding outside the psionic field to wreak havoc on the nebula's environment.

They can't exactly command the swarms to leave the nebula and confront the Star Alliance fleet head-on, can they?

We definitely can't beat them.

After pondering for a long time, the Overlords and the Masterminds hesitantly replied, "This... increase the number of life forms on the planet?"

"Why are you increasing the quantity again? Use your brain! Use your brain!"

Lu Shang slapped his forehead. He now understood how his math teacher felt when he was in elementary school and couldn't memorize the multiplication tables no matter what.

"Then... what should we do?" one of the mainframes asked cautiously.

Lu Shang tried his best to suppress the urge to whip him, and replied as kindly as possible: "Watch carefully, I'll teach you how to use your brain to fight again. If you still don't understand something this time, just ask me and I'll explain it to you clearly."

Seeing that the Overlord and the main brains were still stunned and hadn't reacted, Lu Shang was furious.

"What are you all standing there for? Take notes! Do you want me to write them for you?"

"Oh, oh! I'll write it down right away!"

Recalling their previous experiences of being spurred on, the Overlord and the other mainbrains hurriedly picked up their pens and notebooks with their tentacles, adopting a serious study posture.

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Under the command of Lu Shang, the swarm of bees began to move, with five planetary creatures forming a team to act collectively, while each planetary creature maintained an interval of about three light-years.

Although light would take three years to travel this distance, planetary life forms could reach their respective locations in less than a second using their faster-than-light speeds.

The Star Alliance fleet resorted to its old tricks, using new warships in conjunction with the Colossus fleet to launch another surprise attack on a planetary creature in space.

Outside the scouting nebula of planetary life, a massive fleet suddenly appeared, immediately ordering the gravity-blocking ships to release gravitational waves, interfering with the formation of faster-than-light warp bubbles by the planetary life, thus completely sealing off the possibility of faster-than-light travel.

The Colossus fleet collectively began charging, intending to clear away the scout nebula surrounding the planetary creatures in one fell swoop, just as it had done last time.

The next moment, four planetary creatures that had just ended their faster-than-light journey suddenly appeared near the Colossus fleet.

"Oh no! We've been caught! It's a trap!"

"Evacuate! Evacuate immediately!"

Seeing the enormous, intermittently visible eyes of the planetary creatures staring at them from within the scout clouds, the commander of the Colossus Fleet realized something was terribly wrong. In a panic, he ordered his fleet to enter faster-than-light mode, while simultaneously instructing the nearby Star Alliance fleet to abandon its attack and faster-than-light blockade.

However, the commander of the Colossus Fleet soon felt despair again due to reports from his subordinates.

Even if the friendly gravity jammers cease operation, the Colossus fleet still cannot reach faster-than-light speeds. The four planetary creatures release the same interfering gravitational waves as the gravity jammers, completely sealing off the Colossus fleet's possibility of reaching faster-than-light speeds.

Faced with the combined firepower of the four planetary creatures, the entire Colossus fleet was wiped out in just a few minutes. Although the nearby Star Alliance fleet kept pouring firepower into trying to draw the Colossus fleet's fire, it was all in vain. The black hole-induced strikes hit the edge of the Scout Nebula and could not cause much damage to the planetary creatures.

After the Colossus fleet was destroyed, the remaining Star Alliance fleet became easy prey.

Although the fleet was not within the psionic range of the planetary creatures, the planetary creatures could not easily crush all of the enemy's warships into metal spheres floating in space.

However, the planetary creatures could block the enemy fleet's ability to escape at faster-than-light speeds. With the help of a continuous stream of scouts, they could induce a large number of microscopic black holes in the enemy fleet to carry out attacks. The massive Star Alliance fleet was swiftly destroyed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The entire battle lasted less than half an hour from start to finish because everything happened too suddenly. Lu Shang had been planning this for a long time, while the Star River Alliance fleet was completely unprepared.

Upon commanding the end of the battle, Lu Shang immediately ordered the planetary creatures to enter faster-than-light speeds and evacuate the battlefield.

The moment the planetary creatures left, a large fleet of the Star Alliance arrived belatedly, only to find a scene of utter devastation...

He personally demonstrated to the Swarm Overlords and the Masterminds what it means to be united as a force and the importance of coordinated combat. Lu Shang converted his memories of this battle into a video in the form of electrical signals, and then sent it to the Star River Alliance through the network of relationships in the Dias Empire's occupied territories.

Additionally, at the end of the video, Lu Shang deliberately added the word "vegetarian" written in the League's language.

In a more colloquial way, this is called sarcasm.

The more professional term for this is psychological attack.

Attacking others doesn't have to be limited to physical attacks; it can also be done psychologically.

As the saying goes, anger is bad for your health. Lu Shang can't do anything to the military decision-makers of the Star River Alliance for the time being, but he can anger these aliens. If he can anger them to the point of developing serious health problems, or even be angered to death like Zhou Yu, then Lu Shang will definitely have made a profit.

Since we can't lose anything anyway, why not give it a try?

(End of this chapter)