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Chapter 282 The Swarm Mastermind is Too Astonished

Because the opposing civilization adopted overly conservative and outdated strategies and tactics, the Babel beehive's strategy proceeded exceptionally smoothly.

Those microcosms secretly developed by high-level psionic beings for escape after defeat in war were rendered useless because the medium beings discovered them early on.

When the swarm launches its attack, it also targets these miniature universes. If any escapees do manage to get through, it's only because some psionic beings used these miniature universes to escape before the medium beings discovered them.

In this war to reclaim the civilized breeding farm, the highest-level psionic being captured was level 79, which can be considered a considerable harvest. The maximum psionic level of the bee swarm has been directly raised to level 79.

However, Lu Shang estimated that to restore the level of level 100 spiritual energy, he probably couldn't rely on those lost civilization farms.

Lu Shang had never seen such high-level psionic beings in any naturally developed psionic civilization. The probability of their appearance was too low; it was even less likely than that of bee colonies being induced and bred through civilized breeding farms.

Just as Lu Shang was calculating how many new civilization breeding farms to build to restore the hive's level 100 psionic energy, a worker bee on a planetary creature contacted him.

"What's the matter?" Lu Shang asked.

The worker bee said to Lu Shang, "I have a little clue about how the Ultimate Destruction attacked the use of swarm psionic energy."

Upon hearing that it was about ultimate destruction and related to that psionic strike, Lu Shang immediately perked up.

It's important to understand that if Ultimate Destruction could disable the Babel Swarm's ability to use psionic energy in that unknown way, it could disable it a second time.

Although the problem of psionic strikes can be addressed by using other non-psionic technologies to replace psionic strikes and prevent the swarm from being wiped out again, if given a choice, it would naturally be better to have the psionic strikes fail again.

There's no way around it, psychic energy is just too convenient. Other technologies have to consider energy issues to some extent, but with psychic energy, you can solve everything as long as you have a brain. It's just too convenient to use.

"Oh? Tell me about it," Lu Shang said.

The worker bee explained to Lu Shang: "The ultimate destruction psionic disablement strike is actually a structural attack on the psionic brain."

"As you know, Lu Shang's main brain is able to exert spiritual energy through the brain mainly because of the brain's structure. Although it's unclear why a specific brain structure can release spiritual energy, it is an objective phenomenon that can be utilized."

"The psionic development of the bee colony is based on this."

Lu Shang was not very satisfied with the worker bee's explanation, because the worker bee was saying things he already knew.

So, Lu Shang urged the worker bees to focus on the key points, saying directly, "These are things we already know. I want to hear about what we don't know. What's this about the structural attack on the psionic brain you mentioned?"

The worker bee summarized the key points and replied: "It's about the prohibition of psionic energy in a certain type of brain structure. Take psionic creatures for example. Even though they are both level 79 psionic brains, the level 79 psionic brains of the bee colony in the past and the level 79 brains of the current psionic creatures are completely different in structure."

"Why is it that, despite both being psionic brains with the same level of psionic power, only differing in brain structure, one lost all psionic power after the final destruction, while the other can still use it normally?" the worker bee asked Lu Shang.

Lu Shang thought for a moment, then replied, "Isn't it possible that it escaped the psionic energy suppression attack because it was born later?"

In response, the worker bee said, "I had considered this possibility, so I only made a judgment after the war to reclaim the civilized farm ended and I obtained the memories of those psionic creatures."

"These psionic creatures are rebels against the hive. The oldest of them can be traced back to the moment when the hive suffered its ultimate destruction. The level 79 psionic creature I just mentioned was one of those who rebelled against the hive."

"It can be said that the level 79 psionic creature experienced the ultimate destruction along with the swarm."

Lu Shang countered, "Are you sure that level 79 psionic creature wasn't lying?"

The worker bee replied, "In order to obtain the most accurate information and prevent that psionic creature from deceiving the colony on this matter, I directly read the creature's brain memories and use the information from those memories as the basis for my thinking."

Upon hearing this, Lu Shang nodded slightly and said, "Your discovery is very valuable, but to be on the safe side, I think it is necessary to find more psionic creatures with similar conditions for comparison."

"OK."

The worker bee and Lu Shang lost contact. Lu Shang leaned back on the sofa, took a sip of purple tea, and fell into thought.

If everything is as the worker bees say, and the ultimate destructive psionic disablement attack only targets the use of psionic brain structures, then the swarm could easily record countless high-level psionic brain structures.

The ultimate destructive strike uses one structure, while the swarm uses a different structure, yet still retains the ability to utilize powerful psionic energy.

Just as Lu Shang was pondering, a request for help from the swarm network interrupted his thoughts.

"We've encountered a problem and are unable to make a judgment."

The information came from a planetary creature guarding the psionic captives. It seemed to have encountered something very serious, making it unable to make an effective judgment on the current situation, and could only place its hopes on Lu Shang.

Lu Shang raised his eyebrows in confusion. He thought that there shouldn't be any reason for a guard mission to encounter a problem that would cause planetary creatures such a dilemma. After all, guarding prisoners requires force, not the brain to make choices.

With a puzzled look on his face, Lu Shang said, "Send me the information."

"Hmm..." Lu Shang, having received the information, showed a look of understanding, but then paused, his understanding quickly turning into astonishment. "Huh? Holy crap!?"

After reading all the information transmitted by the planetary beings, Lu Shang was completely unable to remain calm.

Originally, according to the swarm's attitude towards captives, after thoroughly studying these psionic creatures with swarm networks inside and out, they were all to be recycled as materials for rebuilding the new civilization's breeding farm.

After all, these psionic creatures are aware of the existence of the bee colony and possess its psionic network. If they were thrown directly into a civilized breeding farm, who knows what kind of trouble would result.

In any case, for the psionic creatures being farmed, knowing about the existence of the Babel Tower bee colony and its network is not necessary for evolving level 100 psionic power. It's better to simply physically eliminate them and replace them with a batch of psionic creatures that know nothing and do not possess a bee network, which is less risky.

However, just as the planetary beings were preparing to take action, the swarm network of those psionic civilizations suddenly came to life.

As things stand, the captured psionic beings are unable to think or speak. If they could think, they could potentially use psionic powers, so the swarm must maintain constant brain interference to keep them unconscious.

If a swarm network can transmit information at this point, it can only be something else.

(End of this chapter)