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Chapter 285 This worker bee is too enigmatic

The Babel bee swarm is a terrifying race in the universe. They enjoy parasitizing and killing any intelligent life form they come into contact with, and destroying all space civilizations that know of their existence. For the bee swarm creatures, their greatest pleasure is to parasitize a creature and then feel the pheromones of fear and pain secreted by the host as it consumes nutrients and creates various terrifying fantasies.

To achieve this goal, the Babel bees developed a civilization and launched a war of conquest against the universe. They are the common enemy of all civilizations in the universe, the antithesis of all intelligent beings, and are the very embodiment of disaster and evil, a blasphemy against the gods. No one knows the origin of the Babel bees, but one thing is certain: that origin must have been extremely evil and terrifying. —This is the consensus among the advanced civilizations of the rabbi's universe.

Under this consensus, even highly technological civilizations with huge differences will tacitly put aside their hostility for the time being. Civilizations in different universes can also easily reach a consensus on this matter and unify their statements.

In fact, the reputation of the swarm wasn't so bad at first; at most, it was just a terrible race that loved war. But as time went on, for various reasons, individuals in advanced civilizations began to blame the swarm for all sorts of unpleasant things.

The reason a certain star exploded was because the Babel swarm was secretly testing a terrible weapon.

The extinction of a certain species was a tragedy caused by the Babel bee swarm.

The story of being hit and killed by a dump truck is actually the result of the Babel bees secretly using a terrible cursed weapon.

As a result, various high-tech civilizations, and even between civilizations, have become much more harmonious, but the Babel beehive has become increasingly notorious.

The logic chain within a high-tech civilization: the upper levels believe that the Babel swarm is a threat to the development of civilization, while the lower levels believe that without the Babel swarm, the universe would be a better place. All the problems stem from the existence of such a Babel swarm in the universe.

The logical chain between advanced civilizations—using the cosmic threat of the Tower of Babel swarm to facilitate temporary setting aside of differences and achieving technological cooperation with different civilizations. As long as the Tower of Babel swarm is not destroyed and the threat is not eliminated, such cooperation will not stop, and the interests of each advanced civilization can be maximized.

Thus, the universe, infamous only for the Tower of Babel swarm, was constructed.

At this point, does it still matter whether the Babel bee swarm is truly so evil and so brutal?

It doesn't matter anymore. Even if the Babel bees suddenly reformed, they would still be falsely accused of a whole host of crimes by the high-tech civilizations. This is why those high-tech civilizations that had never come into contact with the Babel bees also joined the war against them. With such enormous benefits in front of them, these high-tech civilizations could not remain unmoved.

The Adiso Galaxy Cluster is a large-scale defensive position against the Babel swarm's rampage through nearby galaxy clusters, and also a major area of ​​attack for the swarm creatures.

An automatic door opened, and a four-legged intelligent creature with a head resembling a human's rear end hurriedly entered the room.

"There are reports of unusual activity in the Babel Tower bee colony."

"Commander, I have received the report."

Inside the command center, a fellow intelligent being turned around and asked seriously, "Has the General Staff given any new instructions?"

The military governor replied, "This has never happened before."

"The General Staff has decided to send some scholars in the field of Babel bee swarm research to study the captured samples and find out the reason for this change. Until then, the commanders of each battlefield can only improvise."

The commander paused, then tentatively asked, "Does this mean that the strategic deployment will proceed as originally planned?"

The military commander nodded slightly, his expression grave, and said, "Currently, there are no major changes in the Babel Tower swarm. The original strategy is the most ideal choice: seize the Paulus Cluster, connect it with other star cluster positions, and then encircle and divide the large-scale strategic positions of the Babel Tower swarm into small areas, and then annihilate them one by one."

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In a space fortress heavily guarded and patrolled by fleets of troops, a brain gradually regains consciousness after being thawed.

The brain instinctively stirs, conveying this message.

"Where is this?"

Without sensory organs, the brain cannot see anything in the world and cannot perceive anything except itself.

That's how it should be, but the brain received a different message.

"This is a space fortress built specifically for you, worker bees of the Babel swarm."

"I am a scholar who specializes in studying your Babel Tower bee colonies. You can call me 'Mike'."

The source of the information is a metal rod connected to the outside of the brain, through which brainwave information that can be read is directly transmitted to the brain.

The worker bee, now with only one brain remaining, quickly realized why it was still alive and the purpose of the messenger.

"You guys... want to extract information about the bee colony from me?"

Scholar Mike admitted, "Just as you thought."

"Why do you think I'd tell you?" the worker bee asked.

Scholar Mike replied, "With enough patience, you, with only a brain left, can do nothing but endure our interrogation."

"No, I have other options." With that, the worker bee decided to use its psionic powers to understand itself.

Even if only a brain remains, worker bees are not entirely powerless.

However, the worker bee was shocked to discover that it could not use its psionic energy to commit suicide; its psionic energy had failed.

"What happened? Where are my psionic powers?!"

The worker bee conveyed this thought in disbelief, and soon realized that the bee colony network was also disconnected and it could not reconnect to the bee colony network.

Scholar Mike muttered to himself, "The creatures of the Tower of Babel bee colony possess a very mysterious superpower. The cause of this superpower is currently unknown, but it can be traced back to the brain."

"What's even more surprising is that the cause of this superpower is very fragile. If there is even a little damage to the brain, it will no longer be able to function properly. So, as long as you can have an appropriate brain resection without impairing your thinking ability, your superpower can no longer be used."

"..." The worker bees remained silent.

This is both a form of silence that abandons thinking and a means of resistance; no matter what, worker bees will not choose to betray the colony.

However, scholar Mike had already anticipated this change in worker bees, as similar choices had been made by worker bees in the past.

"Heh, knowing you can't even commit suicide, so you choose to fight back with silence?"

"It's useless. Individual subjective consciousness is an illusion that has never existed. Any confrontation strategy you're thinking of now, your former peers have also thought of it. It's a pity..."

Scholar Mike's sarcasm did not elicit any reaction from the worker bees; they remained determined to fight to the end.

"It's okay if you don't answer, time is on our side."

With that, scholar Mike prepared to end the conversation.

But just then, the worker bee's brain suddenly transmitted a message: "Wait."

"What? You've figured it out?" Scholar Mike was taken aback at first, then overjoyed.

The worker bee ignored the scholar Mike and continued talking to itself, "That being has something for me to convey to you."

"Does that exist?"

Scholar Mike looked puzzled, but then his eyes widened in surprise.

"You can even establish connections with other bee colonies?!"

"How is this possible!"

Having studied bee colonies for so many years, scholar Mike naturally knows that the swarm network of the Tower of Babel bees relies on a kind of superpower released by the brain with an unknown principle to build connections. As long as this special superpower is disabled, theoretically, the swarm network will always be in a disconnected state.

But now, the worker bee brain that scholar Mike is interrogating violates this common sense conclusion drawn from years of research.

On a microscopic scale unseen by scholar Mike, a medium without psychic powers or access to the swarm's psychic network is transmitting entropy instructions to the worker bees' brains by colliding with their neurons.

The worker bee's brain then conveyed the following message to scholar Mike: "Enjoy these last moments; your time is running out."

"What do you mean by that?" Scholar Mike asked, his expression shifting between anger and uncertainty.

"..." The worker bee's brain did not answer.

Scholar Mike became agitated. The worker bee brain's silence after saying only half a sentence felt more provocative to him than outright silence.

"Answer me! Who are you referring to as 'that being'? Who gave you permission to say that?"

"Tell me now, and I'll let you go back to the Tower of Babel bee colony. Otherwise, I'll make you wish you were dead. Do you understand?!"

"..." There was no reply; the worker bees remained silent.

After that, unable to extract any further information from the scholar Mike, he could only report this message from the worker bee's brain to the decision-making level.

The decision-makers then conveyed this information to the major high-tech civilizations.

Based on the recent unusual behavior of the Babel bee colony, the various high-tech civilizations hostile to the colony keenly realized that the Babel bee colony was showing signs of an impending storm!

(End of this chapter)