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Chapter 286 The Main Brain's Thinking is Too Rigid

The information revealed by the worker bee's brain during the interrogation, as well as the news that the colony connection was still maintained, spread like wildfire.

The decision-makers of all the major high-tech civilizations are quite nervous about this matter and have expressed concern about the information from the worker bee brain. However, the emotions of those at the lower levels are more varied.

Some are worried, while many are not.

Some people don't think the message from the worker bee's brain is related to the recent unusual behavior of the Babel Tower bee colony. They think it's just a coincidence, that the worker bee said that in order to spread false information and confuse people, and it just so happens to coincide with the recent unusual behavior of the Babel Tower bee colony.

Some people believe that all of this is just a farce on a cosmic scale orchestrated by the swarm's mastermind.

The swarm's mastermind deliberately caused the swarm to behave abnormally, plunging major civilizations into anxiety and unease. Then, it instructed the captured swarm creatures to convey this false information to the hostile civilizations, thereby achieving the strategic goal of confusing them. All the Babel Tower swarm had to do was put on a show by the entire swarm of creatures and capture a small number of them.

From the perspective of a swarm civilization like the Tower of Babel bee swarm, it can be said that there was almost no cost involved.

If it succeeds, all will be well; if it fails, the Babel bee colony will not suffer much loss, so it is a strategy worth trying.

Others believe that what the worker bee in the Babel bee colony said was true, and that there really was some change on the colony's side that made the entire Babel bee colony believe that they would soon win. However, this is merely a subjective opinion of the bee colony itself.

Given that the Babel bee swarm is hostile to all civilizations in the universe and has also provoked civilizations from other universes to become enemies, how can they possibly change the situation, reverse the tide, and ultimately win the victory?

The answer is no. This is the view held by the lower levels of various advanced civilizations. Therefore, this is merely a misjudgment by the Babel swarm based on the limited information they have obtained. It is also reliable evidence that the Babel swarm is about to decline and perish in this war of civilizations that encompasses other universes.

On a certain planet, two intelligent beings with blue skin were discussing the recent cosmic situation.

When the topic turned to the Tower of Babel bee swarm, one of them asked, "Ryder, have you heard about the warning about the Tower of Babel bee swarm capturing brains?"

Ryder asked in surprise, "That's not a rumor? I heard it was the prisoner's brain who said that on purpose to get revenge on the interrogators, making us all afraid."

The blue skin of his companion lightened slightly, a subtle change that his species subconsciously makes when they disagree with another's point of view. "How could it be a rumor? The unusual behavior exhibited by all the creatures in the Babel Tower bee colony a while ago is solid evidence of this."

Ryder had heard many versions of the story about the worker bee brain in the Tower of Babel colony, and these versions were all different and very convincing.

For example, subsequent tests confirmed that the worker bee brain of that Babel bee colony was not connected to the colony network.

If that's the case, then what the worker bee brain says about relaying a message to someone in the Babel hive is probably not true.

However, not wanting to spoil his companion's fun, Ryder didn't directly refute him, but instead went along with his question, asking, "So what exactly happened to the Babel Tower bee colony recently?"

"This..." His companion was a little embarrassed; he didn't know the answer to this question.

Ryder shrugged, looking speechless. "We haven't even investigated the situation properly, have we? Don't put yourself in this position. The Babel swarm is already doomed."

As he spoke, Ryder analyzed the recent situation on the cosmic battlefield for his companions, using the situation to explain how dangerous the Babel swarm was now facing.

"Not to mention the coalition forces formed by the cooperation of various civilizations, those swarm creatures would probably have a hard time dealing with the newly developed area-of-effect spacetime strike weapon alone."

"Next, as long as we continue to seize strategic locations in the universe and further compress the Babel swarm's regional dominance in this universe, they will be out of the game."

"If I were the commander of the Babel bee swarm, I'd probably be anxious and restless right now, hahaha."

Unbeknownst to these two blue-skinned creatures, their every word and action was being clearly seen by the medium creature lurking in the microscopic quantum sea.

In war, intelligence is of paramount importance; without any intelligence about the enemy, even an attack cannot be launched.

Therefore, after taking over Rabi's command, Lu Shang's first thought was how to obtain more intelligence on hostile high-tech civilizations.

The enemy excelled in intelligence warfare, using methods whose principles were not yet fully understood to accurately detect the existence of microscopic organisms. They also developed a micro-machine specifically designed to target these organisms, thus preventing Rabbi's bee swarm from gaining any intelligence advantage.

After Lu Shang sent some microscopic creatures to their deaths several times, he confirmed through the deaths of these creatures that the enemy was using a swarm of psionic energy networks to pinpoint the location of these microscopic creatures at a microscopic scale.

Therefore, Lu Shang instructed the media organisms to disconnect from the bee colony network and directly explore in depth. After obtaining information, they would then bring the information back to the bee colony, thus solving the intelligence problem at once.

Because there was no reaction on the psionic network, the enemy's microscopic detection was completely unresponsive, like a blind person.

If we were to detect ordinary particles, there would be particles flying around everywhere in the universe every moment, and the alarm would be going off 24 hours a day. So there is no such thing as microscopic detection.

Not to mention, the hostile high-tech civilization had no idea beforehand that the creatures of the Babel beehive would actually choose to sever their connection with the beehive network.

The main problem is that the rabbi, as the mastermind, lacks flexible strategic thinking.

Thus, the swarm successfully acquired a massive amount of intelligence.

"I'm not upset, I'm so sorry."

Lu Shang couldn't help but complain about the conversation between the two blue-skinned people, then shook his head and asked the main brain responsible for collecting intelligence from other universes.

"Report on the exploration progress of medium beings in other universes."

The intelligence-gathering masterminds in other universes reported to Lu Shang: "In addition to the universe currently occupied by the swarm as the battlefield, the total mass of the other participating universes has reached seven mother universes."

The total mass of a universe represents the war potential of the native civilizations in that universe, but this is not absolute, because if the void formula is discovered, mass-energy can be obtained directly from nothingness.

After pondering for a moment, Lu Shang asked, "What level of technology do those advanced civilizations in the universe currently possess?"

The mastermind reported: "Some advanced civilizations in hostile universes possess extraterrestrial detection technology. After numerous tests by cosmic beings, it has been determined that none of these advanced civilizations in hostile universes have the capability to conduct extraterrestrial warfare. Their main means of attack is through wormholes."

Lu Shang looked enlightened. This was something that had been bothering him lately. "No wonder no void entities have participated in the war. I was worried that those civilizations might be plotting something."

The swarm hasn't been making any moves lately, mainly because they've been on guard against what tricks the enemy might be up to. Now we can finally relax completely.

The mastermind asked Lu Shang, "The current battle is at a stalemate. What should the swarm do next?"

Lu Shang said, "To pacify internal strife, we must first secure external stability. There are no swarms in those hostile universes, so we don't need to consider the destructiveness of our actions. After gathering the necessary intelligence, we can directly execute a wormhole-style negative quantum strike."

"Once these external problems are resolved, even the most advanced civilizations in this universe, no matter how capable they are, will not be able to cause any trouble."

The mainframe asked curiously, "Why not incorporate those hostile civilizations from other universes as satellite civilizations?"

Lu Shang shook his head. "That would be too troublesome. Besides, the swarm is different now than when it first suffered the psionic ban attack. Right now, we don't need satellite civilizations that much. It would be more efficient to just clean it up directly."

"Go and carry out a wormhole-type negative quantum strike."

The mastermind responded, "Okay!"

(End of this chapter)