A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 291 This swarm of bees washes particles

"What should we do?"

Faced with such a massive amount of attack information, Rabi was momentarily flustered. He knew that the swarm led by Kasha had suffered heavy losses against these particle life forms.

Lu Shang smiled and said, "Don't rush, play with them for a while. Follow the division of labor I told you before: you'll be in charge of handling all kinds of strategic information, and I'll be in charge of lying down."

"..."

From the beginning, Lu Shang and Rabi clearly defined their division of labor. After rescuing Kasha's swarm, if the particle life forms were not all frozen and trapped in stagnant spacetime and instead attacked Lu Shang's side, then the coordination of operations between the various units would be handed over to Rabi. When Lu Shang needed it, he could reclaim military command.

Rabi naturally opposed this, knowing full well that his command talent was inferior to Lu Shang's, but once Lu Shang had made his decision, there was no point in Rabi objecting.

Subsequently, the bee swarm under Rabbi's command faced the same problem as Kasha's side.

Or rather, it's almost a replica of Kai'Sa's swarm. A large number of particle life forms use the bodies of various swarm organisms as microscopic battlefields. No matter how powerful the swarm's attack methods are, they are useless. They can't drag themselves into the attack, can they?

Even if the bee swarm is fearless, this plays right into the enemy's hands. The enemy's abilities are limited, and apart from methods that erode basic particles, it is difficult to kill the bee swarm in one go.

Rabbi used the same strategy as Kasha, using the medium creatures as eyes on a microscopic scale and the planetary creatures to unleash their psionic powers to eliminate the endless stream of particle life, resulting in a stalemate.

Because Rabi's command abilities were relatively weak, some command errors allowed the particle life forms to gain an advantage in the microscopic battlefield earlier and faster than when they were with Kasa.

On a microscopic scale, countless particle life forms surge like a tide within each bee colony organism, as if cheering for their impending victory.

The fact that Lu Shang's swarm joined the war halfway through was certainly unexpected for the particle life forms, but it did not shake their confidence in victory.

It's just a matter of having more enemies. Quantity doesn't matter to them. More enemies mean more particles. As long as the enemies are composed of complex particles, their numbers will always be greater than the enemies'.

Before long, the following line of text appeared in the optical organs of all the bee colony creatures, including Lu Shang and Rabi.

"Your numbers have surprised us, but the final outcome of this struggle remains unchanged."

Making threats when they believe the battle is over seems to be a behavioral habit of these particle life forms in the Mecaron civilization, or perhaps it's related to the civilization's internal culture, or some other reason. Lu Shang wasn't interested in guessing the specific factors that caused it, but it wasn't a bad thing for the swarm anyway.

Lu Shang looked at the wine glass swaying in his hand with a half-smile. "You guys seem to think you've already won?"

As Lu Shang responded, a line of text appeared in his eyes.

"Are you the mastermind behind this bee swarm?"

Lu Shang didn't answer directly, but instead asked with a half-smile, "I'm curious, what gave you the confidence to think you could definitely win?"

Soon, a few lines of text appeared in Lu Shang's eyes.

"Isn't the result obvious now?"

"Or is it that the impending failure has already overwhelmed your rational thinking, rendering you unable to make sound judgments?"

"What a pitiful and pathetic macroscopic creature."

On an unseen microscopic scale, massive particle life forms are eroding Lu Shang's body, while countless medium and planetary organisms are working together to protect and repair it.

The particle life forms are not just making threats; they also know very well that eliminating the mastermind of the Babel swarm will make victory much easier for them.

Lu Shang said with a strange expression, "...For a moment, I don't know whether to call you naive or stupid. Your technical capabilities are nowhere near ours. Didn't you see that we can even stop time?"

Before long, Lu Shang saw the mockery from the particle life forms in his eyes.

"So what? Don't you bee-like creatures need time too?"

"To deal with us, you want to freeze time for every individual in your mother civilization? We'd be happy to see you commit suicide like that."

In the constant clashes at the microscopic scale, the particle life forms discovered that some of their companions were captured and imprisoned by the enemy using time-stopping techniques. However, this did not matter, because the enemy itself was composed of complex particles, and the companions they lost could be obtained by eroding the enemy's fundamental particles.

"I've made it so clear, haven't you realized it yet?" Lu Shang couldn't help but sigh.

"Realize what?" the particle life form asked.

Lu Shang sneered, "Of course we realize that all of this is just a trap we're using to destroy your civilization."

As he spoke, Lu Shang gave the swarm instructions, "Execute the negative quantum cleansing strategy. We've captured enough prisoners. Kill all the remaining worthless ones."

The host universes that had remained inactive then responded.

"OK."

The next moment, all of spacetime within the Mother Nest universe entered a state of time standstill.

The timeline of the Mother Universe is independent of its internal spacetime; they are separate timelines, so the freezing of internal spacetime has no effect on the Mother Universe.

During this phase, particle life forms will be unable to invade the inner spacetime of the mother universe because the entropy increase has reached zero here. If particle life forms were to enter, they would accumulate at the edge of the wormhole entrance.

Next comes the cleansing phase. The mother universe uses the void formula to create positive and negative quanta, and then throws all the macroscopic matter within its own spacetime, particle by particle, to the negative quanta, and then replenishes the positive quanta to those macroscopic matter.

This method of replacement is used for everything from living things to non-living things, from organisms within the bee colony to other large substances outside the colony.

In this way, all the particle life forms within the Mother Nest Universe were 'washed away' by negative quanta.

On the other side, the moment Lu Shang activated the Freeze Cycle in the Mother Nest Universe, his consciousness returned to his original body.

That's right, the one who was talking to the particle life form was just a substitute for him. Lu Shang wasn't stupid enough to risk his life and let his body become a microscopic battlefield.

The planetary creature where Lu Shang's main body resides is in an independent microcosm, which is filled with countless microscopic wormholes. These microscopic wormholes, which are opened by the bee swarm itself, compress the naturally occurring microscopic wormholes so that they cannot form. Although these microscopic wormholes, which are expanded by the bee swarm's psionic energy, exist stably, the bee swarm uses psionic energy to prevent all matter from passing through these microscopic wormholes.

Therefore, these microscopic wormholes, which appear as wormholes on a microscopic scale, are actually walls that elementary particles cannot penetrate.

For those particle lifeforms to attack, they first need enough energy to break the swarm's psionic energy that maintains these microscopic wormholes, secondly, they need artificial wormhole technology, and finally, they need to know the coordinates of the planetary lifeform where Lu Shang's main body is located. If any one of these three factors is missing, they will not be able to defeat them.

Through the swarm network, Lu Shang received a message from Rabbi: "Lu Shang, I still can't figure out how to deal with the Mecaron civilization."

Lu Shang laughed and said, "Rabbi, there is no such thing as perfection in this world. Every civilization has its fatal weaknesses. The reason you can't figure out how to deal with the Mecaron civilization is simply because you don't know enough about them."

Lu Shang then continued, "Interrogate those prisoners. You are allowed to use any means necessary to extract information about the internal workings of the Mecaron civilization from those particle life forms."

(End of this chapter)