A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 332 Life Tools Are Too Useful

"As expected, it grew crooked," said a certain planetary creature.

The Mother Nest Universe, which is the main body of matter in that world, replied: "At least it's not a complete loss. We've collected quite a few analyzable biological templates. The Lu Entropy main brain's idea is correct. Life can not only be used to explore psionic energy, but also to explore other aspects."

"Life always finds a way; life is the most ideal tool for exploration."

A microscopic creature wandering in the void asked, "Should we enter next?"

"The Lu Entropy mainframe has no such arrangement," the Mother Nest Universe replied.

"But I feel that relying on these creatures in the psionic network is not quite enough," the micro-creature said with some doubt. According to the way this civilization, built on enslavement, is doing things, exploration and scientific research will not be the main direction. The main direction is how to better consolidate its rule and dominate other races.

This is not the direction the bee colony wants.

Meanwhile, the microscopic organisms also noticed another problem with the civilization in the psionic network that was built on enslavement.

The microscopic beings said to the Mother Nest Universe: "The civilization in this psionic network has not shown a strong desire to explore, its efficiency is too low, and its existence will hinder the exploration of other civilizations."

"It's just a minor issue, we can clean it up," Mother Universe replied.

As a series of thoughts from the Mother Universe spread throughout the universe in an instant, another vast universe built on the foundation of the psionic network also began to distort.

The process of distortion is rapid and fundamental. No one in that universe—whether enslavers, enslaved, or those who rebelled and were driven to the margins—has the ability to stop this fundamental change in the universe; they don't even have the capacity to perceive it.

It was just a fleeting thought within the Mother Nest universe, and the civilization within the psionic network vanished in an instant.

"What did you do?" one of the worker bees asked with a hint of surprise, and the other bee creatures in the colony were also puzzled.

The psionic network exists in relation to the Hive Universe, so the Hive Universe could easily destroy the civilization within that psionic network with a mere thought, without the swarm creatures finding it incomprehensible.

What surprised the swarm creatures was that the civilization built around the enslavers in the psionic network was destroyed, but the total number of life forms in that psionic network did not decrease.

Life remains, only civilization has died.

The Mother Nest Universe replied, "Just now, I destroyed the thinking ability of those creatures. Without intelligence, civilization naturally ceases to exist. A group of creatures without intelligence cannot build a civilization."

"Well then, all that's left is to wait..."

Waiting for a suitable civilization, based on these lives, to appear in the sight of the bee colony!

……

Through the swarm's psionic network, Lu Shang learned about information from the psionic network universe of the Mother Nest Universe and clearly understood everything that was happening there.

"One civilization, one universe, how interesting."

"I'm becoming more and more interested in the true nature of psionic energy," Lu Shang murmured, taking a sip of purple tea.

Lu Shang didn't know what the true nature of psionic energy was, and he didn't even have a clue. At most, he could only be sure that it was not directly related to energy.

In general, it's similar to studying the psychic brain. Without clues or a research framework, in-depth research can only rely on guesswork and luck. It's impossible to study it by following the clues.

So Lu Shang had a sudden inspiration: since life can be imprisoned in civilized breeding farms to explore higher-level psionic brain structures, wouldn't it be feasible to trap life in the psionic energy of a bee colony and use life to explore the essence of the bee colony's psionic energy?

"Lu Shang Mainframe, is there any need to make any adjustments?" the microscopic organisms reported back to Lu Shang.

Lu Shang shook his head slightly, "There's no need for that. If needed later, I will give you orders. For now, proceed according to the original plan."

"learn."

Time in the psionic network universe is accelerating. Although there is no 'spacetime' in the traditional sense as it exists on the Hive, and even if it is distorted, it will not have any effect on time, the Hive universe can accelerate or decelerate 'time' in that universe by interfering with the entropy growth rate in the psionic network.

In the infinitely accelerating time of the psionic network universe, civilizations rise and fall in an instant, only to perish in the next.

Some of these civilizations were inevitably destroyed due to their own internal or external factors, while others, although powerful, stable, and large enough, did not meet the requirements of the swarm, so they were simply wiped out.

Life in the psionic network universe thus continuously and dynamically develops and expands its civilization, cycling between life and death.

However, life always finds a way out. Under the endless test of time, there will always be some who slip through the net. These civilizations accidentally discovered the continuous brainwashing attacks that the Mother Universe has been carrying out over the endless years.

Unable to comprehend the Mother Universe itself, these civilizations can only simply understand this brainwashing attack as a basic cosmic phenomenon similar to 1+1=2, requiring no reason, cause and effect, or logic.

In response to this cosmic catastrophe, various civilizations have adopted a variety of coping strategies.

Most coping strategies are ineffective because the "intelligence reduction attack" destroys the logical thinking ability of living beings. Not to mention living beings, even sophisticated intelligent AI cannot escape it. As a result, only a few coping strategies are successful.

In other words, it is to leave behind information about civilization in a way that does not rely on any intelligence, so that new civilizations that appear in the psionic universe can learn about it.

More and more civilizations are joining the effort to evade the intelligence-reducing attacks from the Mother Universe, and this group of civilizations grows considerably with each attack.

In order to survive, they chose to unite with each other, thereby increasing the probability of their civilization surviving in cosmic catastrophes.

However, these civilizations were unaware that such actions were only increasing the likelihood of their own complete annihilation.

"A strike that merely destroys a life form's ability to think is far from enough; the civilization in that universe has already found a way to circumvent such a strike."

"We can no longer be so tolerant of these civilized life forms; their actions are hindering the bee colony."

"Perhaps we can try to communicate with them and get them to cooperate with the swarm's plans. Life in the psionic network universe has worked so hard to develop to this point, and it would be such a pity to destroy it so easily."

"Contact violates Lu Shang's mastermind plan; don't do anything unnecessary!"

The bee colony was arguing, with most believing that a more aggressive approach was needed, as gentle, destructive tactics were no longer effective.

A small number of swarm creatures felt that this was only a temporary solution, and besides, the swarm's plan was to use life within the psionic network universe as exploration tools, and the act of annihilating life in that universe was actually affecting efficiency.

The idea of ​​this small swarm of bees is that it doesn't matter how the civilization in that universe is destroyed, as long as life is preserved because it is useful to the plan.

Just as the swarm of creatures were arguing, the mastermind Rabi transmitted a message to them: "Agreed. The Lu Shang mastermind agrees to transmit information to civilizations within the psionic network universe."

"Didn't the Lu Shang mainframe state in the original plan that, in order to prevent the emergence of a two-way channel formed by communication, information exchange with any intelligent species in the psionic network universe is prohibited?" The mainframe Kasha, who received the information, was surprised.

The rabbi explained, "It is true that communication is prohibited because it is risky, but one-way information input is allowed, as one-way input does not count as communication."

"Life always finds a way. For the bee colony to fight against those civilizations on the network is actually a waste of time and unnecessary. If the bee colony can keep those civilizations in line by simply inputting information, it can save the bee colony a lot of trouble for its plans."

"What if the result of doing this is not ideal?" a planetary being asked.

Rabbi replied, "Lu Shang said that we should handle things the same way we handled them before."

The bee creatures all realized that their swarm information had been exposed, and that it had been discovered by a civilization hostile to the swarm. They could guess what the swarm would do next without much thought, and that it was safest to take action in advance and wipe them all out.

This is the treatment method that has been used since the first civilized breeding farm was completed!

(End of this chapter)