A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 4 seems stable but is actually quite anxious.

The deputy commander, who reacted first, immediately took over the command and ordered, "Pursue! Pursue! Pursue! Don't let them get away!"

"The Colossus has completed its charging phase. Forcibly terminating its operation will cause irreversible damage!" the Colossus operator reported anxiously.

"Damn it!" The commander, belatedly realizing what was happening, cursed angrily and immediately ordered the communications officer: "Contact the other fleets immediately and intercept that escaping nest planet!"

"Listen carefully, it's absolutely necessary! They must be wiped out in the Bogu Nebula!"

The commander's exasperated voice echoed in the flagship's bridge.

He was originally waiting for the seemingly insane bee creature to finish its story before he mercifully unleashed a devastating attack on the Nest Star, reducing it to ashes.

What a perfect script!

The entire nest planet actually ran away?!

The Nest Planet can actually be escaped!!!

……

Lu Shang, who had narrowly escaped death, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, but now was not the time for him to feel fortunate to have survived, because there was still a very important matter he had to deal with.

He walked out of the cave he hadn't left since waking up, and followed the newly dug tunnel by the worker bees into a huge cave that the worker bees had recently dug.

Nest Star is a giant nest transformed by the Babel bee colony. The environment on the planet is unimaginable, with acidic rivers everywhere and the air filled with poisonous spores, toxic gases, and so on.

If it weren't for the fact that the swarm's main brains hadn't temporarily dug a dry cave filled with habitable air for Lu Shang in order to study his human genes and physiological characteristics, Lu Shang would have died long before he woke up.

I don't know whether to thank the mastermind for its indiscriminate consumption of biological genes, or to thank God for this good fortune.

The cave walls were covered with fluorescent fungi, their faint light illuminating the interior. Lu Shang could vaguely make out a dark mass of grotesque-looking creatures gathered there.

Besides worker bees, other types of bee colony organisms also gather here.

After Lu Shang arrived at the cave, the creatures tacitly made way for him, and Lu Shang walked straight to the granite platform in the center of the huge cave.

Needless to say, this granite platform, like this enormous cave, was built in this way at the bee command of Lu Shang.

On the platform, Lu Shang took a deep breath of the slightly sour and rotten air and addressed the bee-like creatures below.

"Everyone, I have kept my promise."

"We are safe for now. Although the Star Alliance also possesses faster-than-light technology, they do not know where we are going. Whether it is blockade or search, it will take time to complete. During this period, we will not be attacked by the Star Alliance."

"But... that doesn't mean we won't be destroyed by the Star River Alliance in the future."

"I need your strength, I need your recognition as the mastermind of the hive, both for my survival and for the continuation of your hive."

Many in the Star Alliance are often misled by the Babel Tower swarm's fearlessness, assuming that apart from the swarm's mastermind and overlord, the other biological units of the swarm are like machines, controlled and expendable.

In fact, the other bee colonies in the Tower of Babel also possess the ability to think, but their thinking ability and logic are much weaker than those of the master brain and the overlord, because their brain structure has been simplified.

The mastermind's control over the swarm creatures is actually the complete opposite of the cybernetics of the Star Alliance. It is not that the mastermind forcibly controls the swarm creatures, but rather the swarm creatures give the mastermind and the overlord absolute control over themselves.

As for why this is the case, it is naturally because their social nature is like this, just like human society has always been a pyramid structure, which is only natural.

Even if you kill all the masterminds and overlords of the swarm, overlords and masterminds that can command the swarm will still emerge from among the swarm's creatures.

Lu Shang stared at the bee-like creatures gathered below the stage, and a message was transmitted directly from the bee swarm network constructed by psionic energy into Lu Shang's mind.

[Weren't you already the mastermind?]

The bee creatures looked at Lu Shang strangely. Since Lu Shang was directing the bee creatures on the nest star on how to escape the Star River Alliance's firepower at faster-than-light speed, he was regarded by the bee creatures on the nest star as the mastermind.

Lu Shang was certainly aware of these things, but he had other reasons for making such a request.

"This is only temporary. You were forced into this position by the situation. But if we reunite with other fleeing Babel bees after a while, will you take orders from the mastermind or from me?"

"I need a clear answer from you."

These bee swarms were originally under the control of the previous mastermind of the Nest Star. If Lu Shang was doing a good job as the mastermind, and then encountered that mastermind, would these bee swarms listen to him or to that mastermind?

This is a problem, and one that directly concerns Lu Shang's life or death. You must understand that he is currently on a planet nested in by swarm creatures, where even the microorganisms floating in the air are controlled individuals carrying swarm genes.

Shortly after Lu Shang made his inquiry, he received a collective inquiry from individuals within the swarm of people in the network.

Can you lead your swarm to victory in this interstellar war?

"I can't be sure about that, because I don't know enough about the Star Alliance yet, but I'm sure I can do a better job than your previous mainframes."

This isn't Lu Shang boasting; after digesting more of the swarm's memories in his brain and learning about the swarm's past space battles, Lu Shang's evaluation of the swarm's mastermind has plummeted.

Honestly, Lu Shang believes that any human being with normal intelligence could do better than those swarm brains.

After a brief silence, the individual users in the network continued to send out collective inquiries.

Can you guarantee that the bee colony won't be wiped out by the Star River Alliance?

"I can guarantee this with my life. Survival is not like defeating a powerful enemy, where there is only one choice. I can do things that the mainframes couldn't do before."

Lu Shang answered very confidently this time, because even if he couldn't do it, he had to, otherwise he wouldn't be able to survive.

Now, the swarm and the land entropy are in the same boat; their fates are intertwined.

As for surrendering to the Star Alliance?

Who will guarantee his human rights?

How can we ensure that after he surrenders, he won't be kept in a zoo like a rare animal, or that he won't be sent to a laboratory for dissection as a test subject?

Since there are no human rights anyway, his death is no big deal; nobody in the Star River Alliance will care.

If there is any reason to need a few healthy humans, the Star Alliance can simply clone some humans using the genes extracted from him.

If even the limits of human capabilities cannot be guaranteed, Lu Shang has absolutely no confidence in the limits of extraterrestrial capabilities.

So, he seems to have a choice, but in reality he has no choice. The destruction of the bee colony means that his fate will not be good either!

The same applies to bee colonies. Survival and continuation are their primary needs, and no person, no life, and no matter can stop a bee colony from its desire for survival and continuation.

If such a life form or object must exist in the way, the bee colony will do everything in its power to destroy it until the last bee cell dies!

Lu Shang demanded an answer, and tens of thousands of bee-like creatures gave it one—"We will obey your commands unconditionally, Mastermind Lu Shang."

"You made a wise choice."

A smile appeared on Lu Shang's tense expression, and his clenched fist slowly relaxed.

After all, he wasn't born from the hive, and to be honest, Lu Shang wasn't sure if he could gain the hive's complete trust.

(End of this chapter)