A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 57 These Masterminds Have Seriously Unbalanced Specializations

Inside a star base, a creature in a hibernation pod was startled awake from its slumber by a tremor.

A pleasant notification sound rang out, and the transparent hatch of the hibernation pod slowly opened. Han Ou rubbed his still slightly aching forehead, his thoughts somewhat chaotic.

Han Ou slowly sat up and saw a starfish-shaped intelligent creature not far away, wriggling its supple body and slowly walking towards him.

"Han'ou, don't be nervous, the battle you commanded is over."

"Nako, what was the result of the battle?" Han Ou asked calmly after composing himself.

Nako shook her two tentacles and replied, "It was destroyed. The entire remote-controlled fleet you commanded was wiped out. Fortunately, the ships currently in service are all remote-controlled, so you still have a chance to defeat the enemy again."

"Total annihilation? That's impossible. I've been keeping the fleet at a distance from the planetary swarm of bee creatures..." Han Ou rejected Nako's explanation without even thinking.

"According to the psionic detection logs, the enemy units rapidly closed the distance to your fleet in a very short time, and then destroyed the fleet you commanded before you could even react."

Battlefield records don't lie, but Han Ou felt his head was throbbing even more, because it meant that the swarm of creatures ignored the gravitational waves of the gravity-blocking ship and approached the fleet he commanded at a supersonic speed exceeding the speed of light.

How is that possible?

Gravity-blocking ships can block faster-than-light travel!

Han Ou asked, puzzled, "This doesn't make sense. The gravity-blocking ship has been operating at full power the whole time. How could the enemy possibly approach the fleet at faster-than-light speed?"

Nako said helplessly, "That's how it looks from the battlefield records. I'm neither a commander nor a staff officer, so I can't analyze it for you any further. You'll have to find out the specific reasons yourself."

Nako paused and added, "Before you woke up, the General Staff sent you a message asking you to quickly compile a detailed battlefield report and send it to them."

Han Ou's heart skipped a beat, and he nodded in reply, "Reply to the General Staff for me, and I will prepare the report as soon as possible."

"OK."

Watching Nako's five-pointed star-shaped figure twist away, and considering the information he had just gained from their conversation, Han Ou found it difficult to remain calm.

If he's right, the Babel bee colony has probably undergone a second mutation.

Just like the crushing defeat that occurred on the battlefield of the Diaz Empire, the advantage that the alliance had painstakingly gained was gone...

What is the source of this seemingly endless mutation of the Babel Tower bee colony?

Han Ou's thoughts drifted far away.

……

Time acceleration is a divine skill.

Imagine if we ignore lifespan, one second for someone else is equivalent to millions of years for you. So even if you have poor learning talent, can someone else's knowledge base catch up with yours?

Obviously not. In fact, if you wanted, you could have plenty of time to learn all the skills of the entire civilization.

The same applies to civilizations. If one civilization has developed for millions of years longer than another, then the former obviously has an advantage. Even if the former civilization is less gifted than the latter, the huge time difference can make up for this difference in talent.

Therefore, when Lu Shang noticed that psionic energy could accelerate time by expanding spacetime, while the Star River Alliance was still conducting scientific research in normal spacetime, Lu Shang understood that the bee swarm, which was increasingly adept at using psionic energy, was no longer on the same level as the Star River Alliance.

Even though the Star Alliance is larger and controls more resources, this is still the case.

"So, Lu Shang, you've been studying closed-loop spacetime for five hundred years?" the mainframe Nanali asked curiously.

Lu Shang explained, "To be precise, it took five hundred years to research some results. Closed spacetime and closed spacetime cannot be generalized. There are many types of spacetime structures. For example, the inside of a black hole is also a closed spacetime, but its closed spacetime points inward. Objects falling into the event horizon of a black hole, no matter which direction they move, will always point towards the singularity at the center."

After a pause, Lu Shang continued, "Of course, there are also the reverse, closed-loop spacetimes where all movement points outwards. Then there are Möbius strip-like closed-loop spacetimes that require being transported to a higher dimension to escape, and then there are..."

Lu Shang listed various types of closed-loop spacetime.

"..."

The AI's masters couldn't understand, but they were deeply shocked...

We can't expect these mainframes to understand what Lu Shang is saying. The Babel Tower bee swarm has always focused on collecting biological genes. None of them have ever cared about what spacetime is, what the universe is, or what the relationship between time and space is.

Even if a miraculous case does occur, and a bee happens to emerge in the colony that cares about the specifics of spacetime, it will soon be killed by its own kind.

Because it neglects its proper function, instead of collecting strange genes for the bee colony, it wastes the colony's precious development resources on understanding the universe itself and the structure of spacetime.

"In short, because there are too many types, I spent five hundred years searching for each one to see which type of closed-loop spacetime was more useful, and finally found this type of closed-loop spacetime that is independent of the main universe."

After rambling on about his research findings over the past five hundred years, Lu Shang finally noticed that the main brains, such as Nanali's, had already shut down, so he gave up the idea of ​​continuing.

After all, it's really boring to talk to a brick wall.

"Where have the second-generation scouts expanded to?" Lu Shang asked, inquiring about something he was particularly interested in.

A galactic intelligence network is still very necessary, in order to wipe out the Star Alliance without leaving any future troubles and to completely bring the entire galaxy under our control.

Therefore, even if we develop microcosm-type planetary life forms, it is still necessary to continue to deploy second-generation scouts and build a galactic intelligence network.

Grana reported: "The fourth spiral arm is expanding, and currently only the fourth and fifth spiral arms of the river system are not yet included in the monitoring range of the bee colony."

Upon hearing this, Lu Shang shook his head in disappointment and said with dissatisfaction, "What are you doing? You're completely out of touch with the current strategic plan. It's one thing that you can't even stop the Star River Alliance's attack, but how come you can't even handle this simple task?"

He had spent five hundred years developing a small-scale planetary life form that was ready to attack the enemy, but the intelligence network of the second-generation scout had not yet covered the entire galaxy, and two spiral arms were still not covered by the intelligence network.

This feeling is terrible. It's as if Lu Shang is the only one in the entire Babel beehive who is working hard to move forward, while all the main brains are choosing to lie down and give up!

The mastermind, Moston, hurriedly defended himself, saying, "The Star Alliance has been intercepting and interfering with the Behemoth behemoths that are spreading second-generation scouts; otherwise, the entire galaxy would have been under the swarm's surveillance long ago."

Lu Shang retorted, "Couldn't you command the Behemoth to release scout creatures while fleeing?"

Nanali added, "This is very difficult. The Star Alliance has set up gravitational interference points in many places in the fourth and fifth spiral arms, and these locations are not fixed but always move randomly. If you are not careful, Behemoth, which has planted second-generation scouts, will fall from its faster-than-light state and be destroyed by the pursuing enemies."

After thinking it over, Lu Shang decided not to say anything more. After all, no matter how much he blamed these mainframes, it wouldn't change the current facts.

"Since you put it that way, then this time I will hand over these new planetary creatures to you to command and send them to the fourth and fifth spiral arms of the galaxy to spread second-generation scouts."

"The principle behind the new type of planetary life that travels faster than light is not a spacetime warp bubble, and is not affected by gravitational resistance."

"Leave the swarm command operations to me. This time, you must complete the intelligence network construction for the fourth and fifth spiral arms."

(End of this chapter)