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Chapter 62 The Swarm Mastermind Has Too Many Ideas

As a newly born mastermind in the bee colony, the rabbi's main job is to assign tasks to the other individuals in the colony and to discover and adjust more genes for the colony.

This is the primary function of the swarm's mastermind, and this is how it is explained in the inherited memories of each mastermind after it is conceived.

However, to Rabi's dismay, the mainframe called "Land of Entropy," which assigned it tasks, seemed to ignore this and insisted on dumping tasks like researching psionic energy on it.

Dude, my major isn't related to this!

Rabbi complained at the time, but the other party replied directly, "There are only a few people in the hive who can actually use their brains. If you don't do it, who will?"

There was no other way; since this arrangement had already been made, the rabbi had no choice but to grit his teeth and continue for the sake of the bee colony's future development.

But how exactly do we do it?

The direction of psychic development is very clear: to continuously improve the level of psychic power. But how exactly can one improve the level of psychic power?

The level of psychic power seems to be determined by brain structure, but the rabbi has no idea what kind of brain structure can express a higher level of psychic power.

After much deliberation, the rabbi concluded that the only solution was genetic mutation.

By destroying genetic material through high-energy radiation, countless types of psionic creatures are mutated. Then, the most powerful psionic individuals are kept and nurtured, their genetic material destroyed again, and outstanding individuals with strong psionic energy are selected. This process is repeated.

This is called "mutation breeding" in human terms, but Lu Shang prefers to call it "gene lottery" because it really is a lottery.

Directly and crudely disrupting the gene structure and then letting these gene fragments combine randomly is no different from piling up various building materials and letting a tornado create a skyscraper.

And so the rabbis did this for over a thousand years without seeing any results...

On this day, the rabbi prepared, as usual, to use stellar radiation to continue destroying and screening the genes mutated from the level twelve psionic brain.

A psionic message from outside the star system disrupted its regular routine.

"Open the door! Rabbi, I've come to check on your research progress."

……

At this moment, the Behemoth behemoth, connected to Lu Shang's senses, was swaying and hovering in front of an enormous sphere of light.

This enormous sphere of light is two light-years in diameter, and the blinding light it emits is so intense that it is impossible to look directly at it.

The Behemoth, a behemoth with a body length of ten kilometers, was not even a speck of dust in front of this enormous sphere of light. If it weren't for the Behemoth's highly developed sensory organs, from Lu Shang's perspective as a human, he would only see an infinitely extending giant wall of light standing directly in front of him.

This thing is not a star, or even any natural celestial body in the universe. If a gravitational detection instrument or something similar were to detect this sphere of light, it would be found that this large sphere of light, which is about two light-years in diameter, is far lighter than any particle of positive mass in the universe.

This is a region of accelerated time. Due to the speed limit of light and the huge time difference between the inside and outside, the light undergoes a significant frequency change at the junction, so from the outside, it looks like a super-huge star.

As Lu Shang transmitted a message in the swarm network, the light sphere dimmed at a visible speed, revealing its true form beneath the light.

This is a star system consisting of red dwarf stars as the main sequence stars, with a rough estimate of more than 40,000 planets orbiting it.

Of these, more than 30,000 planets are inhabited by life forms in warped spacetime, while the rest are ordinary planets.

However, even so, the size of the ordinary planets in this star system is still ridiculously large.

After the rabbi, the mastermind behind this star system, welcomed Lu Shang through the swarm network, Lu Shang asked curiously, "Did you create those planets?"

"That's right. The smaller the star's mass, the longer the nuclear fusion can last. Considering that frequent relocation is a waste of time, we should extract the mass from this star to extend its lifespan as much as possible," Rabbi replied.

"I see."

Lu Shang nodded in realization, remembering his purpose, and then explained the situation to the main brain, Rabi.

Rabbi replied with an air of admiration, as if to say, "You actually anticipated this." He added, "Lu Shang, I've always thought this job should be given to you. Your brain works better than mine."

"As you feared, time has accelerated by more than a thousand years, and I have not made any research progress in the field of psionic energy."

After learning about its research process from the rabbi, Lu Shang was speechless. It was exactly what he was worried about. Fortunately, he discovered it early and fortunately, there was time acceleration. If this were in normal time, wouldn't the development of psionic energy in the Babel bee swarm have stagnated for more than a thousand years?

"How can you possibly research anything using the same old methods? Didn't I tell you long ago that this is a dead end?" Lu Shang asked with dissatisfaction. His blood pressure soared after he learned that Rabbi was using the same old hive development path.

They're incorrigible!

Rabbi replied with a sense of grievance, "But I had no other choice. Even the Star Alliance researched psionic energy back then, but apart from gaining a deep understanding of spacetime, all they could do in terms of psionic energy was develop a biological psionic detection radar using bee colony genes, and it could only detect psionic reactions of level three and above."

"Lu Shang, you're smart. You point me out a path for development, and I'll take care of the rest."

Unfortunately, there were too few people in the hive who actually used their brains. If Lu Shang didn't do it, no one else would. After Rabi made this suggestion, Lu Shang had no choice but to agree.

Lu Shang recalled his past experiences and what he had seen and heard in his life. He actually found a situation in human society that was similar to his current predicament.

Particle accelerator!

The swarm needs a psionic version of a particle accelerator!

Physicists initially didn't know what kinds of particles existed in the universe. It was only through repeated particle collisions at accelerators that they gradually learned about the existence of electrons, protons, neutrons, and then the six quark particles: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top. Based on measurements of the masses of various particles, they deduced the neutrino, which was later confirmed after the construction of large-scale observatories...

The swarm is in a similar situation; it also needs a tool to explore psionic energy.

Lu Shang murmured, "...There were no roads in this world to begin with; roads are made by walking."

"How do I get there?"

Rabbi asked curiously, unable to fathom how the path of psychic energy should proceed.

Lu Shang replied firmly, "Let life take its course. Life will always find a way. Let life tell us how to proceed on the future path of psychic energy."

"The swarm has plenty of time anyway; time acceleration will become the best tool for the swarm to explore psionic energy!"

With that, Lu Shang relayed a message to all planetary life forms: "Planetary life forms, summons! Come immediately! The swarm needs you for development!"

(End of this chapter)