A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 63 Life Will Always Find a Way

"Why the sudden summoning of planetary beings?"

Lu Shang, who was gathering planetary life forms, suddenly received a psionic message from Nanali.

Lu Shang replied, "For scientific research, I need a large number of planetary organisms. Do you need them too?"

"No need, it's just that the commotion you caused when you summoned the planetary creatures was too great. Other civilizations are asking us if the swarm is going to wage war somewhere again, and they hope the swarm can notify them in advance so they can stay away from the battlefield," Nanali explained.

"What should we do about this?" Nanali asked.

The Star Alliance was still being formed, and all the alien civilizations thought that there would be no interstellar war for the time being. However, they were suddenly startled to see the unusual activity of a large number of planetary creatures detected on their own galactic radar.

Would a swarm of bees take such a large number of planetary creatures out for a stroll for no reason?

Obviously not!

There's only one truth—the Babel swarm is preparing for another space war!

So, the first question these alien civilizations thought of was, where would this war be fought?

Whom are the Babel bee swarm preparing to fight?

Will this new war in the Vorsotis galaxy drag their civilization into it?

In order to figure out these issues, Nanali and the other key figures who were pushed to the forefront by Lu Shang to engage in political negotiations suddenly became social experts. Every few days, a representative of civilization would contact them, either to inquire about their well-being, to subtly probe, or to directly ask questions after promising various benefits.

Nanali asked this question not because the mainframes were afraid of such a scene, but because they didn't know how to end it, since the swarm had no intention of attacking anyone.

Lu Shang thought for a moment and said indifferently, "There's no need for complicated handling. Just tell those aliens the situation simply and reassure them. Don't worry about anything else. They are civilizations that have set foot in the stars; they won't be scared to death by such a small matter."

"Understood."

……

The red dwarf star system that Rabbi chose as the test site began to produce giant planets one after another over a period of time.

These planets are covered in swamps, with enormous, terrifying eyes scattered across their surfaces. Bathed in the dim light of the red dwarf stars, they resemble some kind of abyssal monster emerging from hell.

These are the most powerful bee colony life forms in the Babel Tower bee colony today—planetary creatures.

As the number of life forms on the planet increased, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and this number continues to increase.

Due to the mass of these planetary organisms themselves, the mass of stellar matter escaping from red dwarf stars is constantly increasing.

The planets formed by the rabbis from the mass of stars were all fragmented due to the sheer number of planetary life forms.

This is mainly due to the issue of virtual illusion. Only a very small portion of the gravity of planetary life forms hidden in the microcosm will radiate to the main universe through the microscopic wormhole.

It was also because Lu Shang was too lazy to ask the planetary beings to turn off the virtual images that the planetary beings, who habitually turned on the virtual images in the main universe, created a scene that overturned all understanding of physics.

Countless enormous solid planets, like a necklace of pearls, are tightly packed together, forming a hollow sphere with a radius extending forty million kilometers beyond the Kuiper Belt, orbiting the red dwarf star.

Because of the illusory physical disguises constructed by psychic energy, people can actually stand on these virtual planets and then walk from one virtual planet to another through the bonding surface.

"Rabi, I need you to complete a biological design," Lu Shang said to Rabi.

"you say."

Lu Shang replied, "This kind of creature needs to have psionic energy, but the level of psionic energy doesn't need to be too high. Completely cut off their possibility of developing sharp teeth and claws, so that they can only compete for survival through psionic energy."

The psionic energy of numerous planetary beings provides time acceleration...

Eliminate all competitive means other than psionic power...

The answer was obvious. Rabbi now roughly understood Lu Shang's idea, so he asked, "Are you trying to use natural selection to produce higher-level psionic beings?"

"I don't think this is very efficient. The time cost is definitely greater than the time cost of me constantly mutating individual genes."

Rabbi believed that the survival-of-the-fittest approach of competition for survival was too outdated and that mutation breeding was a better method.

Lu Shang shook his head: "No, you're wrong. You only saw the surface, but you didn't see through the underlying things."

"Life will always find a way, just as entropy always increases; it is an objective law of the universe."

"I am indeed planning to use the survival of the fittest, but to be more precise, I am using a more fundamental objective law of the universe. The swarm only needs to design its exit so that only higher-level psionic beings can continue to survive, and it can continuously advance its psionic level."

In Lu Shang's view, life, when given time, will have an "infinite number" of possibilities. As long as most of these "infinite number" of possibilities are suppressed, leaving only the possibility of spiritual energy development, life will shine brightly on the path of spiritual energy.

This seems far more plausible than having a tornado destroy a parking lot and then create a skyscraper, at least in Lu Shang's view.

More importantly, the biggest drawback of survival of the fittest, 'time,' is no longer a problem for bee colonies.

"Time cost is not a problem. As long as the swarm's psionic energy can be upgraded indefinitely, time acceleration can also be extended indefinitely," Lu Shang replied.

The rabbi remained skeptical, not finding it plausible.

However, seeing how persistent Lu Shang is, and since there are no better alternatives at the moment, we might as well give it a try.

"...I can design living beings, but how do I design their development path to require a higher level of psionic energy to continue? How do I design that?" the rabbi asked.

"I'll do this. You go and design the organism first," Lu Shang replied.

"OK."

……

After assigning tasks to the rabbi, Lu Shang turned his attention to his own work.

He sent the Behemoth, whose senses were connected, faster than the speed of light to an open area outside the Kuiper Belt, where he directly gave orders to the planetary creatures that had gathered there at his command.

"Go and move a solid planet here for me. There are no size requirements."

"Okay," the planetary creatures replied.

In just a few seconds, a solid planet with a mass equivalent to 2.7 times that of Earth was detached from the faster-than-light speed.

The planet's surface was covered by endless yellow sand, obscuring the color of any plants, the traces of any living organisms, and the presence of any liquid matter; it was a completely desolate world.

Lu Shang thought for a moment and then ordered, "This world needs an energy source. Send ten planetary creatures to confine the spiritual energy to the core of the planet and keep the small area in the center in a state of nuclear fusion."

Before long, the ten enormous planetary beings arrived at a distance of 300 million kilometers from the planet. Their spiritual energy passed through the thick strata and converged in the planet's core. The pressure became the trigger for nuclear fusion, and the planet's core began to heat up due to the nuclear fusion at the center, gradually transferring this temperature to the planet's surface.

There's no need to consider plants, animals, microorganisms, or anything like that; let the organisms that are introduced evolve naturally.

Then Lu Shang ordered: "Deploy scout creatures to simulate the closed-loop spacetime of the event horizon of a black hole in the outer space of the planet, with all matter moving in the same direction toward this planet."

Internal surveillance is necessary, and a strong defense mechanism must be in place to prevent the experimental subjects from escaping.

As the closed-loop spacetime created by psionic energy took shape, a black curtain shrouded the entire planet, making it appear like a black hole.

Lu Shang had everything arranged, and Rabi had also completed the biological design.

This is a psionic creature similar to a slime. It was created by Rabi using the genes of an alien species from the galaxy as a template and then attaching a worker bee's psionic brain to it. This structure is obviously unlikely to evolve sharp teeth and claws.

Lu Shang glanced at the biological design and instructed the mainframe, Rabi, to add the ability to absorb geothermal energy underground and produce organic matter. Then he threw the psionic slime into the world he had set up.

With everything in place, Lu Shang gave the order for the planetary creatures to make the final arrangements.

"Leave a tunnel at the edge of the closed spacetime, and a planetary creature will come and guard it, continuously applying gravitational pressure that can only be resisted by psionic energy intensity of level twelve or higher."

"Time acceleration is now beginning, time ratio 1:1 million!" Lu Shang announced.

At a single command, although the closed-loop spacetime prevented outsiders from seeing the internal spacetime acceleration, Lu Shang could clearly see how fast time was passing inside the closed-loop spacetime through the psionic network built by the internal scouts.

At this point, Rabbi asked Lu Shang, "Is there anything else I need to do?"

Lu Shang waved his hand habitually, "No need, all we have left to do is wait."

"It won't be long before we see the results."

Life always finds a way!

(End of this chapter)