A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 72 Galaxy Aquaculture is Too Bold

"Lu Shang, what do you plan to do with those cultivation methods you secretly copied down to create a second brain? These things are useless to the bee swarm."

Outside the test area, the rabbi inquired within the bee colony network.

Long before Slan established his academy to teach other members of his kind, the swarm had already completed the recording of these cultivation methods of the psionic beings in the Ring World.

After all, the Ring World is filled with scout creatures invisible to the naked eye. Whether it is recorded on stone tablets, written in secret manuals, or passed down orally, the scout creatures have all taken notes.

Lu Shang replied, "It's for use in subsequent experiments. In those experiments, these cultivation methods can be inscribed in a script that the experimental organisms can understand onto relatively sturdy and stable materials for them to learn."

After a pause, Lu Shang added, "The rest of the experiments are all in your hands."

"You're not going to participate?" Rabi asked in surprise, as it could tell that Lu Shang seemed very enthusiastic about this.

Lu Shang replied, "I've obtained most of the data I needed from the two experiments. Next, I'm going to point out the next direction for the bee colony's development, which is more important than the experiments."

"Development direction? What exactly is it?"

Upon hearing this, even the mastermind, Rabbi, could not remain calm, as this concerned the future of the entire Tower of Babel bee colony.

Lu Shang unconsciously smiled and replied.

"Civilized Ranch".

……

Lu Shang summoned a host of mainframes, hives, and even all swarm creatures to the psionic network.

Such a major move must be related to something very important, so the mainframe, the hive, and the trillions upon trillions of bee creatures all tacitly remained silent in the bee network, waiting for Lu Shang to announce the matter.

"The development of civilization is like rowing against the current; if you don't move forward, you fall behind. Who agrees? Who disagrees?"

Lu Shang's inquiry spread rapidly throughout the bee colony network, gaining the approval of a group of bee creatures.

Stagnation of development is a nightmare for civilization, a lesson learned from the history of the Babel beehive.

When a civilization stagnates, one day another civilization will catch up with it, surpass it, and eventually destroy it.

This is very sad, and the Babel bee colony must never become such a tragedy.

Seeing that no individual in the swarm network objected, Lu Shang continued, "Hmm, no one objects. It seems everyone's opinion is unified, which is good."

Lu Shang declared, "From this day forward, this will be an immutable principle of development. The Babel beehive shall continue to develop and progress forever."

"To achieve this, I'm preparing to develop a grand plan, the Galaxy Aquaculture Project."

There was a commotion in the bee colony network. The Star River Alliance and the bee farms knew about it. Although there was no bee farming in the Babel Tower bee colony, the aliens in the Star River Alliance did bee farming, and the bee colony had learned about this concept from the aliens.

However, with the addition of a starry sky and a breeding farm, the biological structure of the bee colony becomes incomprehensible.

It's not like we can transform the entire galaxy into a planet habitable for organic life and then produce large quantities of organic matter, is it?

"What is a Galaxy Farm? What does it raise?" the mastermind, Kasha, asked.

Lu Shang explained, "By cultivating civilizations and inducing them to explore higher levels of psionic energy, the swarm can acquire higher-level psionic brains in a short period of time with the help of time-level acceleration."

"This has been verified after two rounds of preliminary tests conducted by the rabbi. As a result, the bee colony has acquired a level thirteen psionic brain. The next issue is to scale up the breeding. The bee colony needs to designate an area in the universe as a breeding farm."

Lu Shang continued, "I reckon it's not good to raise too many animals at once. After all, we don't have much experience in animal husbandry yet, and taking too big a step could easily lead to disaster. So let's set a small goal first: to demarcate a section of the river system as a breeding ground for civilization."

The bee swarm understood. It was a simple logic: a single star system, with just a day or two of time acceleration, could give the Babel bee swarm a level thirteen psionic brain. So, if a galaxy were used as a breeding ground, it wouldn't be impossible for the entire Babel bee swarm's psionic energy to suddenly leap by several hundred levels.

The swarm could even be more ambitious and enclose the supercluster containing the Vorsotis galaxy as a breeding ground for civilization.

So, is researching psionic levels still a problem? Do we still need to rely on lotteries?

Hearing Lu Shang's words, the mainframe Nanali asked uncertainly, "Are we going to drive all the civilizations out of the Fusotis system?"

Lu Shang objected, "That's unnecessary. We need to preserve these civilizations in the Fusotis system to help us complete other aspects of our technological development."

"Anyway, there are plenty of galaxies in the universe. We can take over the galaxy near Vorsotis and use it."

Lu Shang's next move is to complete the occupation of the galaxy near the Vorsotis system.

If the Tower of Babel bee colony wants to grow and expand, it must take this step. In the grand scheme of the universe, even the vast galaxy is but a drop in the ocean.

Grana said with some doubt, "It's too far, 115 million light-years. It will take a lot of time to go back and forth."

Such a great distance means that it would be difficult for the swarms of bees in the Vorsotis galaxy to provide support to swarms in another galaxy, which is not good.

Lu Shang asked curiously, "Don't those alien civilizations in the Star River Alliance have wormhole technology?"

The mastermind, Moston, said, "Uh... those who were in charge of high-energy physics research back then have all fled into the microcosm. The civilizations in the Vorsotis system are still trying to catch up on their missing technologies."

It seems like a long time has passed since the end of the interstellar war, but actually it's only been a little over a year. It will still take some time for the alien civilization to make up for the lost technology.

Although time could be accelerated to speed up the technological recovery of these alien civilizations, doing so would be far too dangerous.

Lu Shang dared to give the psionic beings in the experimental zone more than 200,000 years, but he dared not give these alien civilizations more than 200,000 years of unrestricted development. Even if he could share what these civilizations saw and heard, Lu Shang still felt it was not safe.

He pondered for a moment, then finally made a decision: "Let's use the old-fashioned method. We'll create a small universe, then open two space tunnels in it that allow us to enter and exit the main universe. Finally, we'll have a planetary creature use its psionic energy to pull one of the tunnels at faster-than-light speed to the vicinity of the neighboring galaxy. That will solve the problem."

It's just a wormhole; it's not like he can't create one!

……

Meanwhile, amidst the vast array of stars, a crystal continues its faster-than-light journey toward the distant barred spiral galaxy closest to the Vorsotis Galaxy.

At this moment, Bahadun still harbored some unwarranted expectations, unaware that something unexpected was already unfolding.

Babel Swarm, Galaxy Alliance, the fear you have instilled in me will be returned to you tenfold!

This time is not long ago!

(End of this chapter)