A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 75 This mastermind is too flawed

For the masterminds, today is a day of great significance.

We have set off for a neighboring galaxy 115 million light-years away from the Vorsotis Galaxy and have arrived at our destination.

This means that the bee colony is about to embark on the next stage of its journey.

This is to be expected. The swarm will plunder all the mass of the neighboring galaxy, and the civilization in that galaxy will inevitably choose to put up a fierce resistance. The final result will inevitably be an interstellar war that affects the entire neighboring galaxy.

Since it will inevitably escalate into war no matter what, we should start by considering war as the core of our thinking.

In addition to making intensive preparations for the upcoming galactic conquest war, the masterminds are also arguing within the swarm network about the strategies to be used in the galactic war.

Mastermind Moston proposed in the swarm network: "I advocate stealthy guerrilla warfare. In the last war in the Vorsotis system, it was precisely because the planetary beings enveloped their microcosms and used psychic energy to erect a near-physical phantom in the main universe that they achieved strategic deception of the Star Alliance and ultimately won the war."

"I believe that the bee colony should continue to use this strategy to conquer the river system."

The reason the Babel Bee Swarm was able to defeat the Star Alliance was largely because the other side didn't understand that cosmic planetary beings don't actually exist in the main universe. The one in the main universe is a false projection simulated by psionic energy, while the real entity hides in a microcosm and releases psionic energy.

As a result, in the later stages of the war, no matter what weapons the Star Alliance developed to strike, they could not pose any threat to the life forms of cosmic planets, because the target was wrong from the very beginning.

If the Star River Alliance had known that the true form of the cosmic planetary beings resided within a microcosm, it's uncertain whether they would have been defeated by the Tower of Babel swarm.

After all, who knows, a technological breakthrough might lead them to develop a technology that can detect the coordinates of a microcosm?

This is also the reason for the opposition from the mastermind behind this type of strategy.

The mastermind Grana objected, "I oppose doing this. Just because the Star Alliance can't find it, does that mean the civilization in this galaxy can't find it? The swarm knows nothing about the civilization in this galaxy; we should gather intelligence first."

"I advocate lightning-style destruction operations. First, we need to understand which civilizations in this galaxy can pose a threat to the swarm. Then, after accumulating and lurking a sufficient number of planetary creatures, we can destroy all the planets of all civilizations in the galaxy in one fell swoop at an extremely fast speed, thus achieving the goal of annihilating civilizations."

"A group of dead civilizations could never pose a threat to the swarm, no matter what."

Grana's concept of lightning-style destruction is essentially a space version of Earth's blitzkrieg. It advocates first understanding the enemy's military industry, civilization, culture, and strategic thinking. Once the core of the enemy's civilization is identified, the lurking planetary creatures, relying on faster-than-light speed and the immediacy of swarm networks, can wipe out all civilizations in the galaxy in an extremely short time and at an extremely fast speed.

What kind of alien civilization poses the least threat to the Tower of Babel swarm? The answer is: a civilization that is already dead!

Moston countered, "No, there are too many variables, which inevitably leads to a very low tolerance for error in this strategy."

"With so many planetary creatures choosing to lie low, how can we guarantee they won't be exposed? If the civilization in this galaxy has a higher level of technology than the Star Alliance, the entire strategy will fail."

"Furthermore, if it's a civilization where everyone lives on spaceships, how would such a surprise attack be conducted? Would every planetary life form secretly track every single spaceship of the hostile civilization?"

"This kind of operation has obvious flaws and risks. Once it is discovered, many of the swarm's advantages will disappear immediately, and the situation will become very passive."

Grana retorted, unconvinced, "That's still better than using strategic deception. Your strategic thinking will also expose the existence of the swarm, leading to some strategic advantage for the swarm. Moreover, being too conservative with previous strategic thinking will only repeat the mistakes of the past."

The reason the masterminds are arguing like this in the swarm network is naturally for control of this interstellar war.

Having command authority and winning a space war will earn you recognition from the Babel Swarm for your military talent.

Regardless of the civilization, military force always holds immense sway, even within the Babel swarm. Therefore, collective recognition from the swarm is crucial.

It's not that these mainframes want to compete with Lu Shang in military talent; they don't have the courage to even think about it. What they really want is to prove their military abilities. After all, they can't just let Lu Shang's harsh teaching go unpunished.

If I can't compare to Lu Shang, am I not better than the other main brains?

Today, there is no individual ruler in the Babel bee colony. If one insists on saying that there is a "ruler," it would probably be the entire Babel bee colony as a whole.

Not long after, Lu Shang, who was discussing with the mastermind Rabi which structure the Star River Breeding Farm should adopt to better nurture high-level psionic creatures, received inquiries from countless other individual bee colonies: Lu Shang, which strategy do you think is more reliable?

"Neither approach is reliable, and both are too complex and conservative, failing to grasp the core of this war," Lu Shang replied bluntly.

"..."

Both Grana, the mastermind, and Moston fell silent.

They also felt that Lu Shang could come up with a better strategy, but they didn't expect Lu Shang to criticize their strategy so poorly.

Lu Shangdao said: "Before being intelligent life, it is first a lump of matter, then an animal, and finally a living intelligent life."

"Matter always comes first. Everything in the universe comes from matter, including thought, technology, and culture. Therefore, willpower cannot overcome steel."

The mainframe, Nunnally, hesitated for a moment before asking, "Um... can't psionic energy defeat steel?"

Lu Shang retorted speechlessly, "Isn't psionic energy material? Doesn't the generation of psionic energy originate from matter? Then what's the point of having a brain structure? Why not just use personal will to rocket-like increase the level of psionic energy?"

Nanali thought about it and found that she couldn't refute it. Indeed, psychic energy cannot exist independently of the brain. Otherwise, why would the Babel bees be so fixated on the brain structure?

"I was wrong," Nanali admitted.

"You're so wrong," Lu Shang said.

"..."

Ignoring the speechless Nanali, Lu Shang continued, "War is a matter between civilizations, and it can also be understood as a matter between intelligent beings, because every civilization is made up of intelligent beings, and everything about intelligent beings is material. Therefore, war is also a war between matter."

Lu Shang's transmission of information in the swarm network came to an abrupt halt. He then revisited the discussion with Rabbi about which structure would be more conducive to the development of higher-level psionic beings.

The other swarm creatures, and even the mastermind, all assumed that Lu Shang had more to say, and waited quietly. As a result, the swarm network fell into this eerie silence.

After waiting for a long time without receiving any further response from Lu Shang, the mainframe, Kasha, pressed him through the swarm network: "...And then?"

Lu Shang: ? ? ?

(End of this chapter)