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Chapter 95 The Swarm Strategy is Too Packed

The stars have no secrets; they always present themselves in their most authentic form to all life and civilization.

If there must be some secret in the starry sky, it's just that you lack the ability to see the true full picture of the stars.

Amidst the glittering stars, a fierce interstellar war is unfolding in the 'Disk System,' the latest exploration and naming site by the swarm.

One side of the war is the Babel beehive, and the other side is an unknown civilization capable of altering the laws of the universe.

Under Lu Shang's command, countless planetary creatures, which had removed their illusions and concealed themselves to the greatest extent possible, formed an encirclement around the rule-altering region that was expanding at the speed of light.

Each planetary life form maintains a distance of 300 light-years from that region.

This is no easy task. It will take 300 years for the region to expand to the location of the planetary lifeforms. During this time, the planetary lifeforms will have ample time to calmly complete any tasks assigned by the swarm.

Lu Shang had to admit that altering the rules of physics was a very powerful technique, and being able to survive in a space where the rules of physics had been altered was even more ridiculously strong.

At least bee colonies do not currently possess this technology.

Even now, with the biotechnology that allows bee colonies to survive on neutron stars, they still cannot survive in regions where the laws of physics have changed.

Because the rules of physics are different, neutrons are not neutrons, protons are not protons, and there are not even atoms. All fermions with mass will decay into another unknown particle after entering that region.

This unknown particle does not participate in the known electromagnetic, strong, and weak interactions of the bee colony; it only exhibits gravity.

Lu Shang recalled seeing something similar in a science magazine before he traveled through time—dark matter.

However, if it is dark matter, Lu Shang finds it hard to imagine what kind of technology this unknown civilization possesses. After all, without electromagnetic force, strong interaction force, and weak interaction force, particle physics such as molecular chemistry and nuclear reactions would not exist in the region where the rules are altered.

How can we develop technology using only gravity?

This is absolutely unbelievable!

For a technology tree to develop under such circumstances is truly astonishing!

However, strength and ability to deal with something are not necessarily related. Otherwise, what about those stories of the weak defeating the strong?

The so-called defeat of the enemy means finding the enemy's weaknesses faster than the enemy itself, and then defeating the enemy before the enemy can destroy itself, leaving the enemy with no possibility of counterattack.

While bee swarms cannot survive in areas where physical rules have been altered—areas where unknown hostile civilizations are naturally invincible—this does not mean that bee swarms are helpless.

You can change the rules of physics, that's true, but the swarm can also wrap up these spacetime distortions that alter the rules of physics and throw them out of the main universe.

With the presence of psionic energy, it wouldn't be difficult for the swarm to do this.

Under Lu Shang's command, the planetary beings surrounding the region where the physical rules had changed united and used their immense spiritual energy to repeat what they had done in the Mesa Galaxy: to capture this region and transfer it from the main universe to a smaller universe.

According to Lu Shang's "closing the door to beat the dog" plan, the enemy will first be locked in a small universe, and then the space of this small universe will be constantly distorted by spiritual energy, and more small universes will be created by constantly separating them.

This way, without entering the rule-altering area, it's possible to separate and dismantle this unknown civilization, if this civilization is also, in Lu Shang's understanding, a civilization composed of multiple biological individuals.

Even if it is a single civilization, Lu Shang is not worried. As long as the microcosm space is subdivided infinitely, the space that can accommodate matter will inevitably become smaller and smaller. If it does not choose to accept its fate, then it can only be making things difficult for its own survival.

An unknown civilization may possess faster-than-light detection technology; they seem to have been the first to detect the Babel Tower swarm's intentions, even surpassing the light cone.

As the planetary beings unfurled their curtain of darkness at faster-than-light speed, numerous pitch-black spheres suddenly emerged from the region where the laws of physics had changed.

In terms of appearance, it is exactly the same as the sphere that the atomic beings came into contact with before, resembling a black hole, yet it has significant differences from a black hole.

These spheres move faster than the speed of light, but every thousand light-years they must break free from this faster-than-light state. The atomic biological intelligence network that has been deployed easily obtains information about these dark spheres.

The mainframes were somewhat baffled by the actions of this unknown civilization.

"What do they want to do?" Nanali asked curiously.

"Run away?"

Moston put forward his own conjecture, having conducted in-depth research on escape techniques.

Grana objected, "If they knew fear, how could they refuse the friendly contact of the bees with a violent attack? Doesn't that make no sense? Does such a great civilization not consider the consequences of its actions?"

It started as a discussion among the masterminds, but later, as hives, planetary creatures, and even other swarm creatures joined in, the swarm network became noisy.

"Why bother with what they think? The more the enemy wants to achieve something, the less the swarm can allow the enemy to achieve it." Lu Shang stopped the swarm creatures from their discussion.

The bee colony is at war right now, not holding a seminar.

However, Lu Shang would never let those dark spheres go. He disliked leaving things unattended, and who knew if these spheres were escape ships or some unknown weapon targeting the bee swarm.

Lu Shang assigned tasks to the mainframes: "I can handle the main battlefield. Each of you should lead a group of planetary creatures to pursue these fleeing spheres. Destroy them if you can, capture them alive if you can. If there's really no other way, and they're too strong, try to throw them into the frozen cycle of reincarnation."

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Under Rasu's light, Karana continued its steady revolution in its own orbit as always.

On the planet, the lower levels of the Usu civilization still maintain a lifestyle of sunrise and sunset.

Although the Usu civilization was aware of the invasion of the Holy Scorpion civilization's fleet, life had to go on. If they didn't work, they wouldn't have food to eat and would soon starve to death. They would all starve to death within a few days, and they wouldn't even have to wait until the Holy Scorpion civilization's fleet came to slaughter them; they would all be wiped out by then.

The only difference from the past is that consumerism has become more prevalent in the Wusu civilization.

After all, with such a large fortune, even if he gets a spot on the fleet, he can't possibly escape to space with all that money. He might as well spend all his savings and enjoy life now.

Against this backdrop, observer Manas received a mission from his homeland to study the research manuscripts of observer Dre.

At the International Tribunal, observer Dre's words led many Ussu people to believe that he had left behind some unknown power, a power sufficient to help the Ussu civilization fight against the attacking Holy Scorpion civilization fleet.

However, many Ussuris people questioned this, believing it was just a charade. Otherwise, why would the observer Drey choose to commit suicide instead of telling everyone directly?

(End of this chapter)