In the outside world's impression, insect civilizations were generally famous for their terrifying mass-produced armies. Their ability to produce and transform military units had once driven many civilizations to despair.
This was a species civilization that could be branded a "natural disaster."
But in the eyes of truly powerful civilizations, compared with the insects' explosive breeding and mass deployment, those things, troublesome as they were, were not impossible to deal with. Their most troublesome aspect was actually their ability to "evolve."
It was hard to imagine that the brainless insects in outsiders' eyes were actually extremely powerful at carrying out "species evolution."
And highly covert.
This kind of "evolution" did not turn sapient species into insects.
Although different sapient species had different aesthetics, insect aesthetics were indeed rather niche. Most insects did not even possess the concept of aesthetics.
Nor was this so-called evolution brainwashing through "values." That was far too low-level.
What this "species evolution" brainwashed was the entire civilization!
Put simply, this operation shared the authority of the "Insect Queen," allowing a certain species or powerful individual within the civilization to gain the ability to insectize the entire civilization.
"Insectization" was "evolution."
After the "insectization" ended, such a civilization would not necessarily weaken or disband. Instead, it would evolve into another form of insect civilization.
And the one responsible for the "insectization" would become a new "Insect Queen."
In fact, after gaining a "Queen," the civilization's potential in certain areas would improve even further.
For example—the potential for ascension.
And according to Gao Gong's understanding of the insect race, when they generally incited this kind of "civilization resistance force" to launch probing attacks,
it meant that the insects were already planning something big.
Although the "Dark Elves" were a famous anti-civilization species in the Black Mechanism Alliance, this