Doubts

Everything has two sides, positive and negative, and the universe is no exception. Everything we can see and touch is basically Positive Energy. As the opposite of Positive Energy, Negative Energy combines with Positive Energy, just like adding positive and negative together, and finally we get a zero value.

The principle behind using Negative Energy to neutralize the destructive Positive Energy within a wormhole and thus facilitate passage is this.

Therefore, theoretically, it is entirely feasible to use Negative Energy to directly neutralize the Positive Energy within the metal casing, causing it to disappear.

But to actually do it, you have to try it out yourself.

Having gained experience from creating the first monster insect form, Rowan's current technical level means he doesn't need to replicate the second one exactly. Rowan wants to make it smaller; otherwise, its size of fifty or sixty meters would be too cumbersome for underground movement.

Two months later, on the surface of the metal shell, the Swarm had concentrated its resources and built an experimental site. This site was encased in a magnetic field to prevent the energy generated in the laboratory from leaking out, thus avoiding unnecessary trouble.

A monster-like insectoid appeared at the experimental site. It was only a little over five meters tall, roughly a scaled-down version of its original form. In addition, there were many humanoid insectoids controlled by Intellect and a large number of Overseer. They were responsible for collecting various data and transmitting it back to the Swarm's main base for research through the Swarm Network.

The Swarm's foundation on Bodi Planet is too weak; they lack too many things, especially sophisticated instruments, which cannot be fully equipped in a short period of time.

The experiment began in a tense atmosphere of anticipation. A layer of Negative Energy slowly emerged from the surface of the monster insect, and then...

Rowan remained somewhat optimistic, however, as he discovered an awkward problem. The Negative Energy membrane covering the insect's body seemed only suitable for passive defense. Regardless of whether the insect made contact with or attacked the metal shell, the energy membrane failed to achieve the desired effect.

Could it be that scaling down proportionally damaged some of the monster's internal structures? Rowan went back and checked carefully again, finding nothing missing, not even the gas sacs inside the planet that had no practical use.

Rowan calmed down. He had been so tense before that he hadn't had time to think things through carefully. Now that the experiment had hit a bottleneck, he finally had time to go over some of the details again.

The idea of Negative Energy should be sound, so the problem must lie with the monster itself. But just now, Rowan arranged for the monster insectoid on Planet 11 to conduct an experiment.

That insectoid body was a 1:1 replica of the monster, but its Negative Energy membrane didn't possess any offensive capabilities.

Could it be that there are some special activation devices or specific organs in its body that use this Negative Energy? Rowan immediately dismissed this idea. During the examination just now, he had compared the gene fragments in the monster's body one by one and found no unfamiliar gene fragments.

Could it be that monsters truly lack the ability to use Negative Energy for attacks? He then thought of the monsters themselves. If they did possess some kind of attack method primarily based on Negative Energy, then those Mecha Warriors would be utterly unable to withstand such an attack that transcends several technological levels.

Perhaps it's because they exhausted their Negative Energy reserves when they traversed the wormhole? Were they immediately surrounded and attacked by the Mecha Warrior, leaving them no time to recharge and unleash their power? Considering that the Swarm's monster-like avatars took several hours to accumulate enough Negative Energy to cover their entire bodies, this possibility certainly exists.

No, Rowan instinctively sensed something was wrong; he had overlooked something. Rowan rewound time, carefully recalling all the information he had obtained.

Several Swarm Intellect hidden within the Bodi People society, all capable of quickly accessing information, seemed to have suddenly received orders and used their respective methods to sift through the information Rowan needed.

That's it! Through further confirmation, Rowan found some suspicious points. According to the records of the Bodi People, when the wormhole was opened a few times before, the monsters fought against the Bodi People army and were eventually destroyed by Nuclear Bomb.

The monster's body tissues reacted with nuclear radiation, creating a "Dead Zone" that was extremely deadly to the Bodi People. The Mecha Warrior program was conceived to prevent the "Dead Zone" from increasing and spreading.

When the Swarm arrived on Bodi Planet, the Bodi People already had a well-developed and mature mechanism for dealing with the monsters, which instilled a kind of habitual thinking in Rowan.

It was this seemingly ordinary record that allowed Rowan to discover something he had previously overlooked: the first few monsters hadn't been ganged up on by the Mecha Warrior at all, giving them ample time to recharge.

However, there is absolutely no record of any unknown or mysterious attacks in the Bodi People's records, whether in publicly available information or in secret files kept in laboratories or government departments.

Does this mean the monster truly lacks attack methods related to Negative Energy?

Furthermore, through reviewing this data, Rowan discovered another overlooked issue.

Put yourself in their shoes. If you were the force on the other side of the wormhole, what would you do? Rowan thought that if it were him, since the objective was clear, the vanguard would simply ignore the Bodi People and start digging as soon as they came out of the wormhole. Even if the Bodi People discovered it, so what? With their capabilities, they couldn't even get past the asthenosphere.

Unless...

They don't know the specifics of the situation here?

But how is that possible?

Rowan shook his head and began to sort out his thoughts again.

First, the other side must have known about the metallic shell, since it's the only valuable thing left in this galaxy. But how did they discover it?

Secondly, they built a connecting wormhole. Putting aside the difficulty of manufacturing such a small, controllable wormhole, how did they achieve such precise positioning? In Rowan's mind, this was much more difficult than the Swarm using projectiles to launch meteorites at the Epoch Clan's Garrison Point.

These two points alone are enough to make the other party seem unfathomable, perfectly matching Rowan's image of an advanced civilization. This is also why Rowan believes the other party is unaware of the specific situation on Bodi Planet.

But aside from these, the other side's remaining actions seem to prove that they truly do not know the situation on Bodi Planet.

Starting with the monster itself, Rowan felt that the way it was made to fight the Vanguard Monster was rather crude. It contained many useless structures, such as those air sacs.

The monster's skin can actively seal itself and resist space radiation. The air sacs serve a clear purpose: they can store air for internal circulation.

This allows it to survive or fight for a short period in the space environment.

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