A New Problem

Time passed, and the wormhole opened twice more, but Rowan had no interest in watching the monster battle Mecha Warrior anymore; his attention was focused on the metal shells.

Through continuous experimentation, his understanding of toxin manufacturing has advanced by leaps and bounds. The toxin he recently developed corrodes three times faster than the initial one. After more than three years, he has corroded more than 50 meters of a metal shell, but it is still a long way from completely dissolving it.

Through various means, Rowan measured the thickness of this metal outer shell, finding it to be over 500 kilometers thick. At his current speed, it would likely take over 30,000 years...

By now, all the dishes have gotten cold.

Therefore, Rowan began to seek other means, but after calculation and testing, it was found that this material had good resistance to kinetic energy impacts and energy weapons. Moreover, these two types of weapons are difficult to use underground, especially Electromagnetic Cannon, whose destructive power is reduced by at least 50% inside a planet.

Left with no other option, Rowan could only seek to develop more powerful or more targeted weapons, and the only thing Rowan possessed related to this was probably his attempt to utilize Negative Energy.

In the universe, all matter that can be observed with the naked eye belongs to the category of Positive Energy. They are incredibly diverse and have varying properties. Similar to Positive Energy, Negative Energy is also a general term for a certain type of matter, but it also has different subcategories within it.

After analyzing the genes of the organ that generates Negative Energy, Rowan mobilized a large number of Intellect to conduct related research. Although the Swarm had just ventured into the field of Negative Energy, like the study of gravity, it already had a certain starting point and a stepping stone. So, although not much time had passed, the Swarm had already made some progress.

Research has revealed that the Negative Energy generated by the monster's genes is an extremely inert Negative Energy, only reacting when it encounters high-energy sources. It is likely a type of Negative Energy specifically selected by an unknown civilization for traversing wormholes, and only the violent energy within the wormhole can activate it.

Previously, Rowan had conducted defensive tests on the monster's Negative Energy membrane, but it proved ineffective against attacks from kinetic and energy weapons. Now he understands that the energy level of those attacks was insufficient to activate it, thus preventing any reaction.

With this understanding, the Swarm only needs to find a type of Negative Energy with relatively active properties and study its production method to create Negative Energy weapons.

But this is easier said than done. The Swarm already has the ability to collect Negative Energy from space. This Negative Energy is a mixture, but finding the more active components within it is as difficult as discovering gunpowder in the material world. This requires a lot of time to sift through it, as well as a bit of luck.

Rowan had no idea how lucky he was, so he could only keep adding more people, hoping to shorten the screening time with sheer numbers.

As time passed, the wormholes on Bodi Planet kept opening and closing, and the battle between monsters and Mecha Warrior continued to unfold. During this time, the unleashed Swarm resumed their infiltration of the Bodi People, with large numbers of Intellect infiltrating Bodi People society. Even the mech pilots had "their own people" among them.

The good news is that the forces on the other side of the wormhole haven't reacted at all to the Swarm's actions. Perhaps they're dismissive, or perhaps they're simply too weak to know what's happening here.

Perhaps the monsters deployed to Bodi Planet never provided any feedback, and the other side of the wormhole no longer seemed to be using the extreme deployment method, causing Dr. Benba's calculation formula to fail again, making the opening of the wormhole disordered and unpredictable.

However, aside from increasing the workload of the Bodi People, this had no impact on Rowan. This situation was the best possible one for him; he could simply wait patiently for the results from the Intellect.

Time flies, and twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. During these years, nothing unusual has happened, and everything seems peaceful. In these tranquil days, Rowan has been able to gather more Intellect to study Negative Energy, and the number of these Intellect has reached thirty million. Among them, more than 80% have more than a century of Intellect research experience.

Under this massive, manpower-intensive tactic, the Swarm has made considerable progress in its research on Negative Energy. The Intellect have identified several types of Negative Energy with relatively active properties and are currently conducting tests on their aggressiveness.

If successful, the next step is to create the biological organs capable of producing them, which will require Rowan's involvement.

Just as Rowan was repeatedly studying the Negative Energy -generating gene of the monster and pondering its composition, a problem arose on the Star Sea Alliance's side.

Since the Swarm withdrew from the Riken Star System and returned it to the Riken Race, the various forces that lost their topic of attack, after making a fuss for a while, gradually fell silent after finding that the Swarm did not react.

But now, the Koya Alliance has made another move.

In fact, Rowan had anticipated the subsequent actions of the Koya Alliance. He had guessed the purpose of the Koya Alliance, or rather, the purpose of the behind-the-scenes players, or a group of behind-the-scenes players.

Therefore, Rowan was not surprised when they acted again. The more than twenty years of silence had far exceeded his initial expectations. Perhaps the Swarm had hidden itself too well, and the mastermind only now believed that the Swarm's strength had reached the standard for the next phase of the plan.

Their actions this time were still aimed at finding a pretext to attack the Swarm, then stirring up public opinion to isolate the Swarm while also creating many hidden enemies for Swarm.

Their target for this hype is the Rat-folk Race. The Rat-folk Race's situation is even worse than that of the Riken Race, because on the surface, the Rat-folk only have their Mother Planet and two satellites as territory, and their technology has been blocked by the Swarm, remaining stagnant for hundreds of years.

Normally, given the Rat-folk's technological level, they would never meet the standards for joining the Star Sea Alliance. But this is abnormal; it's due to the Swarm, to their domestication and exploitation of the Swarm, that this outcome is unacceptable under the Star Sea Alliance's rules.

However, the relationship between the Swarm and the Rat-folk Race still occurred before the Swarm joined the Star Sea Alliance. Moreover, unlike the Riken Civilization, the Rat-folk civilization developed too rapidly, and the relationship between the Swarm and the Rat-folk was already formed before the Ji Epoch Clan had time to mark (deploy the "treasure" ships).

Moreover, it is obvious to anyone with discerning eyes that the birth and development of the Rat-folk civilization is closely related to the Swarm, and their relationship is more complex than that between the Swarm and the Riken Race.

But if someone is genuinely looking for trouble, none of this matters.