Stars withdrew her consciousness from Swarm Network. She was now standing on a mountain peak, accompanied by a huge Overlord and two flying insects.
Under the mountain peak is a huge basin. Strictly speaking, Swarm is excavating a huge basin. One hundred thousand Drone gather here to work hard. There are also Creep Tumor similar to excavators on the edge of the basin and inside.
The huge basin is like a cauldron, which would be a good place to build a radio telescope in Earth.
There is a huge egg in the center of the basin, and several thick flesh and blood tubes connect the giant egg to transport energy to it. This egg is the most important task of Swarm at this stage, hatching the giant Cerebrate egg.
The main function of this basin is to store water. When the giant Cerebrate is operating at full capacity, it will generate a lot of heat, so a large amount of water is needed to cool down. This reservoir is used for cooling.
Then a large amount of heat energy can be absorbed by the water to drive the engine to do work, so Swarm will later build a power station on it. This is a composite structure, which is convenient and easy to use.
Cerebrate has calculated that such a composite structure can greatly reduce the energy maintenance costs of the giant Cerebrate. Not only here, many Swarm buildings embody the efficient use of energy.
She once asked Hive Mind why Swarm is so strict in terms of energy utilization efficiency. Obviously it doesn't matter if there is some waste.
Hive Mind passed on a memory to her, which also came from Swarm's cross-galaxy operation Consume.
Recalling this memory, Stars put her hands on Overlord and immediately started busy work. She had to make the entire Swarm complete every task as accurately as Cerebrate calculated.
The giant Cerebrate is very precious. She needs to build some defense facilities, insert some pipes and so on.
The story this memory tells is this.
This time the Consume operation had a failed start. Due to the influence of some unknown cosmic phenomenon, the Cerebrates had a slight deviation when calculating the path.
And when this small deviation is magnified to a multi-galactic voyage of millions of light years, the deviation will be greatly stretched. If the difference is only a hundred and eighty thousand miles, the result will be acceptable, even warm and beautiful.
However, the coldness and cruelty of the universe never give any civilization a second chance. This deviated distance caused the Swarm fleet to miss the target galaxy and sail in vain for tens of thousands of light years in the empty space.
Fortunately, the huge Swarm fleet still had the cost of trial and error. After Consume reduced half of the fleet size, the fleet with enough energy once again drove the curvature engine to correct the course.
When the huge Swarm fleet reaches its destination across the dead void of the universe, what awaits them is not a prosperous world and abundant materials.
Instead, it is a small, desolate planet, surrounding an aging red star.
At this time, the Swarm fleet was at the end of its strength. The interstellar voyage of millions of light years was itself full of risks, and a single turn depleted the fleet's foundation.
If the place of birth is materially poor, then it is just poverty. At least there is material and light here.
But the poverty of the small planet is far beyond Swarm's imagination. There is no water, no plants, no life, and all kinds of mineral elements are scarce.
After calculation by Cerebrate, there is no development value here.
If the Swarm fleet had not reached the end of its rope, it would never have chosen this planet. It was here that Swarm learned to save resources and learn to use energy efficiently.
At this time, the Swarm fleet observed that there was a small galaxy a hundred light years away. There was a middle-aged yellow star there and three planets orbiting it. If we get there, everything will be fine.
A new sailing plan has been formulated. Swarm will exploit the resources on the deserted planet as much as possible, while continuing to Consume the smaller and smaller Swarm fleet.
The purpose is to form a new fleet that can span a hundred light years. This is the edge of the galaxy. There is no hyperspace channel here, and the curvature engine has no energy drive. This is Swarm's last chance.
Fortunately, Swarm is a whole, and each branch can sacrifice its life for the survival of Swarm. If it were an ordinary civilization, it might collapse in such a desperate situation.
Swarm spent a year on this desolate planet collecting various minerals and elements. The only remaining fleet in orbit worked hard to collect every energy brought by the sun.
Maybe Swarm Consume destroyed too many civilizations, and the curse of those dissipated civilizations before their demise played a role. This time Swarm's luck was extremely bad.
In one year, Swarm collected enough energy, but it only lacked some rare elements. These key elements would cause the fleet's probability of successfully reaching its destination to drop by 30%.
When Swarm decided to give up the search for rare elements and set out immediately, a scout bug accidentally discovered an artificial ruins deep in the deserted planet.
Intelligent life actually appeared on this desolate planet!
Careful excavation began immediately, and soon the story of this unknown civilization unveiled its mysterious veil.
This civilization's race is also a kind of insect. Swarm named them Ivan Zerg. They originate from the underground of the desolate planet and rely on geothermal heat and fungi for food.
They are very lucky. Since the birth of life on the desolate planet, it only took 100 million years for complex life to evolve, and it only took 100 million years for complex life to evolve into intelligent life.
It only took one million years after the birth of Ivan Zerg to develop civilization from intelligent life. This civilization originated from the underground. At first, they thought the world was like this.
The sky is dark, the underground is warm, and is the source of the birth of life. Their religion describes the God of the Earth as the creator of all things, and compares the God of the Sky to Consume all demons.
Religion keeps Ivan Zerg away from the sky and closer to the earth. Indeed, this understanding is correct. Ivan Zerg's civilization has been stable for 20,000 years. Nobles, kings, and popes ruled this stable and static civilization.
The accident came from an earthquake. Earthquakes are a symbol of birth in Ivan Zerg's culture, because it means that more minerals and resources can emerge from the ground. Lava and geothermal heat are also very good sources of energy.
But this time the earthquake was a bit large, and the damage was relatively extensive. A piece of the earth's crust was shattered, and golden sunlight shone through the earth into this dark world for the first time.
Ivan Zerg, who has lived underground for a long time, has never seen such exciting light. The range illuminated by the red magma is simply incomparable to this golden sword.
Some bugs with poor eyesight were even blinded by the sunlight.
But despite this, Ivan Zerg was excited and happy after witnessing all this. They had never thought that there was such a vast world in the sky and such a beautiful existence.
The bugs went crazy when they saw the sun.