I Am The Swarm-Chapter 666: Kemonge

“Stop overthinking. Don’t forget, during the initial Daqi War, they forced the Ji race’s artificial intelligence to withdraw by blocking electromagnetic signals. If they could achieve that level of sophistication, how could they possibly fail to receive such basic signals?”

“Unless they’re choosing not to receive them, pretending to be ignorant.”

“Yes… unless they don’t want to…”

“…”

The atmosphere fell silent again. This waiting—for someone else to decide their fate—was excruciating. Every minute, every second, felt like an eternity.

“Come to think of it, we still don’t fully understand how the Swarm transmits information.” The deadlock was broken as someone realized that silence only bred more fear. Perhaps casually talking about something, anything, would help distract from the dread.

“Haha, I’ve read up on this. According to the materials the Swarm provided when they joined the Confederation, they use a method called ‘multi-primary color information transmission.’”

“I’ve seen that too. They claim it’s an encrypted communication system using nearly thirty primary colors. Honestly, encryption isn’t even necessary. If we can’t perceive the world through multi-primary color vision ourselves, we can’t even begin to imagine what that visual state looks like. If we can’t see it clearly, how could we possibly decipher anything within it?”

“Do you really believe the Swarm’s lies? Maybe all of this is just something they made up.” A representative sneered coldly.

“I think it might actually be true. Due to our race’s unique eye structure, we can perceive nearly ten primary colors. During battles, certain parts of the Swarm units do emit dazzling colors. Unfortunately, we can’t dissect them to learn more.”

The speaker belonged to the Kemonge race, whose members possessed strikingly large, beautiful eyes. These eyes seemed to shimmer with mysterious mist, vibrant and colorful.

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The Kemonge were a relatively minor power among the mid-ring civilizations, ranking near the bottom in terms of strength. However, they had earned a notable reputation due to their unique eyes.

This fame stemmed from their ocular abilities. On their home planet, the unique planetary structure and environment endowed the local creatures with extraordinary visual capabilities, allowing them to perceive far more primary colors than beings from other worlds.

When the Kemonge first joined the Confederation, they discovered a scarcity of research on primary colors. To earn more points, they invested significant resources and manpower into studying the principles and technologies related to primary colors.

Thanks to their racial advantage, no other race could match their advancements in this field. The new theoretical knowledge they contributed earned them a vast number of points, accelerating their race’s development.

However, like many other Confederation races, after an initial period of rapid growth, they hit a bottleneck. Higher-level technologies and theories required more points, but their progress in primary color research had slowed. This caused them to gradually blend into the masses of ordinary civilizations.

Nevertheless, they remained authorities on primary color knowledge within the Confederation. When the Swarm first appeared, their use of nearly thirty primary colors for information exchange sent shockwaves through the long-complacent Kemonge race.

Doubt, confusion, and disbelief overwhelmed them. They had always taken pride in their racial talent—the ability to see a more vibrant world than other races. But what were these Swarm creatures? In their self-reported documents, they claimed to have an information exchange system utilizing nearly thirty primary colors. That was nearly three times the number of primary colors the Kemonge could perceive.

How could this be? The Kemonge refused to believe any race could surpass them in the realm of primary colors. It was like someone who prided themselves on chugging a beer in three seconds suddenly encountering someone who could do it in one. Such a revelation could easily make one question their entire existence.

Thus, the Kemonge quickly launched research efforts aimed at exposing the Swarm’s supposed lies. Many of the Swarm’s researchers, who had mysteriously disappeared early on, were linked to this race.

Unfortunately, the Swarm’s genetic code contained gene locks. Dissection yielded no useful insights. Yet, even surface-level observations revealed that certain parts of the Swarm units’ bodies likely housed structures for primary color-based interactions.

After all, many animals on their home planet communicated this way before developing language—even the Kemonge themselves used similar methods for communication.

Beneath their eyelids were fine spots that appeared as simple, single-colored markings to representatives. But to the Kemonge, these spots could shift through multiple colors, conveying moods and simple messages.

Though this method couldn’t transmit overly complex information among the Kemonge, they reluctantly acknowledged that, based on the Swarm’s publicly disclosed data, the Swarm might truly possess such capabilities.

It was easy to understand. If one primary color represented a letter, the Kemonge could perceive nine primary colors—nine letters. The amount of information nine letters could convey was naturally far less than what nearly thirty letters could express.

The emergence of a race so vastly superior in the same field filled the Kemonge with a deep sense of crisis. They were among the earliest races to fervently wish for the Swarm’s destruction, even though the two races had never truly interacted.

Fortunately, the Swarm seemed highly reclusive. They didn’t exploit their unique technology to stand out but instead guarded their privacy jealously, revealing nothing about themselves.

This brought some relief to the Kemonge. Still, the mere existence of the Swarm occasionally made them uneasy. Even if the Swarm didn’t care, they often found it difficult to confidently proclaim themselves the ultimate authority on primary colors.

Thus, when the Confederation decided to take action against the Swarm, the Kemonge were highly enthusiastic participants, despite their relatively weak standing among mid-ring civilizations—they were even considered one of the lowest-ranked powers.

But in this war, they spared no effort, deploying nearly their entire military force. This left their own territory dangerously under-defended but gave them the second-largest army in the conflict, trailing only the Rashudia.

After the Rashudia’s catastrophic collapse, the Kemonge became the race with the largest remaining forces on the battlefield. Though their technology lagged behind—some of their ships still relied on fusion energy systems—their sheer numbers gave them significant influence among the remaining races.