Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 128 Zerg Excavator

The research on flying arms is progressing slowly, not because Sass can't transform Zerg with wings, the main trouble is that the new Zerg doesn't know how to use their extra wide wings to fly into the sky, and Sass was also unable to determine whether the reason for their inability to fly into the sky was caused by a problem with the modified structure, or just because the Zerg did not have the instinct to fly.

Or maybe both?It can't be sure. Although it has enough confidence in its own ability, it is most likely due to the lack of flying experience of the swarm itself, but this kind of thing still needs to show the most rigorous attitude. For Sass, no matter how Self-confidence, since the possibility exists, cannot be ruled out.

How to enable the swarm to have the ability to fly once hatched is still a difficult problem for Sass.

However, the east side is not bright and the west side is bright, but the research on Zerg diggers is going quite smoothly. Sass has completed the transformation of this unit without much effort.

Compared with other zerg, this kind of worm is more in line with the so-called "worm" in terms of appearance. It has a cylindrical body shape and a body with distinct layers. Way, except for its slightly larger size, it does look like a bug in the conventional sense.

Similar to the Zerg land unit, its body length is about [-] centimeters to one meter when it is fully extended, and its roughly cylindrical body has a diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters.While not huge, it's a leap forward from the original Ant Digger.

Although the overall appearance looks very similar to the previous ant diggers, its head is completely different. The sunken mouth is full of fangs for cutting soil and rocks, and its elastic body allows them to There are few hindrances to underground activities.The relatively long and narrow body shape provides them with sufficient length for digestion. During the march, they can secrete a unique acidic substance to corrode the hard rock in front of them. At the same time, it can also decompose the earth and stone swallowed from the mouth through the body. Become relatively loose particles, and a strange substance secreted by their body surface during the march can also stabilize the soil layer.

Of course, matter will not disappear out of thin air. After it passes underground, it will squeeze the nearby soil layer to achieve the purpose of widening the passage. At the same time, the organic matter such as soil or even stone swallowed in the belly can also replenish some energy for them.

Although the energy obtained from the soil and stones is a bit small compared to the consumption, but no matter how little it is, it will not be able to withstand their ingestion. They have been active in a large amount of soil and underground rock formations for a long time, and they can always Relying on this method to continue working, you don't even need to consume food like other Zerg.

This is probably the ability that Sass obtained from some creatures collected by the Zerg before, and it was used on the digger at this moment.

Of course, in theory, it can also be used on all Zergs, but this way of obtaining energy is many times less efficient than directly eating crops rich in sugar, and often requires a huge amount of substances to be able to It is really not cost-effective to meet the daily needs of a bug.

Therefore, it is undoubtedly impossible to use it to relieve the Zerg's dependence on food, and it is more suitable for a unit that is designed to move underground like the Digger.

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Although this kind of bug is still somewhat different from what Zero imagined in terms of size and ability, but it is enough for now. Although the size of the Zerg is not small, it is difficult to drill into a hole with a diameter of [-] to [-] centimeters. , but as long as the number of diggers is large enough, the efficiency can still meet the demand.

The emergence of this kind of arms gave the Zerg a preliminary means of three-dimensional attack. Of course, before the air unit was finalized by Sass, it still could not be regarded as a true trinity.

In Zero's vision, the underground, the ground, and the sky, whether it is melee or long-range, can attack the enemy at the same time. This is a real three-dimensional attack on the surface, and the Zerg can be regarded as having a relatively comprehensive attack system. .

But to accomplish this, they still have a long way to go.The first is the bottleneck faced by the transformation of air units, which has not yet been thought of to overcome.The remote unit only exists in Zero's conception, and it is not yet known how to realize it.

But the road always has to be taken step by step, too high aspirations will not accomplish anything.At least the Zerg already has diggers. Although there are still some shortcomings, it is a good start. Zero believes that everything will be there, it's just a matter of time.

Furthermore, with the combat capabilities of the Lizardman, the main enemy of the Zerg on the mainland, even without air units and long-range units, Zero is confident that he can easily destroy them.

Compared to defeating the lizardmen and winning the dominion of the entire continent, every bit of progress from the Zerg itself made Zero more happy.

Seeking for oneself is what he believes is the right way for the Zerg to become stronger. As for how many territories they have occupied and how many resources they have obtained, although they are also very important, they are still external objects and external assistance.

Therefore, when the swarms were criss-crossing the continent, he did not let Sass command the swarms, but did not give up research for a moment.If the second brain worm of the Zerg didn't come out for a long time, Sass would basically not command the Zerg in person for a long time to come.

First, compared to leading the Zerg to occupy more land, the Zerg needs it to shine and emit heat in scientific research positions.

Secondly, it still has many restrictions in commanding the swarm, and it is quite inconvenient to run back and forth.

Perhaps in the future, the Zerg Swarm will have a second or even more Cerebral Worms. At that time, Sass will have the opportunity to be liberated, command the Zerg to fight, or even take charge of one side alone.

But now, it can only be the chief scientist of the Zerg.

The emergence of diggers can be regarded as adding another tactical possibility to the Zerg, but it has not been used on the battlefield yet.

The main reason is that the current swarms have not taken any action during this period of time, and they have completely spread out and wreaked havoc throughout the eastern part of the empire.On such a vast land, with their current number, even if they are free to gallop, it is like a flock of birds entering the forest.

Although the number of insect swarms is increasing almost every day, this vast land seems to be endless. If a village is captured, there will always be more towns waiting for them.

After cutting off all the traffic arteries from the center of the empire to the east, the Zerg raced like a horse racing enclosure. Even if they encountered a strong enemy by chance, they could gather nearby bug swarms in a very short period of time and take the opponent head-on. Destroyed, after expanding the number once on the battlefield, they split up again.

However, with units like Diggers, Zero no longer intends to let the swarm continue like this.

Invading the center of the empire as soon as possible, defeating all resistance forces, overthrowing this lizardman regime, and then taking the entire continent into his pocket is what he will do next.

The two sides have long established hostility. Now that the Zerg has obtained a new unit, the Digger, the war system can be said to be completely changed. He will not give this lizard civilization any more time.

The scattered swarms began to gather again, and they were no longer attached to the villages and fortresses that were at their fingertips and the lizardmen attacking them. After a single order, all the swarms were running towards the same direction at high speed.

Some lizard people who were being attacked were relieved. Under the crazy attack of the swarm, they could hardly hold on, but at the last moment, the inexplicable turn and retreat of the zerg really relieved them.

Although I know in my heart that there must be monsters when things go wrong, it is always gratifying to be able to survive. No one wants to die under the claws of these terrifying Zerg, and eventually become the food for their reproduction.

However, some people are relaxed, and some people will naturally be sad.Seeing the swarms of worms blatantly setting up hatchery camps in the distance in broad daylight, and the large number of worms gathering here from afar, all the soldiers belonging to the Imperial Guard Corps looked heavy, as if they were facing a big enemy.

During this period of time, the empire was almost squeezing its potential, frantically mobilizing forces to support the center in the western region.

However, limited by communication conditions and transportation levels, it is impossible to gather much force in just one or two months. Today, the main force guarding the center is still the guards guarding the imperial capital.

Although the empire has already recruited militias nearby, it is obvious that even if there are a large number of armed peasants, it is difficult to use them.In the face of the swarm charge, it is still unknown whether they can really pick up weapons and fight back. If they can hold their ground and not collapse, they have already met expectations.

Now, the Zerg even had no scruples at all, and began to gather in front of them. As the dark swarms of bugs gathered in the distance, the strong sense of oppression grew every minute and every second.

Take back the swarm from all directions in a leisurely manner, and at the same time mobilize the captured food to start hatching new Zerg diggers in the Zerg camp.

Although on the surface, the insect swarm appeared to be upright, they placed their chariots directly outside the opponent's defense line, assuming a posture of attacking after completing the assembly.

But at the end of the bug swarm, Zero had secretly started sending diggers to dig down.

This time, they will be the attacking surprise soldiers, leading the swarm to attack the enemy in this form for the first time.Even with the strength that the insect swarm could gather in the end, it was enough to run over the lizardman defense line in front of them head-on.

The lizardman did not do nothing during this period of time.Knowing that the country has come to subjugate, they no longer have any scruples. Originally, the center of the empire was the richest land, the wealth center of the entire empire, and now they are mobilizing resources at all costs. Not to mention anything else, it has been proven in previous wars Fire oil, which is more effective against the swarms, has been recruited innumerably, enough for them to use it freely.

Although it may not be able to produce much of the desired effect in actual combat, it is certain that if the opponent wants to burn jade and stone together, with the huge amount of supplies, after the swarms rush into the line of defense, it is a good idea to give them a fire. totally doable.

Although in reality, the lizardmen, as an intelligent race, basically have no possibility of doing this, but since there is a better way, there is no reason for Zero to waste the life of the Zerg fighting the lizardmen head-on.

This time, the hard-to-defend explorer is the vanguard of the army as always.

They had been completely exposed to the intelligence of the lizardmen in the last war, so this time, they didn't even have any cover-up, just like the swarm outside the city, the flying insects poured in without any scruples In the city, it was like a black smoke.

With the support of abundant food, in the past two months, the hatched explorers have already overwhelming the sky, and the huge number is completely uncountable.

The lizardman soldiers in the city acted like they were crazy, and all kinds of insect extermination methods were deployed, such as burning, smoking, and even mobilizing personnel to exterminate the insects full-time. Black mist hovers over them forever.

The lizardmen were powerless to stop the explorers from peeping. The explorers appeared in any possible position openly, making it clear that they wanted to keep an eye on them all the time.

Zero can even feel the powerlessness of those soldiers. In fact, the information obtained by the explorers is somewhat dispensable at the present scale of the swarm.

But in this war, their role is not only to inquire about intelligence, but more of a blow to morale.

Although the explorers' monitoring basically didn't bring them much loss, no matter how many of them there were, they were still just tiny bugs, and the original evolution didn't endow them with any severe toxicity.

Therefore, in terms of ensuring the safety of the soldiers, the lizard people can still do it.

But this group of annoying little bugs that are always hovering in the sky is almost fatal to the blow to morale.No one is optimistic about the upcoming war, even if they are loyal guards, even if they are behind the imperial capital Bocuse.

The swarm had already set off their horses and horses, and might launch an attack in the next moment, but all their own arrangements had already entered the opponent's eyes.

Even when they were excreting, there were explorers onlookers!
No matter when and where, there is a feeling of being spied on, which is absolutely unbearable for anyone.

If they didn't know that the swarm had intelligence, they wouldn't feel this way even if they were surrounded by more such little bugs.

But now, everyone knows that the other party has considerable intelligence, so this kind of peeping is simply unbearable for the lizard people!
Of course, Zero was not so boring as to use explorers to watch the lizardmen use the toilet. He didn't even pay much attention to the various information obtained by the explorers. Compared with these, the stability of the passages opened by the Zerg diggers and the The waste removal in the rear is more important than the information in the city.

　In the past half a month or so, I have been working during the day and typing at night, going to bed at one or two in the morning, and getting up at seven in the morning to go to work. I feel that I am dying.

　　The saved manuscript is gone, there is only one update today, let me take it easy~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)