Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 130 The Last Nautical Movement
In an empire with a large population, there will never be a shortage of smart people.Because of their background and wealth, some of them occupy high positions and criticize Fang Qiu, while others devote themselves to the market and hang out all day.

But the reason why smart people are smart lies in their insight into the situation.

Although due to their different statuses, the time to get the news of the Zerg was earlier or later, but after learning about the specific characteristics of the Zerg, most of them made the same choice - escape!
Because they are soberly aware of one thing, that is not something they can resist!
Even if some people know what the result will be if they resist, they will try their best to protect those things they care about, even if they lose their lives.

But after all, there were only a small number of them. When the situation became clear, the entire lizard people group began an unprecedented frenzied migration on the mainland.

Everyone has the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, they have no way to resist the threat of Zerg, they can only choose to go into exile.

In this kind of exile, new lizardman forces were constantly established, and were quickly wiped out by the Zerg that followed. The extremely turbulent society made the lizardmen displaced and miserable.

Countless lizardmen died in this process, but only a small number of them died directly at the hands of the swarm.

Due to turbulence and exile, famine, disease, riots, the number of lizardmen who died due to various reasons is countless.

But those so-called smart people have already begun to plan their own way out early.

If you look far enough, you will know that with the characteristics of the swarm, if you let go of your hands and feet and develop afterwards, there will no longer be any lizardmen on this continent.

The so-called seclusion is out of the question.Under the swarms of swarms, there will never be such a pure land. Those insurmountable moats for the lizardmen are useless in front of the swarms.

Therefore, this group of people set their sights on the sea in the distance.

Regarding the exploration of the ocean, the empire can be said to have a long history. From the city-state all the way to the final unification of the continent, their achievements are not entirely on this huge land.

It's just that the dominance of the mainland still made it more or less self-styled after all. Without the drive of absolute interests, it was always difficult for the empire to open up the ocean.

Nevertheless, in the long-term war to unify the continent, the empire's achievements in the sea are still remarkable.

Although there has never been a real ocean voyage, the conditions for ocean voyage have been basically met in fact.

Scholars of the empire had put forward the theory that they could roughly locate themselves by observing the stars in the sky above the ocean a hundred years ago, and this theory has been confirmed in subsequent practical applications.

There are even academic masters who are proficient in astrology, based on various phenomena observed in daily life, they made a shocking inference, that is, the land they live in is likely to be a ball!

It's just that out of the need for governance, this view, which is completely different from mainstream cognition, has become a heresy condemned by everyone, and has not been taken seriously.

In terms of ship technology, the empire's level is also not low.Today, it is common to build large ships tens of meters long. In the peak period of shipping, the empire once built super large ships hundreds of meters long and 30 meters wide!
This kind of ship actually has the ability to sail in the ocean, but as the forces on the mainland are destroyed by the empire one by one, the navigating industry, which is still in its infancy, has been gradually put on hold.For decades, although the transportation from south to north on the empire's seas is still busy, it is no longer the grandeur of the past. There are such treasure ships in the sky, but they have never really sailed to the ocean.

Until now, under the pressure of the Zerg race, some people finally thought of going to sea to avoid disaster, hoping to find a little life for the race in the ocean.

They coincidentally began to think about the huge fleet of the former empire, and there were undercurrents surging in various docks, ports and even shipyards.

Some people use their former power, some people look for the only remaining contacts, they unite all the forces they can, and try their best to make this matter continue to move forward.

Experienced sailors and sailors were persuaded to return in various ways, and a large amount of supplies and fresh water were quickly prepared...

Just like that, almost all the first lizardmen who took refuge in the sea were the ones with the quickest response and outstanding mobility.

Before the swarms really swept across the continent, in this way, they brought enough supplies and a small number of people, fled this land where their ancestors lived for generations, and were forced to sail to a distant land with a desire for a new world. In the sea area, follow the traces of records left by the predecessors to find new habitable places.

And this is just the first batch. Their behavior has awakened too many not-so-intelligent people. For a long period of time, under the pursuit of the Zerg, going to sea by boat has become the dream of all lizardmen. way of life.

However, what they don't know is that above the ocean, the Zerg is also expanding rapidly.

For the first batch of lizardmen to go to sea, the huge ships provided them with enough sense of security on the sea, but they also brought huge risks.

Because of their sheer size, they are easily spotted by foragers scavenging around the mainland.

With the support of the hatchery in the sea, these lizardmen who thought they were smart once again experienced the fear brought by the swarm. The insects that climbed onto the ships from the sea water continuously killed all the lizardmen on the ocean-going ships. die, and then use the large amount of supplies they brought out to reproduce rapidly in the ocean.

Few of this group of lizardmen who went to sea could truly escape.

On the contrary, a large part of those who went to sea slightly slower escaped unharmed, and sailed to unknown seas in small boats to meet the same unknown fate.

And that's not what Zero cares about.

No matter how many Zergs there are, it is impossible to intercept all the Lizardmen going out to sea on the vast sea.And between them and Zero, there is no hatred that is enough to make Zero try his best to kill them. Life and death are at their own risk, and it is their luck to be able to survive in the sea while driving a small boat.

The swarm attacking their sea-going ships was just a matter of convenience, not to mention targeted, but it also cost them a huge price.

The Sudman Empire has actually perished, and almost all their high-level officials, including the emperor, have become the nourishment of the insect swarm. They are so rich and powerful, and in the end there is not even a handful of loess left behind.

But this doesn't mean that there is no more lizard people's resistance on the continent, even if those resistances that are trying to organize are really vulnerable.

The swarms scattered again, whether it was mountains, rivers, or strongholds, with the help of the diggers, it was already difficult for the lizardmen to find a way to restrict them.

During this process, the swarm repeatedly broke through the defenses organized by some whimsical and ambitious people, and gradually made those lucky lizardmen truly recognize the reality.

With their strength, it is absolutely impossible to resist the Zerg!
More and more lizardmen chose to go to sea to escape, but most of them didn't even have the ability to resist wind and waves, let alone the attack of sea zerg.

Under this situation, the lizard people were forced to start a suicidal national voyage, but lost the empire as a background, even if they can break through the wind and waves and the blockade of the insect swarm, if they want to really survive Very low probability thing.

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The matter of the lizardman has basically been settled, and there is no room for turning around.Even if the swarm is far from occupying the entire continent, it is only a matter of time, and even if Zero is willing, it is not a problem for the swarm to plow the entire continent.

The war was largely over, leaving only the swarms running around unscrupulously, and Zero's attention was no longer here.

On the one hand, the Zerg's own ocean exploration campaign is in full swing, and the discovery of various new species keeps Sass busy.

On the other hand, the research on firebugs has finally made real progress.

Although the swarms used a clumsy method to catch the fireflies, but under the power of time, they still caught more and more fireflies.

Sufficient samples allowed Zero to carry out more experiments, that is, in these experiments, Zero finally, like Sommer at the beginning, gradually figured out the various habits of this bug.

Most of them did not make any effective contribution to the development of SARS research, but two of them almost played a key role.

One, and the most important point.Zero has always been more concerned about the fact that fire bugs are afraid of the sun. They will almost never fly out of the cave they are in during the day, even if they are attacked from outside the cave, or the bugs that entered the cave attack them and then escape. Outside the hole, they will also stop chasing at the junction of sunlight and darkness.

This line separating light and darkness is like their life and death line, and it will never be crossed.

In the experiment, Lingrang Zerg opened the stone box during the day and exposed the fire worms in it directly to the sunlight. In order to get a universal conclusion, he took out ten stone boxes at once, Each of them is equipped with a firefly.

Under Zero's command, the swarm grouped the ten stone boxes into two groups, and then they were in the early morning when the sun was rising, at noon when the sun was shining, in the afternoon when the temperature reached its peak, in the evening when the sun was slanting westward, and in the evening when it returned to the west mountain. , opened the sealed stone box, and released the firefly inside.

For this reason, He has already made preparations for them to explode themselves as soon as the stone box is unsealed.However, this time he came up with the real reason why the bugs were unwilling to fly out of the cave during the day.

Under the relatively weak sunlight in the morning, dusk and evening, the fire worms in the opened stone box could barely flap their wings and fly, but only for a moment, they fell to the ground before they even exploded, as if Lost all vitality and slowly lost motion.

And the fireflies that were directly exposed to the scorching sun didn't even have a chance to fly, and they didn't make any movement at all.

Zero did not let his guard down because of this. Although it is unlikely, perhaps this behavior of theirs is just another survival-based characteristic, in order to lure prey to take the bait.

In order to verify this, He let an insect directly touch their body with its feet, but there was still no response, the bright flames in their abdomen seemed to have been extinguished, and the ordinary one seemed to be an insect that was too ordinary to be reborn. Ordinary bugs.

However, in subsequent observations, Zero discovered that they were not dead, but were forced into a state of suspended animation under such conditions.

This is their second zero-discovered feature.

In fact, in the darkness of the cave, they are basically in this state. In this state, their consumption will enter an extremely low level.

How much has been reduced, there is no way to accurately measure zero.But he knew very well that in this environment, even without any material supplements at all, even after a few months, they would still be alive and well!
It's just that in the dark, their state of suspended animation can be activated by changes in the external environment at any time, directly entering the crazy attack mode.

But under the strong sunlight, once they are in this state, they will not wake up again, and unless darkness comes again, they can only be slaughtered.

Zero doesn't know how their strange characteristics were formed during the evolution process, but this is obviously a good thing, and it means that it is finally possible for a creature like firebug to be studied by SARS!

Under Zero's instructions, Sass temporarily gave up the research on creatures from the ocean, and immediately began to deal with this tiny but special and extraordinary creature.

Zero has considerable expectations for this research, because it may provide more possibilities for the evolution of the swarm.

Since the birth of Sass, with the help of the ethnic group, no less than a hundred species of creatures have been analyzed. The Zerg has also changed from a single unit at the beginning to a huge ethnic group that spans land and sea. Even in the foreseeable future, they will continue to Take to the skies and bring the higher worlds under the Zerg's sphere of influence.

In any case, this time, even if the research on this special creature, the firefly, cannot make Sass innovate for the time being and transform a new type of Zerg, it will at least increase the possibility for the Zerg that will appear in the future.

Sass' research went smoothly. Although the special structure of this bug has never been seen before, and it is relatively complicated, as long as it can be obtained, this difficulty just makes it take a little longer, and it is not a troublesome thing.

However, it ran into a problem when it came to the eventual Zerg adaptation.

It's not that it can't imitate this structure to generate tissues with the same function in the Zerg's body, but that the substance in the firefly's abdomen doesn't seem to be completely produced by itself, and some of it should be ingested from the outside world.

It calls this part of the substance the "lead".Because in the research, it was discovered that the fireflies used this substance to ignite the substance they produced, tentatively called biofuel by SARS, at the moment of the attack, thus triggering a huge explosion compared to their size. and an inextinguishable flame.

This discovery can also be regarded as an answer to Ling's previous doubts that they only exist on the rock wall in that section of the underground river, while the other sections of the river have no trace at all.

Presumably there should be rich in this unique substance, and it can even be regarded as a "lead" mine vein, so these bugs only exist there.

No matter how powerful Sass is, there is no way for the Zerg to produce this substance out of nothing.To take advantage of this property of them, it will require further research.

As for how to use foreign objects in the Zerg's own body, Sass has never had a clue.

When he discovered the iron ore left by the Lizardmen, Zero once had a big brain hole and wanted to use it on the Zerg himself, but because of the difficulty of smelting and the inability to use it, he couldn't let it go. The study of this "lead" mechanism in the worm provides some ideas for this experiment.

　what happened?Yesterday at 520, the average subscription that has been dropping since I put it on the shelves has increased by 3 for an unprecedented time, which means that I have three more full subscriptions.So it turns out that everyone has no object? 520 Didn't watch a movie with my sister that day, but came to see my low-end Zerg novel?
　　Shaking and cold! ! !When will book friends stand up and have their own happiness (dog head saves their lives)?

　　
　
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