Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 142 Unknown Death
Speaking of genes, in fact, seriously, the current Zerg concept of "genes" only rests on the innate ability of Sass.

It used its innate ability and creativity, combined with its growing intelligence, to easily complete the transformation of the Zerg unit.

However, even if it can transform the Zerg into various forms, it has actually completed the transformation of the Zerg gene, but it is completely impossible to say how much it understands the essence of this kind of thing.

Counting it, it has only been a few years since the Zerg was born.

And Sass, the first brain worm of the Zerg, was almost like a piece of white paper when it was born.Although the ability is powerful, it can already carry out simple and crude transformations on Zerg units when the accumulation is the poorest, but when it comes to basic theory, it is completely impossible to learn.

The most intuitive expression is that Sass can transform Zerg larvae arbitrarily, and turn them into various Zerg arms through re-hatching, but for other creatures, even the most familiar ants can't let them get even the slightest progress .

Of course it doesn't need to make other creatures progress, but this is actually an essential difference.

Without understanding its true connotation, all transformations can be said to be due to luck, but with his own ability, Sass made this kind of luck a necessity for the Zerg.

Perhaps relying on the natural talent and creativity of the cerebrates, they can also lead the Zergs to move forward, but this kind of basic knowledge related to the laws of the universe is the cornerstone of the Zerg's future.

Zero believes that the transformation based on the theory should be much stronger than the current Sass model.

Among other things, if it can figure out where the most fundamental difference between plants and animals lies, perhaps the research on the Zerg's future energy acquisition will not simply stop at the first step and make no progress.

Therefore, starting from the most basic knowledge is another task for Sass to use his own ability to study the Zerg.

Previously, Sass obtained some of the most primitive theories from the remains of the lizardman civilization.However, limited by the times, the lizardman civilization itself has very shallow research on biotechnology, so the improvement of basic knowledge about SARS is not obvious, and at most it is just some medical or anatomical content, which is lacklustre.

However, this can be regarded as a systematic knowledge system at any rate. For a basic novice like Sass, at least it can be regarded as giving it a direction.

If you continue to study in this direction, with the level of intelligence and potential it shows, sooner or later, it will also be able to become a Zerg brain worm with the highest biological technology in the true sense!
At that time, even without the bonus of this natural ability, it can still push the Zerg forward based on its own research results. This is what Zero wants, and it should be what the brain worm should look like.

Of course, it is too early to talk about these at this time. The current Zerg still needs Sass to transform it through its own ability. Before its theoretical study reaches a certain level, this method will still be the main driving force for the evolution of the Zerg .

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On the mainland, the Zerg continued to accumulate their own background under the research of Sass, while in the ocean, the exploration of the Zerg never stopped.

The sea is sunny and sunny, but the water is undercurrents and turbulent.The first round-the-world exploration team of the Zerg is now thousands of kilometers away from the mainland. This is a place that the Zerg has never reached, and it is a completely strange sea area.

Here, they encountered many new species, and as the swarm moved forward, the environment around them was constantly changing.

In different environments, there are different creatures. Perhaps long, long ago, they also had a common ancestor, but as they were separated by oceans, they gradually became completely different creatures over a long period of time.

In the furthest seas the Zerg have ever explored, they encountered a species very similar to the sea monsters they had encountered before.

It is said to be similar, but it is not necessarily the case.The species encountered this time should be regarded as a miniature version compared to that sea monster.

Because their size is much smaller than the creatures encountered by the swarm before, each individual is only about the size of five or six foragers. Seriously speaking, this is not too small, it should be bigger than an adult lizardman A few laps, but compared to that kind of sea monster, it's not enough to see at all.

In addition, they no longer act alone, but move forward in groups. Although they are still the top predators in the ocean, they pose no threat to the insect swarm.

They have naturally become the food of the Zerg. For the Zerg, this is just an ordinary predation on the way forward.

All the way from the mainland to here, they can be said to be on a rampage, ranging from small fish and shrimps to giant sea monsters. Another group of companions.

However, if you walk a lot at night, you will always encounter ghosts.

From tiny insects all the way, the swarm has incorporated almost all edible creatures into their recipes, whether it is highly poisonous snakes or stinky carrion, as long as they can provide energy and are not deadly, It's all their food.

They don't think it's not tasty enough, and they don't lament that it's too delicious. Gaining energy is their sole purpose.

But this time, even Zero didn't expect that the Zerg, who ate all the way from the island to the mainland and then back to the ocean, overturned for the first time because of food.

After swallowing a group of hunting miniature sea monsters together with their prey, the swarm once again set off to move further.

However, it didn't take long before Zero discovered that among this group of bugs, bugs were constantly falling behind.

This is quite an abnormal thing, unless they are blocked by an attack or impassable terrain, without zero order, they cannot stop without reason.

When Zero noticed them, these stragglers had almost no signs of life, but they were still alive, but in Zero's induction, their aura continued to fall off a cliff, and they were already on the verge of death.

Although strictly speaking, they still have biological characteristics, that is, they are still alive, but when Zero tried to command them to act, he was surprised to find that his instructions could no longer be executed!
This is almost impossible. For the entire time in the past, since Zero woke up, all the bugs have shown absolute obedience to Zero. Even at the last moment of life, as long as they still have a little mobility, they will fight Do your best to complete Zero's orders.

However, this time, they were clearly still alive, and they didn't appear to have any damage on the surface, but they didn't even give any feedback to Zero's command, which meant that either they couldn't receive Zero's command, or they had received it, but they were already unable to make it. reaction.

No matter which one it is, it means that their bodies have suffered extremely serious damage, so that there is a situation like this that has never happened before.

And in the next moment, these stragglers slowly lost all their vitality one by one. Due to the overall density of their bodies, they could no longer maintain a balanced state in the water and began to float upwards.

At this moment, Zero didn't realize what the problem was, and it all seemed very weird.

The only thing that is certain is that this batch of Zerg has suffered an unknown attack!They are dead!
At the same time, more Zerg foragers followed in the footsteps of the former one after another. Zero had no clue and could only watch them die strangely one by one.

In fact, a similar situation happened when facing the sea snake before, but the insect swarm would die immediately after being exposed to the toxin, and there was no such a state of dying.

Therefore, after the incident, Zero's first reaction was to think that the swarm might have also been attacked by unknown toxins, and he immediately asked the remaining zerg foragers to look for possible enemies.

However, shortly thereafter, the so-called survivors also died one after another, and no one was spared. Even the larva carefully protected by the swarm became a corpse floating on the water.There is no regularity in their death in space, just a difference in sequence.At this point, Zero completely lost his vision of the entire sea area.

For the unknown, He has never lacked the spirit of exploration, not to mention the unknown that threatens the life of the swarm. He will not give up until he investigates it clearly and confirms that it is within the controllable range.

Zero immediately mobilized the nearest bug swarm to rush there. In order to guard against possible enemies, they will establish a Zerg sea hatchery near the accidental sea area to ensure that the bug swarm remains invincible.

However, this time, things still did not develop in the direction expected by Zero.

It wasn't that he was unresponsive, it was because the Zerg race had never made a mistake in food since it was born for so long.

Since the era of ants, Zergs have been very sensitive to toxins in food. They can easily distinguish foods that contain toxic substances, and they will never eat them.

For so long, the swarm had never had a problem with food, so when it happened, Zero didn't think in this direction at all.

Judging from past experience, Zero's most direct reaction was that the swarm was attacked similarly to the last time he dealt with the sea snake, and all responses were basically resolved according to this idea.

If the unknown enemy really exists, then there must be a logic behind it killing the swarm. The most likely one is predation behavior, and it may also be a stress response after being disturbed.

It was also the first time for Zero to be able to kill hundreds of Zerg foragers at once without arousing any alarm from the swarm.

Killing Zerg units is not all that difficult, there are a lot of predators in the ocean that can do this, but it is quite difficult to attack and rush in front of such a large number of Zerg without being detected at all .

No matter if it is a huge sea monster or a sea snake that sneaks up in the dark, after they attack the insect swarm, they will reveal their figure, and even they cannot wipe out such a huge insect swarm at once.

However, things really happened. Without any trace of the enemy, Zero could only overestimate the enemy's ability as much as possible, so that he once again activated the way he used to deal with the sea monster.

When the swarms of insects in the distance traveled hundreds of miles to this sea area, Zero found nothing, including the corpses left by the zerg.

Thinking about it, the distance between each exploration team is not close. If the enemy attacks the insect swarm for predation, then during the time they are on their way, it is enough for the other party to devour their spoils.

Even if they were not swallowed by them, it would be a miracle that these insect corpses could survive with so many predators in the ocean.

Even so, Zero was still unwilling to give up. He asked the worms who arrived here to search this sea area as much as possible, but they still found nothing. In this large area, even fish and shrimp were pitifully few.

Zero discovered this, but he didn't think about what it meant, so he could only keep it in his heart temporarily.

In desperation, the swarm continued to set off, leaving only the hatchery here, using local materials to hatch the swarm. On the one hand, it serves as an anchor point for the swarm in the ocean, and on the other hand, it can continue to investigate and collect clues.

However, just two days after the swarm left here, the problem that appeared on the previous batch of zerg happened again.

First, the hatchery that remained in place and the latest batch of Zerg foragers hatched by it quietly went from active to dying directly.

Shortly thereafter, the same thing happened to the swarm that had left here before.

Zero stared at them, watching the bugs in front of him die one by one again, and wiped out again, leaving no survivors.

This time he was prepared, so he also got the opportunity to observe for a period of time, but there is no doubt that Zero did not find any trace of the enemy during this process!

He began to realize that perhaps it wasn't some enemy attacking the swarm, but that there was a problem in this sea area!
The first batch of Zerg passed here, and they all died quietly.The hatchery, including the hatched swarms staying here, has the same ending.Even the Zerg units that passed by here all died soon after.

Is there something here that exerts some influence on the Zerg, causing them to die after touching this sea area?
Zero fell into thought.

The loss of several hundred Zerg units is far from enough to make him feel deeply. In the past two years, countless Zerg individuals have been lost in the ocean due to various reasons. This loss is not painful or itchy.

What really concerned him was the threat that this unknown damage might pose to the Zerg race. With such a weird way of killing, it was impossible for Zero to feel at ease without figuring out the specific cause and finding a way to deal with it.

More Zerg units are coming here, and he needs more tests to find out whether it is what he guessed.

However, compared to the last time, due to the longer distance, even if the swarm came with all their strength, it took a full day.

But the results of the final experiment still left Zero scratching his head.

In order to avoid being wiped out again, Lingrang swarms were dispersed into several batches, with a distance of hundreds of meters between each batch, arranged from far to near from far to the center of the incident site, that is, The location where the hatchery was when it died.Of course, there is nothing here today.

Unfortunately this time, nothing happened.

Even if Zero waited here for seven full days, nothing happened.No Zerg died inexplicably, and nothing unusual was found.

Everything seemed very normal, only the waves were bursting, setting off bursts of water and falling again.

Zero is very sure that this is the location of the two incidents, but no matter how long the swarm stays here, there is no special discovery.

The same is true for the sea area where the second batch of Zerg died.

And this kind of nothing happened, so that Zero basically lost all clues about this matter.Nothing was found except for two incident locations.

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