Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 159
"In the 583rd year of the new calendar, the first routine record:
I was awakened from my slumber by Kazaar, and I was on duty for ten years with twelve teammates.

This is the seventh hibernation end of my voyage.

Our journey is not smooth, and the dark universe is not peaceful.

Along the way, we suffered a total of 642 unknown celestial body impact events, 1603 instrument failures caused by unknown radiation, and a total of 16296 faults were eliminated. It took 620 stellar years. This spaceship built with the highest technology at that time was already scarred. .

To this day, there are still 122 non-fatal failures that have not been eliminated. It is not because we are not working hard enough. This is beyond the power of manpower. We have tried our best.

In the year 562 of the new calendar, the spacecraft suffered severe trauma during its passage through the unknown asteroid belt.

We thus lost more than 40.00% of our "seeds" and one sixth of our energy reserves.

That was also the sixth time I was awakened, and it took so much effort to save ourselves in space.

53 companions were lost forever in the cold space, so we had to speed up the frequency and number of rotations to ensure the safety of the voyage as much as possible. "

"Fortunately, the disaster did not cause fatal damage to the spacecraft, and despite the huge damage, we managed to repair it after all.

Unfortunately, the energy loss is too huge. After calculation, even if the subsequent voyage is smooth, our remaining energy can only barely complete the deceleration and park into the target star system.

If there is another accident, we are likely to be lost in the endless darkness forever.

It's too bad! "

"In the 592rd year of the new calendar, the first routine record:
My duty is coming to an end. Fortunately, during this period, I did not encounter any huge troubles that cannot be solved. After another Crete day, I will enter hibernation again. If there is no accident, I will wake up next time , we will be in the process of decelerating to the target star system - Heprius, and that will be my last watch.

According to the usual practice, I will summarize the work of the past ten years here, so that the next round of staff on duty can receive it.

Currently, our distance from Heprius is 9.34 light-years.If there is no accident, after continuing to sail for 106 years, the spacecraft will enter a deceleration state, and after 33 years of continuous deceleration, it will reach a reasonable speed and then berth into Heprius.

Over the past ten years, my colleagues and I have solved 53 common failures. Unfortunately, we still have nothing to do with the few more serious failures left over from before.

terribly sorry.

Although they will not affect the progress of the spacecraft at present, they may become the biggest uncontrollable factors in the process of our deceleration, so these troubles are still left to you to think about.

After nearly 600 years of sailing, our energy surplus is 30.00% of the total two, and the redundancy is only [-]%.

We can't afford any more losses, so please be cautious.

There is no loss in terms of personnel, but there are some abnormalities in the physical data of the three dormant companions. According to the plan, we did not wake them up, but carried out external intervention on them. The current situation has improved slightly, please stay tuned.

besides………

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Although I have said it many times, until now, I have gradually begun to transition from a highly praised outstanding young elite to the end of my life, but I still have to say it again.

Our civilization will never be extinct, and a new paradise is ahead. One day, we will return to Crystal, return to our home planet, just like the ancient history described, and rekindle the fire there light up!

We will conquer all! "

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Zero quietly looked at the quiet and vast starry sky in front of him, and his thoughts were boundless.

Regarding the idea of ​​whether there was an alien civilization in the past, He can now give a positive answer for the original ethnic group.

Because all life on this planet, including lizardmen and Zerg, are considered alien life.

Given the vastness of the universe, no matter how small the probability is, it will become inevitable in an infinite space and an extremely long time scale.

He suddenly longed to see more civilizations. Now there are hundreds of millions of Zerg units dormant and dormant under the surface and in the ocean. Even the joy of exploring the unknown has gradually disappeared from Zero's life.

Although thanks to Sass's efforts, the scientific level of the Zerg has been advancing, but Zero still inevitably feels that he seems to be gradually becoming less like a life.

His thinking is becoming more and more rational, and there are very few things that can make waves in his heart.

Emotions such as anger, joy, sadness, and surprise seemed to slowly disappear in his life.

Reason told him that this change was absolutely beneficial to the Zerg race, but deep down, Zero still felt that he should keep some emotions, which was the proof that he had once been a real life.

So at this moment, looking at the deep, quiet but dark deep space of the universe, Zero suddenly looked forward to the life that the Zerg would encounter in the future.

However, he also knows that according to the current level of development, if there is an alien civilization that invades the planet, I am afraid that the Zerg may really be defeated.

Zero is still very self-aware. Those space-based weapons are definitely a dimensionality reduction blow to today's Zerg, and civilizations capable of interstellar navigation are almost certain to have such weapons.

So although he had expectations, he didn't want to be approached by the enemy right now.

However, considering the vastness of the universe, even if there are many alien civilizations in it, it is not a high probability event to find a planet with only primitive life in the vast sea of ​​stars.

Zero didn't think he would be so weak, and the alien civilization came from afar just to defeat the Zerg or other native races to occupy a planet, even if this planet was special, Zero didn't think it was necessary.

In fact, apart from the presence of life, there is nothing special about this planet.The stars in the vast universe, just the stars, are more than hundreds of billions of trillions, let alone planets.

All in all, Zero doesn't think that the land under the Zerg's feet is special in the entire universe, and he doesn't think that there will be any aliens coming here from hundreds of millions of miles to deal a heavy blow to the weak Zerg.

Compared to this, He has been thinking about a more philosophical question recently.

That is, what is the significance of the Zerg's efforts to become stronger?

Recently, Zero sometimes has a feeling of wanting nothing.This feeling seems familiar, because whenever the swarm develops to a certain level, he will unconsciously have this idea.

In terms of survival, the Zerg has basically occupied the entire planet, and they have not encountered any threatening existence on top of survival. Even those natural disasters that seem to be invincible for the time being, within the foreseeable time, the Zerg will board the planet in the foreseeable future. It will also be basically lifted after space.

And when it comes to needs, apart from Zero and Sass, Zerg individuals don't have any ambitions and desires.

In this environment, it seems that the only thing that can support the continuous advancement of the swarm is the thirst for knowledge of the wider world.

However, this thirst for knowledge is probably only possessed by Zero and Sass among the entire Zerg race.

In other words, in fact, the entire Zerg seems to have many units, but in fact they are just serving them, or even serving zero.

To put it bluntly, as long as Zero loses his aggressiveness, the Zerg will lose their future.

As always, Zero brushed aside the philosophical question.

Often when the Zerg "successful and famous" in stages, he can't help thinking about this issue.

In the final analysis, it is still the lazy psychology that is at work. The leisurely and lazy life is indeed quite comfortable, and it is easy to be addicted.

It's just that Zero's curiosity is still very strong. After experiencing the "dream", he has more questions that he wants to get answers to.

He will not be content with the status quo because the swarm has no enemies on the planet, and he wants the swarm to travel among the stars.

This can be regarded as his own selfish desire, or it can be said to be the common will of the Zerg race.

Because zero is the swarm.

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When Ling looked up at the starry sky and various thoughts flickered in his mind, a trivial incident happened to the Zerg on the mainland.

A Zerg instance quietly died in hibernation.

The death of Zerg units is really very common.

Over the years, there have been 1000 million Zerg individuals who died on this planet due to various reasons, if not 800 million.

Generally speaking, this sort of thing doesn't deserve attention at all.

However, unlike all the previous dead Zerg individuals, this one died naturally.

It's not a catastrophe, it's not an enemy attack, it's just - the time has come.

This is presumably a Zerg unit dating back to the time of the war with the Lizardmen, born after the dormant technology exploited by the Zerg from the Pyroderma.

Logically speaking, in a dormant state, it should be able to live for quite a long time.

It's just that it spent too much time in the previous battle with the lizardmen, and after the war was completely over, it was no longer as brave as it used to be.

In the end, it gradually exhausted its own life in a long period of dormancy.

It certainly wouldn't be the first, the same thing happened to 10,000+ Zerg in just a few days, and it's still going on.

They are all hatched from the same batch of Zerg units. In order to bring the entire continent into the arms of the Zerg as soon as possible, they almost let go of their hands and feet for a period of time and let the Zerg develop on their own. That's why today's phenomenon has been created.

This can't be said to be a bad thing, most of the Zergs are idle now, and their death is not a big wave, but just adding a batch of resources to the Zerg hatchery.

But the occurrence of this incident eventually attracted Zero's attention.Without it, the Zerg's lifespan is still too short.

After possessing the dormancy ability, the survival time of the insect swarm has been improved a lot in disguise, but this long-term state of suspended animation cannot be regarded as alive.

The lifespan problem is not a big problem for the Zerg whose resources can be recycled to the greatest extent, at least in the current situation where large areas of this kind of Zerg are dormant.

It's just that in Zero's plan, the future interstellar voyage requires the Zerg to have a long life, and the bug species that will die within a dozen or even a few years in such a conventional state are obviously absolutely unable to meet this requirement .

Of course, Sass is not included in this list. For so long, Zerg individuals have changed crop after crop, and none of the bugs can survive from the birth of Zerg until now, and Sass is the only exception.

Even Zero didn't know how long this extremely obese, special bug could survive, and even he couldn't tell.

So this time, Zero put the solution to this problem on Sass.

On the one hand, it is to find out the source of the special ability of the cerebral worm like Sass, and on the other hand, it can also try to solve the lifespan problem of other worm species.

Of course, it is impossible for SARS to slice and study itself like other creatures. Zero means that the Zerg has the ability to observe genetic material, so in fact, you can try to find SARS and other species in cells or even The difference at a more subtle level, use this idea to solve the problem.

After the original idea of ​​mass production of cerebrates by Sass proved to be unfeasible, Zero once gave up this idea that Sass considered unrealistic.

However, in his mind, there seems to be another similar but completely different plan, and now it has gradually begun to have feasible hopes.

The desire for more brain worms has been lingering in Zero's mind since the birth of the Zerg, and he is also quite curious about the mysterious substance that is a necessary condition for the birth of brain worms.

Judging from the information in his mind, Zero thought that implementing the cloning plan might be another feasible path.

It's a pity that things are not as simple as he thought, not to mention that the Zerg is still a long way from the "cloning" plan in terms of technology and various conditions. Even if they can meet the conditions, failure is inevitable .

From this road, Zero is destined not to get the result he wants.

However, it is indeed imperative to recognize and understand oneself.

Speaking of it, Sass, who has dissected and observed countless creatures over the years, still has a rather limited understanding of himself, which can be regarded as a strange thing.

For all kinds of creatures on this planet, it can analyze them like a few treasures and add them to the gene pool of the Zerg, but it has never thought that one day it will do it to itself.

This is indeed a blind spot in Zerg scientific research. After all, although Sass does seem a little brutal sometimes, it is just a unique behavior of Zerg. It is like eating and drinking. It does not feel that there is any violence. Word.

In fact, compared to other insect species, Sass should be regarded as a quiet insect, otherwise it would not be possible to study technology quietly for so many years.It doesn't have any crazy genes in its body, so it won't be cruel to itself for no reason.

It's just that this time with Zero's instruction, everything will be different.

In zero perception, Sass suddenly realized that he had begun to think about how to get more detailed and rich data and conclusions without hurting himself.

Zero is very relieved about this, he does not decide when things happen, and seeks for himself, which is one of the fine traditions of the Zerg.Sass, as the senior commander of the Zerg, the only brain worm, and the most important scientific research worker, it is really great to have such an awareness.

(End of this chapter)