Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 168

At first, Zero was worried that the opponent's resource detection satellite would discover many Zerg bases hidden deep underground. After all, no one knew what principle the opponent used for this kind of detection.

But later he realized that he should have been worrying too much.

In the beginning, in order to destroy the lizardman civilization on the ocean in one fell swoop, before the Zerg launched a general attack, they secretly established a Zerg base under every island where there were traces of lizardmen, and hatched and bred a large number of Zerg units.

The existence of these bases directly brought an end to the island civilization of the Lizardmen shortly thereafter. Under the surprise attack of the Zerg with mental arithmetic and unintentional, the main body of the entire civilization was destroyed in a short period of time. died during the settlement.

The Zerg also obtained a lot of scientific and technological knowledge from the other civilization, which laid the initial knowledge foundation for Sass to advance the Zerg biotechnology to the microcosm.

After the war ended, these bases were not abandoned by Zero. They served as anchor points for the Zerg to control the entire planet, and they were firmly nailed under every island.

As time passed, the biological activities in these underground Zerg bases gradually weakened, and eventually, like many global bases, fell into silence.

A few years ago, after Zero discovered that there were suspicious flying objects approaching Auri in space, although he was not sure at the time, but due to his own personality, he still took a firm hand and brought the Zerg bases on these islands that were close to the surface to the ground again. Migrate deeper.

With the help of Zerg diggers, this is not a difficult project, and this level of migration is not difficult. It didn't take much time to complete the relocation, and the base that was originally located directly under the Lizardman city was completely abandoned.

Shortly thereafter, the Octopus's satellite appeared in orbit. In order to avoid being noticed, Zero did nothing else.

Now, the opponent's exploration team finally came to the ruins of civilization left by the lizardmen, even though this time point was much later than Zero had expected.

He is very clear that the original Zerg used the method of intruding from the ground in order to destroy the lizard people's sea civilization and capture the opponent's scientific research talents.

In other words, all the bottom-up passages caused by this lead to the original Zerg base.

Although a hundred years have passed, the environment here has changed greatly, and the Zerg have basically never been active in those original passages, and even most of them have collapsed under the influence of time and no longer exist.

However, if the other party wants to investigate, they can still find some clues. After all, not long ago, the Zerg base was not far below the city, and there must still be some traces left. As for how detailed it is.

However, what made Zero feel more at ease was that the opponent's aircraft passed over the ruins of civilization, and only stayed for a short period of time. After confirming that it was indeed a leftover ruin and not a characteristic building of civilization, it left quickly.

Not only that, the so-called alien black technology that Zero was worried about before, that is, the satellite technology that detects deep mineral veins through thick strata, obviously does not exist, at least the other party should not have revealed it at present.

Because the location where they stayed was actually directly above the Zerg base, if something was discovered, given the vastness of the Zerg base and the size of their numbers, there was no reason why they would not be noticed.

Of course, the possibility of the opponent trying to get hard is not ruled out, but in comparison, it is more likely that this kind of detection satellite cannot do this.

For the octopus people, they don't have extra time and energy to waste on exploring the ruins, as long as they confirm that the natives here will not interfere with their next work.

At present, their strength and personnel cannot afford this kind of time wasting due to curiosity. After the fire grows and re-ignites civilization, there will be plenty of time to explore.

Strengthening the colony is the top priority of their trip. As for the specific reasons for the loss of indigenous civilization, although it is not insignificant to them, this matter still has certain value, but in today's priority, It's also pretty far behind.

Therefore, they only did basic exploration here, and after confirming that they did not pose a threat to their own activities, the aircraft headed straight for the half-mined but now dilapidated mine.

However, this behavior fell into Zero's eyes, adding another piece of evidence to his previous guess.

Although there is no direct evidence, but with zero intuition, it is very likely that it is the truth!
"Perhaps, this is not actually an interstellar colonization team of an alien civilization..." He said to himself in his heart.

"At least it won't be a powerful colonial team. One thing is almost confirmed, they lack personnel and resources!"

Although the technology is indeed in line with Zero's basic understanding of civilizations capable of interstellar navigation, it does not mean that they are really as powerful as they seem!

Combined with the spaceship that looks like it has been attacked, and the various behaviors of the other party after landing on the planet, it is not like an interstellar colonization team with a powerful civilization as the backing and guarantee. The timid actions are more like... A group of refugees fleeing famine!
If this is the case, then there is something to be said.

As we all know, the treatment of someone behind the scenes is completely different from that of no one.Even now, Zero is still quite afraid of these technological products that are far beyond the Zerg, and there is no chance of winning if he launches an attack rashly. After all, the Zerg is really beyond the reach of the spaceship suspended in space.

But if this can be confirmed, then he is equivalent to lifting a layer of shackles, at least there is no need to worry about any troubles after launching an attack on the opponent here.

Of course, it is still too early to talk about these.This point is just a guess made by Zero based on the existing information. It is also possible that this behavior pattern is just the characteristics of the other party's civilization, or there are deeper reasons that are unknown.

At present, it seems that there is only one way to get a real verification, and that is to catch the other party's civilized individual and let Sass conduct a live body analysis. In this way, everything can be answered according to the specific situation, and a lot of useful information can be obtained no matter how bad it is. .

It's just that if you want to do this, the Zerg will not have a good chance with the opponent's current level of caution and the technology level of the weapons revealed.

It is a kind of wisdom to stand still.

If the opponent is the first to discover the existence of the Zerg and understand the actual information of their own side, such as the reproductive ability and terrifying number of the Zerg, or even the core information of Sass itself, then there is no doubt that Zero and his Zerg will be very passive.

In this case, even if Zero's guess is true, a war of surrender from a "high-ranking" civilization is absolutely inevitable.

Even if this "high-ranking" civilization is actually a parallel importer that cannot be guaranteed by itself, it still has a strong background, as evidenced by the satellites and spacecraft floating in space.

That will be an extremely troublesome thing, because the Zerg has no ability to go into space to pose a threat to it, and the speed of any Zerg unit of the opponent's aircraft is enough to follow behind and eat ashes, and the Zerg's sharp Whether the sharp teeth can gnaw through the iron wall built by the opponent is also a question.

It should be impossible to think about it, no matter the hardness or toughness of those aviation materials, it is impossible for flesh and blood to be torn.

In this way, passiveness is almost inevitable. If something really happens at this time, Zero can only find a way to use time to kill the other party.

But there is a problem with this, that is, Zero does not know at this time that he has the ability to consume the opponent to death!

Compared with the Lizardmen, who were in the hands of the Zerg before, the Zerg now has an extremely limited intelligence advantage over the invading aliens.

As far as the current situation is concerned, it can generally be said that each has advantages and disadvantages.The Zero and the Zerg hide in the dark, watching all the external actions of the opponent, and at the same time, they are afraid of the opponent's technological advantages, so they dare not act rashly and take the initiative to attack.

On the other hand, the octopus people control all the wind and grass on the entire surface by orbiting the satellite. The spaceship hangs high in space, the aircraft traverses the surface, the outpost is firm and stable, and the colonization work is slowly unfolding. On the surface, it has great advantages.

But they don't know that an extremely large and terrifying semi-native race is quietly watching them from a place they can't perceive, and at the same time coveting everything about them.

The two sides reached a strange balance silently, and no conflict broke out at this stage.

However, judging from the positions and demands of the two parties, the conflict is irreconcilable, which Zero knows well, and the octopus people should also be aware of it before invading.

So from the beginning, he never thought of letting these intruders go, even if he once played such a role, even if this planet did not belong to him.

If counting from the time of awakening of consciousness, more than 200 years have passed since the birth of the Zerg.

After a long time, Zero is actually very open-minded now.For example, in the war with the Lizardmen, although the Zerg slaughtered many Lizardmen individuals and directly destroyed the opponent's civilization, it can be said that among the many Zerg individuals surviving in the world today, a considerable part can be hatched, all or more More or less with contributions from the Lizardmen.

But from the perspective of the victor, if the Lizardman had the technological level of the octopus when the Zerg was born, then the Zerg is likely to be swept away. Who it is is unknown.

Even if not, he and the Zerg would not take control of the entire planet so quickly. Before the arrival of the octopus, they were all living under the blue sky openly.

Although in the history of lizard people, there is no lack of reasons for success and failure, and it seems a bit Versailles to say so, but when I look back now, I really feel that if this situation happened at the beginning, he would actually be able to accept it. .

This kind of mentality was not present at the beginning. During those years when he led the ant colony to struggle to survive, Zero wished to bring all the land he could see into his control, so as to strengthen the group and ensure his own existence.

But with the passage of time, when the Zerg gradually no longer had a crisis of survival, his mentality quietly changed.

The gradual indifference of feelings has led to the quiet desalination of many emotions. Sometimes Zero even feels that he is a philosopher, quite a feeling of wanting nothing.

The change directly caused by this kind of thinking is that He gradually has a complete concept that is not unique but can be justified.That is to say, all resources on the planet and even in the universe should be home to the virtuous!
As for the evaluation standard of being virtuous or immoral, Zero attributed it to strength.

This is also the reason why he was able to come up with such absurd ideas when he looked back at the war with the lizard people and the ending. He didn't just go to Versailles, a dead race, from the perspective of the winner.

So now He is indeed very enlightened. If the octopus really has the strength to restrain the Zerg forever, then the other party is a "virtuous" person, and the Zerg will give up the interests on the planet and hide underground again, and go to live. Figure comeback.

But if the other party doesn't have such ability, then he will tell the other party and go away, your civilization and my Zerg will inherit it, don't worry about it!
My Zerg race has abundant martial virtues, so I am naturally virtuous, so why not?

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The other party's mining facilities were placed in various mine veins. I don't know what form of energy they used, but they started to operate soon after, and gradually began to produce output.

The impact of the hundreds of years of abandonment does not seem to have seriously hindered their work. As a civilization that can build spaceships, it is indeed familiar with the mining of this kind of primitive mineral deposits.

Although Zero really wanted to see what the other party's uniqueness in smelting these raw ores was, it was a pity that these octopus men actually chose to transport the ores back to the outpost that is only a few hundred square meters in size today. Smelted outside.

And not long after, Zero observed a batch of waste discharge in the sea area where the opponent's outpost was located...

Obviously, although the area is small, this outpost is indeed full of internal organs, and even this kind of metal smelting equipment is installed in it!

However, what Zero didn't know was that the reason why the octopus people chose to do this was also suffering.They also want to establish smelting factories outside, produce various processing materials on a large scale, and quickly resume industrial production, but unfortunately, the conditions do not allow it.

There is only one ready-made universal smelting furnace, and it was brought over from the parent star over a distance of fifty light-years.

It was the crystallization of science and technology developed by civilization in order to build spaceships. Finally, it barely completed the miniaturization and was brought to the other side of the starry sky. Now, as a processor of startup resources, it brings the first batch of startups for the restart of civilization in foreign lands. Material.

It's not that they don't want to bring more, it's just that during the long journey, every extra point of mass represents a huge energy consumption, and they can only do this.

Although it's a pity that he didn't observe the other party's smelting technology, Zero also has other gains.Compared with the former, the latter is much more meaningful to Zero!

Because it was the first time he saw the activities of the octopus people in the outside world!
In fact, logically speaking, as a marine civilization, it is the right way for the octopus to take the lead in exploiting the resources in the ocean that the lizardmen cannot use at all. After all, they are born to be the darlings of the ocean. familiar territory.

It's a pity that this is not their home planet. Today, the octopus people's external activities are still under strict protection. A substance like a protective film is on their body surface, which bears the role of a spacesuit. It can resist all Deadly substance yet to be discovered by Octopus.

But it is precisely for this reason that the individual octopus's ability to move outside is limited, coupled with the difficulty of mining and the relationship between time, it is undoubtedly a good choice to carry out mining on the basis of lizardmen.

Because the basic working surface of the mine here has been opened, it is less difficult to mine. Although there will be some troubles on land, it is still the best choice at present in general.

This can save a lot of effort, and the time and resources saved can be applied to more important things, such as the support and education of the new generation, or other construction tasks.

This is what they dream of.

In the initial stage of the restart of civilization, there are too many things that need to be done by them. Every time and cost saved, the return to the peak of civilization will be one point faster.

The operation of instruments and equipment always requires individual operation and care. In an unfamiliar environment, it is really hard to predict what unpredictable problems will occur with this semi-automatic machine.

However, their technological level in this area obviously has not reached the level of automatic production in any environment, and the conditions that the octopus people had at the beginning did not allow them to carry a large number of automatic facilities into space.

After all, every ounce of mass represents a large amount of energy!
In a complex environment, precision things like machinery are actually very unreliable. In order to make it run smoothly, it is imperative to arrange human supervision. The exploitation of resources is related to the progress of the entire plan, and they cannot disregard.

When the aircraft transported the original ore from the locations of the various mine veins back to the outpost like a transport plane, several octopus individuals were also left behind, and they would be responsible for taking care of these working machines.

Of course, these machines can also provide them with a suitable environment to ensure that they can survive for a long time outside the outpost.

Flyers coming and going will bring them rotations and supplies to keep the work going.

There is no sadness or joy, as if he is still unmoved.

However, in the Zerg camp deep below a certain mine vein, several hatchlings were quietly awakened and started working again.

　Happy Dragon Boat Festival everyone!
　　I read a novel recently, and some friends said that sweet rice dumplings should be dipped in salt or salty rice dumplings in sugar.
　　
　
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