Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 174 Biological Invasion
"Although it is unbelievable, since we guess that the other party is an intelligent civilization, why not verify it?"

This is the plan proposed by Jimenez after breaking the deadlock. Indeed, in the original plan for alien colonization, if the possible local civilization is far stronger than your own, then for the survival of civilization, everything on your side can be used as a bargaining chip. In exchange for the continuation of civilization.

In other words, negotiating if you can't win is also one of the initial options.

So is the situation faced by the octopus people applicable to this solution?

Perhaps judging from the comparison of the strengths of the two sides, the combat power of the Octopus is still far above that of the Zerg. The existence of space forces makes the Zerg completely unable to destroy the Octopus civilization through war, which does not seem to meet the requirements of the activation plan.

But if you look at it from a practical point of view, today's swarms are actually controlling the lifeblood of the octopus people's survival!

Since there is nothing to do, then compromise has become an art.It might be a feasible solution to pay some price in exchange for living space.

Once this kind of thinking arises, it is out of control.

Comparing the current situation between the two sides, it seems that there is no other effective solution other than negotiation.

If the previous deduction is correct, then everything on one's own side has been exposed to the other party's eyes. In other words, it seems that there is no need to hold on.

The lack of intelligence made it impossible for them to judge the specific information of the Zerg. They could only make a relatively reasonable guess based on the existing known conditions, and no one could guarantee whether this guess was the truth.

However, it seems that there is no other choice. Since the other party has shown obvious wisdom, it is a good way to get along with each other to find a way to try to communicate with the other party.

After all, among interstellar civilizations, there are not only fighting and killing, but also human relationships.

It's a pity that this is just their wishful thinking, not to mention how they try to communicate with the swarm, even if they can do it, Zero is not willing to make false claims with them.

After removing the powerful disguise, the enemy who was originally thought to be only weak and powerless.Even on the surface, they still managed to maintain a certain degree of decency, but here at Zero, they were almost naked.

He has no mercy for this kind of enemy who is strong on the outside and does nothing on the inside. He either leaves or dies.

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In the following days, the octopus people did not forcefully move, so Zero never took the initiative to attack, and the place calmed down for a while.

It's just that for the octopus, they are not as leisurely as the Zerg.

During this time, they tried to send information to the underground swarm in various ways, trying to get a response, but they were all ignored by Zero.

Among these various messages, the Hive Will can receive most of them. Because of the knowledge and memory of the octopus people, Zero is not ignorant of what the other party is expressing.

It's just a pity that the other party couldn't give what he wanted.

He wants all the knowledge in the minds of these two hundred octopus people, the remaining energy crystals, their energy weapons, and their spaceships!

Can they give it?
Since you can't, why bother to talk?If you can't give it, you can take it yourself. If you can't get it, then destroy it.

As for the issue of living space, in all fairness, Zero doesn't mind paying some negligible price in exchange for more benefits.

But there is a prerequisite for this, trust.

Ask yourself, what kind of treatment will a unique race like the Zerg receive in the face of many civilizations that may exist in the universe?

Zero felt that must not be popular.So far, apart from the microscopic level, all the creatures the Zerg have encountered have one thing in common, that is, the restriction of reproduction like a shackle.

To conceive, to be born, to grow.This is almost the commonality of all life forms, and the higher the creature is, the longer it takes to spend on these stages.

But only the Zerg is an exception.

As long as the supply is sufficient, they can reproduce indefinitely, never ending.They even skipped the growth stage directly, and stood at the peak of insect life as soon as they were born!
If the staged growth of individuals is the mainstream of other life in the universe, then how will they react to the terrifying alien species of the Zerg?

From the perspective of the other party, Zero thinks that he will definitely find a way to make this kind of creature disappear completely in his own world!
Of course, it is also possible that Zero judges the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. The universe is harmonious and loving, but even so, it does not affect him to judge the world with the greatest malice.

Because the existence of the Zerg is malicious enough in itself.

Because of this, He does not want to reveal his own information to the outside world without reservation, and the Zerg will not place their trust on any existence, leaving everything to the outside world to guess. He does not need to make any response, as long as he can reach his own The purpose is just fine.

Due to the coveted octopus technology, although Zero did not attack again, Sass is still constantly formulating a strategy to break through the opponent's outpost based on the octopus' defense characteristics, further optimizing the destructive ability of the swarm.

Those iron walls in the true sense cannot be breached by relying on flesh and blood, but this does not mean that the Zerg cannot harm the octopus people among them.

How to shoot down the outpost suspended in the ocean and cut off its direct connection with space is what Sass is thinking about.

On the other hand, in order to get in touch with the Zerg, the octopus had exhausted all means, so they had to hold a white flag to talk face-to-face with the Zerg unit in person.

It has been a long time since they could get a response, but the resources in the clan have been consuming, especially the first batch of young children that were raised before are still consuming their energy, and they cannot provide any output until they have a certain ability to work.

Sitting and eating under the sky, a feeling of anxiety spread among the group.

If you go on like this, you're just waiting to die!They have to do something.

Zhanmenis roughly calculated his various material reserves, and as expected, the situation was as grim as imagined.

The remaining driving energy of the spacecraft can still accelerate to the third cosmic speed of the galaxy, and it is not a problem to escape the gravity of the galaxy.

But if this is really done, it is equivalent to self-exile, and there is no turning back, because the remaining energy does not allow them to complete the deceleration again, and they have nowhere to go after leaving here.

Conventional energy is enough to maintain the daily operation of the spacecraft, but it is absolutely impossible to rely on this gift from the stars to accumulate enough resources for interstellar travel.

The energy reserves of the outposts on the planet still have enough energy to maintain their own operations, but the cultivation of a few young children will be a difficult problem.There is only so much available space in total. In such an environment, it is really not conducive to the growth of the younger generation.

It is worth mentioning that, perhaps because of the interdependence of fortune and misfortune, during this period of time, they once again overcame their inadaptability to the external environment. If the Octopus were really exposed to sea water at this moment, he would not He will die quickly because of this, and in a short period of time, at most he will feel some discomfort.

In other words, they have initially possessed the ability to survive on the surface of the planet without relying on protection.

This should have been a good thing, but the existence of the Zerg made all this impossible, because even after overcoming these difficulties, they still dare not go out for activities.

In order to get in touch with the Zerg before, they exhausted all means except going underground in person, but everything was like a mud cow entering the sea, and there was no news.

During this process, patience was consumed little by little, and anxiety and impetuousness began to appear among the group.

The joy and longing when I first arrived here have long since disappeared without a trace. Amidst the boundless depression, there is a terrifying mood spreading in this octopus team, especially for the octopus who arrived on the ground from the spaceship. in this way.

There seems to be no necessary relationship between the mental capacity of intelligent life and its intelligence level.On the contrary, their insight into the situation allows them to understand more clearly what kind of predicament they are facing, especially under the torment that is equivalent to chronic death, the torment of mentality is even more serious.

Two months later, another zero-orchestrated attack on an Octopus colonial outpost was launched.

This brought a shock to the octopus people who were like a pool of stagnant water, and revived them from their growing numbness.

The stimulation from the battle allowed them to vent their worries and boredom during this period of time, so that in this Zerg attack, even though Zero used a large number of targeted and improved bugs, he still failed to make a real contribution.

The attacking ability of the opponent's aircraft in the water is not inferior to that in the sky. In addition, the octopus is pouring out firepower like crazy regardless of loss. The swarm only barely touched the wall of the outpost at the first impact. , and then was quickly repulsed, and then he was never able to do this step again.

There was no hope of achieving the goal in a short period of time, so Zero simply gave up this attack.It's not that the swarm can't continue to attack. If they are determined to turn this outpost into a civilization relic on the seabed, they can always do it after paying some price.

It's just that Zero is still coveting the knowledge and knowledge of the octopus people, so he can't act too hastily.If the outpost is overturned on the bottom of the sea at this time, then in their current state, it is very likely that they will be withdrawn into space under the cover of the aircraft, which is what he does not want to see.

In addition, he is also using this method to test Sass' adaptability, to see what step it can lead the Zerg to achieve in the face of such a strong defense.

It sounds stupid to deal with the torrent of steel with flesh and blood, but Zero hopes that under such rare conditions, Sass can be given enough time to hone, and maybe he can make a breakthrough.

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In this attack, the Zergs exposed many completely different and obviously more destructive species of bugs, allowing the Octopus to once again confirm the correctness of the previous judgment from Ariat. Realistic Conditions Constantly improve your own creatures!

At this moment, the original numbness and anxiety turned into the fear of realizing reality, because they had no idea how terrifying it would be when the swarm reappeared.

Fear, an instinctive emotion, has little to do with whether they are civilized elites, and for these smarter individuals, they have a deeper understanding of fear itself.

Obviously, the other party either did not receive the various messages from their own side, or completely ignored them.

If it is the latter, it means that they are determined to drive themselves to a dead end!

Death itself is scary enough, but it is even more difficult to accept the threat of death in the midst of a life's mission.

Under such circumstances, a long-lost controversy arose among the Octopus people.

Represented by Jimenez, the octopus man sitting on the spaceship believes that out of the analysis of the difficult situation that his side is facing today, he communicates and negotiates with the strange civilization on this planet, so as to pay some price in exchange for living space , is also an option.

This view currently represents the mainstream and has been recognized by most octopus people. It is a relatively optimistic one.

At the same time, another point of view was quietly born under the repeated attacks of the Zerg.Its main holders are the people in the outposts who are the pioneers of colonization.

They believe that in the current situation, the Zerg have made it clear that they will not leave a way for their side to survive, and there will be no results if they continue to wait.

Instead of being so passive, it is better to take the initiative to do something, such as destroying several Zerg bases and so on.

Among them, there is a relatively extreme idea that has won the approval of most octopus people who hold this point of view.

This idea did not exist from the beginning, because the conditions were not met before.

After the Zergs destroyed the mining equipment and failed to attack the outpost, the Octopus went through a period of suffering. During this period, the research on their own environmental adaptability was initially resolved. At the same time, the research on native life also made other A thing became possible.

For the life planet Ori, the octopus is an undisputed alien species, and the common environment here contains a fatal danger for them.

But in contrast, for native creatures, the octopus and all the creatures they carry are unprecedented in this world.

During this period of research, they found that a kind of microorganism from their own living system has a very powerful destructive effect on the outer wall of the plant cells here, and the substances in the cells can also provide a nutritional basis for their reproduction!

Moreover, their ability to adapt is extremely strong. After only a few generations of reproduction, the environment here is completely different from that of the parent star, and it is no longer able to threaten their survival.

In the natural world here, the octopus people have not found any substances that can curb their survival.

This means that once they are released from the octopus, they will become a plant killer, a plant killer without natural enemies!
And the person who put forward this extreme idea is the person who discovered this characteristic. His name is Nichols, an outstanding octopus biologist.

He believes that instead of sitting still and humbly begging for mercy from the other party, it is better to give one's own side a decent ending of either life or death.

That is to say, starting from the producer, destroying the ecosystem here, breaking the material cycle of the biosphere, and using this tiny creature from its own body to turn this living planet into a completely different appearance!

This is an extreme means of extinction, because the original octopus civilization chose this planet instead of working in other directions because it has an ecological environment very similar to the octopus home planet.

Once the ecosystem here is destroyed, it will be a big event that will affect the whole body. It is tantamount to turning this planet that was originally suitable for living into a Jedi again!
And even if they can still survive here in the end, the difficulty will be increased many times!
Undoubtedly, the purpose of Nichols to put forward this extreme point of view is to use drastic changes in the environment to kill the Zerg and even the vast majority of life on this planet, and finally artificially turn this place into a desert. A "promised land" without threats.

He believes that if his side goes all out to promote this matter, it will be enough to scatter this kind of microorganisms that are no different from deadly viruses to all major flora around the world in a short period of time through natural phenomena such as atmospheric circulation or even artificial active seeding. among.

Once this step is completed, it will take a year or two, or a few months, those organisms that rely on the protection of their cell walls to provide a continuous supply of oxygen for the entire planet will quickly wither and die, or eventually become extinct completely.

If there is no countermeasure, in the next few years or ten years, this planet that was originally full of life will become dead and silent.

Although it is not possible for the creatures to be completely extinct, those large Zerg individuals should not have the possibility of surviving.

At that time, when they land again, there will be no such big obstacles, and they can develop themselves calmly again.

At most, it will only be a few decades, and under the premise that the dormant chamber on the spacecraft exists, this is not a problem.

For the octopus, the only disadvantage of this plan is that it also destroys the environment they depend on for survival. If it is really implemented, the consequences will be uncontrollable and unpredictable.In the end, it is very likely that this place will become unrecognizable, and even the octopus people themselves will not be able to survive here.

After all, once the devil is released, it is very difficult to take it back. Even if this kind of creature comes from their own body, how can they contain and restore it after it has spread all over the world and caused irreversible damage to the living environment? ?
One careless, completely cut off their own way!This is also the fundamental reason why the conservatives headed by Jimenez still have the upper hand until now.

One time is enough for a civilization to gamble on luck.As a leader, he cannot once again rest the future of civilization on the odds of success or success.

Of course, if the actual conditions are really the same as the situation faced by the mother star civilization at that time, this is also a way out.

Only now, it is safest to try to negotiate a situation acceptable to both parties.

This is what the conservative group represented by Jimenez insisted on, and due to the superiority in numbers, this decision was successfully passed in the vote.

It's just that the voting this time seems to be a little different than before.

In the depths of the ocean, undercurrents surge.

(End of this chapter)