Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 175 Internal circulation and biological extinction
Nichols did not agree with Jimenez's point of view, but he accepted it because of the influence of the rules.

He still believes that his plan is the most feasible and the only way to break the situation at present, instead of wasting time in vain begging for mercy from others.

Of course, due to the rules, he did not carry out his plan privately after the vote.Although this seemingly extreme idea was put forward, Nichols himself is not a deviant person.

On the contrary, he should be regarded as a relatively pure and excellent scholar, otherwise he would not have been selected to come here as one of the last hopes of civilization.

Things should have been concluded from this, and everything went according to plan.Until one day, another companion established contact with him in private.

He was Ariat, the octopus biologist and sociologist who deduced the Zerg's purpose from its behavioral patterns.

Compared with Nichols, Arriate is not qualified to be compared with the former in the field of pure biology.The field he is proficient in is more research on biological behavior and social relations, and he can often infer the logic of biological behavior from subtleties.

Therefore, his ability to colonize a potentially civilized planet is as important as Nichols' biological science research.

"James is wrong. We are probably on the wrong path now, wasting our precious time!" Ariat didn't exchange pleasantries with Nichols, and straight to the point expressed his intention for coming. .

"For the continuation of civilization, we must do something."

Nichols didn't respond to the other party's directness. In the culture of the octopus civilization, being more direct in communication is a sign of seriousness and importance.

"Then why don't you put forward your point of view before the vote for everyone to discuss?" Nichols asked.

"It's useless, maybe you don't feel anything, but nowadays on spaceships, the pursuit of safety has long been a common phenomenon.

Along the way, we have experienced too many hardships. Deep in our hearts, many of our companions are unwilling to cause further problems. They would rather endure some humiliation, and want to settle down quickly. "

"I can't accuse them of being absolutely wrong, because if this road can be passed, this is indeed the safest solution. It may be dependent on others, but with our background, sooner or later we will regain control of this place."

"But deep down, I know very well that this matter is not as easy as they think. You also know that I have some research on the behavior logic of creatures. Now I will give you my opinion. Of course, it is only It's my own opinion, I don't represent anyone else's."

"These bugs... will never coexist with us!"

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The atmosphere fell silent, and neither side said anything more.

Until a few minutes later, Nichols once again issued his own doubts.

"It's still the question, why didn't you raise it before the vote? Everyone trusts you and is willing to believe your conclusion."

"I said, it's useless, this is not a question of trust or not, they are not stupid, I can think of it, and many times they are not ignorant.

But they still chose to support Jimenez, because this has nothing to do with reason, but only with people's hearts.

They won't give up until the last moment, and once your plan is implemented, they, or we, will have no way out. "

Ariat's tone was very calm, as if he had already thought through a lot of things.

"Then... why are you looking for me?"

"I want to work with you to carry out your plan."

"In private."

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Although the Zerg were still frustrated in their latest attack on the Octopus, Zero did not feel the slightest sense of frustration.

Looking at the Zerg units that have become stronger and smoother in the improvement of Sass, Zero still has a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

This is the charm of evolution, especially for the fast-changing Zerg.When one's own progress is clearly in front of one's eyes from generation to generation, the feeling is indescribable.

War is indeed a catalyst for science. In the past 200 years, due to the lack of decent opponents, it has been a long time since Zero felt that the swarm was as prosperous as it is now.

This is not to say that they have been standing still for so long, but that they can intuitively show their progress in a short period of time like now, which is indeed rare.

Zero's purpose is to capture as many of these octopus elites as possible, but this becomes difficult to operate after the octopus have strict defenses and no longer go out.

But he didn't force it, and Sass needed some time to digest the knowledge he had acquired before.

Speaking of the octopus people, after trying to contact the Zerg before they were frustrated, they still didn't give up, and they seemed to be reluctant to part with each other. If Ling Quan didn't know it, he was still thinking about plans to improve the Zerg themselves with Sass.

However, what he didn't know was that a plant killer that had undergone preliminary breeding and careful cultivation in the laboratory was quietly released from the outpost by several supporters of Ariat and Nichols.

Their size is extremely small, a circle smaller than ordinary cells, and they are completely invisible to the naked eye.

When it was released into the ocean, those marine plants were immediately devastated and began to die in pieces.

It's just that at this stage, compared to such a vast surface of the planet, this change is insignificant and has not attracted any attention at all.

Arriate and Nichols' plan, with the help of their few supporters, proceeded quietly.

They firmly believe that only this kind of plan can save the ethnic group, and stubbornly lead the entire ethnic group in a completely different direction in their own way.

Their plan was very successful, not only did it deceive the conservatives represented by Jimenez, but even Zero failed to react at the beginning.

When the algal insects on the ocean began to die on a large scale, things seemed to have become irreversible. The scale of this creature had become the climate. At this moment, even the octopus who released them by hand did not have the slightest means of containment.

In other words, they will definitely cause devastating damage to the original ecological environment of the entire planet!

And all this was inevitably exposed to the eyes of all the octopus people including Jimenez.

Killing first and acting privately, if such serious consequences were caused without authorization in the heyday of civilization, they would inevitably face the most severe trial.But at a time when the fire of civilization is in turmoil, it is obviously impossible to strictly implement this point.

Consistent with Arriate's expectations, with the solidarity of supporters, they have not been severely punished for this, at least they will not be deprived of their right to live.

The matter is already irreversible, so make the mistake and make the mistake. Although this plan is extreme, it may not be a clear path.The matter has come to this point, and it is what they need to do to promote this matter with all their strength, and to guide its development in the direction that is most beneficial to them as much as possible.

Plans based on the status quo have been proposed one by one, and the possible future events have been sorted out bit by bit. They are doing their best to ensure that things develop in the direction they expect.

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After experiencing the initial shock, Zero quickly calmed down.Sass naturally launched a study of this alien life to determine the mechanism by which it kills plants.

Then, he completely let go of his heart.

Originally, he thought that the other party might have released some ultimate move that he didn't know, but it was able to cause such a terrifying lethality. Within a few days, the entire sea area full of life became lifeless.

The result is just a "virus" that specifically destroys plant cell tissue!

To be honest, when things have come to this point, Zero has no ability to completely wipe them out from the biological level in a short period of time. If you are determined to do it, use the power of the Zerg to transform a kind of monsters that are more specific on the micro level. The insect species they feed on are not difficult.

But this process is destined not to be completed in the short term, and Zero himself does not think it is necessary.

A long time ago, when algae appeared for the first time, he had an idea, that is, to replace the roles played by various creatures on this planet with a large number of Zerg individuals, and complete the process under the leadership of the Zerg. The ecological balance of the entire planet.

However, due to the disproportionate income and contribution, this plan was quietly shelved by Him in the end.

It was indeed unexpected that the opponent could use this move, but the effect it could play against the Zerg would probably disappoint them.

The algal insects currently floating on the ocean do have the physiological structure of plants in the general sense. Apart from being able to provide a vision for Zero, they are no different from ordinary plants.

Therefore, this "virus" is still lethal enough for them.

Unfortunately, after the green leaf sea snail was discovered by the Zerg and transformed into a special species of algae, the boundary between producers and consumers has gradually become blurred in the Zerg.

In other words, the existence similar to the cell wall is not a completely indispensable biological structure for the Zerg energy units such as algae.

And this also means that the plan that Ariat and Nichols will carry out at the expense of disobeying orders is doomed to fail to achieve the desired effect from the very beginning, at most it will make the protozoa on this planet suffer. That's all.

But this time, Zero produced a longer and bolder plan.

The purpose of the octopus can be seen at a glance. It is nothing more than to eliminate the threats on this planet, including the Zerg. They seem to be sure that this kind of biological attack that is not directly aimed at the Zerg will make them helpless.

So this creates a wonderful opportunity.

Zero has always been thinking about how to capture these octopuses with their own wealth of knowledge, but now, this method seems to be sent to their door by themselves.

The memory and knowledge from the other party told him that the octopus people did not have the ability to directly observe the underground. Their previous monitoring of the Zerg's activities was mainly based on the biological signs of the large-scale existence of the Zerg.

This kind of signal detection that increases with distance and decays rapidly has a very large uncertainty. That is to say, as long as the Zerg hides deep enough, this kind of detection will lose its meaning.

This will bring great maneuverability to Zero's plan, and it is impossible to monitor the underground environment in real time to achieve the effect of "witnessing" like Zero, which means that no matter what he does here, as long as it is not the same as before Leading a large-scale swarm to the ground is unlikely to be discovered by the octopus.

And when the environment becomes unsuitable for the octopus to continue their activities, they will naturally retreat into space. Facing the urgent problem of insufficient life balance, they don't need to guess at all. It is an inevitable choice to enter a dormant state and wait for the opportunity.

It's only a few decades, in order to get what you want, Zero can afford to wait.

His speculation is consistent with that of the octopus, that is, if there is no intervention, this drastic change in the environment will cause extremely serious damage to the ecology in the next few decades, and the ecological chaos caused by the breakage of the biological chain will reorganize, and then collapse again, and the cycle will repeat , and finally reach a balance again, it will take a long time.

Organisms that depend on the original ecological model will basically be wiped out. Under natural selection, only a few lives will survive in the end.

This will be a long process, and for the octopus, once the plan is launched, it cannot be stopped.

Although Zero has the ability to prevent such actions to a certain extent, he has no intention of interfering and allows the other party to do what they want.

Three months later, the octopus people in the outpost closed the base, took the aircraft in batches, and returned to the spaceship with the first batch of children.

Zero didn't respond to this, it was inevitable in the plan, he had no reason to stop it, and with the performance of the opponent's aircraft, he couldn't stop it either.

During this period of time, the effects of biological destruction have begun to appear. With the large-scale death of vegetation around the outpost, many ecosystems have shown signs of disorder.

And with the deliberate spread of the octopus people, this phenomenon gradually began to be staged all over the world.

In order to find a suitable environment and obtain sufficient food, creatures on both land and sea have launched an unprecedented migration, but all these are destined to be in vain.

No matter where they flee, they cannot escape their ultimate fate.

Because under the influence of such drastic changes that will occur in a short period of time, they will not have enough time to evolve to adapt to the environment, and mass extinction is predictable.

As for the Zerg itself, in order to maintain Zero's global vision and the existence of the Hive Will, Zero will not actively reduce the number of Zerg, therefore, a plan to replace the Zerg species is put on the agenda.

A large number of Zerg units were awakened, and then threw themselves into the nutrient pool in the center of the base without hesitation, and were reborn in another form in the hatchery.

In addition, a considerable part of them will die as a means of paralyzing the octopus, becoming another link in the zero plan.

Under the transformation led by Sass, the newly born worm species has an unprecedented ability of "inner circulation"!

Based on the photosynthetic ability of plants, combined with various substances from the outside world, supplemented by sufficient energy supply, they realized self-sufficiency on the planet for the first time.

At the same time, a plan to hide itself was also proposed, and the "self-sufficient" Zerg once again marched deeper underground.

Two years later, herbivorous organisms that depend on plants for survival began to die on a large scale, and the crisis of environmental damage began to appear.

As a result, the entire biosphere began to collapse from the bottom up.

This will be a rather long process, because until this moment, the global atmospheric environment has not undergone too obvious changes, and the overall condition is still barely suitable for survival.

In the next few decades, it will evolve in an unpredictable direction at a slow speed, but it is definitely no longer a paradise for existing life.

Zero watched with cold eyes, watching those native life with no way to go to the sky and nowhere to go to the earth struggled to survive on a global scale, and death was happening every moment, their numbers began to decline significantly, and some creatures began to die because of this. extinct.

And all of this can be seen in the eyes of Zero, but the heart is not touched in the slightest.

In order to achieve his own purpose and make the octopus people relax their vigilance, he will do everything possible.

Today, these native species are no longer able to bring benefits to the Zerg like the octopus, so they are worthless. Life or death depends on the destiny, and He will not take the initiative to interfere.

Even in order to get the show done, a large number of various Zerg units began to perform a big scene of passive death one after another within the monitorable range of the octopus all over the world. Zero spent a lot of thought on this, and never From less to more, both the time span and the scale evolution are well grasped, which is very realistic.

Because all the deaths were real, in order to convince the octopus that he had achieved his goal, Zero paid some costs, and he was convinced that it was all worth it.

In addition, when the octopus landed on the surface of the planet again to carry out activities, the swarm would not make any obvious movements.

The original base will be abandoned, leaving only a ruined wall. Based on the knowledge gained from the octopus people, they will go dormant in an area that they cannot detect, waiting for these surviving alien colonists to come to the door again .

The large number of Zerg corpses left in the base, although there are some discrepancies in number, are enough to deceive the sky.

Although this play was initiated by the octopus man, Zero obviously wanted to turn the guest into the main and let himself play the leading role.

The life on the surface of the planet is dying in large numbers every day, and its number is decreasing at a terrifying rate. The planet that was originally a paradise for life has gradually become desolate and quiet.

And because of the existence of the "internal circulation", the Zerg can easily protect themselves, and gradually become the only large-scale organisms that survive collectively on the entire planet in this drastic change of environment.

Speaking of the inner loop, although Zero is used to calling it this way, in fact the Zerg obviously failed to achieve this.

When the oxygen content of the atmosphere begins to decrease, as a species that has not yet escaped from the general life category, if they do not make changes, they are bound to be greatly affected, so this "internal circulation" is under the leadership of SARS The underground came into being, using a process similar to photosynthesis underground to provide enough vitamins for the Zerg themselves.

It still hasn't got rid of the need for air components, and it can't adapt to the vacuum environment of the universe, so naturally it can't talk about the real inner circulation.

This is naturally a reference to the changes made by the knowledge system from the octopus civilization. These octopus elites are indeed the only top talents remaining in civilization. By analogy, Sass has more ideas, and this is zero. The reason for catching the octopus as much as possible at such a huge price!

After making progress in the research to adapt to the current environment, the further transformation of the Zerg unit is also in progress. If these projects are carefully calculated, the octopus can be said to have contributed a lot.

After all, it is a civilization that has stepped out of the galaxy. Even if it is stretched in other aspects, if it can obtain its technological system relatively completely, it will be enough to bring the Zerg to a new level!

And Zero is also very convinced that the first step of the Zerg towards the starry sky in the future should fall on them.

Those studies on aerospace technology, the protection against cosmic rays, even the materials of spacecraft, energy supply, etc., are worthy of Zerg's reference, and finally turn them into their own nourishment.

Therefore, it is even more important to try every means to capture the other party's personnel into his own hands to facilitate this matter!

For this reason, at the cost of life on the entire planet!
(End of this chapter)