Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 178

All the octopus were aware of it the moment their craft was damaged.

The tide is gone.

The smooth development of the past few years was nothing but illusion, only this moment is real.

As the elites of civilization, none of them are fools, so they clearly know what this unique aircraft means to them, and they also understand what the consequences of losing it will be when the enemy appears .

In an instant, extreme despair appeared in the minds of all the octopus people. Just a few minutes ago, everything was still on the right track, and they were still hopeful and looking forward to the future.I hope to rebuild civilization on a land that is no longer threatened by foreign enemies, and look forward to leading the fleet back to the home planet again...

But only in the blink of an eye...

They are not super octopus people who can fly into the sky and escape from the earth. They are just mortals. They may have higher intelligence, but without the bridge to communicate with space, no matter how smart they are, they cannot avoid the fate of imminent death!

What kind of experience is it like to fall into hell in an instant? The octopus at this moment has a great say.

Jimenez, who stayed in the spaceship to take over the overall situation, seemed to lose all his strength at this moment, including the twenty octopus people who stayed behind.

Yes, they hang high in space, and they won't die, at least not for a while.

But at this moment, the octopus civilization has been sentenced to death, and their mission to revive civilization has been forced to end.

They have no means to protect their companions who are about to be attacked by the swarm, and they have no ability to bring them back to the spaceship, which means that they lose the ability to control their own destiny, and leave everything to the swarm!
If a large number of people and almost all the remaining seeds are lost, even if they can survive on the spaceship, it will be meaningless.

Not to mention other resource issues, without individual diversity, a mere twenty or so individuals, even with a batch of larvae reared on the spaceship, it is difficult to maintain the existence of the group.

Seeing the Zerg army on the ground approaching the outpost through the information sent back by satellites and various detectors, he was heartbroken, but he was powerless.

There are indeed weapons on the spacecraft that can threaten the ground, and their power is even more terrifying than what Zero imagined.

However, he couldn't launch an attack on the ground at this time. It would be tantamount to killing many of his companions on the surface with his own hands. Even if they were destined to perish, they shouldn't die in his own hands!
In a short period of time, Zhanmenis' heart has changed a thousand times.Countless thoughts flashed through it, regret, sorrow, despair, struggle...

In the end, only a touch of madness remained.

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On the ground, no matter how the octopus' weapons howled, they couldn't stop the swarm from getting closer.

The peripheral mines and other production units were breached first, and the octopus people who were working in it were pierced through the heads by Zerg memory storages one by one, and then they moved towards the rear first.

This kind of worm doesn't need to fight. It's their mission to accomplish this and send themselves to Sass.

This time, Zero didn't have any cover at all, and clearly put his target on the table, even if there was another Octopus target not far away.

At the beginning, Ariat speculated that the Zerg had obtained the information of the Octopus people in some way, but there was no evidence, but at this moment, they who witnessed this understood everything.

Unfortunately, they never had the chance to spread this secret.

Those octopus who witnessed how their companions were killed will also follow in the footsteps in the next moment.

All the peripheral production sites were uprooted by Zerg with the support of vision from Zero.

Then, from all directions, endless bugs surrounded the last private land belonging to the octopus - the outpost!

Through the will of the hive, Zero received a lot of information from the Octopus outpost, and translated it, as expected, to express the willingness to submit.

Under the premise of no hope, surrender is not shameful for the octopus people, not to mention that there was a similar arrangement in the original plan of the mother planet.

In order to protect the ethnic group, they don't have much psychological pressure on this point.However, both Jimenez on the spaceship and Ariad and Nichols who are in the outpost now know clearly that this is impossible.

In the past, Jimenez did have the idea of ​​negotiating with Zero, but now more than 50 years have passed, and he gradually understands that this is impossible.

The other party didn't show any willingness to negotiate at all. From the very beginning, what they thought about was how to put their own side to death!

Although Arriate and Nichols acted without consent, what they did was indeed correct, but... still not thorough enough.

Of course Zero was unmoved by this. He spent so much effort and waited for decades, not to get a group of octopus people. He didn't need any slaves, and the Zerg didn't need any vassals.

Taking a step back, if Zero needs an intelligent race as a vassal of the Zerg, then the Lizardman is actually more suitable.

Their brain capacity is not inferior to these big octopuses, and at the same time, they are closer to Zero themselves in terms of aesthetics. It's just that the level of civilization development is a little lower. Why choose octopuses?

All Zero needs from beginning to end is the knowledge stored in their minds.

For the octopus itself, Zero has no need, at most it is added to the Zerg gene pool for analysis, in the hope that it will come in handy one day.

The swarm did not stop because of the surrender and begging for mercy of the octopus people, which doomed the end of these octopus people.

Those materials made of alloy materials are no longer a hindrance to the swarm.

The octopuses watched helplessly as the Zerg broke through their outer defense line, smashing the automatic weapons arranged around them, and could no longer cause damage to the Zerg swarm.

Without the threat of weapons, the entire sprawling outpost became a colossal tomb.There is no need to repeat what happened next. Although these alloy outer walls are strong enough, the Zerg is not what it used to be.

They climbed up in a group, opening a gap from the periphery with almost berserk crazy attacks.

On this day, the octopus people blood-stained the ocean, and in exchange for hundreds of memory storage devices, they returned with a full load.

Among them, Arriate and Nichols.They used their own lives to repay the sin of destroying the surface plants and many large creatures, although Zero didn't care.

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Since the octopus man's spaceship docked, it was the first time that Zero had observed the power of the opponent's space-based weapons.

The huge muzzle on the spaceship slowly opened, and after a short period of energy storage, a beam of "light" carrying a flow of high-energy particles was shot from space to the ground. It passed through the ocean, easily penetrated the earth, and The underground bases that were originally active with Zerg units, together with all the materials above them, turned into a piece of ashes.

Its penetrating ability is so strong and its destructive ability is so great that even Zero can't help but look sideways at it.

Violent explosions occurred deep underground, huge waves were brewing above the ocean, the earth was also shaking, strong winds gathered and raged, and sea water flowed backwards.

If you observe from space, you will find that even the air currents and clouds in the high sky are spreading to the surroundings, clearing out a large blank.

In a very short period of time, the spacecraft changed its orbit and launched more than thirty full-force attacks towards the ground, and then quickly fell into silence.

This dealt a devastating blow to the Zerg units within a radius of thousands of kilometers centered on the Octopus outpost.

Tens of millions of Zerg units died in it, and the opponent found the underground Zerg base quite accurately according to the area where the Zerg appeared, and launched an attack to destroy it, including the hatchery and the nutrient pool. If it hadn't been sent out, it would have been impossible to collect the residue.

At this range, few Zerg can survive.

The attack was launched from space half an hour after the Zerg killed the last octopus. Fortunately, Sass' main base was not within the opponent's attack range, so it was not affected.

What Zero valued most, the Zerg unit carrying a lot of Octopus knowledge and memory, was immediately ordered by Zero to rush to the sky with the flying dragon troops in the sky when Zero noticed the opponent's spaceship was changing, and was lucky to be saved.

The opponent's attack this time will have a lasting and profound impact on the environment of the entire area. After many years, this area will retain such a devastated appearance.

But that's it. Both Zero and Jimenez, the last leader of the octopus, know very well that this is just the last madness before their demise.

After this attack, they were no longer able to attack the Zerg, and they themselves lost the only remaining energy to escape here.

Two days later, a huge firework exploded in space, briefly illuminating the dark sky with its light and heat.

A lot of space junk began to wreak havoc on Ori's orbit, some of them gained enough speed to escape from this planet, and most of them stayed here, flying between orbits at extremely high speed relative to the ground. escape.

Zero watched the opponent end the civilization process in such a decisive way, leaving only a few satellites still operating here.

It's just that nothing connects to it anymore.

The only pity is that the energy crystal that Zero cared about was blown to nowhere. Although it must have been exhausted by the octopus, it is still important.

Zero really wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of substance it was and how it provided energy for various objects.

Unfortunately, in the darkness, he failed to notice where those fragments ended up, so he could only look for them later by chance.

The end of the octopus people brought peace here again. After decades, the swarm came to the ground again and became the only master here.

Although things have changed and people have changed, the sea has changed, and even the environment has changed greatly, but none of this is a problem.

The algae once again began to move on a large scale above the sea surface, accompanied by the same tiny Zerg units, which would ensure that these fragile energy units were not attacked by the microorganisms emitted by the octopus, and re-color the surface green.

Under Zero's deliberate control, the environment here will eventually become what it was before. Maybe after tens of millions of years, those extinct lives will appear here in another form, maybe not, but Zero doesn't care anymore up.

The Zerg did this only to obtain energy. As for the restoration of the original environment, it can only be said to be a matter of convenience.As the place of origin of the Zerg race, it can be regarded as a trace of zero's emotion as a creature in a certain sense. He doesn't want to turn this place into a barren place.

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Zero noticed that Sass seemed to have entered a strange yet familiar state recently.

From the connection of the will of the hive, Zero can roughly perceive the details of this state, which is a kind of feeling like divine assistance, although he has just absorbed the knowledge and experience from the Octopus, but Zero can feel it, In Sass's mind, a drastic change was taking place.

Zero himself didn't feel this way, perhaps because he didn't engage in scientific research work, but seeing that Sass was in excellent condition, he still silently began to mobilize resources for him to conduct experiments.

The octopus attack left a mess, but Zero had no intention of cleaning it up. When the weather calmed down, this place would become a livable place again, at least for the Zerg race.

As for those space junks, the Zerg currently have no ability to deal with them, and there is no need to deal with them. If they are not looking for energy crystals that may exist, Zero will not even pay attention to them.

In addition to the devastation left by the octopus man, only his body and genes, as well as the knowledge and memories in Sass' mind remained.

So far, the octopus people and the lizard people, two completely different intelligent races, have quietly disappeared into the universe. Perhaps they should have a bright future, spreading the brilliance of civilization under this starry sky.

But the moment the Zerg appeared, they had already cut off their way forward.

For the octopus, Zero did not have the same respect as he did for the lizard before.After all, if there is no zero, the lizard will be the master of this planet, and its extermination is necessary for the development of the Zerg, and it can be regarded as the side of the couch that does not allow others to sleep peacefully.

Even in terms of the location of the population, the Zerg and the Lizardmen are native creatures from the same planet. From the perspective of winners and losers, this is also a kind of civil war in a sense.

The octopus people are just invaders. They came from afar for the continuation of civilization. They didn't have good intentions from the beginning, and they were destined to stand on the hostile side with the creatures on this planet.

If Zero, who was born at that time, still had a trace of apology for the extinct lizardman civilization in his heart, he could only say that he took it for granted with no psychological burden on the octopus people.

If the Zerg hadn't developed to the present level, then the octopus would definitely gain a foothold here. Once they were given time to develop, they would not be as easy to pass as they are now.

However, the so-called death debt is eliminated. When the last individual of its civilization died in the explosion, the entire octopus civilization has since become a past that only the Zerg will remember. As a group that bears the technological achievements of its civilization, the Zerg will naturally carry them. Hope for civilization goes into the future.

Zero felt that if the octopus people were still there, they would be grateful.

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During this period of time, Sass didn't make any big moves, but occasionally started to do some tests, and zero needed resources would be collected for it himself.

He knows that the knowledge from hundreds of octopus scientific elites is not so easy to digest, even though many of them are consistent in basic aspects, but as independent individuals, their thinking is not the same, for different things perceptions are slightly different.

This difference is the embodiment of the diversity of thought, which promotes the progress of science and technology, and also promotes the progress of civilization.

When Sass took it into his head, these differences became his inspiration, his thinking.

Smoothing it out, removing the chaff and keeping the chaff, and finding ways to make use of it is exactly what it is doing now.

In this state of divine assistance, its thinking became extremely agile, and countless sparks of wisdom collided in it, and many ideas began to come into being, and it was only waiting for it to sort them out and verify them one by one.

In addition, after another strengthening, the offensive and defensive capabilities of the swarm itself have once again reached a new level.

Moreover, affected by the interception of SARS's own gene fragments, they are no longer short-lived ghosts with a lifespan of only ten years. With the addition of dormant genes, they can survive for a long time under normal conditions!
The strength of the body has been improved, and the lifespan has also been greatly increased, but now, on the entire surface of the earth, there is not even an existence that can compare with them in size, let alone an opponent.

Today's Zerg has the means to counter even an attack from the tiniest of creatures, and they are no longer a threat.

Because SARS can directly start with their genetic material and solve this trouble from the root.

Yes, it's just a nuisance. At this level, from a general biological point of view, it is difficult to pose a threat to the survival of the Zerg.

It can be said that in the research of life sciences, today's Zerg has reached a stage of apex. Looking down, a queen ant is struggling to survive in a cave, looking up to the future, and endless stars are shining in the night sky.

It only took Sass more than 200 years to get to this step from obscurity.If the lizardmen were used for this process, it would take millennia as the unit.

Under such circumstances, Zero's eyes could not help but shift to the starry sky, where there is a boundless universe, a sky full of stars, and also... the future of the Zerg race!

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The third volume [mastery] is over

(End of this chapter)