Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 221 Velvet Civilization
A poor bug is captured by an unknown civilization and is about to meet its own tragic fate.

But Zero has already made arrangements, so there is nothing to worry about.

The Zerg will not completely lose their monitoring of this place after it dies, but will grow slowly and silently!

The spaceship started to move, Zero's field of vision was limited, and he couldn't see the whole picture. With the dark universe as the background, the moving objects were not conspicuous here. They were obviously running in space at extreme speed, but it seemed as if they had never seen it from a close distance. moved.

What makes Zero more strange is that before entering this strange "passage" from the "entrance" - let's call it a passage, the Zerg who entered it so far, there are already about five batches of them alive, and they are all Placed in place as an experimental unit, forced into passage.

This worm, captured as material for sliced ​​research, is the second batch of life that entered it alive.

Before it, there were a group of about five scientific research insect species. Until now, Zero can still feel that they are still alive, but why didn't they come out from here?
If calculated in terms of time, the time interval between them and this worm entering the passage is as long as several decades. If you guess with the simplest way of thinking, since they are alive, even if they are going to appear in other star fields, They should also come out first.

But why is this one appearing first?

Zero thought about this question while the bug was being packed and transported by the unknown biological entity.

Assuming that this "channel" leads to a distant unknown star field, and this is the exit of this "channel", then there are two possibilities for the previous question.

First, although this "channel" is directly connected, its internal environment is extremely complicated. The swarm of insects that first entered the "channel" got lost in it, and only this one "walked" out by mistake. .

Second, there is more than one exit from this passage, and the other swarms entering it are on the "road" to the strange star field!
Of course, the Zerg's cognition of the universe is still a bit superficial, and it is very likely that there are some unknown characteristics involved in it. He is just speculating with common sense, even if this common sense is probably just his prejudice based on the current situation.

What exactly happened is unknown, but since the Zerg units that entered it are still alive, maybe they will appear again in the future, and at that time, it is natural to deduce the situation in this "channel" based on more phenomena. situation.

With this accident, what Zero has to do now is to send more Zerg units to the "channel" through that cosmic spectacle to achieve the purpose of sample diversity.

Of course, the most important thing right now is the civilization discovered by the Zerg by chance.

As for why the opponent was able to attack the Zerg unit as soon as it appeared, Zero had roughly guessed it.

Being able to appear in this special position at this time, there is no doubt that the other party is waiting for the opening of the "channel"!

In other words, waiting for the energy crystal brought by this cosmic wonder!
Obviously, what they are doing with the Zerg is also collecting energy crystals here, but this time, they have an unexpected harvest.

Zero didn't know if there was a precedent for a creature "coming out" from the "passage" before this, but judging from the other party's such a cautious reaction, there is a high probability that it has never happened, and even if it did, it should not be common.

Presumably, life like Zerg is unique in the universe. After all, it is enough to evolve itself to rely on its own body to run rampant in the deep space of the universe. For ordinary technological civilizations, it is not an easy task.

Perhaps it was also because of this that this bug was treated with such caution.It's just that Zero believes that soon He will reveal the true face of this mysterious civilization.

In fact, from the appearance and structure of the spaceship, we can have a rough guess about the style of the entire civilization. This kind of spaceship that is extremely regular and does not reflect a strong sense of science fiction seems to represent a rigorous and pragmatic race.

Zero likes such a civilization. With these characteristics, their technological system must be quite complete and developed.

The microscopic bug species attached to the spaceship remained in a dormant state, and Zero needed to be cautious enough before achieving his goal.

After all, this is a completely unknown civilization. Even the original octopus people have the means to detect the underground insect swarms from a distance. Before it develops and grows, everything must be careful.

It is also because of this that Zero cannot have a wider field of vision through them at this stage, and cannot even observe the entire picture of the spacecraft.

It is obviously accelerating, but its specific acceleration is difficult to accurately measure. That poor bug has been completely treated as a guinea pig for experiments. Although it is not completely dead, it is already a piece of fish on the chopping board. up.

All that can be done at present is to wait, waiting for the other party to arrive at the destination, or waiting for other useful information to appear.

Above the microcosmic level, the swarm of insects is quietly dormant.They are endowed with the ability to self-reproduce and expand under certain conditions, and eventually evolve into a Zerg base.

As long as conditions permit, they will wake up naturally. In this completely unfamiliar star field, a new Zerg hatchery will be established. In the end, all existing Zerg species will be able to reproduce here!

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Zero waited quietly. Due to limited information, he couldn't know where the Zerg on the other side is now, whether it has surpassed the river system where the Zerg is now, or is still in another unknown area in the river system.

This needs to be confirmed from its side by looking for familiar star fields or stars in the universe, which is naturally impossible under the current conditions.

It is worth mentioning that when the "exit" is opened, the "entrance" here in the Crichtel galaxy does not respond at all.

This shows that the two are not synchronized, at least in the general sense of time concept, not synchronized.

The reason for saying this is because Zero knows that time is actually just a relative concept, and it is not that it will never change.

When the conjecture of dimensions appeared in Zero's mind, the concept of time in the general sense was no longer applicable in this "channel".Perhaps in high-dimensional space, time is just a line that can be played around at will.

Of course, these are all illusory things without any evidence. Compared with Zerg’s current cognition of the universe, thinking about these questions is not of much value. For this channel, what Zero wants to do is to understand it. Take advantage of it, that's all.

As for how it was formed and why it appeared in the real universe, that is something that needs to be considered in the future.

Time passed by little by little. Although an unknown civilization was discovered on the other side of the passage, the development of the Zerg has not stopped here.

Zero pays close attention to everything about the "passage", including the many Zerg units that have entered it. Maybe they will appear in another completely unfamiliar star field in the next moment, bringing zero different surprises.

Zerg In 1114, Sass "sent" another batch of Zerg units into the passage and disappeared.

Two years later, on the other side of the tunnel, Zero passed the bug that hadn't died yet, and found that the spaceship started to slow down.

He knew that perhaps the destination was not far away.

Sure enough, a month later, the container containing the barely-preserved bug was sent out from the spaceship by the other party's mechanical arm and entered another artificial creation.

——That is a huge spherical space station that also functions as a space dock!

Numerous Zerg micro-units attached to this spaceship also left their traces here, quietly waiting for the sky to appear.

From the beginning to the end, regarding the operation of this bug, the other party completed it through mechanical creation, and Zero had not even seen the other party's civilized individual.

For a moment, Rei wondered if he had met another Mira.But obviously not, because whether it is a space station or a spacecraft that once carried Zerg units, there are obvious spaces reserved for life.

Mechanical life doesn't need these. As far as Mira is concerned, if it is it, all the space here will be used to the extreme, and there will be no superfluous things. However, there are many functional objects here, such as wide and Aesthetic passages, electronic door locks with flashing signals that clearly require identification to pass, and so on.

Zero is very sure that no matter what form they exist in, they must be a biological civilization, but they are more cautious.

Sure enough, after two Ori days, Zero saw each other's civilized individual for the first time through his limited field of vision!
——The unsurprisingly upright creature, although wearing tight protective clothing, could not fully observe the opponent's overall appearance, but Zero still made a judgment from the appearance.

A pair of powerful hind limbs, three pairs of flexible forelimbs - if that is not the built-in robotic arm.

The opponent has no obvious "head", because there is nothing above the body connected by the uppermost pair of upper limbs.

If it wasn't for the incompleteness of this individual, I think this is the macroscopic appearance of the other party.

The stout but slightly short body may represent that their parent star has a greater mass. From the tight protective clothing, Zero has not found any external visual organs similar to eyes. Perhaps they have other means of observation.

There was no time to observe carefully, and there was no way to talk about more details. This creature had already disappeared from Zero's field of vision—he seemed to be preparing for something. For the next fate of this bug, Zero was psychologically prepared. Don't care too much anyway.

Regarding the strange biological races that may exist in the universe, Zero will not have any superfluous feelings because of their appearance. In fact, as long as it is a carbon-based biological civilization, no matter how strange the appearance is, it cannot compare with the Zerg.

There is no way to know the specific physiological structure of the other party, but now the body structure of this bug has been known to the other party very quickly.

Because the reason why this closely guarded alien creature appeared was to put the bugs that were originally contained in the container on the dissection table.

The vitality of the Zerg was still tenacious, and the opponent's methods were relatively soft, but Zero still quickly lost his macro vision in this area.

It's dead.

Obviously, it died on the opponent's dissecting table and became the material of this race's scientific research.

So far, in this unknown star field, Zero has lost the ability to collect information on a macro level, and can only wait for the seeds sown before to "flower and bear fruit" again like in the HC-006 galaxy

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Velvet Civilization, the Ninth Colonial Galaxy.

As early as 600 years ago, the Velvets had already come here and established an outpost inside the galaxy to declare their sovereignty over this galaxy.

——Although under this starry sky, there is no other civilization that can threaten the Velvet people.

The Ninth Colonial Galaxy was originally not taken seriously, because after scientific exploration and testing, it does not have much mining value, and the planets inside the galaxy are not suitable for colonization activities, or in other words, forcibly promoting this activity and Uneconomical.

For intelligent civilizations in a general sense, economy is a common choice. From the biological instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages in ancient times, it has grown and developed step by step. Because there is no driving force and no value, there are too many star systems like this in the universe.

Even at the beginning, this star system was not a colonial galaxy in the records of civilization, because only a small number of scientific research fleets, explorers, and some mining companies were active here.

It is indeed the territory of civilization. In the official star domain map, it has been fully ascertained, and the value of each planet in it has been clearly marked.

The Velvet Civilization official did not personally participate in the development, but only "rented and sold" various planets and even regions to private enterprises.

As civilization's interstellar infrastructure was established here, it was supposed to be a paradise for tourists, tour groups and adventurers, until one day, a soft light covered the entire galaxy, and this place became the ninth colony of civilization Galaxies have received a sharp increase in attention.

Yes, they know what it is, it is an energy vein!

Before that, two places had already been born in the territory of civilization, and they are still working today, providing a steady stream of output for the development of civilization.

The Velvets are a free but rigorous and rigid civilization. They were lucky to stand out from the surface of the planet, complete the unification of the entire civilization, and name the entire civilization after their own country, becoming the only Velvet.

When the first energy ore vein appeared, they were still in the stage of exploring extraterrestrial space. When that ray of light illuminated the entire night, all Velvet people thought that a second "sun" had appeared.

Strong curiosity has given birth to the ultimate aerospace technology, which once made this race, which has become increasingly obsessed with peaceful hedonism after unification, active and full of exploration.

They completed the preparations for flying in a short period of time, and the slightly lazy atmosphere of the entire civilization changed because of this.

Finally, they went to space, and when the second light appeared, they found it!

The same phenomenon happened near the parent star field. It has to be said that compared to the octopus people, the Velvet people are much luckier.

With no threat from the natural environment, they have plenty of time to do it all without having to flee in a hurry.

Therefore, the Velvet civilization grasped this opportunity, which was almost like the favor of the heavens. The energy problem it faced at that time was almost solved, and the civilization also took off because of this. The entire star system gradually became a bathhouse for the Velvet people. They also used it to send unmanned probe spacecraft to neighboring star systems.

This is their earliest interstellar exploration activity. This process has lasted for thousands of years. Because the extremely long distance between galaxies has become the biggest obstacle to the communication between civilizations, the cautious and cohesive Velvet people have given up interstellar colonization. In turn, the entire parent galaxy was developed to the extreme.

The material civilization is extremely blooming here, and the entire galaxy gradually loses its secrets to them.

Soon, the huge benefits contained in the vast universe began to endow the entire civilization with a strong demand, and super-light travel and long-distance communication were put on the agenda.

200 years later, when the faster-than-light navigation technology was activated, the Velvet people launched a large-scale space exploration in the following hundreds of years, and galaxies were collected by them, even the Velvet people Four of the living habitable planets have been found!

Of course, in order to turn it into its own colony, bloody killings and wars are indispensable.

Hundreds of millions of native races died on the land where they were born and raised, and countless aborigines became the playthings of the high-level civilization.

For the Velvets, their sacrifices are valuable, in exchange for the Velvets' stable rule on the colonial planet.

Huge benefits have endowed the entire race with a strong desire to explore, and the entire civilization has therefore shown a thriving trend.

The Ninth Colonial Galaxy was established only in the last 200 years due to the emergence of energy veins. Although the Velvet civilization occupies a large number of galaxies, roughly speaking, if the establishment of galaxy outposts is used as a sign of sovereignty, the star systems they occupy There have been more than three hundred.

Of course, the vast majority of galaxies are still under development, and there is only a small fleet stationed in rotation in the outpost.

More than 300 star systems, that is a huge force spanning hundreds of light years, even larger than the territory occupied by the Zerg today!
However, among them, there are only nine galaxies that can be called colonial galaxies, four of which are galaxies with habitable planets, and the others either have special resources or have extremely high scientific research value.

No matter which one it is, it means that Velvet has invested a lot of energy and resources here. It is a prosperous galaxy completely dominated and dominated by the government, and it is also the core area of ​​the entire civilization in the actual sense.

The mining spacecraft that returned urgently from the Ninth Colonial Galaxy took only nine years to cross a long distance of 102 light-years in the macroscopic sense, and sent this life "drilled" from the energy ore veins to the Second Colonial Galaxy In the scientific research station, the most elite group of biologists took over to study it.

They have seen a lot of alien life, but this is the first time it has appeared in front of them in this way.

Prior to this, it is not uncommon for scientific researchers to believe that this phenomenon may be a means of access to higher dimensions based on existing research results, and they have also sent detection instruments and even live experiments into it.

It's a pity that everything is like a mud cow falling into the sea, and there is no news.Even if you carry a device that can realize long-distance communication, you will completely lose contact the moment you enter it, and you will not know whether you are alive or dead.

To this day, this cosmic spectacle is still one of the mainstream research directions of civilization, and a large number of scholars believe that it is very likely that civilization can be taken to the next level through the study of it.

However, they did not expect that for so many years, the ore veins that have been "breathing" energy crystals steadily, this time, living organisms were drilled out of them!
This is undoubtedly a huge scientific discovery, and it almost caused a sensation in the scientific community of the entire civilization the moment the news came back!

This seems to mean that the channel's conjecture is true!A question that has plagued the Velvet civilization for thousands of years has been given a definite answer with the appearance of this bug!

If some results can be obtained from it, perhaps the mysterious veil inside this "channel" can be revealed!

It will be a scientific feast that crosses dimensions. If the thinking is bolder, it can even lead civilization to the high-dimensional field in the lifetime. How can this group of scientists not be crazy!
(End of this chapter)