Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 223 "New Technology" brought by Zerg

As Zero's previous arrangement on the opposite side of the passage was wiped out, the Zerg units scattered around the exit and the channel became the last free individuals of the entire group in this strange star field, even though they basically had no ability to move independently.

Although they are extremely small, they drift around in the interstellar space with inertia, and they are completely incapable of being captured.

Maybe it will take some time for them to achieve the goal that Zero expected before, and really take root in this star field.

Before that, they will go through a long and lonely journey, and even be wiped out on a large scale.

All these zeros were expected, things have come to this point, waiting is the only option, the Zerg know very little about this "channel", how it works, why are Zerg units sent here, and other bugs who enter it Where the group went, these zeros don't know, let alone provide practical support for them on the other side of the passage.

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The Velvet people have closely monitored this individual that has rapidly grown from a tiny one to an adult insect. At the same time, research on the dead insect corpse has been going on for a while.

The entire scientific research team was divided into two research groups by Granger, one of them was dedicated to monitoring and exploring the second macroscopic bug, and recorded all its activity characteristics, so as to analyze the characteristics of this special race.

The second is dedicated to the research on the corpse from the previous one, that is, the one that fell directly from the passage. The purpose of this group is no longer to study this kind of creature itself, they need to From this corpse, we can get tangible scientific research results, such as their ability to adapt to the space environment, the secret of integrating and developing from microscopic existence to adult insects, etc. These secrets hidden in the deepest part of life need them to explore a little bit .

For this reason, compared to the former, this scientific research team is much larger.

With the power of the entire civilization, dispatch a group of scientific research elites, led by the secondary scientist to form a team, their efficiency is astonishing.

With their efforts, the secrets about the Zerg body have been revealed little by little with the passage of time, and even the expression from the gene level has been verified through continuous experiments.

In order to confuse the opponent, Zero handed over the task of transforming the Zerg units cultivated by the Velvets to Sass, who has always been safe.

This special insect species created by it at the beginning will be arranged according to zero's requirements on every detail under its control.

Make sure that every detail can be justified, and tell a big lie to mislead these intelligent civilizations that use Zerg creatures as experimental materials!
Tell them that this race is like this, and their gene expression is like this, so that the other party will have a wrong judgment, and finally make them feel that all this is controllable, so as to reduce the threat of Zerg life to them, in order to achieve more purpose.

In the following time, one Zerg macro unit after another was forced to hatch, and one after another died on the dissecting table.

After discovering that the Zerg unit can take advantage of the expansion of this microscopic life form, the other party gradually doesn't care about the life and death of these bugs, because they can hatch more experimental materials for research at any time.

Zero handed over everything to Sass, while he watched with cold eyes.

There is not much information that can be observed from the experimental container, so the bugs here cannot provide intelligence value, and can only be slaughtered by the other party.

Sass responded calmly. Under its careful design, every piece of gene expression in the new Zerg life was recoded, hiding its ability to edit the shape of the body at will, fixing everything, ensuring that every The "ripe" bugs will eventually become similar.

Sometimes, it will actively cooperate with each other.For example, when the other party conducts a targeted experiment to verify the tolerance of the Zerg somatic cells to radiation, it will show a certain degree of resistance just right, without being overly exposed, and making everything reasonable.

When it comes to other aspects of technology, Zero Ask Zerg may not be as good as the other party, but in terms of life system, today's Sass can be seamlessly matched with Cerebral Zerg's innate ability to Zerg.

From these bugs, the Velvets could only get what Sass wanted them to know.

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"According to the most superficial dissection of the corpse, the body surface of this worm has a layer of special protein that connects various metal elements produced by providing biological energy in the body. The outer armor is its outermost line of defense against cosmic rays and extreme environmental damage."

At the holographic conference, Pope, a scholar from the Federal Academy of Sciences, was introducing the research results of the team in the past four months to colleagues, federal officials and military representatives present at the conference.

As a young scholar, the reason why Pope was able to join such an important experimental project and speak as an introducer at a meeting of this level, of course, has its capital.

His intelligence and talent are unquestionable. Being able to stand out from among 700 billion civilized individuals and enter the highest scientific research institution, the Federal Academy of Sciences, is a proof of his ability and wisdom.

In addition, his other identity also made a great contribution to his being able to appear on this occasion.

Pope's teacher is the favorite student of Granger, the second scientist of the Federation!
Of course, this identity is only a boost for him to get on this stage, and his own excellence is beyond doubt.

Facing the listeners around him or seniors with high positions or great reputations, Pope talked with eloquence.

"This protein structure that plays a role in association, let us call it connexin, exists at the microscopic level at the beginning of the birth of this life, thus ensuring that even at the weakest time, this Bugs can survive even the harshest environments."

"We believe that the production of this connexin is determined by the following complex gene fragment, and the specific experiment is still in progress. However, according to the analysis, the genetic structure of this creature is similar to that of ours, or even our own star domain. There are great differences among many organisms, and their genetic composition sequences are fundamentally different from the alien life encountered before."

Speaking of this, Pope, who was originally explaining freely, became more serious.

"A month ago, we tried to graft a certain gene onto the flying salamander embryo of the No. [-] colonial galaxy, but the experiment got out of control, and the entire embryo was polluted by this gene."

"Pollution?" In the holographic projection, a researcher asked.

"Yes, pollution. The genetic material that originally belonged to the flying salamander was completely disrupted and could not be expressed at all. Finally, we found that these disrupted genetic material seemed to have some similarities with other genes in these insects, and after The comparison proved to be not exactly the same.

But the strange thing is that, except for the grafting of gene fragments, we have completely isolated other substances. In theory, this will not happen, but it does happen, as if this gene has the ability to assimilate, and can forcibly produce different Other fragments that fall within the scope of transcription, so we call them, contamination. "

"This is the first undiscovered mystery. In view of its special nature, we believe that it is extremely dangerous. We need more time and energy to study it thoroughly and make it controllable."

Pope turned his body and looked at the many civilization elites in the holographic image through the visual organ on his chest.

Some of them are thoughtful, some are quite dignified, and more are calm.

He took the scene of the entire meeting into his mind, and then slid the top body to connect to another result for display.

"Besides, we discovered the ability to suspend death from the research on the characteristics of a large number of microscopic life attached to the surface of the spacecraft, which we call spores.

This ability is not uncommon among creatures, and there are too many creatures with similar abilities on our home planet.But in this bug, we made a huge discovery. "

Having said that, Pope paused.He knew that what he said next would inevitably cause an uproar.This is the greatest discovery of the team led by him, and it has already passed preliminary demonstrations and has a certain degree of credibility.

Here, he wants to express it. Of course, before that, he has already reported to Professor Granger, who has the closest relationship with him among the participants, and he has received the support of the other party!

This conclusion, which has just been initially verified, may allow the name Pope to be recorded in textbooks in the future!
Even Pope, who grew up under the gaze of others since he was a child, couldn't help feeling hot at the moment.

"There is a special substance inside the biological structure of these highly dormant microorganisms-spores. The amount is extremely small and almost undetectable, but it does exist."

"After analysis, it was not produced by known biological structures, but existed at the beginning of the birth of this microscopic life.

At the same time, when this creature enters dormancy, its activity will increase by 16%, consuming very little energy to maintain its survival.

Of course, this is just one of the properties of this substance that we have discovered.

We haven't discovered its production mechanism yet, but in order to verify its role in life activities, in the initial test, our team extracted and injected it into a plant seed.

And in an accidental controlled experiment, we made an amazing discovery! "

Pope didn't pause, his voice became a little trembling with a little excitement.

"Under the premise of maintaining the vitality of this seed, its growth rate has been reduced by 80.00% seven!
In subsequent animal experiments, the growth rate of insects decreased by 36% year-on-year, and definite conclusions have not yet been drawn for birds and mammals due to the short time.

However, in experiments on demihumans, we found that their metabolic level was reduced by 33%, and they were still able to basically maintain normal life activities! "

"Although its mechanism of operation is still unclear, it seems to be a kind of life-extending potion!"

As soon as this sentence came out, it caused a sensation in an instant!These federal elites, who are usually calm and indifferent, can no longer remain calm.

As civilized elites, they clearly know what it means if this happens.

"sure?!"

"Are you sure it can have an obvious effect?"

This is a question from senior federal officials. They don't care how they got the conclusion, they only care about whether Pope can give a definite answer.

"Have you done more experimental verification?"

"Isn't it possible to confirm this alone? The time is too short, the samples are not enough, and it is not convincing."

"Young people are still too anxious..."

This is experienced scientific research workers, they are arguing, and they are skeptical of such hasty conclusions.

The so-called sub-humans are the indigenous civilization individuals that have been exterminated by the Velvets. They are also mammalian intelligence units, and their experimental conclusions are of high reference value.

At this time, Pope gradually recovered his usual indifference. He knew what uttering those words would mean, but he was confident enough in his conclusion that the strict and rigid Velvet people would not make mistakes in this kind of thing.

"We have already done preliminary verification. Although the effect on native life is not yet obvious, the experimental conclusions on the basic units of the body of these insects show that this substance can stop their cells from aging to a certain extent! "

"We think that maybe it's just a matter of purity and dosage. As long as it can be solved, it may bring about a completely different change!"

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The phased scientific research results meeting of the Velvet people is still in progress, and there will be some important results after that, but the participants are already full of excitement.

Time is a very precious thing for civilized elites like them. It took too much time and energy to get to this position in their lifetime!
With the development of civilization, the scientific and technological system is becoming more and more advanced, and the basic knowledge that every citizen needs to learn since birth is also increasing. Even if the intelligence level of the entire civilization is increasing, it still takes a lot of time.

The Velvets are mammalian upright creatures. With the rapid development of technology, life science has increased their average lifespan from 65 stellar years in the primitive era to 196 stellar years, almost tripled!
Converting this number into the common unit of the Zerg is 251 Ori-years!

Even this is not the limit, some dignitaries can increase their limit life to nearly 300 Orielian years through the costly local cloning technology!

But at the end of life, even with the advancement of medicine, death is always inevitable.

During the development of civilization, research and discussion on this aspect have never stopped.

Now, with the appearance of Zerg, it seems that a new possibility has been added to this project!
Zero didn't know that the genes intercepted from Sass' body gave the Velvet people a whole new imagination. The so-called pollution was just the most basic setting for Sass.

The original goal of these Zerg micro-units is to transform into a Zerg hatchery. They naturally have the ability to absorb other substances to transform their own genes, but once this ability appears in the macroscopic view, it will be replaced by Sass immediately. This made the Velvet people puzzled about it.

If Sass hadn't interfered, they would have understood immediately what that meant.

Regarding the lifespan of the Zerg, Sass had already given a solution when it was on the surface of Ori.

Combining its own abilities, it uses the god-like state brought about by the extinction of the lizardmen to transfer some of the genes unique to the brain worms to ordinary Zergs, so that they can have the ability to survive the long time of space travel .

The strange substances Pope mentioned were transcribed from these genes, but the difference was that they were recessive.

In Sass' own words, until today, thousands of years have passed, it is still in its youth, and it has been in this state since it completed growth shortly after birth, and it has hardly changed for thousands of years.

But how this recessive gene does this has not been fully realized until now.

Even Sass himself doesn't know, let alone the Velvets.

There is no doubt that, as Pope said, this is a kind of growth substance, but it is only for brain worms.

It can indeed prolong the lifespan of other creatures, but even if they belong to the Zerg race, after this transformation, ordinary units still can't do it like brain worms, as if they will never age, but the lifespan has been effectively improved. Just grow.

This is what Sass can do with his innate ability combined with Zerg biotechnology. It is quite difficult for the Velvet people to discover this special fragment hidden in countless base pairs, and it is even more difficult. Needless to say, it has reached the level of SARS.

But no matter what, for the Velvet people, this is always a good thing.

It is also because of this that they have a clearer understanding of the scientific research value of the Zerg unit, and their mentality towards this kind of alien life has gradually begun to change.

After all, they don't have any intelligence.

According to research, the capacity of the "brains" located on their bodies is only comparable to that of a bird.

Seven months later, the Velvet Federation lifted the blockade on the space research station in the No. [-] colony system, and began to allow ships to come and go and people to leave.

Under strict control, Professor Granger, the second scientist of the Federation, led a group of scientific research teams back to the scientific research base in the parent galaxy. Of course, there were also a batch of scientific research samples.

The military and various scientific research stations also operate in the same way. When most of the characteristics of these bugs have been basically researched and everything is under control, and they themselves have sufficient research value, how will they be released? The maximization of benefits has become another subject of the entire civilization.

Of course, up to this time, the Velvets still maintained sufficient vigilance against the Zerg. The samples of these Zerg units that were scattered to various research bases would go through multiple screenings, and they did not have the ability to pose a threat at all. There is no opportunity to release any material and information to the outside world.

But this is still a phased victory for Sass.When the micro-units of the Zerg scattered in the deep space of the universe were still wandering and did not know when they would be able to find their physical targets, Sas cooperated with the will of the hive and successfully established in the minds of the Velvet people a mentally retarded, with a certain Dangerous, but as long as you are cautious enough, you can completely avoid the risk, and at the same time have a biological image of great scientific research value.

In this way, it allowed the Zerg units to come to the surface of a large celestial body for the first time through heavy protection, even though they couldn't touch any entity other than the storage container at all!
(End of this chapter)