Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 227

In Velvet's third colony system, the highest institution in the federal colony, Pope is teaching a group of students.

After more than ten years, he is no longer an ordinary young researcher at the Academy of Sciences. He has many titles, including an associate professor at the academy.

Since the last time he showed his face in front of many federal bosses at the No. [-] Colonial Galaxy Space Research Station, Pope's scientific research career has entered a bright moment.

The preliminary results of his previous research have become the most cutting-edge biological projects in the Federation, and have been favored by many scientific research veterans and top teams.

However, as a proud student of the Federation's second-ranking scientist and the initiator of a scientific research project, he has enough advantages in this project.

After the meeting, Popper received the full support of Granger. A top scientific research team led by Granger and led by Popper conducted research on the mysterious substances in the Zerg organisms based on his ideas.

It is an absolute privilege to be a young scientist!You must know that many members of the team are well-known leaders in the Federal Academy of Sciences. If it weren't for the endorsement of the second scientist Granger, it would take him many years to lead such a team.

Of course, a strong team brings great efficiency.

Only 17 months after the establishment of the project, Pope's team has achieved preliminary results. In the experiment, this mysterious substance successfully stopped many small native mammals used as experimental materials to stop aging, or slowed down their aging speed.

A mouse that was supposed to be dying lived two and a half months longer than expected!

Later, this conclusion was reproduced in various laboratories, different environments, and different hands, confirming its non-accidental nature.

This also means that this substance does have some life-extending functions for mammals!
Although there is still a long way to go before clinical trials and even practical applications on intelligent individuals, it has already opened up the mind!

Three years later, Pope's laboratory launched the first drug that could theoretically be used on intelligent individuals, and obtained federal approval. It easily recruited enough volunteers to participate in clinical trials, most of whom were in their twilight years. Velvet people.

Due to the particularity of the experiment, it will take a long time to verify the results. During this process, Pope’s team conducted long-term follow-up inspections on these volunteers and provided them with free medical services to confirm their signs at any time. Variety.

Overall, the results are promising, but the problems remain large.

The body aging speed of this group of volunteers is generally slower than that of their peers, and the average aging speed has been reduced by about one-ninth!

This conclusion is beyond imagination. If it is universal, it means that the average lifespan of the Velvet people may be increased by about one tenth, which will be as long as several decades!

Of course, the experimental results are not all advantages.During the physical examination of these volunteers, the researchers found that their "brain" activity was reduced by more than [-]% compared with the general level of the same age, and it continued to decline over time!

Its external manifestations are continuous decline in intelligence, rapid decline in memory, and some volunteers even developed dementia.

In addition, these groups of people also have some crazy characteristics. As their intelligence declines, they will occasionally lose their minds and attack the surrounding creatures.

Fortunately, no virus was detected in their bodies, which was just an adverse reaction caused by the drug.

At the same time, the injection of this agent is also accompanied by a series of complications, such as skin aging, hair loss, allergic reactions and so on.

The emergence of these clinical side effects did not shake Pope in any way, even if it caused a series of different voices in the experimental population.

After all, its life-extending function does exist. If these problems can be solved, it will leave a mark in the history of civilization!
The observation and symptom confirmation of the first batch of volunteers lasted for two years. During this period, some patients died, but most of them died of natural causes. Not many were directly related to the medicine. On the contrary, it was Pope's medicine that made them more Two years of life, at least Pope himself thought so.

He admitted that he was a little anxious to push the immature drug into clinical trials so quickly, but the procedure was indeed legal.

As for some disputes caused by this, that is not something he needs to worry about as a scientific researcher. The legal staff of the Federal Research Institute will come up with the previously signed exemption agreement to help him solve these problems.

Fourteen months after the end of the observation period, Pope reformulated the nascent drug in response to the last clinical response, and conducted experiments on demihumans and mammals of the same class as the Velvet, and the two comparisons were comparable. Apparently, some of the complications presented before have been alleviated to varying degrees or even completely disappeared.

So, he once again thought of promoting clinical trials, but this time the trial application was rejected by Granger himself.

The turmoil last time was not small, and it has not subsided so far. The so-called tree attracts the wind. As the second seat of the Federal Supreme Academy of Sciences, even he cannot allow social clinical experiments to be restarted in such a short period of time.

Most importantly, the two most serious side effects of the drug have not been overcome, which is the biggest reason why he could not submit the application.

But the experiment had to go on, and when the prisoner application to the federal agency was also rejected, Granger finally provided him with a clear way—to go to Fowler Star!
After all, the Federation still wants to talk about human rights. Even if it conducts experiments secretly, the results cannot be used as effective reports on the table. For a young federal elite like Pope, doing this kind of thing does not make any sense.

In this era, even ordinary citizens of the Velvet Federation can have powerful influence with the help of certain special events. In a society with sound laws, it is difficult to launch immature human experiments continuously in such a short period of time, even if there are Many elderly people who are dying will not be allowed to volunteer as volunteers.

The Fowlers, however, are a different story.

Although they are also part of the federation, everyone knows that there is a difference between them and the Velvet people.

As conquerors, the Velvets don't have the habit of cocooning themselves. Ordinary Fowlers are inferior to the Velvets in terms of social status and protection of rights and interests, and only a very small number of them can get peace and harmony. Similar privileges to the Velvets.

It might be a good idea to conduct clinical trials in the Fowler population.

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Granger and Neil used to be classmates, and Pope naturally received the great help from the Fowler Research Station.

Compared with the federal home planet, this place is much more remote, and the laws are also different.Pope's business went well.

He will lead his team members here to complete the final experiment of the improved medicine, before solving one of the two most important sequelae exposed before.

Of course, as a price, on the final report, he needs to write the names of Nair and other members of her team.

This is not a problem. In the federal scientific community, this has always been an unwritten practice, and the other party does not do nothing. Elite researchers such as Stajila also obey Pope's deployment here.

At this time, a year had passed since the Zerg miniature unit escaped from the laboratory.

From the surface of the institute downwards, a structure similar to a hive has been built. In order to avoid being detected by the Velvites, the Zerg are developing all the way deep underground.

This planet is highly developed, and the dense underground structure has caused some troubles for Sass. However, for the insect swarm that has been freed from the shackles, the sea is wide and the sky is high, even if it needs to maintain concealment. , accomplishing this is just a matter of spending more time.

The Velvet people didn't realize the seriousness of the matter at all. During this year, although the swarm tried their best to ensure that the other party would not notice the anomaly, around the scientific research base, the air flow and the east wind provided convenience. , They have already taken root irresistibly in various places.

And inside the laboratory, Sass no longer needs to find ways to release the Zerg, and everything seems to have never happened. These bugs hatched by the Velvets will no longer produce any mutations, and they are allowed to do whatever they want.

The Zerg went all the way down, going deeper, the more they went down, the more they would be in number, until they finally stopped at a depth that even the Velvet himself had never reached.

Soon, the hatchery was re-established here, energy units began to spread here, and the Devourers were also hatched, and brand-new Zerg bases quietly grew here.

Zero didn't have the idea of ​​launching an attack rashly, so these Zerg bases didn't expand wantonly, just in case they would startle the enemy.

Zero is very curious about the development process of the Velvet civilization. He needs to know what kind of technology the other party has now, what kind of combat power they have, how the social structure is composed, and so on.

The so-called know yourself and know the enemy, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.Even if he gets out of trouble, Zero will not underestimate the enemy because of this.

Taking the lead in obtaining an intelligence advantage has always been one of the magic weapons for the Zerg to win, and this time is no exception.

Sass began to study all kinds of creatures on the planet. The swarm needs to have reasonable contact with the civilization society of the other party to obtain information. There is nothing more suitable than the small creatures on the planet itself.

The Zerg had already used this method when they dealt with the Lizardmen, and thus had the upper hand. Sass was already familiar with it.

The scientific research base right in front of us is its main goal.

Most of the personnel among them are Velvet elites, and they are the most valuable. If one day the Zerg wants to go to war with the opponent, then these personnel are the key points that Sass needs to control. Just for the memory and knowledge in their minds.

Although the Zerg doesn't have brain worms here now, it may not be so in a few decades.

Before that, it needs to figure out the details of this civilization.

Speaking of which, since the Zerg race entered this star field, they have been passive. Now that Fang De escaped, he really doesn't know much about the Velvets.

Everything still needs to be figured out slowly. Of course, although you don't want to expose yourself too quickly, you don't have to be too careful. While Sass is preparing the infiltration plan, he is also actively preparing to expand further.

The Zerg miniature unit is an extremely easy-to-use bug species. The Velvets have not noticed the biological leakage in the laboratory under the leadership of Sass. Therefore, in the outside world, except for some special occasions, it can almost be said that the Zerg is Completely undefended!

These bugs will not take the initiative to attack the Velvets, they just expand with the flow, accompanied by various flowing substances, gradually spread to the entire planet, quietly lurking.

Afterwards, Sass began to plan to expand to other planets, which undoubtedly required the help of Velvet's spacecraft, and because of the previous incidents, the biological detection on the spacecraft was very detailed, and this needs to be considered in the long run.

On this point, Sass intends to make a fuss about personnel as before, concealed and effective.

At the same time, after a long period of latent research, the brain worms have basically deciphered each other's language system. Except for a few special words such as professional terms, the Zerg have been able to listen to information from inconspicuous places in all walks of life.

These information will eventually be collected in the main base of the Zerg in the Auri galaxy, and the cerebrates will complete the information on each other.

So far, this is the only galaxy where cerebrates exist.

Zero was not worried that those bug species that had some slight differences from the native bugs would be discovered by the Velvets.

Before this, the Zerg had never shown the ability to mutate into other images. Even if the other party noticed that these bugs were different, it would be difficult to associate them with the Zerg.

Through this, He basically understood the social system of the Velvet people and the basic technological process of civilization.

There is no doubt that this is the most powerful technological civilization that the Zerg has encountered so far. It has basically conquered the natural environment and is no longer restricted by surface conditions.

If necessary, they can even establish a complete colony on a deserted planet, and the price is nothing more than an extremely huge consumption of resources and energy.

At the same time, what makes Zero more concerned is the huge star field ruled by the other party.

You must know that if an intelligent civilization like the Velvets does not have the navigation technology that exceeds the speed of light, and does not have the ability to communicate in real time beyond the long distance of light years, it will be difficult to establish a civilization even if it can reach other galaxies. A unified regime, because it takes only a few years to hundreds of years to communicate with each other, not to mention how much manpower and material resources are required to establish such a complex conventional communication system.

Therefore, although it has not been confirmed directly from Velvet’s population, from all aspects of information, Zero has confirmed that they have at least activated the super-light speed navigation and super-distance communication technology. It's hard to come by in life.

Zero needs more accurate information, which requires targeting their scientific research institutions or scientific research talents.However, before the new cerebrates appeared, Zero did not intend to act rashly, the efficiency was not high and it was easy to be exposed, and everything was still based on concealment.

It's not that they are afraid of anything. If they are fully prepared, based on the current intelligence of both sides, once Zero leads the swarm to attack, the Velvet people on this planet will definitely suffer heavy losses.Even if the opponent can defeat the Zerg and take back the planet later, they can no longer put the Zerg back into the cage.

At that time, the worst case scenario would be a protracted battle with them, but this was not what Zero wanted.

Destroying an interstellar civilization is by no means a simple matter, not to mention that the other party is now ahead of the Zerg in all aspects, and it is unknown what kind of black technology they possess. Starting a war like this is not the purpose of zero.

What he needs is the opponent's technology. The Zerg has developed to this day, and there is no shortage of territory and resources. It is not in the interest of the Zerg to fight the opponent here.

A civilization with a total population of hundreds of billions, although it is not at the same level as the Zerg in terms of numbers, as an intelligent race, they have an obvious advantage over the Zerg, that is, the diversity of individual thinking.

Zero's plan is to map it out slowly, while developing, try to hide itself as much as possible.If there is a chance, then move to the various planets ruled by the Velvets until one day, the entire Velvet civilization territory is included in the sphere of influence.

In addition, the Zerg units that had struggled to take root in the Velvet Civilization Ninth Colonial Galaxy had quietly accumulated strength on this asteroid.

Although this place is on the edge of the galaxy, it is after all the sphere of influence of the Velvet people, and it is also one of the nine most important developing galaxies, which are currently under construction.

It is not safe here, and Zero does not intend to let this bug that only took decades to luckily hit a macro celestial body stay here to develop.

Its target should be a more distant place, and the ideal situation should be other nearby galaxies. Although there are basically occupied by the Velvets, compared with the key development area of ​​the Ninth Colonial Galaxy, whether it is expansion or development is much easier.

The so-called internal cultivation of literature and morality, external governance military preparations.It will carry zero expectations and move to the outer edge of the galaxy, and then to the distant outer galaxy, where the Velvets can't see, and re-establish the Zerg space armed forces!

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Pope's second experimental reagent came to a relatively complete conclusion on the Fowler man.Compared with the last time, many side effects have been reduced a lot due to his efforts, including the problem of causing people to go crazy, which has also been solved to a certain extent.

The only uncontrollable problem is still the problem of reduced brain activity. Many Fowler volunteers who participated in the experiment showed memory loss or dementia without exception, which was not much different from the last time.

The good news is that the life extension effect of the new medicine is 17.00% better than the previous one, so if it's just memory loss, it's not completely unacceptable.

Every minute and every second in the Federation, a large number of citizens come to the end of their lives and have to face the threat of death, including many dignitaries and senior officials.

If this medicine is introduced to the market, it will mean huge benefits!There will be a large number of Velvet people paying for it, and even if its side effects are announced, it will not affect its value too much!
Regardless of the social system changes that may be caused by it, such as pensions and other issues, it can already be regarded as a mature commercial formula in terms of its life extension function.

With only two improvements, Pope has already made it to this point, and it has already achieved major phased results.

What he has to do now is to bring his results and research report to the high-level federal government. As for how to deal with it later, it has nothing to do with him as a researcher.Regardless of whether it is announced or not, he will enjoy his own honor.

Of course, the development of this special substance is not over yet, not to mention that the biggest problem of the medicine has not been solved yet.How to avoid brain damage, as well as the specific ingredients and mechanism of action that have not been concluded, are still being explored.

It can be said that the research on this subject has only just begun.

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