Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 229 Predator - Cerebral Todd

This is the third time that a Zerg unit has reappeared through the vein channel, and it is also the second time that Zero has seen "Zhuna". Of course, at this time, he still doesn't know what it is.

When the darkness that truly covered the sky and the sun shrouded the insect swarm, no life could escape, and almost at the same time, they all died in that galaxy.

This time, when the Zerg appeared, there was darkness in front of him, and Zero had already expected it, so when he witnessed the wonder of the universe "in front of him" again, he was very calm.

During the short time when the light reappeared, Zero tried to use this scientific research unit to locate the specific location here, but to no avail, the stars in the night sky were dim and strange.

This is a galaxy completely unfamiliar to the Zerg!

Although the time is short, Zero can basically confirm that this place is not in the same river system as the Zerg. In other words, this place belongs to an extragalactic galaxy for the Zerg at least, and Zero can't know where it is in such a short period of time.

But one thing is certain, this place is completely different from the last time the Zerg appeared!
In other words, the bug swarm came out of the tunnel twice, encountered unknown cosmic phenomena twice, but they were not in the same place!In other words, this kind of accident that can devour stars or even entire galaxies may not be uncommon in the universe, at least in galaxies with energy veins, this conclusion is likely to be true, otherwise there is no reason for the Zerg to be able to eat two consecutive meet again!
The time left for Zero Observation was too short, even if he made the swarm take self-rescue actions as soon as he reacted, it was of no use, they died easily, as if they had never appeared before.

Zero was a little dignified. If the last time could be regarded as an accident, this time it cannot be ignored anyway.

"What on earth is this?" Zero said to himself, but no one could answer. There are many creatures that can easily kill the Zerg, and even a well-equipped Velvet warrior can easily complete the massacre of a large area of ​​Zerg under one-on-one. But this is completely different from what this strange and weird phenomenon brought him.

It can directly interfere with the stars, like a piece of "clothes" that can include the entire star, prevent any light from showing through, and make all macroscopic celestial bodies lose many apparent characteristics, leaving only the gravitational field. the mighty? !

He has made some guesses. According to the only two observations of the Zerg himself, Zero thinks that perhaps this may not be a cosmic phenomenon, but a living creature!
But this is actually even more unbelievable.Can life really do this?He doesn't know, can't really be sure, there's just so little information.

However, the existence of the gravitational field reminded him of the energy mines closely related to it.

The reason why the Zerg can see this kind of "creature", let's call it a creature, is because of the "channel" brought by the energy ore veins, and whether it is the former or the latter, they all have a common characteristic. There are no other features exposed on the surface, but they are all related to gravity.

"Perhaps, there is some connection between the two!" Zero thought.

There is too little data now to draw conclusions at all. Like last time, although some guesses have been made, there is no way to confirm them, and they can only be shelved.

Only this time, Zero remembered it in his heart, and he felt that this would not be the last time the Zerg encountered this phenomenon.

Over the years, the number of swarms of insects that have been sent into the passage by Zero has increased to 16 batches. They are all still alive, even after more than a hundred years. A little time has not affected their lives, but so far they have appeared In the real universe, there are only these three waves.

Based on the analysis of the current conditions, there is a high probability that the remaining swarms are only "on the way", and they will definitely appear in the universe in the future.

However, when they appear, are they facing intelligent races like the Velvets, or terrifying monsters that can't be observed or explored, or something else? Only when things really happen will know.

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Zerg main base.

The Zerg sphere of influence centered on Ori has completed eight rounds of expansion after so many years of hard work. Every ten years or so, a group of Zerg will start from the explored area and head towards more unknown galaxies. go.

Today, a huge force that occupies hundreds of galaxies and has a sphere of influence spanning hundreds of light years has appeared in the river system. Just from this point of view, the Zerg is already in the same order of magnitude as the Velvets , In terms of development level, it is far more than that.

Of course, there are many problems with the main group of the Zerg. Although they occupy a large number of planets, it is difficult to exchange resources between them. The occupied galaxies are still in a state of fighting on their own, and there is basically no material exchange.

Therefore, in these years, while dealing with the Velvets, the cerebrates have been working hard in the direction of superluminal speed, but the results have been very ineffective.

From a theoretical basis, since the development of the Zerg, there has been a need for this, but there are not many conjectures about this to verify one by one.

Moreover, compared with intelligent civilization, Zerg is indeed far inferior in terms of extremely high-end precision research.

Between a race that has been developing brains and manipulative abilities since ancient times, and a race that is born with only a few intelligent units and most individuals have no thinking ability, the gap in this aspect is visible to the naked eye.

Hundreds of years ago, Zero once thought that perhaps with the increase in the number of brain worms and their further strengthening of Zerg biotechnology, this problem might be solved, at least not much inferior to ordinary intelligent civilization in all aspects .

But now it seems that he is still a little optimistic.Thinking ability and intelligence are the same thing. In this regard, even compared with the chief scientist of the Velvets, the cerebrates are far superior. But over the years, the technological progress of the Zerg is really not fast.

They are indeed moving forward, but their speed always makes Zero not so satisfied. So far, the important technological revolutions and technological explosions of the Zerg have all depended on other races.

This is also one of the reasons why Zero is determined to change the Zerg's way of dealing with other civilizations after encountering the Velvets this time.

Of course, there are also reasons why the Velvets are not so easy to deal with.

Using an intelligent civilization as a technology farm, harvesting scientific and technological achievements internally, and forcing it externally with the threat of war, combined with the potential influence within the civilization, allowing the Velvet civilization to develop in the direction that the Zerg needs, may have unexpected effects.

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Zerg In 1195, in the Crichtel galaxy, while sending the 17th batch of Zerg units into the tunnel, Sass sent the Zerg units into Fowler's body stably for the first time without causing adverse reactions.

Although these are just some insignificant Zerg individuals that exist like symbiotic bacteria, once they make a big move, they will be noticed by the host immediately, but it is also of great significance.

This means that if there is no need, Sars may even spread microbial insect seeds into nature on a large scale, so that all Fowler people on the planet will suffer the same treatment.

But this is not the purpose of Zero, not to mention that the absolute subject of the Velvet Federation is the Velvet people, and the Fowler people are just a minority among them. Just controlling their life and death cannot achieve the expected goal.What Zero needs is that they shine and radiate heat, rather than just die like this, even if they die, they must have their value.

This research result of Sass is only a stepping stone, a stepping stone that can make Zero achieve his goal, and it is only for the Fowlers. After all, their attention is much weaker than that of the Velvets. .

The swarm was still hidden under the table, and Zero was not in a hurry to put Sass' achievements into practice. Firstly, it was not necessary, and secondly, it was easier to expose.

On the home planet of the Velvet Federation, a research project aimed at the citizens of Velvet was put on the agenda by Sass, which is expected to take 20 years.

The research results on the Fowler people are precious, as long as they are cautious and spend more time, it is not difficult to obtain similar results even on the home planet with the strictest prevention and control.

In Zerg 1206, Pope, a senior researcher at the Velvet Federal Academy of Sciences, solved the problem of memory loss and dementia caused by life-extending drugs after long-term research, and increased its life-extending effect by nearly one-fifth.

If the Velvet people in their twilight years complete the injection, they can theoretically prolong their life by more than 30 years!

For the Velvets whose average lifespan is around three hundred Ori years, this is equivalent to adding more than one tenth of their lifespan!
Regarding the low intelligence of Zerg creatures, Pope believes that it may be the impact factors carried in this long-lived substance that prevent their brains from developing normally, and eventually become like this.

This achievement was also presented upwards as part of the Pope report and received mainstream approval.

After many years, Pope finally turned the potion into a basically harmless super technology.And he is no longer the young scientific researcher who reported the materials back then. Just the semi-finished research results that he presented before have made him rise to the top of the world and ascended to the high position of senior researcher.

Senior researcher may not sound like a position, but in the Federal Academy of Sciences, this is the title second only to academician!
Today's Pope has already achieved fame, and the achievements this time are enough for him to truly occupy a place in the highest scientific research institute.

Although he was in the light of the Zerg, opportunities are also a part of life. He seized this opportunity and made remarkable achievements. This is ability.

The term "immortal matter" is now a widely discussed topic in the federal biology community and even the entire scientific community.I don't know how many teams or individuals have tried to make a fuss about it, but to this day, the Velvet people still haven't been able to come up with an answer to the fundamental question of why the longevity substance can prolong life.

Don't mention them, Sass himself doesn't know this.

Pope is the closest person to this answer in today's Federation, but even he can't figure it out.The research on the basic composition of that substance has been completed decades ago, but the same substance and the same formula are used in industry to obtain a highly toxic reagent.

Popper was able to eliminate the side effects one by one based on the biological fluid extracted from the Zerg's body over decades, which is indeed amazing.

You know, it was the life-extending genetic material tailored by Sass for the Zerg in the state of Blissful Mind. Due to the particularity of common bug species, restricting intelligence development is not a side effect at all on them, but a natural necessity. Conditions nothing more.

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Zerg In 1209, the seventh brain worm hatched in the underground base of Gago, the home planet of the Velvets, and joined the plan against the Velvet civilization.

It was born with two missions, one is to directly acquire knowledge and skills from the Velvet people, and the other is to complete Zero's shepherding plan for the other party's entire civilization!

The former is relatively easier. Although Zero currently has no plans to take action against the opponent's senior scientific research personnel, since the brain worms have appeared, the way for the Zerg to obtain these key information has been greatly expanded. As long as the planning is proper, it can be relatively easy Many theoretical technologies including energy shield and super-light speed navigation technology have received zero attention.

As long as it wants, it can understand their race better than the average Velvet themselves!
As for the latter, it needs to be completed with the help of brain worms such as Sass. After all, knowledge is one thing and experience is another.

Zerg needs a kind of insect species that can control the individual creatures of the opponent, which cannot be accomplished by a newcomer.Similarly, it is not its job to command the swarms of the entire galaxy. In a short period of time, it will only be a tool worm, existing for the zerg to understand the entire civilization and grasp all the movements of the other party.

Perhaps in the future, when it grows to a certain level, Zero will hand over all the bug swarms in this star field to it.

In view of the burden that this newborn cerebrate may bear in the future, it is completely different from the many new generation cerebrates in the main base today. After the third cerebrate Viser, Zero once again gave it a new First name - Todd.In the ancient language of the original lizard people, it means predator.

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Sass has recently focused on a Velvet man. Judging from the information obtained, the person should be a senior scientific researcher working at the federal highest scientific research institute, and he seems to be specialized in researching Zerg.

This is very important to it, and it wants to know how far the opponent's research on the Zerg has reached.

At the same time, a high-level scientific research talent must also have sufficient knowledge and cognition. Knowledge often represents vision to a certain extent. Choosing him seems to be an irresistible goal.

It's just that its plan was eventually stopped by Zero.When he was on Fowler Star, He "saw" him in the laboratory, a young Velvet scientific researcher.

Calculated based on the average lifespan of individuals in this civilization, it took only a few decades to reach this position, which is considered rare in the entire civilization.

With the spread of the Zerg forces, Zero, who has gradually regarded the entire Velvet civilization as his own technology farm, is still unwilling to use rough methods to waste such high-level talents.

With the social information development of the Velvet people, even low-level citizens can learn a lot of information, and the two are not the same in terms of difficulty or social influence. Why not do it? ?

Pope didn't know that his fate was reversed at this moment. If Sass really planned to do something, based on the intelligence, strength, and means between the two sides, he would have no chance of surviving.

Fortunately, he is one of the most valuable existences to the Zerg. In the end, Sass chose a target that was easier to get and would not attract too much attention.

After some simple planning, Sass dispatched a nearby Zerg memory store that had not appeared in reality for hundreds of years that evening, and secretly completed two memory thefts from a certain corner.

In the war with the Octopus, this bug species had made considerable contributions to the Zerg, and it was also the main method for the Zerg to obtain the memory of the Octopus during that time.

The social status of the two people who were brutally murdered was not high, they were just civilians, even if they died, they would not attract too much social attention, even so, in order not to leave obvious traces, Sass still made a cover-up .

At least the memory-storing organization was extracted, which was too weird for an intelligent race, and it was hard to guarantee that the other party would not notice anything. Sass simply came to destroy the corpses and wipe them out, completely turning them into Zergs for a long time Bioenergy that is no longer used.

Afterwards, things were simple. So far, Zero's understanding of the Velvet people was only superficial, and being able to directly obtain it from the other person's mind was naturally much easier than painstakingly digging.

Although both of these two are basically biased towards the bottom of society, their knowledge level still gave Zero a small surprise.

Sure enough, ordinary individuals of advanced civilizations may possess the amount of knowledge of the top scientific circles of ordinary civilizations. These two Velvets, who have not even completed their studies, understand controllable nuclear fusion as much as Zerg. Not to mention the energy application foundation in their minds, which once moved Sass!
Is this really the basic knowledge that an ordinary civilized individual can understand?For Sass, although this information belongs to common sense knowledge in the compulsory education stage, it can play a guiding role in its research!

Sure enough, this entire civilization is a huge treasure house, but now this treasure house has only been opened up by a negligible gap by the Zerg!

(End of this chapter)