Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 250 Fusion and Split

When all the cerebrates were released, what they wanted to do was let them each lead the swarm to develop independently in order to realize different future possibilities for the zerg race. At the same time, if they encountered a civilization like the Velvets and needed to contact them, they would also You don't have to wait for new cerebrates to be born or start again from the base camp, thus improving efficiency.

But I didn't expect that this time in Lyman, Gore died without any explanation. Along with him, there were countless swarms of insects.

The universe is a precise structure. Although it is vast and huge, with countless stars, even so, the disappearance of one of them will inevitably cause some subtle changes. However, in order for such changes to be clearly reflected, it requires Thousands of years.

But the situation is actually not that bad. At least not all the swarms that dispersed before died. It doesn't take long for them from the neighboring star system to re-establish an observation system for the place where the incident occurred.

Zero really wanted to know what role Zhuna, the energy life that the Zerg had tried so hard to find before, played in this matter. It must be closely related to this incident, but what the Zerg could currently do about it All he can do is wait.

This matter seems to be beyond the scope of the Zerg's intervention. With such power, no matter what it is, there is no room for the Zerg to intervene.

Just in case, Zero withdrew all the Zerg units that were currently stabilizing the wormhole and allowed the sub-dimensional passage to be re-closed.

This was something beyond expectation. Even the Velvets were secretly dismantled by Todd on the pretext of malfunction or safety hazard. If such a phenomenon occurred in the galaxy of origin, the Zerg would likely suffer heavy losses as a result.

Zero does not plan to open the wormhole easily again before he understands the whole story. He will also suspend exploration activities after Ruel appears again.

The water in this universe is very deep, and it cannot be controlled by a brain worm. Zero does not want to have another "seed" inexplicably appear in the Zerg base at any time, and the brain worm will "die". Whether you can avoid it or try to avoid it, these intelligent insect species are the precious assets of the Zerg race. Zero has always been very humane to them, and they will never be abandoned casually like ordinary insect swarms.

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Zerg In 1496, in the Lyman galaxy, the Zerg swarms from the surrounding galaxies arrived at the area where the accident occurred. Here, they detected extremely strong energy fluctuations!

Before Gore attempted to evacuate, Zero was certain that such a phenomenon did not occur, but now in the Zerg observers' vision of energy life, "brilliant" high-energy radiation is escaping in all directions like an oncoming water curtain. scattered.

If the insect swarm had not strengthened the biological armor on the body because of the energy life "Zhu Na", these radiations would have been fatal!
Some energy life must have died here!

Zero was convinced.This familiar high-energy fluctuation is too conspicuous. When the insect swarm resisted the invasion of "Zhu Na", this phenomenon was not uncommon.

But compared with what the insect swarm had observed before, both in terms of intensity and scope, it was far inferior to this time.

Thinking of the sudden departure of energy life at that time, if it was not an accident, then you can already guess what happened here.

No matter what the "thing" was that came out of the wormhole, there must have been numerous energy beings that arrived here at an incredible speed. They went through something unknown and finally died here.

It only took two years for the incident to occur. On a cosmic scale, this amount of time can only be regarded as an instant. However, they came from an unknown place and arrived earlier than the insect swarms from neighboring galaxies. , and judging from the degree of energy radiation, it must have been quite a while since they died, at least more than three months!
This kind of aerospace speed, which is like traveling through space, makes the super-light engine that the Zerg obtained from the Velvets become like a child's toy.

At this moment, Zero had an idea.Perhaps all the time before, the swarm's understanding of "Zhu Na" was quite one-sided. They are far more powerful than imagined!
As for now, seeing that the motion coordinates that originally existed for an entire star system are now deserted, Ling is a little disappointed.He eagerly wanted to know what happened after here, but it was clear that a certain phenomenon that almost annihilated the entire galaxy no longer existed.

He tried to open the wormhole again, but just like decades ago, it became unresponsive.If there was a door here before, now there is only one wall.

--It's sealed!

Two years have been enough for Gore to hatch again and grow into an adult, but this time Zero has no intention of sending it directly to the Lyman System.It will push the zerg swarm to fully occupy the entire river system, just like Dagoth and Visser in the galaxy of origin.

As for the dangerous Lyman, Zero plans to use the entire place as an experimental area. Since he failed to observe what happened next this time, he will create a suitable environment. Wormhole access is very important for today's Zerg. It allows The scattered insect swarms were able to connect into a whole,
Since the Velvet Man was discovered so many years ago, the main scientific research direction of the insect swarm has been directly related to it, and so much effort has been made. Even in terms of sunk costs, Zero will not give up easily because of this accident.

There is exactly one ready-made target. Two years ago, the swarm originally planned to conduct a long-term observation of an energy life to enhance its understanding of it, but then it disappeared without a trace. It seems that it must have participated in the event that the zerg had never seen. Among the events he witnessed, it is unknown whether he may have died in the galaxy that has disappeared.

But the energy veins it left behind are still there, and the swarm can use it as an experimental base to try to figure out what happened in the main base of the zerg in the Lyman galaxy.

After all, building and maintaining new wormholes is a bit more troublesome but not difficult. As for the consequences of doing so, as long as something can be gained, it doesn't matter to Zero that the entire Lyman Galaxy is destroyed.

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In the year 1500 of the Zerg race, Zero did not wait for the wormhole to mutate again in the Lyman galaxy, but instead waited for three "Zhu Na".

After realizing that energy life had arrived first, Zero decisively asked the insect swarm to withdraw from here, abandoning the entire galaxy and allowing it to occupy it.Although fishing is not a success, it is still important to find out what Zhuna is doing.

Not surprisingly, the bugs that maintained the existence of the wormhole died quickly. Zhuna seemed to have a natural dislike and rejection of the creatures entrenched in the star system with mineral vein channels. If it had occupied this place before it appeared, it would It attacked unceremoniously, but came after it. Even if it caused fatal damage to it, it didn't seem to care.

This is very strange. If it is really a kind of life, it almost goes against biological instinct!When faced with the threat of death, escape is definitely the first priority.

If we want to make all this logical and speculate with the most intuitive thinking, it is that it is guarding something important here, so that no creature is allowed to get there first, and once it has been mastered, it cannot leave easily or it requires sacrifice to leave. A big price to pay.

But if you put it this way, it should have a certain degree of intelligence, not just a beast-like instinct as Zero thought before.

After all, only intelligent life can weigh the pros and cons.

The specifics are not yet clear, and Zero is just guessing at the moment. Maybe this creature itself is not logical, and the logic itself requires a series of prerequisites to be established, but the Zerg know too little now.

However, soon, the Zerg scientific research unit brought zero useful information.

While waiting, three energy beings arrived here one after another. The first one to arrive killed the bugs supporting the existence of the wormhole, causing Zero to lose sight of the inside of the galaxy, but "Zhu Na" who came after him But they did not leave, they actually "integrated" into the former under "the full public view"!
From a certain perspective, this is actually not surprising. From the perspective of energy fluctuations, they are exactly the same at the energy level, so their mutual integration is not so incomprehensible.

At this moment, Zero thought of the "brilliant" high-energy radiation in the galaxy that was "swallowed". Perhaps, that was the corpse of a huge "Zhu Na" that integrated many energy lives!
Zero felt that the veil of this mysterious creature seemed to have been lifted by him. Now that there is fusion, will there be division?

He thought this way, since it is a living thing, what is its method of reproduction?Why does it have to wrap up the entire star every time?
Once his thinking started to diverge, he found that many of his conjectures seemed reasonable.What benefits can stars bring to this energy life?There is no doubt that the celestial body that is naturally bursting out huge energy every moment may be replenishing energy for "Zhu Na"!
Under its complete shroud, not even a single ray of light could escape from the star.However, energy does not arise out of thin air, nor does it disappear out of thin air.

If this energy is not absorbed by it, then when it wraps the entire star, huge energy will accumulate inside it, just like a powder keg in a sealed space. As time goes by, it will require more and more energy. Huge power to restrain.Even if it can do this, judging by its stay time of several decades, when it leaves, the total amount of energy contained within it will be an extremely terrifying number, but judging from multiple observations Judgment, this phenomenon did not occur.

From this, it can be determined that it must be obtaining energy from stars, perhaps to replenish itself, or perhaps for another purpose.

Zhuna's "long journey" cannot be without losses. If basic physics is not overturned, then it must also need an energy source to maintain its own survival.

"Perhaps, it has the ability to transform other forms of energy into the high-energy form stored in the energy crystal." Zero said to himself.

"If it can be contained..."

Thinking of this, he stopped his thoughts with a wry smile.At present, it can only be confirmed that it obtains energy from stars, and little is known about more. The idea of ​​containing Zhu Na is really unrealistic.

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Maybe it was luck, or maybe there was some internal reason, but this time the Zerg gained a lot from Zhuna's observation.

After previously discovering that they could fuse with each other, just over a year later, in Zerg 1501, the Zerg swarm detected a large number of familiar high-energy fluctuations around this galaxy!

Zhuna, it's out of here!But it was completely different from the one discovered before. This time, the collection of three energy beings originally merged. When leaving, the Zerg detected five homologous high-energy fluctuations in different directions, which represented ——Five Zhuna, or in other words, five Zhuna splits!
The difference is that the level of high-energy fluctuations generated when it left was significantly weaker!
It really can split, and the process can seriously damage it!
This is probably the unique way of reproduction for their kind of life, Zero thought, but at the same time he did not forget the main purpose of the Zerg's observation. After Zhuna left, the Zerg swarm quickly re-entered the galaxy.

After some simple tests, it turned out that the original vein channel could no longer be opened.

There is no doubt that it, or they are repairing these "rifts" in the universe!
Combined with what happened in the main base of the Zerg in the Lyman galaxy before, and connecting everything known in his mind, Zero suddenly understood at this moment!

These passages, which are regarded as shortcuts by the Zerg, may be the source of disaster in their eyes. Therefore, every minute and every second, it is repairing these "cracks". As for the methods it uses, it has also been very difficult. It's obvious.

It is using itself to "fill" the "loopholes" that exist there!In the main base of the Zerg in the Lyman galaxy, the "corpse relic" that is fused with the huge energy life of countless Zhuna clones is enough to explain all this!
In just one year, it was able to complete the repair here, which must be due to the quantitative bonus. And after completion, it could no longer maintain its complete and stable existence, so it was divided into five. Going in different directions.

Obviously, they are heading to the next target.Perhaps soon, these much weaker bodies will completely envelop another distant star, and then slowly grow, completing the "repair" of space in the process, and finally divide and reproduce again, and the cycle begins again.

It's no wonder that they exist in almost every star system with mineral vein channels in the entire Lyman Galaxy. With such a split method, if they grow quickly enough, they can even compare with the Zerg!

From another perspective, zero was originally just a guess, but now it can be completely confirmed through this phenomenon.

It must exist widely in the universe, and if there are no accidents, there must be a "Zuna split" on the way to the origin galaxy where the main body of the Zerg is now!

They are obsessed with destroying wormholes and repairing sub-dimensional passages, but the Zerg need this means of passage to ensure that all the swarms are connected as a whole. At the same time, they also need the energy crystals they produce as fuel for faster-than-light navigation at this stage. So, It is bound to be impossible for both sides to coexist peacefully.

Zero is actually not afraid of Zhuna's split. After all, they are almost not aggressive in normal times. As long as the method is correct, the Zerg will not consume too much energy to kill them.

But there is another question. What is the "thing" that "squeezed out" the wormhole, swallowed the entire star system, and killed the brainworm Gore, and where did it go?
It was too mysterious. If the stable existence of the wormhole would pose such a huge threat, the worms would not be able to use it with confidence, even without Zhuna's interference.

Therefore, although the logic of Zhuna's behavior has been roughly understood, the "fishing operation" within the Lyman galaxy will still continue until a phenomenon like the last time occurs again, and the specific mechanism of its occurrence is grasped.

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Zerg In 1502, part of the second fleet of the Velvet Federation stationed in the ninth colonial galaxy observed some suspicious phenomena in the starry sky, but at first, it did not attract much attention.They sent a team to explore, but in the end they never returned, and they didn't even have time to leave any information.

This made them pay attention and began to consciously focus on exploring and observing in that direction, but they still knew very little.

And at a certain moment three months later, shrill alarms suddenly sounded in various bases throughout the ninth colonial galaxy!

Space stations, starship docks, military factories, planetary bases, etc., including the Second Fleet space homeport, in a very short period of time, the aura of quick-kill war has enveloped the entire galaxy.

At the same time, the First Fleet stationed on the home star immediately entered a state of emergency combat readiness. The main force of the Second Fleet and part of the Third Fleet scattered in various star fields also entered the super-light voyage and rushed towards the ninth colonial galaxy at full speed. Come.

And all this is because, in the observation field of view, countless biological warships appeared less than 920 light hours from the outer edge of the galaxy!
This is the galactic cordon of the Velvets. If a non-federal registered ship crosses here, the military has the right to destroy it directly.

But now the Velvets obviously can't do it, because what arrived here are tens of thousands of standardized biological warships, the number of which is equivalent to the total number of all main warships in active service in the Federation!

Todd did not activate the Zerg lurkers to interfere with the Velvet people's judgment, and ignored some of the other party's communication requests and warnings, just like the Velvet people did when they faced the Brochers.

Soon, the Velvet people completely confirmed that there was something bad going on, and the first fleet immediately set off to the front line, and at the same time declared that the entire federation had entered a state of war!
Different from the casual way they dealt with the Brochers in the past, this time, everyone could feel that things were unusual.

Because the Federation issued a call-up order for retired soldiers and announced an order to strengthen the galaxy's defense system, and at the same time, it actually started recruiting soldiers!

Various space docks have stopped the production of civilian spacecraft, and existing large spacecraft have also begun to be recruited through negotiation. At the same time, in each dock, the keels of unified federal standard battleships have been erected as soon as possible!
Conscription, that was so many years ago. Today’s active soldiers and officers in the federal army all come from various military academies and social institutions. The conscription bill has never been directly issued in such a grand place within civilization!

But the assessment report from the front told them that the opponent's strength was extremely powerful. When destroying the defense forces on the galaxy's cordon, they demonstrated a level of war technology that was no less than that of the Federation's main fleet!

The remaining force of the Second Fleet alone is not enough to stop them. A tragic defeat is already around the corner!If it does not enter a state of war, let alone the ninth colonial galaxy, the Federation is likely to lose large areas of territory with its existing military power alone!
If each fleet is defeated one by one, even the most important core area of ​​the Federation will be directly threatened!
As soon as the confirmed news came, few people were optimistic. As senior officials, many of them had a very strategic vision.That is tens of thousands of fully armed military forces that are comparable to the Federation's main battleships in some respects. If they appeared directly on the Federation's home planet, there would be a risk of it falling!

Todd did not deliberately cause any trouble to them from within the Federation during the preparation stage. Even the Zerg lurkers were working conscientiously.

What it wants is to activate the potential of the entire federation, not to destroy the entire federation. There is no need to use this method.The power of the Zerg on the frontal battlefield is enough to defeat any main fleet of the Federation. This is enough.

For Todd, this is just a game, but for the Velvets, this is a life and death crisis!
However, at this moment, their understanding of this matter is still not deep enough.

(End of this chapter)