Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 257 Annihilation
Some radical Velvet people made a counterattack plan within 30 years, including pushing the front forward, even recovering the Teller star, etc. To this, Todd did not make any expression or intention to object.

Everything is smooth sailing, after all, the Velvet people have the right to decide their own destiny.

Prior to this, Visser suspended the expansion of the insect swarm in the outer territory. The last wave of consumed insect warships was also being rapidly replenished, and more fleets from the rear base camp were approaching the entire Velvet defense line.

Visser had no awareness that he was strategically "at a disadvantage" and only wanted to attack.Coincidentally, the Velvites are also planning a counterattack and have made a relatively detailed strategic investigation report. Based on the various intelligence obtained since the war began, coupled with the crazy industrial expansion over the years, many people from the deserted The production capacity of the Star Territory has increased dramatically.

So even though the Velvet people have not won a single large-scale victory in these years, they have gained an inexplicable confidence.

In fact, this kind of confidence does not come out of thin air. On the Federation's home planet, warships produced in various star systems gather here, and batches of soldiers who have undergone rigorous training are also graduating one after another.

After decades of development, the Federation has become very experienced in controlling unmanned warships. In the plan, every soldier who controls an unmanned warship must correspond to at least ten or more warships.

In this era, the development of many resource planets has made those resource-stuffed war machines no longer rare, and the real ace warriors are the most precious resources in war.

Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to have more warships than the operators. Only in this way can the Federation ensure a steady flow of troops to a certain extent.

Today, the Velvet people are accumulating war knowledge according to the arrangements in the strategic plan. At the same time, they are also trying their best to hold back the insect swarms on the front line.

According to the agreement with Todd, Visser will not use the intelligence advantage of the Zerg lurkers within the Federation. Since the war began, it has not done anything unnecessary like infiltrating intelligence into the Velvet people. Therefore, regarding the Velvet people's plan, It doesn't know.

But this does not prevent it from preparing to attack simultaneously.In recent times, it can be clearly felt that the resistance of the Federation has increased a lot.

In fact, even Visser, who had many self-restrictions and was afraid of directly destroying the Velvets, did not really go all out. 5.00% production capacity is indeed nothing to the Zerg, but after occupying more and more star systems, the Zerg fleet is also rapidly growing. With the current industrial level of the Velvet people, it is probably comparable to Visser. Standing on the same order of magnitude.

But to say that this can counterattack to regain the lost ground and defeat Visser in one fell swoop is almost meaningless.

What's more, the so-called self-restriction was originally intended to make the Velvet people feel the pressure of war. If one day it is difficult to defeat the Federation head-on with the current ability, Visser can liberate himself at any time.

War is not the goal. War that ensures continuity and always has a certain degree of advantage is just a means for Visser. In order to achieve the goal, the means can be changed at any time.

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Zerg In 1557, the second attempt on Brocher's special experimental body was launched on the Federation's home planet.

This time, after many experiments, many researchers have greatly reduced the side effects of implanted biological structures, at least now it is no longer fatal.

Although it is still not perfect, the damage to the body is still relatively serious, directly affecting the lifespan and organs of the Velvet people.

But at least it's no longer instantly fatal.

The Brochers and the Velvets, two intelligent life forms, were originally completely unrelated to each other. They grew up on different planets and had fundamental differences in their genetic mechanisms.

Being able to do this is not as easy as it seems.But back then, Goldman was alone, and the effect on him reached or even exceeded the current federal research results.

At this moment, these people truly realized that it was not this structure that made Goldman successful; it was only in Goldman that it played its greatest role.

No matter how you say it, this is indeed a major progress. It has once again verified that Goldman's results are indeed reliable and will definitely bring great benefits to the federation in the future. Although it has not yet been popularized, it is worth celebrating.

The plan for human Brocher clones has been carried out in an orderly manner, but the time is still short, and its true efficiency cannot yet be judged.

But regarding the use of this biological structure, the most important part has already made considerable progress, and this has become the simplest part.

If it really doesn't work, it's not impossible to reproduce and copy directly in the most primitive way. At most, it will be a little slower in the early stage.

People in the field of biology are busy studying the "gifts" of the Brocher people, while federal scientists in the field of physics are planning another big project.

With the increase in the federal war production capacity, the suspected creations of advanced civilization originally "sent" to the Zerg have also re-entered the field of vision of federal scientific researchers.

Prior to this, Tucker from Terle had already proposed a quite feasible plan, which was to bombard it with protons that had been electromagnetically accelerated and carried huge kinetic energy.

Because of the war, this plan has been shelved because of its huge cost.

But now that the Zerg attack has slowed down and entered a truce stage again, and secondly, the Federation believes that the space docks in many star systems are quite complete, and the transformation from industrial strength to war potential has been initially completed, and it can be regarded as having some spare capacity. Do the “extra” things.

Therefore, in the barren galaxy where "planet components" were originally stored, the Velvets began to build the Federation's sixth planet-level space particle impact experimental facility around a rocky planet.

Todd is also more concerned about this. After all, this is actually the result that the Zerg wants to get.

Even Zero is curious about something that can affect an entire planet and is even closely related to the evolution of species on it.

In view of the last discovery, during the subsequent development and expansion of the Zerg, they conducted a relatively detailed exploration of the interior of the planet, especially the interior of rocky planets with suitable conditions, but so far no second case has been discovered.

Millions of years ago, what kind of existence left such incredible technological products inside a planet, and what was the purpose of doing so? Zero wanted to know this.

He had a vague feeling that maybe millions of years ago, there were some secrets in this huge galaxy, but now, only some extremely hidden traces were left.

It doesn't even appear on the outside macroscopically. Only when the entire planet is "cut open" can we get a clue.

The unexpressed genetic material shared by various species on that planet was obviously not naturally occurring, at least Zero would never believe there was such a coincidence in the world.

If we say that millions of years ago, there was a mysterious and powerful being that forcibly changed the development trajectory of the entire planet and implanted some genetic material that could affect the evolution of organisms into the ancestors of these organisms, It is even possible that "it" directly created the "ancestors" of these species. So, what is the purpose of "it"?

All these mysteries are left to the Zerg, but only the mysterious structures "digged" from the interior of the planet and the genetic sequences in those organisms.

Regarding the former, Ling wants to see if the Velvet people's processing method is effective. If it can be opened smoothly, then maybe some key information can be obtained. Even if it is just some simple "stones", then its materials are also You can get some inspiration for the future technological development of the Zerg.

If it cannot be opened, then Zero needs to consider some more extreme solutions.

As for the latter, Sass has been studying it for a long time.

By integrating the genetic sequences of these creatures into Zerg units, the hatched creatures are basically the same as the original ones, retaining most of their biological characteristics.Based on this, Sass began to genetically edit life on this planet.

It tried to make those genes that were not expressed in any kind of organism appear individually in the re-hatched Zerg. However, many experiments failed without exception.

They all seem to be genetic sequences that are directly lethal.But why?

If the previous guess is correct, then what reason does "it" have to implant a lethal gene into the genetic material of living organisms so that they can never be expressed?Is it just to kill them?This makes no sense and is totally illogical.

Sass felt that things might not be that simple. There must be some kind of secret that it had not discovered yet within this gene.It is confident enough in its biological science level, but it still has some "awe" for this unknown existence that clearly exceeds the technological level of the Zerg.

It is not impossible that the opponent's technology surpasses the biotechnology that the Zerg are proud of.

But so far, it has had no conclusive results.It was also because of this that Zero paid more attention to the Velvet Federation's experiment, hoping to get some discoveries from them.

Building a huge particle impact equipment around a rocky planet with a mass of about 0.73 Orei is a big project even for today's Federation. In order to promote its smooth progress, Todd is among them. No less effort.

Even so, it will take at least seven years to complete the project.Of course, it was built not just to test this special component. At least on the surface, it would also assume the heavy responsibility of another major physics experiment base in the federation in the future.

Seven years is not the limit of the federation, but they can only go so far under the premise of taking into account the normal development of various production activities.

Fortunately, Zero is not in a hurry. Things that have been sealed in the core of the earth for millions of years can be concluded within a few decades. He feels that he has no reason to be anxious.

No matter what happened in that era and what secrets were hidden, at least it had no apparent impact on the Zerg now, nor was it a life-and-death crisis. He was just curious.

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In 1562 of the Zerg, Visser was planning to launch another offensive against the Velvets, but was temporarily stopped by Zero.

Over the years, the Zerg swarm has never stopped harassing the Federation, and the Federation is basically developing in the direction Todd hopes. At this point in time, if it is just to consume the Zerg's excess production capacity, Zero does not intend to cause trouble.

On the other side, Todd also temporarily suppressed the voice of counterattack within the Federation, and a semblance of peace was rarely maintained between the two sides.

However, in the Lyman galaxy outside the river system, the insect swarm's fishing activities finally paid off.

Over the years, after killing several Zhuna clones that were preparing to occupy the star system, the wormhole channel that had been open for a long time finally responded.

If the Zerg had no experience last time and only reacted when something happened, this time the Zerg had already prepared. Over the years, the Zerg had been preparing to observe that direction all the time.

When the gravitational environment began to change, the creatures that maintained the existence of the wormhole died silently, and a familiar scene began to appear, Zero reacted immediately.

Back then, Gore was lucky enough to witness the scene of the entire star system slowly disappearing. It was also in that incident that it became the first "dead" brainworm of the Zerg race.

Changes invisible to conventional vision are happening quietly. This time, the Zerg have set up many observers throughout the star system from the inside out. Even outside the star system, there are swarms of Zerg that are always observing and ready to move forward. Although Due to the long distance, they cannot grasp the information immediately, but the advantage is that they are safe and will never be caught in one fell swoop.

Just like last time, there is an unknown existence accompanied by extremely drastic changes in the gravitational field, which appears in the real universe. Even stars with huge masses cannot compare with it.

The wormhole was torn apart due to violent gravitational changes, and soon after, the star was the first to disappear into the galaxy.

Although the light has disappeared, in the field of vision of the Zerg scientific research unit, the violent gravitational changes inside the galaxy have not disappeared. From the inside to the outside, the Zerg observers arranged by Zero disappear one after another without a trace. Zero can feel, Unlike the swarm of insects that entered the wormhole, these insects really died, rather than just losing contact.

Due to proper arrangement, Zero was able to continue to observe the occurrence of this phenomenon at close range, until all the Zerg creatures inside the galaxy were killed and injured, but while "it" was still spreading to the outside of the galaxy, Zero observed an expected but still surprising thing. A surprising scene!
I don't know when, violent energy fluctuations have gathered at this location, and at least more than three digits of "Zhu Na" splits are "merging" here!
Zero didn't even notice how they appeared. The insect species that had been used to warn Zhuna of the split seemed to have lost their effect at this moment.

From the corresponding perspective, their energy fluctuations increased sharply. After all the fragments completed the fusion, they, or it, began to "slowly" move toward the original location of the wormhole inside the galaxy.

It is said to be slow, but in fact, at this moment, it no longer contains all the energy as usual, so in the field of vision of the Zerg observers, a "piece" exudes strong energy fluctuations and is extremely huge. "cloth" is shrouding the entire galaxy towards its original location.

It seems slow, but its speed is more than 2.5 times the normal speed of sailing in the Zerg galaxy!
Wherever it passes, the originally violent gravitational fluctuations quickly subside, just like a piece of wrinkled paper being smoothed out again, and the galaxy space becomes stable again.At the same time, its own energy level is still slowly rising!

Along with this process, the Zerg observers are also following behind and moving forward. Although they are incomparable in terms of speed, they are still of some use. At least they can get to know what is happening ahead faster.

The whole process lasted for 34 Oridays. Zero watched the originally changeable space being "smoothed out", and then watched Zhuna after the merger re-cover the location of the original wormhole, which is now a huge There is a space of thousands of kilometers in radius.

Then, energy fluctuations that were several times more violent than before began to appear, reaching their peak four Orui days later, and finally began to slowly dissipate.

All this is so similar to the scene observed by the belated Zerg last time, except that the energy fluctuations are much more violent.

Obviously, it's time.

Zhuna obviously died after the original combination, and along with it, the wormhole at its original location completely disappeared.

They are like a group of tinkers, using their bodies to forcefully block the "holes" in the universe, leaving only extremely huge energy radiation.

As for what the "thing" that appeared along with the strong gravitational fluctuations was, Zero still had no way of knowing, but in this observation, besides witnessing the "Zuna's War" with his own eyes, he learned nothing.

Energy will not disappear out of thin air, so when Zhuna flattened the space and "closed" the wormhole, where did the large amount of energy that disappeared inside its body go?
Except for the "corpse" that still emitted violent high-energy fluctuations at the end, the Zerg did not observe any large-scale energy leakage during this process.

Then there is no doubt that the energy consumed by Zhuna after the fusion was converted into another form, and it is a form that cannot be observed by the current Zerg.

And Zero believes that it is very likely that it has become "matter", or "mass"!
Mass and gravity are always closely related. The reason why Zero thinks so is because gravity does not arise out of thin air, but violent changes in the gravitational field did appear here not long ago.

If combined with the previous research results and inferences about the dark matter inside the wormhole by Brocher and Goldman, Zero can easily think of what causes the change in gravity!
The total mass of dark matter is about three times greater than the sum of the masses of all celestial bodies in the "surface universe"!
In Goldman's conclusion, it is very likely that the collision and annihilation of dark matter and its antimatter occur anytime and anywhere inside the wormhole, and at the same time a large amount of energy is released, which he calls "dark energy."

The manifestation of dark energy in the real universe is energy crystal!

So if dark matter is not annihilated, but flows directly into the "surface universe", in what form will it exist?

Zero felt that this time he should have "seen" it.

As for Zhuna, although it is unclear for what purpose it did this at the risk of its life, it is obvious that it has some kind of "mission" that allows them to span such a long time in such a short period of time. He came here precisely at the distance to "block" the "gap" and prevent the matter from the dark side of the universe from eroding the surface universe!

He guessed that it might be able to convert the huge energy stored in its body into "antimatter" that Zero had never known before, and at the cost of its life, it cleaned up the dark matter in the outer universe. At the same time, it was born due to the annihilation of matter. An unimaginable amount of energy was eventually used to complete the final "repair" task.

Of course, the vast majority of this is zero speculation and there isn't a lot of solid evidence to prove this, but it does make some sense.

Zero believes that even if the truth is not like this, it is time to get closer to it.

(End of this chapter)