Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 269 Sk’s “Home”

In 1610 of the Zerg, after the ninth brain worm was born, it was arranged to study next to Sass. After Todd led the Velvet people to merge into the new "Zerg version of the union", Ruhr was liberated again. He returned to his old business and started his own exploration activities.

Over the years, the Zerg have had a tendency to start a prairie fire across the entire river system. Therefore, Zero believes that in addition to Lyman, the Zerg should explore more extragalactic galaxies.

On the one hand, he can further search for more intelligent races to pursue the rapid leap forward in Zerg technology. On the other hand, he also needs to confirm whether creatures like "Zhu Na" really exist widely in many galaxies throughout the universe.

In the year 1800 of the Zerg, with the birth of the tenth brainworm, this activity officially started.

Prior to this, the ninth brainworm of the Zerg was named Sk, which means "searching" and actually also means explorer.

After studying with Sass for nearly 200 years, it can be regarded as "complete in merit and virtue" and can stand alone.

This time, it will follow Ruhr to explore new galaxies and, if conditions permit, "settle" there, just like Gore today.

In its place was a new cerebrate, who named himself "Brick". The pronunciation of this word was not the ancient lizard language used by cerebrates, but the word "destruction" in the Velvet language.

Zero is no longer very concerned about what names the Cerebrates give themselves. Over the past 500 years, the Cerebrates have basically named themselves using the pronunciation in the ancient lizard language. This is enough to commemorate the first name on the road to the rise of the Zerg. an enemy.

As for the future, naming it after the language of the Velvet people is actually not bad. As another civilization that helped the Zerg take a big step into the universe, they are qualified to be commemorated by the Zerg in this way.

Zerg In 1804, Ruhr and Sk appeared from a passage exit inside the river system, and then quickly established a wormhole exit. Then Zerg units appeared and established a new colony here.

And their journey is far from over.

Here, it is less than two thousand light years away from the true "edge" of the river system. Beyond that, there is endless and deep darkness!
Here, it can be regarded as the "outpost" for Ruhr and Sk to explore the extragalactic galaxy. When they enter from the entrance of this newly established wormhole and continue to sail forward, the next time they appear, it will be a brand new star field.

Of course, just in case, they will bring a group of small Zerg space units as "pathfinders". They will only appear when the wormhole exit is opened by the Zerg swarm from the outside world.

At the same time, in order to deal with possible enemies, Dagos, the closest brainworm here, has begun to mobilize and incubate Zerg combat units, ready to enter the wormhole for support at any time.

With such perfect preparations, Ruhr and his "assistant" Sk embarked on the first purposeful journey of exploration to the extragalactic galaxy in the history of the Zerg.

As for Lyman, if the insect swarm that entered the passage hadn't accidentally discovered him by mistake, the insect swarm would have needed some time to explore it.

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Speaking of Lyman, we have to mention the research on Zhuna carried out by Gore and Sasse in recent years.

After many scientific research talents from the former Pan-Galaxy Federation joined, the process of restoring the space device became much smoother. However, after all, the results of the original research activities have not been replicated, and these people are not really top-notch. existence, so until the last moment, the breakthrough could not be completed.

In the original war, most of the important scientific researchers left with the evacuation of many civilizations.

Zero had no intention of hunting them down forcibly. First of all, the population captured by the Zerg was large enough. As long as time passed, there would always be talents emerging.

Secondly, although they escaped, as long as they were still within the entire river system, sooner or later they would be encountered by the expanding insect swarm.

Nowadays, the wormhole passages within the entire river system are rapidly being controlled by the Zerg. As long as they choose to settle in the star field near the wormhole, it is only a matter of time before they are discovered by the Zerg.

Although progress in the research of space technology was slow, Gore still captured the characteristics of Zhuna's appearance several times through extensive arrangements to wait and see.

In that short moment, Zhuna appeared in the real universe from some unknown state, flashing with soul-stirring power!
If there is any mechanical device on Zhuna's body that allows her to freely and quickly travel through the universe, even Gore would not believe it.Various research results show that all it possesses is huge, seemingly endless high-level energy.

These energies contain the "pheromone" that makes up its life, which is also the reason why it is called life.The Zerg had detected energy fluctuations escaping from its "corpse" many times, and finally confirmed one thing.

In Zhuna's body, energy seems to act as a "password" that affects the space of the universe. In other words, a certain form of energy becomes the key to opening the "channel" of the universe. If combined with the previous information about Zhuna, it may be " "Artificially created" speculation, then this "energy coding" has become the key to all research.

In order to obtain as much energy fluctuations from the unique state of "Zhuna" as possible and confirm what this "key" is, Sass is trying to improve the completion of the space device as much as possible, and at the same time, it is also widely deployed in various star fields to fish from the bottom of the sea. With the gesture of a needle, I tried my best to expand the range, hoping to catch Zhu Na's "passing" figure.

From different time periods and different spatial locations, the frequency of energy fluctuations from that moment is collected, and the differences and similarities between periods are observed.

Eventually, a startling discovery surfaced.

Before Zhuna appeared in the macroscopic universe, the high-energy fluctuations on her body were almost exactly the same!

In view of the previous conclusions, Sasse has reason to believe that this kind of fluctuation contains the secret of its circulation in the universe!
Unfortunately, today's space devices are immature and cannot even operate stably. Large-scale reproductions are just defective products.

It itself is just a semi-finished product. For the Zerg, it is a semi-finished product among semi-finished products. It is impossible to observe it for a long time.

There must be more to it than that, as both Sasse and Gore are sure of.

Because of this energy fluctuation frequency, the Zerg can also imitate it, and the related higher energy can be extracted from the energy crystal.

But nothing strange was discovered in any case.

Zero guessed that either this kind of fluctuation is only related to energy beings like Zhuna, which cannot be copied by physical beings, or that this kind of fluctuation is just an appearance, and there is something deeper inside that the Zerg has no way of knowing. Information!
Both are possible, and the possibility of the former may be higher, but Zero believes that if there is a truth in this universe, then it must be universal, even if this method can really only be applied to energy life. , then figuring out its principle must be an epoch-making progress for the Zerg!
After all, technology is just a way of application, and the scientific principles behind it are the real truth of the universe!
What's more, if you just say that a special energy fluctuation can open a space channel and allow objects to travel through it, Zero himself doesn't believe it very much.

Just as Sass thought, there must be an article in it!
As a result, Todd began to consciously conduct "reward" solicitations within the civilized groups it controlled. If no conclusion could be reached in recent decades, these intelligent races that had begun to show their extreme worship of science would Developing in this direction may be able to train a group of professional talents for the Zerg.

Since the consortium headed by the Colossians was able to develop such a "semi-finished product" by combining their own unique technologies, it shows that their own technology trees are complementary, and they are not far away from this technology. , only then can we get to this point in one fell swoop.

Zero also believes that in fact, this matter is very likely to be just one step away. Maybe the Colossians only need a figure like "Goldman" to conquer it.

Perhaps this final step may take decades to take, but Zero is not in a hurry. Since entering the interstellar era, time has been on the side of the Zerg.

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Zerg In 1826, when Sass and Gore were commanding the Zerg swarm to carry out extensive research on Zhuna in the Lyman galaxy, in the distant stars, as a soft light spread across, a group of extremely small Zerg space units appeared. In the galaxy, he was immediately noticed by Dagos, and the two parties quickly established contact.

Immediately, after simple observations, they collected energy crystals existing inside the galaxy on the spot, and began to establish small Zerg bases near macroscopic objects to collect materials.

Soon, as the passage was briefly opened, a bug slowly "propped" the entire wormhole open with a powerful energy supply.The next moment, Ruhl led Sk to appear inside the galaxy.

After some simple positioning observations, Ruhr quickly confirmed his location.

As expected, this is indeed another huge star field adjacent to the origin galaxy. Although it is said to be adjacent, the macroscopic distance between the two sides is actually more than 100 million light years!

What a long and far distance is this?It takes tens of millions of years for the light from the origin galaxy to reach here. If you can "see" Ori from here, it will be what it looked like 100 million years ago!
The vastness of the universe was fully revealed at this moment. Even at the normal speed of the Zerg today, it would take an extremely long time to cross such a distance.

But Ruhr didn't lament this too much. He had already lamented it when he was in the Lyman Galaxy.

The good news is that although there is a mineral vein channel here that is the basis for the formation of wormholes, no trace of Zhuna has been found, at least not yet.

Calculated based on the energy crystals remaining in the galaxy, this is not a new energy vein, so the possibility that Zhuna is on the way can be basically ruled out.

"Perhaps, it only exists within Lyman?" Zero thought, but did not draw a conclusion easily.

Nowadays, the swarm has only reached three galaxies. In terms of the entire super galaxy cluster and the entire universe, it is not even a drop in the ocean. Even this newly arrived galaxy has not been explored yet. It is too early to draw conclusions now. A little early.

In order to distinguish it from the origin galaxy and Lyman, Zero casually named it "Herman". Lyman means neighbor in the ancient language of the lizard people, and Herman also means neighbor in the Velvet language. mean.

The swarm of insects began to slowly take root here. Ruhr was very interested in exploration. War commander was just his side job. Wormhole exploration was his favorite career.

After the swarm reached a certain scale, it left Sk here and led a group of bugs into the wormhole again. In order to ensure its own safety, Sk wisely closed the wormhole inside the galaxy. The exit eliminates the possibility of danger from inside the wormhole from the source.

A brand new galaxy contains new hopes. If Ruhr is looking forward to encountering something, it must be an intelligent race.

In the galaxy of origin, even though the star field currently occupied by the insect swarm is not large compared to the entire galaxy, due to the rapid development, the number of intelligent civilizations encountered has exceeded double digits.

To a greater or lesser extent, they have provided some assistance to the development of the Zerg. To be honest, the Zerg can reach its current scale without the help of the lizard people, octopus people, Velvet Federation and the coalition that just surrendered decades ago.

If coupled with the role of intelligent race individuals in promoting the progress of brainworms, their value is truly immeasurable. In fact, this special "resource" is more precious than any element in the universe.

Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that the brainworms are extremely "eager" for intelligent races.

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As a "young" brain worm about [-] years old, and having studied with Sars for a long time, Sk showed a composure that was almost in line with Sars.

After closing the wormhole channel, it took the lead in establishing a large-scale Zerg base within this star system. After initially meeting its material needs, it began to move into the interior of the star system to establish a stable part of the biological version of the Dyson sphere. Then it only needed to let it go Just grow on its own.

This took a total of nine months. It was not fast, but it was not slow either. It emphasized a steady and steady approach.

Perhaps due to being too influenced by Sars, or perhaps having some hobbies of his own, Skok showed great interest in a rocky planet inside the galaxy.

Zero observed that it seemed intent on turning the planet into a habitable one.

Moreover, it is a habitable planet similar to the original Ori.

For today's Zerg, such an environment is of course unnecessary and completely wasteful.

But Zero still acquiesced to its behavior. As an intelligent individual, it has the right to decide its own "worm life" as long as it does not betray the Zerg race.Not only for Sk, but also for every brain worm including Sass, Zero has given the highest degree of freedom. Over the years, Dagos has gone to explore wormholes several times while "not doing his job", but Zero has never Interfered.

This may be Sk's nostalgia for the time when the Zerg were weak, and Zero also thought so.Regarding conventional resources and energy, the Zerg, which has countless star systems, is almost unlimited. Not to mention that Skok is just playing the game of transforming the planet. It just wants to build a ring world around the star, and it is not impossible. It's just the same as what it does now, it's not necessary.

Bringing life to a dead planet is difficult to say and easy to say. It mainly depends on what kind of race is used to operate it.For the original octopus people, this was almost impossible. For the previous Velvet people, it was somewhat difficult, but it was not impossible.

But for Sk, it’s just a matter of time.

This planet actually meets certain conditions, at least its mass is moderate, and it seems to have a magnetic field that is not very strong.

Some of the resources collected from the interior of the galaxy were "appropriated" by Sk for this unique project. With the support of a large supply of resources and endless energy, the atmosphere began to appear and was adjusted relatively accurately by it. , after ensuring that the temperature could be preserved, it carried out "water injection" activities on it. Therefore, in the short 14 years of Ruhr's absence, with the full cooperation of a large number of Zerg, the prototype of a "living planet" Appeared above the orbit of the star.

It seems to have the appearance of a living planet, except that it has no real life.

Then, Zero was surprised to find that Sk brought out a large number of familiar plant seeds from inside the body of his "car"!

It was obvious that this incident had been planned in advance.

Lingpo was dumbfounded. It seemed that Sass had given it a lot of information about Oribo. It had even brought the biological seeds of Oribo to it. What was the next step?Hatching animal fertilized eggs?

Sk is obviously very serious. It is like building its own home, making little efforts to turn the entire planet into what it wants.

In fact, it does think so. For the past 200 years, it has been yearning for the life on Orui described by Sass, so it did not hesitate to use its authority to call a large number of plant seeds from Orui. He also carefully studied the composition of the biosphere and the relationship between various species, and finally came to feasible conclusions.

Not to mention, this time it actually carried the genetic sequences of various species, but it was just intended to be hatched in the manner of the Zerg.

After understanding its intention, Zero was silent for a while.

The concept of "home" did not exist for Him more than 800 years ago. Over the years, ten brainworms have appeared in the Zerg race, and none of them has shown any interest in this kind of "residence". They all seem to be "easy-going", but what Sk is doing now is undoubtedly creating his own nest.

Maybe this was influenced by intelligent civilization, but no matter what, at this moment, Zero felt that he was also a little lost.

When a huge consciousness covers countless planets, where is its "destination"?

This is really an emotion that has not appeared for many, many years. It has been so long that he has almost forgotten what it feels like.

"It seems that the brainworms also have many spiritual pursuits!" He thought and couldn't help but laugh.But I feel that these brainworms who have always been tightly united around Him and work hard without complaint are a little more real.

　Tomorrow is the National Day. Is everyone going home?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)