Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 280 An unexpected meeting
Due to the "legacy" of the Hero Federation, Mira's difficulty in mastering space technology is much lower than that of ordinary civilizations. After all, even if some important information is lost, there is still a certain foundation, which is easier than starting from scratch like the Zerg. many.

At this moment, the Pronde people finally faced this terror.

Within its scope of influence, all super-light processes were interrupted, and a large number of fleets that were originally preparing to evacuate "fell" out of the super-light channel. As a result, countless malfunctions occurred!

As for the fleets facing each other on the bright side, the impact is even more serious. After all, Mira's main attack target is them!
Before the battle officially started, the Pronde people indiscriminately lost more than [-]% of their combat power in just a few hours. And they didn't even have time to launch an attack, so they were scrapped in the cold. in the universe.

It was just this attack that made the Plande people realize the reality clearly. They obviously didn't know that Mira's large-scale space attacks could not be carried out continuously at this stage, but at this moment, as a predator civilization, they relied on the strong to bully the weak. His nature makes the entire high-level civilization think of only one thing - escape!
In emergencies, making decisions will undoubtedly test the ability of the higher-ups of civilization. Fortunately, throughout history, the Plande people have always had sufficient plans in this regard. At such times, they can often find comparisons from history as quickly as possible. Clear precedent.

There are not many warships in Pomera. After all, they have just completed their migration and have not accumulated enough wealth yet. But for the Plande people, what they are facing now is terrifying enough.

Mira's goal at this stage is not to eliminate them, but to entangle the other party, interfere with the other party's evacuation plan, and at the same time obtain as much of the other party's database as possible to obtain complete civilization information.

As for the follow-up, in the face of increasingly perfect modeling, Mira has roughly determined more than a dozen possible ways to deal with the opponent in the future, and has made preparations at the same time.

If Sk knew that the current Purand people were in such a situation when facing Mira, they would definitely be happy for a while.

After all, compared to today's Zerg, the Plande people are actually not that powerful. They are just elusive and have no fixed place. They do not have the biggest weakness of intelligent civilization when facing the Zerg, so they cannot be found.

But this time, they took the initiative to provoke Mira, and this intelligent life immediately determined the subject's location, so they were destined to suffer this disaster.

After someone came to the door, the advantage of the Purund people was gone.

At this moment, the Plande people, who wanted to escape, left part of the fleet they had formed over the years to block the pursuit of the mechanical fleet, in order to cover the escape of the real civilized subjects.

However, as soon as Mira's fleet detected their strategic change, it had already started further interception according to the existing strategy.

In the attack and defense between the two sides, the Pronde people were almost completely at a disadvantage. Because behind them were a large number of fleets carrying most of the civilization that fell out of the super-light state, they had no room to retreat.

Coupled with Mira's real-time adjustments to the battlefield model, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky to escape.

And with the rapid recovery of Mira's combat power, it won't take long for more mechanical fleets to arrive to join the war, and by then the Plande people will completely lose hope.

As the saying goes, if you often walk along the river, your shoes will not get wet. The Purande people, who live by migrating and plundering civilization all day long, have finally kicked a real iron plate.

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Since the end of the war with Mira, with the help of research from the remains of the mechanical fleet, the progress of the insect swarm in space technology has been very obvious.

The semi-finished product originally from the Colossians has become unrecognizable in the hands of the Zerg scientific research team, but it is getting closer and closer to being truly controlled.

The Zerg, which has re-entered the fast lane of development, is absolutely unquestionable in terms of productivity.

Under Ruhl's organization, the first batch of new era Zerg explorers have begun to partially drill out of the wormholes. Although at this stage, most of what they have discovered are actually star fields that have been explored by the Zerg. The exploration efficiency is still far higher than when Ruhl was alone.

With their help, the insect swarm expanded crazily in the galaxy it occupied with the force of blazing fire, and its efficiency increased by countless times!
It is foreseeable that with the large-scale investment of the insect swarm, exploration through natural wormholes will become the absolute mainstream of the insect race, and the expansion speed of the insect race will also reach an unprecedented level!
In addition, the research on Zhuna has also made further progress. Zhuna's energy "jump" can directly enter a more advanced super-light voyage, and its sailing speed is far faster than that of the Zerg.

But this actually makes use of the characteristics of space itself, and is just the most suitable way for energy life to travel.

Although the Zerg cannot copy it, it has a deeper understanding of the properties of space. Zero believes that this may be the starting point for the Zerg to realize artificial space channels.

What is even more eye-catching is the Zerg's achievements in antimatter research.

During the war between Visser and Mira, the Zerg made a large number of improvements to the anti-matter cannon according to needs.

After the war, the new materials obtained from Mira greatly inspired the Zerg scientific research team and provided feasible ideas for controllable reactions of antimatter.

Today, it has become a reality to constrain this unique substance within a certain range and allow it to react according to the wishes of the Zerg to a certain extent.

And this means that it is expected to be used on shields.

Of course, a technological breakthrough, especially in this era, represents more than just progress in one field.

The controllability of antimatter brings almost unlimited controlled high-level energy to the Zerg. Of course, this does not mean that conventional energy sources from stars and nuclear reactions are useless. On the contrary, they will be in greater demand.

After all, making antimatter consumes a huge amount of this type of energy itself.

If it is a general intelligent race, then it will also represent a profound change in the entire social system. The development of high-tech will bring about earth-shaking changes in the world.

But for the Zerg, this is just a technology to enhance their body and obtain higher energy, nothing more.

In 2027, the first-generation space weapon unique to the Zerg finally came out. During the test, once it was "detonated", it could directly affect the surrounding space within a distance of 0.1 light minutes, and everything would enter conventional super-light speed in a short period of time. All sailing materials will be forced to "exit". If they do not have corresponding defense capabilities, they may even directly suffer a devastating blow.

At this point, the Zerg can be considered to have attack technology that can stand on the same level as Mira, and they no longer know anything about it.

Of course, at the same time, Zero also understood why Mira was unable to cause continuous large-scale explosions when using this weapon.It was not the factor that came from Mira itself as previously expected, but rather it was due to the universe itself.

In the experiment, the Zerg scientific research team reached a definite conclusion after multiple verifications.

In the short term, exerting destructive pressure on three-dimensional space for a long time is a very risky thing. The more frequently the space is "broken", the more unstable it will become.

And this kind of instability is unpredictable. If you are not careful, there will be an accident that hurts yourself before hurting the enemy.In the face of this kind of impact at the spatial level, the range of influence of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of kilometers is just trivial. Once an accident occurs, the damage caused to one's own side may even far exceed the enemy's attack.

This means that even though space has a strong self-healing ability, it still has a limit in a short period of time. Once exceeded, there is a risk of collapse.

During the experiment, the Zerg created no less than hundreds of real "holes", where the real "nothingness" is, and even gravity will disappear.

Of course, this was only observed later. At the scene of the accident, all nearby Zerg individuals died.

However, if this kind of thing happens during a battle, it can also be used as a small-scale close combat method, but the controllability is relatively small and the risk is still high.

As for energy consumption, although it is also truly massive, compared to the effects it can achieve, it is absolutely cost-effective.

After all, for Zero, energy is just a concept, and the insect swarm has no energy restrictions for a long time.Only in those ancient memories, energy limits the development of the Zerg.

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For the predator civilization that flashed past the eyes of the Zerg like a meteor many years ago and has not stayed in front of the Zerg for four months in total, Zero would not even think of them if he did not mention it deliberately.

But he never expected that he would observe the other party's existence in such a unique way.

Zerg In 2029, just two years after the successful space experiment, Sass, who had not paid much attention to it, suddenly discovered that the bug hatched by the enemy had a broader field of vision!
At the same time, as a large number of Zerg units began to hatch on their own, it observed a completely unfamiliar star field.

What is surprising is that a one-sided war is going on here!

Also appearing at the same time were a group of familiar mechanical battleships.

Almost immediately, Sass recognized Mira.

After all, the war had just ended, and Mira's style was so obvious that the Zerg were too familiar with it!
I didn't expect that Mira could still appear in the Zerg's sight in this way at this point in time even though she had already left.

For Mira, it was difficult for the changes under the starry sky to escape its control, but at this moment, even it had a subtle emotion.

Before that, it had indeed obtained some key information from the Plande people, but for the Plande people, as the research on the Zerg became more and more in-depth, the information about the Zerg had already become a secret among secrets. During that time of information acquisition, Mira did not get any trace of the existence of the Zerg.

Because of this, when it noticed that the Zerg units began to devour the surrounding matter in the universe and tried to hatch quickly, it was able to know what would happen next even if it did not establish a relevant model.

Mira is still very knowledgeable about the Zerg's vision sharing. Although it still doesn't know the specific principle, it knows that at this moment, there must be a high-level existence of the Zerg, especially the unknown creature who calls himself Visser is observing. Looking at this, he must have figured out his identity.

That is equivalent to saying that after the last war, his evacuation plan was in vain.Because the Zerg must have determined the location here and will arrive here quickly later.

Even if no treatment is done, the Zerg units here can also quickly establish a Zerg base here, thereby bringing the entire star system into the Zerg's sphere of influence.

It has already fought against the swarm of insects, and it doesn't have much interest in this kind of meaningless, emotional war.It was obviously a counterattack against an intelligent race, and it had reached the final stage. At this time, the Zerg was discovered, which made Mira have more special emotions. Although it was an intelligent life, it Also know what it is.

depressed.

In fact, Zero himself has no intention of causing trouble with Mira. He also knows very well that there is a high probability that there is no way to do anything to the opponent, and it is difficult to get too many benefits from Mira. Instead, the Zerg needs to go all out, at least Only partial full effort can match it.

From a purely profit perspective, this is not cost-effective and makes no sense.

Therefore, he just observed the entire battle situation and did not take the initiative to let the Zerg go.

During the positioning, Zero can clearly know that it is more than five thousand light years away from the star field where Sk is currently located. It must be reached through a wormhole connection in a short time, but its exit is currently It has not been determined yet, and even if Ruhr goes to look for it himself, he can only rely on luck within a certain range.

Seeing Mira's mechanical fleet in front of him destroying the opponent's remaining battleships and directly coming into contact with the opponent's civilized individuals, Zero felt like he was watching a silent version of a science fiction movie. And it’s an experience with multiple angles and wide viewing angles.

Just treat it as a pastime.

As for Visser, after the end of the last war, it is no longer obsessed with this. At least it can be regarded as defeating Mira's insect. Some of the spirit of its "young" days, in the language of the Hero Federation, After transmitting that message to Mira in the form of ancient electromagnetic waves, it had dissipated.

Today's Zerg is heading towards another period of great expansion. In the future, we don't know how many existences we will encounter that are difficult to eradicate, and we don't know how many miserable but lucky civilizations we will encounter.

At least it is Zero's true desire to step out of the local galaxy cluster, cross the endless barren cosmic belt, and go to more distant star fields.

(End of this chapter)