Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 284 Use
In the past 100 years of the Zerg's concentrated expansion, nothing special has happened. It is nothing more than that some intelligent races that stand in the way of the Zerg's expansion have been exterminated or expelled, or they have simply become "breeding" Zerg intelligent species. A member of the base.

Over the years, Todd has successively established four Zerg biological structures in different galaxies to "cultivate" intelligent and civilized creatures.

Although their previous overall bodies or ideologies were different, the Zerg now have quite mature experience in ruling. For Todd, unlike other cerebrates who form their own hive fleets, it is very important to expand these swarms. The intelligent races captured on the way turned into the shape of Zerg, which can be said to be very convenient.

Whether they are materialistic or idealistic, technological or authoritarian, as long as they enter the ecosystem tailor-made for them by the Zerg, there will no longer be any room for resistance.

Under the combination of oppression and inducement, few ethnic groups can still resist in this state.The direct result of this is that today's Zerg scientific research team has long become a racially diverse elite team.

Over the years, the elites born from these different civilizations have brought many technological advancements to the Zerg. The most significant ones are the improvement of space weapons and the strengthening of anti-matter shields.

Of course, there are also the revolutionary advances in hyperdrive that result from this.

In those years, facing the invasion of a small fleet of the Planders, the Zerg were almost helpless. The attacks could not touch the opponent's warships, and the defenses could not resist the opponent's anti-matter attacks. It could be said that they were at a disadvantage.

But until now, nearly 300 years have passed, and the insect swarm has completely caught up in terms of both attack and defense. Now if they encounter a predator civilization with a similar level of technology, the insect swarm can let them know what they need. Call a real predator!
The exploration in this galaxy cluster is going very smoothly. The resistance that the Zerg have encountered over the years has not made it necessary for the Cerebrates to go all out. Sometimes they don’t even need to lead the fleet they formed. The insect swarm under the control of the Hive Mind has ended the battle.

Over the years, the Zerg have encountered Mira three times, but neither Zero nor Mira have been too dedicated to fighting. Often when the two sides find each other, Mira will take the initiative to withdraw, unwilling to provoke the Zerg. look.

Faced with such a situation, Zero would naturally not do something thankless. The Mira fleet took the initiative to retreat, and the insect swarm never pursued relentlessly. There was an unexpected tacit understanding between the two parties.

However, as Mira retreats further and further each time, Zero estimates that she has enough awareness of the Zerg's expansion momentum. After "passing by" the Zerg swarm last time, Zero estimates that I once thought that we would never see this highly recognizable mechanical battleship again in the short term.

However, it was unexpected that only a few decades later, these special mechanical creations would appear on the path of Zerg expansion again.

So it is no surprise that Mira is nearby. When the Zerg discovered it, it must also have discovered the existence of the Zerg. There is no doubt about this.

But something strange is that this time, the mechanical fleet on the opposite side did not evacuate, but it also had no intention of increasing its troops. It just stayed there, arranging a posture in the galaxy like a mantis' arms acting as a chariot.

Zero looked confused, which was abnormal. If Mira only relied on this quantity, she might not even be able to resist the self-attack of the Hive Mind.

But Zero doesn't care. Although there has been no war between the Zerg and Mira for a long time, the two sides have never shaken hands and made peace. They have always had a hostile relationship.

Since the relationship is hostile, Zero will not be polite to it, and the insect swarm will not stop advancing because of Mira's abnormality.

What he didn't know was that Mira felt a little nervous for the first time in a long time!
Originally, according to its plan, it should have left before actually encountering the Zerg.

However, just 264 Oridays ago, it received an encrypted message, and its source was the mechanical fleet that had lost contact before!
No matter what the content of this piece of information is, it at least means that the other party seems to be able to find itself, at least to find its current main base!
For ordinary civilizations, this is simply a terrifying thing. This piece of information spans an unknown number of light-years. From the other end of the wormhole, it even offsets the rapid expansion of the universe itself and was directly transmitted to it. in the information database!
Although this must be because the other party captured their own fleet, they confirmed Mira's existence from those battleships, and mastered Mira's communication channel through extremely limited information. They used Mira's own communication method to communicate to it. Sent a message.

But even so, such a method is unimaginable!Because as early as the first time after the accident, Mira had completely cut off her contact with those small battleships!
Just 44 Oridays ago, Mira completed the decryption of that piece of information, but the content it contained made even this intelligent life that was originally only a cold machine feel a little horrified!

"Got you!"

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This was naturally the work of the Hero Federation. After they took over, the entire matter was almost controlled by senior talents in relevant fields recruited by the Federation. Although the Veggie Empire had an agreement with them before, there were more It was an agreement about the "curse". At this time, they were so busy that they wanted to search the entire galaxy, and they completely ignored some of the federation's small actions.

The method used by the Federation is actually very simple. As early as 2000 years ago, they had mastered quantum tracking technology based on space fluctuations. Even if the opponent has entered super-light navigation, they can still use this technology Find their direction and even their destination!
Space technology has always been the loudest brand of the Hero Federation. In this aspect, even the Vege and Korva empires cannot compare with it.

Today, this technology has become mature. Of course, it cannot be directly used in this matter, but it plays an indispensable role!
The Federation used a tricky plan, or in other words, a conspiracy that only targeted intelligent life!

Reversely sending a piece of information through an encrypted frequency band is not difficult for today's federation. The key technology involved is information traceability based on federal space tracking technology.

But based on this alone, Mira's location cannot be determined.

Therefore, the real purpose of this matter is not to send this information itself, but to "encrypt" the process!
Since there is encryption, there must be a process of "decryption", and the essence of the other party's intelligent life has been determined, and the Federation happens to be the civilization that knows the most about this kind of existence. It only needs to focus on the basic logic of intelligent life. In this paragraph By doing some tricks on the "encrypted" information, you can truly confirm the other party's location!
There is no doubt that this is a trap. Even if Mira is careful enough, it basically does the decryption in the way of a strong man cutting off his wrist, while absolutely ensuring his own safety, but doing this itself has already made it difficult for him to decrypt it. In crisis!

The moment it unlocked that piece of information, its consciousness had been "marked" by the Federation!In other words, the means it used to get rid of the Zerg had lost their effect.Mira could feel that there was a trace of difference in her information database, but no matter how she searched herself, she could not find that trace of "disharmony"!
This incident actually made it feel a little uneasy even as an intelligent life lacking in emotions!
It was unclear about what Apocalypse had experienced back then. What kind of backup the Federation had left in Apocalypse's "body"? Mira, who had not yet been born with intelligence at the time, had no way of knowing, but it was definitely extremely hidden and could allow Apocalypse to survive A means to control the development of civilization that has not been noticed for thousands of years!
In these few dozen days, on the one hand, she continued to search for herself. On the other hand, Mira at this moment could not help but think of the Hero Federation back then!
The loss of the database caused it to lose a lot of information about the original federation. The technological defects related to it can be re-researched and restored over a long period of time, but this kind of storage that only records information is destroyed if it is destroyed, and it cannot be restored at all. Replenish.

It can only confirm this through association, rather than the most efficient information search. What method did the other party use for Tianqi's "death" back then?

Escape is most likely useless. Although she doesn't know what changes have happened to herself, Mira is very sure that the other party has sent such a message, which means that they have the confidence to be able to find themselves!
Mira is not afraid of death. It is nothing more than the complete collapse of its own database, the complete collapse of its computing power, etc. It will not feel pain in the biological sense.

But as a life instinct, no being wants to die when it can live.What's more, the other party may not have the power to kill him!

But it is precisely because of this that when faced with the insect swarm that once again "comes to its door", it does not intend to retreat anymore.

The swarm's unceremonious attack was also expected, and its hostility to the swarm was already doomed.

Mira doesn't have any intention of "making peace". Although theoretically speaking, if the other party has the intelligence to communicate, there is the possibility of peaceful coexistence, but it is very clear that the other party will not allow it to be like this, unable to control and Life that is difficult to truly defeat exists within their sphere of influence.

Of course, it is completely powerless against the Zerg.

However, if she cannot defeat and just wants to continue the stalemate with the opponent, Mira still has enough confidence in herself. The models of the war between the two sides can also confirm this. If both sides are serious enough, at least within the year 2000 , before the technology of both sides undergoes breakthrough changes, it will be difficult to determine the winner even on a local battlefield.

The Zerg can assemble countless combat units through wormholes, so it is not a bad idea. Over the years, Mira, who has had her own hidden bases in multiple galaxies, can also organize combat units here that are not inferior to the Zerg Swarm!

I didn't do this before because it was unnecessary. It was a waste of my computing power and my time, and it made no sense.

But now, the unknown enemy has given it the meaning of fighting against the insect swarm. With the war between the two sides, it will truly be among the insect swarm, and try to alleviate its own problems in this way of "directing trouble to the east". future pressures.

Although this may not be effective, it lacks information and is unable to do anything. If it must find a powerful enough "helper", nothing is more suitable than the Zerg. After all, the other party may have some kind of power. The means to restrain oneself may not be able to deal with the endless swarm of insects. Drinking the insect swarms by yourself are two completely different lives!

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It is foreseeable that with such a crazy expansion momentum of the Zerg, at least this galaxy will become a complete ocean of Zerg in the next few hundred years!
If a potential enemy appears here, as long as the opponent does not possess some kind of power that can destroy itself instantly, then the insect swarm here will be its potential helper!
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Zero obviously didn't know Mira's plan. Faced with the mechanical fleet blocking the way, he did not interfere with the normal expansion of the Zerg. The Zerg swarm easily crossed Mira's nearly undefended "borderline" and attacked from all directions and angles. The form of attack is advancing towards the deeper star field.

In these years, due to the advancement of space technology, the Zerg's super-light navigation technology has also been greatly improved. In addition, the problem of advanced energy has been completely solved, even an extremely large swarm will not lack energy supplies. , as long as they can occupy stars and supplement them with conventional energy, they can "extract" a large amount of antimatter, thereby obtaining sufficient energy!
It is also because of this that the Zerg can continue to maintain such a crazy expansion momentum without any constraints.

Wormhole connection is one thing, but after all, there are only a few star systems with wormhole exits. Most of the time, the worm swarms that flood into the galaxy need to spread to the surroundings through regular navigation.

Along the way, crossing one galaxy after another, the swarm cannot be said to be without any pause, it can only be said to be unimpeded.

Neither the advanced intelligent races nor the surface natives were able to stand in the way of their progress despite the swarm of insects. Even Zhuna in some galaxies were being massacred by the insects. These people were obsessed with repairing The creatures in the wormhole space are retreating steadily on the path of the insect swarm.

But in this universe, there are still entities that can block the progress of the Zerg, and Mira is the most troublesome one among them. Zero knows this very well.

After being able to continue to advance forward with almost no resistance, the obstacles faced by the insect swarm increased exponentially, and Mira was even taking the initiative to attack!

In such a battle, the advancing swarm of insects was like a surging torrent hitting the hardest dam, and the speed of its advance suddenly slowed down!

After a period of time, the insect swarm controlled by the Hive Mind will even tend to be invincible!

Zero didn't know why Mira would insist on launching such a large-scale war with the swarm here this time, but since it didn't leave as usual, it was impossible for him to allow someone like Mira to stay behind the swarm. If this "nail" in the territory is not removed, Zero will feel very uncomfortable!

From his perspective, since you have chosen to retreat, you should just keep retreating. Choosing to do such a thing will not do any good to either of them.

From the last 200 years of contact, both sides know that they can't do anything to each other, but Zero doesn't care about this meaningless war. After all, time is always on the side of the Zerg. As long as Mira doesn't waste time, Zero can Spend it forever!
Among the vast front lines of the Zerg, this is just one of them. The expansion of the entire Zerg swarm will not stop just because it encounters resolute resistance here!
(End of this chapter)