Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 300 Communication
Including Gore's words, this is already the third brainworm "killed" in the history of the Zerg. The other party got nothing, but Zero's heart became increasingly uneasy.

The millennium-long silence has made many emotions no longer so easy to emerge. The insect swarm's overwhelming "attack on the city" has also made the original joy of harvest become natural and logical.

Not just Zero, including a small number of brain worms, as time goes by, they are all more or less losing something they once had but didn't care about at all. Their long lifespan has made those who were once simple Happiness and pure emotion gradually turned into an alternative kind of mechanical inertial numbness.

Sk and other relatively "young" brainworms still have some hobbies, but Zero hasn't felt the emotion of "anger" for a long time.

After all, for a life with emotions, two thousand and five hundred years is too long!
Many things have become insignificant under the erosion of time. The Zero who once blamed himself for the mass deaths of ant colonies due to his own mistakes has long since quietly disappeared into time. Instead, he is calmly watching the flow of the stars in the universe. The changing Zerg Overlord.

However, the successive "deaths" of the brainworms finally made him feel real anger.If Sk and even Gore can be considered latecomers, then Dagos can be considered the true "veteran" of the Zerg.

As the second brain worm of the Zerg race, Zero still remembers that he personally gave it such a name by referring to the ancient memories in his mind. In retrospect, Zero and Sass were still famous because of its birth. I was excited for a long time.

But now, it has once again become a "seed" inside the incubation pool. Over the years, regarding the dialectics of the continuation of life, Zero has been unable to come up with definite evidence. Whether individuals with the same memory are the same animal? Brainworm, this is a question that is difficult to really explain clearly.

Maybe Dagoth and Sk and Gore were truly dead and replaced by three "successors" with the same memories, Zero couldn't be sure.

Take the original Gore as an example. After its "rebirth", it still seems to have similar behavior patterns, similar personalities and habits as before. But is it Gore himself or another extremely similar brainworm? It's hard to explain.

It can only be said that He hopes that these latecomers will still be the original brainworms.

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The ability to travel directly over long distances was basically lost on the front line, and the swarm was forced to start using its own means of navigation between stars to move forward.

It has to be said that although the insect swarm does not have the technology to light up space jumps like the Hero Federation, the research on space has played a huge role in promoting the insect swarm's ability to travel at faster than light speeds.

Over the years, the swarm has mainly relied on wormholes to rapidly expand to the surrounding areas, but in star fields that cannot be directly connected to wormholes, conventional super-light navigation is still the most mainstream method of the worms.

Of course, even so, the endless dark journey between galaxies is still not easy to cross. After the front line is blocked, the expansion speed of the insect swarm in this direction can almost be said to have quickly changed from a pulley at the speed of light to a snail crawl. degree.

At this moment, the Alliance is already discussing whether to conduct the same containment of the insect swarm in other directions.

Today, the Alliance's detectors are exploring various star fields within the Zerg territory, trying to search for important facilities and units of the Zerg swarm, even if this operation is actually like finding a needle in a haystack, even if it is a frontline industrial base jointly developed by the three major civilizations There is no good solution for this.

In the past colonization process, the three major civilizations basically had no competitors, and the internal needs of the civilizations did not require their radical expansion. They often pursued it slowly, wanting to swallow such a huge star field in one go. None of them has ever accomplished such a feat, let alone the other party who is expanding his territory every moment!
Even at this stage, it is close to one-twentieth of the sphere of influence directly under the three major civilizations in the explored universe!
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It was at this point in time, when the Alliance was trying to explore the possibility of interfering with the Zerg expansion at a deeper level, Mira appeared in a newly established industrial base in the star system by the Alliance, and unexpectedly completed a beautiful attack. .

The loss caused by the attack itself is nothing to the Alliance. After developing at full strength for hundreds of years, the Alliance's industrial base has completely grown into a behemoth. The losses within a star system cannot move these elites at all.

But the key is not here. The raid of the Mira Mechanical Fleet not only made this laxly defended industrial galaxy completely lose the value of subsequent use, but more importantly, before the Alliance support fleet arrived, those warships that had not yet been completed, including Industrial mother beds, space docks, etc., some of the complete or incomplete facilities fell directly into Mira's hands!

It came too suddenly, and obviously used all its strength. Even after the war was irreversible and the alliance had begun self-destruction, it still could not avoid a large amount of industrial equipment being taken into the arms of the other party.

Of course, due to the alliance's subsequent fleet support, the other party did not have much time to conduct physical research, but that was a real intelligent life!In those short few days, no one among the alliance elites, including the Hero League members, could be sure how much information it had obtained.

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Faced with the current situation of the Zerg, Zero is determined to take some measures. No matter how bad it is, the safety of the Cerebrates should be ensured. However, without uncertainty about the degree to which the Zerg swarm is being monitored by the other party, the sudden movement of the Cerebrates may very well endanger them. Expose yourself.Judging from what happened to Dagos, this is not impossible.

Doing nothing is too passive.Even if the many brainworms that have been moved outside the galaxy, away from stars and massive celestial bodies, and the intelligent races that are the "cornerstone" of the Zerg scientific research team, can be temporarily preserved, as the other party deepens their monitoring of the entire Zerg, it will inevitably be impossible. Always hide yourself perfectly.

The activities of the brain worms require matter and energy, and the individuals of the intelligent race, which can easily reach tens of billions, need matter and energy. The Zerg cannot create matter out of thin air, so these must be inseparable from the support of the macrocosm. As long as the intelligence advantage is large enough, Even if it only takes a little bit of luck, if you follow the clues, the insect swarm will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

However, the limitations of technological development have made it impossible for the insect swarm to reverse the situation. The insect swarm has conducted as in-depth research as possible on the external manifestations of the opponent's space jump. However, for so long, in addition to being able to do so at a certain level, It has no use except predicting the other party's arrival.

Zero also knows very well that it is undoubtedly impossible to use this method to reverse the high-end technology for which the Federation is renowned.

"What to do?" He thought.

It has been a long time since Zero thought about the problem passively. There is no target for counterattack. Faced with the opponent's elusive whereabouts, defense is completely impossible. Even the past encirclement and suppression of the opponent with absolutely superior force will not help, whether in terms of mobility or At all levels of offense and defense, the enemy must be far superior to our own.To put it simply, what the swarm is facing now is an embarrassing situation where it cannot be beaten or chased, and once it is targeted by the opponent, it is difficult to even escape.

In such a situation, how to break the situation?
Zero has a standard answer in his mind, but cannot achieve it, that is to find the opponent's homeland and let the insect swarm breed there!

That is the way that can truly pose a real threat to the other party and is also the most effective way to solve the current situation. However, in the face of the other party's strict blockade, it is difficult to put this plan into practice now.

In the past expansions, the Zerg often directly hit the enemy's area of ​​influence, and then without doing anything extra, the Zerg swarm would be like maggots with attached toes and could never be rid of it, regardless of the opponent's civilization and technology level. Advanced or lagging behind, the wider the defense line, the less likely it is to fight back against the all-pervasive insect swarm offensive, and it will soon fall.

However, now it is the other way around. It was the opponent who first discovered the Zerg and established a complete and effective defense line far away from the main body of civilization, turning the naturally existing distance in the universe into a "depth" to defend against the Zerg invasion.

So no matter how many of the opponent's ships the insect swarm destroys here, as long as there is no epoch-making breakthrough in technology, they will never be able to threaten the opponent's home star field.

What's more, the ones who are really on the defensive now are the Zerg!
Zero is already trying his best to push the swarm of insects on the front line forward. The huge swarms of insects coming from behind are constantly passing through star systems and crossing the endless dark deep space, just like when he was exploring on Ori. Like the New World, they are silent as if they are dead, but they are always moving forward.

The swarms of bugs that started their super-light engines one after another saw only endless darkness in front of them. That was a distance of hundreds of millions of light-years across the galaxy. Even with the bugs' increasingly enhanced navigation capabilities, they could span such a long distance. The distance should also be measured in hundreds of years.

How many centuries will it take to truly reach the other subject in this way?
How long can the camp of brainworms and intelligent races hidden in the darkness be sustained?

100 years?Or 200 years?

Zero didn't want to suffer unnecessary losses, so he needed a way, at least a direction.

And this direction soon came to Zero's doorstep in a way that Zero had never expected.

In Zerg 2588, through the capture of the Zerg Hive Mind, Zero received a message from Mira.

The last time he encountered this situation was when he was helping Mira out of trouble. Now that the other party was missing, Zero thought that maybe it had escaped.

But it seems that this is not the case now. It can also send messages to the Zerg through space broadcast, which means that the other party is still paying attention to the current situation of the Zerg, so it is not far away.

As for the content of the message, it is quite clear. It is a long coordinate, which represents the actual position of a galaxy in various senses, thus pointing out a certain direction for the insect swarm in the dark deep space!

Mira is not a Riddler. She clearly informed the Zerg that the enemy is right there!Even if there is an invisible line of defense in front of us, it doesn't matter. The opponent's real base camp is within the galaxy marked by the coordinates!

To be honest, Zero was surprised. The relationship between the Zerg and Mira was not close at all. In the long period of time before, every "meeting" between the two parties was expelled and expelled, and the number of direct wars broke out, large and small. No less than dozens of times, Mira gave up and left every time.

After being dragged into the water by Mira in a certain sense last time, the two sides had a short period of one-sided communication. At least it was no longer the same as before, which could be considered to have eased.

For an existence like Mira, Zero feels that its style of painting should be cold and iron-blooded. Even if it is not, it should be an existence that follows a certain procedural sense of "obsession".

But the reality is that it doesn't seem to be much different from normal intelligent species. It still does such unnecessary things, and even seems a little "simple".

Because this seems to be a "reward", at least from the other party's information, Ling vaguely felt this.It seems reasonable to think about it. After all, the reason why the insect swarm is facing the current situation is indeed due to Mira's "pull".

In order to deal with the invasion of the Federation, Mira forcibly maintained a high-intensity battle with the Zerg, allowing the Federation warships to directly discover the existence of the Zerg, which led to today's results.

Otherwise, maybe one day in the future, the insect swarm will be the first to encounter the opponent, and then the offensive and defensive momentum will definitely not be what it is now.

In any case, things have happened, and Mira's information has indeed been of great help to Zero. It at least allows the insect swarm to still have the enemy's position to advance when they hit the opponent's hard-to-create defense line. , so as not to be completely blind.

And what is Mira doing now?

After completing an extremely successful raid, in addition to releasing detectors to find more traces of enemies, it also applied nearly 70.00% of its computing power to the research of this harvest!

Even if the time is short and most of what is obtained are ruins, this line of work is still a huge gain. Those precise structures and disparate configurations all mean the future direction for Mira!
After deciding to develop war technology, Mira quickly completed the transformation. It has experienced iterative evolution again and again. In all aspects, it is different from when it first met the Zerg. Now facing the Alliance, it is Hidden in the dark and on the offensive side, but even so, it is always trying to improve the combat capabilities of the mechanical fleet!
As for that piece of information, it is the key area that Mira has confirmed through its own observation and exploration during this period combined with the establishment of the opponent's entire strategic model. It is also the "fortress" that it must break!
Even without the collected signals and data, Mira knew that countless Zerg units must have begun to move in this direction at this moment, and facing such an enemy in front of them, it also faced huge risks.

Although it was unclear what the Hero Federation had planned for her, Mira felt that the other party would not give up so easily.

Therefore, it chose to take the initiative!
(End of this chapter)