Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 303 Breakthrough
The current situation between the two sides is very strange. The swarm of insects confirmed the coordinates specified by Mira, but did not go directly to it.

The reason is simple. Although the Zerg have arrived here, they have insufficient foundation. In addition, the last Mira attack caused the Alliance to strengthen all industrial sectors. The Zerg cannot cause effective damage to the opponent at all.

Although he arrived here and found the opponent's frontline stronghold with Mira's participation, Zero was sure that it was still far away from the opponent's homeland.

With the opponent's development method, it is obvious that this is just a fortress used to prevent the insect swarm from advancing. The opponent's real base camp is still in the rear.

Zero discovered Mira, who was developing rapidly, and gradually figured out the true status of the alliance's blockade of the Zerg. It must be said that this was indeed a clever method, taking advantage of its own advantages and the shortcomings of the Zerg. All over.

He even felt that if the technological development of the Zerg could not be achieved for a long time, maybe one day the alliance would be able to complete the encirclement of the Zerg swarm in a macro sense.

Of course, this is impossible, but this cannot deny the power of the alliance, because they have almost set the precedent for a cosmic race to resist the invasion of Zerg. In this way, they can be called the "Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains" in the cosmic era.

Take what you see in front of you as an example. This industrial system that runs through the entire galaxy is squeezing the resources on each planet at a terrifying speed and turning them into its own combat power bit by bit.

In essence, this is no different from the Zerg squeezing the planet's breeding units, except that they are incomparable in terms of quality and efficiency.

The swarm of insects continued to penetrate deeper and did not stop for a moment, but Zero chose to wait and watch.

This star field is very "crowded" because Mira is here, the Alliance is here, and now even the Zerg is here.

Of course, this "crowding" is relative to the entire star field. Before the arrival of the Zerg, the space between Mira and the Alliance was considered "spacious".

The hostility between the two sides is self-evident. Over the years, the Alliance has launched several operations to clear out Mira's base, but Mira doesn't care at all.

After being discovered and attacked by the opponent, it simply abandoned the entire star system and destroyed all available resources, making them no longer worth mining.

Of course, there are occasional misses, but that doesn't matter.

Now the first batch of Zerg units have infiltrated into the deep darkness and are developing secretly. Mira knows this, and the Alliance has also expected it, but there is a strange silence between the three.

The Alliance did not launch an operation to wipe out the Zerg, but continued to carry out large or small operations in the star system occupied by the Zerg's home star field, and was basically ignored by Zero.

He no longer cares about these things. The only thing he hopes for is to find ways to obtain the opponent's technological information to accelerate the development of the Zerg, so as to achieve the goal of competing with the opponent as soon as possible.

For this reason, Zero doesn't even care about the loss of the intelligent race research base station under the Zerg, because it is basically impossible to stop it, and there is no need to get angry about it.

After experiencing the initial anxiety of being disturbed by the other party, he is now calm to an almost cold state. The deaths of countless Zerg individuals have not made him more emotional. Zero just continues to adjust the Zerg as a whole based on the existing intelligence. Strategy.

The first is the development in other directions. This is the basic base of the Zerg. It is basically unstoppable. Even if the opponent intends to cause trouble to the Zerg, it will not be able to make a big splash.

Through the natural wormhole passage, the insect swarm is still expanding rapidly. Whenever an explorer crosses the endless darkness and appears in a new star field, it means that the insect swarm's sphere of influence has once again taken a big step forward.

In the areas dominated by the Zerg, the long distances between stars within a single galaxy are no longer a problem for them. If they are not occasionally attacked by the Alliance, in extreme cases, the other party will seize the opportunity to completely seal the Zerg. Cave passage, but this does not affect the Zerg's strategy in this direction.

In terms of technology, in-depth research on space technology has also allowed the Zerg's super-light navigation technology to advance by leaps and bounds.This basically laid the foundation for the expansion of the insect swarm, and was also Zero's biggest reliance on calming his mind.

After discovering the "line of defense" that the opponent had painstakingly built, Zero knew very well how much investment was needed to achieve this level. As the Zerg continued to try, this so-called line of defense was almost an endless black hole, and could only continue to Throw yourself into it.

Therefore, he also knew very well that even if the opponent still had the power to interfere with the Zerg in other directions, it would be difficult, very difficult, and meaningless to surround the Zerg with invisible barriers like here.

Because while the insect swarm is expanding, the individuals are also getting stronger. Even before the alliance has completed the "encirclement", their carefully constructed defense system has been broken.

It should be noted that although the two sides have been in real contact and have been hostile for 300 years, the main body of the Zerg is still quite far away from the "line of defense" in front of them.

In other words, they have penetrated deep into this "line of defense" through their own navigation over the past 300 years, but what lies in front of them is still an invisible obstacle like the Great Wall.

The wormhole is closed and cannot be opened with the Zerg's ability.On this line of defense, although the two sides did not directly engage in battle, the alliance could indeed claim a complete victory, at least at this stage.

Zero no longer paid attention there. He focused his attention on promoting the advancement of Zerg technology. The Cerebrates hardly moved outside. They hid themselves in the deepest darkness, accompanied by a small group of Zerg warships. Drifting aimlessly in the endless darkness to reduce the chance of being found.

In this case, unless the Alliance can bring the entire star field into view without reservation, it will be almost impossible to detect the existence of the Cerebrates.

And under this situation, they, together with the intelligent race scientific research team, fully participated in the scientific research of the Zerg.

For a time, almost all the actions of the Zerg were performed by the basic action abilities of the Zerg given by the Hive Mind.

For Zero, he has given up on other external interference, because it is destined to be a long wait. After several failed raids on the alliance base, he no longer has high hopes for plundering alliance technology. The Zerg need to figure it out on their own.As for Mira, Zero no longer pays attention to it. He has no intention of fighting for this potential "ally". The swarm will not take the initiative to attack it, and Mira will not take the initiative to attack the zerg.

This is already good when facing the enemy the Alliance.

In any case, there is no doubt that Mira is powerful. In a sense, it is very similar to Zero, which becomes more obvious after it fully develops its own combat unit.

Zero will not have any expectations for any life except the Zerg, and the same goes for Mira. He will only rely on the Zerg to achieve his goals.

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In the year 2844 of the Zerg, nearly 2159 years have passed since Mira's "killing with a borrowed knife" brought the Zerg into the eyes of the Federation in 700, and nearly 400 years have passed since the establishment of the alliance and full-scale hostility between the two sides. Over the years, under the witness of the alliance, Next, the Zerg's sphere of influence ushered in a huge expansion, but the three major civilizations had no way to stop it.

When those small fights and even the large-scale annihilation of the Zerg fleet were no longer considered a threat, the Alliance suddenly found that they seemed to be doing something meaningless.

The speed at which they destroyed the Zerg units could not keep up with their reproduction speed. The star field they "recovered" was not as fast as the Zerg's expansion. In addition to resisting the Zerg's advance head-on and greatly reducing its invasion speed, the Alliance did not help the Zerg. There are too many results.

This was very different from the alliance's subsequent plans, but no matter what, they did complete their plan to defend themselves against enemies and achieved the most basic requirements when the alliance was established.

Decades have passed, and Zero has not even paid attention to the subsequent expansion of the Zerg. However, within this period of time, the Zerg scientific research team, based on the previous hundreds of years of research accumulation and combined with the initial research results of the Cerebrates, completed the first A leap-forward progress in space technology!

For the first time in history, the Zerg achieved millisecond-level space channel observation!This means that the space jump that the three major civilizations are accustomed to has finally opened a tiny gap to the Zerg!

And its main source of inspiration is Zhuna.

After Gore completed his exploration of the Lyman Galaxy, the Zhuna clones scattered throughout it became, in a certain sense, individuals "raised" by the Zerg. As for such an existence, Zero never gave up on studying it. .

In particular, its ability, which the cerebrates call "leap", was always considered to be the future direction of the swarm's inter-galactic navigation before the Federation appeared in front of the zerg.

Today, hundreds of years later, the Zerg combined some of the technologies exposed by the three major civilizations, based on the Zerg's unique abilities, and the inspiration gained from Zhuna, and finally achieved this historic achievement.

Although it still has a long way to go before it can satisfy the Zerg version of "space jump", and it is still far away from catching up with the technical level of the three major civilizations, it does mean that a channel has been opened for the Zerg in the future. "The vastness of the sea depends on the leap of insects" is no longer an extravagant hope.

Of course, the breakthrough of this technology has brought huge changes to the power system and offensive and defensive system of the Zerg. This requires the brainworms to spend a period of time to complete the Zerg application, and in the process further promote this technology through practice. subsequent development.

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Zero had no intention of concealing the progress of the Zerg. Therefore, in the short five years that followed, when the two sides entered into a normalized war, the military chiefs of the three major civilizations had already noticed this.

The scale of the war has not increased, but the intensity has increased rapidly!
The insect swarm that was almost completely defeated in front of the Alliance fleet in the past has gradually gained some strength to fight back? !

Entanglements with the Zerg have long been a daily routine for the Alliance, and over the years, the Alliance has gradually undergone some subtle changes from its very beginning as a special group purely aimed at the Zerg invasion.

The main reason for this change is the tension between Vege and the Hero Federation within the explored universe.

The struggle at the rear directly affected the situation on the front line. The Vege Empire, which had not had much special needs for the Zerg until now, completely recovered its strength after the disaster. Coupled with the special technology that was a blessing in disguise, some people who were originally talented because of the common defense against foreign enemies. Some tacit understandings were gradually broken, and Weggie began to "recover" the benefits that had been lost during the crisis.

Indeed, after the "curse" incident, although the Vege Empire behaved very tough on the outside, it still inevitably gave up some interests, overtly or covertly. The three major civilizations have never been harmonious. After the frontline initially achieved its goal, conflicts between them began to break out.

Especially after Weiji realized that he had basically mastered the "curse".

Under such circumstances, the changes that happened to the Zerg on the front line became particularly dazzling.

Many visionaries can almost see the future.Although the invasion of intelligent life form Mira has almost disappeared in recent years, looking at the progress of the Zerg warships, I am afraid that in a few hundred years, they will really be able to show off their horses and horses on the frontal battlefield and compete head-on with the alliance's main fleet!
How long can this "line of defense" last? Whether the matrix of civilization has the consciousness to face the Zerg invasion directly, even many low-level soldiers who control the warships are beginning to wonder.

But even so, there is no fluctuation in zero.This is just the beginning. It is foreseeable that after this, the insect swarm will experience a rapid increase in combat power, and this "seedling" will gradually begin to grow.

As for how the alliance responds, Zero doesn't pay much attention.As the saying goes, the world is broad with one thought, and he no longer deliberately regards the other party as an enemy. After raising his vision, Zero suddenly discovered that these harassments and attacks from the other party seemed to be huge, as if they could sweep the entire Zerg-controlled area, but in fact they were The basic damage done by the Zerg is almost zero.

They were unable to prevent the subsequent expansion of the Zerg, nor did they have the ability to truly kill important units of the Zerg. Even against the opponent's increasingly powerful offensive, the Zerg continued to grow.

Zero has gradually stopped taking this "stumbling block" to heart.As long as it develops smoothly, it is only a matter of time before it is removed.

He didn’t know how far away the Zerg were from the main body of the opponent’s civilization, nor how long it would take for the Zerg to have the same space jumping ability as the opponent. But there was one thing he had forgotten before, but now it became very clear. Time was on the side of the Zerg. On this side!

No matter how powerful their technology is, they are still "weak" and cannot stop the insect swarm at all!
(End of this chapter)