Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 315 The Amazing Truth

Mysterious events arouse Mira's interest even more. In fact, she has always had a long-cherished wish to solve the unknown, and she quickly got involved as soon as she discovered it.

Collecting samples from a race that had been infiltrated like a sieve in the early stage did not trouble Mira at all. It did not even use the most unpretentious way, it just created an accident and achieved its goal.

Soon thereafter, research officially reached its peak.

It got a lot of preliminary information from the Huki, and of course, this also provided Mira with some research references.Due to the lack of experimental materials, in the following time, the mysterious race in front of them suffered the most frequent and large-scale disappearance of people in history.

Of course, along with it, there is even a curse event that spreads to the entire ethnic group.And the strange thing is that it will calm down on its own soon.

Some people simply and crudely attribute it to another revelation from the gods, but more people believe that the last accident may be a conspiracy carefully planned by some people with ulterior motives.

——They are just the prevailing idealists, not really stupid. Without development at the scientific level, blind superstition would not have reached the point where it is today.After all, their gods don't really respond to mortals' prayers.

Now that the incident had occurred, an investigation was launched immediately, but it was clear that they could not get any results.

To put it bluntly, Mira is treating them as a ready-made biological testing ground at this time, and if they really show their swords and guns, they will not have much room for resistance, because Mira has already mastered the overall situation. !

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Mira's research went quite smoothly. Using the large number of free samples in front of her, it quickly came to the same conclusion as when the three major civilizations faced the accident for the first time. However, this still has no way to explain the current situation of the Zerg. status.

After all, it has been tested many times, but no direct fatal cases have been found.So, just like what the Veggies did when they faced the unresponsive Zerg, Mira almost increased the "dose" on a large scale!
Facts have proved that when this special structure is truly "enriched" to a certain extent, it will inevitably produce the same effect!
And in the hands of Mira, it is very different from what the Veggies did back then.The Virgils only conduct experiments in a strictly monitored experimental site on the surface of the planet, and their scale and number are greatly limited.

At this moment, Mira, as the experiment continues to move forward, it has almost advanced from small "enhancement" to cluster enrichment!
And the effect is equally amazing!

In Mira's observation, as the experiment progressed, the poor Huki began a journey almost the same as Veggie's. What they got in exchange was just batch after batch of Mira's models that were eliminated and updated.

It already knew what the Zerg were going through now. Although it didn't quite understand the principle, Mira attributed it to the lack of data samples.

As a result, it decisively launched a brief but far-reaching war against the race that was already suffering heavy losses.

It completed control of this race in the shortest possible time, and began to use all individuals of this civilization as sample sources to observe the subsequent development of events to help itself draw the final conclusion.

Taking over a race with an absolute first-mover advantage does not even require much planning for Mira. In fact, when it silently and wantonly read the opponent's civilization information, this civilization had already been lost in front of it. Resistance.

Now, all it does is watch them die.

Control does not mean domination, and Mira does not need to do this at all.

As time goes by, more and more individuals die. Through comprehensive statistics from biology to physics, Mira's model is also rapidly streamlined, and the true face of the matter begins to unfold in front of it.

However, it was the people of Korva who reached the ending first.

After participating in the research of the Vegi people, relying on their advanced research in the field of biology, the Korva people quickly found a breakthrough that was not a breakthrough-relationship.

From among the individuals who died one after another, the joint scientific research team of the three major civilizations was surprised to find that each round of individual death is essentially "tracing back to the source" of the individuals who died in the previous round!
That is, no matter how many individuals die in this round, most of them are closely biologically related to one of the individuals who died in the previous round.

Even so, there are still many individuals whose deaths are completely random, and at least the cause cannot be discovered after careful investigation. This is also the reason why the Veggies did not confirm it immediately.

Biological relationships, when placed on an individual, are actually quite a broad range, especially for the long-lived Veghi people.

This cannot effectively prevent the situation from expanding, and it is even difficult to accurately predict the list of individuals who will die in the next round.But there is no doubt that the research has finally made some progress, which can barely be regarded as good news.

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Compared with the Vege Empire, Mira's conclusion is more in-depth. After all, the Vege people cannot "cooperate" with their research like the Herkis in its hands.

Judging from the direct statistics and calculation results, Mira keenly found an unusual place.

It did not observe the phenomenon of "stillbirth" within the Hukki!

All cases of death occurred after physical separation from the "mother body"!
From a biological point of view, life was born much earlier than this, so why didn't the phenomenon of "fetal death" occur?

Mira is very practical, so experiments on larvae and embryos were quickly put on the experimental stage. After day after day of observation and testing, they finally led to a surprising conclusion!

The "death" mentioned before turns out not to be a real instant death!

The process of death has started long before this!

In other words, all the dead individuals did not really die suddenly and for no reason, but as if they had some kind of fatal "disease". It's just that this "disease", if not for Mira, If you master almost all samples at the same time and conduct detailed research down to the smallest detail, you will not be able to detect it at all!There is indeed no macroscopic change in their bodies, but the nervous systems of all dead individuals are undergoing a hidden and strange change before their death!

This kind of change can only occur with relatively sound development. Therefore, none of the individuals who have not completed basic development died as a result. Even if they did, it was due to the death of the mother.

Mira is also very accomplished in biological research. After all, it has visited quite a few civilizations overtly and covertly over the years, and it has obtained a huge amount of information, which has brought it a lot of growth.

But it is really impossible to judge the effect of such subtle changes in the nervous system.Although this difference is found, it is certain that this trivial change is not even the real cause of death of these experimental subjects!

In other words, Mira still doesn't know what mechanism this death relies on.

As a result, the subject was directed to another direction that Mira was not very good at, that is, what does it mean for living organisms after such special changes in the nervous system.

Mila is quite good at external monitoring. She is confident that no matter how small a change is, it will not escape her "eyes".But it can't do anything about "feelings" on a certain level.After all, it is not a real "flesh and blood", it has no such thing as a nervous system, and it doesn't even know the true source of its own "emotions".

But what makes Mira happy is that at least it can use some quite complex methods to truly "predict" the next individual to die.This also means that it can "question" the information it wants to know in advance.

However, the direct "interrogation" of the experimental subjects did not go smoothly. They were unable to provide accurate and valuable descriptions. The vast majority of "dying people" were forced to "express" through various methods that there was nothing special.In this regard, Mira, who has a basic grasp of the external physical manifestations of the Hukies, is completely convinced that they are not lying.

For Mira, when the research reached this point, there was no way to continue.

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While Mira and the three major civilizations are busy with research, expansion and death have become the daily routine of the Zerg.

Zero gradually got used to this state. The Zerg were still advancing at their maximum speed, constantly shortening the distance between them and the three major civilizations. Even Zero himself did not know how far away they were from each other.

Things should have been calm all the time, and Zero gradually no longer believed that this expanding death wave could pose a fundamental threat to the Zerg. Although the growth trend of the Zerg population has slowed down, there has never been a situation where there is no increase in the number of Zerg. The phenomenon of decline, and judging from the current general trend, it is highly likely that it will not be able to offset the population explosion caused by the expansion of the Zerg in a short period of time.

It wasn't until the first brainworm died as a result that Zero realized that things were far from being as simple as they seemed.

Of course, the "dead" brainworm is still alive as always, but this time it is different from any other time.

Although this brainworm has returned to its original state, it does not have any previous "memory" and has become a brand new individual!

Although this was something that had never happened before, and it was enough to surprise Zero, what really made him realize that this was not just a simple "special attack method" by the three major civilizations, but that it was already dead in various senses. The feeling that the brainworm conveyed to Zero at the last moment!

I don’t know whether it’s because of the huge brains of the Cerebrates or because they rely on the Hive Mind, the macroscopic manifestation of the intelligence of the Zerg group. It’s not like the general Zerg individuals leave no information when they die.

It suddenly conveyed Zero's feelings at the last moment. In addition to a series of complex messages such as panic about the unknown and fear of death, there was a slightly disordered but obviously conscious reminder that made Zero particularly frightened!
Although it was very confusing, Zero understood what it meant.

Something is attacking its "spirit" and wants to "come out"!
This is the first Cerebrate to die because of this, and it can almost be said to be a real death. It may mean that the existing Cerebrates of the Zerg race cannot even save themselves from this incident, but at this time, Zero is a little careless. Think about this problem.

"Is there something that is attacking the brainworm from a spiritual level and wants to come out?!"

How to get out?Where does it come from?

For a moment, the ancient memories began to churn, and Zero's thoughts began to wander. His understanding of the universe once again experienced a subtle shift. After all, if it was what he thought in his heart, it would not look like it existed in an absolutely materialistic world view. The phenomenon.

Of course, maybe the whole world is not as materialistic as he knows, and everything is just the inertia of Zero's own thinking. No one can really be sure until the secrets of the entire universe are completely revealed.

But no matter what, Zero absolutely trusts the information transmitted by the brain worm, and believes that it cannot make errors in its expression in the last brief moment, because the relationship between him and the brain worm is not so much communication as it is a certain communication. "Induction" in this sense makes it impossible for information misunderstanding, it just means that!
If we understand it according to Zero's thinking, during this period of time that is so short that the average individual cannot even speak even one byte, what it wants to express is that something else appears in its mind!
In this matter, there is a lot of missing information in Zero. The Zerg paid no attention to the original discovery at all, and completely gave up research after consciously obtaining its results.

If Mira at this moment can get this most intuitive description, then most of the possibilities will be eliminated in an instant, thus taking a big step towards the truth of facial appearance!

But it's obviously not going to be so smooth now. Neither Mira nor the Zerg have much idea of ​​communicating with each other about this.

Only Zero's heart became heavy after thinking about it carefully.

Not to mention what phenomena that now seem unbelievable will appear in the future, even the life threats faced by the brainworms today make him somewhat at a loss.

Because that is death in the true sense of the word!

Sass, Dagos, Visser, Ruhl, Todd, Sk... these individuals who have been born for thousands of years and have mastered a large amount of knowledge and skills, if they die like this, let alone the distance between them and zero for so many years. His feelings, just from the perspective of the overall loss to the entire Zerg race, made Zero unacceptable!
The current crisis is far from that. Not long ago, a large Zerg unit that provided basic material services to the Zerg intelligent race died. Therefore, the losses caused by sudden changes are immeasurable.

This means that although this "attack" did not affect other races, their lives were actually threatened by it.

And once the brain worms are lost, especially if Todd has an accident, the intelligent group under the Zerg is likely to have big problems, and the losses caused will not even be smaller than direct death!
Zero can't sit back and watch this happen. This is almost leveraging the interests of the Zerg from the root!

Whether it is the death of the brain worm or the loss of the intelligent race individuals under its command, it is no longer a dispensable thing for the Zerg race, because it is related to the possibility of the progress of the entire Zerg race!
No matter what, Zero must at least find a way to protect the brainworms under his command!
(End of this chapter)