Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 319 Breakthrough
Zero was not calm about his not-unfounded guess.

When the Zerg was first born, he had doubts about intelligent units like Sars. The biggest question was why more brain worms could not be born through the same method similar to genetic cloning.

No matter how the Zerg gene sequence is arranged, no matter how many times the genes of the Cerebrates are reproduced directly, or even the Zergization method on the material level is carried out through the gene sequences of other intelligent race individuals, the final result is the same. It's all the same.

For Zero, this doesn't make sense.

There is no reason why other intelligent races can use genetic means to expand their populations unscrupulously, while the Zerg can only wait passively for 200 years.

Wanting to obtain fully Zerg-like intelligent individuals through "artificial" means seems to be a completely blocked road.

It was not until the end, through the Zerg lurkers, that Zero was able to find another way and finally be able to allow individuals of other races to work for the Zerg in disguise, but the doubts about this matter itself have never disappeared.

Among these, the most likely guess is that there is some special process that is not yet detectable in the reproduction of brain worms or even the reproduction of intelligent race individuals, which limits the expansion of the Zerg intelligent units, but has always been No evidence has been obtained since.

until this time.

The Colossians' research on the level of consciousness was completely ahead of the Zerg more than 1000 years ago. Of course, this knowledge has since become part of the Zerg's knowledge base, but in normal times, the Zerg does not need it very much. .

The ability to develop such technology, which is similar to black technology, is mainly due to the common body structure of the Colossians.Among all the intelligent civilizations the Zerg have encountered so far, from this perspective, they are considered special.

In their brains, there are areas that are not reflected in other races at all, carrying extremely special functions, allowing them to finally create such a unique technological tree through a long process of evolution and development.

Perhaps this is the result of evolution and selection, but after being forced to join the Zerg, more than 700 years later, in order to meet Zero's requirements, they once again took a new branch in this technological line.

This kind of existence, which has always been illusory, can be directly observed in this way for the first time!
Zero is not unfamiliar with the concept of soul. It is an ancient topic. In the history of the Zerg itself, it can be traced back to the records of the lizard people civilization on the planet Orui. But for Zero himself, Say, it needs to be a bit more straightforward.

After all, for more than 3000 years, Zero has also had a lot of speculations about his current situation.

No body, but consciousness.

If this is the state of the soul, then Zero believes it.

Because of this, when he observed the "things" "leaking" out of the wormhole channel through this method, the fluctuations in his heart were so strong!
There is no exact definition of what the soul is. It is just a noun. Different civilizations and even different individuals may have different views.But for a long time, Zero has considered it as a "soul" based on its own state.

The targeted research of the Colossians this time was related to consciousness and deepened. At that time, the Zerg unit was equivalent to "seeing" the center of the accident through the Colossians' own "body", that is, Say, it really gets to the essence of that “thing”!

Zero wasn't sure whether it was really "the same kind" as him in a certain sense. He didn't feel any "familiarity", and it didn't have any other kind of "special connection". But at this moment, it was obviously more powerful than any other in the history of the Zerg. Any phenomenon encountered during this time gave Zero reason to doubt.

Of course, this kind of experiment will continue. As for Zhu Na's efforts and losses, it has nothing to do with Zero.Moreover, Ling does not think that Zhu Na is really that "great". All actions performed by living beings must have their own meaning, let alone a being like Zhu Na who has no intelligence or extremely low intelligence.

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For the Zerg, the absolute core dominance and almost non-existent intelligence mean that even if they are bound to suffer a huge number of deaths every once in a while, it will still not affect the stability of the entire race, but for ordinary intelligent civilizations , such a long-lasting terrorist incident with no hope of resolution is a fatal blow to the entire civilization.

For example, the Hukies, who have been completely controlled by Mira, are doomed.

Another example is the Vege Empire.

Nearly 300 years have passed since the incident occurred, and the joint research of the three major civilizations has not been able to draw many useful conclusions.

Thanks to the expulsion and capture of Zhuna 500 years ago and the research on wormholes 300 years ago, when they were desperate 50 years ago, they finally took a huge risk and obtained the partial and zero difference. Very few conclusions.

After all, they don't control "variables" like the Colossians like the Zerg.

This once excited the three major civilizations, but things did not make much progress after that, and instead worsened further.

Such cases have also occurred among the Korva people and the Hero Federation!
This is a shocking change, and it means too much!

In just two years, with the rapid transmission of information, the entire explored universe quickly became tense. A war against the Vege Empire was unstoppable!

Because everyone knows that if this "curse" itself does not have the ability to spread across races, the only people who can attack the hundreds of races under the command of Korva and the Hero Federation at the same time are those who are already in despair. It’s just the Vege Empire in China!

At this moment, this huge empire has really reached its limit!If it weren't for the strong inertia of thinking that has always barely maintained the unity of the empire, the Veggies, a behemoth in the absolute sense, would have definitely fallen apart at this moment.

Even so, under the 300-year turmoil, they have indeed reached their limit. At the same time, this is also the most dangerous time for the surrounding civilizations.

When a crazy racist is on the verge of death, no one can say whether other beings will be involved.

But just at this moment, the same crisis broke out within the Korva Empire and the Hero Federation. The situation of cooperation between the three parties that could barely be regarded as "wholehearted" disappeared in an instant. In order to temporarily To shift their internal conflicts, the Hero Federation and the Korva Empire have no choice!

No matter what kind of ruling system it is, under such "indiscriminate" attacks, the ruling class needs an "account."

At this point, the era of cooperation between the three major civilizations has completely ended, and the weak but in a certain sense powerful Vege Empire has become the "explanation" itself.

War is imminent!
The direction of the explored universe has completely changed at this moment. Zerg invasions and defensive galaxies have to be pushed back in the face of disasters that can lead to the extinction of entire civilizations.

After all, that is something that will happen in the future, and right now, the crisis is unstoppable!The disaster itself is still ongoing.At the same time, the research on the three major civilizations has never stopped...

Just after thousands of years of war reignited at the border, all the sovereign, partially sovereign or vassal races and civilizations in the entire explored universe have actually reached the edge of the cliff, but the era of cooperation has completely In the past, it no longer mattered whether this was the true nature of this "curse" or the last resort of the Verge Empire's madness.

At this moment, I can only seek happiness for myself, that's all.

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Of course, Zero didn't know that his target had gradually launched a full-scale war in the star field spanning hundreds of millions of light-years, and even tended to evolve into a melee, but for this period of time, he was actually quite happy.

——Except for some bad things that are deliberately ignored.

In Zerg 3410, more than 100 years have passed since the first "thing" suspected of being a "soul" was observed.So far, Zero still has no way to determine whether it is a living "life" or a "tool" created by an unknown existence inside the wormhole.

But that's not important. With a lot of experiments and Zhuna's "voluntary" sacrifice on a large scale, Zero finally got some information.

From a total of 690 four observation studies and comparisons with the Zerg in every possible way, Zero can finally say with certainty that this should not be the same existence as himself.

To be precise, regardless of whether the two are similar, Zero is just a single individual. Even if he actually controls endless Zerg units, it does not change this.

But there is more than one "thing" coming out of the wormhole and hiding in complete darkness!

It is a collection of countless identical "units"!
But it's not like Zhuna's fundamentally completed fusion, they just "come together".

But in order to "block" them back into the wormhole, Zhu Na fused an unknown number of separate bodies, almost exhausting the last trace of energy.

That level of energy release, it is unknown how many Zhuna clones collected energy from stars over thousands of years, but it was all consumed in this short period of time.

No matter what the purpose is, at least they are using their lives to block this "hole".

The reason why Zero is happy is of course not just because of this discovery. In fact, although these discoveries are important, they are just an introduction.

What really made Zero happy was that, apart from the fact that the continuous death of individuals still failed to threaten the entire Zerg race, and that no "lucky" brainworm had suffered such inevitable fatal news during this period, there were two things in total.

First, combined with the research on the bodies or brains of dead brainworms, Zero finally answered some of the questions that existed when the Zerg race was born.

It has to be said that the talent of the Colossians combined with the strong execution ability of the Zerg provided a lot of help to this research during this period, and was finally able to solve the problem that had been troubled for more than 3000 years so smoothly. Today, the total population The Colossians, who have recovered to 700 billion, take the greatest credit.

Why the brain worm gene cannot "clone" another brain worm? After all, we have a very credible conclusion that should be regarded as certain.

Taking the first brain worm Sars as an example, among the many genetic samples in its body, no matter what adjustments are made, in the actual expression stage, various seemingly insignificant changes will eventually lead to the same result.

The new unit may have the same huge "brain domain", but it does not have the ability of the brain worm at all. It is just a "body".

There is no essential difference between such a unit and ordinary insect species. The role it plays within the insect race is just a "tool".

This has been determined since the birth of the Zerg race, but until now, he did not know the fundamental difference between this new individual and the real brain worm.

From the perspective of this unit that the Zerg use to observe the changes in the wormhole, even if the two seem very similar, the differences are extremely obvious.

One has a "soul", let's call it a soul.And the other, not at all.

And this kind of soul is very different from the "soul" observed in the wormhole mutation. Zero believes that the two cannot be confused.

In addition, through observations at different stages of time, Zero was able to discover that although ordinary insect swarms do not have such a "soul", once the insect swarms gather in large scale, they can clearly feel the difference, just like sand gathered into a tower, possessing The fluctuations are somewhat similar to those of brain worms, and they are still growing as the number of worms increases.

This should be the external manifestation of the Hive Will, or it may be related to Zero himself.

Coincidentally, at the same time that the 18th Brain Worm was born, it could be easily detected from the perspective of direct observation that the activity of this phenomenon, tentatively called "soul fluctuations" that could have been directly observed, dropped by one level. .

Zero suddenly realized that this was the secret of the birth of brainworms. Their "souls" were not given with the reproduction of genes, but more like the development of the entire Zerg race, prompting them to "come into being".

Of course, what makes Zero happy is not just that the ancient secret has finally been revealed, but also the actual progress related to the current situation of the entire Zerg race.

After a lapse of 300 years, since the Zerg first encountered the Hero Federation with space jumping technology, research in this area has not stopped. More than 300 years ago, the Zerg mastered the space transmission technology of short-distance microscopic particles. But this is still far away from a real space jump.

Finally, just 42 years ago, with the long-term observation and research of Zhuna, and the unremitting efforts for this technology over the years, the Zerg brainworms and many intelligent civilizations once again made great progress in this regard. progress.

The first "interplanetary" space travel unit in the history of the Zerg appeared in front of Zero.

Although this is only a short-distance space transmission, and the Zerg units involved are only primitive land bugs with a mass of only about [-] kilograms, there is no doubt that there has been an epoch-making step since the last breakthrough. significance!

It means that a true jump, similar to what the Hero Federation did more than 300 years ago, capable of traveling across the star system or even farther into space, may soon open the door to the Zerg!

(End of this chapter)