Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 337 Intruders from outside the universe

Zero doesn’t know what methods the three major civilizations that have escaped are using to resist the attack of the soul body. Maybe they have found the clues and successfully prevented the spread of this attack on their own civilization. This is actually not a problem for them. It's not difficult, it's just that they don't have the opportunity to realize the nature of this attack. If it weren't for the Colossians, the Zerg may be experiencing this kind of attack constantly without knowing its origin.

Of course, maybe they have not been able to find an effective response plan. Judging from the number of intelligent races, as long as unlimited gene cloning is not started, they will inevitably face the threat of genocide as time goes by.

The Zerg have successfully resisted the harassment of soul bodies, and can even actively attack them to obtain more samples. Of course, Zero is not satisfied with this. Ruhr has entered the interior of the wormhole to observe, and outside, the Zerg swarm has also begun to Gather resources and a huge amount of advanced energy to prepare for a self-directed war!

The reason why it is said to be self-directed and self-acted is because the Zerg need to open the wormhole channel by themselves, lead the soul body to appear, and then directly attack the interior of the wormhole with counterattack, so that it is possible to follow their "footprints" and find more information. Lots of clues.

This is not a simple matter, because from the observation of the Zerg, their number or scale is extremely astonishing, but the numerical advantage of the Zerg has no effect on them at all, and they can only learn from Zhuna. The previous consumption method is to "erase" them in some way that has not been thoroughly studied, but in this process, they even have to guard against their counterattack, and the efficiency is really not high.

And what Zero wants to do this time is to rush into the channel in reverse to observe their source after they appear. This makes this matter a lot more difficult, but no matter what, Zero has to do it. The cost is not unaffordable for the Zerg, but it will definitely take a long time and consume a lot of money.

Mira has gone far away. It abandoned the huge fleet it built. I don’t know where it went. Maybe it has gone to another corner of the universe, quietly digesting its harvest this time, and maybe it is secretly collecting it somewhere. With the information of a certain civilization, it is even possible that it has not left and is still coexisting with the Zerg in this universe, and these Zeros have no longer thought about it.

The territory of the Zerg is already large enough, so large that it can be observed very intuitively that it is expanding, and the Zerg swarm continues to expand this range, as if it will never end.

There is only one voice in this universe now. All the lives encountered on the way of expansion may be ignorant or developed, but in the end they will only disappear under the swarm of insects, or they will become part of the Zerg in a sense and lose their lives. The future of survival and development as an independent civilization in the vast universe will either be destroyed in this darkness, as if it had never appeared.

Of course, there are also some civilizations with a higher degree of development that can escape from the Zerg expansion circle and be preserved or partially preserved, but after all, they cannot exist within the Zerg survival circle.

Zero has no interest in going all out to pursue these races. If he hadn't taken the initiative to provoke the swarm like the Hero Federation, Zero wouldn't even have thought to target any existence.

Only after the Zerg became powerful did they realize that this universe was actually very crowded. The so-called miracles of life and the origin of civilization, which seemed to have very small chances in the past, were magnified to the scale of galaxies or even galaxy clusters. The stellar computing unit with a basic unit of [-] million makes all small-probability events a certain necessity.

For a race like the Zerg with space-level mobility, even if the distance between them is thousands or even tens of thousands of light years, it is actually not far away, so "crowding" is not a An exaggeration. If the civilizations encountered by the Zerg, even the only intelligent species that had not yet sprouted, had enough time, then this universe could be called "crowded one after another."

They say life is a miracle of the universe, but in Zero's opinion, this miracle may not be so rare.

The Zerg have established intelligent race base stations at favorable locations in various star fields. To put it bluntly, they are actually breeding bases. Until some of them really show value, they are essentially the same as the earthworms raised by the ant colonies four thousand years ago. They are nothing more than today. The Zerg no longer need to worry about energy for their own activities, so there is no need to use them to provide food.

Of course, cloning technology has no problem for the insect swarm, but the historical experience from the three major civilizations and the superficial research on the real "metaphysical problem" of the soul all point to the same point of view, that is, cloning technology has no role in intelligent races. The wide application on the body is very likely to eventually become a shackles that restrict the evolution of species. Compared with this, the social and ethical issues it brings seem much smaller.

Of course, good management may be able to avoid this problem, but this is actually meaningless.

As an asset of the Zerg race, having a brain with unlimited possibilities is their most valuable asset, and it is also an important reason why Ling is happy to see the brain worms build large-scale survival and development bases for various intelligent groups.

Naturally, the insect swarm has become the undisputed sole master of this vast star field, and no group can even gain a foothold here. The only ones who can be called "enemy" are the only ones left. The "soul bodies" emerging from the wormholes are also becoming the targets of hunting and research by the Zerg.

Everything is falling into silence, but it is developing eternally. In the endless darkness, there are only a few stars, like bright lights under the dark night, bringing a ray of light and warmth to the entire universe.

Time flows to the future as the planet rotates, gathering all possibilities into one, and finally pointing to the only answer.

Three hundred years passed in a blink of an eye. In Zerg Year 4362, within the reach of the light of a solitary star, the swarm of insects hidden in the darkness could no longer hide.

But they are not here for fighting. All super large units are just transporters of energy and materials. They jump from far or near star fields just to use the materials they transport to transport this area. The changes in "Battlefield" are directed in a direction more favorable to the Zerg.

This is the first time in history that the Zerg has entered the wormhole in this way. It is no longer as peaceful as it used to be when it was controlled by the Zerg and opened. After the first Zerg individual entered it, the huge entrance had become The center of an extremely dangerous storm.

The space here is extremely chaotic, and even the gravity from the stars is becoming chaotic. Within this range, the deterministic theorems and even the generally accepted truths that many Zerg and many intelligent races have obtained before seem to have become It has a false existence, it is disordered and violent, like a vortex "growing" near the star.

Of course, those known theorems are still correct, but after this discovery, many pre- or post-conditions should be added to limit their scope of application. As for now, the insect swarm is using countless lives to Flow through that "whirlpool"!
  Ruhl had walked out of the wormhole as early as two hundred and twenty-two years ago, but the results he brought back were unsatisfactory. Entering the wormhole under normal conditions will be the same as in the past thousands of years, without any abnormalities. Even though the various detection insect species that accompanied the expedition tried their best, they could not find any information about the soul body. They only got some data that had already been observed from previous studies, which was better than nothing.

As for the communication issue, Ruhr has not learned anything. According to its "field investigation" and the ideas proposed, the Velvet people have been trying to verify a real-time method of communicating inside and outside the wormhole for many years, but for decades, After tens of thousands of experiments, the efforts of two generations of Velvet people have so far failed to see results. The problem of space itself does not stump them. The biggest problem lies in the time difference.

Or it can simply be said that it is a difference in rules!

Inside the "cave" that is like a "pore" in the universe, there are rules that are completely different from the real universe. It allows space to be directly connected over long distances, and also makes all matter that enters it almost completely cut off from the real universe. Of course, free communication cannot be achieved if there is no connection between them.

This kind of long-term research ultimately failed, and it did not cause Zero to have many emotional changes. This kind of thing is an inevitable risk in research activities. In a sense, the so-called results are more derived from the failure. A summary of what is found, rather than a straightforward acquisition.

After nearly three hundred years of hard work, the Zerg finally blocked the soul bodies that poured out of the wormhole back into the wormhole little by little. And in Zerg 4351, the first Zerg scientific research unit "crowded "Entering the wormhole declares that this scientific war created by the Zerg itself has entered a new stage.

But not long after that, the originally stable wormhole entrance quickly changed to what it is now. The specific reason is still unclear, but Ruhr, who originally planned to venture into it again for observation and information acquisition, could only stop there. Nowadays, a large number of insect swarms are trying to find a way for it with their lives.

A large amount of data has been collected and analyzed quickly. Many phenomena that have never appeared before are being understood bit by bit. Patterns are even being found from the most basic observations. It took the Zerg such a long time to create such a unique opportunity. , No matter what, Zero will not let it be lost like this.

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Of course, the Zerg have not only been doing this thing for the past three hundred years.

The "Stone of Life" obtained from the Korva people has already been thoroughly studied from the physical level with a little bit of cutting by the "operator", although there are still some special element properties that cannot be determined, among which the most The unknown liquid discovered in the core area is still under slow experimentation, but this is the closest the Zerg have ever come to its own origin, and it is almost certain that it will definitely yield results, it is just a matter of time.

Over the years, as this "war" in which almost no Zerg individuals personally participated in the fighting continued, the Zerg had a deeper understanding of this kind of soul body and became more and more comfortable in dealing with them.

Their state can be said to be that of Zhuna in another form. There seems to be no restriction on dividing and reuniting, but from long-term research, Zero knows that they still have restrictions after all.

Since they want to get something from the body of a living individual, Zero fulfills their wish, which is just an almost infinite cycle on a single body.

Experimental clones ranging from young to old entered the specially treated laboratory and became the "prey" of the researchers. Zero even conducted experiments on single organs such as the brain, and even partial systems. During this process, the research was very detailed, and the final result satisfied him.

This individual who underwent the experiment was indeed trying to seize the body of a single intelligent individual. With the best efforts of the Zerg, it finally almost succeeded in achieving its goal and became a true entity that belongs to the real universe. It is a life that is smart and cautious, and has strong control over its own body. From this point of view, it can be said to have huge potential.

But the reason why it is said to be almost but not completely successful is that shortly after it completed the series of "possession" behaviors on the clones, it was quickly lifted onto the Zerg dissecting table. Now only the brain is left. It is maintained in the biological specimen box of the Zerg and is subject to research by Zerg scientific research institutions at any time.

During this long enough research process, Zero also made a series of comparisons between it and the observed "souls" of the Zerg brainworms, and basically clarified the difference between the two different "souls".

When it exists in the universe as a simple "soul body", it has low intelligence and is controlled. But once it gets a body, it immediately becomes independent and agile. Compared with the "soul" of the brainworm, There isn’t much difference anymore!
  Combined with the energy life Zhuna's efforts to destroy and intercept these "soul bodies" at all costs, there is zero reason to suspect that they are invaders from outside the universe!
  Of course, the origin of life like Zhuna also makes Zero curious. This is also one of the projects that the Zerg has been studying for a long time. To get the answer, more exploration and development may be needed.

Today, the main undertaking of Zero leading the swarm is no longer simply to expand the sphere of influence or increase the number of individual zerg individuals, but to begin a gradual exploration of the unsolved mysteries of the entire universe.

In addition to these two aspects of research, the slowest direction in the past three hundred years has been the study of "universal elements". After the initial understanding of its properties, the Velvet people seemed to be stuck in a thick wall. No one can advance beyond the wall.

How did it change from a common element to a "universal element"? Where did the missing mass go? Where did the increased mass come from? These questions have not been answered for three hundred years, and there is not even one that can be studied. The direction cannot be determined.

Zero knows that this is because the research in basic science is not deep enough. If you want to be in a high position, you naturally need to lay a good foundation. Now that the Zerg encounters such a situation, if they want to develop, they can only improve their theoretical level from the root. .

Unless you can meet a civilization or individual who has done very in-depth research in this area, getting everything you want from them is undoubtedly a shortcut, but if such a civilization or individual really exists, let alone plundering, the Zerg There may be a question mark on its own security.

(End of this chapter)