Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 338 Creating the Zerg

After all, Zero relied on the endless number of Zerg to try out some rules from this chaotic space.

It is said to be a rule, but in fact it is just a trace of its characteristics that can be exploited. That is, with the continuous input of huge and efficient energy like Zhuna, it will temporarily become more stable in a certain period of time. Although this Stability will quickly suffer an extremely strong "backlash" afterwards, but this will undoubtedly provide a viable channel for the Zerg.

Zero finally understood why Zhuna just blocked it into the passage every time, instead of chasing inside the passage for deeper "cleaning", because that would cause violent turbulence like now, let alone experience it. After a difficult "battle", Zhuna is actually at the end of her strength. Even a powerful individual that combines many Zhuna's clones will never survive this kind of storm.

Space is chaotic or even "broken", which is its most fatal point.

But for the Zerg, there is no such concern. They used their own death, even leaving not even a trace of matter in the real universe in the end, in exchange for a safe passage for small groups of insects with a high probability. plan.

So Ruhr set out again with its small scientific research team.

This time, they will take huge risks, and may not be able to return at all, or even die in it.

However, there is good news. The small scientific research species that entered it before is still alive. This is one of the reasons why Ruhr believes that the risk of entering it is relatively controllable. After all, it is not really seeking death.

In Zerg 4366, Ruhr narrowly avoided all external dangers, successfully entered the dark "cave", and severed direct contact with the Hive Mind.

Zero can only judge the life and death of the Zerg unit through his most basic perception of it, but can no longer communicate with it in any form.

At this point, everything outside is no longer critical. All Zero can do is wait, or try more after waiting for no feedback for a long time.

This "storm" is like a big mountain blocking the swarm of insects and the entrance to the passage. After finally blocking all the souls pouring out of the wormhole back into the passage, the swarm of insects is unable to enter on a large scale as before.

It is possible to seize an extremely rare opportunity and send out several large insect species in one fell swoop. If a breakthrough is forced, based on such a long period of testing at any cost, there is zero reason to believe that no matter how many insects are removed, it will not be enough to fill this gap, even with the naked eye. space storm.

The Zerg are not afraid of death. This has even been a routine method for them to obtain information. However, meaningless death with no hope is just a waste of resources.

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The wonders of wormhole passages have been discovered and used by the Zerg for thousands of years. Today, this wonder of the universe has finally shown its true face to Zero. No matter what Ruhr can find in it, this kind of wonder that could originally bring "Natural phenomena" that come from higher energy sources will no longer have their original brilliance.

Zero once again began to wait. This kind of thing has been the norm in the past four thousand years. The self-expansion of the insect swarm has become unstoppable. If he does not encounter strong resistance, he will not even take a look and leave everything to his brain. Bugs to deal with.

Speaking of which, the number of intelligent units of the Zerg race is not small now. The twenty-two brain worms are distributed in various directions of the territory. They are just like three thousand years ago, each paying attention to the development of the Zerg race in a certain direction. At the same time, he also actively participates in scientific research activities within the Zerg.

Sars was born with the Zerg and is already an "old bug" more than [-] years old. If this were placed on the planet Ori back then, its life span could completely witness the development of lizardman civilization from ignorance to There is still something left before destruction!

What a long time brings is the accumulation of knowledge. It has no signs of aging so far. It seems that it has been making progress since birth, always at its peak, knowledgeable and intelligent.

As the Zerg unit closest to Zero, Sass is now considered the common teacher of all Cerebrates. It has taught almost all Cerebrates in their infancy. Today, it actually handles most of the regular affairs of the Zerg, including The adjustment of the direction of expansion, the custody and assimilation of intelligent races, the determination of the direction of conventional scientific research that is beneficial to the Zerg, etc. It is like the last node of the Zerg before Zero, and most of the trivial problems are here. Reached the end.

It has hardly participated in the scientific research affairs of the Zerg, but no one will doubt its professional ability and vision. As the oldest unit of the Zerg, Sass now actually plays the role of "big housekeeper".

However, at this moment, it was unexpectedly paying attention to an experiment.

In Zerg 4379, the sixteenth in-vivo experiment after the complete analysis of the "Stone of Life" began.

In the previous fifteen times, Brain Worm Todd used the most common types of organisms on several representative planets as experimental samples, and fed or injected equal amounts of "control groups" and unequal amounts of "experimental groups" respectively. "Stone of Life" fragments, but they have not achieved much results, including elements that do not exist in the explored star field, and they have not shown many miracles. Only one of these creatures has slightly improved after completing biological digestion. He was anxious, quite similar to what he looked like after the insect eggs in the cave mutated, but in the end he ended his life calmly, bringing only an abnormal data to the Zerg race.

But this time is different. The reason why Sass is paying attention here is because this is the first time that the Zerg has conducted an experiment with a liquid substance of unknown composition from inside the "Stone of Life". If this piece comes from the Korva people, If there is anything special about the stones, it is almost certain that the problem must lie in these substances!

To put it bluntly, the previous experiments used only scraps, the outermost solid part of the "Stone of Life", but the material used in this experiment was obviously a liquid at the core, so not only Sass, but also Zero Paying attention.

Due to the scarcity of samples, the Zerg only used four thousandths of the total amount for experiments this time. Similarly, the size and biological complexity of the experimental subjects were also much lower.

This experimental subject is not even a Zerg unit, but a naturally growing bug from a living planet.

Unlike the Zerg unit, which has almost unlocked its own gene pool, it is really just a bug, no bigger than a thumb, with two pairs of transparent wings, and can only fly 5-7 meters at a time. That’s all.

For this experiment, the Zerg hatched a batch of small special units. In order not to contaminate the experimental samples and prevent any life information about the Zerg from coming into contact with it, this bug was even caught by a mechanical insect trap controlled by an individual of the intelligent race. Come.

Of course, many experimental Zerg units like it have been collected, and a control group of Zerg units has also been prepared.

Soon, the experiment started as planned. What was strange was that there was almost no trace of Zerg creatures in this experiment. All basic operations were completed under the precise control of the intelligent race. Even the Zerg experiment as a control group The bodies are all hatched on site.

Unlike Zero who just watched silently, Sass had already "personally" participated in it before. He personally completed the design of the Zerg control unit, simulating the genetic sequence of the experimental group of bugs to the greatest extent.

When everything was ready, the two groups of experimental individuals were injected with four thousandths of the total sample at the same time, and then entered the close observation stage. Zero waited patiently, paying attention to every movement of these two groups of bugs through the vision provided by the Zerg units at close range.

Finally, on the 6th hour after the experiment started, the bugs in the experimental group made relatively obvious changes. Although the amplitude was quite small, under the gaze of various sophisticated insect species, including various observation instruments, even if it was subtle, Not even the slightest change will be missed.

Zero noticed that its wings were falling off!

This is undoubtedly a process that this insect must undergo naturally in its life cycle, and this is just the beginning.

About half an hour later, it completed the complete shedding of its transparent film-like wings, and then its legs began to grow.

It was at this time that the Zerg simulation units as the control group also changed.

In order to ensure the authenticity of the experiment, Zero did not transmit any information to them. All their habits were no different from those of out-of-control Zerg units, and were all driven by instinct.

At this moment, they also began to shed their wings controlled by special genetic sequences, but the speed was much slower.

But anyway, it happened!

This means that the liquid that exists at the core of the "Stone of Life" is one of the sources of its magical abilities!

The observations continued. Rather than saying that the legs of the experimental group of bugs were growing, it was better to say that they were softening and elongating!

The bug itself had been motionless for a long time. If the life monitoring hadn't shown that it was still alive and well, it would have been easy to think that it might not have long lived, and that the only thing that had mutated was its corpse.

The changes on its body never stopped, and Zero was surprised to find that unlike the "egg laying" of the Zerg at the very beginning, it almost directly started mutating on its body without going through any unnecessary processes.

It's not just the limbs that are softening, their originally hard shell is either falling off or continuing to soften.

Gradually, it seemed to be turning into a ball of mud, losing all ability to move.

It is worth mentioning that during this process, the energy it carries is obviously not enough to support it to complete such a large-scale body adjustment. The only thing that can provide it with an energy source is the liquid injected into its body!

Zero does not covet the energy that this substance may contain. After all, the Zerg do not have this problem now, but he is very interested in the fact that it can directly change the existing traits of living things.

Even for Zerg, a fixed sequence of genes is usually set before the individual is hatched, and they will be expressed one by one after being hatched, eventually forming a mature unit.

Of course, it is also possible to make them change their appearance during growth, but that is usually like an editing program, with a preset "genetic code" that determines what changes are made at what level of development. Followable.

Moreover, such a process is only valuable in special circumstances. Normally, it is just a waste of time and energy.

But now, this mysterious liquid has obviously broken this point. It has changed the life form of this insect. Zero can be sure that the original genetic sequence of this tiny insect, no more than the size of a thumb, must have undergone earth-shaking changes. The change.

Zero wanted to observe what it would look like after mutating, and what extent this liquid could achieve, but he was doomed to be disappointed.

Only four hours later, the mutation of the experimental group of insects had completely ended. There was no change within another four hours, and there was still no change after seventy hours of observation. In the past few days, there had been no change. It can basically be concluded that this mutation has ended.

Not much effective data can be obtained from the monitoring of the change process, so specific conclusions require subsequent thorough research on experimental samples.

At this moment, this insect, which originally had a strong body, has turned into a "thing" like a piece of plasticine, but with many "tentacles". These tentacles are the final transformation of its legs, and it was originally His body has completely softened.

But the strange thing is that it is still alive and has extremely strong vitality!

The Zerg race has undoubtedly done research on this aspect. Even if no genetic testing and comparison has been done, just from the perspective of life intensity, Zero can know that its "lifespan" must have been increased dozens of times or even more than before the experiment. !

At this moment, even the wings on the back of the Zerg unit as the control group had not completely fallen off.

Sass began to organize the Zerg scientific research unit and some intelligent race researchers to begin detailed anatomy and research on the two groups of experimental subjects, which did not take much time.

Four Oridays later, Zero got a surprising yet reasonable conclusion from Sass!

That bug, including the control group of Zerg units undergoing the experiment, is undergoing an irreversible change. According to its research, the ultimate purpose of this change is to enhance or even transform the brain of a bug, allowing it to It develops in a direction similar to brain worms!

In other words, you are creating a brainworm!

However, perhaps due to insufficient quantity or other factors, this process came to an end soon after it started.

And this transformation itself, although it did not turn this extremely ordinary bug into a brainworm with powerful talents and almost immortality, it did succeed in giving it a long lifespan and compared with its original kind. Let’s talk about a “smarter” “brain”!

Sasse made a rough estimate. This insect, which originally had an average lifespan of only 1.7 Orian years, can now live for at least four hundred years if there are no accidents!

Four hundred years is enough time to witness the rise and fall of a dynasty in the feudal era!

Its genetic analysis has been completed, and all the results basically lead to brain-worm transformation.

Zero believes that this liquid that exists in the core area of ​​the "Stone of Life" that has seemingly lost its original function should be the basis for this existence to create a life similar to the Zerg, if it is still in its most primitive state , then it is very likely that its solid "shell" also plays a role, that is, it leads to the birth of general insect species or even primitive hatcheries.

This small stone should indeed have the ability to create another Zerg race at the beginning, at least a race with a complete genetic system, but now it has undoubtedly lost this function, leaving only the core area. The mysterious substance has become the focus of the next Zerg research.

Zero is eager to try. What will happen if more than [-]% of the remaining liquid is "fed" to Sass or other brainworms?

(End of this chapter)