Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 343

Where there is good news, there will naturally be bad news.

The lack of supplies from the main universe is not bad news, it will be solved soon. The real bad news is that the creatures here are indeed basically immune to attacks by gravity weapons, and the space here almost does not allow the Zerg space weapons and engines to function at all!

And for some reason, the creatures here have body strength that can easily crush the Zerg!

You must know that the Zerg units have experienced thousands of years of development. Their excellent outer armor can even directly withstand the bombardment of high-power energy cannons, but cannot withstand the attack of any of their creatures.

Bite, impact, primitive methods combined with powerful speed, here where the Zerg cannot start the jump engine, can almost easily complete the massacre of the Zerg fleet!

Of course, this is not entirely bad news. Ruhr is already trying how to truly hunt such beings so that the Zerg can have a closer look at them. It would be best to fully install stronger armor in the real universe and further strengthen it. The combat capability of the entire Zerg race.

In so many years of exploration, Ruhr has actually been restrained. After all, safety cannot be guaranteed and support is almost non-existent. In this environment, it can only explore as much as possible while preserving itself. intelligence.

The most important point is that the darkness here seems to be different from the darkness in the real universe. In the real universe, the dark areas between galaxies that cannot be reached by light are almost real void, although not completely different. Material exists, but it is also extremely scarce.

But it's different here. Rather than saying it's the darkness of nothingness, it's better to say it's a special medium!

Just like fish swimming in the water and birds flying in the sky, water and air are both media. It's not that there is nothing here, but there is a kind of "darkness", and all living things live inside it.

In other words, the worlds on both sides of the passage seem to have many similarities, but in fact they are essentially different!

The "darkness" here seems to be able to be collected and utilized. Of course, this is not the result of Ruhr's research. It is just that he once observed the "flow" of "darkness" when observing the habits of the creatures here!

This is definitely a strange experience for the Zerg in the real universe. From a special perspective, Ruhr clearly saw that the originally formless darkness was like water in a pond at that moment, being wantonly Dial.

Of course, other than that, it is not much different from the void in the real universe. It can still be illuminated and penetrated, and it can still be passed through at will.

Ruhr speculated that the existence of this "darkness" may be related to the extremely strong space constraints here. Otherwise, since there is a space channel connecting the main universe, there is no reason why it cannot be "torn apart". The two are contradictory!

The Zerg are dealing with the obstructive space storm outside the passage. Judging from the subsequent development, the accident caused by the first Zerg unit entering the passage against the invasion of soul bodies does not seem to be a man-made phenomenon, but rather like Some mechanism is triggered.

In the process of the Zerg controlling the space storm, there was no expected existence that caused them trouble. Although there were many difficulties in the research and it was very difficult at one time, the results were finally achieved.

Today, the huge and chaotic space environment on the periphery is being "smoothed out" slowly but resolutely by the Zerg, allowing the real universe to "self-heal" these originally disordered space turbulences.

As the research became more in-depth, the Zerg gradually discovered more about this phenomenon that prevented them from advancing into unknown space. At the same time, its own space technology has also made breakthroughs in the research process. It absorbed some of the theoretical achievements of the Hero Federation, but it has never reached their level of theoretically touching the containment space or cutting and compressing the space. But now, Zero feels that the Zerg are very close.

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The first batch of intelligent race individuals to enter the unknown space through the passage are a joint scientific research group led by Colossian scientific researchers. Since there are a large number of almost endless soul bodies there, they will serve as Ruhr's exists as an assistant.

The space storm has not been completely wiped out, but its impact on the Zerg's passage has undoubtedly weakened a lot. Support from the main universe has begun to be abundant. Although it is often attacked because of too much movement and bad luck, But in general, Ruhr can finally live a relatively prosperous life.

The research base station had previously completed part of its main body. Now, with the support of the main universe, at the expense of a large number of Zerg units attracting enemies away at all costs, they quickly completed a huge void building that was almost integrated with the "darkness".

It was a behemoth with a spherical shape and a diameter of two thousand kilometers. Although it still seemed relatively crude, it already integrated military, survival and scientific research.

Different from previous Zerg buildings, this time, this huge outpost is not a living bug, but a real one. Like those intelligent races, it is produced according to the formula of the best biotechnology. Although the Zerg characteristic technology is full of It's full, but it's a real dead thing.

At this stage, Zero is very clear that he is in the defensive stage. The Zerg base station does not need too many complicated functions, because it may be attacked and destroyed at any time, but the resources are relatively precious.

Such a "disposable" base does not need to cost more to maintain its "survival" in the future, but it can also meet the needs, which is in line with the needs of the current insect swarm.

In addition, large Zerg units basically do not exist here at all, because of their huge size and lack of resistance to the "tiny" creatures here compared to them. Their size does not bring them a greater advantage, but will instead Let them become targets for enemies to focus fire on.

Therefore, the insect swarm gathered here, even Ruhr's own "car", has all been replaced and modified, and the largest one is only several times larger than the land unit.

Being big has big advantages, and being small also has small advantages. Of course, here, combined with environmental factors, small Zerg units can exert more advantages.

In the past few decades, almost all of Ruhr's intelligence sources came from the spying of extremely small units. Thanks to the Zerg's technological breakthroughs, their targets are small, their speed is not slow, and their various abilities can be satisfied as long as they are needed.

At this moment, Ruhr, who finally had some money, decided to expand the exploration scope of the insect swarm again, and at the same time began to plan a new round of capture operations for native creatures.

For this kind of physically "soft and hard" native life, Ruhr has made too many attempts in the past few decades, including fighting and fighting with similar sizes, biological invasion at the microscopic level, and even trying to trap One of the youngest individuals lived in it, but without exception, all failed.

The scope of exploration has expanded a lot, but even the weakest native creature has never been captured.

Compared with the Zerg, which has extremely advanced material technology, these individuals are actually able to achieve defensive crushing. Their extremely strong shells are made of unknown materials and where the materials come from, but they are their most perfect defense. , is also the toughest attack!

During the siege, the Zerg units, which were much smaller than them, might be able to escape in the chaos, but they were unable to do anything to the opponent. It could be said that Ruhr had exhausted all his 18 martial arts to do nothing.

Of course, it is not without thinking about this current situation. Ruhr once saw with his own eyes that an individual who continuously gathered nearby soul bodies and almost became a substance, exuding strong soul fluctuations that had never been seen before, immediately became an existence that almost all predators avoided. The fear in it is simply visible to the naked eye.

As the number of observations increases, it believes that perhaps the Zerg's chance of gaining a foothold here will fall on this phenomenon!

Therefore, among this group of scientific researchers, the Colossians account for the majority. They are among the Zerg intelligent races and have the most profound research on the soul body with their own talents.

Since the only outcome of head-on confrontation is to be massacred, and cannot even prevent the opponent from escaping, then perhaps we should focus on the non-physical level.

If the hard one is not enough, then the soft one should be used. But the soft one here refers to a real spiritual attack!

If Sars hadn't been busy studying black holes, Rule would have wanted to invite it to try out his new abilities. However, in recent years, the Colossians have made breakthroughs in the research on soul bodies. Now they can pass Its own characteristics, combined with the recently designed special instruments, can contain the soul body to a certain extent!

Although the theoretical upper limit is still very low, Ruhr feels that if it reaches this level, it is worth trying!

What it needs to do this time is not to find a predator for a head-to-head battle, but for the Colossians to verify the reliability and maximum holding capacity of their "containers". If there are any deficiencies, then continue to improve. Anyway, there are endless soul bodies here, which are blocked by the targeted "defense wall" of the research base station. As time goes by, they crowd here like zombies, and some of them are experimental materials!

Of course, if a predator is detected approaching, a swarm of insects will use itself as bait and make a huge noise in the distance to attract them to leave. These unintelligent creatures have almost no ability to distinguish and even have very little memory. , often as long as they are led away, they will naturally give up the original goal.

This is also the biggest magic weapon that Ruhr has been able to protect himself over the years. It was still like this when material was scarce. Now that he is much richer, there is no reason to be stingy about his own survival.

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In the darkness, the Zerg "New Universe" experimental base station quietly opened a gap, and the Zerg medium-sized units carrying several Colossian scientific researchers and the special equipment they carried slowly "floated" out of here. , and then the original gap quickly closed, re-completed the absolute closure.

In order not to cause possible dangers and ruin the entire group of scientific research talents it carried, this individual, which can be called the largest Zerg unit in this space, did not start the high-power propulsion engine, but relied on the base station at the time of departure. Given the initial motivation, he carefully completed his movement step by step and arrived near the outermost "dark energy" defense circle of the base station.

Here is the defensive circle that blocks the invasion of soul bodies. This technology is also a research result that the Colossians are proud of in recent years.

If it were three hundred years ago, the Zerg could even use its help to complete the push against the invading soul bodies of the main universe and block them within the entrance of the passage, instead of spending a huge amount of energy and fighting them for hundreds of years. Year’s “positional warfare”!

For this reason, the entire race of the Colossians has received preferential treatment from the Zerg in terms of resources, and even technological inclination and help. In the era of re-landing on the planet, they have developed more and more smoothly.

Even with the help of the brains of these intelligent races to help the Zerg in technological research and development, it is impossible for Zero to fully open all the technological achievements of the Zerg to all races. It is simply equivalent to cultivating a weakened version of the Zerg biological civilization. It is not necessary and will Bring unnecessary trouble to yourself.

Therefore, even if an intelligent race completes the research required by the Zerg and creates stunning results, the progress of Zergization will not be open to any intelligent race at all, and will be completed independently by the Cerebrates.

This is good now. Those technologies that the Zerg regard as ordinary or even unworthy of mentioning require a lot of effort to develop and research by ordinary races. Even if there are results, the cost issue will still plague them for quite some time, and some With the help of the Zerg, everything is no problem.

And this advantage is also one of Todd's means to ensure that each race remains vital in the competition.

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Quietly, this insect came to the edge of the defense circle. Compared with other places, the density of soul bodies here is already beyond the reach of the latter. The open environment always makes it difficult for these soul bodies to remain still, but Here, they all surround the entire base station and require less movement.

Ruhr observed all the changes here. Shortly after approaching the edge of the defense circle, he observed the soul body near the Zerg unit. It was like a rabbit being dragged by its hind legs, changing its shape crazily, trying hard Want to break free from some kind of bondage.

But everything was in vain, they were "pulled" from fast to slow into the container specially made by the Colossians.

In this wave, the Colossians completed the containment of ninety-two soul bodies of varying sizes and strengths. Of course, this container that existed as an experimental body also reached its limit.

Due to space and condition limitations, the remaining process needs to be performed inside the base station.

Only when these contained soul bodies have completed their true aggregation and can still be effectively contained can they meet Ruhr's requirements, otherwise it will be meaningless.

But judging from the moment, things are going quite smoothly.

The confused soul bodies will not automatically complete the fusion as long as they come into contact. In a sense, this behavior depends on the "will" of the "strongest" among them.

If it initiates the fusion behavior, then this process will almost certainly happen. For the Zerg, it requires a certain amount of luck.

Perhaps it was due to forced internment, but this process was completed soon after the Colossians completed their internment!

What is surprising is that the dark energy weapon they prepared to destroy the "unsealed" soul body did not come in use. Even after completing the fusion, it did not have the ability to resist the Colossians.

Of course, a soul body of this level cannot threaten any physical creature native to this space. It needs to be stronger!

What Ruhr needs to do now is to test the limits of the Glossians' soul body containment device, and cooperate with them to continuously improve and upgrade it, and then complete the Zerg-like application.

If it can be put to use, the Zerg will have real self-protection power for the first time in this "new universe"!

(End of this chapter)