Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 345 Psychic Reaction

Ruhr now barely has the power to protect itself. With the help of a large number of soul bodies that can be seen everywhere, it can threaten the vast majority of local creatures.

Of course, the efficiency is relatively low. If faced with a siege, it will still be massacred. This has been verified by "practice".

The outer space storm has subsided, and the Zerg can send a large swarm of Zerg here at any time, but this has no other meaning except causing big noise and attracting danger.

Thinking about it carefully, entering it with great fanfare now has no effect. If it attracts a large number of native creatures to attack, the insect swarm will not even have much chance of winning, and the whole situation will easily become corrupted.

Zero's plan is to quietly establish a base station like this in Ruhr in this space to expand the scope of the Zerg's influence here. At the same time, he will continue to advance his own research on the creatures here and give the Zerg swarm the ability to fight against this threat as soon as possible. ability.

At that time, it will be the best time for the Zerg to enter here in large numbers.

On both sides of the passage, the scientific research power of the entire Zerg race is being mobilized. The first thing to do is to use the biological materials obtained by Ruhr, so that the Zerg swarm can be qualified to confront the native creatures of the "New Universe" head-on.

Everything must be done slowly, guarding the exits, and trying to prevent large-scale reverse invasion of the main universe by native creatures. Although it is unlikely, judging from the current situation, even if there are, they will not be too numerous. , but Zero did not relax his vigilance, and monitored and prepared on both sides.

Now it seems that this change ultimately led by the wormhole passage may be an opportunity for the Zerg.

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The stars in the universe are disillusioned and are always in motion, moving from order to disorder, leading to the final outcome. After hundreds of millions of years, even the stars will burn out. Nothing is eternal.

Sixty-one years have passed, and the Zerg's footsteps in the main universe have spread across one star field after another. Except for the wonders of the universe that they encountered back then, which are always moving and it is not yet known whether they are living or dead, they have not encountered them. Any opponent who is even remotely threatening.

It is worth mentioning that eleven years ago, the vanguard of the Zerg swarm once again encountered the "remnants" of Korva, who were actually the Korva civilization that escaped that year. But now, Zero believes that the people who are dependent on the development of the Zerg are The Korva people represent the "orthodoxy" of Korva, so this fleeing civilization can only be called the remnants.

Encountering the Zerg again, these Korwa people who had finally settled down for hundreds of years did not hesitate too much and once again set sail towards the distance. This time, Zero believed that they would go far enough to wait. Never encounter a swarm again.

This encounter did not lead to a large-scale war. The main reason was that the Korva people made a very quick decision. Before the Zerg could gather a large enough fighting force, they had already left the building empty.

Like all the times before, Zero did not pursue, but continued to explore, monitoring the entire explored universe.

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Sixty years have passed, and the Zerg's research on the creatures of the "new universe" has finally yielded some results.

There are more and more Zerg base stations on the other side of the channel. On the premise of ensuring its own safety, the biological materials Ruhr can obtain are also increasing day by day. Although compared with the expected demand of the Zerg, it is still a drop in the bucket, but after continuous research on these materials, After all, Zero Armed Forces produced a new small insect species with a number of just over 6,000.

They have defense capabilities that are almost equivalent to those of the native creatures in the new universe, and have almost the same coordination capabilities. Their body shapes are basically similar to them. The only drawback is that their maneuverability there is slightly inferior, but this does not count at all. There is no flaw, because in nearly a hundred years of exploration, Ruhr has never encountered a gathering of more than a thousand predators, let alone a close cooperation.

The reason why there are only 6,000 new insect species is not because the materials Ruhr has provided for decades are only enough to arm so many individuals. In fact, the materials are just materials. It has lost the support of the biological body and it is difficult to exert its power. due role.

In the process of Zergization, there is also a loss rate for the utilization of this material. This number is not small, but in order to achieve the desired effect, this is the price that must be paid.

Although it is not yet known what kind of material is "under the skin" of those native creatures to constitute these unique lives, but if we only analyze it from the most superficial level, the gap in combat power between the insect swarm and them is not huge. big.

Therefore, in Zerg year 4481, they entered the channel and were dispersed to various base stations.

This time, Zero wants to get the "flesh and blood" of these creatures, not the skins!

With enough combat power, Ruhr no longer has to work hard to select lone individuals, and can just swarm them.

There were some unexpected changes in the process of the first battle. When the insect swarm participated in the siege with a numerical advantage of more than ten times, these native creatures would directly choose to flee. What is embarrassing is that the insects without the ability to jump in short-range space The group couldn't catch up.

Ruhr had to adjust his strategy, and finally got some "rules" through trial and error, that is, when the number of enemies of the same size is less than four times, the opponent is likely to choose to fight instead of fleeing. Once this number is exceeded, the probability of fleeing will decrease. It will increase dramatically!

This phenomenon itself represents some information, but Ruhr did not think too much at this time. It just completed Zero's mission faithfully and provided the main universe with the necessary research materials.

If Zero were in control of all this, he would immediately think that the existence of such a life-saving mechanism for these creatures most likely means that there are also existences that prey on them here. Faced with both ordinary insect species and enhanced insect swarms, This completely different attitude also means that they have extremely keen recognition of substances similar to their own bodies!

When this information is gathered together, an obvious conclusion can be drawn. When faced with a swarm of insects, they can easily tell whether the enemy is a threat to them.

The source of all this is obviously not the skins left after being devoured by their soul bodies, it is just the cheapest thing on their bodies!

After all, Ruhr's siege had its due effect. The first batch of Zerg units to attack brought back 634 corpses with varying degrees of mutilation.

Since the opponent is immune to most of the Zerg's attack methods, they can only use the most primitive method to bite and fight with the opponent in the dark, and ultimately win with numerical superiority.     But no matter what, the new research materials are considered to have been obtained.

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Ruhr saw an extremely complex structure that surpassed any natural life in the explored universe. In that small area, less than a square centimeter in size, there were more than ten million "pathways" that were incomprehensible.

It can be said that these creatures are simply composed of endless large and small pathways, connecting the whole body!

There is something unique inside the body. It is made of a strange substance that accounts for a very small proportion of the body weight, only about one percent. It is speculated that it may be a structure similar to the brain.

And this substance exudes a wave that Ruhl is quite familiar with - spiritual energy.

Of course, spiritual energy is not a substance, but it does contain the familiar power that Rule felt from Sass!

The scientific research power here in Ruhr is not enough to study this. At the same time, Sass with this characteristic is also in the real universe. Therefore, as soon as this characteristic was discovered, Ruhr decided to send it as soon as possible. In the main universe.

This time we took the initiative and won, it was actually a very important turning point.

If Ruhr used the large-scale aggregation of souls as a weapon to achieve his own goals before, and could be regarded as barely completing the Zerg's goal of self-protection, then this time's full-scale attack represents the first time that the Zerg has the ability to take the initiative to attack. ability!

Rule actually has some worries about the tens of thousands of powerful aggregated soul creatures that were cultivated through more than sixty years of activities and consumed billions of souls in total, but in the end could only be allowed to leave.

If it were in a state of nature, with the instincts of those muddled souls, even if their number was extremely large, it might take tens of thousands of years to give birth to such an individual that could be called a living body.

But now, the Zerg have released tens of thousands of them in just a few decades! Of course, these decades refer to the time of the main universe. Here, more than one hundred and fifty years have passed, but it still seems too fast!

If this universe is measured according to the general ecological circle of the main universe, then the sudden increase in powerful individuals in a short period of time will inevitably cause changes in the entire system, and may even eventually lead to the collapse of the system!

Of course, for this universe that can still be called unknown, violent reactions on such a small scale are more likely to lead to a series of unpredictable things!

If possible, Ruhr would not easily start the same hunting method as before, and would even have to find a way to deal with the powerful souls released by the Zerg before. In this early stage of exploration, everything is focused on stability.

It is undeniable that, judging from the current level of exploration by the Zerg, if the living bodies, including soul bodies, or "half-living bodies" in this universe are completely united, even if they are only partially united, and find the location of the entrance to the passage, then It will almost certainly cause huge trouble to the Zerg and even the entire explored universe!

Even if the threat to the survival of the Zerg can be said to be minimal, this kind of thing must of course be avoided at all costs. After a preliminary understanding of this place, what Zero wants is to turn this place into another logistics base for the Zerg, a special resource library, and even It is a retreat as a last resort, and we will never let them get out of control and invade the main universe.

Of course, the time flow rate on the opposite side of the channel is completely different from that in the main universe. It is also an extremely superior advantage for the Zerg. After the situation is stabilized, Zero will not let it go.

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Due to the difference in time flow between the two sides, although it took some time for Ruhr to execute the offensive operation, for Zero, less than half a month had passed.

For Him, this little time is not even a snap of a finger.

After receiving the information and a large amount of research materials provided by Ruhr, all Zerg intelligent units, including Sars, set their sights here, and those who took over these resources and information were originally stationed here to solve the space storm problem. , Zerg Joint Research Group.

In such a situation, Sasse, who knows this power best, could no longer continue its "black hole experiment" and rushed here quickly.

The first thing that attracted the attention of the research team was undoubtedly the "brain structure" that was suspected of possessing psychic reactions. However, this had to wait for Sass to arrive in person, and currently only its basic physical properties could be observed.

The body parts of these biological materials were quickly sent to research equipment such as dissecting tables, and were either decomposed or relatively intact, but all for the same purpose, to understand their internal functions within the bodies of these organisms. effect!

It is estimated that it will take six months for Sars to arrive from its research base. Within these six months, the Zerg joint scientific research team needs to figure out the real survival system of these creatures, including their survival habits in addition to the part about spiritual energy. , the reasons for being "loved" by high-energy soul bodies, etc.

Zero had too much information that he wanted to get from them. If they were not "brainless", he even hoped that the brainworms could directly extract their memories to obtain specific information about this strange world.

However, unexpectedly, the Zerg scientific research team discovered anomalies during the first phase of research!

Not just the "brain" area, these tiny "pipes" that make up the main part of their bodies also have "psionic reactions"!

Although its intensity is much weaker than the "brain", its existence is its existence, and it is enough to be discovered by the Zerg.

This discovery directly declares that this creature is an individual that relies on spiritual energy to exist!

The entire Zerg race had participated in the study of Sass's changes in those years. Although Sass himself was not as impressed by it, he could not say that he had no understanding of it. After a long period of research, that elusive phenomenon was finally revealed. It still allowed the Cerebrates to capture a trivial characteristic, which is also the basis for the Zerg to identify psychic reactions.

Visser suggested that in vivo experiments be carried out immediately, that is, let the new Zerg units directly inject or eat these "viscera" - if these are really the organs in their bodies.

As the material was not uncommon, the proposal was carried out without any objection.

So, when Sasse arrived at the experimental base in person, he observed an astonishing scene!

The reason why it is said to be "observed" rather than "seen" is because what is placed "in front of" it is an ordinary Zerg individual that is usually used as cannon fodder. At this moment, it is like Just like when it first gained psychic power, it lifted up out of thin air - a Zerg biological alloy with a mass of 0.7 grams.

Due to its huge density, this 0.7g of material even requires a magnifying glass to be seen.

Obviously, lifting a substance of this mass has reached its limit!

(End of this chapter)