Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 361 Ceremony

Mira is indeed here to support, but the intended target is not here, but the Zerg on the second battlefield.

According to battlefield modeling and deduction, if the war is guided in a predetermined direction and an attack of such intensity is released, it is enough to eliminate more than three enemy support units at once, which can reduce the pressure on the Zerg psychic units here.

These freed-up insect swarms can be temporarily put into other battlefields, and the first and second battlefields are directly taken over by Mira.

This was its original plan, to turn Zhuna into a weapon. It was only studied and passed by it in the past hundred years. This technology has also been tried by the Zerg. At the beginning, it tried to turn Zhuna into a weapon. A mobile bioenergy supply base station for the swarm, but it had to be shelved due to excessive technical difficulties.

Until three hundred years ago, after the war with the three major civilizations ended, Mira started her own space travel. Its mechanical fleet was not for the purpose of proliferation, but for real exploration. Through space jumps, it could randomly Choose a galaxy near or far to explore.

There was nothing special about this at first, until one day, it discovered a strange star field.

It's not strange to say it is. Its biggest feature is that there is no trace of Zhuna here!

Judging from past explorations, Zhuna's footprints can be said to be all over the universe. Even if a living Zhuna clone is not found in a star field, you can still find proof that it once existed, such as stars and their There are "age" levels that do not match the time, or there are planets where the original life has been wiped out, etc.

But here, there are several galaxies with diameters of tens of thousands of light-years, but there is no proof of their existence.

In fact, there is nothing special about this book. If it is zero, there is a high probability that it will not care about these small things. But Mira is different. Its sensitivity to data and phenomena is extremely exaggerated. As long as it wants to, its huge computing power can support it. It explores countless planets at the same time, and therefore, it notices this and conducts in-depth exploration of the reasons for its existence.

Finally, Mira found some special "materials" in this star field.

Perhaps it was a coincidence caused by the formation of matter at the beginning of the universe. During the study of these materials, Mira discovered the reason why Zhuna does not exist here!

These are widely present in the planetary environment, but they seem to contain some complex compounds of elements that Mira has never recognized, and they have the ability to "bind" Zhuna!

It is not the kind of restraint when being contained by the insect swarm. Its existence itself can bring an irreversible transformation to the living Zhuna. When the life activities disappear, Zhuna will also become an extremely unstable high-energy Compressing the energy source only requires an opportunity to explode with powerful attack power!

This is the source of the weapons used by Mira, but unfortunately, this material is extremely rare and extremely difficult to mine. After hundreds of years, Mira can only "accumulate" this batch of warships. That's all, they can almost be said to be non-renewable resources, just like the original Zerg psychic units.

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Zero didn't know this. Mira didn't send any information, but through its actions, Zero also guessed something.

There is a high probability that Mira can only come here once?

There is a saying that such an attack is strong enough on a large-scale battlefield, even enough to allow the insect swarm to reverse the situation on the battlefield, but now it is used on a single alien beast.

It is true that this cost the other party a lot of money, but such a big movement only caused some damage to one of the 30,000 alien beasts that invaded the main universe!

Very uneconomical.

Zero felt that he might need to talk to Mira about making Zhuna into a weapon. If the Zerg could have such a weapon, they would be able to liberate a large number of Zerg psychic units, whether they were used to deal with the undead, Whether it is used to deal with magical beasts, it can greatly relieve the current pressure of the Zerg.

Judging from past experiences, especially when Mira "stealed" the Zerg space technology research results, Mira did not strictly control the flow of technology. After all, in the "theft" incident that year, it finally left What he also gave to the Zerg was a series of results he had researched, which at that time also promoted the further development of Zerg technology. Although it was a forced purchase and sale, it could barely be regarded as an exchange of equal value.

Zero felt that if the Zerg needed Mira to provide such information and technology, they would most likely need to provide something in exchange.

Perhaps, biological materials from the new universe are a good choice.

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Not long after the alien beasts broke through the Zerg defense line and scattered unorganized in the deep space of the universe, Zero observed the movements of the undead on the other side!

Today, the enemies that invade the main universe can be roughly divided into four races, bugs, magical technological civilizations, undead, and magical beasts.

Among them, the zerg and magic civilization were temporarily blocked by the swarm near the space passage. Although the price paid was extremely heavy, enough to make several intelligent races in the interstellar era "bankrupt", but for Zero, this was all worth it.

As for the undead and magical beasts, they were forced to be put into the main universe due to the unstoppable relationship, and the insect swarm could only conduct basic surveillance on them.

Just after the defense of the fifth battlefield failed, the undead who were originally "hibernating" in a planetary system made new moves!

In the extremely long-distance field of view of the Zerg observation unit, Zero saw them opening a space rift through "sacrifice"!

It is not an offensive crack caused by the explosion of Zerg space weapons, but a crack that seems to tear a hole in the original "wall" and connect the two rooms together!

This change in space touched a familiar nerve in Zero, making him feel that he already knew what they were doing!

I originally thought that no new enemies would appear on the third battlefield, and there would be no more undead additions. I thought that the undead race would only invade with these forces this time, but now it seems that is not the case!

With the help of some mysterious "sacrifice" ritual, the magic fluctuations on the bodies of various strong or weak undead become more and more intense, as if they are "leading" something out!

Zero is very surprised that the Zerg almost gave up guarding the space passage where the undead appeared at that time. If the enemy wants to summon their companions, they only need to let them reach the main universe through the third passage, and they also have some kind of With the mysterious protection and the cover of these undead, there is a high probability that the insect swarm will be unable to stop it.

But the enemy did not do this. This only shows that either there are some restrictions on the channels that transmit them, or what they are doing can only be done in the main universe!

With zero intention to stop the opponent, the swarm of insects swarmed towards the center of the enemy with a suicidal attack. The mysterious "space altar" was there, and the huge space crack was also there!

The powerful space cannon of the insect swarm was operating crazily, trying to interfere with the opponent's "ritual" from a distance. But the protection of the "altar" is the most important mission of these undead!

They gathered a large number of companions and almost completely wrapped the entire spatial altar with their bodies. Undead magic surged to resist the seemingly endless attacks of the insect swarms.

Zero noticed that they seemed to have completed the connection with the "altar" to some extent, forming a unique "circuit" between the two parties, allowing these undead to have a steady stream of magic output!

The insect swarm's attempt to charge was also resisted by the incorporeal "enchantment" that was extremely sensitive to the existence of life. Within this distance, the insect swarm was like a bat exposed to the noon sun. There is absolutely nothing to hide from.

Zero remained unmoved. The insect swarm, driven by the antimatter energy extracted from behind, continuously released huge energy into that space!

Magic, in the final analysis, is also a kind of energy. It may be of extremely high quality, but it is absolutely impossible to have no limit!

If these undead take the initiative to disperse and attack the insect swarm, Zero does not think that these insects can threaten them. On the contrary, they may even become the opponent's accomplice in the war.

But since there are already a large number of undead that cannot move easily in order to protect the "altar", then they have become a "shining" living target in the dark. No matter how tight the defense is, any attack from the Zerg can hit it. Here, Zero believes that as long as the opponent's "magic power" is not unlimited, it will inevitably be affected!

Sure enough, after continuously releasing nearly a dozen oriday bombardments through a combination of distance and distance, Zero once again observed the enemy's large-scale action!

They began to mobilize individuals near the altar and actively drove away the nearby insect swarms!

This is clearly Zero's tactic working!

Although I don’t know what impact it has on the other party or whether it has interrupted the enemy’s “ritual”, the current reaction of the other party does not seem to be very smooth.

The insect swarm was slaughtered crazily under the opponent's initiative, and some of them were even "assimilated" by the enemy in the future and self-annihilation, but Zero did not find it difficult to accept it.

Firstly, the swarm of insects seems to have caused interference to what the other party is doing. Secondly, the research of the Zerg scientific research team shows that these assimilated individuals are not very strong in combat ability at the beginning. They are likely to follow the undead magic. It quickly becomes stronger as it continues to be affected, but at the beginning of being assimilated, there isn't much special about it.

Of course, the so-called immortal body should be regarded as one, but under the threat of the Zerg anti-matter cannon, there is no such thing as "immortality". After all, their "magic" is not real magic, and there is a high probability that there is no possibility of resurrection in the void.

If it exists, perhaps Zero should consider using this characteristic of the other party to study the "immortality" mechanism of the Zerg brainworm.

The swarm continued to attack despite the enemy's counterattack. Perhaps Zero could not limit the enemy to a certain range, but since they actively had a fixed base and exposed some extremely strong and detrimental purpose to the zerg, as long as they were sure The insect swarm can cause interference to the opponent. Tens of millions or more insect swarms will die, and the energy loss is immeasurable. Zero will not care.

Sixteen Oridays later, Zero keenly observed that the space crack had become much wider. The swarms of insects that kept rushing forward and risking their lives could occasionally bring Zero a brief view of the enemy's core area. Through that point Perhaps with millions of Zerg units in exchange for a few seconds or even shorter observations, he noticed something unusual!

This does not seem to be simply to obtain the source of magic, or to "summon" companions to come. The expansion of this crack does not seem to form a passage, but is like being opened from the other side, part of the real universe , turned to the other side!

Zero wasn't sure what this was doing, but the swarm's attack didn't seem to be that effective.

The damage caused to the enemy is extremely limited, and most of the time those killed are companions who have been assimilated by the enemy.

But the other party's reaction didn't look like a lie, nor did it look like a counterattack out of annoyance. Zero felt that the insect swarm had indeed threatened the enemy's actions, but he just hadn't found the key!

That space altar? Or is it an expanding space rift?

The swarm can't even touch them! The nearby undead magic, coupled with the enemy's powerful individual melee capabilities, stopped all units that dared to engage in melee combat.

This is not a matter of quantity. Even if the insect swarm has the ability to completely surround the place, it cannot go beyond the thunder pool. Death and assimilation will even occur while the creature is still alive!

Apart from long-range interference, the insect swarm is powerless at this distance.

"Maybe we should let psychic units try it?"

Zero was thinking this way, but suddenly an idea came to him!

Maybe the problem isn't the threat of the swarms to the altar or the rift, because they really can't reach there.

Things should still go back to the issue of the "total amount of magic" in the main universe!

It would seem to make sense if the crazy and uninterrupted attacks of the insect swarm would consume the enemy's "magic" reserves and make the enemy's supply exceed demand!

The "ritual" initiated by the undead will most likely not be driven by the energy in the main universe. Zero already knows that the other party has some kind of "energy source" that can continuously replenish the undead that invade the main universe. Consumption, but what they are doing now is obviously an out-and-out "big project". Perhaps the reason why they stayed in the past time is to prepare for this matter. The so-called source of magic is also A prelude to this "ceremony".

But now it seems that the other party must have a "budget" problem. Either they underestimated the consumption of this "ritual", or they underestimated the impact of the insect swarm's counterattack regardless of the cost!

Zero no longer cares about the death or injury of the insect swarm. The material and energy accumulated by the insect swarm in the past thousands of years are being consumed crazily, and behind, there are endless insect swarms being hatched on the insect nest mothership.

The "dark side of the universe" as the Velvet people call it is being extracted by the insect swarm in a special form. The collision of matter and antimatter causes everything to be annihilated. And in this process, the insect swarm subtly interferes with the other party. A "ceremony" that has been prepared for nine years!

At this time, Zero didn't know what it was, but as the insect swarm continued to attack, the space cracks that changed significantly slower told him that the insect swarm successfully destroyed the opponent's actions!

Of course, it’s just once!

Perhaps seeing that there was nothing they could do, a large number of undead began to "migrate" again, giving up everything they had prepared before, and did not forget to clean up the besieging insect fleet in a venting manner.

But there is no doubt that this time, they are the losers, even if the insect swarm has paid at least ten figures of casualties and countless accumulation of material and energy.

(End of this chapter)