Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 208 Comeback
This kind of bug at the microscopic level has entered a state of deep dormancy since birth, without showing the slightest sign of life, quietly floating in places invisible to the naked eye in the cosmic space, "drifting with the tide".

They are not so much a kind of bug as a kind of "spore", a kind of parasitic "spore".

Under normal circumstances, their form can be observed at the cellular level, but in the dark and cold universe, their existence is extremely difficult to detect, especially when they are dormant and have no signs of life.

The large Zerg battleships around him were destroyed one by one, and the burst of flames briefly illuminated the surrounding darkness. In order to quietly release these extremely large numbers of small lives, Sass gave up the idea of ​​letting the Zerg swarm break through with all their strength.

Once most of the main force is wiped out, the remaining defeated soldiers will not be able to compete with the mechanical cleaning team that follows. It is the same whether they flee or not.

Instead of this, it is better to use the large-scale combat power that the swarm can finally gather in this galaxy to guide the script originally set by the opponent in other directions, which can also serve as a counterattack in the future. planted hope.

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At this point in the battle, it can be said that all Viser's previous plans have completely failed. Now that the opponent occupies almost all the available resources in the galaxy, the swarm has lost the ability to lead the fleet to confront the opponent head-on.

This point, after Sass took over the command of the swarm of the HC-006 galaxy, he already understood it, and it is also the reason why it chose to sacrifice the main force of the swarm and carry out its own plan as if putting all its eggs in one basket.

Of course, even though it did this, it doesn't mean that hundreds of thousands of Zerg warships will give up resistance.

The tragic war is still going on, and the insect swarm is at a disadvantage. The overall number and combat power are slowly declining with the passage of time, and more microscopic insect species are released into the universe. .

This was a decisive battle carefully prepared by Mira. For this reason, she did not hesitate to hide in the safest place to grasp the overall situation, and personally controlled the fleet to fight against the Zerg. This meant that it had completely grasped the direction of the war.

And the final development of this war also gradually coincided with one of the many simulated wars, and finally led to the only result, the insect swarm is gradually dying!

Both Mira and Sass, who took over the command, had expected this result.

It is worth mentioning that these micro-level bugs spilled by the swarm do not come from larvae in the hatchery, but an immune species that can be regarded as carried by the zerg itself.

When the swarms were active on the surface of Ori, in order to deal with the powerful parasites in the ocean, under the leadership of Sass, they already had the initial immune system. Flesh energy produces a system of many microscopic insect species. When the Zerg is invaded from the microscopic aspect, it can also produce a large number of microscopic insect species from the microscopic level, thus launching a counterattack against the enemy.

Therefore, this technology has been valued for quite a long time, especially during that period of ocean exploration, and it was also one of the main research directions of Sass during that period.

After so many years, due to the lack of enemies in space and the lack of relevant levels of enemies, the Zerg Swarm has not changed much in this regard, and still maintains the old set, which can be regarded as the standard configuration of large Zerg units. up.

When there is no battle at the relevant level, this immune system will not actively work, it is equivalent to a redundant structure, and will not consume extra energy.But in fact, it is equivalent to an incubating structure built into the flesh and blood of a large worm species, and it can start activities as soon as it is needed.

This time, Sass used this structure to sprinkle countless tiny bugs into this vast universe. They did not cause any waves in the dark and deep space of the universe.

In fact, this action seems to be a sudden whim generated by Sass when he was ordered in danger, but it is actually the result of long-term thinking.

The hatchery that exists as the main functional unit of the Zerg base, and even the Devourer combined with the giant Zerg species, each has its own meaning, and it is an indispensable existence among the Zerg species. The hatching of large and medium-sized bug species , they are needed as the "matrix". If mechanical civilization is used as a metaphor, they are like industrial mother machines, and they are one of the sources of Zerg's strength.

In terms of the hatchery itself, over the years, except for the improvement in hatching efficiency and resource utilization, there is no fundamental difference from the beginning.

The work Sass has done over the years is actually only one point, that is, to make the birth of the hatchery itself no longer dependent on larvae, but to give the function of the Zerg birth hatchery to a more insignificant existence!
In other words, Sass made the Zerg no longer completely dependent on the hatchery to exist!
Before that, assuming that there is a mysterious power in this world that can instantly kill all the surviving hatcheries of the Zerg and all the Zerg species with hatching functions such as the Devourer, then all Zerg units will be lost. source.

Under the original conditions, the existence of the hatchery is an extremely inconspicuous weakness of the Zerg. If it can be completely eliminated and the larvae that were born in the hatchery will not exist among the Zerg, then even if the Zerg swarms are all over the star sea, there will eventually be The day of dying.

And now, the solution to this problem has been proposed by Sass, which has been aware of this hundreds of years ago. The long-term research results have finally been put into practice in the last days of the war!
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Under the crazy attack of the Mira mechanical fleet, the Zerg fleet fell into death in batches.

Losing biological activity, or being completely destroyed directly, is just the norm.

In this process, the mechanical fleet also paid a considerable price.Hundreds of thousands of mechanical battleships and Zerg space species have become space junk floating on the edge of the galaxy, and no one cares about them anymore.

This process was not completed within a few days or months. In fact, under the command of Sass, the war between the main force of the swarm and the mechanical fleet lasted for more than a year!
During this process, in addition to the two main battlefields, the mechanical fleet also entered the asteroid belt, and launched a protracted battle with the swarms that developed and expanded here. Here, the battlefield expanded and expanded, and the war began. Spread in this huge ring-shaped celestial body group.

In the vast universe, the distance of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of kilometers, even in an extremely passive situation, gave the swarm a lot of space to move around.

Even though there was a relatively complete plan for the future development of the swarm in the galaxy, Sass did not sit still. In the process, he led the swarm to inflict a lot of damage on the opponent.

But it doesn't make much sense, as long as Mira still exists, no amount of loss from the mechanical fleet is nothing.

For it, these losses are all worthwhile. As long as the main force of the Zerg dies, the next thing to do is to completely clean up the entire star system and erase the traces of biological existence from here!

Here, at the edge of the star system, is the world of many small celestial bodies.At the beginning of the birth of stars, they failed to gather enough mass to become the outermost planet, and eventually scattered all over the place, forming a special environment with a thin ring at the edge of the star system.

Here, the average distance from the stars exceeds 120 billion kilometers. Even if it is located in the center and rules the galaxy, it will take more than ten hours for its light to reach here!

Starting from that dwarf planet, the insect swarm has rapidly expanded towards the surrounding celestial bodies in the past time. Although the two main forces have been wiped out now, there are still a large number of insects in this extremely vast area Devourers, they are still continuing to collect resources from these celestial bodies, while enhancing their own combat power, they are engaged in fierce confrontation with the mechanical fleet.

Of course, they are also silently releasing microscopic insect species into the universe that even Sass himself can't count.

In the cosmic space, these little bugs did not show any miraculous powers, allowing themselves to be pushed far away by the initial speed carried by the mother body at the beginning of its birth, drifting aimlessly in the void.

Seriously speaking, even without these tiny worm species, it would be difficult for Mira to completely wipe out the zerg in this galaxy. There will always be some worms hidden in the dark and cold corners that survive, but that doesn't make much sense.

What Zero Wants is extremely similar to Mira.

Mira wants to exterminate the swarm, and Zero also wants to destroy it completely!For this reason, before that, He even wanted to dispatch a large group of Zergs here from various nearby galaxies, spanning a long journey of hundreds of years, and strangle them!

Of course, this is actually unwise, taking a long journey in units of light-years to fight with the mechanical civilization that sits on the entire galaxy, not to mention whether it is enough to compete with the opponent after arriving, at the current maximum space speed of the Zerg, waiting for the civilization from other galaxies When the Zerg reinforcements arrive here, it is completely unpredictable to what extent the opponent will develop.

Therefore, the best way is to eliminate the opponent on the spot, so as to avoid future troubles forever.

It's a pity that in the previous war, it was the Zerg that was almost wiped out by the opponent...

The war has progressed to this extent, and it can be said that it has basically come to an end. Mira led its fleet and began to sweep across the asteroid belt. The only insect swarm collided with the opponent several times under the organization of Sass. , died without illness.

Acting requires a complete set, and Sass is trying to maintain Visser's "worm design" as much as possible, and is also trying to use this method to divert the other party's attention and ensure the concealment of his own plan as much as possible.

For the mechanical life of Mira, Sass attaches great importance to it. It is a real intelligent life with powerful computing power. Any abnormality displayed by the insect swarm may be calculated and analyzed by the other party. This point Viser has used painfully The lessons of it have been verified for it.

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Numerous mechanical battleships are carrying out the final clean-up of the Zerg in the asteroid belt. At the same time, a large number of left-behind warships that originally stayed in planetary orbits are also setting off one after another. They are responsible for cleaning up the Zerg units floating in the inner space of the galaxy.

Clearing up the swarm is destined to be a long process, and with the size of the star system, it is extremely difficult to accomplish this.

After organizing Zerg swarms and mechanical fleets in the asteroid belt for several times and being defeated, Sass has completed his performance. All existing large Zerg units gradually began to break up into pieces, sneak into the interior of the celestial body, and even used himself as a Nourishing, hiding the body in the dark, or among many small celestial bodies, fell into a deep dormancy, waiting for the day when it will be awakened again.

During the long wait, a large number of bugs may die because of being discovered by the other party, but these Sass don't care anymore, it has more important things to do.

In the galaxy, the mechanical fleet is moving horizontally, and Mira is undergoing the final large-scale expansion. Due to the influence of the underlying instructions, it needs enough power to clear the possible life in the entire galaxy. Once this goal is truly completed, These so-called mechanical fleets have little meaning to it.

In this state, ten years passed in a flash.

Ten years is not too long for an intelligent civilization. When a civilization develops to a certain level, it takes a lot of time and effort to take every step forward.

For the Zerg, within ten years, the fifth round of expansion activities has already started. The war in the HC-006 galaxy did not affect the development of the Zergs in other galaxies. After entering the new galaxy, they quickly accumulated enough energy and resources to dispatch a fifth round of Zerg colony fleet.

If you have to say that the previous war in the HC-006 galaxy has any impact on the Zerg, it is that the Zerg fleet responsible for the new round of expansion, each equipped with a weapon system, they no longer take it for granted that other star systems are defenseless , but began to face each galaxy that was about to arrive with the most cautious attitude.

Although he was defeated in the last war, Zero did not have any opinion on Visser. It is still the commander-in-chief of the Zerg colonization team except for the HC-006 galaxy. The expansion and development of the Zerg in each galaxy is controlled by it. to take control.

Visser has extensive experience in colonization and expansion.

HC-006 galaxy, starlight against a dark cosmic background.

The past ten years have not been peaceful. The mechanical fleet's clearance operation will always start somewhere in the galaxy. Some bugs dormant in the deep space of the universe are discovered, and then die in the laser and artillery fire.

In the original war, Sass basically knew what kind of civilization the opponent was. Based on the fact that it had to attack the swarms that had lost their offensive capabilities after the war had progressed to such an extent, this pair must be wiped out. The performance of killing gives it reason to doubt the logic of this mechanical civilization for the existence of life.

But this is not important. The two sides have already established an absolute hostile relationship. All Sass has to do is to destroy the other side.

Time passed little by little, and at some point, on the edge of the HC-006 galaxy, on a piece of Zerg war wreckage that had been floating under the starry sky for ten years, the originally cold and silent corpse gradually began to have an unusual movement.

At the same time, deep underground on Planet No. [-], a small Zerg underground energy unit extended its tentacles into the hot magma and began to absorb energy from the earth's core.And on top of it, there is a living worm connected - the hatchery!

Energy units are expanding here extremely covertly, and there are also small devourers quietly growing in the hatchery.This is the first small base for the Zerg to launch activities after their defeat in the last battle, but it is far from the last.

Planet No. [-], many satellites in the orbit of planet No. [-] and No. [-], in the next few months, Zerg bases will be quietly established and developed underground one after another.

This time, Sass was careful enough.

At the beginning, Sass controlled the insect swarm to spread an extremely exaggerated number of microscopic insects into the universe, unable to move independently and without any attack ability. In addition to their main function of obtaining energy and resources and regrowing into a hatchery , was not endowed with too many other abilities, only one point, and it was one of the reasons why Sass released them at a huge price on the battlefield.

— Adsorption.

Once a mechanical fleet passes by, these bugs, which are tens of millions of times smaller than sand and gravel, will quietly absorb on it, and follow them to "swim" throughout the galaxy, and finally, by chance and coincidence, After all, some Zerg units reached the surface of the celestial bodies and planets. At that moment, they were awakened by Sass, and they "fall off" silently, blending into the underground environment.

In the ten years after the end of the war, Mira launched a large-scale sweep of the Zerg units in the entire galaxy. Its efficiency was quite high. With a large number of mechanical fleets and precise command, in the past ten years, Mira Almost half of the star system has been sorted out, and there are no Zerg units that originally existed in this area.

If it is really given enough time, perhaps in a few decades, it can really reduce the presence of the Zerg in this galaxy to a freezing point.

However, those bugs that were wiped out by Mira were just the necessary price paid by Sass in order to achieve his own goals.

It was just after they had sorted out the enemy that an all-round counterattack was brewing under the leadership of Sass.

Some bugs reawakened inside the asteroid, and some biological fission reactors were reactivated to provide energy for the surviving Zerg units.

On some scattered celestial bodies, the tiny insect species that had been silent for a long time gradually began to move.

Ten years have passed, and as the mechanical fleet shuttled through the entire galaxy, these extremely large number of microscopic insect species were also brought to every corner of the galaxy by them.

At this moment, from the extreme depths of the planet's underground, to the various satellites and asteroids, another premeditated expansion has begun in unison.

To this day, Mira still controls almost all the resources in the entire galaxy. The situation seems to be the same as before, but it is actually completely different.

Before that war, the Zerg didn't even have the chance to land on the massive planets in these inner galaxies. They could only occupy the three small satellites of planet No. [-] to compete with Mira, and they inevitably failed in the end.

But now, under almost every planet occupied by Mira's mechanical civilization, there are insect swarms secretly developing. It can be said that under the shadow of mechanical civilization, there are Zerg figures!
A long-planned counterattack was quietly brewing.

(End of this chapter)