Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 295 Weakness?

Zero can clearly feel the opponent's invasion. Those detectors hidden in the dark universe, with the help of their sensitive action advantages, coupled with the technology that far exceeds the Zerg itself, are quite elusive. Often the Zerg has just discovered the opponent, They have already left.

It can also be inferred from this that there should be many times when the other party does not expose themselves, which means that their penetration of the Zerg far exceeds the scale of their current exposure.

Zero sometimes feels that he has almost lost his emotions. The long time makes everything seem to be no longer important.But sometimes, he will still feel obvious emotional fluctuations due to some things, making him feel that he is still a "creature"

Just like this time, as time went by and faced with the other party's long-term and continuous harassment, Zero gradually changed from not caring to being slightly annoyed. Watching the other party's detectors and spaceships roaming the territory like annoying mosquitoes, For him, who has always been completely controlled by the insect swarm wherever he goes, this "discomfort" is gradually getting worse.

However, the gap in technological level makes the insect swarm helpless. As long as the other party does not actively entangle with the large-scale insect swarm, it can really be said that they can come and leave as they please.

Before the Zerg technology breaks through or finds a way to intercept the opponent, Zero really has no way to take the initiative to cause trouble for them.

Moreover, even if these annoying "mosquitoes" are destroyed, they are actually nothing to the other party. The only benefit is to clear one's own sphere of influence. Perhaps some research materials can also be obtained to speed up the development of the Zerg in the corresponding aspects. research progress.

This is also the source of Zero's frustration. He can see it, but can't catch up. There is nothing he can do about it.

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Time passed little by little, and Ling Suan no longer paid attention to this place. He turned his attention to the Zerg scientific research team controlled by Todd.

Compared with 400 years ago, today's Zerg can be said to be in full bloom in terms of scientific research. This is one of the reasons why the Zerg has been able to make progress in such high-precision aspects as space technology within a few decades.

On the road of conquest, when the insect swarms cross the void space between galaxies, they will always encounter some intelligent races.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in a galaxy. Even if it is just based on probability, the insect swarms that have arrived in one star field after another in the past few hundred years should encounter more intelligent groups.

And the fact is exactly the same. As a brainworm specializing in this aspect of management, Todd's "research institutes" can be said to be all over the galaxies. Except for the galaxies occupied by Zhuna and showing a barren life, it The Swarm has established its own "research branches" in almost all of the star fields that have been explored.

Thanks to the long-distance barrier-free communication provided by the Hive Mind, although it is the only one engaged in this field, the development of the Zerg's scientific research strength over the years is also obvious to all.

Especially in terms of governing intelligent races, no brainworm within the Zerg has more rich experience than it.

It is not an easy task to control an intelligent race, especially if it is done properly while ensuring that the other party can be used by the Zerg.Although the Zerg can make the other party surrender through absolute force and authority, it cannot be so simple and crude if they want the other party to truly serve the Zerg.

Fortunately, with the cooperation of the Zerg lurkers and Todd's art of governance, the process of this matter was shortened a lot, allowing these individuals with long or short lifespans to integrate in just over four hundred years. In the extreme technological system created by the Zerg.

To this day, the population of the Velvites, including the Federation, has even surpassed that before the war was launched.

After all, living in the body of a huge living bug, other Todd can't guarantee safety, especially life safety, which he can arrange properly with his eyes closed.

For a civilization, a large population base brings many benefits, but in the case of the Zerg, the only use they can provide is to increase the chance of true geniuses being born.

Always paying attention to the harassment from the other party made Zero more and more annoyed. Since there was nothing he could do for the time being, he no longer deliberately guided his emotions to develop into a rage.

As a result, the Zerg's scientific research system came into his sight.

To get rid of this harassment, the biggest prerequisite is that these widely distributed Zerg scientific research base stations can break through the basic technology of the Zerg swarm and bring more development possibilities to the Zerg.

It is worth mentioning that after some intelligent races "semi-integrated" into the Zerg, super-distance image communication similar to Mira's was also used between various scientific research base stations.After all, the Zerg themselves can directly communicate extremely efficiently through the Hive Mind, but these intelligent race individuals cannot do this. If you want to truly connect all the scattered scientific research base stations into a whole, you cannot rely on Todd to dictate. In short, They still have to rely on themselves.

Of course, this matter is actually not particularly difficult. In the process of "merging" a large number of intelligent races (with force), the Zerg obtained many "useless" technologies from more developed civilizations, and even some sword walking The skewed science and technology tree points to a crooked civilization. This knowledge can only be used as a reference for the Zerg, but for these intelligent tribes, it is a real treasure.

Over the years, combined with the Zerg's continuous plunder and its own integrated development, the intelligent race to which the Zerg belongs has developed a complete technological system of its own.

Although the scientific research results in the military industry are unique due to the priority given to meeting the needs of the Zerg, the development of science and technology has never been unrelated. By the way, within their "residence", people's livelihood technology has also been greatly improved. For the Zerg, An existence that is said to be completely unnecessary is indispensable to them.

At this moment, Zero is paying attention to the experiments conducted in a large Zerg scientific research base deep in the hinterland of the Zerg star field, that is, in the galaxy of origin where Orui is located.

Todd's true identity is here, and after hundreds of years of development, this place has already changed.Several surrounding star systems have been turned into "living areas" by Todd to "reward" individuals of these intelligent races, and there are even planets specially modified for them.

In terms of "scientific research incentives", Todd is not stingy. It doesn't take much effort anyway, and it won't have any impact on the Zerg. It's nothing more than some resources and energy, and that's almost endless.

Compared with intelligent civilizations such as the Hero Federation, although the Zerg cannot be compared with them in terms of overall technology, the simplicity of transforming a planet in this era is definitely far superior to that of the Zerg.Because the "human cost" of the insect swarm, mining costs, etc., are almost zero.

Therefore, Todd is also happy to set an example for many intelligent race individuals and potential scientific research talents, including scientific research base stations in other star fields. They all operate the same, sooner or later.

Of course, in addition to this, there are naturally many indispensable scientific research equipment here. Although each retains some of the characteristics of scientific and technological civilization, there are also strong Zerg characteristics.

In this star field, such as the particle collider orbiting the planet, the large deep space telescope, and the quantum research station lying under the light of the star like a space station, two pairs of not far apart but quite special, there are enough A very large space simulation device with a medium satellite size and a spherical shape, etc.They are all finished products that Todd has provided ideas and drawings from specific scientific researchers based on scientific research needs, and combined with many brainworms to carry out Zerg transformation. Over the years, many scientific research results have been produced here, such as now Anti-matter cannons and increasingly sophisticated space cutting technology have become the main means of attack for the Zerg.

At this moment, Zero observed that there were violent abnormal fluctuations flowing through a pair of space simulation devices. This was the Zerg scientific research team that was trying to simulate the space jumping technology of the Hero Federation. Of course, the quality of the jumping material they used It is extremely tiny and can only be regarded as a bunch of particle beams.

But obviously this matter is not easy. Even if the mass is so small and the distance is shortened as much as possible, they have not been able to obtain effective results. Zero saw with his own eyes that this experiment failed halfway through, and the scattered Many young and old scientific researchers in different laboratories could not help but feel disappointed for a moment.

For Zero, as long as he wants to know, there will be no secrets wherever there are Zerg individuals in this star field.Including Todd himself is also paying attention to this experiment. As a brain worm, it understands Zero's recent state better, and also knows how far the Zerg must reach to change the status quo and take the initiative.

But scientific research never happens overnight. Except for the knowledge plunder of the Zerg brainworms, which is a shortcut, scientific research in the conventional sense always requires some precipitation and sometimes some luck.

One failure does not make Zero feel discouraged, but it seems that failures similar to this one have happened countless times.

Zero had no intention of looking through those experimental records. He knew that every progress of the Zerg race was closely related to the experiments here. In the absence of large-scale wars, the Cerebrates who had long since stepped down from the task of leading expansion were also involved, and even Sass All trying to help.

In this matter, there is indeed no reason to be harsh.

only……

As long as he thinks about it, he will see flies scurrying under his nose but cannot be destroyed, which really makes him a little concerned.

Zero knew that these flies were actually exploring the territory of the Zerg in this way. In addition to wanting to understand the current sphere of influence of the Zerg, the more reason was probably to find the weakness of the Zerg, which was destined not to have much impact. Much gain, but if they find an opportunity to destroy the wormhole passage from behind, although there will be no fundamental loss, it will be disgusting enough.

However, the purpose of the alliance's only fleet today is not just that.

Just when Zero gave up observation near the expansion front and turned his attention to scientific research, those detectors that Zero called "flies" also discovered many unique targets!

These include many entrances to wormholes. This special bug has amazed the three major civilizations.In addition, they also found many relics of civilizations destroyed by the swarm in the star field where the Zerg and Mira fought.

And most importantly, they also discovered a unique Zerg fleet!

That was the elite Hive Fleet commanded by Sk. In order to support the war with Mira, and also to obtain the scientific research results of other civilizations more quickly, it led a Hive Fleet to arrive here. At the end of the war Then he stayed nearby.

Also distributed in various directions of expansion are other Cerebrates of the Zerg race, except Todd and Sass.

But they are not here. Only Sk's fleet, which is obviously different from ordinary Zerg space units, was discovered by the other party.

Soon after, the other party had already determined the size of this special group of insects and concluded that they were the "elite units" of the Zerg race. They were individuals of the Zerg race that no one, including the Federation, had ever come into contact with.

Of course, in fact, they are not much different from Zerg individuals in the conventional sense. They are also unable to catch up with the opponent's maneuvers, and they do not have the ability to jump in space. They only have stronger force on both offense and defense. Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary civilizations , they are already very different from ordinary insect swarms, but for the Alliance, this enhancement is basically nothing.

He wanted to test the opponent's fighting strength, but Korva gave up in the end.Although our own side has obvious technological advantages, the number is too small. The main goal now is to block the path forward of the swarm, control all the wormhole nodes in the rear, and slow down the expansion of the swarm, rather than destroying a dispensable fleet.

Including dispatching real combat units to launch attacks on the Zerg's rear, it's not that it can't be done, but the priority must be lower. After the production capacity of the industrial base meets the demand, these will be put on the agenda.

However, the next discovery made by the detector made Korva, who was temporarily leading the matter, and the entire alliance pay attention to it.

In the center of this fleet, they found that the other side was carrying out some kind of activity, just like their own expanding industrial base. The difference was that compared to their own destruction and mining, the other side... was actually building!

It is construction in the true sense, just like the expansion of our own colonies in the explored universe. They seem to be... transforming a planet? !

Does a race that focuses on destruction and plunder also have the need to build a living planet?

Whether it is the Hero Federation or the Vege Empire, after obtaining the exact information through Korva's communication system, they have already reached a conclusion without even requiring too rigorous analysis.

In so many years of contact, the Zerg did not know much about the Federation and the three major civilizations, but the other party obviously knew a lot about the Zerg.

In that endless star system, all places are being mined and destroyed.Under this premise, this kind of construction behavior is as conspicuous as an oasis in the desert, and it seems very unreasonable!

They are convinced that the Zerg must have a purpose for doing this. For such a race, if there is no need, they would not be able to spend their energy doing such "extra" things!

survey!

This was Korva's first reaction. Maybe this was the weakness of the Zerg that they wanted to find? !

No one is sure, but they're willing to give it a try.

(End of this chapter)