Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 318 Soul
In the galaxy of origin, in the star field ruled by Visser, the Zerg once "digged" such a structure on a planet with primitive life. However, in the long period of time that followed, whether it was zero or Many brainworms basically use it as a creation of a higher civilization.

Many of its advanced technologies brought a lot of inspiration to the Zerg at that time, and directly led to the great expansion of the Zerg in the galaxy of origin.

But Zero had never figured out what role its functional structure played. He attributed this to the lack of basic technological level, so he simply put it aside. Until today, when it appeared in front of Zero again, Especially when it appeared in this special way, through some unique means, Zero finally realized what its function was!
Combined with the information left behind by the brainworm when it died, it is obvious that such a strong purpose cannot be a natural phenomenon. What is the purpose of this change that originated from the wormhole and brought this change to the entire universe? Why does "it" have to use such deceptive means to carry out its activities?Why didn't the Zerg react at all in the first place?
For a moment, Zero's thoughts were running wild.

Maybe this matter does have something to do with the three major civilizations, but now it seems that its root cause should have nothing to do with them. Even judging from the reactions in the past hundred years, maybe they are also one of the victims.

Then, it is unknown whether Zero can finally get the answers he wants from the three major civilizations.But no matter what, it is always right to find them first.

Zero attempts to "divide" the Zerg species in a biological sense so that these individuals who are completely different from the mainstream Zerg species can bear this "price", but the result is useless.

Zero has to be prepared to continue to experience this kind of loss for a long time to come. Of course, the Zerg's foundation is strong enough and its basic market is large enough to withstand such losses.

As for further research on the wormhole passage, Zero will not let it go. Now that something has been discovered, there is no reason to stop.

When an accident occurs in the wormhole, all nearby life will be involved, and death will come soon afterwards. This is a conclusion that has been tested with the lives of 200 million large and small Zerg units, but this still does not change His determination to look closely.

For individual Zerg, death is just another reincarnation of resources.

The first thing Zero needs to figure out is what is the "thing" that "comes out" from the wormhole and can make the entire star and all the celestial bodies rotating around it disappear temporarily in various senses, and Zhuna How to complete the permanent closure of these wormholes.

The former may be a bit difficult, but the latter is not difficult given the Zerg's current capabilities.

In another unfamiliar star field, Zero performed a nearly identical operation and once again conducted close observation.

This time, Zhu Na came as promised.

Even if all the Zerg units in close range were cleared out shortly after the incident happened, Zero could not observe what was happening at the location of the original star at the first time, but the extremely violent energy reaction and the powerful universe The radiation is telling Zero that Zhuna is burning her life there!
For this kind of energy life, the Zerg has done relatively little research on it in the past 1000 years. The main reason is that in the past time, all the information that can be obtained directly from the appearance has been completely collected.

So far, the Zerg have no real effective way to "capture" or even contain Zhuna. Therefore, in addition to doing a lot of speculative research on its "leap" ability and obtaining some ideas and results of practical significance, under ordinary circumstances Zero always turns a blind eye to Zhuna who likes to cling to stars.

It is worth mentioning that after great progress in space weapons, the Zerg also had the ability to harm Zhuna without resorting to profound changes in the wormhole, but Zero did not start massacring and cleaning up this creature unless it actively interfered Zerg production activities.

But at this moment, Zero felt Zhuna's "fighting for life" state for the first time in a long time. Zhuna's fragments came from the distant star field to recombine here, and finally devoted themselves to an action that might cost them their lives. Among them, just like wrapping stars in the past, their "bodies" cover this dark universe where stars no longer exist. What they emit is difficult to observe with the naked eye, but it actually exists. Huge energy.

Zero finally "saw" it, he knew what it was and what Zhuna was doing.

Energy and matter began to transform in Zhuna's body. It was as if it was using its burning life to make up for this huge "loophole". Even if it didn't do this, this "loophole" would heal naturally, but Zero It can be felt that although Zhuna does not have the thinking like an intelligent race, at this moment, it is not so much its instinct as it is its obsession!

Before the birth of the Zerg, perhaps in a much more distant time, there must have been some connection between a creature like Zhuna, or this species, and the unknown existence that brought huge influence to the real universe from the wormhole. This kind of unknown "connection" can make it possible that once this kind of mutation occurs, Zhuna's clones distributed in the distant star field will concentrate here at all costs.

Even in normal times, they are always trying to actively close the natural wormhole entrance, and all of this is not without reason.

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The boundary between matter and energy has become blurred here, and this unattainable change for the Zerg is coming to an end with Zhuna's rapid weakening!
Just like when the Zerg first observed this kind of wormhole accident in the Lyman Galaxy, this Zhuna, which had been combined with unknown numbers of parts, began to dissipate here. In the end, as the energy continued Escape, the energy level continues to decrease, and everything returns to calm.

There are no brand new planets like before, there are only a few extremely weak clones that fission out of the "corpse".

Zero suddenly felt that he was "playing with fire", and the person acting as the fire extinguisher was Zhuna, who was once extremely hostile to the Zerg.Judging from the existing information alone, among the roles played by Zhuna and this unknown existence, Zhuna may be the more "bright" one.

Zero once thought about what would happen if enough Zhuna fragments were fused together. Maybe under the continuous fusion, an extremely terrifying existence would be born. Zero didn't know, but they seemed to be able to have unlimited power. The method of fusion does have such a possibility.

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While Zhuna was working hard to fight against the unknown existence, Zero also used many methods to observe as much as possible the area that he knew was undergoing drastic changes.

As for the changes in Zhuna itself during the entire process, Zero can be said to have recorded the entire process. Due to the long distance, it was impossible to truly collect the first-hand information. Zero paid for this with the lives of countless Zerg scientific research units.

But no matter how you look at it, Zero has no clue about the opponent it is "fighting" against.

In the Zerg's observation field of view, Zhuna seemed to be fighting wits with the dark space, releasing her own high-energy fluctuations with all her strength, but there was no sign of any direct attack.According to Zero's estimation, if it were just to "heal" the wormhole space, Zhuna, who had gathered so many separate bodies, wouldn't have to pay such a heavy price to do it, and it would be impossible for such a thing to consume it to such an extent. degree.

In this process, there must be something that cannot be directly observed by the Zerg, which is also preventing Zero from understanding all of this.

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There must be traces of what has happened. If you can't observe it, it's just because the method is wrong. Zero is convinced of this.

While the Zerg continued to move forward, Zero changed his mind.Although it may be cruel for Zhuna to keep trying, Zero can't stop exploring the thing itself because of this. What's more, the intelligent race individuals who fell under the Zerg butcher's knife along the way have long been unable to be counted, so how could it be possible? Because this kind of thing has shaken things up.

Continuous attempts will always bring new results, even if most of them are disappointing, but if you keep trying, with the changes that the Zerg can make at the same time, you will finally find the clue in the sixth experiment.

In this experiment, what the insect swarm did was also very simple.They just completed the enrichment of the internal components of the living planet that had previously "fallen" from the wormhole into the universe under Zero's instructions, and placed them openly between Zhuna and the unknown. It's just around the "battlefield" that exists.

It can be said that the situation at that time was indeed beyond Zero's initial imagination. Zhuna, who was already extremely weak, still had the energy to attack these components controlled by the Zerg!
And during the short period of time when Zhuna changed targets, Zero observed part of the truth about the "battlefield".

Zhuna is indeed paying a certain price to resist some kind of "attack" inside the wormhole. The darkness that first appeared inside the galaxy and can be "swallowed" along with the entire star is under a certain perspective. It complements the "light" emitted by Zhuna itself.

It is difficult for Zero to describe what it is. If it is a real substance, it seems to have no entity. If it is a kind of energy, it does not have any unique fluctuations during the "confrontation" with Zhu Na.

But it actually exists.Of course, it is impossible to observe with a normal field of view. In other words, at least based on optics and a variety of conventional observation methods, it does not exist. Zero also made use of the huge number of Zerg and carried out a large number of changes at the same time to be able to Notice this fleeting difference.

After physically destroying the variables added to it by the Zerg, Zhuna quickly returned to its "own work", the violent high-energy fluctuations that encompassed everything, covering up the source of all information.

"what is that?"

Through the Zerg Observer, Zero saw such a special "thing" for the first time.At the intersection of matter and energy, there must be changes related to the deeper operating logic of the universe. It seems to be within reach, but it spontaneously covers everything.

Zero cannot draw conclusions from the results of observations. The only place to start is with his own observation method.

In that very short period of time, a large number of Zerg observers were rapidly generated around them and approached the center desperately. All kinds of wild ideas became reality inside the nearby Zerg mother nest.

Why can such a "design" observe such a "thing" that does not exist? In that short period of time, what is so special about these plans put forward by the Zerg brainworms and subordinate intelligent race individuals? Where?
Zerg In 1590, when the Zerg expansion fleet led by the brainworm Luer was operating in the galaxy of origin, it encountered a combination of civilizations, within which there was a special civilization-Glossai.

Of course, in that war, the Colossians and the entire coalition were completely defeated by the Zerg offensive. It was also from that time that the Zerg began to establish a scientific research base for intelligent races.

Today, the Colossians have long become one of the many intelligent races under the rule of the Zerg, and have contributed a lot to the Zerg's scientific research community.

Of course, after defeating them, the Zerg also obtained the complete knowledge system of the Colossians.

In their civilization, there is a special enough local technology, which is derived from biotechnology, but is closely related to it.

During the war with the Zerg, it once played an important role, playing the role of the backbone of the entire coalition against the Zerg invasion.

consciousness!

Due to their own structure and talents, the Colossians' understanding and research of consciousness can be regarded as a kind of black technology.Different from the remote control of other civilizations, the Colossians are able to "merge" themselves with the machine to a certain extent!

And this time in the Zerg's observation plan, it was the improvement plan proposed by them that observed something unusual in the seemingly endless darkness!
And this method is the improvement method used by the Colossians to quantify the needs of the Zerg and their own consciousness over the years!
In other words, what Zero observed, that existence that seemed to have no fluctuations and no entity, was a kind of "consciousness"!
And unlike the Colossians who seemed to always have agility and change, what the Zerg observed this time was simply like a pool of stagnant water. If the Colossians' understanding of consciousness was used to describe "it", its All it showed was coldness.

Zero fell into deep thought again.

He tried to use the same observation method to observe the Cerebrates, and actually got a picture similar to the observation of the Colossians. But for ordinary Zerg units, there was no gain at all. They had no "consciousness".

At this moment, Zero suddenly had an idea that seemed absurd but also seemed to make sense.

"soul?!"

(End of this chapter)