Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Not finding any clues, Zero could only put it down temporarily and closely monitor the sea area.

For a while, things were calm and everything went smoothly. As if the deaths of hundreds of Zerg were an illusion that did not exist, they never encountered this situation again. So much so that even Zero gradually shelved the matter and only occasionally learned about the situation through the remaining insect swarms.

Things took a turn for the better half a month later. The hatchery was established here again, and the insect swarm also used this place as a sea camp to develop and grow in a planned way.

It wasn't until one of their predatory teams encountered the miniature version of the ocean beast again during a foraging trip, and killed it and dragged it back to the hatchery, that the same thing happened again.

But this time, under Zero's continuous and close surveillance, some clues were finally discovered.

Because this time the insect swarm did not all swarm up and eat at the same time, the first ones to react were the foragers who went out to hunt, and then the sea hatcheries that ate the hatched larvae.

Under the observation of the surrounding insect swarm, Zero finally saw with his own eyes their complete process from birth to death in this state, and finally observed for the first time what happened after their death.

Zero did not let the swarm of insects come forward to devour the corpses of the dead bugs as usual, but kept a sufficient distance to observe quietly.

He discovered that about two hours after death, obvious changes in the corpses of these bugs could be seen just from their appearance.

Even if they have been soaking in sea water, they gradually begin to become shriveled, and their originally plump bodies slowly dent, as if something is devouring their flesh and blood in their bodies!

Zero did not act rashly. All the insect swarms were retreating from here, leaving only a dozen foragers responsible for close observation.

He was prepared to lose these worms.

Half an hour later, these completely shriveled corpses began to slowly squirm, and then suddenly burst apart!

Like a pool of pus, it instantly blended into the surrounding seawater and disappeared without a trace. Even the remaining Zerg skin fragments disappeared without a trace.

Zero watched this scene quietly. He already had a guess in his mind. If this guess was not wrong, something would definitely happen next.

He did not withdraw the remaining Zerg groups, but once again allowed the retreating Zerg groups to continue to retreat.

Sure enough, within the next hour, more than a dozen bugs scattered near the incident site died one after another.

Although Zero saw nothing after the Zerg corpses exploded, he could already confirm that there should be some imperceptible creature that attacked them from inside the Zerg body, turning all the materials inside the Zerg body into They have the resources to reproduce, which has led to the current situation.

And he can be sure that the Zerg individuals that died this time will definitely go through the same steps and eventually become a pool of ichor scattered in the ocean.

It was at this moment that Zero finally determined that there was something wrong with the food that the insect swarm had preyed on before!

These foods contain a substance, or a creature that is so small that it is difficult to observe with the naked eye in sea water. When the insects are eating, they quietly enter the bodies of the insects and kill them from the inside out!

How exactly this attack was carried out, Zero could not yet determine, but this time, he finally figured out the real cause of the insect swarm's casualties.

No matter what it is that enters the body of the Zerg, whether it is a strange substance or a tiny creature, as long as it shows its whereabouts, there will always be a way to restrain it, so that it will not be completely helpless like before.

But then again, attacks from food were indeed something Zero had never thought of. But the facts are already in front of us. There is no doubt that this attack comes from those marine creatures that were previously hunted by the insect swarm.

When this incident first occurred, although Zero realized that the danger came from food, he did not directly identify the specific creature it came from.

After all, there are too many foods for insects to hunt, and most marine creatures are in their diet. It is not easy to identify them one by one.

But soon, thinking about the experience of the first batch of swarms before swimming through this sea area, as well as the feeding process of the swarms in all previous sea areas, coupled with the special appearance of this creature that resembles a giant beast in the sea, he gradually The target is locked on them.

There is something strange in the bodies of these big fish!

From the feedback from the insect swarm, Zero did not find any toxins or the like in their meat or organs. This kind of thing has been proven countless times in the past. Once it contains this lethal substance, they will definitely I won’t take the initiative to eat it.

Another point, that is, the liquid that did not escape from the Zerg corpses in the seawater, also made Zero very concerned.

The reason why the Zerg responsible for monitoring them clearly did not eat this prey, but died one after another afterwards, is probably the reason for these liquids.

These liquids that escaped in the seawater infected them!

This also explains why the insect swarms that came to explore later died one after another.

In addition to this, there is another point that is quite crucial. It is a clue that Zero had discovered before but was not aware of the problem.

That is, after the death of the insect swarm, the latest batch of insect swarms that came to explore the cause did not die, and everything returned to normal. However, in this sea area, even fish and shrimps were very rare.

The reason why the fish and shrimp disappeared must also be because they were killed by infection, but the insect swarms that arrived later were not lost at all, which is a bit unreasonable.

Taking a step back, even during that period of time, the liquid flowing out of the corpse had been diluted by the sea water to the point where it was invisible, completely unable to reach the level of infecting living organisms, and had even completely dispersed, so in terms of their impact on living organisms This kind of killing ability should be no less than the full-scale reproduction of the Zerg.

If this was really the case, I am afraid that no living thing would have survived in the ocean.

But the fact is that in today's oceans, life is flourishing, the ecological environment is very healthy, and there is no sign of collapse at all.

Then there must be a reason to restrict them. The fact that this kind of substance or creature can exist in the body of that big fish, but they are still alive and kicking, is also a manifestation of this restriction.

So this limitation is undoubtedly their weakness! Presumably there must be a way to restrain such marine creatures.

Having a certain understanding of this threat made Zero feel relieved. After all, a completely unknown enemy always makes people uneasy, and if you know what it is, no matter how difficult it is to defeat, there will always be a direction.

Zero is not sure whether this thing that makes the Zerg defenseless but extremely deadly only exists in the body of this kind of creature, but to be honest, it is really difficult to study it at the moment.

Not to mention how to collect this extremely lethal substance, the Zerg can be said to be dead if it touches it and have no ability to resist. Even if the sample could be collected, Zero would never be able to send it to Sass for study.