Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Sass has resettled in that sea area, where it has found more of these soft-bodied creatures for research. At the same time, it is also closely observing their every move in daily life through nearby Zerg units.

Time passed little by little, and it was a little regrettable that Sars did not find anything special in the algae they lived in. However, this was not actually bad news, because it at least eliminated one wrong option for the Zerg.

Since the problem is not with the algae, it is obvious that the secret lies in the creature itself and is hidden in its life!

It's a pity that after observing it for so long, this thing is like wood, always attached to the branches of this algae, motionless.

Because they are self-sufficient, Sass can't even observe it eating!

However, Sass is indeed very patient when it comes to scientific research. Although there is no movement, it continues to pay attention to all nearby molluscs that Zero calls sea snails through the vision provided by the Zerg unit.

Such persistence is indeed the attitude that scientific researchers should have. If it weren't for the vague sense of its determination from the Zerg field, Zero would even think that it was taking this opportunity to fish.

However, hard work paid off. After a long wait, Sars finally saw their biological activities when the sun was rising.

An important meaning of the existence of lower life forms is to reproduce offspring so that the race can survive. Even if they themselves are not aware of this, driven by instinct, they will still do it.

During this period of research, Sass had thoroughly studied their structures except for their chloroplast origin, and was naturally able to distinguish their hermaphrodite structure.

I saw them forming a string one after another on the seaweed where they lived, and then... they became motionless again.

Sass easily understood their actions, and there were no surprises in their breeding behavior.

Sass was still waiting patiently, as determined and focused as ever, which made Zero feel very pleased.

This process lasted for three days, and finally they separated again and resumed their previous distribution, still motionless.

It seems that in their lives, apart from motionlessness, the only thing left is reproduction.

Zero couldn't stand it any longer. He decided to keep an eye on this place himself and let Sass conduct research on other projects. If there was any movement here, he would naturally notify it.

If this continues, it is really a waste of time, even if this project is indeed of great significance to the Zerg.

But Sarth still has more things to do, and its time is equally precious. The rise of the Zerg depends on it, and it really can't afford to waste it at all.

Although the theories and technologies obtained from the lizardmen have been sorted out by it, its Zerg-like application or even deeper research still requires it to process.

Including the exploration and observation of finer details, as well as the understanding and research of various substances, there are too many things on its schedule.

Vaguely, Zero seemed to feel a hint of disappointment flash through, and the next moment Sass had already returned to his busy work.

Zero also took his place and commanded the swarm to keep an eye on these creatures that were likely to cause changes in energy for the zerg.

The sea snails had no awareness of being observed, and the worms did not show any threat to them. In order not to disturb them and allow them to carry out their activities normally, the swarms of insects always kept a sufficient distance from their activity areas.

As time passed, Sass no longer had time to observe these dark green molluscs.

About half a month later, Zero observed that they had obvious egg-laying behavior, and he also notified Sass.

This hermaphrodite soft-bodied creature discharged its fertilized eggs directly into the water, and then lay back on the main trunk of algae without any care.

There are many strange creatures in nature. They only act based on instinct. It is difficult to understand this behavioral pattern that seems to be hidden deep in the genes with the thinking of intelligent life. They just like to lie still, even if they are zero, there is nothing they can do.

Fortunately, they finally gave birth to the next generation, allowing Zero and Sass to observe its entire life process.

He has a vague intuition, and the secret is hidden in their growth process! I have zero guesses that although they have never been seen eating, their specialness must be inseparable from the surrounding plants!

The most likely thing is that they ingested the chloroplasts from this algae for their own use!

Although it is incredible, after ruling out many possibilities, this is the only possibility that exists.

Sass has already guessed this before, but the problem does not lie here, because the creatures transformed by Sass are almost replicas. It is not that they have never tried to eat this kind of algae, but no changes have occurred.

This shows that either eating is not the key to the matter, or something else happened in the process that Zero and Sass don't know about.

That's the crux of the matter.

While waiting quietly, a new mollusk hatched out. Zero immediately confirmed the correctness of his guess through its appearance that was completely different from its mother body and very similar to the creature imitated and transformed by the Zerg.

Then, they were seen working hard to move towards the algae closest to them.

Sass became extremely focused at this moment. In order to obtain enough samples, it even asked small insect species that had been waiting nearby to capture them at every stage of the process, and immediately changed them on the spot. Conduct research.

As expected, nothing was found.

Zero was not disappointed, but continued to wait for the moment when they actually climbed onto these plants.

If anything changes, it should be most likely at this moment.

Sure enough, at the beginning of its feeding, Zero and Sass clearly saw through the close observation of the Zerg units that they secreted a liquid from their mouths, slowly dissolved part of the trunk of the green algae, and inhaled it into the body. , and then continue this action.

During this process, their translucent bodies slowly turned green at an extremely imperceptible speed, until a few days later, when they matured, they finally turned into the same dark green color as their parent bodies!

During this process, Sass continued to capture the feeding sea snail larvae, focusing on studying the strange liquid secreted before eating.

In the end, there was no conclusion about the composition of this liquid, and the Zerg's basic technological research did not reach this level.

However, the function of this liquid was finally understood.

No doubt this is why sea snails have chlorophyll in their bodies!

This liquid dissolves the plant cells, but only bypasses the chloroplasts, and strictly protects them after entering the digestive juice, so that they will not be destroyed by the digestive juice after entering the body of the sea snail.

Afterwards, these retained chloroplasts slowly entered its cells and became part of its body!

Since they had never seen this kind of creature eating, neither Zero nor Sass could have imagined that the most crucial thing was the special liquid it secreted when eating.