Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In the cold and dark space of the universe, a spaceship containing the highest technology of civilization floats quietly against the background of deep space.

Unlike the usual spaceships with high-tech appearance, it looks quite plain and simple.

From the appearance, it does not have row upon row of complex structures, nor does it have an eye-catching unique shape. It is like a huge streamlined "submarine", lying quietly in the universe, inconspicuous.

In fact, it is advancing extremely fast at 8‰ of the speed of light, that is, about 2400 kilometers per second relative to its parent star, and is still in the acceleration stage. Eventually, it will accelerate to 7% of the speed of light, and then advance towards the target star system at a constant speed at this speed. .

Seven percent of the speed of light is the fastest human speed in excess of 20,000 kilometers per second. It is also the limit speed that the long-distance spacecraft built by their civilization can reach under normal conditions.

This is a miracle achieved by the entire civilization in the use of energy, and it is the brainchild of its aerospace technology.

Thirty years ago, it circled the central star for the last time, using its huge gravitational pull to accelerate its speed to 1500km/s. Finally, when it parked at the edge of the star system, it once again used the huge gravitational pull of the giant planet to complete the acceleration. In one fell swoop, he "jumped out" from his mother galaxy, passed through the unknown zone at the edge of the stars, and "passed by" endless tiny celestial bodies.

Finally, it completely broke away from the gravity of the central star of the Crystal Galaxy and sailed into the void of the universe that it had never reached before.

The distance between its current location and the nearest celestial body in the Christel Galaxy has exceeded one trillion kilometers, and it is still rapidly moving away.

This is the closest macroscopic celestial body currently to it, and in front of it, there is nothingness. The matter there is extremely thin and unevenly dispersed. On average, there is not even one atom per cubic centimeter.

What is this concept? It is roughly like throwing a grain of sand into a space of 30,000 cubic kilometers.

One trillion kilometers, such a far distance, is only 0.1 light years, and the entire voyage has just begun.

Under constant acceleration, after only 10 years, its speed has reached the expected target, and then it began to rely on inertia to park in the universe. In this process, except for necessary posture adjustments, basically no more energy is consumed.

All civilized individuals began to take turns on duty to spend this long time.

If there are no accidents, this 50 light-year distance will take them more than seven hundred years. Even if their lifespan is generally much longer than that of the lizard people, calculated in zero time units, they can basically Live two hundred sidereal years or more!

Even so, this is enough time to reproduce for more than ten generations. If the dormancy technology had not been conquered, they would all have died during this period.

At this moment, the Lizardman Empire located on the Saran Continent has just completed the transfer of power again. The new emperor has ascended the throne and is working hard to become stronger and continue to launch a unified war against the surrounding powerful countries and barbarians.

At this time, there are still nearly five hundred years before Zero wakes up from nothingness and the Zerg enters the world stage.

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When time moves back more than five hundred years, what are the Zerg doing now?

Ten years have passed, and an increasingly large number of insect swarms have spread across the four seas. They can be found everywhere except the polar regions.

Today, more than 80% of the area on the planet's surface has been explored by the Zerg, and they have even included the deep sea into their scope of activities.

In the deep underground of the land, the constantly improved diggers have built one Zerg base after another, and a large number of Zerg groups that have completed their explorations are dormant here.

Underground on a large island in the ocean, a vast and huge Zerg base was established here.

After ten years of observation and statistics, it has been found that the frequency of geological activities and natural disasters here is relatively low. Therefore, this became the final location for the Sasa scientific research base.

The algae worms expanded crazily in the ocean, gradually covering the sky and blocking out the sun. The ecological environment of the ocean has been initially affected by the Zerg. Many plants that rely on sunlight for survival have died in patches.

For a while, some marine creatures targeted algae worms for their food, but how could the energy unit developed by Sass for the zerg be cheap for them?

The emergence of algae worms is to replace native life and provide energy for the Zerg. In the ocean, as the algae worms continue to expand, Zero gradually does not care much about the damage caused to the environment by the worms.

Although strictly speaking, the Zerg's dependence on the planet's environment has not been eliminated. In addition to food, they also need air with stable composition and proportions, and a water source. These things all need a suitable environment to maintain.

However, with the emergence of algal worms, Zero is already planning to replace the entire biosphere with Zerg!

I have to say that this is a bold and crazy plan, because it means that all other creatures on this planet have no need to exist.

However, it is not entirely impossible to achieve it. The existence of the Zerg does not require a beautiful ecological environment, and they have no need in this regard, as long as the basic living conditions can be guaranteed.

If an ecological balance could be achieved under the dominance of the Zerg, that would undoubtedly be great.

Sass is still obsessed with advancing the basic science of the Zerg, but during this period, there are some achievements that must be mentioned.

With the massive reproduction of algae worms, the storage units that were transformed more than ten years ago have become a bit useless. Currently they can only play some role on the mainland, but they are also on the verge of being eliminated.

In addition, collecting such small individual units is quite troublesome for every Zerg individual.

And dealing with these relatively tiny sources of energy is also inconvenient.

As a result, a new unit emerged at the historic moment. They were specifically responsible for collecting algae worms from the ocean. Their special structure could suck large pieces of algae worms floating on the water directly into their bellies.

It seems that its structure is not much different from that of the hoarder, but it has just made adaptive changes, but this is not the case.

Because SAS did much more than that, it once again made changes to the hatcheries themselves.

The original hatcheries, whether on land or in the ocean, basically followed the same principle, which was to obtain energy through feeding, and this energy would be directly used to hatch new Zerg species.

They themselves do not retain the energy they ingest. Generally speaking, they will consume all the energy in the process of hatching the Zerg. Even if there is a slight surplus, it is used to maintain their daily activities.

To put it simply, what Sass has done is to combine the hatchery with the storage device, giving them the direct ability to store energy.

This is an important reason why hoarders are facing an embarrassing situation today.

However, doing so inevitably makes the hatchery itself inherit the huge size of the storager, so it can only be used in a base with a stable environment like today. If it is in a war, it will have no chance to store energy. , still maintains the original basic functions, and naturally does not have the problem of increasing in size.