Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 158 The Germination of the Hive Mind (page 12)

Zero experienced this kind of scene for a long time. At first, he was still palpitating. The feeling like being separated by frosted glass made him very uncomfortable, but the feeling was deep inside. But it made Him very concerned.

Until later, he calmed down little by little. Although he still tried his best to obtain effective information from these hazy pictures, he no longer felt anxious.

He looked at everything in front of him quietly, his mind gradually calming down.

Maybe these are closely related to Him, maybe there may be hidden information about his origin or other information, but now He actually doesn't pay too much attention to these.

This was not a state that he entered on his own initiative, so Zero had nothing to ask for. Since he couldn't escape, he simply let it go with a calm mind.

………………

A big dream, I don’t know the year.

More than twenty years had passed when Zero once again truly felt the existence of the insect swarm.

Even if he later didn't pay much attention to the hazy images "played" from his own perspective, a "personal experience" that spanned an extremely long time was enough to put him in a trance.

In fact, he still got some information about himself from it. Seriously speaking, before this incident happened, Zero had only been conscious for more than seventy years.

But now, when His will once again enveloped the insect swarm, time has come to a hundred years.

After more than twenty years of being passively brought into another perspective, what he saw was still an extremely blurry and hazy version. Even if some of the scenes felt familiar to him, it was not easy to stay sane now.

Now, He already has the answer to the question "Who am I" when he first woke up?

"who am I?"

Zero's tone was calm.

"I am who I am, I am the Zerg Master."

"I am-Zero!"

He remembered everything in the "dream" in his heart. Those important and unimportant things have become a part of Him and there is no need to care.

If that place still exists in this universe, in the future, he would like to lead the swarm to take a look.

...............

Compared to his own "life experience", he was more pleased with the changes brought about by the insect swarm.

Yes, if this big dream has brought any benefits to the Zerg, there is no doubt that it is reflected in the Zerg field.

Zero didn't know the specific reason, but he reconfirmed their situation as soon as he re-observed the insect swarm.

——There is not much growth in overall quantity.

But the Zerg field has actually changed.

Perhaps the "immersive" experience that was close to torture for more than two decades had strengthened his willpower. Before Zero had time to observe the specific changes in the Zerg, he immediately noticed the difference in the field.

Because in Zero's perception, it seems to feel a little "alive".

If in the past, the Zerg field was just a plug-in processor with its own memory for Sass, then now, it may have quietly completed its self-upgrade and gained a touch of "intelligence".

If you want to make a metaphor, it's like forcing the most primitive AI into a desktop computer that still has a big butt.

Since the number of the swarm has not increased significantly, its hardware has not been upgraded, but after Zero woke up from his "dream", it inexplicably gained a little more spirituality.

It seems that... it can give all Zerg units the most basic behavioral logic?

This is not Zero's guess, but it depends on Zero for its existence, so He can know what it can do by feeling.

Zero didn't know where this "spirituality" came from, but it was obviously two completely different things from the wisdom possessed by Sass.

There is no doubt that Sass is a highly intelligent and normal creature with emotions and feelings. Although it is hard-working and silent, this does not prevent it from being rich in emotions.

But this change in the Zerg field is more like loading a little intelligent system into a machine that can only operate mechanically, so that it can run according to the set program.

Not to mention emotions and feelings, it will not even go beyond the set rules. It is a completely cold consciousness. Compared with the ordinary Zerg who only have instincts, it is not as good as the ordinary Zerg. It is just a field that connects the entire Zerg. It is based on the domain, so it has the ability to integrate all the Zerg individuals within the field.

This is undoubtedly another major event that can change the evolution of the Zerg race. Zero never thought that he could have such a wonderful harvest after suddenly having a big dream!

Although I don’t know exactly how it happened, it may be related to my own experience in the past twenty years, but its changes can indeed help a lot.

Because this means that Sass's command of the entire insect swarm has finally become possible!

Speaking of Sass, before Zero had time to think about it, it had already contacted Zero immediately after feeling the dominance of the entire Zerg race again.

At the same time, all Zerg individuals distributed around the world once again felt Zero's breath, and then fell into dormancy again under Zero's instructions.

From Sass, Zero basically understood what the Zerg went through when he fell into the "dream".

At the beginning of the incident, Sass traveled around the world and used four months to end the chaotic state of the Zerg spread across the entire planet and restore order to all the Zerg groups.

However, due to its limited command range, no matter where Sass is located, it cannot take care of all Zerg bases.

Therefore, except for the main base used for scientific research, all other Zerg are basically forced to enter a dormant state.

In the more than twenty years he has led the swarm alone, for this reason, Sass has not made any achievements in terms of exploration and expansion.

During this period of time, it basically shrank inside the main base and silently conducted its own research.

On the entire planet, only the Zerg here remained active, which gave various creatures that had been beaten by the Zerg a chance to breathe again. During this period, they ushered in a long-lost golden age.

As for achievements in scientific research, there are many, among which two are more important.

One is the observation and recording of the corresponding biological traits controlled by previously determined genetic material.

After such a long period of time, Sasse was finally able to make a more detailed observation and arrangement of this extremely complex and numerous project, and now he has finally drawn some preliminary conclusions.

In this area, its next goal is to try to actively intervene in the genetic material of various corresponding traits, and to further study in a more essential direction.

Because through Zero's description, it already knows that the so-called genetic material in the nucleus is not actually the factor that controls the external characteristics of organisms. The secrets of the Zerg itself are hidden in deeper and smaller structures.

According to Zero's habit, it is called a base.

It has generally had the most basic understanding of the movement characteristics of intracellular materials, such as transcription and translation. What remains is to understand its underlying principles.

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