Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Zero, who continues to observe outer space, recently discovered something strange.

In the originally starry night sky, a relatively dim "star" suddenly appeared.

The movement of celestial bodies in the universe has its own laws. New stars may not be born in millions of years, let alone appear suddenly.

If there are newborn stars erupting in the endless and distant depths of the universe, when light has traveled a long distance, passing through the sea of ​​​​stars since ancient times, and has only been observed by me at this moment, then before that, it should There will be a brighter and more brilliant cosmic-level "fireworks" that will be observed by Him first.

But no, there was silence in the dark universe, and this "star" was getting brighter and brighter as time went by.

From the observer's perspective, the intensity of this originally extremely dim and almost invisible "starlight" is gradually increasing at a weak rate!

Zero was sure that this was not an illusion. Because from the observations from all angles above Orui, we all came to the same conclusion.

"What's this?"

Due to the abilities of the Zerg observers, it was impossible to locate such a tiny light source in the pitch-black universe. He didn't know exactly what this strange phenomenon represented.

However, if you think about it from the most intuitive perspective, you can draw a simple conclusion, which may not necessarily be correct, but it is always feasible for reference.

Under what circumstances will the brightness of a luminous point become brighter and brighter in my eyes?

Either the intensity of the light source is gradually increasing, so that it continues to brighten at a slow rate in the observer's field of view.

Either...

There is a light source that emits relatively stable light and continues to approach here from a distance!

Zero fell into deep thought. He always maintained enough awe for the endless universe. He had no way of knowing how many magical and outstanding things happened in such a vast area.

Therefore, He never uses his own shallow knowledge to speculate on certain seemingly incomprehensible things, but only faces it all with a calm acceptance attitude.

For example, his own form of existence, the birth of the Zerg, or the particularity of Sass, etc.

Existence is reasonable.

Nowadays, it is impossible to directly observe the truth of the matter, and secondly, it is impossible to determine the distance between the two parties. Everything is in chaos, and there is too much unknown information that cannot be determined.

Therefore, Zero still treats it as a novel cosmic discovery for the time being.

However, in view of the previous speculation, this does not prevent him from holding a steady hand.

The energy reserves of the Zerg are now quite sufficient. In recent decades, their number has basically remained at around 200 million, with a slight decrease due to various reasons. However, due to the existence of dormancy ability, even the Zerg hatched more than a hundred years ago The units also remain alive while dormant, providing blessings for the Hive Mind.

Therefore, during this process, the number of Zerg did not fluctuate significantly.

Almost as soon as Zero thought, a small number of Zerg units that were active on the planet's surface immediately rushed to the nearest underground or deep sea base, and then most of them fell into silence.

Due to sufficient energy, Zero is not worried that they will die due to long-term dormancy. With today's energy reserves, even if all Zerg remain dormant for two hundred years or more without any production activities, it is enough to sustain them. .

What's more, there are still improved algal worms that continue to grow on the ocean like ordinary plants.

Without the care and collection of insects, they would become an important part of the entire planet's biosphere, providing a food source for numerous marine and land creatures.

Perhaps in the next period of time, these native creatures that have lost their highest natural enemies will experience a massive explosion in population. It's just that Zero doesn't care at all.

Compared to these, Zero was more interested in the strange phenomenon that was invisible to the naked eye but kept getting brighter in the observer's field of vision.

He wanted to see how bright this "bright spot" would eventually become.

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After crossing the wasteland of the universe and finally approaching the large celestial body again, the spacecraft started to slow down again.

As they travel through the star system, they will reduce their speed to Orui's orbiting speed in two steps. This will take some time, but compared to the seven hundred years in the endless void, this is Time doesn't matter at all.

The spacecraft passed through the orbits of giant planets one after another, heading straight into the galaxy.

Even if the speed drops again and again and is still slowly decelerating, it still has a top speed of more than forty kilometers per second, but compared to the huge galaxies, it spans the distance between the orbits of giant planets at this speed. Distance will still take months or even longer.

At this point in time, the trajectory of the large celestial bodies in the galaxy is not in the direction of the spacecraft. Only what they call the fifth planet of the Herpus galaxy, which is the first giant planet, lies in front, and the spacecraft will also There, they completed the deceleration again, and then headed towards the target, the third rocky planet, their new home.

Although in the galaxy, the density of matter near the spacecraft is countless times greater than before in the infinite deep space, but compared with the size of the spacecraft and the size of the entire galaxy, they are still alone.

The cold and dark deep space of the universe is like an extremely vast curtain. Although it is dotted with stars, it is difficult to find even one in billions of miles.

The interstellar spacecraft flying among them are like ants crawling on the black screen, small and humble.

Time flies, it completes deceleration on the fifth planet, passes through the orbits of various celestial bodies in the galaxy, and goes straight to Ori.

Today, the speed of the spacecraft relative to Ori is only one 20,000th of the speed of light, which is already lower than the third cosmic speed of the Ori system. This means that they will not escape from the galaxy because of their speed. .

Another four months later, the spacecraft crossed the orbit of the fourth planet. At this time, it happened to be on the other side of the star, so it could not be seen.

This is the orbital closest point of Planet 3 and Planet 4. At this point, they are only less than 100 million kilometers away from Planet 3, Ori, where the insect swarm is located. On a cosmic scale, it can be said to be very close. If Maintaining the current speed, it will only take less than three months to arrive!

Of course, in fact, before that, they have to decelerate once to achieve the purpose of orbiting the target planet, so this time will be longer.

And this is just the first step.

By now, they have been able to determine that even if there is an unknown civilization on this planet, it will definitely not be able to develop to the extent that they have interstellar navigation capabilities, and it is even unknown whether it is in the ignorant stage.

This kind of treasure land, left to such a level of civilization, is really a pearl covered in dust and a waste of natural resources. It should belong to our clan!

This is the voice of all civilized individuals in the spaceship after the situation gradually became clear.

As a result, all the previous predictions and responses to the other party's civilization began to be overturned and rebuilt. Although they had not actually arrived, a series of plans were already being implemented.