Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

If the Octopus Man landed for the first time, Zero did not understand its details, so he immediately launched an attack after making a preliminary judgment. While obtaining specific information, he also exposed himself.

So this time, it was the octopus man himself who gave Zero the opportunity to hide in the dark again.

Of course, it would be even more difficult to achieve the same results as before. If they land again this time, they will inevitably conduct a more detailed search against the Zerg.

Zero was already prepared for this.

In addition to hiding his presence in more secluded places, he also planned to redecorate the abandoned Zerg base, pretending that a large number of Zerg units had died due to drastic changes in the environment, and did not hesitate to spend a lot of resources on this.

As for the octopus people, they had no choice but to accept the current situation. The individuals at the outpost have all returned to space and collectively entered hibernation, leaving only a few responsible for caring for the larvae and maintaining the normal operation of the spacecraft.

Ariat and Nichols, as the instigators, are one of them. As punishment, they will be on duty here for twenty years, during which time they will not have the right to enter the dormant chamber.

It is their job to monitor changes in the ground environment, respond to possible changes, and guide things in the direction expected by the plan.

Compared with other companions, they have to spend twenty years of life in the outside world. After twenty years, they will be old.

As parties involved, they don't care about this. To be fair, they actually didn't do anything outrageous and unforgivable. They just practiced their own ideas. In fact, they were much more proactive than trying to communicate with the Zerg. After all, Zero had no intention of responding to those messages. .

It was all for the sake of civilization, not selfish gain, which is why they are still trusted with these matters today.

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Time passes quietly as the sun rises and the moon sets. Twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye. Although there is no vicissitudes of life on the earth, it can be said that things have changed and people have changed.

The lush mountains in the past have become patches of wasteland, with no trace of green anymore.

Life in the ocean has withered, and most of the marine animals have died. Although they are not extinct now, they are still decreasing. There is no way to know how many will survive in the end.

As a result, some microorganisms ushered in their own paradise. The death of a large number of animals indirectly promoted the reproduction of microorganisms, which looked like a prosperous world where everything flourished.

Changes at the biological level also inevitably trigger drastic changes in the entire ecological environment.

The first to bear the brunt is the sharp decline in atmospheric oxygen content, which further promotes the death and extinction of surface life that depends on oxygen for survival.

The massive reproduction and decomposition activities of microorganisms emit large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, gradually causing the gas content to lose its original balance, thus posing an existential threat to more organisms.

In addition, on land, a large amount of vegetation has been lost, and the climate here has become no longer pleasant. When the water vapor above the ocean is brought to the ground by air currents, they can easily take away a large area of ​​water and soil.

Without the protective use of vegetation, natural disasters such as landslides, floods, and mudslides are rampant on the surface. Plains are no longer flat and suitable for farming, and wild beasts are no longer rampant in the mountains.

The scene of thousands of ravines has begun to take shape in just twenty years, and gradually it has begun to look like a doomsday disaster.

Ariat and Nichols completed their last day of duty and prepared to enter rotational hibernation. Their punishment was over, but they were no longer as strong as before.

The process of life has entered the twilight years uncontrollably, heading towards a countdown that will not last long.

Fortunately, everything on the surface is developing according to the predetermined trajectory. If nothing happens, they will achieve the predetermined goal in at most thirty years.

Two years ago, they took an aircraft to inspect the near-Earth surface, and found that the hell-like scene on earth did not cause any physical discomfort to them.

As the Zerg that was the focus of attention, they personally arranged underground detection devices for observation, and found that they were still alive, but their numbers had exploded, and they were still dying.

The discovery of this greatly encouraged the initiators of the two plans. The death of the insect swarm was the ultimate goal of their plan. As long as there was no threat from the insect swarm, even if the environment here became much worse, for the octopus people, It is still a paradise.

In the last two years, they were still awake and had even begun to formulate a plan to reshape the environment after landing.

Now that their "sentences" have expired, the two of them will enter the dormant chamber with their aging bodies, waiting for the day when they are awakened again, leaving only a large amount of research results and thoughts about the future.

Zero discovered the other party's detection plan two years ago, and therefore directed and acted in a good show that the Zerg race was heading towards extinction.

Obviously the other party is not that easy to fool. They conducted surveillance on almost all the Zerg bases that they had discovered before. Fortunately, Zero was indeed well prepared for this and made different targeted measures according to different environments. The layout makes everything seem a lot more reasonable.

For example, in the Zerg base in the ocean, the number of surviving Zerg will be much larger, showing the appearance of struggling to survive.

On land, Zero also highlighted a misery. In most of the depths of the base, there is already a dead silence, with insect corpses everywhere, and some places are even completely deserted by insects, leaving only a mess, and some even have completely fallen into deathly silence.

Although based on the information previously obtained, Zero knew that they would not be able to detect such a detailed level, but to be on the safe side, he still tried his best to facilitate this.

In order to achieve his goal, hundreds of millions of living things around the world have sacrificed their lives for it. Although this has no impact on him, Zero does not allow himself to fall short because of his mistakes at this time.

Under His deliberate disguise, Ariat and the two did not find anything unusual, but before leaving, they still left some arrangements behind, apparently to monitor the changes in the Zerg in real time.

Zero could only do a whole show. He took action personally, controlled Zerg bases around the world, continued to perform dynamic camouflage, and successfully deceived the octopus man.

However, deeper inside, in the new Zerg base, Sass's scientific research plans never stopped.

When Ariat and Nichols, who were entering their old age, were finally able to enter the hibernation chamber, after twenty years, Sass had finally completely digested the knowledge gained from the previous attack on the mine.

The two original ones were obviously octopus people with talents in engineering construction. In their memories, they even participated in the construction of the spacecraft that is now suspended in outer space!

It was originally used to maintain the operation of the mine, but it was indeed overused. These senior talents should have been sweating in front of drawings and data in the office. They should not have been waving wrenches and screws next to the roaring machinery in the mine. Unfortunately, fate has been like this and eventually became a part of Sasse's mind. It is not an insult. Their status as senior engineers.