Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

All the octopus men realized something the moment the aircraft was damaged.

The tide is gone.

The smooth development of the past few years was all in the mirror, only now is it real.

As the elite of civilization, none of them are fools, so they clearly know what this only aircraft means to them, and they also understand the consequences of losing it when a powerful enemy appears. .

In an instant, extreme despair appeared in the minds of all the octopus people. Just a few minutes ago, everything was still on track. They were still hoping and looking forward to the future. I hope to rebuild civilization on a land where there is no longer a threat from foreign enemies, and I look forward to leading the fleet back to the home planet again...

But in just a blink of an eye...

They are not super octopus people who can fly into the sky and escape from the earth. They are just mortal bodies. They may have higher intelligence, but without the bridge to communicate with space, no matter how smart they are, they cannot avoid the fate of imminent death!

What is it like to fall into hell in an instant? The octopus man at this moment has a say.

Jimenez, who stayed in the spaceship to take charge of the overall situation, seemed to have lost all his strength at this moment, including the twenty octopus men who stayed behind.

Yes, they're up in space, and they're not going to die, at least not for a while.

But at this moment, the octopus civilization has been sentenced to death, and their mission to revive civilization has been forced to end.

They have no means to protect their companions who are about to be attacked by the insect swarm, and they have no ability to take them back to the spacecraft. This means that they have lost the ability to control their own destiny and handed everything over to the insect swarm!

If a large number of the population and almost all the remaining seeds are lost, even if they can survive by chance on the spacecraft, it will be meaningless.

Not to mention other resource issues, with the loss of individual diversity, it would be difficult to maintain the existence of the group with only a few dozen individuals, even with a group of larvae raised on the spacecraft.

Through the information transmitted back through satellites and various detectors, he watched the Zerg army on the ground approaching the outpost at a rapid speed. He was heartbroken, but he was unable to save himself.

There are indeed weapons on the spacecraft that can threaten the ground, and their power is even more terrifying than Zero imagined.

However, he cannot launch an attack on the ground at this time. That is tantamount to killing many of his companions on the surface with his own hands. Even if they are destined to perish, they should not die in his own hands!

In a short period of time, James's heart has changed a thousand times. Countless thoughts flashed through it, regret, sadness, despair, struggle...

In the end, only a hint of madness remains.

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On the ground, no matter how the octopus man's weapons screamed, they could not stop the insect swarm from getting closer.

The peripheral mines and other production units were the first to be breached. The octopus men who were working there were pierced in the head by the Zerg memory storage units, and then they took the lead in moving towards the rear.

This insect species does not need to fight. It is their mission to accomplish this and deliver themselves to Sass.

This time, Zero had no cover at all and clearly put his target on the table, even if there was another Octopus Man target not far away.

At first, Ariat speculated that the Zerg had obtained the information about the Octopus in some way. There was no evidence, but at this moment, they understood everything after witnessing this incident.

Unfortunately, they never had the chance to spread this secret.

Those octopus men who witnessed how their companions were killed would also follow suit in the next moment.

All the outer production sites, supported by the vision from Zero, were all uprooted by the Zerg.

Then, endless bugs from all directions in the sky and on the ground surrounded the last piece of private land belonging to the octopus people - the outpost!

Through the Hive Mind, Zero received a lot of messages from the Octopus Outpost, and translated them. As expected, they expressed a willingness to surrender.

On the premise that there is no hope, surrender is not shameful for the octopus people, not to mention that there was a similar arrangement in the original plan for the home planet.

In order to preserve the ethnic group, they don't have much psychological pressure on this. However, both Jimenez on the spaceship and Ariat and Nichols at the outpost now know clearly that this is impossible.

In the past, Jimenez did have the idea of ​​negotiating with Zero, but now more than fifty years have passed, and he has gradually understood that this is impossible.

The other party has not shown any willingness to negotiate at all. From the beginning, all they wanted to do was to put themselves to death!

Although Ariat and Nichols acted without consent, what they did was indeed correct, but... they were still not thorough enough.

Of course Zero was unmoved by this. He had spent so much effort and waited for decades not to get a group of octopus people. He didn't need any slaves, and the Zerg didn't need any vassals.

Taking a step back, if Zero needs an intelligent race as a vassal of the Zerg, then the Lizardmen are actually more suitable.

Their brain capacity is not inferior to that of these giant octopuses. At the same time, their aesthetics are closer to Zero's own. It's just that the level of civilization is lower. Why choose octopus people?

From beginning to end, all Zero wanted was the knowledge stored in their minds.

Zero has no need for the octopus man himself. The most he can do is add it to the Zerg gene pool for analysis, hoping that it can be put to use one day.

The swarm of insects did not stop because of the octopus men's surrender and begging for mercy, thus dooming the fate of these octopus men.

Those materials made of alloy materials are no longer an obstacle to the insect swarm.

The octopus people watched helplessly as the Zerg broke through their outer defense line, smashing the automatic weapons deployed around them to pieces, and could no longer cause damage to the Zerg swarm.

Without the threat of weapons, this entire huge outpost became a huge tomb. What happened next is beyond description. Although these alloy exterior walls are strong enough, the Zerg are not what they used to be.

They climbed up in groups and opened the gap from the outside with almost violent attacks.

On this day, the octopus man stained the ocean with blood, and in exchange for hundreds of memory storers, he returned home with a full load.

Among them are Ariat and Nichols. They used their lives to pay for the sins of destroying surface plants and many large creatures, although Zero didn't care.

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This was the first time Zero had seen the power of the opponent's space-based weapons since the Octopus Man's spaceship docked.

The huge muzzle on the spacecraft slowly opened, and then after a short period of energy storage, a beam of "light" carrying a stream of high-energy particles shot from space to the ground. It passed through the ocean, easily penetrated the earth, and The underground bases that were originally active with Zerg units and all the materials above them were turned into ashes.