Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Improved energy units all over the world are accumulating energy for Sars' biological space elevator plan. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Zerg diggers scattered around are also doing their best to develop various mineral resources located underground. .

Extending tentacles into space may sound unbelievable, but after the problem of space survival is initially solved, it is not a fantasy to do so.

However, despite twenty years of accumulation, the Zerg still did not reach the amount required by Sars's calculations.

This is not because the labor efficiency of the insect swarms all over the world is too low. In fact, the energy accumulation is basically enough. The problem lies in the various "materials" required by this special "plant".

This is a unique life, special enough even for the Zerg race that has all kinds of strange shapes.

There has never been such an insect species before. It will take root on the ground, travel all the way through the atmosphere, and grow toward outer space. According to Sasse's calculations, this requires a huge amount of resources.

Even though the insect swarm now has the preliminary ability to refine various types of ores, it is still not that simple to complete this task.

Because in Sass's design, some resources are extremely rare on the planet, but they are indispensable. Collecting them consumes too much time of the insect swarm.

Still, two years later, the plan was officially launched.

A seemingly weak "seedling" began to raise its head above the ground. It looked out of place with ordinary plants.

Although it is called a "seedling", it has no resemblance to the germination of plants. It does not contain even the slightest bit of greenness. It is just like a dark-colored insect with its head sticking out, twisting in the air. body.

It seems to be extremely weak, but in the unobservable underground, the Zerg units that exist as its "root system" have densely packed into the ground for unknown meters.

Each of these root systems are all insect species specially designed by Sass, connecting the Zerg energy units all over the world and all the collected resources!

Theoretically, this small "seedling" even has a "root system" that is used to absorb nutrients all over the world!

Therefore, after exploring the surface of the earth, it began to grow rapidly at an extremely exaggerated speed, twisting and growing taller and thicker visibly to the naked eye. With sufficient energy supply, this creature that Sass tried his best to design became unscrupulous. Show your potential!

All the activities of the Zerg are making concessions to it. It is like a huge vampire, extracting the energy and resources accumulated by the Zerg for decades and turning it into its own nutrients for its own growth.

This is the first true giant species of the Zerg. If it can really grow, its size will be much more spectacular than the tallest and towering mountain on the planet!

It would be a behemoth like Optimus Prime with an altitude of at least over 100 kilometers and an unknown amount of space!

It is said to be a "plant", but in essence, it is just one, or even countless, living insects!

This is a special enough unit. As it grows, it connects many Zerg units on the surface and underground. It is not a single individual, but a collection of hundreds of millions of Zerg swarms!

Zero watched it grow as fast as a tree, but it was not green at all, only strong and ferocious. Its ugly appearance was incompatible with technological products, but in fact it had the same effect!

As a living being, its body, based on the original Zerg "immune system", contains a large number of dormant and homologous insect species. If it is damaged during its growth, these bugs will It will wake up immediately, consume energy to start growing, and forcefully heal the injured area.

They are the first insurance that Sars has made for this plan. In addition, there are backup energy and resource banks, and even "branch" insect species to support its growth at critical moments, are all planned. middle.

After all, it is only feasible in theory and has not been tested in practice, and it is the first time for the Zerg to try it. Therefore, neither Zero nor Sass will naively think that as long as they provide enough food, they will be worry-free. .

In this process, no matter what kind of difficulties he encounters, Zero is mentally prepared. But similarly, as long as this experiment is completed and its feasibility is proven in practice, similar activities in the future will no longer be a scourge for the Zerg!

Zero pays close attention to the progress of this ambitious project, and the development of the Zerg itself has not stalled due to this.

After the launch of the plan, Sars divided his mind between two things. On the one hand, he was also paying attention to the progress of the project. On the other hand, he also began to implement his own backup plan, that is, the research of aerial insect species.

Since acquiring the complete knowledge system of the octopus, it is no longer difficult for Sass to add resources from nature to the Zerg incubation process and naturally apply them to the body parts of the Zerg swarm to strengthen their various abilities.

That is to say, in theory, Sass can even allow Zerg life to complete the combination of biology and machinery, but Zero believes that this is not very feasible.

After all, the Zerg do not have the industrial machine tools like intelligent life. Soldiers similar to "mechanical synthesis" and physical "mechanical dogs" are unlikely to be produced in biological structures such as hatcheries.

And this is not the development direction that Zero has planned for the Zerg on a macro level.

The Zerg's use of external substances is only to strengthen themselves, so strictly speaking, they will always be flesh and blood, but this "flesh and blood" will eventually become no longer fragile with repeated strengthening.

How to transform the propulsion technology from the octopus into power sufficient to propel the Zerg to overcome gravity and travel through the atmosphere was Sass's main research direction during this period.

The growth of the Zerg "biological space elevator" cannot be completed in a short period of time. Even with sufficient material supply, it grows very fast, and this time must be calculated in years.

After all, this was the first time in the world, and he was quite satisfied with being able to successfully demonstrate it on paper, so he remained patient enough.

Regarding the research on the Zerg "air and space units", Sass mainly refers to the design of the Octopus' aircraft. Now it has a lot of specific knowledge about the structure of the aircraft in its mind. Although not much of it can be put to use, in terms of energy issues On the premise that it has been conquered first, it is enough as a reference.

Sass has been extremely proficient in the design of the new insect species, but this time it is slightly different, because it needs a "container", a "container" that is enough to allow the energy stored by the Zerg to react violently in it to provide power.

Moreover, this container must be inside the Zerg. According to the design of the Octopus aircraft, whether in principle or technology, Sass has completed the demonstration of its application on the Zerg. As long as it can solve the "container" problem, it believes that its backup plan has a high success rate. So big that even the biological space elevator project currently underway will seem too wasteful in comparison.

This is of course nonsense. Although the biological space elevator plan is more expensive, it is indeed something that the Zerg are currently capable of achieving, and if it is successful, it will not only open the door to space for the Zerg.