Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The planetary defense system of the Velvet people can be regarded as the biggest obstacle to the activities of the Zerg led by Sass on the surface of the planet.

It is impossible to carry out large-scale and blatant actions without concealing oneself, so to this day, the insect swarms are active deep underground.

The planetary defense system of the Federation's home planet is mainly responsible for functional functions such as maintaining stability and transmitting information internally. It has not played a role in the military for many years.

For so many years, no enemy has been able to reach here and launch an attack on the Federation's home planet. Therefore, although huge funds have been spent on maintenance and updates every year since its establishment, it has almost never been used.

Of course, its role is not really to fight foreign countries. Just by existing there, it can make many forces with evil intentions disappear.

Just like now, even in the no-man's land on the planet, its existence prevents the insect swarms from operating openly on the surface.

Therefore, Sass placed the first target against federal officials since the advent of the Lurkers on controlling the planet's defense system.

In Zerg 1219, snowflakes began to fall in the northern hemisphere of planet Orui. This was once the origin of the Zerg race, but now there is almost no trace of the Zerg swarm. They withdrew from here, leaving only some Zerg bases hidden deep underground as an insignificant back-up, entering the deepest dormancy.

Velvet Federation home planet, planetary defense headquarters.

This used to be the headquarters of the federal military's staff, but now it belongs to the planetary defense headquarters integrating military and police. Here, the outer space and surface defense forces of the entire planet are controlled. It is divided into six regions, which govern the 104 continents of the federal mainland. There are personnel directly under the headquarters, plus branch personnel within each region. , there are more than a million Velvet people serving this huge organization, while maintaining an even larger number of reserve personnel.

In a state of emergency, this number can expand to more than ten times in a short period of time!

It can be said that they are the last line of defense for the Federation. In peacetime, it is mainly responsible for maintaining the basic order of the Federation, combating separatist activities, and maintaining global peace.

Now, Sass has set his sights here.

It is not a simple matter to change the cognition of an intelligent civilized individual from the bottom of the mind without endangering its life. The complexity of brain thinking is beyond imagination. If it were not for the Hive Will, it would have developed with all directions. The insect swarm has become extremely powerful and may not be able to support such a huge calculation.

Even so, it is impossible for Zero to control all individuals of the Velvet civilization using this method. As of now, it can only be effective among a few individuals.

Of course, the senior management and key personnel of the Federal Planetary Defense Headquarters are among this few individuals, and their value is enough for Sass to complete this matter.

This doesn't even require much planning. You just need to sprinkle the "seeds" of Zerg lurkers into nearby accessible media and wait.

If there are some low-value personnel among them, then it will be enough to let the "seeds" wither away on their own, which will not cause alarm and will not waste the computing power of the Hive Mind.

As the swarm expands rapidly on the other side of the river system, the Hive Mind becomes stronger every minute. In the future, the Zerg will definitely have the power to control the entire Velvet civilization.

Controlling the defense system of the Velvites' home planet is only the first step. The Zerg have already launched operations on various colonial planets.

Either during ordinary travel, daily diet, or while sleeping, one has been infected by the Zerg without even realizing it.

To be gentle, this process is not done overnight and is expected to be completed in as little as one or two weeks or as long as more than a month.

After taking the planet's defense system into their own hands, the insect swarm can be regarded as having obtained preliminary "legal rights of passage" on the planet.

At the same time, infiltration is being carried out by senior federal officials, members of parliament, and senior officials in various colonies and other key positions.

In addition to scientific researchers, in the next few years, the insect swarm will gradually complete the Zergization of the consciousness of these Velvet people, allowing the insect swarm to control the high-level discourse in the Velvet civilization.

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Pope, a new academician of the Federal Academy of Sciences, accidentally discovered a strange thing.

In a scientific research institute, a senior scientific researcher who was about to retire suddenly died recently.

Although in a place like a scientific research institute, sudden death caused by overtime work and long periods of irregular rest is not uncommon, this death still left Popper with some doubts.

It's not about his death itself, accidents always come in various forms and are unpredictable. What really made Pope a little strange was that the day before his death, he used his authority to access information on many of the Federation's top technologies.

Of course, although these information require higher permissions, their confidentiality level is not high. In the scientific research circle, they are semi-public information.

But the strangest thing is that with the knowledge level shown by this dead researcher and the research direction in history, he should not have access to these materials, and these things are not of much use to him. Although it looked like he had just read it hastily and there were no traces of copying it, it was still strange and made him alert immediately.

If we start from this incident, then this person's accidental death seems a bit unusual.

Pope sensed something was wrong, so he informed Sheriff's Department staff of the incident during the death investigation.

Soon afterwards, Pope was jointly interviewed by the Federal Ministry of Public Security and the Department of Planetary Defense, and a series of details were confirmed to him again, as if he was ready to go to war.

Sure enough, for the next two months, Pop felt that the atmosphere in the research institute was quite tense, and occasionally colleagues would be interviewed or even interrogated.

He speculated that this might be a case involving information leakage.

But just two months later, everything returned to normal, and the scientific research institute, which had always been undisturbed, once again returned to calm, but there was no notification about that incident.

"Maybe it involves secrets?" Pop thought and stopped paying attention to this matter. As the youngest academician of the Federal Academy of Sciences in the past three hundred years, his scientific research tasks are also very heavy.

Since the first life-extending potion without side effects, he has been dedicated to analyzing the essence of the mysterious longevity substance obtained from the Zerg body over the years, but there has been no breakthrough. A year ago, by chance, he discovered A kind of "ethereal" existence hidden in this mysterious organization that can only be produced by Zerg and cannot be mass-produced industrially.

Popper believes that the reason why the combination of these elements can extend lifespan may not only be their own reasons, but also related to the step taken from the Zerg body!

Therefore, he proposed to transform pure industrial production into a biological extraction process for Zerg. The bugs that this Sass threw out to confuse the Velvet people played their due role.

Various teams headed by Pope have achieved more than a thousand achievements of various sizes over the years, a considerable number of which have been applied in military industry, aerospace, transportation, people's livelihood and other aspects.