Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The greatest use of the Velvet people to Zero is their large number of outstanding scientific researchers.

These people possess profound knowledge and theories, as well as extremely high scientific literacy and creativity. They are the most precious wealth of the entire civilization.

If it weren't for the continuous seizure of scientific research results from the Velvet people, the entire Federation would have fallen at the feet of the Zerg, no different from the previous lizard-men and octopus-men.

If Sass's discovery can indeed change this, then in fact, Zero's need for the Velvets will be greatly reduced, and he will no longer have to go to great lengths to play war games with them.

The current Federation is a semi-puppet-like existence to the Zerg. In fact, they still have sovereignty within a certain range.

Once the Zerg no longer needs the existence of the Federation, the Velvets and all races within the Federation will become dispensable. The Zerg will use their own way to cultivate "talents" unique to the Zerg.

Sass also attached great importance to this discovery. In comparative experiments, he did not find that there were many differences between the Velvets who had become Zerg lurkers and the normal Velvets. He was still able to draw inferences about some simple scientific issues. This Only then did Sasse feel that the special structure implanted in the Brocher people could achieve the effect Zero wanted.

But the individual used as a comparative experiment was just an ordinary Velvet. Although he had a certain amount of scientific knowledge, he was far inferior to scientific researchers.

To be cautious, Sass still needs to conduct further experiments on these top scientists in the federation.

Zerg In 1567, after the first step of the experiment was verified many times, Sass began to look for candidates in the Federal Academy of Science.

Zero has always regarded these scientific researchers of the Velvet Federation as an alternative asset of the Zerg. Apart from the initial tests, Zerg lurkers have never made a move against them no matter how they penetrated into the top levels of the federation. Even some semi-scientific and semi-administrative staff in the scientific research institute were not touched.

The Velvets have also contributed many achievements to the Zerg. Among them, the outstanding ones such as Popper and Goldman have successively produced breakthrough achievements in just a hundred years, which has attracted Zero's attention.

However, today is different from the past. Compared with the lives of these "valuable items", in the long run, Sasse's research is obviously more important.

As a result, for the first time in history, the Zerg lurkers launched an extremely targeted attack on the last piece of pure land in the Federation.

As a result, Visser stopped his large-scale war plan and waited for the results to be announced. Although this is an accident, the result will directly affect the fate of the Velvet people, even if they don't know it.

Of course, this is a rigorous plan, and the experimental subject must observe it for at least several decades to fully confirm its effectiveness, so it will not affect Todd's actions in the short term.

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Ruhr has recently resumed his daily life of traveling through wormholes. In addition to regular expansion, Ruhr has taken the Zerg units to star fields that have never been reached before, thereby realizing the existing strategy of the Zerg multi-faceted flowering. This is the expansion of the Zerg swarm. one of the important means.

But this time, it was somewhat unsure of the external environment inside the wormhole.

The reason is simple. It discovered a wormhole passage, or a mineral vein passage that was also "opened", but it was not the location of any Zerg expansion known to it.

Although it does not directly lead the Zerg expansion now, Ruhr is very familiar with the Zerg's sphere of influence, especially for determining the internal coordinates of the wormhole. It is difficult for other insect species to do as well as it does.

And Zero has never sent other brainworms to deal with this matter, so it can be determined that this wormhole that is not within the scope of the Zerg's influence, but is still open, is the product of other civilizations!

Ruhr didn't know how the other party avoided the "attack" from inside the wormhole, but it was obvious that it was probably always on here.

Due to the special nature of the interior of the wormhole, Ruhr was certain that he would never be discovered as long as he did not show up inside the passage. At this moment, what it is struggling with is how to greet the other party.

Of course it can't be itself, but if other insect species appear there, the existence of the insect swarm will inevitably be exposed.

——The existence that can directly open the wormhole must have enough understanding of the sub-dimensional space, and maybe it can surpass the Zerg.

It is impossible for the opponent to think that the Zerg are some kind of high-dimensional creatures like the Velvet people do, and will only think that they are an alien race from another star field!

It would be better if we could find out the coordinates of this place in time. Judging from Ruhr's experience, this place should not exceed the range of the origin galaxy. In other words, it is far away from any star with a wormhole in the main body of the Zerg. The domain can't be too far off.

Nowadays, the Zerg power carried by Ruhr is relatively limited, so if the target fails to be achieved the first time and the opponent closes the wormhole channel, then it may be impossible to determine the location of this place in the real universe!

In the end, it did not act rashly.

Since the wormhole here shows no signs of closing, to be on the safe side, it is the most convenient option to return to the nearest Zerg base and lead the Zerg group to directly carry out invasion activities.

As for how to face this unknown civilization after the invasion, that is something that needs to be considered in the future.

All it needs to do now is to "discover" them in the real universe.

Ruhr quietly retreated, preparing to return to the Zerg star domain to gather the Zerg swarms to achieve his goals.

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Although there was no direct invasion, this discovery reminded it that since the Zerg can discover unknown civilizations in this way, then the opponent can also discover the Zerg through the wormhole!

The wormhole passage is never a private property. It can be said to be a public passage. As long as you have a certain level of technological strength, you can enter it on your own.

Judging from the existence of the universe, the Zerg cannot be the first race to use wormholes to travel. Those ancient and powerful civilizations may also be looking for traces of other civilizations in this way!

In this way, the door of the wormhole is somewhat like Pandora's Box. Once opened, it not only means that you can travel to more star fields, but it may also bring unknown dangers.

Maybe this is the price of using it, but sometimes it can be very high.

Although the Zerg are completely different from civilization in the general sense, certain countermeasures are needed to deal with such uncontrollable changes.

The previously established plan to briefly open the wormhole supply passage seems to be necessary. If you think about it, it will be as fleeting as the original mineral vein channel, so you can avoid this risk to the greatest extent.

But that's not enough, but Ruhl thinks maybe this time it can find some useful information elsewhere.

After all, a civilization that can open wormholes, no matter how bad it is, can be similar to today's Velvet people. Since there is no interference from the Zerg, there is no reason for the other party not to be aware of the dangers caused by opening wormholes for a long time.