Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In the decades since Ruhr concentrated on dealing with the many civilizations in the Commonwealth, the swarm has not stopped developing. In addition to the Zerg fleet providing support, the Zerg's sphere of influence has greatly expanded throughout the entire river system.

Since entering the era of interstellar expansion, the Zerg's space exploration operations have generally shown an exponential pattern. After the emergence of wormholes, there has been a leapfrog development.

In 1560, the area of ​​the river system occupied by the insect swarm was about one-fifth millionth of the entire river system, containing about stars and more than star systems.

But until 1693, within 13 years, the number of stars occupied by the insect swarm had reached , covering nearly star systems!

If its huge sphere of influence were added together, it would occupy one millionth of the river system!

Considering the size of a river system, one millionth is by no means a small number. On the contrary, it is extremely huge. No force in the entire known river system can compare with them.

Of course, they didn't gain anything in the process.

On a desolate planet where life should not exist, the swarm discovered some strange creatures that were different from all the creatures the zerg had encountered so far.

Because the basis of their life is another element - silicon.

The existence of silicon-based life has always been one of the topics within the Zerg. Although there has not been a large amount of research, related speculations are not uncommon among the Cerebrates.

Including the Velvet people, the Pan-Galaxy Federation, and even the Octopus people, it can be found from the information obtained by the Zerg that they have more or less speculated and studied this kind of life.

However, I have never encountered it before.

This kind of creature lives on a rocky planet and obtains energy through complex chemical reactions of silicon and oxygen elements combined with other elements. However, it has almost no intelligence at all. They do not have a brain in the general sense. Instead, they have a kind of computing power that is only better than that of ordinary insects. A higher body structure.

Of course, this is a conclusion reached only after studying them.

In research, they once demonstrated extremely excellent ability to withstand high temperatures. Their unique molecular structure makes their bodies more stable and they can survive under various extreme conditions.

Compared with carbon-based organisms in the general sense, a large number of necessary substances, including water, are non-essential for them.

It can be said that compared to the Zerg on the surface of the planet, these special life forms have shown extremely adaptable characteristics to the universe, except that they are not intelligent - this is still related to their basic structure.

At a rough estimate, even if it takes thousands of years, silicon-based life on this planet will not be able to enter the starry sky. Their potential is too low.

But encountering them is also a good thing for the Zerg. When the real example is in front of us, the advantages of silicon-based life and the possible future development direction of carbon-based life will be carried out based on the research of biotechnology by the brainworms. Exploring may lead to a completely different path.

Even if the Zerg's current bio-alloy outer armor is countless times stronger than the opponent's body structure, it does not change this.

After all, it is well known that elements of the same family have similar characteristics and have many things in common. If the Zerg can reach this point from carbon-based life, they may not be able to start from scratch and start over again based on silicon-based life.

Maybe combining the two is also a good idea. Anyway, the intelligence of ordinary Zerg individuals is as different as that of these silicon-based lifeforms. For the brainworms, they don't care at all.

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The development of silicon-based life is the icing on the cake for the Zerg. If they could have been discovered by the Zerg a thousand years ago, perhaps today's Zerg would have been influenced by them and embarked on a completely different path. After all, it showed The superiority of Zerg was something that the carbon-based Zerg spent a lot of effort to overcome.

But for today's Zerg, that's all.

In addition, Gore's research on energy life Zhuna has also yielded some results.

From the crisis caused by the surge of dark matter in the wormhole, Zero gained insight into some of Zhuna's existence characteristics. They seemed to have some kind of obsession with repairing the wormhole passage, and would always appear in places where changes would occur in these spaces.

Of course, it is limited to Lyman so far. The insect swarm has not found them in the origin galaxy.

Over the years, the Zerg have been exploring the Lyman Galaxy. Apart from the discovery of Zhuna, they have never encountered even an intelligent race. You must know that as early as 1224, the Zerg had already arrived here and started exploring. .

Now more than four hundred years have passed. Just in terms of scope, the star field occupied by the Zerg here has far exceeded that of any other cerebral worm except for the Zerg group centered on Krichtel where Sass is located. The territory is three times as large as the entire territory of the coalition that Ruhr defeated before!

Thousands of stars have been brought under the control of the Zerg, but not a single planet with an intelligent race has been seen, let alone a civilization capable of interstellar navigation. I have to say, this is unusual.

The strange thing is that except for guarding the wormhole passage and repairing it, Zhuna does not seem to take the initiative to attack creatures. This should not have much to do with it.

Zero thought so before.

Until an accidental opportunity, during the development of the galaxy by the insect swarm, the distribution differences of some elements attracted Gore's attention.

Finally, through extensive research, it was discovered that the material composition of planets that seemed to be "wrapped" by Zhuna would change to a certain extent. The details were more complicated, but in short, they all seemed to have erased the subtle possibility of the emergence of organisms. .

In other words, even in the extremely distant future, the possibility of these planets giving birth to life on their own is very slim.

It is eradicating the birth of intelligent races from the source!

If this is the case, Zhuna, who migrates irregularly throughout the year and reproduces relatively easily, can indeed minimize the possibility of intelligent life appearing within the entire galaxy!

This is Gore's biggest discovery of Zhuna in these years. Of course, there are some fragmentary discoveries besides this, but they are not important compared to this.

Because it further reveals the secret of the existence of this kind of life, it gives Zero more basis for his guess, but at the same time, it also raises more questions.

Why does it do this?

From taking the initiative to close wormholes at the cost of their lives, to now eradicating intelligent races from the source, but unexpectedly not taking the initiative to attack the worms, there are too many abnormalities, and some behaviors are even inconsistent with ordinary life. The underlying logic is contradictory!

According to research, these Zhuna clones do not possess high intelligence, this is certain. But judging from their behavior, their purpose is so obvious.

This is less like a biological instinct and more like...

A preset program!

Maybe, it was created!

This sounds sensational. After all, Zhuna itself is almost invincible to the Zerg, except for occupying favorable galaxies and detonating gravity bombs. If there is any existence that created them, it is simply beyond the imagination of today's insect swarm.