Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Including Gore's words, this is already the third brainworm "killed" in the history of the Zerg. The other party got nothing, but Zero's heart became increasingly uneasy.

The millennium-long silence has made many emotions no longer so easy to emerge. The insect swarm's overwhelming "attack on the city" has also made the original joy of harvest become natural and logical.

Not just Zero, including a small number of brain worms, as time goes by, they are all more or less losing something they once had but didn't care about at all. Their long lifespan has made those who were once simple Happiness and pure emotion gradually turned into an alternative kind of mechanical inertial numbness.

Sk and other relatively "young" brainworms still have some hobbies, but Zero hasn't felt the emotion of "anger" for a long time.

After all, for a life with feelings, two thousand five hundred years is too long!

Many things have become insignificant under the erosion of time. The Zero who once blamed himself for the mass deaths of ant colonies due to his own mistakes has long since quietly disappeared into time. Instead, he is calmly watching the flow of the stars in the universe. The changing Zerg Overlord.

However, the successive "deaths" of the brainworms finally made him feel real anger. If Sk and even Gore can be considered latecomers, then Dagos can be considered the true "veteran" of the Zerg.

As the second brain worm of the Zerg race, Zero still remembers that he personally gave it such a name by referring to the ancient memories in his mind. In retrospect, Zero and Sass at that time were still famous because of its birth. I was excited for a long time.

But now, it has once again become a "seed" inside the incubation pool. Over the years, regarding the dialectics of the continuation of life, Zero has been unable to come up with definite evidence. Whether individuals with the same memory are the same animal? Brainworm, this is a question that is difficult to really explain clearly.

Maybe Dagoth and Sk and Gore were truly dead and replaced by three "successors" with the same memories, Zero couldn't be sure.

Take the original Gore as an example. After its "rebirth", it still seems to have similar behavior patterns, similar personalities and habits as before. But is it Gore himself or another extremely similar brainworm? It's hard to explain.

It can only be said that He hopes that these latecomers will still be the original brainworms.

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The ability to travel directly over long distances was basically lost on the front line, and the swarm was forced to start using its own means of navigation between stars to move forward.

It has to be said that although the insect swarm does not have the technology to light up space jumps like the Hero Federation, the research on space has played a huge role in promoting the insect swarm's ability to travel at faster than light speeds.

Over the years, the swarm has mainly relied on wormholes to rapidly expand to the surrounding areas, but in star fields that cannot be directly connected to wormholes, conventional super-light navigation is still the most mainstream method of the worms.

Of course, even so, the endless dark journey between galaxies is still not easy to cross. After the front line is blocked, the expansion speed of the insect swarm in this direction can almost be said to have quickly changed from a pulley at the speed of light to a snail crawl. degree.

At this moment, the Alliance is already discussing whether to conduct the same containment of the insect swarm in other directions.

Today, the Alliance's detectors are exploring various star fields within the Zerg territory, trying to search for important facilities and units of the Zerg swarm, even if this operation is actually like finding a needle in a haystack, even if it is a frontline industrial base jointly developed by the three major civilizations There is no good solution for this.

In the past colonization process, the three major civilizations basically had no competitors, and the internal needs of the civilizations did not require their radical expansion. They often pursued it slowly, wanting to swallow such a huge star field in one go. None of them has ever accomplished such a feat, let alone the other party who is expanding his territory every moment!

Even at this stage, it is close to one-twentieth of the sphere of influence directly under the three major civilizations in the explored universe!

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It was at this point in time, when the Alliance was trying to explore the possibility of interfering with the Zerg expansion at a deeper level, Mira appeared in a newly established industrial base in the star system by the Alliance, and unexpectedly completed a beautiful attack. .

The loss caused by the attack itself is nothing to the Alliance. After developing at full strength for hundreds of years, the Alliance's industrial base has completely grown into a behemoth. The losses within a star system cannot move these elites at all.

But the key is not here. The raid of the Mira Mechanical Fleet not only made this laxly defended industrial galaxy completely lose the value of subsequent use, but more importantly, before the Alliance support fleet arrived, those warships that had not yet been completed, including Industrial mother beds, space docks, etc., some of the complete or incomplete facilities fell directly into Mira's hands!

It came too suddenly, and obviously used all its strength. Even after the war was irreversible and the alliance had begun self-destruction, it still could not avoid a large amount of industrial equipment being taken into the arms of the other party.

Of course, due to the alliance's subsequent fleet support, the other party did not have much time to conduct physical research, but that was a real intelligent life! In those short few days, no one among the alliance elites, including the Hero League members, could be sure how much information it had obtained.

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Faced with the current situation of the Zerg, Zero is determined to take some measures. No matter how bad it is, the safety of the Cerebrates should be ensured. However, without uncertainty about the degree to which the Zerg swarm is being monitored by the other party, the sudden movement of the Cerebrates may very well endanger them. Expose yourself. Judging from what happened to Dagos, this is not impossible.

Doing nothing is too passive. Even if the many brainworms that have been moved outside the galaxy, away from stars and massive celestial bodies, and the intelligent races that are the "cornerstone" of the Zerg scientific research team, can be temporarily preserved, as the other party deepens their monitoring of the entire Zerg, it will inevitably be impossible. Always hide yourself perfectly.

The activities of the brain worms require matter and energy, and the individuals of the intelligent race, which can easily reach tens of billions, need matter and energy. The Zerg cannot create matter out of thin air, so these must be inseparable from the support of the macrocosm. As long as the intelligence advantage is large enough, Even if it only takes a little bit of luck, if you follow the clues, the insect swarm will inevitably suffer heavy losses.

However, the limitations of technological development have made it impossible for the insect swarm to reverse the situation. The insect swarm has conducted as in-depth research as possible on the external manifestations of the opponent's space jump. However, for so long, in addition to being able to do so at a certain level, It has no use except predicting the other party's arrival.

Zero also knows very well that it is undoubtedly impossible to use this method to reverse the high-end technology for which the Federation is renowned.

"What to do?" He thought.

It has been a long time since Zero thought about the problem passively. There is no target for counterattack. Faced with the opponent's elusive whereabouts, defense is completely impossible. Even the past encirclement and suppression of the opponent with absolutely superior force will not help, whether in terms of mobility or At all levels of offense and defense, the enemy must be far superior to our own.

To put it simply, what the swarm is facing now is an embarrassing situation where it cannot be beaten or chased, and once it is targeted by the opponent, it is difficult to even escape.