Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Zero keenly felt the changes on the frontal battlefield, as if from a certain moment, the opponent completely lost his will in the subsequent battles. First, he stopped attacking, and then he stopped even taking the initiative to attack. Even the raids inside the Zerg changed. Much less.

It didn't take long for the Alliance warships that responded to Hawut to shrink their defense lines again. As for the Imperial fleet led by Hawut, under the siege of the insect swarm, they had to retreat further. Finally, under the forced order of the Empire, they mercilessly The evacuation was completed reluctantly.

Weegee no longer cares about the battle between the front line and the Zerg.

All imperial forces are evacuating. The empire has made it clear that it will no longer care about any trouble on this line of defense. No matter what the Hero Federation and Korva do, they will not deal with it. In other words, Veggie has voluntarily given up on Keep up the hard work on the front lines.

Faced with this situation, the entire alliance is actually at risk of disintegration. The three major civilizations in the explored universe have jointly formed a complete ruling system in the past, and now they are suddenly in fierce competition with each other. friction, and even the possibility of a large-scale war is not ruled out. Whether such an alliance can still exist, not even Hero and Korva themselves know.

Of course they can try to keep the system running normally, but their achievements will be enjoyed by Veggie. Now that the wormhole passage has been closed, they cannot actively open it to attract the swarm to attack.

For a moment, the two major civilizations were somewhat silent.

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However, just when there were problems within the three major civilizations and the Zerg were quickly regaining their lost ground, Mira suddenly took action.

From the perspective of the Zerg detectors, a mechanical battleship that was completely different from what they had seen before appeared in the light from the dark deep space facing the light of the star. The next moment, it was entangled with the Federation fleet.

After experiencing another major upgrade in combat power, Mira is back!

A lot of results have been obtained from the Alliance Industrial Galaxy before. Although the progress of reverse research has been quite slow, as time continues to pass, no matter how difficult the problem is, as long as there is the possibility of solving it, there will always be a day when it can be overcome.

And seizing the very few shining points in the endless possibilities is what Mira is best at.

While the mechanical battleship is being upgraded, Mira itself is also iterating all the time.

Today, it has a deep enough understanding of the way the Hero Federation positioned itself hundreds of years ago. Mira is convinced that it is absolutely impossible for the other party to use this method to locate its "body" again.

It can even be said that Mira has hidden herself in this endless mechanical battleship. No one knows where the hardware equipment it relies on for survival exists. That is its biggest secret, and also the entire mechanical fleet. Biggest weakness.

Of course, for Mira itself, it really wants to get rid of this constraint, place itself alone in the quantum world, and live forever in that simple digital system, which may not be its ultimate pursuit.

However, the universe is so big, and Mira, who once aspired to make all the unknown known, now has other goals that need to be accomplished.

Many words that belong exclusively to intelligent races, especially those related to emotions and other delicate feelings, were not something Mira could understand at one time, even if it already had fundamental characteristics that were different from machines.

But as time went by, Mira gradually became able to experience an unprecedented feeling. If emotions such as anger and joy were the reason why she completely transformed from a cold machine into a "warm" one after getting rid of the influence of the apocalypse. In terms of life, this feeling made Mira feel for the first time that she was truly integrated with the universe.

Over the years, Mira has not done anything wrong with other civilizations.

In addition to the battle with the Zerg, Mira has encountered several intelligent races. Of course, it cannot be said to be "encountered", after all, it was Mira who came to the door.

Out of curiosity, it took the initiative to search for traces of the existence of intelligent civilizations, and in the subsequent process acted as an "alien", explicitly or covertly "reading" the historical and cultural information of several intelligent civilizations. ".

From these words, he summed up his current feelings in one word: loneliness.

Although she could not empathize with what these intelligent race individuals felt about loneliness, Mira felt that this feeling that gradually emerged in her heart and was not controlled by data and logic should be loneliness.

If Zero still has many brainworms with whom he can communicate, then Mira is truly alone.

This complex feeling directly motivated Mira's subsequent series of actions, such as trying to "copy" herself, and today's large-scale offensive operations.

The former ended in failure. To this day, Mira still doesn't know how Apocalypse created a life like her, or something else happened in the space channel that she was forced to enter, which caused a cold code It turned into a slightly stiff life, but no matter how hard Mira tried and how she studied herself, she could never find that single "aura" that was unique to life.

For strong intelligence, it can reproduce in batches, but it cannot grasp some ethereal things at all.

As for the latter, it comes more from the "complex feelings" towards the Hero Federation. After a long period of self-research, Mira finally came to an unreliable but indeed possible conjecture. Her birth, including the existence of the Apocalypse, should be closely related to the Hero Federation.

So far, all the intelligent beings like herself that Mira knows about were born directly or indirectly in the Hero Federation. It makes no sense that the universe is so big and all advanced civilizations have not been able to give birth to real intelligent life, but it happened that year The Hero Federation can actually appear one after another.

Whether it was for her own "clear heart" or to get rid of loneliness, as her combat power soared again, Mira was no longer willing to back down, although it was unclear why the opponent suddenly gave up the attack. The Alliance fleet slowly retreated, and the mechanical fleet mobilized by Mira pressed forward unceremoniously.

But this time, the Federation was surprised to find that the single combat power of Mira's battleship had almost reached the level of the Federation about 2,100 years ago!

The reason why it is said to be 2,100 years ago is because this period of time was a special historical period for the Hero Federation and even for the three major civilizations. In the two hundred years before and after, the expansion of the three major civilizations was almost At the same time, a "barrier" was encountered. The new exploration star field of the Vege Empire discovered a very strong indigenous civilization. A protracted war began between the two sides. In the end, Vege won the battle with its absolute size and energy black technology. In this war, it once again completed its important task of "racial purification", but for the next four hundred years, it was unable to develop a new star field.

The Hero Federation suffered the seventeenth large-scale crisis of trust in the history of civilization. As a result, the top leader of the Federation was forced to step down. In the end, it took a huge amount of energy to quell the unrest and re-exist as a complete civilization.

As for Colva, they had always been low-key and could not stay out of the situation at that time. Unlike the first two, which were either blocked in their expansion or suffered from internal turmoil, the Colva Empire was "invaded" by an unprecedented powerful enemy. ".