Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The so-called "neural units" of ordinary Zerg individuals are extremely limited. In fact, they have no "consciousness". Without the invisible constraints of the Hive Will, they only have instincts.

If it weren't for the fact that Brain Worm and Zero could even be called "connected with minds" in a certain sense, he still wouldn't know what was happening at this moment.

Fortunately, the death of the brain worm this time was completely different from all the previous death cases of the brain worm. This time, it left a corpse.

This is the first intelligent unit of the Zerg race to die in this incident that can finally be called a disaster. If there is anything to gain besides the information it left in the last moments, then Only its body remains.

Before this, a large number of dead Zerg units had been studied, but the results had been quite limited. This was the first time that Zero had the opportunity to study the body of the Cerebrate, and it was also the first time that all units of the Zerg race had attacked the body of the Cerebrate. Of course, if possible, Zero still felt that it was not dead.

After experiencing the continuous growth of the brain worm, the entire body is getting larger and larger, and more than 75% of the mass of this huge body is related to the brain.

The knowledge reserve of a brainworm in its lifetime is almost comparable to that of a civilization. It once shared all the technologies of the Zerg race, either developed on its own or plundered. There were once fierce thoughts colliding in its body, and countless Zerg races The unit was at its disposal, but now it was just a corpse.

The extremely complex structure is destined to make this research difficult to carry out quickly. In fact, in addition to studying the relevant events, studying the brainworm itself is also in Zero's plan.

With the development of the Zerg race, Zero has become more and more aware of their power. He even said that they are mobile libraries. There is no problem with a walking single civilization. Their bodies are almost never aging, and they are huge. With brain areas that are unimaginable to ordinary beings, and slow but seemingly endless growth, this insect species plays a pivotal role within the entire Zerg race.

Zero has always believed that answers to many secrets of the Zerg may be obtained from them, but he will not take the initiative to kill the brainworms just because they need to study them. The results that can be obtained by in vivo research have basically been studied by Sass and others. .

Since the birth of Sars, it has never stopped researching on itself. To this day, many characteristics of ordinary Zerg units are related to brain worms. In the previous cases of brain worm death, they were all "deathless". The state of "whole corpse" is indeed a pity from a purely research perspective.

This time, it was Sass who was responsible for studying the body of the brainworm once named Lamb.

It is the oldest and most knowledgeable individual of the Zerg race. If the Zerg race has a total of 100 contributions to the development of life science, it alone can monopolize more than 50%, even if it is other brain worm individuals. It is also more or less related to it in the early childhood stages.

"Looking" at this extremely familiar body that was "close before his eyes", Sass suppressed the weird feeling of attacking a real "same kind" and quickly entered a state of scientific research.

It has actually studied this kind of individual that is almost the same as itself. Its understanding of itself made it make rapid progress at the beginning. Many aspects that it had already reached conclusions were quickly skipped by it until it actually entered into what was already known. It became cautious only after the "brain domain" stage that completely stopped functioning.

This kind of research on Sass has long been done. The microscopic insect species "explores" this huge body in a way invisible to the naked eye according to its ideas, and constantly transmits feedback back. Although it cannot share the non-existent field of vision, Sass can In this way, problems can be found more accurately.

In this regard, even the three major civilizations cannot compare with the Zerg!

Under Zero's close attention, Sass conducted the first round of "autopsy" on Lamb, using himself and other brainworms as references to strictly check for any abnormalities at the cellular level.

However, nothing was found. It seemed to be just like an ordinary Zerg unit, just dead.

But this is impossible. Since it can respond at the moment before death, it means that it has at least felt like being "attacked", so it cannot really leave no trace!

So, Sass started the second round. It even teamed up with other brainworms and did not hesitate to conduct extremely detailed analysis using the neural chain in the brain as the basic unit.

For a mature brain worm, even they have to do these things with a huge workload, which is almost equivalent to "reading" Lamb's life. Of course, there is no memory information in it, but the nature is different. Not big.

If this cannot be concluded, then Zero has the last resort, but in that case, even if the executing brainworms each have the ability to adjust the Zerg body at will within the scope of knowledge, it will be a must. Long-lasting research.

Fortunately, things have not come to the final step, and Zero will not start over from scratch to conduct detailed research on the cerebrate unit that is almost as detailed as the original composition.

After further improving the accuracy of the research, it took thirty-two months for Sassas to finally find the problem.

For the Zerg, the so-called corpse decay problem is almost impossible to occur. There are no unnecessary microorganisms that will multiply in the Zerg's body. Even if there is a real need, it is a micro-unit of the Zerg itself. From this perspective, they are cleaner than any other race in the universe.

In Lamb's body, or in other words, within his brain, Sass noticed something abnormal through extreme observation and constant comparison. Combined with the last message left by Lamb, it can be confirmed that something was indeed "invading" it at that moment!

It had almost nothing to do with the body. Even based on the research on Lamb's body, Sass once considered it a normal phenomenon. If it weren't for the message reminder left by Lamb, even if the final screening was carried out in zero time, It is difficult to draw such a conclusion from the corpse!

Determining the cause of Lamb's death was not enough. Soon after truly realizing this, Sasse put forward another speculation, that is, this "invasion" did not begin at the time of Lamb's death, but Start before then!

As for the final death, it is not so much an invasion as a "general attack". Before that, it was just "infiltration".

In other words, this kind of attack is very likely to have been foreshadowed, but it is extremely secretive!

Although he did not control the source of its occurrence like Mira and used individuals from an entire civilization as experimental subjects, Sass still relied on the Zerg's absolute advantage in life technology to accurately discover this.

But during the subsequent self-examination, problems appeared again.

No abnormalities were found among the Cerebrates, and there was no difference in the census of ordinary Zerg units.

Judging from the frequency of attacks by this unknown means, this is impossible.

Either Sasse's conclusion is wrong, or it needs to be improved.

However, after only four rounds of attacks, Sass added a new prerequisite for his research results-limited to intelligent individuals.

The price for reaching this conclusion is that the second brainworm is about to face the threat of death. Because after the fourth round of Zerg death wave, among the many Cerebrates, it was the only one that showed the changes predicted by Sasse.