Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 117 Capture
Sommer always seems to be a loner.It was and it is now.

Under the Zerg attack, he may not be the only survivor, but he is definitely the only lizardman who fought back.

However, this kind of attack did not have much effect on the Zerg. At best, it only slowed down the expansion of the Zerg a little bit. Now that they have completed resource integration again, this little effect is almost gone. exists.

However, his several attacks on the Zerg were not in vain. Now, Sommer at least knew most of the Zerg's exposed abilities.

Extremely rapid reproduction speed, highly centralized social structure, fully shared vision, and unified advanced intelligent control, etc.

Compared with all other possible surviving lizardmen, Sommer is undoubtedly the one who knows the Zerg best.

He has already realized that if he wants to deal with such a terrifying swarm of insects, he has absolutely no chance of winning by relying on his own strength alone.So he has always been a lone wolf, this time he needs to rely on the power of the clan.

Although Sommer has always been very withdrawn, this does not mean that he is a fool. A fool cannot survive in a dangerous jungle. On the contrary, he is quite smart.

So the first time this thought came into being, he understood his situation.

Given his social class, not to mention attracting high-level attention, it is extremely difficult for him to even see the other side.

And based on his observation of the Zerg, he knew very well that after getting enough food, the number of the Zerg would usher in a surge in a short time!
So he doesn't have much time.

Sommer didn't know that Zero would not come out of the jungle in winter, but even if he knew, there wouldn't be much time left for the lizardmen.

The Zerg has already started the layout of the entire continent under Zero's order, and every once in a while, there may be an extra Zerg camp in a certain inaccessible area.

Although the Zerg in the jungle will not expand their population on a large scale until the end of winter, in fact, the number of Zerg is increasing every day.

Sommer has come outside the jungle, and now, the first problem he faces is how to enter the huge city in front of him.

Yes, even though the war is over, the empire's wariness of the barbarians still hasn't let go.

He came from the jungle, and he didn't have any effective evidence to prove his identity. Even entering the city would be a problem, let alone contacting those big figures who were not in the same class at all and then making a statement to them.

Sommer knew very well that given his class, this was almost impossible!

He looked at the huge bed crossbows and cannon carriages on the city wall from a distance, and those soldiers of the same clan who were wearing strong armor, remained silent for a long time.

It is also impossible to sneak in.

He was born withdrawn and didn't have many friends. Even if he had, they would be at the same bottom as him, so it was impossible to talk about using contacts to get in.

However, very people do extraordinary things, and he finally thought of a solution that was not a solution, but this solution would not be possible until night.

Sommer is not a person who procrastinates in doing things. Now that he has made a decision, he will do it no matter what the consequences of doing so will be.

His thinking was that since he couldn't enter the city, and even if he could, it would be impossible to get in touch with those big shots.

So he changed his mind.How can I not go in and still achieve my goal of notifying the higher-ups?

He thought of the hard bow behind him and the homemade arrows in the arrow basket.

Unlike those barbarians, although he is at the bottom of the entire lizard people group, he is not illiterate.

His father used to be a very capable hunter. He had the opportunity to learn some characters when he was young, and later he taught his mother what he learned.After his father passed away, although life was hard, his mother still taught him some basic characters.

Therefore, he wanted to take advantage of the darkness and use the hard bow in his hand to directly shoot the cloth strips with information about the Zerg on the tower from a distance.

Passing information in this way will inevitably alarm the high-level people in the city, and he will be able to achieve his goal.

The reason for choosing night is of course because of the well-equipped soldiers on the tower.

If he did such a thing in broad daylight without the cover of night, he might be pierced by the bed crossbow before he shot the arrow.

He is indeed born with eagle eyes, but seeing so far does not mean that arrows can shoot so far.

And the soldiers on the city wall don't care whether you draw your bow to shoot people or the pillars on the city tower. As the elite of the empire, as long as they are discovered, they definitely have this strength.

Now that the plan has been made, it is time to execute it.Sommer tore off a piece of clean cloth that he had been wearing all year round to bandage the wound, and used the words he had learned to express the matter as clearly as possible.

These include the existence of the Zerg and its ability characteristics, the destruction of the Lizardman camp, and the terror potential of the opponent.

Because of his incomplete literacy, he couldn't express directly in many places. In this case, he had to use the words he knew to describe in a roundabout way, expressing his meaning as much as possible.

It took him quite a lot of effort. It was too difficult for the hunter who was usually a master in the jungle to write. Those crooked characters may be slightly worse than the enlightened children in the city.

But no matter what, he managed to express his meaning clearly, and only waited until after dark to shoot the arrow.

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In the jungle, the leaves withered.

Most of the swarms have stopped their activities, dormant in the cave where the underground river is located, and only a small number of engineers are still expanding the cave. Compared with the size of the swarm, it still looks a bit crowded.

After completing the transformation of the Zerg land units, Sass finally put his energy on the sea units.

Today, the warriors and engineers on the land, not to mention their combat power, are already quite powerful from the outside, and they look like Zerg as one would have imagined.

Only the current sea units still look like failed products made by illegal biological laboratories. Although their activities in the water are not affected, both speed and efficiency are actually affected to a certain extent.

Therefore, Zero decided to let Sass take advantage of all the gains from the completed analysis and try to remodel it again. At worst, he had to improve the appearance a little bit. It seemed a bit too shabby when he grew up like this, and his ability was not strong enough. , at least for the current Zerg, some cannot meet the requirements.

While it's normal for Zerg to be grotesque, a warrior with a fish head does look weird.

In the underground river, Sass spent half a month experimenting with Zero's arrangement, and finally got a brand new unit that satisfied Zero.

Under Zero's field of vision, today's Zerg sea units are finally no longer looking like failed products produced by some illegal biological experiments, but have become streamlined with smooth lines, not only the ability to move in water has been strengthened , because Sass has completed the analysis of the two attacking arms of the ant tribe, they have been greatly improved in terms of defense and attack.

Today, they are no longer low-level predators in the sea that can only prey on small fish and shrimps. Even against small and medium-sized predators in Shanghai, they are not invincible.

If there are enough numbers, they can even walk sideways in the sea. Even the largest sea creatures that the Zerg have encountered so far, they can no longer prey on them wantonly-it is very likely that there will be a battle of fate. journey back.

It can be said that in this transformation, the Zerg sea units have been reborn, and it is not appropriate to call them sea warriors anymore. They are completely another unit of the Zerg!
Because of its long and pointed fangs, it is extremely ferocious, but it cannot dive into the deep sea, and can only hunt in offshore and shallow sea areas, so it is called a shallow sea forager by Zero, who has a naming problem.

The appearance of the foragers can be regarded as the beginning of the Zerg's ocean exploration. They are in groups, and few dare to provoke them.

Although they are still unable to adapt to the pressure of the deep sea, they undoubtedly have initially qualified to gallop the ocean.

Next, Zero also wants Sass to continue to complete the marine transformation of the hatchery. Only when the hatchery has a firm foothold in the ocean can the Zerg truly embrace the vast ocean bit by bit.

Of course, things have to be done step by step. There are already foragers, and Sass can just try to improve the hatchery in the leisure time of winter.

After all, it is the first time to modify the hatchery itself, and the requirements for zero are relatively simple, as long as it can move above the water surface and have a certain diving ability.Even foragers cannot enter the deep sea area, and it is impossible for Zero to require the hatchery to take root directly on the seabed.

As long as this can be achieved, the Zerg is equivalent to having a mobile stronghold above the ocean, and is no longer a rootless duckweed.

Now, Sass has completed the analysis of many creatures. It is not difficult to make the hatchery meet the zero requirement, it just takes time to adjust a little bit.

And in winter, the Zerg have plenty of time to wait.

Even so, Sass's schedule was packed full by Zero.

Zero is currently trying to figure out a way to master the strange bugs that Sommer used to attack the Zerg, at least to put them safely in front of Sass, otherwise, no matter how powerful Sass is, without research, Not to mention remodeling.

But at this step, Zero has already encountered a problem.

The Zerg basically had no way to get close to these seemingly harmless bugs lying on the cave wall.Once sensed by it, unless it escapes from the cave, it will continue to face the attack of a large number of bugs.

Zero didn't know how Sommer managed to put it into the stone box, but he had asked the engineers to try it, and it couldn't be done at all.

This sense of helplessness intensifies Zero.Since Sommer can do it, there is no reason why the Zerg with stronger execution ability can do nothing.

It is true that the Lizardman's dexterous joints can perform many delicate operations that the Zerg cannot do, but if he knows the opponent's method, he can let the Zerg try to make a simple version.

He doesn't need too many of these bugs around him, one or two is enough for the time being.

This kind of thinking lasted for several days. During this period, the attempts of the engineers did not stop. In the process of being hunted down, one engineer after another was burned to ashes.

He couldn't figure it out, until he saw the stone box thrown in the cave by the dead engineers, and he had a flash of inspiration.

Maybe this is the method used by Sommer?

Zero suddenly realized that this was just the simplest way to invite the wisher to take the bait.

Let the engineers make a simple design on the lid of the stone box, connect it to the outside of the cave, and then take the risk of placing the stone box in the cave, and send the Zerg into it. After disturbing the bugs, when they calm down, Close the stone box from the outside, then enter the cave and take it out.

Even if the probability is relatively low, if you try a few more times, you will always gain something.

As for how to determine whether this kind of worm really exists in the stone box, it is very simple. You can open it a little in the dark to observe, or even try to shake it.

Just do it when you think about it. Although the claws and fingers of the engineer are far less flexible than the lizardmen, and their hands-on ability is even more different, this task itself is not such a difficult technical task. It just requires some patience. Regarding this point, Zero is not lacking.

However, after collecting these bugs, Zero faced another problem, that is, how can Sass complete the analysis?

Could it be through the stone box?
This is of course impossible. No matter how talented it is, it doesn't have any clairvoyant abilities. If it can't even see, the so-called analysis is out of the question.

Zero has not yet thought of a solution to this point, but as time passed, before spring came, Sass once again sent good news.

It completes the oceanic makeover of the hatch!
Zero was very pleased to observe and test it, and was a little surprised to find that Sass not only perfectly fulfilled his request, but even strengthened it.

The first is the change in appearance. The Zerg's newly born hatchery in the sea no longer looks like a building. Compared with the original appearance, it looks more like a big fish floating on the sea.

On its back, there is a kind of fleshy fin that can be opened and closed similar to a clam shell. Let's call it a fin, because when it shrinks, it looks somewhat similar to the dorsal fin of a fish.

This structure can swing as it rises, giving it some extra buoyancy.At the same time, when above the sea surface, this dorsal fin can also be opened to become a carpet-like platform.This is the place where the eggs are produced, and it can also provide a temporary habitat for the larvae.

It does not have a clear head. To be precise, its feeding mouth is in all directions below the dorsal fin, and below the feeding mouth are wide legs that provide it with the power to move forward in the water.

This kind of leg can swing in any direction, thereby pushing the huge body of the hatchery in the sea to move in any direction. Although the speed is not fast, Zero is already very satisfied.

Whether it is the forager of the Zerg's sea unit or the brand new sea hatchery, it is the research result that Sass spent the whole winter to complete.But during this period, neither Sommer nor the entire lizardman group stopped their actions.

　Yesterday the unit leader inspected and accompanied me to dinner at night. After drinking two taels of cat urine, I was already numb, so I basically didn’t write a few words. This chapter was written the day before yesterday, and I will continue to save the manuscript today~~
　　
　
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