Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 172 Energy Crystal
In the records of the other party, this deep purple translucent crystal containing huge energy cannot be divided in any form, and its interior cannot be observed with any existing technology. The two crystals cannot be found at any level. There are differences, but they remain exactly the same in almost every sense of the word.

As for its utilization method, it is quite simple, and it can even be said to be unbelievably simple.

When it is in the vacuum of the universe, the energy contained in it is restrained, and there will be no leakage in any form.

But once in contact with matter, it energizes matter in any possible form!

It can be electrical energy, thermal energy, chemical energy, etc. In other words, it can replace any energy supply, it seems to be... the essence of energy, and all other forms of energy supply are nothing more than its The outer manifestation, and it, this purple transparent crystal, is the energy itself!
The octopus used one of them to conduct a 20-year test, and finally confirmed the total amount of energy contained in it, setting the stage for this long colonial journey that lasted for hundreds of years.

Due to the consumption of various previous experiments, in the end, only one of the only two crystals remained, and most of the energy contained in the other was consumed.

During the subsequent space voyage through the unknown meteorite belt, the half block used as a supplementary energy source was also lost.

Today, the driving energy of the spaceship is running out, because the only piece of purple crystal has been traveling for a long time, and it is almost exhausted.

In the memory of the octopus man, Zero didn't find any information about the appearance of the third purple crystal, and it probably didn't exist. If there was, they wouldn't have come to this point.

To be honest, for Zero, the existence of this kind of thing is quite shocking, and it made him feel a little unreal for a while.

But existence is reasonable, no doubt, memory may be misleading, but it will not lie.It is also an ironclad fact that the octopus people came here across the great distance between the stars.

Then the authenticity of this matter is infinitely close to [-]%.

No matter how unreal, since it really exists, then Zero will accept it frankly.Moreover, the existence of this kind of substance is also extremely beneficial to the Zerg race, even if it is only a concept for them now.

Regarding the matter of energy crystals, let's not talk about it for the time being.No matter what Zero has in mind, it is useless to think too much before seeing it with his own eyes.

The top priority now is how to capture as many octopus people as possible and obtain the achievements of the opponent's civilization.

After knowing the specific information of the opponent, the octopus almost didn't have too many secrets about the Zerg, including the performance of weapons, the number of personnel, the level of technology, etc., and Zero has already done it by heart.

It's just that the problem of ability is the weakness of the Zerg compared to the Octopus. After basically knowing all the information of the opponent, Zero is very sure that if the opponent is determined to be a turtle, the Zerg can certainly kill them, but if they want to achieve The goal of zero is absolutely impossible to achieve.

These octopus people are all top talents in all walks of life. It would be a pity if they were lost.

Of course, if it is really difficult to do it, Zero will not force it. The first priority is to prevent the other party from exploiting resources on the planet.

Regardless of whether these special "resources" can be obtained, curbing their development is the prerequisite for achieving all goals.

Under the protection of various weapons such as aircraft, the octopus resumed resource development, and at the same time closely monitored the movements of the underground insect swarm through detection instruments.

But now Zero doesn't care at all, even if he is watching, it is impossible for him to let the other party develop wantonly here.

In the nearby Zerg base, a large number of Zerg units all started to move with zero thought.

Not only here, dozens of Zerg bases near the octopus outpost in the ocean also took action at the same time.

In an instant, the alarm of the octopus people was loud, because during the ground detection, there were extremely terrifying swarms of insects rapidly approaching them!

These bugs are Zerg units that were hatched in the past but have not been put to great use. Under normal circumstances, their only role is to provide bonuses to the hive will, improve the scientific research efficiency of Sass, and strengthen the function of the hive.

Now, the insect swarm, which had been silent for a long time, launched a large-scale attack again after a century.

He knew that with these bugs, he couldn't do anything to the octopus hiding in the mechanical products, but this time he didn't think about what to do with the other party, he just simply prevented them from mining resources.

The octopus quickly responded to the Zerg's actions. They withdrew the personnel in the mine and put on a defensive posture.

At the same time, the spacecraft in space also moved, and a long strip of weapon units was slowly exposed on its streamlined appearance.

But Zero wasn't coming for them at all.

The swarm of insects coming from the ground headed straight for the opponent's mining machine, and the moment they burst out of the ground, they drowned the roaring machine with their own flesh and blood!
The fearless insect swarm overturned it with its own body, destroying it as much as possible, consuming and wearing down every component that could be attacked, forcing it to lose its ability to work.

The octopus counterattack came in the next moment. A large number of Zerg units were cleaned up one by one because they were too dense, but this was of no use at all. More bugs continued to crawl out of the ground, vowing to achieve the goal of zero!

Caught off guard, the octopus immediately chose to protect the safety of the personnel, but did not have time to protect the machine too much.

Although the various weapons arranged in advance caused huge damage to the swarm, after the swarm flooded the equipment, they could only pour their firepower on the follow-up swarm.

Having obtained the memory of the octopus man, Zero knew very well that the opponent's conventional weapon was still a kinetic energy weapon, which could indeed cause a lot of damage to the swarm, but it was far from being a huge threat.

On the side of the mine, the octopus man was in the aircraft, watching helplessly as the swarm overturned their resource mining equipment to the ground, destroying everything that could be destroyed, and smashing all the removable parts outside , only the helpless main part was left, and then left a pile of corpses and walked away, or in other words, Zero simply gave up all the bugs that crawled on the ground!

And in the ocean, the same thing is happening.

The Zerg crazily crashed into the outpost established by the Octopus. Whether it was the newly built expansion or the extended signal transmission device, everything that could be destroyed was destroyed by the Zerg.

The outpost, which was originally suspended in the ocean by special means, was also slightly shaken by the swarm.

Of course, because of this, a large number of Zerg foragers once again dormant in the seabed!
The mining operation was forced to stop, and the swarm put their knives back after a blow, leaving only corpses everywhere, a messy scene, and an exasperated octopus man.

In this brief conflict, they consumed at least [-] to [-] Zerg individuals with zero battle damage, and the corpses of the Zerg swarms were scattered all over the field, especially in the mine, almost a hill was piled up with these machines as the core!
From this perspective, they are the undisputed winners.

But as winners, they didn't feel the slightest excitement. Instead, a kind of panic and silent fear grew deep in their hearts.

Tactically they won a big victory, but strategically they suffered a crushing defeat!
The swarm achieved zero pre-set strategic goals, and they, besides killing a few bugs, did nothing.

Predictably, this will never be the last time.

They are short of resources, and they are determined not to be able to withstand such consumption!
It's a pity that the situation is like this, and it doesn't change according to the will of the individual.If they don't discover resources to develop themselves, they are just waiting for death. Even if they know that there will never be peace in the future, they have no way out!
No matter how aggrieved, things still have to be done, at least the damaged equipment must be repaired so that it can work again, so as to talk about the problem of defending against the Zerg.

On the other hand, the destruction of the opponent's production facilities was completed by surprise, and Zero didn't feel complacent, because he knew that it would not make it easier to achieve such results in the future, but would only make it more difficult.

Therefore, Sass is already designing a new bug species for this situation. They will be biological bombs that focus on ground and underwater blasting operations. They are improved from the Zerg blasters. Same day.

In addition, poisonous gas, germs, etc., can be arranged, and Zero will join it as much as possible. In order to destroy the other party's working environment, He will do everything possible!

At the same time, relatively gigantic insect species were also put on the agenda. In dealing with this kind of tough task, although the original remaining Zerg units were not said to be useless, they seemed relatively powerless.

In the next attack, he will use these brand new insect species to give the opponent a big surprise.

All in all, it is absolutely impossible to mine safely under His nose when Zero has already learned the specific information!
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The Zerg's blatant attack this time almost told the octopus that he was definitely not a beast, but a collection with a clear goal!

This has caused a huge commotion among the octopus people, because they all know that if the density of the Zerg bases discovered so far is calculated, there will be a huge number of existing Zerg individuals on this planet!

And if they really have a complete unified dispatch, what a terrifying power it will be!

But what they don't know is that the real horror of the Zerg does not lie in the current number. As long as Zero is willing, this number can expand to dozens of times the current number at any time!
In 200 years, the energy accumulated by the Zerg is an astronomical number. If all of it is used to hatch Zerg units, it will be an extremely terrifying amount. If Zero really does this, then the number of them and the Octopus The difference in times will be counted in billions!

However, this is just one of the characteristics of the Zerg.

According to the characteristics shown by the enemy, we can transform our own units in a targeted manner anytime and anywhere, and then cooperate with absolute numerical advantages, absolutely unified scheduling and cooperation, and absolutely selfless and fearless death. This is the real strength of the Zerg on the battlefield. place.

And what the octopus people recognize is just the tip of the iceberg, but even this characteristic shown by the Zerg is enough to make them feel horrified.

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Zero is still monitoring the restoration work of the other party. At the same time, in the underground hatchery, around the huge biological nutrient pool, swarms of insect eggs gushed out from here. During these years of continuous transformation, the hatchery is more efficient than In the beginning, it was no longer the same.

With the cooperation of the nutrient pool that occupies a large area of ​​the Zerg base, the number of Zerg units that are hatched every minute ranges from dozens to hundreds, and this is just one of the bases. If all the Zerg bases are fully deployed Growth, the number of Zerg that grows every day will count in tens of millions!

Of course, this is an ordinary Zerg unit. In the war against the Octopus, their position is cannon fodder.

The massive blasters, the massive land and sea worms that can pack a huge punch, will do the real damage.

Their hatching and growth speeds are much slower, and the energy they consume is not at the same level as ordinary insect species. In the end, the number of hatches will not be too many, but they are the undisputed main force!

In Sass' design, their size is similar to the previous guardians responsible for guarding the cerebrates, but their functions are completely different.

These two types of insects produced purely for violent destruction have abandoned the fangs and sharp teeth of most basic insect species, and even their movement speed has dropped a lot because of this.

But in exchange for this, it is a huge and hard body, a body structure with great strength, and a destructive ability that is much stronger than ordinary insect species!
This wouldn't be a regular Zerg unit, as they simply wouldn't be able to meet zero's needs in a general sense.

But now, they are the most suitable Zerg units for the current situation, and they are specially designed for the Octopus' "hard boat and gun".

It is true that even after the transformation, their bodies still cannot withstand the attacks of various kinetic weapons from the octopus, but this is not their job. The swarms use flesh and blood to cover them to complete the task!

And although their number is not too many, compared to the hundreds of thousands of ordinary insect species, it is still easy to hatch thousands of them.

In order to better take on the responsibility of covering, the ordinary bug species hatched this time also strengthened their bug armor to a reasonable extent, just to resist the attack from the octopus as much as possible!
Zero is carefully planning the next attack. He knows that the other party will not give up obtaining resources, and he will not stop destroying and harassing.

The two sides have now put hostility on the table, and Zero can monitor all the external actions of the other party in real time, and everything they do on a macro level is hard to hide from His eyes.

And the octopus also monitors the movement from the ground in real time through the ground detection equipment.If the swarm showed signs of attacking, they would never be unprepared.

Of course, this kind of monitoring through waveforms is impossible to achieve real-time imaging with the technology of the octopus, otherwise they will find that among the originally large number of ordinary bug swarms deep underground, there are already more Lots of huge elite insect species!
While maintaining the monitoring of the ground, they cleaned up the mess left by the Zerg attack, arranged more stringent protection, gritted their teeth and left enough defense resources to resist the same scale as last time or even more, and then reopened The working face is ready to continue excavation.

This took them a lot of effort, and a considerable part of the resources stored in the outpost was also consumed.

But it was something that had to be done, and they had no choice in order to survive.

Zero quietly watched the opponent's various operations, and finally cast his sights on the sky, looking at the spaceship staying in the synchronous orbit, there was a hideous muzzle sticking out there, quietly pointing to the surface.

Today's Zero is well aware of its power.

It is a powerful energy weapon capable of penetrating to the location of the underground Zerg base and causing huge damage under full force!
It directly consumes the driving energy of the spaceship, and it is also the most powerful weapon that the octopus can take out at present!

Of course, Zero is also aware of its limitations.It is extremely convenient to directly connect the driving energy, so that the octopus can easily mobilize the energy to launch an attack.

But now the octopus's only energy crystal is almost exhausted, and the originally dazzling translucent purple has now become almost completely transparent.

This is a sign that energy is about to run out!
According to the octopus man's estimation, if every cannon is put into full force, this space-based energy cannon will fire more than [-] times, completely destroying more than [-] large Zerg underground bases is no problem.

But after that, the spacecraft will lose its main driving energy, and if they cannot get regular energy supplements from the planet, they will no longer be able to escape from this planet!

And what are dozens of bases to the Zerg?For example, the continent occupied by the Lizardmen back then is not even one-tenth of the entire planet, but how many underground bases do the Zerg have here?
1092!Zero gives the exact answer.

In the large and small underground spaces, countless Zerg hatcheries quietly sleep in it, surrounded by at least a few dozen or as many as thousands of dormant bug swarms!
This is only on the continent. On this planet, the sum of all land areas only accounts for 18.00%, as high as 80.00%. In the ocean, there are densely packed tens of thousands of Zerg bases, large and small. , there are hundreds of millions of Zerg units dormant here.

Destroying dozens of them, Zero would not even frown. On the contrary, if the other party really did this, it would be equivalent to putting himself in a desperate situation!
Unless they can accurately find the main base where Sass is located, give Sass a shot through the thick atmosphere, knock him into ignorance, and let him start from scratch, maybe Zero will feel a little distressed.

However, he didn't think there was much probability of this happening.Although the main base where Sass is located is indeed the largest Zerg base on the planet, apart from Sass itself, it has gathered the latest research results of various Zergs.

But correspondingly, whether it is security or concealment, this is the best base among all bases. Even if the other party really does this, the chance of one in a thousand is quite slim.

(End of this chapter)