Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In the past fifty years, in addition to continuing to promote the expansion of the Zerg, Zero has been most concerned about two things.

One is the anomaly of the Krichtel Galaxy, and the current state of the bugs that he cannot observe but are still alive.

The second one is undoubtedly the trace left by Mira.

22 years ago, in Zerg year 1074, a space anomaly occurred again in the Krichtel galaxy. The large insect species originally waiting there also suddenly disappeared!

Even if its volume exceeds the spherical area by dozens of times, it cannot slow down the process by even a millisecond.

The difference is that this time, Zero actually feels that it is dead!

From this, another question arises, why do small insect species like observers still survive despite losing contact after entering it, while large units die immediately after losing contact?

Is it because its size exceeds that mysterious spherical area?

It's very possible, but it still needs to be verified. Zero needed more experimental results to confirm this guess. At the same time, in this short incident, he had carefully prepared and never felt the trace of the insect swarm.

Before that, Zero used his existing thinking to speculate on this vision.

If it is an energy vein, then is this spherical area its "entrance"?

Similar to a pocket, it seems to be a more reasonable explanation to "spit out" energy crystals through this entrance and swallow them into Zerg units.

Before the incident happened, Zero felt that if this was the case, at the moment when the "entrance" was opened, he might be able to detect the traces of the previous batch of Zerg units that entered it, and thus draw some conclusions.

However, this time, he got nothing.

There are two more valuable experimental conclusions. One is that the large insect species disappeared but died. This seems to mean that this "entrance" does not allow living creatures exceeding its size to enter. The specific details still need to be verified.

As for the second one, under the observation of the Zerg scientific research units that were densely arranged in advance, in this almost uncaptured moment, they really noticed something unusual!

At that moment, within a short microsecond or even a shorter period of time, the gravity of this place changed extremely drastically, and it was fleeting!

Zero realizes something, but everything is just a guess. These phenomena went beyond what he and the Zerg had known about the entire universe in the past. Even the octopus man who was the first to discover this place could not provide any valuable conclusions for Zero.

Therefore, even if he has many conjectures, he still needs to verify them one by one, and the waiting time can be as short as a few years or as long as decades!

In the few observations made by the Zerg, Zero also discovered a phenomenon that seemed to have little connection with the current conjecture, but it also explained the problem of hundreds of energy crystals being stored here before.

Not only does this phenomenon occur at an irregular time, but also the number of energy crystals "vomited" out each time is also irregular!

Just like this time, after the incident, the Zerg discovered three energy crystals in the originally empty space!

This seems to have nothing to do with the swarm of insects that lost contact with it, but Zero knows that the occurrence of this phenomenon must be inextricably linked to the cause of this cosmic wonder itself. These seemingly ordinary events must have their reasons. .

But this is not the point. At least the Zerg have no way of investigating this now and can only put it aside for the time being. Such an experiment only happens every few years or even decades. What Zero wants to know most now is the whereabouts of the Zerg that entered it.

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After the Zerg discovered the traces left by Mira in the HE-1067 galaxy in 002, Visser led the Zerg swarm to conduct a thorough search of the entire galaxy. As expected, Visser didn't get any useful information, but he was certain that it had been there and was still there.

As for where it went, the Zerg did not have the technology to track it in this way, and Zero had no way of knowing.

Confirming that this enemy still existed made Visser a little nervous for a while. It had been studied almost thoroughly by Mira, and even its next action plan was guessed accurately. This also gave it a certain understanding of this mechanical civilization. Feeling a trace of fear, but also eager to eliminate it!

But it's useless to think too much now. Mira is not here, and maybe we will meet her again in the future, but now we really can't catch up even if we want to.

Visser kept the swarm vigilant and continued to expand outward. The endless universe was a huge treasure. All it had to do was lead the swarm to bring it into the arms of the swarm bit by bit.

In Zerg 1097, a Zerg unit that was almost exactly the same size as the Zerg unit placed near the "hole" by Zero was "swallowed" by it, leaving only an energy crystal.

This time, however, the bug did not die!

At the same time, the Zerg observers, who had experienced another strengthening this time, once again observed abnormal changes in gravity. Similarly, this time Zero still failed to make contact with the earliest insect swarm that entered it.

This seems to confirm the previous inference, but it is not enough.

What does this spherical and fleeting special area represent?

Regarding this, Zero had a bold guess, but could not confirm it.

There was once a corollary about latitude in the octopus civilization. If a sufficiently regular and smooth sphere is placed on a plane, there will be exactly one intersection point between it and the plane.

This point is the only connection between the two.

In the same way, if an object with a spatial structure is placed on a plane, the point where it contacts the plane is the common intersection between the two.

This is the projection of three-dimensional space on two dimensions. Assuming that there is a two-dimensional life on the plane, it cannot observe what the object that touches the plane looks like. The only thing it knows is that it is connected to the plane. Just click.

It cannot touch any three-dimensional area of ​​space other than these points. If it does, it spans latitudes and has spatial properties.

Then if this relationship is raised up one latitude again, it becomes a relationship between three-dimensional and four-dimensional or even higher latitudes. The projection of a three-dimensional object in two dimensions is a plane figure, then the projection of a high-dimensional object in a three-dimensional space What could it be?

A three-dimensional area!

And isn't this spherical area a real three-dimensional area that exists in the universe but is far away from it? !

Zero boldly spreads his own thinking, which seems to involve some concepts that are difficult to describe intuitively and can only be speculated through imagination. After all, the Zerg are still creatures that exist in three-dimensional space, which naturally means that they cannot observe the whole picture at higher latitudes!

It is mysterious and cannot be truly touched and understood by any three-dimensional life.

Zero is just a bold guess based on the current situation. The exact details cannot be determined at all, and it is even impossible to verify, because all the Zerg units that entered it have lost contact!

At this moment, Zero deeply realized the shortcomings of the Zerg. Even though they now occupy dozens of nearly hundreds of star systems, and their sphere of influence spans hundreds of light-years, their basic understanding of the universe is somewhat incapable of matching such a vast territory.