Chapter 171: Chapter 129: The Zerg Race’s Secret Past, Half-Step Tier Three (2)
In the following days, the High-tier Zerg Race began to disseminate knowledge, teaching the members of their species advanced biotechnology and allowing their race to thrive.
As time passed, Lin Feng became immersed, witnessing the history of the Zerg Race’s development.
But the more he saw, the harder it became for him to understand. The Alien Zerg Race had once been a peaceful civilization, similar to the ant and bee colonies on Blue Star.
They had their own cultivation techniques, surviving by harvesting a certain type of fungus for food...
And under the leadership of the Intelligent Zerg Race, their mastery of biotechnology steadily advanced, even leading to the development of stable space exploration technology.
’Why did the Zerg Race of the future become war machines that invaded Alien Stars...?’
’Even the individual consciousness they once possessed was completely erased under the Spiritual Control of the High-tier Zerg Race.’
’The foundational Zerg that once formed their civilization were reduced to mindless, Low Tier biological machines. Under the Mother Empress’s command, they were sent to the battlefields of Alien Stars to become endless cannon fodder.’
’A terrible transformation must have occurred during this period.’
...
Until one morning, the peaceful and quiet days were shattered by a flash of black light...
The nightmare began.
As the star rose above the horizon, its usual red light was gone. In its place was a black Sun, one familiar to Lin Feng.
Or rather, it was the bizarre solar eclipse that had once appeared in the skies of Blue Star...
The Sun looked as if something was obscuring it. Not only was it completely black, but its corona had also sprouted writhing, crimson tentacles.
But unlike on Blue Star, no large-scale alien invasion broke out on the Zerg Race’s home world. Instead, pillars of fire shot toward the sky, erupting from all directions.
Violent explosions echoed from the Zerg Nests rooted deep Underground. One after another, entire Nests collapsed, burying and crushing tens to hundreds of millions of the Swarm.
The unknown attack quickly drew the attention of the Zerg leadership. From the perspective Lin Feng was inhabiting, this High-tier Zerg quickly boarded a biological transport vessel, following its companions into space.
To find the source of the threat.
When a large contingent of High-tier Zerg piloted their bio-Spaceships into outer space, the sight that greeted them left the entire Zerg leadership stunned.
In the dark, boundless expanse of space, a colossal black shadow was wrapped around the star at the center of the Star System. As the shadow dissipated, it revealed the star within...
In just over ten minutes, its luminosity had dimmed by several orders of magnitude!
They could clearly perceive that its radiant energy was no longer as intense and powerful. The entire star seemed to have aged by more than a billion years, jumping from its prime straight into its twilight years, rapidly approaching the end of its life.
But before the assembled Zerg could even recover from their shock!
A few minutes later, as their ’mother star’ used its final rays to illuminate the planet’s exosphere and the boundless void of space...
A colossal insectoid beast, over a thousand kilometers in length, shockingly appeared before the eyes of the Zerg!
Its length was comparable to a tenth of their home world’s diameter, completely dominating half their field of vision!
Many of the High-tier Zerg Race immediately recognized the behemoth before them. It was the one recorded in their ancestral lore: the founding creator of the Zerg Race...
The great, the supreme, the unseeable Zerg God!
On the spot, vast numbers of the High-tier Zerg prostrated themselves in pious submission. With the appearance of the Zerg God, the worry, confusion, and fear in their hearts vanished as if they had found an unshakable anchor, leaving only pure joy and excitement...
’Lin Feng estimated that this colossal Zerg, whose body alone was nearly the size of a small planet, had to be far beyond Tier Four.’
’After all, for a being like that, surviving in the vacuum of space was a trivial feat. At full power, it could likely destroy an entire planet with ease!’
’Perhaps It had already entered another realm of existence, much like the leap from Tier Three to Tier Four.’
’Tiers One, Two, Three... Four, Five, Six... and what lay beyond...’
’Tier Seven, Tier Eight, or perhaps even stronger...’
But the Zerg’s joy was short-lived. Bathed in the light of the star, the great Zerg God that had so suddenly appeared, right before the eyes of every High-tier Zerg,
in an instant...
Its head, with its Giant Mandibles, towering hundreds of kilometers high... just exploded into a fine powder!
In the next instant, its body burst open. Torrents of blood and blood vessels tens of meters wide, along with the terrifying Energy contained within the Zerg God, sprayed across the starry expanse.
It was as dazzlingly colorful as an exploding asteroid...
It coated the outside of the bio-Spaceships in a layer of flesh and gore.
Fortunately, the High-tier Zerg whose perspective Lin Feng was inhabiting was the first to react, piloting the Spaceship to dodge the chunks of flesh and gore that shot toward them like cannonballs.
The shockwave from the explosion tore away the home world’s already-thin atmosphere, revealing a macabre canopy of flesh and blood floating in space...
Vast quantities of blood and flesh, carried by the force of the explosion, rained down onto the planet, drenching nearly half its surface in a deluge of gore.
An apocalyptic scene, as if Hell itself had descended, appeared before the eyes of all survivors.
The remnants of the Zerg God’s body, influenced by the planet’s gravity and the angular momentum from its rotation, formed a ring of flesh and blood hundreds of kilometers wide around its equator.
This blood-red ring, set against the rust-colored surface of the Zerg home world, formed the image of a garish rose in the Cosmos.
An aura of dead silence and utter despair permeated the bio-Spaceship. The countless High-tier Zerg aboard could neither believe nor accept this outcome.
Their inviolable, unreachable Zerg God...
had died so easily, right before their very eyes.
And the terrifying entity that killed It had not even left behind a shadow.
Fortunately, the host Lin Feng inhabited was unnervingly calm. It maneuvered the bio-Spaceship to scan the battlefield, collecting and transmitting footage of the scene.
