Chapter 251: The Old Days
Sevier led them into the temple.
The palace, built of minerals, was naturally bright and incredibly spacious, with rows of enormous statues on both sides.
The statues depict the original forms of the Zerg, representing the most primitive branches of the Zerg.
The original forms of these branches were not like the current Zerg, which are robust and imposing. Most of them were soft-bodied forms like the Golden Sand Jellyfish or the Glowing Star, with only one or two having claws, and they did not seem to have strong attack power.
As Anno walked forward with Sevier, he looked at the statues on both sides. These statues were carved from different colored minerals according to the shape of the original branch, and they were carved to be lifelike.
When Anno reached the innermost part of the temple, he saw a statue on the right that looked very familiar.
The statue floats above the base, with a soft body like flowing gauze ribbons, emitting faint glows, like a mysterious ghost.
This is the statue of Ying Shuo, which has only minor differences from the current Ying Shuo.
Anno was surprised and asked Sevier, "Mom, are all the statues here statues of our ancestors?"
Sevier nodded: "These are the first ancestors of our Zerg to evolve high intelligence, leading the Zerg to multiply and build the earliest Zerg civilization."
Anno pointed at the statue of Ying Shuo: "Has the Ying Shuo clan been around for so long?"
She knew that the Firefly Clan was a very ancient branch, but she didn't expect it to be this ancient.
Sevier gently patted her head. "Although the Fireflies don't have the hard exoskeleton and robust bodies of other races, they are the most resilient branch. No matter how many major annihilations the Zerg have suffered, the Fireflies have been able to pass on their genes."
They stopped in front of a huge, pale blue ball of light that was suspended in the air.
Anno watched as Sevier reached out her hand toward the ball of light, and a beam of light gathered above it.
The light and shadow were semi-transparent, and the pale blue body resembled a floating soul.
Judging from its form, it is a semi-original humanoid ancestor.
Sevier held Anno's hand and led her to touch the ball of light, feeling the consciousness of their ancestor.
As soon as Anno touched the ball of light, his consciousness seemed to sink into an endless deep sea.
She heard a cacophony of ethereal sounds, and images flashed through her consciousness.
Sitar took her hand and connected with her consciousness.
Augsis and Sevier held hands, and the four of them sank together into this deep sea of consciousness, following the consciousness of their ancestors.
As if traversing billions of years, their ancestors revealed to them the answer to the mystery of their Sitar origins that had troubled them.
That was a golden age.
The Zerg had even more branches than it does now, spreading throughout the entire West Vitello system, reaching its peak.
They were also among the first in the interstellar community to venture into space, even before the interstellar alliance existed.
Every civilization that ventures into space is expanding its territory and strengthening its defenses.
Every civilization was wary and hostile, and wars were frequent.
The Zerg's dominance instilled fear in all civilizations, deterring them from invasion.
In order to stabilize the situation, the Zerg attacked all the first civilizations to enter space, forcibly ending their wars and establishing the Interstellar Alliance.
This alliance has no record among the Zerg, not only because it is a distant past, but also because the Zerg of that era were nearly wiped out, and it was not the prototype of the current Interstellar Alliance.
In this universe, countless civilizations have perished, leaving no record whatsoever.
After reaching their peak, the Zerg began to decline.
In this ancient Zerg era, the male Zerg king was born differently than the one born after the Zerg queen today. Because the Zerg genes were too mixed, the Zerg were extremely irritable at this time, and their mental state could go berserk at any time. Therefore, the male Zerg king needed to be paired with a mate.
The Zerg Queen must be matched with a male Zerg King whose energy and mental consciousness are compatible in order to mate with her.
If a match is unsuccessful, the nesting kin responsible for the male Zerg Queen will keep the male Zerg Queen in its egg form, preventing it from hatching and saving it for the next Zerg Queen.
The lifespan of the Zerg back then was not as long as it is now, and due to the frequent wars, the Zerg Queen was replaced more quickly.
There isn't just one male Zerg King egg. Each Zerg Queen is born along with a male Zerg King, which accumulates a lot of male Zerg King eggs. In the later stages, almost every Zerg Queen can be matched with a suitable male Zerg King, but not every Queen will have a suitable male Zerg King egg, so there will still be leftover male Zerg King eggs.
If the male king insect egg fails to mate after thousands of years, the egg will gradually dissipate as energy.
The war and the mental turmoil caused by the Zerg genes enabled other civilizations to find ways to deal with the Zerg. Like dominoes, the Zerg were defeated in a very short time under the targeted attacks of other civilizations.
After defeating the Zerg, the alliance broke apart and began to divide the spoils.
The war, which had been stopped by the Zerg, has reignited, and countless civilizations have been drained of their strength by this conflict, with no winners.
Many branches of the Zerg were wiped out in this war. At this time, the Firefly race turned the tide. Countless Fireflies used their own purification abilities to cleanse the genes of the entire Zerg race. The price was that the Firefly race was almost wiped out, with only a few Fireflies still in their eggs and not yet hatched.
The Sitar was the last matching form of insect egg born at the end of this era.
When a Firefly dies, its body transforms into a final burst of energy, either to help other Zerg in need or to re-integrate into the planet's energy, turning into specks of golden dust as ashes.
The Sitar were born from the ashes of the Firefly race after their energy was depleted.
But there were no more queen insects to match him.
He was the last glimmer of light in that glorious era.
From this point on, the Zerg entered a new era.
The Zerg's genes have stabilized. Although their temperament remains volatile, they can control their minds and will no longer go berserk.
The male insect king is also born in a new form. Each male insect king is born after the insect mother. Before birth, the consciousness generated in the energy has already been matched with the insect mother. The matching degree between the male insect king egg and the insect mother is 100%. The energy, consciousness and soul are the most compatible.
In this sea of consciousness, Anno saw the last Zerg queen of that glorious era place Caesar's egg into the abyss.
"Perhaps many years later, you will meet your queen."
The Zerg Queen and the remaining high-ranking Zerg servants bestowed their highest blessings upon the male Zerg king egg that emerged from the ashes.
For them, the appearance of the Sitar also signifies the continuation of the Zerg.
Time flowed slowly by, and Sitar waited year after year in the abyss. Generation after generation of Zerg queens came and went, and most queens had their own male Zerg kings. The Zerg's genes were evolving, and the matching process of the past was no longer necessary.
Almost everything from the old era has been buried in the long river of time.
For tens of thousands of years, the Sitar has not perished like the male king insect eggs of the past.
He is the last ember left from that era, burning stubbornly and refusing to be extinguished.
Finally, he has been matched with his queen.
As if by destiny, he was born from the ashes of countless glowing embers, and his mate, the future Zerg Queen Anunu, was also a glowing ember.
Moreover, Anunu is the only Firefly Queen recorded in the consciousness network.
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