The war between the Zerg and the Collectors continued. No, calling it a "war" was not quite accurate. "One-sided slaughter" was more appropriate.
The enormous technological gap between the Zerg and Amoeba had multiplied after the Collectors unlocked faster-than-light technology, creating a technological barrier that numbers could no longer overcome.
A single faster-than-light organism alone was enough to deal with a Leviathan swarm spread across an entire star system.
The extremely cheap faster-than-light technology allowed the Collectors to enter and leave star systems at will, while the Zerg remained unable to intercept them. The Collectors could rapidly travel back and forth between enemy territory and their colony stars, replenishing ammunition without end and attacking the enemy, while the swarm could only passively endure the blows without any ability to fight back.
That was the case with just one faster-than-light organism. A group of them was even more terrifying.
Moreover, due to Huo Gu's orders, the Collectors attacked the Zerg with complete dedication. The rate at which Zerg territory fell was not much different from the rate at which the Collectors colonized uninhabited star systems.
It could be said that the Zerg's existence had almost no impact on the Collectors' colonial expansion.
At their current rate of expansion, Amoeba needed only a little over a hundred years to expand its territory across the entire star system. Even if the Zerg kept expanding and occupying new star systems, they would be caught up within decades. Amoeba expanded faster than the Zerg.
Every day, reports of countless fallen star systems reached the Zerg Overmind. If the Overmind had been human, it would probably have gone bald with anxiety by now, losing control like the Führer and hysterically roaring at its subordinates.
But the Overmind was not human, so it did not become like