Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Numbers 1 and 5 faithfully carried out Zero's orders. About twenty days later, one hundred female adult ants with wings would be born in the ant nest, and they would point the direction for the expansion of the ant colony.

Although he decided to use female ants as scouts for the ant colony, Zero had no intention of waiting for the adult female ants to appear before starting a colonization plan.

Although the newly born queen ants have not grown into adults and cannot lead the ant colony to migrate by themselves, this does not prevent Zero Command No. 2 from assigning ants to go ahead and explore their way.

While dispatching exploration teams in all directions, Zero did not forget to communicate with No. 3, asking her to send worker ants to build a passage connecting the mother nest while expanding the population.

This passage will serve as a fast and safe passage between the mother nest and branch nests, and can also be used to communicate with each other. For the development of the ant colony, such a passage is very hidden and necessary when surface traffic is currently unsafe. of.

The straight-line distance between the mother nest and the ant nest where No. 3 is located is more than 70 meters. This is undoubtedly a huge project for the ants. Just digging out the soil will take an unknown amount of time, not to mention the amount of time it will take to dig out the soil. Encountered dangers and obstacles.

In addition, the direction of digging this route is also a huge problem for the ants.

Zero has some ideas that might come in handy for this.

He is the only being in the ant colony who can roughly describe the location of the mother nest and branch nests. The branch nest is located approximately south of the mother nest and slightly east. Then the ants who branch out need to move to the same angle to the north and west of their own nest. Excavation, the same thing is true about the elevation angle.

This does not perfectly solve the direction problem, but at least it provides a general direction for the ant colony, which can save a lot of effort.

While the worker ants in the branch nest are digging toward the mother nest, Zero also directs more ants in the mother nest to dig in the direction of the branch nest.

He can see the field of view near any ant at any time. This allows the worker ants to avoid possible obstacles and dangers in the early stages of digging. In the middle and later stages, he can also direct the two sides to move towards each other and connect with each other.

Despite this, this is still a huge project, so much so that after the exploratory team was sent to find out the general situation around it, and until the queen ant as a colonizer was born, the project still made no progress in the past ten days. to one sixth.

The progress of this "highway" project to connect the mother nest and branch nests has been beyond Zero's imagination, so much so that the foraging work on both sides has been delayed and the stored food has begun to be consumed.

In desperation, Zero could only slow down the progress of the project and call back most of the worker ants to forage again to ensure that the new queen ants have enough food to reproduce their own subordinates.

The newly born queen ants use the food stored in the mother nest to quickly breed ant colonies, and these newly born ant colonies join those who go out to forage. Although the existence of excess ant colonies makes the actual efficiency of foraging low, the ants The increase in the number of groups still increases the actual food output.

After the five queen ants established their own team, Zero asked them to lead the ant colony out to establish a new colony.

There are five populations, two of which are established on the plain under the mound to the west. It has been proven that there is a vast flat grassland, enough to establish two populations.

There are two more ant queens leading their subordinates to the north. A hundred meters away in the north, there is also a mound. The difference from the mother nest is that there are trees of all sizes growing on this mound.

There were obviously plenty of other ant colonies there, but Zero was still prepared to make them his own.

The last group headed to the west, where they would establish nests near existing ant colonies in the west, and eventually use their numerical advantage to eliminate or drive them away through development.

In Zero's plan, these six branch nests will exist as a "ring" outside the mother nest, responsible for protecting the mother nest.

Although there is essentially no difference between the so-called mother's nest and branching nests for Zero, subconsciously, Zero still prefers the mother's nest where No. 1 is located, because he himself was the first one he saw when he woke up from the mother's nest. Ant is also number one.

When the ants bloomed in all directions, they also took away most of the food in the mother nest. For a while, the granary of the mother nest was almost empty.

However, the departure of a large number of ants also greatly reduces food consumption, and the remaining food is enough to support the survival of the ant nest.

The female ants hatched on the 1st and 5th grew into adults five days later. Unlike other queen ants, they were not allowed to combine with any male ants, nor did they have the right to command the ant colony. They existed solely as scouts.

But the same as the queen ant, they can also accept orders from Zero, so that Zero can command them directly without having to go through the queen.

The hatching of the female ants made Zero a little excited. He ordered the group of female ants to hover above the mother nest, slowly flying higher and higher, using the female ants' vision to observe the land.

There are rows of tall and short weeds, and the green grass has no end in sight. Scattered trees dotted the grassland. For some reason, they were not tall.

Continuing to fly south, Zero flew past the branch nest of No. 3. After flying over the river that was more than two meters wide, the terrain no longer dropped, but became flat.

The vegetation gradually grew lush, and further south, the terrain rose rapidly again, and Zero saw lush woods.

He has the urge to control female ants to explore the entire world, with just a few female ants left and right. He also did not hesitate, and the female ants continued to fly towards the forest.

However, they were destined to be unable to enter the forest. As soon as Zero's vision faded, he found that he had lost almost all the female ants flying to the south. The last one survived temporarily because it stayed behind. Zero used its last vision to see Presence that hunts flying ants - flocks of birds.

Due to the presence of the flock of birds, Zero gave up the idea of ​​exploring the forest. He controlled a few flying ants and headed to the place where the previous exploration team No. 3 disappeared.

He wanted to see what it was that killed the exploration team. Even if it was currently invincible, he would have to see it clearly to feel at ease.

Under Zero's command, the flying ants approached that area, which was the reeds near the river beach.

In order to find the enemy, Zero ordered the flying ants to lower their flying height. He was already prepared to lose this group of flying ants.

The flying ants did not disobey Zero's order at all, almost flying close to the reeds.

Zero nervously watched the group of flying ants, but nothing happened.

"Has the enemy already left here?"

"Or does it only attack targets on the ground?"

Zero guessed like this, and ordered the flying ants to circle back and lower the height again.

This time it almost passed by the grass next to the reeds.

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