Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The midsummer sun was still fierce, and the originally green grass was scorched listlessly.

The ants are still crawling fearlessly in the grass. The temperature in midsummer is not difficult for them. Finding food for the ant nest is their natural mission.

There are already three queen ants in the branch nest of No. 3. The number of ant colonies is increasing rapidly. They have driven out other nearby ants and basically occupy a radius of more than ten meters from the river to the river bank.

At the same time, with the increase of ant colonies, under Zero's instruction, the development of a new earthworm breeding room was put on the priority agenda.

The two suitable places that were originally discovered have already started construction. The one with the fastest progress has basically completed the main structure and can be completed with a slight expansion.

In the earthworm breeding room in the mother's nest, the first batch of four earthworms had laid more than fifty eggs three days ago, and the second batch of ten earthworms deliberately left behind had grown into mature bodies. In the past two days, they have also begun to combine with each other. It can be predicted that they will lay more eggs soon.

Obviously, the breeding room in the mother nest is absolutely unable to bear such an important task, and more breeding rooms are urgently needed to ensure that earthworms can reproduce in large numbers.

The completion of the new breeding room in the branch nest No. 3 is good news for Zero. He plans to transfer the second batch of ten completed earthworms to this branch nest in the near future, thus slightly easing the pressure on the mother nest. .

After a few days, when another breeding room is completed, five of the ten earthworms will be put in, eliminating the need to transport them from the mother nest by plane again.

At present, the completion of the fast and safe passage between the branch nest and the mother nest is still far away. If earthworms are to be transported, Zero can only choose to do it on the ground.

This will lead to great danger. Unlike ants, earthworms are on the diet of most birds. If they are discovered by birds on the grassland during transportation, earthworms will almost not be spared.

In addition, midsummer weather and high external temperatures are also fatal threats to earthworms that like humid environments. The scorching sunlight will evaporate all the water from their bodies, and within a short while, they will die of dehydration.

Regarding this problem, Zero finally came up with a solution, which was to do this activity at night. This will avoid most daytime birds, and the temperature at night will be slightly comfortable for the earthworms, at least enough to allow them to persist in the new breeding room.

In order to welcome this batch of earthworms that are about to separate their nests, Zero Command No. 3 dug a passage directly into the breeding room near the vent of the nests. This passage is relatively wide and can accommodate the fat bodies of earthworms to pass through calmly.

After this transport is completed, the passage will be abandoned by the ant colony and eventually refilled with saliva by the worker ants.

The night transportation mission went smoothly. With Zero dispatched to escort the ant colony, some nocturnal insects all became food for the ant colony without posing any threat to them. Among them were some ferocious insects. Their counterattack also caused some casualties to the ant colony, but now that the mother nest has six queens, there is no need to worry about some casualties, and they will all be replenished soon.

The second breeding room for the separate nests was quickly completed due to the efforts of No. 3 and the others. Zero commanded No. 3 to transfer five of the earthworms to the new breeding room.

Five days later, these earthworms also completed laying eggs.

Zero has calculated the current efficiency of earthworms in providing food. He found that one adult earthworm is about twenty ants of other ant species for a month, which can satisfy a queen ant for two months under normal circumstances and can reproduce at full strength. A month's consumption.

The normal state is the state of maintaining the number of ant colonies, and the reproductive state is the state of trying to expand the ant colony.

One earthworm larvae is about the food of two ordinary ants for a month, or enough to meet the consumption of a queen for six days under normal conditions and three days in the breeding state.

After the earthworms combine to lay eggs, they begin to hatch in about thirty days. After about a quarter, they will become adult earthworms, and the adult earthworms will combine again to lay eggs.

A breeding cycle lasts about four months. An adult earthworm can lay an average of more than ten eggs each time, and each earthworm egg can hatch two to three earthworm larvae.

Calculated in this way, if Zero initially has ten adult earthworms and has enough breeding rooms, then after one month, he will have at least two hundred to three hundred earthworm larvae.

These larvae can satisfy the consumption of a single queen ant colony for half a month. If they grow into adults in another two months, they can satisfy the consumption of a group of five queen ants for one month, regardless of egg laying. !

Of course, this profit does not seem to solve the food problem of the ant colony, but if there is enough space, the number of these earthworms will increase exponentially!

This also means that if there is enough space, they will soon be able to meet the entire food expenses of the ant colony!

"So there's still not enough space at the moment..." Zero thought.

Relying only on naturally formed stones as a breeding ground obviously relies too much on luck and is impossible to replicate on a large scale.

If you want to raise earthworms on a large scale, you must find a simple and replicable method to replace them.

"But with the current capabilities of the ant colony, how can we do this?"

Zero seemed to be at his wits end.

If the ants were larger and stronger, they might be able to work together to move the rocks to complete the job. But if that's the case, maybe the ants don't need to use earthworms as food.

Unable to think of a way, Zero could only put it aside for the time being. It would be good to use the three existing breeding rooms to relieve a small part of the food pressure. After the eggs produced by earthworms hatch into larvae, they can be eaten immediately as food. This is also a good idea. A lot of input.

"It would be nice if there were no constraints due to food issues..."

Without food constraints, the ant colony will be able to expand exponentially without restraint. Soon, there will be no enemies on this piece of land.

Even the birds in the sky will be overwhelmed by the overwhelming ant colony if they dare to provoke them.

Only then will the ants truly establish a foothold on this land.

"Let the ants in each branch of the nest pay attention at all times. Opening up more breeding rooms is a major matter for the survival of the ant colony. If you can't find a substitute, at least find enough natural places."

Zero made a decision and left it to the ants to execute it faithfully.

However, in the following period, except for the discovery of a suitable place for earthworm cultivation in a branch nest in the east, no good news came.

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