Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Food has always restricted the expansion speed of the ant colony. After exploring the surrounding environment, the ant colony should have rapidly increased in number, but it was always constrained by food reserves.

While ensuring survival, they must also complete food reserves for ant colony activities.

As for this, as the ant colony continues to increase, the food problem seems to have become a problem that can never be solved, and there will always be a gap.

Of course, this is actually just an illusion. As the colonial team gradually gains a foothold, more ant colonies also bring more food. However, because the number of ant colonies is always growing, the required winter rations are also increasing.

The first batch of colonial teams could only develop slowly due to insufficient food. Of course, this slowness was only relative, and they could not open up fast troops. In fact, they were quite fast.

In the next month, the ants in the mother nest and the branch nest where No. 3 is located focused mainly on opening up the underground fast passage. Although the progress is still slow, with the discovery of other geometric branch nests again Two earthworm breeding rooms were built, which alleviated the food problem of several ant nests to a certain extent.

Therefore, the ant colonies that had some manpower freed up were not in a hurry to expand their territory, but instead focused on opening up underground passages according to Zero's plan.

Apart from the daily consumption, the food in the ant nest can only be regarded as a slight surplus. This is the food reserve prepared for the ant nest to survive the winter.

Zero is already very satisfied with being able to maintain such a food growth rate while continuing to advance the construction of underground projects.

According to this construction progress, in more than a month, the first passage will be completed after autumn, and all passages from the branch nest to the mother nest will be connected before winter.

The two newly discovered breeding rooms have been sorted out and put into use. In addition, it is worth mentioning that due to the excellent thermal insulation capabilities of the ant nests, as long as the outside climate is not very extreme, the temperature fluctuations in the ant nests will not exceed five degrees Celsius.

This means that even in the cold winter, the earthworms in the ant nest will not stop growing and reproducing!

This further highlights the importance of large-scale breeding of earthworms. As long as the ant colony can ensure the replicability of the breeding room, then over time, food will no longer be a problem. Even in the cold winter, the ant colony will not suffer from insufficient food. Problems slow down or even stop working.

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Autumn is coming, and the mother nest is branched in the north. The two queen ants command their ant colonies to clear out other nearby ant nests.

According to the inherent experience of the previous mother nest, they cleverly used their numerical advantage to harass another ant colony.

This nest of ants places their ant nest under a small tree, which is very hidden. At the same time, they can easily climb the branches to hunt insects hidden on the trunks, branches and leaves.

Zero obviously took a fancy to this place, so he asked the two queen ants in the north to focus on this ant group.

When the other party goes out to hunt for food, they send troops to snatch food and kill the other party's worker ants. Every day, a large number of soldier ants squat at the exit of the other party's ant nest, just waiting for the other party's worker ants to come out of the nest to look for food, or rob them on the road. Kill them, or follow them and catch them all.

Because of the help of flying ants in communication, Zero can command any ant colony at any time as long as there are flying ants nearby.

Such a blow will be fatal to the opponent in the long run. The ant colony will not be able to obtain food for a long time, the larvae will not be able to grow, and the eggs will not be able to hatch. Eventually, the successors will be unable to survive and will only face extinction.

The other party also sent a large number of soldier ants to escort the worker ants out to forage. However, Zero's ant colony was more than twice the size of the other party. No matter how many came, they would be wiped out by Zero.

Later, all the people who came out of the opponent's nest to look for food were simply soldier ants.

This caused some casualties to Zero's team, but soon Zero sent more soldier ants to "block the door" at the entrance to the opponent's nest.

The opponent fell into an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and finally had to recognize the reality and chose to migrate the tribe.

Zero determined this by observing the air outlet of the opponent's lair that he discovered these days. The opponent's migration team did not escape Zero's eyes.

Under the siege of the ant colony led by Zero, these ant colonies carrying a large amount of luggage abandoned their armor and armor. Even the queen ant was bitten to death on the spot by the besieging soldier ants.

The elimination of this ant colony brought a considerable amount of food income to Zero, which also made up for the losses caused by besieging them these days.

After the northern branch hive defeated its competitors, the branch hives in other directions also gradually established their own territory and drove away the competitors.

Zero once again experienced an expansion of his field of vision. The originally scattered field of vision expanded by a full circle. Although there was still some distance between them being connected together, the progress was visible to the naked eye.

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Summer has come to an end, but the hot weather has not cooled down at all. Swarms of flying ants are constantly hovering over Zero's territory, as if on patrol, flying over the mother nest and each branch nest.

The branch nest where No. 3 is located has grown very rapidly and already has four queens and more than 7,000 ants.

They built one of the air outlets in a stone gap on the river bank. Due to changes in humidity, the wind speed near the river will be much higher, which is very conducive to ventilation of the ant nest.

The branch nest in the west also had three queens. They had no rivals at the top of the mound and began to expand westward again.

Things are going even better in the east. The original two queen ants have turned into six, occupying the entire small plain, and are still growing in all directions.

As for the north, it gave Zero a big surprise.

Two days ago, when the ants climbed up the branches to look for food, Zero discovered several small fruits hanging on the branches through the flying ants.

It didn't know what kind of fruit it was, but there was no doubt that it was a small fruit tree.

Ripe fruits of fruit trees contain a lot of sugar, which is a favorite of ants. At the same time, the rich sugar content means huge energy. A small fruit can feed the entire northern nest for a week!

Since this fruit tree is so important to the ant colony, Ling sends flying ants to patrol here every day. With so many fruits, when they mature, this will be the food for Ling's entire ant colony through the winter.

In addition, there is another thing that makes Zero feel extremely happy, that is, the underground fast passage from the branch nest at No. 3 to the mother nest has finally been opened by the ants who work day and night!

From now on, there will be no obstacles in the exchange of supplies between the mother nest and the branch nests. If the branch nests lack food, they can be transported directly through the mother nest without worrying about the risks that may be encountered on the road!

This is a landmark project, which means that the two "cities" in the ant colony's underground kingdom are truly connected underground!

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