Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Lili on the grass, one year and one withered.

The cold wind was biting, and withered yellow grass leaves were scattered on the ground. The originally green forest in the distance no longer looked dark and deep. The cold winter air ruthlessly stripped away the dense crowns of the trees, leaving only a bare branch pointing toward the sky accusingly.

There are no more crystal dewdrops on the frosty grass blades, and there are no longer insects climbing on the cold ground. The cold wind howls by, and the grass and trees tremble.

However, underneath this cold ground is a lively scene.

After the passages from each branch nest to the mother nest were opened, Zero's field of vision was greatly expanded. Starting from the roughly circular field of view at the mother nest, it extended outward along the underground passage until the position of the branch nest became a A roughly circular field of view, with the overall appearance of a snowflake.

From Zero's perspective, each branch nest is currently digging new underground passages to the two branch nests adjacent to itself.

The worker ants dug out clods of soil from the wall in front of them, then moved them along the dug passage to the inside of the ant nest, filling the excavated waste soil into the empty space that was originally filled with organic fertilizer produced by earthworms. In the cave.

Several branch nests walked towards each other two by two, digging forward day and night. At the same time, a large number of worker ants in the mother nest are not idle. While they are digging the earthworm training ground, they also send a large number of worker ants along the underground passage leading to the southern nest to support the construction of the southern passage to the west and east, and strive for Link the entire area into a ring as soon as possible so that each ant nest can quickly communicate with each other.

Since the entire project was larger than the previous project leading to the mother nest, more soil was excavated, and most of the caves originally used to store organic fertilizer were quickly filled.

Winter is generally cold, but not without exceptions.

Occasionally, there will be bright sunshine. Whenever this happens, Zero will direct a large number of worker ants to clear out as much soil as possible from the air outlet of the ant nest.

The busy days passed quickly. While the ant colony was busy day and night, a heavy snow fell unknowingly and covered the entire grassland.

It snowed heavily for five days in a row, and the thick layer of snow caused the branches in the distance to collapse.

All the ant nests were suppressed below. Fortunately, the vents of the ant nests are usually set in places with relatively high wind speeds. Under the influence of wind, the fate of being covered up was avoided.

Otherwise, Zero would have to worry about the air problem in the ant nest.

After the heavy snow stopped, the sky was still gloomy, as if it would happen again at any time.

Underground after snow, the temperature rises a little, but this only affects the surface and has basically no effect on the deeper underground.

Zero basically lost all ground views except the ground near the ant nest, because no kind of ants can climb out of the nest in such cold weather.

This made him a little frustrated, who was used to controlling flying ants to explore outside.

"It would be great if the ants could resist the cold..." Zero thought a little depressed.

"This way there will be a lot to do in the winter."

Apart from digging the underground transportation network and building the taming field envisioned by Zero, the ant colonies have nothing left to do.

Because the ants no longer have losses, the queens don't even have to lay eggs to replenish the colony's losses.

This has resulted in the collective unemployment of the ants responsible for taking care of the larvae, and they can only go to underground construction sites to shine and release heat.

Ants like to live in warm and humid environments and will die quickly in a climate of zero degrees Celsius.

Therefore, Zero's idea is destined to be something that can only be thought about.

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The whole winter ended with the ant colony working day and night. The three months of cold winter made Zero very depressed.

Since that heavy snowfall, there have been several more. Perhaps because the water on the beach is relatively sufficient, rain and snow here come very frequently.

For three months, Zero could only stare at the flying snowflakes in the sky in a daze, doing nothing the rest of the time.

Everything in the ant colony is proceeding step by step. The underground in winter is very quiet. There is no danger and no surprises.

However, while digging the underground transportation network, the ants found three good places for raising earthworms, but for the huge ant colony, this was better than nothing.

What Zero wants is large-scale breeding to completely solve the food problem faced by the ant colony.

However, such conditions are not currently available, and the sporadic breeding sites found are no longer necessary for the increasingly large ant colonies.

Compared to this, the completion of the underground transportation network made Zero even more happy. Although this was the inevitable result that He had expected, He couldn't help but feel happy when everything was actually completed.

In addition, a huge acclimation field with load-bearing earth pillars interspersed in the middle has been completely completed on the east side of the mother nest, and the first batch of four adult earthworms have been transferred into it.

There are hundreds of strong soldier ants responsible for guarding them.

Whenever an earthworm burrows into the ground to a certain depth, the ant colony will come forward to drag it out, bite it severely, and then release it, and so on.

Zero didn't know if this method was useful for domesticating earthworms, but if he wanted to rely on earthworms as sustainable food for the ant colony, he couldn't think of a better way.

In fact, Zero is happy with everything he has done.

This is a very strange sense of accomplishment. He knows that he is not the same kind of ants, but all ants obey him unconditionally, directly or indirectly.

He is indeed the undisputed master of the ant colony, and therefore He sees Himself as one of them.

He is proud of what they have accomplished under His guidance.

If it were a natural ant population, they would definitely not take the initiative to open a straight and convenient channel like a fast lane for them to communicate.

These hidden and safe roads are like blood vessels, linking all the nests together, and the ant colonies constantly crawling in the passages also make Zero feel very satisfied.

It was as if He was playing a construction game, controlling the ant colony to create everything they could.

After a whole year, from the one queen ant on the 1st to the number close to 30,000 now, they have expanded into a new type of flying ants, also built a huge underground transportation network, and they began to raise earthworms. , tried to tame them, and even sowed the seeds of fruit trees, looking forward to future harvests.

Their current behavior patterns are completely different from ordinary ant colonies. The ant colonies no longer rely on instinct to act. They follow Zero's orders and are orderly.

They can abandon immediate interests to seek more long-term interests. This is not an ethnic group, but more like a civilization!

Although there is currently only zero one in this civilization who has wisdom.

This is indeed a very meaningful thing, starting from scratch and building everything you need step by step.

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