Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Spring is coming, the ice and snow are melting quietly, and the temperature is rising quietly.

The river gradually melts and everything revives.

Everything is the same as last year, and everything is completely different from last year.

Zero's army of ants rushed out of the earth for the first time in a long time, galloping and exploring their own territory to their heart's content.

A large number of flying ants emerged from the ant nest, fluttering their wings and flying into the sky.

Many bugs became active again, which also replenished the gradually depleted granary of the ant colony. They rushed forward in groups without fear of death, killing their opponents and dragging them back to the nest.

The queens in each ant nest had ample food and began to expand again.

In the cold spring, groups of ant colonies spread out in all directions like a march under the guidance of flying ants in the sky, with very clear goals.

The ant colonies also found ways to deal with locusts and grasshoppers that were difficult to kill at first.

Without him, it’s just a simple and crude worm sea tactic.

In this land, all insects are food for the ant colony. Among the insects here, they no longer have natural enemies.

Several groups of worker ants filed out of the branch nests by the river. The flying ants in the sky pointed out the direction for them. In the reeds by the river, the new green buds attracted many white and tender larvae, which were gnawing greedily. Biting the tender and juicy reed seedlings, I had no idea that danger was approaching.

The ant colonies are already very experienced with this kind of food that has almost no power to fight back. When the ants reach the reed roots where they live, the outcome is already doomed.

Soon, the ants returned to their nests in groups carrying fat, white insects on their backs.

Due to its proximity to the river, the insects here are much more abundant than in other places, providing a large amount of food for the ant colony here. Therefore, this nest is the best developed among all the nests.

While the called worker ants returned to their nests carrying food, the flying ants in the sky began to search for food along the river again.

The field of view in the sky was very broad, and soon they found the target again. Not long after, under Zero's message, a group of worker ants once again left the nest with clear goals and headed straight there.

This is just a microcosm of the entire ant colony army. Under the guidance of the flying ants in the sky, the ant colony preys everywhere.

On the ground, there are also a large number of exploration teams looking for food. Wherever the ant colony passes, other insects are almost barren. Piles of rich food are carried back to the ant nest and dismembered to provide food for the reproduction of the queen.

This is certainly good news, but it also causes zero sense of crisis.

As the size of the ant colony expanded again, the hunting efficiency increased sharply, and the ground around the ant nest was almost covered and searched over and over again.

If this continues, it will be difficult to find food around the ant nest, and the ant colony will be forced to explore farther away.

Although expansion is the long-cherished wish of the ant colony, for Zero, this forced expansion is not a good thing.

Because in this way, there is an upper limit to the number of ants that can be supported in an area. Once this upper limit is exceeded, the ant colony has to find a new area to settle down.

Although at present, because the unexplored area is still vast, this kind of thing does not cause much trouble to the ant colony, but for Zero, a huge problem has been placed in front of him.

If the ant colony disperses on a large scale, it will certainly greatly increase Zero's field of vision, but it also means that the ant colony cannot gather enough numbers in a short period of time to drown the enemy. This is essentially the same as ordinary ants. There is basically no difference.

If this is the case, then the enemies that the ant colony cannot defeat now may never be defeated, because their greatest advantage in battle is their fearlessness and absolute numerical advantage.

Although it is just a sign at the moment, Zero can already foresee the bottlenecks that the development of ant colonies will face in the future.

He doesn't want the ant colony under his control to have a combat power ceiling, which means that the natural enemies of the ant colony will always be able to kill them and run away without restraint, but there is nothing he can do.

In fact, there are already two solutions to solve this problem.

One is the earthworm ranch, but the current domestication has not made much progress. The earthworms are still trying their best to escape. I don’t know what year or month it will take to succeed.

The second is the planting plan of unknown fruits, which also takes a very long time to bear fruit.

For these two solutions, Zero currently has no good solutions. He can only put them aside temporarily and look for new solutions.

Just when Ling was at his wits end, the ant colony branching out from the river made a new discovery.

The weather was gradually getting warmer, and the reed seedlings by the river gradually began to grow taller. I don't know when, dozens of tiny aphids crawled on these seedlings.

Almost as soon as the flying ants discovered the aphids, Zero had a new solution to the crisis the ant colony was facing - grazing the aphids!

First of all, when the temperature is suitable, aphids reproduce at an incredibly fast rate. They can reproduce one generation every 4-5 days!

Secondly, aphids like to suck the sap from the tender leaves of plants, and this grassland lacks everything except leaves!

Thirdly, the small size and adaptability of aphids means that they are no match for the ant colony and can easily adapt to the situation.

Finally, aphids can also produce honeydew, which contains a lot of sugar!

This is simply the creature that the ant colony needs most right now!

Ling immediately mobilized flying ants to search for traces of aphids in the grass by the river. He soon discovered that there were some large and small aphids lying on the backs of most of the reed leaves, and some had even begun to spin silk and lay eggs. .

After receiving the news, Zero immediately selected an area within the ant nest's sphere of influence, and at the same time ordered the ants to dispatch in large numbers. The aphids that could be captured alive were captured alive, and the aphids that could not be captured were killed directly on the spot and their eggs were brought back.

Zero is going to try to breed aphids on top of the new weeds.

In fact, he was also a little confused. The ant colony had been established on the grassland for so long, and even the area around the ant nest had been turned upside down by the ants. Why had no trace of aphids been found on the grass blades?

However, this question is actually irrelevant. The most important thing is whether aphids can survive and reproduce normally on grass blades.

It shouldn't be a problem, since aphids are known plant killers. But I have never found aphids in the grass, which is a huge puzzle.

This question bothered Zero, making him feel that things might not be as simple as he thought before.

It wasn't until the ant colony brought the aphids and their eggs back to start cultivating them that Zero gradually understood the problem.

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