Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The loss of three hundred thousand is no longer a big number for the current ant colony. What really gives Ling a headache is how to make the number of ant colonies grow on a large scale again.

After completely taking control of the northern grassland, the entire ant colony has basically been fully developed. However, by this spring, Zero gradually found that the growth of the ant colony had slowed down again and even gradually stagnated!

The entire grassland is dotted with nests built by ants. They are far apart above the ground, but they are already integrated and connected under the ground.

The entire ant colony's nest is slowly becoming a whole, and the entrances of each branch nest are more like the exits of the entire ant colony at different locations.

The land beneath the surface has already been divided up by ants, and countless new insect chambers have been built to cultivate offspring or raise earthworms.

Some ant nests have no choice but to continue digging downward due to lack of space, increasing the depth to meet the ant colony's space needs.

However, being too deep underground will pose severe challenges to the ventilation of the ant nest, so this can only be regarded as a stopgap measure.

In addition to the problem of living space, another reason why the growth of ant colonies has stagnated is the problem of food.

After dominating the grassland, this problem finally emerged over time.

These two problems jointly trouble Zero and deeply limit the expansion of the ant community.

The solution to this problem is also very simple, that is to defeat the termites in the forest and capture their territory.

In this way, both problems will be solved.

However, it is easier said than done.

Zero had no idea how to defeat the termites, which were obviously much more numerous and more powerful individually than him.

To be honest, if they hadn't followed the ant colony out of the forest for some reason, even if they were fighting on their own territory, Zero wouldn't have much confidence in defeating this group of millions or even tens of millions of "invaders" , not to mention that what he needs to consider now is how to actively defeat them.

"To put it bluntly, the war against the termite population cannot be won by using tricks. The number of the ant population is still too small, and it is indeed a lack of hard power. Facing such a powerful opponent, it is useless to use any means. In the end, we must Facing the opponent's army." Zero thought slowly.

Zero can think of only a few ways to defeat termites. The first is to have a much larger number of ants than the termite population, and to have an upright fight with them and kill them all. This is the simplest and crudest method. At the same time, due to the two difficulties currently faced by the ant community, this is also a plan that is currently impossible to carry out.

The second is to increase the individual strength of the ant army as much as possible when the number cannot be increased, so that they can easily kill more termites under the same conditions, and in this way win the war.

This is a bit of a clue. He can take the initiative to change the proportion of ant species in the ant colony, and only produce a small number of worker ants to perform logistical tasks such as grazing and caring for larvae and queens, thereby freeing up a large amount of resources for all Produce stronger and more aggressive soldier ants.

However, this method is still not enough to defeat the termite colony. It is obvious that the combat power gap between the soldier ants and the termites is not enough to complete the feat of one enemy against many. What's more, there are also soldiers in the termite colony who are specialized in combat tasks. They are powerful enough to compete with the soldier ants in the ant colony. In addition, the other party can easily crush the termites and flying insects of one's own air units. Even if all of one's troops in the battle are soldier ants, victory may not be guaranteed.

In addition and the most important point, Zero has no idea how many termites live in this unknown termite group. He can only make a rough estimate based on the strength displayed by the other party in this war - it will not be less than five million, and extremely The probability is much higher than this number.

The lack of intelligence made it impossible for Zero to get the specific number of soldier ants needed to defeat the opponent. It was impossible to start a war. Another defeat was a highly probable event.

But how to get the approximate number of termite populations is also an almost impossible problem - just like it is equally difficult for the other party to estimate their own number.

Zero uses himself to save others. If he were the commander of the termite colony, he would not be able to learn the information about the termite colony without leaving the forest and knowing everything about the grassland.

There will be no spies in the war between the two groups. Their appearance and breath are completely different, and they can easily distinguish each other.

"How to defeat them?" Zero could not find an effective way.

"It would be nice if the ants could be stronger..."

At this moment, he remembered the ant colony self-breeding plan that he had put aside for a long time.

However, ant colonies are not aphids or earthworms, they are all produced by the queen.

This means that Zero's experience with aphids cannot be applied to a large group such as the entire ant colony, but can only be used to select the best among the sparse ant queens.

Of course, he can also mass-produce flying ants and let them combine with male ants to lay eggs to become queen ants, thereby selecting only for queen ants.

But this is not something that can be achieved overnight, or even within ten or eight years. Because according to zero observation, the ants produced by queen ants are like automated production machine tools in a factory workshop. They have unique templates for each ant species. Individual ants of the same ant species are like toys assembled in batches on the assembly line, with precision. And there is almost no difference.

This means that in order to obtain a queen that can produce a distinctive ant species, the number of samples required must be an astronomical number. For Zero's current limited space, this astronomical figure can only be reached by accumulating time, and the resources consumed in this process are also difficult to measure.

"It's an almost impossible task..." Zero sighed.

"Perhaps I can choose to tame an army of servants to fight termites?"

However, he immediately thought of the appearance of earthworms and aphids, and rejected his whimsical idea with some laughter. It was tantamount to giving a delicious food to the termites.

"Forget it, compared to this, it is more feasible to find ways to increase food production as much as possible." Zero decided to work on food issues without thinking of effective methods.

Although the standing army of ant colonies is almost certainly unable to reach the number of termites, if the food problem can be completely solved, there is no theoretical upper limit to the number of ant colonies.

In this case, as long as Zero hatches enough queen ants, he can hatch a large number of immediate combat forces in a short period of time, and send them to the battlefield to be consumed when they have just grown into adults, so that Rely on the endless numerical advantage to complete the crushing of the termite army.

"This seems feasible." Zero pondered for a while, then sighed,

"It seems that this is destined to be a protracted battle..."