Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The invading teams of termites were chased by the ant army and pushed into the ant nest surrounded by ant colonies waiting to work.

Gathered together, they seemed to have regained the courage to resist, and actually rushed in one direction.

However, they soon discovered that the number of ants coming from all directions was increasing. Their killing efficiency is very high, but under the absolute suppression of numbers, they cannot exert even a fraction of their strength.

In the ant nest, the ant army used various insect chambers inside the ant nest, or connected granaries, or patches of earthworm breeding chambers to re-divide the group of termites and block them in the nest.

The ensuing battle was lackluster. The ant colonies rushed forward and were killed by the termites in batches. More ants rushed forward to fight with them.

In the end, after paying a price of five times the number of termites, they succeeded in keeping them here.

Zero didn't know how intelligent their commander was, but it was obvious that he couldn't be too intelligent.

What Zero used was just a stupid method. In fact, in the narrow underground, the numerical advantage of the ant colony was greatly reduced, and his intention to expel the encirclement was also very obvious.

But the opponent obviously didn't see through his tactics and seemed to be just fighting on instinct.

This is good news again. To be honest, Zero is not good at using strategies, and his command skills can even be said to be very poor.

However, the other party still did not respond to this simple strategy, and even took the initiative to plunge into the encirclement of the ant colony.

But the other party was able to take advantage of the winter to send these cold-resistant termites to raid the ant nest. Obviously, their commander should have a certain amount of wisdom, but not too high.

Regarding this battle with the invaders, judging from the numbers alone, it can be said that the ants experienced a tragic victory.

They paid nearly five times the price of the invaders to annihilate them. The continuous fighting damaged the construction of many ant nests, and even the earthworms raised in the invaded nests were slaughtered.

But for the ant colonies that currently number in the millions, as long as there is sufficient food, the recovery of a mere 100,000 is only a few tenths of the output of a large-scale reproduction.

At present, the food problem is still like a curse, firmly limiting the number of ants, allowing them to only maintain a fixed population size.

For Zero's plan to be implemented, it would take a long time to accumulate food, and then it would be possible to eliminate the termite colony in one fell swoop.

Therefore, in this process, although there will be a lot of food surplus, Zero is not prepared to expand the colony. The ant colony will maintain this number for a long time in the future, and even actively reduce it if necessary. Some.

After the battle, the ants carried the corpses of their companions and enemies. Zero looked at the distinctive corpses of the termites and felt moved in his heart.

He ordered the ants to transport the carcasses of the group of termites to a specific food area for storage.

Zero was somewhat curious about these termites, but the ants had almost no effective research methods. He could only direct the ants to satisfy his curiosity.

A soldier ant dragged a termite body to the nest where the queen ant was. Under Zero's instruction, it used the pliers on its head to bite open the termite's body with missing arms and legs. The liquid in the termite's abdomen Flowed out slowly.

Zero was a little disappointed. With the dissection ability of an ant, he found nothing.

Some frustrated soldier ants brought the body to the queen, where it would become the queen's lunch.

However, Zero's unintentional action brought him an unexpected surprise!

After the queen ant devoured the termite body bit by bit, she seemed to become a little anxious. Zero could feel that she seemed to be craving more food.

The worker ants faithfully fulfilled their mission of caring for the queen and soon brought her a large amount of food.

She quickly devoured the food in front of her, and her fat belly began to squirm visibly.

Her digestive system is rapidly breaking down the food she eats.

But soon, she stopped eating and conveyed another desire - He wanted more of those termite carcasses!

Ling was confident and immediately agreed to her request. In just a few dozen seconds, the worker ants brought dozens of strange dead termite corpses for her to eat.

Almost the moment she saw these corpses, the queen ant kept dancing her tentacles with joy. She greedily swallowed a dozen termite corpses before gradually giving up!

Afterwards, in Zero's shocked eyes, the queen who had devoured the termite carcass unexpectedly slowly and incredibly slowly started to form a cocoon again. Moreover, looking at the size, it was completely beyond the size of the queen!

You must know that after queen ants transform from larvae to adults, after complete metamorphosis and development, their body structure has undergone tremendous changes. Adult queen ants have lost the organ for spinning silk, and it is even less possible to spin cocoons.

This scene is completely beyond Zero's cognition, it is extremely unreasonable!

"This is………?!!"

Zero didn't understand what was going on at all, but from the state of the ant queen, he probably felt that although he didn't know the reason, there was a high probability that this would not be a bad thing, and even if it was, he would be confident to deal with it.

In the following days, the ant colony was no longer harassed by termites, as if the last failure made their queen realize that this level of sneak attack would not pose much threat to the ants. Or maybe this special type of termite is extremely rare among the termite tribe. In short, the days afterwards were peaceful.

Zero always paid great attention to the queen ant that had devoured the termite corpse. To be on the safe side, he ordered the ants to block the granary containing the special termite corpse and prohibited all ant colonies from eating the food in this granary.

A month has passed and there is still no movement in the cocoon formed by the queen.

If it weren't for the Queen Ant's increasingly vivid aura, Zero would have even thought she was dead.

Finally, after another half a month, the cocoon, which was as long as a thumb and huge compared to an ant, started to move.

After a tearing sound, a huge ant with a body length of five centimeters emerged from it.

Her body is completely different from its original appearance. The original dark shell has turned into a weird ice blue color like that group of special termites. The antennae on her head have become much shorter compared to her body size. Correspondingly, Yes, her abdomen became long and fat, with a neat circle of holes on it!

"Is this...evolution?" Zero murmured to himself in shock.