Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The opening of new fronts intensified the losses on both sides, and at the same time, more new forces continued to join the battlefield from the rear.

The underground arsenal of Zero's ant nest operates day and night, continuously producing insect eggs, and then handing them over to the care of worker ants.

More than ten days later, new mutant soldier ants emerged from their cocoons to join the battle.

At the same time, a large number of cocoons continued to burst in the ant nest, and mutant soldier ants that were more than a circle larger than ordinary ants emerged from them.

As soon as they are born, they are ordered to walk directly out of the cave and rush to the front line. They are completely born war machines.

Because the mutated soldier ants cannot tolerate the sub-zero environment, this battle must end within three months.

If the termites are not completely eliminated during this period, it is equivalent to giving them a whole winter to develop.

Such a long time is enough for termites with almost unlimited food to complete the recovery of the colony.

In other words, if the opponent cannot be defeated before the temperature drops to the point where the mutant soldier ants cannot bear it, the war will have been lost.

This is a situation that Zero will never allow, so he doesn't care about the rapidly disappearing food reserves in the ant nest, and even despises them for being consumed too slowly.

If the food cannot be converted into the combat power of the ant colony before winter, then there is no point in leaving more food.

The number of mutant ant queens is still expanding. Because this war will not end in a short time, even if they are just starting to hatch now, they can still catch up and enter the war.

As more and more individuals from both sides poured into the battlefield, the battle line was stretched longer and longer.

Countless ant colonies are fighting on the ground, on trees, and even in the sky. Thousands of ants die every minute and every second.

But this kind of consumption is not enough for either party.

Zero actually felt very unsure, because he was not sure whether the current daily consumption of termites exceeded the production speed of the other party's queen.

This situation cannot be seen in the short term, because there will always be endless termites to replenish from behind. If this consumption has exceeded the production speed of their queens, then because of the production speed of termite queens, it may not be until the end Over time, the effects of this subsequent weakness will gradually appear.

If the consumption does not achieve the purpose of reducing the termite population, then all efforts are in vain.

However, Zero still believes that this kind of consumption has probably exceeded the recovery speed of the termite population.

The reason is not complicated. The current battle between the two sides generally maintains a stalemate. Under this stalemate, as time goes by, more and more ant colonies join the battlefield, and more than three ants die every day. One hundred thousand, and even as time goes by, this number is growing rapidly.

According to Zero's observation, the number of termites lost is probably around this number, there will be some fluctuation, but it will not deviate too much.

You know, the hatching of 300,000 ants is the number of eggs that 3,000 queens can produce for one day without stopping!

Zero knew that the queen of the termite colony must have a very high output, but he was also certain that if the other party had only one as he had guessed, then it should not be able to achieve this output anyway.

The reason is simple. If the other party can do it, then its size must be unimaginable, because only in this way can she gestate 300,000 eggs in her body at the same time.

However, Zero is not entirely sure about this. After all, it is very likely that the other party holds the secret of mutation, and it is not impossible that he is larger in size.

Therefore, adding more ants and consuming each other more and faster is what Zero has been sparing no effort to do.

The war continued day and night, and the number of ant colonies consumed by both sides every day gradually increased from 300,000 to 500,000, and they reached a stalemate at this number.

It's not that Zero can't supply more ant colonies to join the battle, but that there is no more space for both sides to fight.

The war has progressed to this point, and the number of individuals fighting each other at all times exceeds 50 million. The places that can be occupied and fought have been completely blocked, and there is no more space.

Reaching this point means that the daily consumption amount that Zero wants to achieve has reached the limit, and it is impossible to increase it to more.

Therefore, He decisively stopped the increase in the number of queen ants, because it was meaningless to continue. The current queen ants were enough to produce soldier ants to supplement the consumption of the war ahead.

At this moment, Zero has done the best he can. He doesn't know whether it has exceeded the production speed of termites. He no longer has the ability to open a new front on the battlefield, and his daily consumption will be fixed. There won't be much fluctuation in this number.

This means that the dominant power to determine the outcome of the war is completely out of Zero's hands. All he can do now is to maintain the number of frontline ant colonies and pray that the number of termites consumed daily by the war has indeed exceeded that of the termite queen. Output speed.

Otherwise, Zero and his ant colony are destined to fail.

The war was still going on, fighting day and night, until finally Zero was numb.

He just mechanically directs the newly born soldier ants to rush to the front line to supplement the consumption at the front, and then asks the queen ant to produce the same number of eggs to supplement the number of eggs hatching in the ant nest at the same time.

This situation continued for a full forty days after the number of ant colonies dying daily on both sides reached half a million.

From early autumn to late autumn, as time passed, Zero began to doubt himself, whether the daily consumption was not enough. The termites had no intention of reducing the number. There were still enough termites to replenish the colony every day, and there was no trace of it at all. Fatigue.

Although reason tells him that with the continuous production of termite queens, as long as the ant colonies accumulated in the other party's nest are not completely consumed, then this supply will never stop.

But for this kind of war with no hope at all, Zero gradually became numb. He has already begun to mentally construct himself. If this war is destined to be a futile effort, it means that the ant colony has no chance of defeating the termites.

If so, where does the ant colony go from here? Will he have another chance to defeat the opponent?

However, just when Zero had begun to think about this issue, a new situation finally appeared on the battlefield.

Through the flying ants fighting in the sky, Zero could see that in the caves where white ants and giant termite soldiers were constantly pouring out, new ant species crawled out of the caves.

They are the powerful ice-blue soldier ants—the "special forces" that sneak up on ant colonies in winter! !

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