Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The ant queens who ate the giant termite carcass did not show any abnormality, but Zero was not discouraged. Next, he mobilized a large number of female ants to directly verify one by one by changing various variables that may affect the mutation. My own opinion.

First, He ordered five healthy ordinary female ants to eat a small amount of termite queen corpses, and then divided them into groups and placed them on the side of the cave.

Then, He directed five of the same female ants to eat more insect meat, and also placed them on the side of the cave.

This creates a control group, that is, eating more or less insect meat.

Similarly, he set up a control group of ordinary queens and mutant queens, a control group of how much insect meat the mutant queens ate, and a control group of the same type of queens inside and outside the cave, etc.

Finally, after five days, He came to the conclusion he wanted.

Ordinary female ants who ate more insect meat were the first to start changing. After a short period of digestion, they quickly became restless. This period lasted for three days, and then they began to form cocoons.

The next one to start this change was the mutated queen ants who had eaten a lot of insect meat. However, it took them longer to react, and they became more restless and for a longer time. In the end, they also struggled to The cocooning begins.

As for the queens who ate a small amount of insect meat, whether they were ordinary queens or mutant queens, although they were anxious to varying degrees, there were no signs of cocoons.

At the same time, the queen ant who was placed outside the cave by Him and also consumed a large amount of insect meat showed no change at all.

"What does this mean?" Ling thought, and gradually began to have speculations in his mind.

"This change must be in this cave and under the light of this gem to be effective?"

Zero was not sure. He remembered that when the queen ant ate the invading mutant termites, there were no special conditions, let alone this gem.

This puzzled him.

"After eating a large amount of insect meat, the queen ants inside the cave began to form cocoons, but the queen ants outside the cave showed no reaction. If the necessary factor is not the gem in the cave, what else could it be?"

Zero pondered for a moment, and then immediately arranged a group of mutated queen ants who had eaten the corpses of invading termites as a control group, and let them eat a large amount of insect meat and then placed them inside and outside the cave.

Three days later, the queen inside the cave began to build a cocoon with difficulty, but the queen outside still showed no reaction.

At this time, Zero can basically determine that the necessary condition for this change to occur is the gem in this cave!

But why the heterogeneous termites that the queen ant ate did not have this gem, but could also mutate, Zero still has no clue.

Maybe there were some details that he hadn't noticed at the time, or maybe there were still some elements missing from the current experiment, he didn't know.

However, he soon stopped worrying about it, because the queen ant emerging from the cocoon in the cave had attracted all his attention.

In Zero's observation, the size of this queen ant has increased almost five times. At the same time, her abdomen has become larger and appears very bloated. She also moves slowly and can only crawl slowly, almost losing her weight. Original athletic ability.

But at the same time, its fertility has been greatly enhanced, and it no longer needs the help of male ants. As long as there is enough food, it can quickly produce a large number of eggs.

"It seems that the male ants are completely unemployed." Zero mourned for them in his heart.

It is currently unknown what kind of ants hatch from these eggs, but looking at the size of the eggs, they will definitely not be the same size as the original ones, at least twice as big!

This was an astonishing discovery. Zero thus confirmed that eating the meat of termite queens in this cave can cause ordinary ant queens to mutate, and this mutation seems to be in a direction that is beneficial to the ant race. Instead of It is better to say it is a mutation than an evolution!

Of course, maybe this mutation is also like the mutated queen ant last time, and has some kind of flaw.

However, just getting bigger is definitely a good thing for Zero.

Because for him, the larger size of ants means stronger mobility. If there can be ants as big as this queen at the beginning of the development of the ant colony, then Zero will complete all this. Much simpler.

He needs ant colonies with stronger mobility to realize ideas that are currently unachievable, such as carrying larger and complete stones.

Sometimes zero needs to do some construction, such as building a bridge on both sides of the river. But with the size of ants, no matter how much fine gravel they can carry, they will inevitably be washed away by the current. No matter what, they It is impossible to complete this mission. We can only use lighter branches and leaves to build a temporary pontoon bridge that may be washed away at any time.

However, if these fine gravels become larger, or even they can directly move stones to do this, it will become much simpler.

No matter what changes occur in this group of ants, whether good or bad, as long as there is a change, it is a good thing for Zero.

Because it needs more different ant species to undertake different tasks, even if it is a useless mutation, it does not matter. It is not short of these few queen ants, let alone the cost of this experiment.

A few days later, under Zero's watchful eyes, another type of queen in the ant colony, one that had mutated once under the influence of the invading termite corpses, emerged from the cocoon again.

Compared with before, its size change is not that big. It was several times the size of an ordinary ant. After mutating again, it is about ten times larger. Compared with the change in body size of an ordinary ant queen, it can only be said that is a slight increase.

This makes Zero a little disappointed. He really wants a larger ant species. He is looking forward to this batch of queen ants becoming larger again to see if they can produce larger mutant soldier ants. At present, it seems , this hope must have been dashed.

After this batch of queens mutated again, in addition to slight changes in body shape, their original appearance also changed, from ice blue to a slightly bluish but crystal gray blue, and the holes in their abdomen also changed. At the same time, many sharp protrusions were added to their mouths, which seemed to help them break food faster.

As expected, the eggs they produced still didn't change much, but were slightly larger than before.

Zero was mentally prepared for this, so he was not disappointed. Now we are waiting to see what changes will happen to the larvae hatched from these two completely different queens.

In general, after these experiments, Zero got two kinds of mutated queen ants, one of which was completely mutated from ordinary ant queens, and the other was originally made from eating ant queens. The mutated queen ants mutated again from the corpses of the termites that invaded the ant nest.

The appearance of these two types of queens has changed somewhat after this mutation. It is not yet known what changes have occurred in the eggs they produce. We can only know after they hatch.

Sorry, this chapter is a little messy. I changed this chapter a few times but still can't get it right. It was a real mistake not to give these two types of queens names before! But fortunately, we don’t have to go to such trouble later, just call them mutant ant queens (manual dog heads). Thank you for your tolerance! (bow)