Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

After doing all this, Zero suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked an important thing.

The cave passages opened by termites are very spacious, and they have been extensively opened during the attack of the ant colony. In some places, two mutated queen ants can even pass side by side.

It is much wider, which allows the ant colony to enter and exit the cave more quickly. But sometimes, being too spacious is not a good thing.

For example, as the weather became colder day by day, a large amount of cold air poured into the cave easily, and even the mutated queen ant gradually began to feel uncomfortable. Therefore, Zero had to order the ants to evacuate here and return to the ant colony's own nest through the rugged and complicated underground passages, and those experiments had to be suspended.

Zero also brought the eggs produced by the queens back to the ant nest. There was no way to continue the experiment in the cave this winter. The larvae hatched by these two queens were the only results of winter.

Due to time constraints, Zero could not allow the ant colony to insulate the cave despite the cold. This was still a big project for them.

After retreating to the underground ant nest, Zero could only continue to observe the two existing eggs.

One was born after an ordinary queen ant mutated, and the other was born after a queen mutated again.

He was still looking forward to them. After all, this was the first real mutation of the ant colony.

If the ant species hatched from these two batches of eggs can be used, the strength of the ant colony will inevitably usher in a new round of improvement.

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Winter turns to spring, time passes quickly and unconsciously, the ice and snow outside melt, and the prosperous spring once again enters.

Ants crawl out from the depths of the ground and begin their new year's activities.

During this winter, Zero waited for the arrival of two different ant species hatched by the queen.

Among them, the soldier ants produced by the mutation of ordinary ant queens are not only larger in size than ordinary ants, but their strength has also increased significantly. If the angle is right, they can lift a stone up to three centimeters in diameter!

This is already a great breakthrough. You must know that the space for ants to drag such a large stone is very small. This also means that no matter how many ants there are, only a few can move it. If he exerts all his strength to move the stone, the other ants can only stare at him.

Now, with new species of ants, this work can be done entirely by them.

After careful observation, Zero discovered that there are many small grooves between their upper jaws. These grooves can provide greater friction when they move objects, allowing them to lift objects easily.

At the same time, the existence of such ravines also makes their upper jaws rough, so they are no longer suitable for fighting.

In addition, their abdomens also store a special liquid that becomes viscous after being sprayed out of the body, and solidifies and hardens after a period of time. This liquid can act as glue and connect the gaps between objects well, which is of great significance for construction work.

Based on their characteristics that they are not good at fighting but very suitable for construction, Zero calls them: Builders.

Compared to builders, another type of ant seems much stranger.

The queen ant that has undergone two mutations produced a total of three types of eggs, one of which is gray-black, slightly larger than the builder, and has a much sharper upper jaw than the builder, which they can easily pinch off. At the base of the leaves, its pair of forelimbs have also become flattened, and are no longer even used for crawling. Instead, they are held flat on the side of the brain like a mantis, as if they can be swung out to attack at any time.

In addition, their only two pairs of hind limbs have become thick and well-proportioned, and can bear their weight very smoothly.

Zero named this ant species that obviously tends to attack: Guardians. They will be the ones guarding the safety of the ant colony for a long time to come.

The ants hatched from another type of egg are completely icy blue, almost like ice sculptures, slightly smaller than the guardian, and the upper jaw has shrunk and degenerated into a long, sharp mouthpart.

Similar to the guardian, its forelimbs have also undergone great changes. The forelimbs originally used to support the body have changed into two sharp weapons similar to military thorns.

Zero did an experiment, and this mutation made them basically unable to grasp objects, and almost completely lost their ability to carry goods.

But equally, their sharp forelimbs and sharp mouthparts can easily penetrate the insect's body, and even the beetle's hard shell can only stop it for a moment.

At the same time, due to their smaller size, their movements are more agile than those of the guardians, but their bodies, except for their heads, have become very fragile.

Zero named this ant species that completely gave up its working ability but fully improved its attack power: Assassin.

But after zero testing, the current assassins still have a fatal flaw - they love cold and are afraid of high temperatures.

After the arrival of spring, they are no longer willing to climb out of the nest and move around. It is foreseeable that by the time summer comes, the assassins will basically lose their ability to move in the external environment.

This disappointed Zero, who originally had high hopes for them, but he was not ready to completely give up on this ant species. After all, the assassin's attack capabilities were obvious to all.

He is going to try again to mutate the queen ants to see if this situation can be improved. If so, he wants to make the assassin an ant colony killer who can be active in all seasons!

As for the ants that hatched from the last eggs, Zero didn't know how to locate them.

The size of this kind of ant is much smaller than that of ordinary ants, only about half of that of ordinary ants. At the same time, the overall appearance is basically unchanged. The only difference is that they have an extra pair of wings on their backs.

It is precisely because of these wings that they were reluctantly put to use by Zero - replacing the original flying ants to explore the unknown world, that is: explorers.

So far, under Zero's first round of attempts, a total of four different ant species have been produced, namely builders, defenders, assassins and explorers.

Generally speaking, they are still within the category of ants. They have an appearance very similar to that of an ant colony. It can be said that they are just a special kind of ant.

However, in a practical sense, they have taken the first step from a weak ant colony to a more powerful race.

The differences between different ant species have begun to appear clearly. Various functional ant colonies will perform their own duties. In other words, the ant colonies already have specialized skills.

Of course, Zero is not satisfied with this.

Spring has arrived, the climate is gradually getting warmer, and the cave is slowly getting warmer.

He ordered the first-order mutated ant queen to start mass-producing builders, and then quickly moved a large amount of stones to gradually block and shrink the entrance of the cave to avoid encountering another cold wave that would affect the use of the cave.

As for assassins and guardians, Zero has no plans to mass-produce them. Based on the ant colony's goal of completing its expansion to the south of the mountain range in the spring, a small number of guardians have been hatched to ensure the smooth progress of the expansion.

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