Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Spring returns to the earth and everything revives.

After hatching four new ant species, Zero did not rush to eliminate the original ordinary ants, but continued to let them expand on the plains south of the mountains.

Similar to the original situation in the north, the ant colonies relied on their numerical advantage to quickly eliminate snakes, insects, rats, and ants on the entire plain. Even some herbivores were unable to escape the pursuit of the ant colonies. In the past, they could still escape southward. The forest survived, but this time, they had no way to escape, and eventually they all became food reserves for the ant colony.

After completing this work, the ants sowed the seeds of northern fruit trees and two previously discovered edible plants on this vast land.

At the same time, aphids and earthworms also began to reproduce on a large scale in forests and grasslands.

They will remain the mainstay of the ant colony until they find better food sources.

One of the reasons why new ant species are not used to replace the original ants is that due to their larger size, the new ant species require more food to remain active. If these new ant species are reproduced on a large scale, If this happens, the food reserves that have just defeated the termite colony and barely survived the cold winter may be insufficient.

Another reason is that although the current four new ant species have shown obvious advantages over ordinary ants, Zero still believes that this change has failed to meet his expectations.

Except for the builders who must be used, several other ant species are still not strong enough.

Moreover, the ant colony has now cleared the entire island. There is no one left on this land that can compete with the ant colony. Even the birds flying high and low have to fight against tens of thousands of flying ants. Stay away from others.

Therefore, Zero is not in a hurry to complete the upgrading of the ant army. He wants to see if the mutated queen ants can eat the meat of termite queens again and see if they can mutate again.

If possible, maybe he can get a more powerful and perfect ant species, and then it won't be too late to try to change the ant colony depending on the situation. .

However, although there has been no replacement of ants, Zero is not without ideas regarding the current huge number of ordinary ant colonies.

When fighting against the termite race, due to the pressure from the huge number of termites, Zero urgently hoped that more ants would join the battlefield in order to achieve the purpose of consuming the number of termites.

Therefore, in a short period of time, he hatched tens of millions of ants, most of which were first-generation mutant soldier ants that were good at fighting. Their combat effectiveness was naturally far inferior to that of the second-generation guardians, but at the time It also played a very important role in the battle.

But now, with the termite colony wiped out, the huge number of this generation of mutated soldier ants has quickly become a burden on the entire colony.

Although most of their numbers had been consumed in previous battles, in order to ensure that they could defeat the termite colony, Zero worked hard to produce this kind of soldier ants in a saturated manner.

Therefore, after the war, there were still about three million mutant soldier ants in the ant nest.

Fortunately, in the spring, they can still go out to forage as the main force. When the weather gets hotter in the summer, this large group of ants will not be of any use and can only be settled in the ant nest. Even their physiology is biased toward attack. The role that the structure can play in engineering processing is also lackluster.

Therefore, how to deal with this group of mutant soldier ants is a problem that Zero needs to solve urgently.

In the current situation where there are no external enemies, it is obviously not cost-effective to raise this group of soldier ants that are not productive.

Zero's current plan is to send this group of ants out as much as possible during the spring foraging activities, so that while harvesting food, they can also reduce their number in battle.

Now that the ant colony has completely occupied the entire island and there are no natural enemies, Zero is no longer prepared to increase the number of ant colonies. Instead, he wants to reduce the size of the rapidly expanding ant colony as much as possible.

Zero intends to leave only enough ants to maintain the survival of the current ant colony. In the coming time, his main focus will be on studying the gems in the cave and experiments to induce the queen to mutate again.

However, how to deal with the large number of mutant soldier ants of the first generation is indeed a problem. Sending them out to forage can only consume a very small part of them.

Zero did not want to start a self-massacre within the ant colony. Although the ants would not resist under its orders, it was still impossible for Zero to do so.

Not to mention that the food is enough at the moment, but they consume too much and need more ordinary ants to support them. Even if there is insufficient food, Zero is not willing to take this step.

They may not have any consciousness. In essence, they are just tools produced by Zero to deal with the termite colony, but Zero is not willing to kill them for this reason.

Therefore, He needed a better way to reduce the number of this group of ants.

However, after much deliberation, we were unable to find a way to get the best of both worlds. We could only place them in the deepest part of the ant nest in the summer when they could not move around, so that they would no longer move and only provide them with food to sustain their lives. Thereby reducing food consumption.

While further reducing the ant colony, He plans to breed a group of builders first and let them plant a large number of those two plants that are edible for ants.

Builders are physically strong and fit best for this kind of work.

Normally, this work is done by ordinary soldier ants, but they are so small that they have to cut and crush the original fruits in order to transport them back to the ant nest for storage, which undoubtedly greatly reduces the food supply. shelf life.

Therefore, Zero planned to let a larger builder do the job to see if it would work well.

As for the food saved, Zero also has his own plans.

The experiment inside the cave requires a large number of experimental samples to conduct controlled experiments under various conditions, so a considerable number of ant queens are needed as samples.

This group of queen ants requires a large amount of energy supply when mutating and reproducing, which also means more food consumption. Just use the food saved by the dormant soldier ants to meet the needs here.

In the following time, in addition to feeding themselves, the ant colony's largest food consumption is here.

There is no doubt that this is the most important place in the entire ant colony, because it contains the hope of the ants to soar into the sky.

Under Zero's plan, groups of controlled experiments were carried out one after another. Different from the first small fight, this time, each group of controlled experiments involved hundreds of queen ants, and various subtle differences in conditions were Taking into account even the shadows reflected by the light of the gems in the cave, Zero studied the mystery of the mutation with the most rigorous attitude.

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