Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

After thinking about the upper limit of the existence of aphids, Zero gave up trying to mutate them. Unless they could mutate to grow by eating air or stones, it would be meaningless to Zero.

After temporarily shelving the aphid mutation plan, the idea of ​​cultivating mutant earthworms came to mind. If earthworms can produce mutations that are beneficial to ants, it might be a feasible way.

Zero didn't hesitate, and immediately ordered the nearest ant nest to send hundreds of unhatched earthworm eggs to the cave. It was currently in the scorching heat, and the outside was unbearably hot, but the cave seemed cool and comfortable, which could fully satisfy the needs of the earthworm eggs to hatch. condition.

Zero asked several builders to place these earthworm eggs directly under the gem on the cave ceiling, and surrounded the ten queens of the two types who were still waiting to mutate, so that they were almost the same distance from the gem. If it were this kind of colorful light If it causes any variation, they must be able to be satisfied.

It takes nearly a month for earthworm eggs to hatch, which is twice as slow as ordinary ants, let alone mutated ants.

Zero has carefully recorded that it originally takes about fifteen days for ants to develop from eggs to adults, but the eggs produced by the first-order mutated queen mature much faster, and the builders only need seven to eight days to fully mature them. Grow into adults.

As for the second-level mutant ant queen, it is faster. Guardians and assassins need five days, while explorers only need two days!

This change is extremely beneficial to the ant colony, which means that once a war comes, as long as there is sufficient food, the ants will attack at a rate more than twice as fast as before in the same period of time!

If today's ant colony faced the former termite colony, I believe that there would be no need for a months-long war. Even if there were no guards and assassins, the termites would never be able to withstand this kind of attack at twice the original rate of explosion. degree of consumption.

"I don't know what the termite queen has mutated into. The ant colony can't break out of a certain range..."

If it weren't for this, the ants would actually have no chance to fight the termites, let alone defeat them.

Back then, all they needed to do was break out of the forest and enter the grassland. With the number, combat power, and food reserves of the ant colonies at that time, it was basically impossible to defeat them.

It was precisely because they were subject to unknown restrictions that they gave the Zero and Ants the opportunity to develop. Finally, after eight years of preparation, they completed the counter-killing of the termite race in one fell swoop.

I have to say that Zero is lucky.

The termite colony that was sitting on such a mutated artifact, but they had this treasure in vain and didn't know how to use it. In the end, Ling, who was originally not strong enough to compare with them, got it. Ling couldn't help but feel a little sad.

In fact, this is nothing more than zero preconceived ideas. Come to think of it, no matter how strong the mutation ability of this gem is, it will never be able to give wisdom to the termite queen out of thin air.

Without wisdom, the queen ant can only rely on instinct to use it, and what is its instinct? Breeding termites.

Its huge size and holes all over its abdomen serve this purpose. It uses this gem to greatly increase its fertility and greatly increase the upper limit of termites it can control.

This is also the reason why the termite colony is so large. Perhaps something happened during the mutation, which caused the termite queen to be unable to control a large number of termites to leave the forest, which is why today's situation of making a wedding dress for Zero was achieved.

Compared with the solitary termite queen, Zero, as the controller of the ant colony, possesses higher intelligence from the beginning. He knows how to use his own advantages to strengthen the ant colony.

Compared with the termite colony, there is no upper limit for the number of queens that can be controlled by zero so far. It can be said to be almost infinite.

Therefore, He can keep trying to mutate them without worrying about side effects or adverse changes.

If there is, just deal with it directly.

But termites are different. They have only one queen. Therefore, once this adverse factor occurs, it cannot change it at all and can only suffer it.

This is the biggest reason why Zero Energy can attack the termite colony in one fell swoop after accumulating in large quantities.

Zero only briefly thought about this. After all, the termite colony has become a milestone in the growth of the ant colony. There is no practical significance in thinking about this issue.

What he is most concerned about now is the mutation of the earthworms and the queen ants.

The queen ant no longer changes for some reason, and there is nothing Zero can do. After such a long experiment, apart from concluding that the necessary condition for this mutation is this cave, Zero has no other useful conclusions, and the previous mutations cannot only prove that this point.

Therefore, he hoped that this earthworm experiment would bring him some surprises.

Time passed day by day, and the queen ants in the center of the cave remained unchanged. Zero's hope for them was also decreasing day by day, and he instead placed his hope on the earthworm eggs outside them.

A month passed quickly. During this period, the number of ant colonies dropped again for various reasons. Zero did not make any supplements, but allowed this situation to continue.

The current number of ants is still too high. In the absence of enemies, there is no need for Zero to maintain such a large population. In addition, the new ant species produced by the mutation did not meet the zero requirement, so there was no need for large-scale reproduction.

At present, the main task of the ant colony is to connect various nests and continuously accumulate the food needed for the winter. Everything is as normal as before.

Except for the cave, of course.

A week ago, Zero ordered a batch of more than two thousand guardians to be hatched in the cave. At the same time, the queen ants that had not changed for a long time were also moved out of the cave, leaving only earthworm eggs in a circle.

In order to prevent possible accidents, the guards surrounded this batch of earthworm eggs and monitored them closely.

And today is the day when the earthworms hatch.

Under Zero's gaze, at noon, the first egg began to move strangely. After a slight initial shaking, it suddenly began to swing violently. After a few breaths, a twisting "earthworm" larvae glowing with black light appeared. Got out of it.

Almost immediately, the "earthworm" rushed towards the nearest defender.

In Zero's field of vision, it unexpectedly raised its head quickly while crawling. The originally smooth head had become sunken, and the inner canine teeth were intertwined with dense barbs!

The guardian was caught off guard and was bitten by it. In a very short period of time, the guardian's hard forelimbs were ground up and swallowed by the "earthworm" larvae. It was obviously slightly smaller than the guardian in size. , actually trying ferociously to swallow the other person!

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