Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The defender was caught off guard and received the most violent attack. In the blink of an eye, he suffered a big loss. The two sharp forelimbs had been swallowed by this "earthworm".

Of course, it would not sit still and wait for death. It immediately launched the most violent struggle and counterattack. While kicking its hind legs towards the opponent, the large mutated "pincers" on its head also desperately clamped on the "earthworm".

However, this strange mutated earthworm seemed to be dying. Even though the sharp mandibles of the guardian made huge wounds on its body, it tried hard to open its mouth and stretched out the guardian to kick on it. Its hind limbs were also swallowed into it.

Without the support of its hind limbs, the guardian had nowhere to rely on, but he still did not die. He desperately used his upper jaw to clamp the mutated earthworm's body, trying to cut it into two parts.

Soon, it worked.

The body of this newborn mutated earthworm is not as powerful as its head. It still maintains the strength of the original earthworm. Under the fierce bite of the guardian, the soft abdomen was quickly broken into two sections, one on the ground. Twisting.

However, both sides still refused to give up until this point. The mutated earthworm half with the head still worked hard to crawl towards the immobile guardian, stubbornly trying to swallow it into its belly.

The guardian, who had lost his limbs and could not move at all, was completely reduced to fish on the chopping board. He could only feebly try to open and close his upper jaw, trying to scare the mutated earthworms into retreating.

However, this obviously had no effect. The mutated earthworm, broken into two sections, still kept approaching the incapacitated guardian. In the end, without any suspense, it successfully swallowed the guardian into its belly.

But that's it.

Regarding the brief battle between the two, Zero did not let the surrounding ants step forward to stop it. He wanted to see what was so strange about this mutated earthworm.

It wasn't until the earthworm killed the guardian that it persisted in crawling to the nearest other guardian with half of its body, then Zero gave the order to kill it.

Dozens of guards moved upon hearing the order, swarmed forward, and in just a few breaths tore the mutant earthworm, which had lost most of its combat power, into pieces.

At the same time, Zero also had a preliminary understanding of this mutated earthworm. Under the crazy attack of the ant colonies by the hatching earthworm larvae, this understanding gradually became perfect.

First of all, in this experiment, the most obvious change was the appearance of the earthworms.

The originally protruding head turned into a concave mouthpart, which was filled with sharp barbs that could easily cut open the guardian's forelimbs and smash them into pieces.

The entire earthworm larvae has also nearly doubled in size compared to its original size.

In addition to their body shape, the biggest change is their temperament.

The original earthworms have long been naturally afraid of ants after being domesticated by the ant colonies from generation to generation.

Not to mention actively attacking ant colonies, they will become extremely well-behaved even if they feel the breath of ants.

But now, after undergoing a mutation, they attack the ant colony regardless of their lives as soon as they are born, without caring about their own life or death. It can be seen that their temperament has become extremely fierce and aggressive during this mutation.

Even among the earthworm larvae that hatched in the same batch, there is still the phenomenon of cannibalism. The intensity of the battle is no less intense than the battle with the ant colony.

Zero originally had the intention of taming them for his own use, but seeing how crazy these earthworms were, he finally gave up.

He ordered the guards to kill all the one hundred mutated earthworm larvae, break them into pieces and transport them to the granary for storage.

While transporting the earthworm corpses, Ling accidentally thought of the queen ants who had been unable to mutate again for a long time, so with a thought, he fed part of the earthworm meat to the ten queen ants.

Originally, it was just a casual try, so Zero didn't hold out much hope.

But this time, they really gave Zero a surprise.

I don't know if it was because she ate too little. The second-order mutant queen seemed a little anxious after eating the mutant earthworms, but there was no sign of any mutation.

But the first-order mutated queen ant, after eating the same amount of earthworm meat, soon became manic. It kept scratching the ground with its legs, as if it was suffering some pain.

After this situation lasted for a week, the five first-order mutant ant queens began to form cocoons again under Zero's surprised gaze.

This time it took much longer to build cocoons than last time. After ten days, the outside world was about to enter autumn, and these ant queens began to emerge from their cocoons.

Although it took a long time, the appearance of the queen ants who crawled out of the eggs this time did not change much, only their bodies became slightly longer.

After they broke out of their shells, Zero ordered them to start laying eggs and reproduce. He wanted to see what kind of troops this mutation would add to the ant colony.

Soon, just five days later, the eggs produced by this group of queen ants began to hatch one after another.

These larvae took another two days to quickly metamorphose into adults, and it was at this time that Zero really got the results of the queen's mutation.

The first is the new generation of builders. After they grow into adults, they have larger bodies and stronger bodies than the original builders. Zero specially tested this, and still picked up a sweet potato to experiment. , Zero was somewhat surprised to find that this new group of builders had been able to initially shake an object of the mass and volume of sweet potatoes!

Although the efficiency is very low, it can indeed move slowly!

This means that it is becoming possible to zero-store sweet potatoes as the main food for ant colonies in the future!

In an instant, Zero felt the urge to multiply such builders in large numbers. But after careful consideration, He gave up the idea.

First of all, although the new generation of builders has made great progress compared to their predecessors, their efficiency is still very low and they cannot perfectly meet the zero requirements.

In addition, the number of sweet potatoes currently propagated on the grassland is still relatively small, so it is of little significance to propagate such builders in large quantities.

In the end, Zero decided to breed a batch of second-generation builders with a total of about a thousand birds before winter to store this year's mature sweet potatoes.

As for the construction of the storage location, it is very simple. A large number of ordinary worker ants and soldier ants can dig a cellar according to Zero's wishes on the surface in a few days!

Of course, in addition to the second generation of builders, the mutated queen ant also gave Zero another surprise - it was a strange ant species that Zero called diggers.

Thank you all for your monthly and recommended support (tears in my eyes.jpg)! ! Of course, there are also many pertinent suggestions, some of which I have modified and added to the outline, which I will write about later. (Thanks again!) In addition, the climbing technology tree mentioned in the introduction refers to the Zerg technology tree. After all, it would be a bit weird if the Zerg went to build intercontinental missiles or something~~It is still the insect sea tactics yyds! I’ve said a lot, but I still ask for support! !

Well, we didn’t use your votes for free. I’ll add another chapter at noon today~~ Hehe