Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The reason why it is unique mainly comes from its unique appearance.

In the previous ant colony mutation, no matter how much the new ant species changed in size or increased in ability, they generally maintained a basic appearance similar to that of ants.

But this time it was different.

The new ant species produced by the mutated queen this time have a completely different form from all previous ants.

Their body size is almost the same as that of the Builder, but compared to the Builder, they have a more narrow body.

At the same time, the legs under their bodies have disappeared during this mutation, and the entire body below the head has completely transformed into a body similar to earthworms. However, compared to the fragile earthworms, their body appearance still remains. It has a hardness similar to that of a soldier ant, yet strangely maintains sufficient flexibility. That layer of skin is like a tough elastic material, and even the guardian's pliers need to tear it several times to tear it.

In addition, their heads have also undergone dramatic changes.

The originally well-developed upper jaw has completely disappeared, replaced by a row of protruding mouthparts that are generally conical and covered with spiral folds.

If they straighten their body, the whole insect looks like a sharpened pencil.

Since they have lost their legs, they can only move on the surface by crawling, so they do not move very fast.

However, in contrast, their digging speed underground is amazing!

The special structure of their heads allows them to penetrate deep into the soil like drills. At the same time, they can quickly swallow tight sand like earthworms, and then process it through a special channel inside the body and quickly excrete it, becoming A unique type of loose soil particles that can be easily moved by even the most common worker ants.

Based on their ability to dig quickly underground, Zero named them Diggers.

After obtaining a second-level builder and the initial ability to store sweet potatoes, he also obtained a digger who is good at digging caves. It is not too much to say that this is God's will. Zero immediately issued an order to quickly breed a group of diggers, who would be the best builders of the cellar.

Due to the current rapid reproduction ability of the queen ants and the growth rate of this group of builders and diggers, although there are only five queen ants that have mutated again, if they reproduce with all their strength, they can grow into a batch before winter.

In this case, coupled with the assistance of ordinary worker ants and soldier ants, it is not difficult to quickly complete several storage cellars.

At the same time, the cultivation of more second-order mutant ant queens has also been put on the agenda. After winter comes, Zero plans to use the existing queens to lay eggs and increase their number to 500 as a means of breeding. Second-generation builders and diggers as well as future experimental materials to use.

In addition, in order to distinguish them from the second-generation queens of the three ant species such as production guards, Zero called them logistic queens and combat queens respectively. As the name suggests, the queens who produce functional ant species such as builders and diggers are logistic queens, while the queens who produce fighting ant species such as defenders, assassins and explorers are combat queens.

At present, the mutation direction of the ant colony is roughly along these two routes. As for more, Zero has not yet been able to conduct experiments.

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Autumn is crisp and clear. The fruit trees planted by Ling and the ants in the early years have experienced several times of drought and prosperity. The early fruit trees have already bloomed and bear fruit, while more fruit trees are still in the state of seedlings.

Every autumn in the past, Zero never forgot to sow the seeds of fruit trees. Until now, more than half of the land in the northern grassland has been planted with such fruit trees. Of course, Zero consciously made a conscious decision about the distance between them. divided.

Generally speaking, the distance between fruit trees should not be less than three meters. This is to provide them with enough living space when they grow up, and to ensure that their root systems do not become too entangled underground and compete with each other.

In the middle of the fruit trees, sweet potatoes and berries are planted interspersed. On this land, the original weeds have been basically destroyed by the aphids driven by the ant colonies, leaving only the plants planted by the ants themselves.

At this moment, swarms of ant armies are busy on this land. Most of them are ordinary worker ants and soldier ants. Occasionally, you can see a builder and defender who stands out like a chicken.

The ants stopped in front of a berry bush. The guardian took advantage of his height and length to cut off all the berries close to the ground with his large pliers. There were a large number of ants below who would carry the fallen fruits back.

As for the berries higher up, the guardians will also climb up the branches and cut them all off, and then the worker ants will move them back to the nest.

The way builders lead their teams is completely different.

In the dark underground, diggers had already touched the roots of sweet potatoes.

They took advantage of their unique advantages and soon exposed the entire sweet potato root to the ground.

After this, there will be guardians who will cut off all the stems and leaves around and above the sweet potato, and then dozens of builders will come over and work hard to drill into the bottom of the sweet potato, using their thick forelimbs and strong mandibles to pry up this body. Food ten times the size.

In the next period of time, they will carry the sweet potato to a newly dug cellar for storage.

Thanks to the participation of diggers and the help of a large ant colony, the construction of the cellar progressed very quickly.

According to Zero's intention, the cellar entrance is a narrow passage that can accommodate objects about twice the size of ordinary sweet potatoes. After extending three meters underground at an angle, this passage suddenly becomes wider and slightly expanded in height. A horizontal passage is about two meters long. A ten-meter more spacious passage appears in front of you.

On both sides of this horizontal passage, the ants dug large and small caves. The large ones were two or three times the size of sweet potatoes, and the small ones were only half the size. These caves were built to store sweet potatoes.

This cellar can store about half of the sweet potatoes currently consumed by the ant colony in a year, and already accounts for one-third of the current sweet potato production on the ground.

This is only the first phase of the project. Zero plans to move forward along the main passage after winter, building a lateral passage every three meters and expanding forward to increase the storage size of the cellar.

At the same time, the ants also stored a large number of sweet potato seeds in the cellar, waiting to be sown in the next spring, and they will have a bumper harvest in the fall! It is foreseeable that next year, this cellar will expand exponentially, and when autumn comes, it will also be filled with a large number of ripe sweet potatoes.

As long as the sweet potatoes can still grow after repeated cultivation in this way, one day, even if all the edible insects on the entire island are extinct, the ant colony will still not lack food sources.

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