Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Speaking of sweet potatoes, there is an interesting thing.

At the beginning, Zero did not realize that the sweet potato seeds needed to be sown in the spring. Like fruit trees, after they matured in the fall, he buried them in the soil and fertilized them.

But in the second year, there were not a large number of sweet potatoes growing, and only a few plants survived, which made the sweet potatoes reproduce very slowly.

Ling was a little confused and couldn't react. It wasn't until an accidental opportunity two years ago that he discovered that if sweet potato seeds are stored underground in winter, the germination rate will be higher next year!

Presumably, most of the original seeds were frozen to death in the cold winter, and only a few survived the winter before they could germinate and grow in the spring.

Since then, the ant colonies have the habit of actively collecting sweet potato seeds every autumn and storing them. They used to be stored in the granary of the ant nest, but now that they have a cellar, they put them directly in the cellar.

Although the efficiency of the builders in transporting sweet potatoes was not high, Zero only reproduced a small amount to meet the current demand, while also pursuing the possibility of having more powerful builders.

Nevertheless, after having a cellar, it is foreseeable that even if the builders no longer strengthen, the food problem of the ant colony will gradually be solved with the increasing storage of sweet potatoes.

Coupled with the increasing number of fruit trees and berries as food supplements every year, the situation will be more optimistic.

If the ant colony did not make any big moves and the external environment did not change drastically, Zero even felt that he could lead the ant colony to live on this island forever.

Of course, if you think this way, you still have to have a sense of worry.

Zero is still trying hard to promote another mutation of the queen. At the same time, out of curiosity, he also wants to see if aphids can also mutate.

If possible, he also wanted to see what these little aphids would mutate into.

The reason for abandoning the mutation of aphids at that time was because there was zero judgment that even if they mutated, they would not be able to provide any contribution to the ant colony.

However, after the mutant earthworm caused the queen to mutate again, Zero had more powerful builders and diggers, and was able to barely complete the task of storing sweet potatoes, which initially solved the food problem that the ant colony might face in the future, so he also I started to feel relaxed and relaxed, and I couldn't help but want to see what aphids could mutate into.

The curiosity about mutation prompted Zero to conduct this experiment. At the same time, because the queen ant started to mutate again after eating mutated earthworms, if aphids can also mutate, then Zero also wanted to do an experiment to see if eating different earthworms is the only way to mutate. Only mutants can prompt the queen to mutate again.

After several years of sifting and grazing by the ant colony, the current aphids are completely different from those before. There are no longer individuals as big as gravel among them, and all of them look fat and strong. , and the sugar production is extremely high.

To this day, the honeydew they produce is still one of the favorite foods of ants. The rich energy can support the ants' activities for a long time, and if used to feed the larvae, it can also accelerate the growth of the larvae.

However, as the number of ant colonies has skyrocketed, their production has gradually failed to keep up with the consumption of the ant colonies. Until now, with the addition of sweet potatoes, the output of aphids only accounts for a very small part of the ant colony's consumption, which is better than nothing.

The direct result of this situation is that the status of aphid ranches has plummeted in the eyes of zero. They originally occupied the backbone of supporting ant colonies. With the rapid development of ant colonies, they have gradually become marginalized and are about to withdraw from the stage of history.

However, maybe this experiment can bring about a change in their status. Of course, it may also be a crisis.

At this time, the autumn wind is bleak. The aphids have finished their work for the year and are preparing to lay eggs and reproduce so that the next generation can survive the winter with the help of the ant colony. As for themselves, they must be ready to become ant food.

Under Zero's instructions, hundreds of fat aphids were brought into the cave by the soldier ants, and hundreds of small aphid eggs that were as ordinary as white sand also arrived.

After placing them directly under the gems, Zero no longer paid attention to them. He still hoped that the logistic queen who was still eating the mutated earthworm meat would react.

Of course, if there is any change in the aphid, he, who is in the void space and has a full view of the island, will still notice it immediately.

Unfortunately, the logistics queen who focused zero attention did not change at all. On the contrary, the fighting queen who ate more and more mutated earthworm meat became more and more uneasy.

Zero is not sure if this is a sign before mutation, but this does not affect his continued feeding of insect meat to the fighting ant queens - there are only a few queens left and right, and even if they are lost, they can always breed more.

However, as if she was against Zero, as time went by, the fighting ant queen ate more and more earthworm meat, and she had no other reaction except becoming more irritable and restless.

Zero didn't care and continued to cultivate mutant earthworms for them to eat.

"Maybe it's still not enough." Zero thought.

Five days later, the fat aphids were still unresponsive, but their eggs hatched quickly.

As expected, the hatched aphids indeed had mutated characteristics.

As soon as they hatched, they looked like starving ghosts reincarnated, swarming towards the round aphids that were just around the corner.

Ling watched this scene with great interest. The newborn aphids lay directly on the surface of the adult aphids. At some point, a thin needle-like organ protruded from the head, and unceremoniously penetrated the aphid's body to suck. With.

The aphids, which were unprepared for them, were obviously frightened. They trembled their fat bodies and tried desperately to shake them off, but all this was destined to be ineffective.

As the larvae suck, the originally plump aphids quickly become shriveled up until they finally lose their vital characteristics. The mutated larvae have expanded several times in size in this short period of time!

Apparently they are sucking nutrients from the aphids to meet their own development needs!

After sucking up the aphids, this group of larvae was obviously not satisfied, and they rushed straight towards the guards surrounding them, and the speed was not slow!

You know, judging from the size of the aphids, the guardians are undoubtedly as big as fat orange cats and mouse cubs compared to them. This group of aphids actually dare to pounce directly on them and attack!

"Could this mutation make the insects become violent?" Zero didn't know. Judging from the two current samples, it seemed to be the case, but only two were too few in number and not representative.

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