Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Zero also tried placing the eggs laid by the queen ant under the gem to see what would happen. However, for some reason, there is no difference between the hatched ants and the normal hatching.

Although it has been a year since he got this gem, Zero still knows nothing about its mutation mechanism. I only know that under this light, the queen ant can mutate after eating mutated earthworm meat. Placing earthworm eggs and aphid eggs below will also cause mutation, but what exactly causes the mutation? Why can't ant eggs mutate? Zero has no answer to the other questions.

From the earthworms and aphids, Zero seems to have initially drawn a specious conclusion: the mutated insects seem to become fierce and violent.

This was also initially confirmed by the increasingly anxious queen ant on the side.

As for why the queen ant did not attack other similar species, Zero believes that this is because earthworms and aphids are fundamentally different from ants.

Ants are social insects with clear division of labor and strict hierarchy. The same goes for termites. In addition, there is Zero in the ant colony, and all queens absolutely obey Zero's orders.

Therefore, although the queen ant becomes more and more anxious as she eats more and more, and even scratches the ground and walls constantly, she has never attacked other creatures in the cave.

Earthworms and aphids are completely different. They do not have the innate sense of unity and cooperation of ants. Each individual exists independently, which leads to them uncontrollably biting everything around them after mutation. biology.

Having come to this conclusion, Ling Pian completely lost interest in the mutated aphids.

Soon, the guards swarmed up, killed and dismembered them all, and fed the decomposed insect meat to the queen ants respectively.

Zero still had enough expectations for the queen ants who had eaten mutated aphid meat. Because the last mutation of the queen ant came from eating the insect meat of mutated earthworms.

Therefore, Zero also made a guess: Is eating mutated insect meat also a necessary condition to promote the mutation of the queen ant?

Soon, this guess was verified.

After eating a large number of mutated aphid corpses, the queen ants finally began to form cocoons again! This proves that Zero’s guess is probably right!

By eating different types of mutated insect meat, it seems that the queen ant can indeed mutate!

Having come to this conclusion, what Zero needs to do next is to obtain mutants of various insects through various methods, and then kill them and feed them to the queen ant to see what changes will happen. Experiments will continue to improve this conclusion, and at the same time, we can better develop the ant colony.

But before that, he had another guess that needed to be verified.

By devouring termite queens, the ant queens mutated to gain larger sizes and stronger reproductive capabilities, and at the same time, larger builder and other ant species were born.

After swallowing the mutated earthworms, the builder's abilities were strengthened, and a new army similar to earthworms appeared in the ant colony - diggers.

Judging from these two mutations, it seems that there are some rules.

The termite queen is huge and highly fertile, so the mutation that occurs after swallowing it seems to make her larger and more fertile?

Earthworms have a strong ability to burrow into the ground, so the mutation produced after swallowing them can produce diggers?

Zero thought that this was definitely not a coincidence, it was probably just as it guessed.

However, he was not entirely sure. After all, after devouring the termite queens, the queens also produced smaller explorers. Later, the characteristics of the builders did not seem to be directly related to the earthworms.

So, to prove this, Zero needs another piece of evidence, which is the mutation of the queen ant this time.

The most outstanding characteristics of aphids are their small size, fast reproduction rate, and ability to produce honeydew. In addition, it is worth noting that the mutant aphids have sharp assassin-like mouthparts protruding from their mouths.

If the queen after this mutation can produce ant species with these characteristics or similar characteristics, then it means that Zero's guess is correct, at least partially correct.

If there is none at all, it means that this variation is affected by more and more complex factors.

However, it is clear that Zero's guess is very reasonable this time.

Ten days later, the queen ants emerged from their shells, revealing their true appearance after mutating again.

However, apart from continuing to grow slightly larger each time they mutate, at least in appearance, they are not much different from before.

The next thing to focus on is the eggs they lay.

Zero did not hesitate and immediately ordered them to start laying eggs as quickly as possible.

And just three days later, the eggs produced by the queen ants hatched. This hatching speed seemed to have confirmed Zero's guess.

However, the more powerful proof comes from the ant species that hatched later.

The builder hatched this time has grown a lot bigger again, and in contrast, its strength has also become much stronger. On the task of transporting sweet potatoes, with mutual cooperation, compared to the reluctance of the previous generation, they can now complete it more smoothly.

The abilities of the diggers have also been strengthened, their bodies have become stronger and more powerful, and their underground digging speed has also increased by about 20%.

However, compared to these, the biggest change is a new ant species - an ant that is similar in size to ordinary ants, but can obtain nutrients from plant roots, leaves and other parts and then produce honeydew.

Zero calls them honeydew ants, although its appearance can only be regarded as the icing on the cake for the ant colony that has initially got rid of food difficulties.

However, its value does not depend solely on this. More importantly, the emergence of ants with this characteristic basically means that Zero's previous guesses about mutations are correct. This mutation obtained by eating alien insect meat can indeed enable the ant colony to gain part of the opponent's abilities!

The determination of this point is undoubtedly equivalent to pointing out a clear path for the future mutation direction of the ant colony - that is to continuously promote the mutation of other races, and then feed their bodies to the queen ants for them to eat, thus through this way to obtain part of the other party's abilities.

This made Zero very excited. He almost couldn't wait to send ant colonies out to find eggs of other types of insects to continue the experiment, so much so that even the three advanced combat ant species produced later were temporarily given by him. Neglected.

It wasn't until he hurriedly sent out the ants to look for insect eggs that Zero remembered that there was such a thing.

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