Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Each of the three fighting ant species has changed after this mutation. In addition to the size increasing again, the guardian's forelimbs have also become more tapered and sharp, and the upper jaw has also become larger and wider, which means it has more Strong bite force.

The explorers look basically the same, but their hatching cycle has been reduced by one-third again, which means that from now on, it only takes a little more than a day for them to develop from eggs to adults!

The biggest change was the assassin's. The original icy blue appearance turned gray again, the awl-like forelimbs became harder and slender, and the sharp mouthparts that originally protruded from the body actually retracted into the mouth. During the battle, It can be stabbed out quickly, and its instantaneous penetration ability is extremely strong!

Zero specially conducted an experiment, and with the current strength of the assassin's forelimbs, he could easily penetrate into the old bark! And the moment it launches an attack, its sharp mouthparts can even completely penetrate the bark of the tree, and can also push out dents in the internal wooden materials!

Zero has no doubt that if he evolves again, the assassin's mouthparts will be able to penetrate into wooden materials!

Unfortunately, the current ant colony has almost no enemies on this small island, and ordinary insects do not require assassins to attack them. However, what surprised Zero was that as the assassin's color darkened, it no longer had the restriction that it could only move in winter!

Assassins who were originally only active in winter can now step out of their caves in late autumn!

Zero is not sure whether it can still move in the winter, but its current performance is enough to surprise Zero. If there are enemies, they will not be unable to fight because they are not adapted to the seasonal climate.

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Since there are not many insects that are still active in late autumn, and the entire island has been plowed over and over by ant colonies, even fewer insects can survive.

However, despite this, the ant colony that went out still brought back the eggs of five types of insects with Zero's cooperation, but the number was not large. The largest type only had thirty eggs, and the smallest type only had a dozen eggs.

However, these eggs are enough. After all, only one queen ant is required to mutate. Zero is equivalent to having countless mutant queens. As long as he wants, he can breed more at any time.

Nor can we catch all the insect eggs buried on the island for the winter just for the sake of conducting experiments. This will cause the already sparse insects to become extinct directly here.

Back in the cave, Zero looked at the insect eggs in front of him. If he just looked at the eggs, he couldn't determine what kind they were, so he could only place all the hundreds of eggs under the gems.

In order to prevent the insects that hatched first from destroying other eggs indiscriminately due to different hatching times, Zero specifically asked the ant colony to disperse the eggs separately, and then each sent three assassins to guard them. Once the hatched larvae moved abnormally, , it can be killed immediately.

After all, the two previous experiments proved that insects would become powerful and manic after this mutation, and he had to guard against it.

It is worth mentioning that in the last aphid experiment, Zero also conducted an experiment on ordinary queen ants, allowing them to eat the corpses of mutated aphids.

The result made Zero a little disappointed. They did have a mutation reaction, but after the mutation, they were far inferior to the two current ant queens, and they could only produce honeydew ants, a special ant species, which was meaningless to Zero. , and simply gave up.

Time passes day by day, the cold wind blows, and the grass and trees wither. Like all winters in the past, the autumn rain turned into snowflakes as it fell.

The cave laboratory where the gem is located has a certain insulation effect after the builders resealed it. Although it is not as warm as the inside of the ant nest, it does not prevent the ant colony from moving.

The eggs placed by the ants in the center of the cave still showed no movement. Only the assassins, who were still not afraid of the cold, stood by quietly.

The vast majority of ant colonies have entered hibernation. After a year of completely occupying the island, they have completed all the projects they can complete and no longer need to be active in winter. In this state, they only need a small amount of food to survive the cold winter.

Within the entire group, only the cave still maintains considerable activity. There are worker ants who faithfully carry food to feed the queen who is still eating. Under Zero's arrangement, occasionally another group of assassins will come forward to change shifts with the guards.

The whole world seemed to have fallen into silence, and Zero was waiting for the day when these insect eggs hatched.

However, perhaps because the temperature inside the cave was not suitable, or perhaps for other reasons, these insect eggs did not move at all throughout the winter.

Zero is not disappointed, he has plenty of time to wait.

As the days passed, the earth gradually shed its white clothes and put on new green clothes.

The temperature outside is rising day by day, and although the temperature change in the cave is not as obvious as the outside due to the obstruction of the mountain, the overall temperature has also increased along with the outside.

Of course, in this suitable environment, the insect eggs in the cave also began to hatch one after another.

Under Zero's observation, the first thing to crawl out of the egg was a beetle!

Different from common beetles, this one is obviously mutated. The shiny outer armor reflects various colors under the multicolored light. Just by looking at it, you can tell that it has amazing defense.

Although it is still in a larval state, it has thicker armor than an adult beetle!

In line with Zero's expectation, this beetle larva was ready to rush to the nearby eggs to eat as soon as it hatched, but it didn't expect that there was a huge monster waiting for it above it.

Zero watched the familiar scene in front of him through the assassin's vision. Sure enough, before the beetle could take a few steps, it was blocked by two sharp forelimbs.

With the assassin's current size, standing up completely can almost completely block the light above the larva!

You can imagine how huge these two forelimbs are for this beetle!

The larva suddenly stopped in front of the two sharp forelimbs that suddenly appeared in front of it, and actually retracted its head into the shell. At the same time, as if it were a mechanism, the small shells on both sides popped out instantly to cover the front of the head. loopholes.

Ling was amazed at the sight and wanted to test the hardness of the carapace, so he ordered the assassin to poke it with his feet.

Unexpectedly, the shiny shell turned out to be very smooth. Coupled with the curvature of the surface of the beetle's shell, the entire larva jumped several positions away due to the slippage of its forelimbs.

Then Zero saw that this larva was like a thief. He stuck out his head and quickly explored it, then spread his legs and started to run away wildly.

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