Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

This cunning beetle finally tried its best but failed to escape the assassin's butcher knife.

Although the carapace on its back was as smooth as if it had been greased, Zero could not stand it without any martial ethics, so he directly let the guardian clamp its entire body with the upper jaw. Under the strong bite force, even the hard shell could not bear it at all. Due to the huge vertical force, the beetle died miserably in the end.

After the first beetle hatched, the second and third ones soon followed. Within the same day, almost all the beetle eggs hatched.

Naturally, they all eventually became the dead souls of the guardians.

Ling let the worker ants move the corpse of the beetle that was killed by the guardian to the queen ant to feed, and once again watched them gradually become manic.

It wasn't until these mutated beetle corpses were almost devoured that the queen ants began to form cocoons one after another.

And this is already the third mutation Zero has experienced after occupying the entire island.

On the same day that the queen ants formed cocoons and mutated, another type of insect eggs began to hatch in the cave.

This time the hatching brought a lot of trouble to the ants.

Because what hatched this time turned out to be locust eggs.

The locusts, which were originally capable of flying, became even more powerful after mutation. They actually fluttered their wings and escaped from the assassins' encirclement. They disappeared in the wide caves, scurrying around, and even waited for opportunities to attack the eggs and eggs in the center of the caves. The queen ant as an experimental sample!

But among the eggs that the ants move back in autumn, they are the ones with the largest number!

Suddenly, the entire cave was turned into a mess by them, and some locusts even lay on top of the gems.

How could Zero endure this? Although it is unlikely, if they destroy the gem that can cause the queen ant to mutate, Zero will really want to cry without tears.

At that moment, Zero quickly mobilized thousands of assassins and more guards from the outside world to enter the cave, and completed a major cleanup from the ground to the top of the cave. The mutated locusts at the top of the cave were quickly driven down by the assassins. Those who wanted to challenge the assassin were stabbed through the head by the mouthparts.

Locusts don't have as hard and slippery shells as beetles, so they can't withstand the assassin's sharp mouthparts!

The locusts, unable to stay on the top of the cave, can only continue to scurry around the cave, but the ground has been taken over by the defenders. Once anyone lands, there is no way to escape the attack of their large pincers.

Soon, the locusts that had nowhere to escape were exhausted and turned into corpses.

Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this was a narrow cave and the mutated locusts had no way to escape. If it were in the vast outside world, based on the flying speed of this group of mutated locusts, the flying ants would probably be able to look back and sigh, and there would be nothing they could do against them.

However, now that the dust has settled, Ling has some expectations in his heart.

Wouldn't it be a wonderful thing if we could get the flying speed of mutated locusts?

Because the several queen ants used for the experiment had already formed cocoons and fell asleep, he immediately wanted to feed the locust corpses to the backup logistic queens and combat queens, but after thinking about it, he decided to wait for them to complete their evolution. Say it again.

Although there is no evidence, it can be seen from previous aphid experiments that the effect of allowing queens with fewer mutations to eat mutant insect meat is far less effective than those with more mutations.

Moreover, as the number of mutations increased, Zero clearly felt that compared to the low-level mutant ant queen, the high-level mutant ant queen needed more mutant insect corpses to evolve again.

Anyway, once Zero has a mutant queen, it is equivalent to having countless ants. Even if all the mutated locust corpses are used to mutate a high-level ant queen, it is still worthwhile.

But if the low-level mutant ant queen is allowed to eat mutant insect corpses now, if the queen ant that completes the advanced stage again fails to evolve, then the gain outweighs the loss.

In the following period, the remaining three types of insect eggs in the cave also completed hatching one after another.

Without exception, the mutated bugs after hatching are much more violent than they are in their normal state. However, no matter how ferocious they mutate, they are no match for the overwhelmingly dominant ant colony.

Only then did Zero finally know what kind of insects these eggs were produced by.

The largest eggs, and also the smallest in number, are those of the praying mantis. After the mutated mantis hatches, it can actually compete with the guardian in its larval stage!

You know, judging from the size alone, the guardian is almost twice the size of the mutant mantis larvae!

As for the remaining two eggs of similar size, one of them is from a grasshopper. After hatching, it has an amazing ability to bounce.

However, in this huge cave, no matter how strong the jumping ability was, it had no effect. In the end, they were all stabbed to death on the wall by the assassins.

The last one, and the one that Zero thought was the most useless, turned out to be cicada eggs!

After the mutated cicada hatched, it didn't even move. It just lay on the spot. The endless chirping gave Zero a splitting headache. Almost out of anger, he ordered two types of fighting ants to rush forward and cut them into pieces. piece!

After all the eggs hatched, Zero transported their corpses to the underground ant nest and stored them properly for consumption by the queen ants who had completed their evolution.

However, it would take a full month for Zero to wait!

Ling has a clear understanding in his heart. As the number of evolutions increases, the time it takes for the queen ants to break out of their cocoons will become longer and longer!

When the queen was able to evolve for the first time in the cave after eating a large number of termite queen corpses, it only took three days from the time she formed her cocoon to the time she emerged from the cocoon.

The second time the mutated earthworm meat evolved, this time was extended to a week.

The third time, when eating the cocoons of mutated aphids, it took half a month.

And the fourth time, this time, it actually took a month to complete the process!

Although it took a lot of time, the result was good.

The queens that emerged from their cocoons grew bigger again, and even their entire bodies became visibly larger, as if they were gradually moving closer to the original termite queens.

After eating the beetle carcasses, their appearance also changed significantly. In addition to the fatter abdomen, the chest and head have already developed protective hard armor, adding a touch of majesty to their fat bodies.

However, Zero thinks this is of no use. The queen ants are behind the ant colony. If the ant colony has reached the point where it needs to use its outer armor to resist damage in the future, it must be that the ant colony outside has been basically damaged. In this case, even if its defense power is increased tenfold, it is meaningless.

Thanks to the 5000 reward from the boss of [My heart remains the same every time I see you in a foreign land], I became the first deacon of this book! One more chapter added! (Actually, I want to add another chapter, otherwise I’d be sorry for the boss’s arrangement, but I’m not very good at saving the manuscript, so I owe you a debt first, and I’ll cover my face)