Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Although the "armor" of the queen ant seems very useless to Zero, when it comes to hardness and protective ability, it is not just a decoration, but has a very strong protective ability. Even if the assassin's mouthparts were pierced from the front, it would not be able to pierce through at once.

However, this is not Zero's focus.

As soon as they crawled out of the eggs and expanded their bodies, Zero ordered them to produce all the ant species they could produce.

At the same time that they laid the first batch of eggs, the corpses of the mutated grasshoppers had been carried in front of them, and the hardness test of their outer armor was just incidental.

The hatching speed of this batch of eggs is almost the same as last time. Basically, there are not many changes. The only ones that have changed are several ant species.

During this mutation, several ant species did not seem to have changed much. Whether it was body shape or appearance, they were basically the same as before. Only the original dark or light color on the surface all turned into bright black.

It is a thin or thick layer of black outer armor that is integrated with their original skin, and their own hardness has been greatly strengthened as a result.

However, it seems that this enhancement is also targeted. This pertinence is particularly obvious among assassins and defenders.

There is only a thin layer on the assassin's body, but the weapons on the forelimbs and head have higher hardness, and their lethality has been greatly enhanced. As long as the speed is fast enough, its forelimbs can penetrate deeply into the rammed earth in an instant. Among the layers, it is no problem to pierce the bark. Even the previously powerless beetle shells could no longer block their sharp blades.

The defenders are completely different from the assassins. Their bodies are covered with a thick layer of dark armor, especially the defensive capabilities of their heads, which are greatly enhanced.

The originally mantis-like forelimbs have also become slightly wider, and when the two sides are put together, they can just block the head.

In this mutation, defenders and assassins are completely different extremes. One focuses on enhancing its own attack power, while the other is completely opposite, stacking armor with all its strength to enhance defense.

Out of curiosity, Zero came up with the idea of ​​attacking the other's shield with his spear, so he also tried it.

As a result, the assassin's forelimbs collapsed under the defender's carapace defense. It seemed that the defender's defense was superior.

However, they also have weaknesses. Compared with the thick carapace piled on the back, the lower part of their abdomen is much thinner. If the assassin stabbed this position, the result would be completely different.

In addition to these two ant species, other ant species such as honeydew ants and builders have not changed much. The strength of the builder's legs has been strengthened and can bear heavier goods, while the honeydew ants are even more powerful. Only the head defense is beefed up a bit, and so is the Digger.

In general, each should be slightly strengthened.

After testing the changes in each ant species, Zero returned his attention to the two queen ants that were still eating grasshopper corpses.

However, what makes Zero a little confused is that according to the previous rules, they should have ingested enough insect corpses. By this time, they should start to become restless and prepare to form cocoons and mutate.

But now, the two queen ants who were fed with zero focus were just enjoying the delicious meal in front of them, showing no signs of evolution.

Zero was a little worried.

Since not many eggs were collected at the beginning, the corpses of this group of grasshoppers have been almost consumed in the past few days. Although judging from the experience gained several times before, it should be completely sufficient.

But there seems to be something different this time. If they continue to eat and there is no movement, they will run out of grasshopper corpses!

At this time of year, the grasshoppers that should hatch have already completed hatching, and it is unlikely that there are still unhatched eggs.

This means that in a short period of time, Zero will not be able to provide them with more grasshopper meat.

However, Zero felt a little relieved when he remembered that the queens had eaten a lot of termite queen meat but could not evolve again.

He suddenly felt that this might not be a matter of quantity.

If it is a matter of consumption, then how can such a huge corpse of the termite queen be allowed to evolve more than ten times, so that there will be no movement after just one evolution.

"Perhaps, it's a mechanism similar to a puzzle?" Zero boldly began to guess.

"Perhaps different mutant species contain different mutant substances in their bodies. This substance will not play any role in the next evolution due to simple quantitative changes. It will not be until new mutant substances are added to complete the mutation puzzle. Can it open the door to the next stage of mutation?”

There is little evidence for this speculation, but it is very reasonable.

However, Zero didn't try it rashly. Instead, after the queen ants had completely eaten up the stored grasshopper meat but still showed no signs of mutation, he took out the insect meat of mutated mantises, locusts and cicadas to feed them.

Among the three, locusts have the largest number, followed by cicadas, and mantises have the smallest number.

Therefore, Ling Xian fed the queen ant with the insect meat of the mutated mantis, naturally to verify his guess.

If the queen ants start the mutation process during this process, then you need to put aside your speculations. After all, the amount of insect meat from grasshoppers was not much before. Maybe this time the insect meat from the mantis has made up for the amount they need. Maybe.

However, if evolution has not started after eating the mantis meat, then Zero is very confident that it is what he guessed.

Sure enough, even after spending three days and eating all the mantis meat, the queen ants still failed to evolve again, but became slightly more active.

Zero doesn't know why this fourth mutation is so difficult. The queen ants have already eaten two mutated species. If, as he guessed, they need more mutation puzzles from other species to piece together what they need for mutation, then It makes no sense that only one kind of beetle can be used to complete the third mutation, but this fourth time, two mutated creatures cannot meet this demand.

With full of doubts and having initially confirmed his conjecture, Ling simply fed the mutated cicada meat and mutated locust meat to the queen ants.

But this time, the queen ants finally changed significantly.

Different from the previous times when they became constantly anxious before evolving, this time, the queens just went through a period of vigorous exercise that seemed to have nowhere to vent their energy. Suddenly, the six queens used for the experiment began to spin cocoons in unison!

They formed cocoons many times faster than the previous times. In just a few dozen minutes, the cocoons surrounding their now huge bodies were basically completed, and were obviously larger than their bodies.

The queen ants sealed themselves in their cocoons and became silent for the time being.

Zero has nothing to do but wait for them to emerge from their cocoons.

However, it took more than two months for them to form cocoons this time.

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