Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The spring when the grass grows and the orioles fly passed quietly while Zero waited. It was not until the weather got hotter that the cocoon in the cave showed any movement.

Near the wall of the cave, six cocoons began to sway. Then, the shaking intensified, until finally, under the action of internal forces, the cocoons cracked the first crack, and then more strip.

Pieces of cocoon fragments gradually peeled off, finally revealing a neat row of six "behemoths".

It is said to be a giant, but in fact it is only the size of a fist. Compared with the termite queen, who was as huge as a hill at the beginning, it can only be said to be a small bean. However, compared to the beginning, this volume has almost become dozens or hundreds of times larger!

And this evolution has resulted in more than just changes in body size.

After absorbing the mutation factors from four mutated species, the queen ants seemed to have mastered a big move.

The original tentacles on the top of the head have basically degraded, and only two slight protrusions and eyes are left on the smooth head. The originally usable clamp-like upper jaw has completely disappeared, replaced by a mammal-like canopy. The "mouth" opens and closes up and down.

In fact, it is not appropriate to say it is a mouth. At least in Zero's impression, a mouth should not be something covered with a carapace, but there is no doubt that it is indeed a mouth.

After it is opened, it can be as big as a walnut at most. Presumably this is to complete eating more quickly.

Except for the head, the chest has been shortened almost to the point of being invisible, or in other words, compared to the length of its abdomen, the chest is almost negligible.

The limbs originally used for crawling have also become thin and short, unable to support such a huge body crawling on the ground. Maybe after the next evolution, the queen ants can only crawl on the ground like earthworms.

Correspondingly, they have wide and long abdomens. Perhaps to take care of patients with trypophobia, the many holes on them have disappeared and been replaced by granular-like flesh buds protruding from the lower abdomen. The short, thick organ has a channel at its end that leads directly to the queen's abdomen.

This organ is the channel through which queen ants lay eggs. After the eggs complete their initial development in the queen's abdomen, they will come out of the body through these granulations.

This is essentially no different from the original hole in the abdomen, but in Zero's experiment, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the eggs that reached the outside of the body in this way seemed to be more mature than the original eggs!

It seems that there is some kind of ripening factor inside this granulation, which can quickly catalyze the insect eggs when they pass by.

The existence of this point undoubtedly greatly reduces the time required to hatch an ant colony. At the same time, because the eggs are stored in the abdomen of the queen for a shorter time, the efficiency of egg laying by the queens has also been greatly enhanced.

This is only a change in the queen ant. Among the offspring produced by the queen, various types of ant species have been strengthened to varying degrees. The most exciting thing for Zero is the one hatched by the fighting queen. There are ants with wide wings that look similar to assassins, and mutant flying ants hatched from the queen ants, which also have wide wings, but are different from each ant species!

In addition to being slightly smaller in size, the former is almost an advanced version of the assassin in the air. It also has sharp mouthparts. The slight difference is that their forelimbs are no longer upright vertebrae, but have become The saw-like shape covered with barbed spines helps them stabilize their opponents during aerial battles, allowing them to win with one blow with their sharp mouthparts!

They are the first generation of mutant flying ants of the ant colony. They are the aerial combat unit of the ant clan. Because they resemble assassins, they are called aerial assassins by Zero, simply and crudely.

The latter is different from the previous ants. If I have to say it, its appearance does not look like an ant, but more like an enlarged version of a bee.

Its wings are equally wide, but thicker than those of aerial combatants. Correspondingly, its flying speed is much slower than that of combat units hatched in batches.

However, their thick wings also give them greater weight. Their hind legs are covered with fine hairs, and the entire hind legs are slightly curved upward.

Zero finally obtained more specific data through experiments. This ant species can use its hind limbs to hang objects three times its own weight in flight.

More importantly, only four of these ants are needed to easily lift the queen, which is about the size of an adult's fist, into the air, and it is very stable. If no accident occurs, there is basically no possibility of falling.

Therefore, this ant species is called a transporter.

So far, Zero's ant colony has eight different ant species, including the thick-skinned defenders under the fighting ant queen, the assassins who focus on offense, the petite explorers, and the aerial assassins as aerial combat units. .

In addition, the builders under the queen ant are responsible for ground transportation, diggers are responsible for underground development, honeydew ants can produce honeydew, and transporters are capable of aerial transportation.

Eight species of ants have basically covered the underground, ground and sky. On the entire island, except for the inaccessible underground rock formations and the inaccessible high altitudes, there is no place that can block Zero's vision.

As for the ant colony's sphere of influence, with the birth of the ant colony's aerial units, it has basically reached the limit that it can currently reach.

Unless the queen ant can undergo another mutation, and the results of evolution are enough to help the ant colony go deep underground or fly into the sky, Zero will have no hope of expanding his horizons in the short term.

In fact, even if this kind of evolution is achieved, it will not mean much to Zero. Drilling deeper and flying higher have no practical significance on this island surrounded by sea water.

What's more, the insects on the island have been sorted and slaughtered again and again by the ants, and there are already very few left. It is still unclear whether they can gather the resources for the next evolution of the ant queen.

Of course, despite this, Zero actively searched the entire island through his own vision to see if there were any insects that had not been discovered by the ant colony that could help promote the re-evolution of the queen.

In fact, it was summer. Even if Zero found undiscovered insects, there was no way to make them lay eggs at this time against their nature.

It would have to wait until autumn at the earliest.

And Zero, who had nothing to do, for the first time turned his sights to an area that he had never dared to imagine before - that is, the ocean surrounding the entire island.

"Perhaps, I can use the creatures in the ocean to promote the evolution of the ant colony again?" Zero said to himself.

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