Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Perhaps it was because it had been on the beach for too long that the fish had lost its strength, or perhaps God had finally begun to care for Ling's ant colony. The hunt for this small fish went surprisingly smoothly. After the guards used their forelimbs and upper jaws, After controlling the struggling fish, the assassins used their long mouthparts to quickly end its life.

When breeding guardians before, Zero specially allocated a small batch of food to produce transporters on a small scale, allowing them to be responsible for transporting the fresh food.

The transporter's load-bearing capacity is very strong. With the weight of this fish, three or four transporters can transport it from the air with the cooperation of three or four transporters.

Fortunately, there are no birds on the island now, and there is no threat to the ant colony's air transport.

Perhaps it was a good start with the harvest of the first small fish, and coupled with Zero’s experience and guidance, the subsequent work became very smooth.

The ants are constantly catching prey on the beach like the autumn wind blowing away fallen leaves, and small fish and shrimps are also constantly being transported to the cave. As more and more food piled up in the cave, Zero's mood became more and more relaxed. The original worries and anxiety gradually disappeared, replaced by a sense of relief.

However, although he was happy to see more and more food coming in, when the number reached a certain level, he still stopped the ant colony's predatory behavior.

There is no other reason. Unlike sweet potatoes, the "shelf life" of these "seafood" is very short. With the ability of ants, it is difficult to preserve them for a long time. If they cannot be consumed in time, excessive predation on this food is actually harmful. A waste.

Ling thought about it and knew that the reason why today's harvest was so rich must be because there has never been such a large-scale sweep this year.

This has happened in the past. If Zero doesn't take the ant colony out to have fun for a long time, the number of creatures on the beach will be more. But once he appears frequently, the number will decrease sharply.

Because if there were no ants to prey on them, many creatures on the beach would still be able to survive for a long time.

Therefore, for long-term considerations, Zero decided to capture only a small part of them each time, which was enough for the ant colony to consume. After this part was consumed, he would come to the beach.

Zero does not need to use the food produced here to support the expansion and development of the ant colony. All he needs is to ensure that this small group will not run out of food before autumn comes.

Judging from the current harvest, this goal should not be difficult to achieve.

With the accumulation of food, the explorers no longer have to hibernate in the nest. They are re-sent by Zero to continue exploring the vast area in the north.

In the following period, the builders gradually completed the cultivation of new farmland at the foot of the mountain, and the explorers did not find nothing.

Perhaps the fresh water in the river gradually took away the salt nearby. During their exploration, they found that new plants gradually grew near the river.

This discovery made Ling overjoyed. He immediately organized the builders to go to the river to sow seeds. If they sow seeds at this time, they might be able to catch the autumn harvest.

As time passed, the ant colony, which gradually got rid of the food crisis, began to become active.

They began to expand their activity range at a slow speed, starting from the cave on the mountainside and gradually moving down the mountain. At the same time, the number of ant colonies was also growing at a slow speed.

This actually stems from the need to hunt. As the number of ant colonies hunting on the beach increases, the amount of easier-to-catch food here also decreases rapidly.

Although the waves leave some "lucky ones" in the sea on the beach almost every day, this number is actually not fixed and purely depends on luck.

Sometimes there are so many, that with the labor force of the ant colony, just carrying them has exhausted all their strength.

And sometimes, the bare coast even makes Zero wonder if he's in the wrong place.

Zero hates this kind of uncertainty. This can be seen from his initial efforts to create earthworm pastures and aphid pastures, and even planted fruit trees and sweet potatoes to provide a stable food source for the ants.

From Zero's point of view, this uncertainty means risk, and the ant tribe, which just experienced a disaster not long ago, is currently in a period of time when it can least bear the risk.

But there is no way, there is still some time before autumn, during this time, he must accept this unstable food source, and work hard to increase the amount of food that is gradually showing a downward trend.

This also forced Zero to gradually expand the predatory surface of the beach, which required more combat power to join in, and the number of ant colonies also quietly increased unknowingly.

Time came to summer unknowingly. Before spring, Zero made an estimate. Based on the food reserves of the ant colony at that time, it would be almost exhausted by this time.

However, due to the development of beach hunting grounds, although it is unstable, a steady stream of food continues to be transported back to the cave from the sea. With the purpose of giving priority to consuming these difficult-to-preserve foods, the ant colonies no longer eat the food stored in the granary. So much so that the old sweet potatoes that survived the disaster last year still have a little bit left over.

This is of course a good phenomenon. Although the current scale of the ant colony is still not as good as the original one, with Zero's efforts, it has finally emerged from the aftermath of the disaster and continues to develop in a better direction.

The builders planted a large number of sweet potato seeds in the spring in a saturated planting method. Due to the tsunami and earthquake, Zero did not have enough fertilizer reserves, so there was always some worry that they would not be able to germinate.

But the fact is that most of the seeds were pushed out of the ground soon after they were planted. From Ling's point of view, their growth is not necessarily worse than in previous years.

Ling thinks this may be due to the massive death of plant and animal species on the island. Their corpses buried underground provide enough nutrients for the sweet potatoes planted by Ling through microbial fermentation, allowing them to grow even without the fertilizer supply in previous years. Well done.

Of course, Zero did not forget to ask the guardians to use their well-developed upper jaws to remove the dense and redundant seedlings and provide living space for the remaining sweet potato seedlings to ensure their survival quality and increase their overall yield.

It is also worth mentioning that after evaporation and infiltration throughout the spring, the originally muddy grassland gradually became dry again. Only the large and small salt stains left on the ground proved that the sea water had indeed been there.

In the hot summer, except for the sparse number of plants on the island, there is not much difference from previous years, except of course for the bumpy and uneven ground.

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Well,,, what I mentioned at the end of yesterday’s chapter, when I was saving the manuscript, I used my imagination to set up the next plot. In fact, I also know that it is difficult to realize in reality, but this is a novel after all, so I will I scratched my head and wrote it down. It seemed a bit whimsical. I revised it several times later, but I couldn't get the point. Although it is shameless to say this, I still hope that everyone will not take it seriously. It is just my imagination.

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