Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The sun was shining brightly, and the sea water reflected the direct sunlight from the sky like a blue mirror, reflecting patches of red-golden scales.

On the beach, the guards were besieging a crab that crawled out of nowhere.

This creature has a strong carapace and sharp double pincers. It is five times the size of the guardian. For the ant colony, it has almost no fatal weakness on the surface.

However, this is not a problem.

Although the crab's claws can pose a certain threat to the guardian, the guardian who has evolved several times is not a weakling who can be manipulated by anyone.

As long as the crab is not caught in a soft part of the abdomen, its attack is no longer fatal.

Because after several evolutions, the size of the guardian has increased significantly, the crab's claws are open to such an extent that it is difficult to carry out a "full pincer attack" on the guardian, which means that most of its attacks are just a waste. Just physical strength.

Of course, with the forelimbs and upper jaws of the defenders, there was absolutely no way they could penetrate the crab's carapace.

Even so, they are not helpless against this crab.

If you can't penetrate the carapace, can you still cut off the limbs?

With the bite force of the guardian's upper jaw, ordinary roots and roots of plants can no longer allow them to exert their full strength, and the crab's slender legs are not unable to give it a try.

Although there is also armor protection there, compared to the back, it seems a bit insignificant.

Moreover, the crab's legs still have joint weaknesses, which provides great convenience to the defenders.

Under the siege of the ant colony, soon, in the crab's desperate struggle, the lower half of its eight legs were completely removed by the guardians, leaving only the head and a pair of main parts of the body. Just pair of pliers.

At this level, the crab has even lost its ability to deter the ant colony. Under the cover of the defenders, several assassins came in front of it, and with lightning speed, they removed their forelimbs and their slender and sharp mouthparts from the ant colony. The joint of the carapace penetrated, causing it to struggle violently.

After a few rounds of this, the ants quickly retreated.

This crab is already destined to die, and all its activities now are just struggles before it is beaten to death. There is no need for the ant colony to continue fighting with it.

Sure enough, after waving the pliers wildly for a while, it gradually lost all movement and died completely.

The ant colonies have been carrying out predatory activities like this on the beach for several months and are already familiar with it. When encountering simple and weak prey, the ants will swarm forward to quickly resolve the battle, while for difficult prey like crabs, the guardians will rely on their strong defense to fight with them in front, consuming the opponent's physical strength while also waiting for opportunities to inflict damage on the opponent. Kill.

Behind them, there are several assassins lying quietly. They are quietly waiting for the opportunity to attack. Once they find the opportunity, they will use their sharp claws to launch a fatal blow to the prey under the cover of the defenders!

This hunting method is very efficient when dealing with creatures like crabs, or in other words, it is very efficient against creatures whose combat power is almost the same as that of ants, and they rarely miss.

During this period of time, Zero, the magic weapon used to defeat the enemy, has been used to perfection. He is even thinking about ways to add ant units in the sky to see if it can improve the combat efficiency.

However, the possibility of realizing this idea is not high. After all, for an opponent of comparable size, there is basically no need to launch an attack from the air. And if there are too many ants in the ant colony, such an attack may be meaningless. , can't cause much damage.

Finally, after several attempts, Zero gradually gave up on this idea.

However, as fewer and fewer ant colonies have been captured on the beach recently, Zero has another bold idea - can the ants try to explore the ocean?

In fact, Zero had been thinking about this idea since he thought of getting food from the beach. However, the crisis faced by the ant colony at that time was too severe, and Zero had no time to think about it.

Moreover, even if there was an idea at the time, the ant colony did not have the ability or enough food to try to accomplish this.

But now, the food obtained by the ants has been able to maintain the current scale. After the harvest is completed in autumn, a large amount of food will enter the granary. This batch of food is only the most basic to satisfy the current ant colony activities. After calculation, if If there are no accidents, if you keep the ant colony alive until next fall, there will be some surplus.

In other words, as long as the autumn harvest is completed, the food problem that has been plaguing the ant colony will be solved to a considerable extent. After solving the food problem, Zero needs to think about how to develop and expand the ant colony again.

In the context of the serious destruction of arable land on the islands today, the question of whether it is possible to seek help from the ocean naturally appeared in Zero's mind.

He thought about it carefully and found out that before the disaster happened, he had made similar attempts, but they all ended in failure.

Because in order to accomplish this, the ant tribe must have at least ant species that can enter the water. Based on the conclusions drawn from previous experiments, this requires the eggs of aquatic organisms to mutate and hatch in the cave, and then be swallowed by the queen ant.

Among them, there are two main difficulties encountered. One is that the eggs of aquatic organisms are basically very fragile and difficult to transport.

The second thing is that even if he barely completes the transportation, there is no way for him to complete the incubation in the dark environment of the cave.

These two points are like a natural chasm that prevents Zero and his ants from moving towards the ocean. Facing the surging waves, no matter how Zero thinks, they cannot take a step forward.

So, now after the disaster, have these two problems changed? Ling thought for a long time and still felt that this was an impossible task for the current ant tribe.

However, inspired by this, he found a new way and thought of a tricky way, that is, trying to build an aquaculture base!

Compared to such a grand undertaking as marching into the ocean, setting up an aquaculture farm seems a bit trivial. However, the difficulties that may be faced are not small at all.

Zero thought carefully about the feasibility of this idea. The first is the choice of site. If there are enough, let the excavators and builders work together to dig a big pit near the seaside. As the most basic version of the breeding ground, this should not be difficult. If the design is clever, use The rise and fall of the tide can even complete the water change problem.

This is just a matter of the size of the project and the amount of labor required. As long as you start doing it, it will be completed sooner or later. At most, it requires zero effort to design a water exchange structure.

The second step is to strengthen the pit to a certain extent. It is obviously not possible to rely solely on the seaside mud and natural pebble arrangement. Even if it is barely formed, it will not last long.

For this point, Zero's initial plan was to collect cobblestones from the cliffside and mix them with the adhesive secreted by the builder, plus some clay to see if it could be completed.

There should be no technical difficulties in completing this step, and it can definitely be completed. The only thing to worry about is whether this level can meet Zero's needs.

For the current ant colony, the load-bearing capabilities of the builders and transporters are already very strong, and it is not difficult to carry pebbles the size of eggs to a designated location. Things like clay can be found everywhere on the island, but there is no shortage of them.

Even excavators can strengthen the viscosity of the soil after they have swallowed it. It is theoretically possible to use its reprocessed clay products to bind cobblestones, and then use the adhesive secreted by builders to assist. .

But there is a huge problem here, and it is also the point that Zero is most worried about.

That is, can this air-dried bonded product withstand the erosion and erosion of seawater and the damage caused by cultured organisms?

Zero is not sure. The former still needs to be verified by experiments before he can draw a conclusion, while the latter can only be determined after the project is completed and put into use.

If this step can be completed successfully, then we have reached the most critical step.

Thank you all for your support. I know it’s a bit fanciful to realize this, and I don’t understand how this industry works specifically, but I still wrote it out with my imagination. That,,,, just think it is necessary for the plot (face covering) , thank you all for your tolerance! I also humbly learn from everyone.