Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

All the eggs laid by the queen ant hatch quickly.

A large number of builders and diggers walked out of the cave. A small part of them will be responsible for completing this year's planting tasks, while more will go to the beach under the northern cliff to build the first phase of the fish breeding base.

In Zero's plan, builders will complete a deep pit about ten meters in diameter and three meters deep under the cliff about thirty meters from the coastline before winter.

This is a very large project, and even with the ant colony's current mobility, it is destined to take a lot of time to complete.

Therefore, Zero gives them a lot of time. They only need to complete this step within this year. As for the others, they can only wait until next year. With the current power of the ant colony, it is not easy to quickly complete such an exaggerated project. Reality.

Of course, Zero also hopes that this progress can be accelerated as much as possible. After all, he has experienced a disaster and knows what kind of power it is. It is not something that the current ant colony can resist.

Therefore, he must expand the ant colony as quickly as possible to obtain more labor, and then use this labor to find ways to build some targeted defense facilities.

Zero always felt that the last earthquake was not an accident, but a periodic geological activity!

Of course, Zero has no evidence to prove this, it is just his intuition.

However, it is not a bad thing to be lenient when you anticipate the enemy and prepare for the worst.

There was always a faint sense of urgency in his heart, so he did not stop thinking when he found fields to cultivate that could barely sustain the survival of the ant colony. Instead, he kept thinking about how to quickly expand the group.

Only with a large number of individuals can many plans be implemented. For example, build an ant refuge in a structurally stable place inside the mountain, and when a disaster strikes, let the ant queens lead part of the necessary labor force to avoid the disaster.

Another example is building more safe granaries so that the ant colony will not be helpless due to food shortages after experiencing such changes, and so on, and so on.

These are all ideas he derived from his reflection after this disaster, but if he wants to realize these things, he cannot avoid one key point.

That is, first of all, He needs enough food.

However, what the ant colony lacks most now is food.

The only sweet potatoes grown in the fields have a fixed annual yield. This yield directly restricts the development of the ant colony and locks the upper limit of their number.

To break this limitation, Zero must develop new foods, and fish farming is one of these attempts.

For the development of the ant colony, no matter how long it takes or how costly it is, He must complete it.

Of course, this is not the only attempt that Zero can think of. For example, trying to plant crops around existing cultivated land. Because of the obstruction of the mountain peaks, although these places adjacent to the cultivated land are also blocked by sea water, they cannot be planted. , but in these places, the degree of damage is undoubtedly insignificant compared to the land on the plains, so you can give it a try. The builders currently responsible for planting sweet potatoes are also doing this work at the same time.

But among all the plans, after much deliberation, only relying on the vast ocean to obtain food is the ant colony's long-term plan.

After all, the land area of ​​the island is limited, not to mention that most of it is currently uncultivable. The limited land area determines the upper limit of its development. If it completely relies on the food output on the island, just like before the disaster, then after the ant colony develops to a certain scale, it will face the same problems as now. That is, the total amount of food produced each year is fixed, and there is no way to increase it.

And on this boundless sea, there is an unknown amount of edible food.

If this breeding experiment can be successful, then the ant colony will be equivalent to taking the first step towards the endless ocean.

Therefore, although the amount of the project is very large, and several problems have not been properly solved, Zero still resolutely launched this activity, investing most of the existing labor force in the ant colony into it, even to the top of the mountain that he cherished For the time being, only a small number of ant colonies have been dispatched to build shelters.

Of course, this point is mainly based on Zero's belief that there should not be a second earthquake at least in the short term. The basis for this judgment is that in his memory, before the disaster occurred, he judged the age of the trees on the mountain from the thickness of the trunks. It’s not too long, about thirty years.

Judging from the geological layering of the rocks and the traces of seawater erosion on the cliff edge, this island has obviously existed for far more than thirty years.

So, why are the oldest trees on such an ancient island only about thirty years old?

Ling thought about it and finally came up with an uncertain answer.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this disaster!

If this guess is true, it means that this kind of disaster is not the first time that it has happened, and there has been at least thirty years between this time and the last time.

Although this does not mean that the next occurrence will also take such a long time, but it should not occur continuously in such a short period of time.

After all, although the movement of the earth's crust is complex, it is still regular.

Therefore, Zero dared to boldly send a large number of laborers to build breeding projects instead of fully completing the construction of the shelter first.

He felt that if disaster was not coming soon, it would be more efficient to obtain enough food to grow the ant colony first, and then go back to complete other projects.

Of course, he was not completely sure of his guess, so the construction of the shelter had never stopped, but the progress was relatively slow.

However, from last winter until now, even at this slow speed, the shelter in the middle of the rock-top solid structure has become about one-fifteenth the size of the cave.

Judging from the huge space of the cave, it means that this is no longer a small space. Judging from the size of the builder, it can accommodate at least two thousand animals. If it is squeezed in again, it can also store the next batch of food. .

Therefore, the most basic back road is still ready, but the pace of large-scale expansion and construction has been slowed down. Because after ensuring the most basic survival, development becomes the first priority, because only by developing first can we survive better!

The first phase of the fish farm project is very simple, but the workload is huge, so so far, no difficulties have been encountered, but the progress is slow.

Although Zero was anxious, he had no other good solution but to wait.

However, before He could wait for the project to be completed, He waited for the enemy first!

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