Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

With the help of the vision provided by Zero, the ants quickly found a suitable spot, which was a concave rock about fifty centimeters in diameter located thirty centimeters on the surface and four meters away from the main channel of the ant nest.

This rock was obviously outside the earth's surface a long time ago, and its surface was very smooth. When the ants explored it, Zero could only see part of the rock through his own vision. The overall condition of the rock was that the worker ants were moving along it. He slowly saw it as he dug deeper and deeper.

It is worth mentioning that while these worker ants were looking for a suitable breeding place, they discovered traces of three more earthworms. There is no doubt that these three earthworms were dragged back to the ant nest half dead from exhaustion. At this time, three full days had passed since the ants caught the first earthworm.

The rain on the grassland stopped two days ago, but the water seeping into the ground still keeps the soil moist. It also interferes with the breathing of earthworms, forcing them to keep digging upward. This is the main reason why the ant colony can catch them.

In the past few days, three queen ants have hatched. Although they are still in the form of larvae, it can be predicted that the ant colony will usher in another major expansion before long.

In order to find suitable feeding sites and catch earthworms in the past few days, the ant colonies have not gone out to forage on a large scale, which inevitably led to a decrease in food reserves. Fortunately, the previous accumulation was enough, so it did not have a big impact.

After finding the breeding site, Zero did not let the ant colony explore. Instead, he ordered them to send fifty soldier ants and three hundred worker ants to guard and provide a small amount of food to the earthworms to ensure that they did not die but also to come forward at any time. Consume their physical strength so that they have no strength to escape.

The remaining ants left behind the soldiers who took care of the ant nest, and all went out to look for food. They need to find enough food for the more larvae that are coming.

Days passed and everything went according to plan. Fifteen days later, the three female ants grew into adults. Fifteen days later, the first batch of about 600 ants of various types rushed out of the larvae breeding room and became qualified labor force.

A small part of them will be assigned to No. 1 to go out foraging to provide enough food supply for the ant nest. The rest will be under the command of the newly born No. 3 to open up the selected area. Breeding place.

As for No. 4, he took over the important task of guarding the earthworms from No. 2. It is worth mentioning that the imprisoned earthworms, who were barely provided with a living every day, actually experienced mating and egg-laying within this month!

Four earthworms successively laid a total of about fifty eggs. In about a month, these fifty eggs will hatch into hundreds of earthworm larvae. In about two months, the larvae will grow into adult earthworms.

No. 3 undoubtedly took over a big project from Zero. It is not an easy task to completely clear the fifty centimeter-diameter boulder and leave enough space above it to raise earthworms.

According to Zero's estimate, if No. 3 only relied on commanding a thousand worker ants to complete this work, it would take at least a month to basically complete it.

So Zero mobilized another hundred soldier ants from No. 2 to cooperate with No. 3, so that the project would be shortened to twenty days, just enough to move the first batch of earthworms into the breeding pond before they hatched.

As for No. 5, due to the rapid growth of the ant colony, she also took on the responsibility of directing the ant colony to go out to forage.

The recent food consumption has indeed been quite large. The rapidly growing number of ant colonies has consumed a large amount of stored food. In addition, some soldier ants have to be allocated to take care of the earthworms. Food has begun to be stretched. In order to find enough For food, No. 1 and No. 5 commanded the ant colony to snatch food from the ant colony in the west many times. They even took advantage of Zero's suggestion and relied on a large number of soldiers to guard the door of the opponent's ant nest, waiting for their food transport team to return. , openly grabbing food at the entrance of their ant nests, and by the way, they even brought the dead ant corpses back to be used as food rations.

However, such days did not last long, and the queen of this ant nest was not stupid. Soon Zero discovered that there were no more ants coming in and out of the entrance to the ant nest he had discovered. It was obviously the queen who responded to this situation. Zero guessed that they most likely changed to another exit.

But Zero didn't care. As long as they didn't compete with his own group in this area, Zero would let them go.

After the ant colony expanded, Zero could already directly observe the area three meters near the ant nest. All bugs and animals that appeared here could not escape his gaze.

This also greatly improves the hunting efficiency of the ant colony. Zero can accurately tell them the location of the prey, thereby quickly killing it and dragging it back to the ant nest.

In addition, the expansion of the population has also caused the original entrance and exit of the ant nest to become a bit crowded, and expanding the entrance will reduce the concealment and increase the danger of the ant nest, so Zero asked No. 2 to lead the worker ants to dig in four different directions. By opening an exit, it can not only solve the problem of crowding at the exit, but also allow the ant colony to quickly reach the location of the prey. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Under Zero's guidance, the development of the ant colony is back on track. The granary has undergone another expansion and construction. New granaries have been built in the four directions of east, west, north and south. Under the tireless hard work of the worker ants, although the consumption is still huge, the granary has gradually begun to become fuller.

Twenty days passed in the blink of an eye, and it was summer. The number of active bugs outside the ant nest increased significantly, which also enriched the ant nest's food reserves.

However, relying on predation is still an unstable food source. If unexpected risks are encountered, the food source may be cut off one day. Moreover, Zero knows that there will be no insects active outside in winter, and his ant colony cannot go out to hunt at low temperatures. It can only consume stored food to survive. This will cause the development of the ant colony to stagnate. Zero cannot Allow this to happen.

Therefore, after No. 3 roughly cleared the breeding ground, Zero immediately asked No. 4 to consume the earthworm colony's energy again, and then led the ant colony to move them into the breeding ground. The same treatment was given to their eggs that were about to hatch.

The breeding ground is a disc-shaped stone with a diameter of 7 centimeters with a depression in the middle. No. led the ant colony to open a space about centimeters high above the stone.

The hard stone does not allow earthworms to burrow into the ground and escape. The moist environment underground is enough to meet their survival needs. The ant colonies will bring them enough food to survive. In addition to the ant colonies guarding them day and night to prevent them from escaping. , in a sense, they have arrived in heaven.

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