Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In order to complete the verification of this conjecture, Zero buried a batch of berry seeds in an area where it would have been impossible to survive in the past, and Zero paid close attention to them.

Although it is midsummer now, this does not affect their germination. As long as the land allows them to survive, they will grow out tenaciously and show their resilience to this cruel world!

Ten days later, Zero received good news from the observer - they had indeed sprouted!

This made him very excited, because it meant that with the help of this sudden storm, he could start leading the ant colony to cultivate this not-so-vast land again!

Once the cultivation covering the entire island is completed, the ants will soon have an ample supply of food.

In this case, the ant colony returns to its peak very quickly!

After experiencing these two natural disasters, Zero had too many ideas that he wanted to realize, but because there was never enough food, many of them were put on hold. The only fish farming project that broke ground was still killed by the storm.

However, even if farming is to be resumed, it will have to be next year. In the current season, even if the seeds can germinate, they will not mature in time and will be frozen to death. The hard work will be in vain.

What is important now is to make better use of the fish carcasses collected by the ant colonies from the islands so that they can be stored for a longer period of time.

After all, there will be no more sweet potatoes waiting for the ant colony to harvest this fall, and they will have to rely on existing food until next fall's harvest!

Of course, in this process, the creatures that occasionally appear on the beach after low tide can serve as a supplement, but this harvest cannot bear the daily consumption of the ant colony, which mainly depends on the current food storage.

In addition, the fish in the pool may be able to fill a certain food gap, but again, this number is completely unable to bear the heavy responsibility.

Currently, the fish reserves in the caves and granaries are enough for the current ant colony for a year, but the bad news is that there is no way to properly preserve these foods.

Even in a cold and dry underground granary, they will not be stored for more than a month. In other words, this is enough to meet the food reserves required by the ants for a year, but can only support it for a month at most.

By this fall, they will be used up, a small portion will be eaten by the ant colony, and the rest will be wasted.

Zero had already used the food reserves of the ant nest before, and there were not many sweet potatoes left in storage in previous years.

It is estimated that when the ant colony is completely dormant in winter, this food should be able to sustain it until next spring. In other words, even if the ant colony continues to hibernate over a large area, there will still be a shortage of food for two full seasons!

Zero actually thought about hoisting the collected fish to dry and store them, but the ant colony had no tools, no technology, and no ability, so it was impossible to do so.

Therefore, how to deal with the excess fish currently in the granary is also a problem. They cannot be allowed to rot all the time.

An ant colony lacking tools and technology would not be able to properly preserve meat unless it had a large refrigerator.

If these foods are harvested in winter or close to winter, they may be able to rely on the low temperatures in winter to extend the storage time of the food.

But it’s midsummer! They'll just rot faster in this hot weather!

As for the food shortage, Zero has no good solution. The only thing he can think of at the moment is to stop all activities and hibernate as much as possible to reduce consumption, besides going to the beach to hunt.

But even so, it can only extend food consumption for a quarter at most, and there will still be a big gap. And next spring, if you want to plant sweet potatoes on a large scale, the ant colony will need builders to revive and participate in the labor, so that you can get more harvest in the fall, which is another expense.

Where does the food come from?

This is the question that I have thought about the most during this period of time.

After the storm, the weather cleared up, and the entire island was renovated. Without the trouble of being unable to plant, it seemed that they could live a good life again, but the food gap they faced made it difficult for Zero.

It is impossible for Him to allow the ant colony to kill each other. For example, let the queen or the builders directly eat the excess combat units to maintain the survival of the colony, or simply use the currently excess food that is destined to rot to hatch the ants. group, stored as live food.

It's not that they can't be eaten, it's just that in Zero's simplest concept, cannibalism is always not allowed. Although the ant colony has no moral values, Zero insists on this.

He would never use this method unless it was a real life-and-death situation.

So, this is not a solution to the problem.

In order to survive the difficulties, Zero could only lead the ant colony to live frugally while trying every possible means to find food.

Zero has included all the common edible creatures in the ant tribe's diet, but now for the survival of the tribe, he has to try more.

The grass roots preserved in the ground after the storm, the moss surviving in the cracks in the mountains, the various mushrooms growing in dark corners, etc. were all collected by the builders sent by Zero.

Finally, after repeated attempts, among several organisms, only mushrooms should be able to provide part of the energy for the ant colony.

However, there are also different types of mushrooms.

The ants have little reaction to eating ordinary gray mushrooms. They are basically no different from eating ordinary food, so they can be used as food for the ant colony.

As for those colorful mushrooms, after they were eaten in small amounts by the builders, they quickly fell asleep. Although they were not dead, they almost lost their ability to move.

Zero knew that these mushrooms were poisonous. The ant colony also showed extremely obvious resistance to eating this kind of food, and Zero could not force them to eat it.

Therefore, eating poisonous mushrooms to survive is obviously not feasible and is excluded from the list.

In the following period, the ant colonies that went out collected a large number of mushrooms from various nooks and crannies. Fortunately, after the storm, the ground was moist, and there were many such creatures growing on the shady side of the mountain, so they quickly collected them. Lots of different kinds of mushrooms.

In order to better preserve them, Ling asked them to place the picked mushrooms on the sunny side of the mountain in a place where they are often exposed to the sun to dry and then transport them to the granary for storage.

In the following time, they will give priority to eating fish brought by the storm, consuming these difficult-to-preserve foods first, and then eating these fungi to extend the survival time of the ant colony.

In the following time, the ant colony experienced a period of unbearable years.

All the ants, except for some of the builders who were responsible for carrying food to feed the queen, and eventually even the queen began to eat these mushrooms. After eating, they quickly fell into hibernation to reduce consumption.

This may sound funny, but it is indeed the only way Zero can think of to get through this difficulty.

"Just bear with it, it's just the darkness before dawn..." Zero thought.

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