Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

After the queen ant squeezed out of the cocoon, she gradually fully stretched her body.

Ling looked at the queen ant in front of her in surprise, which was the size of a watermelon, and felt awesome in her heart.

Although the size of the queen ant was very large before, compared to the guardians, it was actually only two-thirds the size of a football.

This time's evolution has obviously changed the queen ant greatly, and her body size alone has increased by as much as three times!

But in other aspects, it doesn't look much different from the original, it's just that the size has become a lot larger.

Zero was very curious about what kind of ant species such a huge queen could produce. In other words, he was curious about what kind of growth the ant seeds produced by such a queen could have on the original ant colony.

After the queen ant emerged from the cocoon, she immediately ate a lot of food. She ate half of her volume of food before she seemed to be finally satisfied and lay still on the spot.

Finally, Zero urged it to lay eggs, and the queen ant slowly began to move like a tractor that suddenly turned on its engine.

However, although it moves slowly, its speed of laying eggs is not slow at all. If it moves as fast as a tractor that has just turned on its engine, then the speed at which it lays eggs is like a locomotive that twists the accelerator, the kind reserved for competition venues.

The tubular objects under it were like gun barrels, and in a short period of time, insect eggs half the size of eggs continued to pour out.

Zero was shocked by his production speed. The queen ant's egg laying speed in the past was no longer slow, but compared with today's efficiency, it was really the difference between an old chimney and a machine gun.

However, this was not over yet. Less than fifteen minutes after these eggs were laid, larvae had already crawled out of them!

Zero looked at these larvae waiting to be fed with joy and surprise, and was shocked in his heart.

If the queen ant can produce such a change, it's not in vain that she has been sending ant tribes everywhere to seek for mutation materials for so long!

The newly hatched larvae are only the size of an egg when fully expanded and look completely different from any existing ant species.

Zero knew that this should not be their final form.

Although the ants have evolved several times, they still maintain some of their original characteristics. This is an important reason why Zero always calls them the ant tribe.

In it, the larvae hatch out and develop again, unchanged from the beginning to the end.

After they grow up for a period of time, they will start to form cocoons again. After hatching, their appearance and functions will change greatly. Sometimes, this process will even continue several times until they finally become adults. By that time, it looks nothing like its larvae.

Multiple evolutions have not been able to change this characteristic. However, in the initial ant colony, this kind of cocoon develops quite a lot, sometimes as long as four or five times.

After the queen ants complete their fourth evolution, these eggs no longer need so many cocoons to develop.

For ant species such as explorers and builders that are not much different from the original ant colony as a whole, the larvae only need to form a cocoon once to hatch into adults.

Ant species that change a lot, such as assassins and guardians, only need two cocoons to grow into adults.

This is probably a new change that occurs after the queen ant evolves. The eggs must have developed to a considerable extent inside the queen's body. After they come outside the body, they only need a small amount of food to turn into eggs as quickly as possible. That is combat power.

That's certainly a good thing, and Zero would love to see that happen.

However, the larvae that hatched after evolving this time were completely different from what he expected.

Zero watched them begin to eat, watched them quickly become full, and watched them quickly form cocoons. At this point, except that their cocoons are much larger, everything is the same as before.

But then, their changes surprised Zero.

After emerging from the cocoon for the first time, they once again begin feeding in an exaggerated manner.

Zero observed carefully, and he discovered that the larvae quickly underwent different changes after emerging from their cocoons for the first time.

The most intuitive manifestation of this change is that on the surface, they have extremely obvious differences!

In one type, after the first cocooning is completed, the back becomes extremely broad, and the legs become wide and short. The six front and rear legs all become this flat and short shape, lying on the ground, From a distance, it looks like a small table the size of a palm.

The other ant species is completely different. It has also completed its cocoon for the first time. This ant species has a streamlined and powerful body shape, with a narrow and long back, and looks very powerful.

In addition, the legs under their bodies have also undergone tremendous changes. The four legs near the back have become wider and larger, similar to cattail leaf fans, while the front legs have sharp vertebrae similar to those of assassins.

At the same time, its head also became sharp, and its mouthparts covered with barbed hooks could be extended from its mouth. Zero looked carefully and found that there was a small passage in the center of its mouthparts. He knew that it must be more than just For drinking water!

Unlike the former, which looks like a small table, this ant species looks like a sharp sword when viewed from above!

However, this is just their first cocoon.

Then, Zero saw that after they ate again, they quickly started forming cocoons again.

Then it was the third and fourth time!

Since the ant colony began to evolve, Zero has not seen an ant species that needs to form cocoons so many times for a long time!

It was not until the fifth cocooning was completed that they finally stopped the process of spinning cocoons, and four days had passed.

In other words, they quickly completed five cocooning activities in just four days, and each time they emerged from the cocoon, their size became larger.

By the time the last one was finished, the ant species with the broad back had become about the same size as the queen ant!

As for the other type of body, it is not that big. The length is only about the size of two palms, and the width is also much smaller, only about eight centimeters.

However, although they are small in size, they have stronger and more powerful hind limbs, dark outer armor, and harder forelimb weapons.

Zero looked at their strange appearance and muttered in his heart,

"Is this still an ant?"

Obviously, these two ant species can still vaguely see the characteristics of ants except for a few parts, but in terms of overall structure, whether it is body shape or appearance, they are no longer comparable to ants.

Looking at their distinctive legs, Zero felt that they were specially designed to move around in the water.

The specific method of zero has not been tested, but this should be certain. After all, this time the queen's evolution was actually driven by that strange mutant fish, so it's not surprising that the colony's new ant species has the ability to move in the water.

Of course, the specific extent to which they can move in the water needs to be tested, but as long as they can move on the water, it is enough to make up for the shortcomings of the ants in this area.

Thanks to the book friend [I’m really not a hero] for the 100 starting coin reward! !