Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

Several consecutive disasters left a deep impression on Zero's heart, prompting him to lead the ant colony to move forward and never settle for the status quo.

As early as when the ant colony was just able to produce enough food to meet its own needs, He began to actively send a new generation of air units and more durable water transporters from the island to explore in all directions.

During this process, a large number of underwater units disappeared into the boundless sea. They either lost their way and finally died of exhaustion, or were treated as a meal by other sea creatures.

Similarly, the air units sent out to explore suffered heavy losses but also gained nothing.

Until now, Zero has not discovered anything of value to the ant colony except for knowing a little more about the surrounding sea area.

Although the losses were huge and no returns had been seen, Zero continued to send out various ant explorers.

He knows that if he continues to explore outside, he still has a glimmer of hope of leading the ant tribe to develop and grow. However, being trapped on this island, when there are almost no living creatures that can provide evolutionary factors for the ant queen, basically means that the ants The clan will never have the chance to become stronger again.

Therefore, He cannot stop and does not dare to stop. The threat of disaster always hangs over his and the ant clan's heads, and it may fall at any time.

Maybe the ant colonies that have built enough shelters are no longer afraid of earthquakes and tsunamis like last time, but what if? What if the intensity of the disaster increases? On this increasingly small island, they have no way to escape, and even Zero can't withstand such an eventuality!

Therefore, although all the explorers sent out never came back, He not only never stopped exploring, but more and more teams were sent out to explore.

The farthest the ants have explored without losing their way is about ten kilometers away from the island. Looking back from the sea, the peaks of the island can no longer be seen. Looking in all directions, everything is filled with waves. Moving sea water.

The ant colony has no ability to discern direction and can only rely on the position of the sun in the sky to estimate and identify the direction. However, the accuracy of this estimate is very poor and can only be said to provide a rough reference. On the sea, a slight difference may be Huge fallacies will arise.

Once at night, there are only a few stars in the sky, and only a slightly larger bright spot can provide a little brightness. Zero guesses that it should be a satellite relatively far away from the planet. Although it is much brighter than the stars, it is only It’s better than nothing.

And at night, it is also the time when the ant exploration team suffers the most casualties.

There are endless dangers lurking in the boundless ocean, and there will never be a shortage of predators that can swallow up the seemingly large ants in one bite.

So far, among the thousands of exploration teams sent by Zero, only a few of them have successfully spent a dark night and traveled to very far away places. However, without exception, they have all been lost and cannot find their way back. There is no way to continue exploring the road.

Because even if they have exploration results, Zero doesn't know how to find them.

Of course, Zero did not let these disoriented ants sit still and wait for death. Instead, he asked them to use the sun as the direction coordinate and still move in the direction of their original exploration. If they can really survive and gain something, then in that direction In the days to come, Zero will continue to dispatch exploration teams, and at least they will have a general direction.

However, none of them survived.

Even so, Zero still insists on sending exploration teams in all directions from the island every month, and has never stopped for several years.

Until now, the development of the ant colony on this island has once again reached a bottleneck.

And Zero, who has learned the last lesson, will no longer be content to enjoy peace.

When this peaceful and harmonious place can no longer accommodate any more ant colonies, it is in fact no different from a huge prison.

The surrounding seawater is like an invisible high wall, trapping the entire ant clan here and unable to leave.

And those exploration teams sent out by Zero are undoubtedly prison escapees.

There are thousands of people who have escaped from prison, but no one has succeeded.

But difficulty is by no means a reason not to do it, especially today when the ant tribe has reached a development bottleneck here, and there is no way out if it is limited to here anymore.

The exploration teams sent by Zero are getting larger and larger, but in the end very few of them can come back alive, and none of them will bring any good news.

Finally, Zero came up with a new idea.

He asked some sea transporters to take a batch of food and a small number of builders responsible for chopping and transporting the food to go to sea, and then asked another group of sea transporters to bring a large group of air explorers, and they formed a team to go to sea to explore together.

The usefulness of this is obvious. Because of the unique body structure of the ants, they cannot obtain sufficient supplies directly from the ocean. Even if the ants' sea combat units can kill fish, with the shape of the ant's mouthparts, they can They cannot be eaten directly. Other ant species such as builders must chop up the food to replenish their energy.

But the worst thing is that the ant sea combat unit that can capture food cannot carry other ant species. Its own endurance is also very worrying, and the builders cannot decompose food in the water. Sea transporters that can carry other ant species have almost no attack capabilities.

Once out to sea, they can only rely on the food they carry to complete the cutting and decomposition directly on the back of the sea transporter, ultimately providing energy for various ant species that go out to explore.

So, the sea transporter carrying food and builders is like a supply ship, while the other group carrying air explorers is like an aircraft carrier.

The "supply ship" will provide enough food for the "aircraft carrier" and the explorers on its back when the power of the "aircraft carrier" is insufficient, and the "aircraft carrier" is responsible for taking the air explorers far enough, and then, the explorers It will take off from the back of the sea transporter, use this "aircraft carrier" of the ant tribe as a starting point, explore around, then return to its back for replenishment, and then move forward again, continue to explore, return to replenish, and repeat until " until the food on board the supply ship is completely exhausted.

The biggest advantage of this method is that the originally linear exploration area is expanded to the limit of the exploration radius of the aerial explorer, which greatly increases the actual exploration area of ​​the ant exploration team.

Moreover, because it carries a large amount of food, this method of exploration can allow the exploration team to reach farther places.

Of course, this approach still has its shortcomings.

First of all, they still cannot overcome the problem of disorientation. Once lost at sea, they will not be any different from previous exploration teams except that they live longer, unless they are lucky enough to find a new habitat.

Secondly, for unknown predators in the sea, the joint exploration team still has no effective measures and can only rely on luck.

However, there is no way around this, Zero can only face it.

With this method of exploration, the places that a zero-organized joint sea and air exploration team can reach will be greatly increased.

While exploring, He was also constantly sorting out the underwater data of nearby sea areas through these exploration teams. Where there are reefs, where there are rift valleys, and where there are coral groups, these are the focus of his records. These things are important to the ant tribe. Normal navigation has no impact, but it can help him complete the mastery of the nearby sea area, which is important positioning information for the ant colony exploration team!

As groups of exploration teams go out to explore the sea one after another, although there is still no good news, as the density of exploration increases, there are always some lucky teams that escape various risks and come to unknown sea areas, constantly expanding outward. Known world.

Zero believes that as long as the ants continue to explore, one day, there will always be a lucky person who can find a new land!

Unless, within your own exploration radius, this kind of land does not exist.