Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

The earthworms have been properly placed. They are currently too few in number to be useful, but it is foreseeable that in the near future, they will shoulder the heavy responsibility of the "new granary" of the ant nest.

Their eggs are placed on the edge of the breeding room by the ants. The temperature maintained in the ant nest is very suitable and they will hatch smoothly.

Everything seems to be going well, but Zero knows very well that with the current size of the ant colony, food is still relatively abundant. Coupled with the addition of the earthworm breeding room in the future, it is enough for the current ant colony to live a "plentiful and well-fed" life.

But this is not enough. The ant colony wants to continue to expand. With the current size of the earthworm breeding room, it is still difficult to put it to great use. The current achievements can only be regarded as a relatively good start, and are far from being inexhaustible. degree.

Therefore, adding a new breeding room became a new project in front of us.

No. 3 accepted this task without hesitation. She directed the worker ant colonies that had become idle due to the completion of the breeding room to disperse again from various branches of the ant nest. With the help of Zero's vision, they slowly moved in the underground world. Explore.

However, this time there seemed to be no such good luck. For seven or eight days in a row, No. 3 was unable to find a suitable location. Regarding this, Zero doesn't have any good ideas.

The slender bodies of ants are destined to be unable to carry anything much larger than their own size, let alone stones as big as those in the breeding room.

The saliva of ants cannot make the walls of the ant nest harder, and the earthworms may escape from the ground. This will greatly increase the difficulty of guarding the ants. After all, if you want the earthworms to reproduce as quickly as possible, you cannot always remove them. Exhausted from tossing.

After thinking about it for a long time, Zero, who still had no idea what to do, finally came up with a bold idea.

Since you can't find a suitable place near the ant nest, why not look outside the ant nest? The ants already know the land under their feet very well. Since they can't find it, they won't find it anymore.

In this case, why not send No. 3 out and let it expand its tribe in the surrounding lands, thereby expanding its own sphere of influence?

Thinking of this, Zero was a little excited. However, he did not rush to make a decision, but carefully considered the feasibility of doing so.

When No. 3 opened the breeding room before, other ant colonies not only supported their consumption, but also met the daily consumption of the ant nest. If No. 3 leads his own ant colony to go out and occupy new territories, then they can be self-sufficient. This saves a lot of food expenses, and at the same time opens up a new horizon for yourself, and can also take on the task of finding a new earthworm breeding room for the ant nest.

All benefit and no harm.

This was the conclusion that Zero finally came to. Even in the worst case scenario, if the entire ant colony led by No. 3 is wiped out, it will only be the loss of a queen and a group of ants. As long as they consume food, they can be replenished quickly, and once they can successfully open up a new territory , the benefits are self-evident.

Zero made up his mind.

For the ant colony, zero determination is an order they must complete at all costs.

After a while, No. 3 sent out his own exploration team under Zero's guidance - ten large soldier ants, responsible for ensuring the safety of the exploration team, and fifty worker ants responsible for exploration.

As for the direction of exploration, Zero chose the bottom of the southern ridge.

Zero had given considerable consideration to choosing the south.

After these days of exploration, the farthest point that the ant colony has reached in the north of the ant nest has exceeded thirty meters. As far as the eye can see, it is still an endless grassland, and the same is true to the east. As for the west, because there are other ant colonies, although they Having been forced by Zero to send an ant colony to change the exit of the ant nest, Zero is still unwilling to take the risk of sending an exploration team to the west. Although the loss of the exploration team is nothing to Zero, it is still a trouble.

Of course, the biggest reason for choosing the south is that the other three directions have been explored more or less. Only in the south, due to the existence of the ridge, it is difficult for the ant colonies to carry food, so there is very little exploration.

Zero wants to know what's there.

The exploration team No. 3 quickly climbed out from the air outlet of the ant nest in the middle of the ridge, crawled along the ridge into the grass below. At this point, Zero's own vision could no longer see them, but in the void space, Zero saw through the ants' vision that they were quickly walking through the weeds.

Every five worker ants are followed by a strong soldier ant, which provides simple shelter for the worker ants. At the same time, if there is something that the worker ants cannot move, they will step forward to help deal with it with their stronger bodies and weapons. .

After entering the grass below, the ants formed groups of six and spread out to explore in all directions.

In the gaps in the grass, twisting and turning, the ants struggled to grasp the direction. They generally kept heading south, but the groups had spread far apart.

Zero's order to them was to explore as far south as possible and return to the ant nest before dark. As they continued to move away, Zero gradually obtained information about the south of the ant nest.

Below the ridge, the farther south you go, the lower the terrain becomes. There are several exploration groups that have crossed two or three similar ridges of about 30 centimeters in succession.

Zero felt a sense of excitement about exploring a new map.

"Huh?" Zero, who was watching the Ant Exploration Team, made a surprised voice.

Just now, he suddenly lost the vision of the three exploration teams, but he did not see how his exploration team was lost.

Zero, who was originally excited, calmed down in an instant. This was not a good sign. The ant colony would not suddenly lose its vision. No matter how far it ran, the ants that were farther than these teams had never lost their vision, unless they were in He was killed in an instant, but Zero had never seen such a method in the ant nest. Even if the ant died, Zero could clearly know the reason.

Obviously, there was a powerful enemy in that direction that he had never seen before, one that could kill three exploration teams in quick succession.

Zero mused, this kind of enemy is basically impossible for him to fight against at present. He has not even seen what the opponent looks like, but he has quickly lost three exploration teams. It can be seen that this is not an ordinary enemy. It is best not to use it. provoke.

He noted down the direction in which these exploration teams were located, which was about thirty-five meters southeast of the ant nest, and marked it as a danger zone in his mind.

The remaining seven exploration teams also encountered some situations more or less. Some of the exploration teams were killed by other insects and a few worker ants escaped in panic. Some even lost their way and turned back to the north.

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