Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

After the disaster, it was a mess. While commanding the ant colony to resume production, Zero sent explorers to inventory the changes on the surface of the island after the disaster.

After each disaster, the topography of some islands will be changed to some extent. Some places will subside significantly, and some places will be submerged by sea water. This will have some impact on the subsequent production activities of the ant colony, so it is necessary to explore in advance. bright.

After the disaster, due to various losses, Zero's vision in many places could no longer be observed, so he needed to use explorers to complete this work. At the same time, after the exploration was completed, the vision of this land would be regained. Light up.

This is a routine action after every disaster, and Ling has long been used to it. Just like exploring an unknown map, the very act of lighting up his vision makes him feel very happy.

Of course, it's better to actually light up completely unknown places than to explore over and over again this island that you have observed for decades, which is really boring except to have control over the situation of the entire island again.

Zero originally thought that this exploration would be like usual, and could only find some information such as ground subsidence and seawater intrusion, but this time it was just a little more serious. However, this time he really discovered something unusual.

At the beginning, the explorers only discovered some ordinary information, and Zero didn't pay much attention to it. It wasn't until they explored the area at the bottom of the mountain range that Zero suddenly became serious.

Through the explorer's field of vision, he saw a crack about five centimeters wide, spreading downward from not far below the mountainside to the plain at the foot of the mountain, leading to the seaside at a twisted angle. There were more small cracks around it. of cracks.

Some seawater has poured into it, but the depth is unknown. There is no water surface in the cracks.

This means that this crack is quite deep.

It is actually quite common for strong earthquakes to cause cracks in the ground, but when Zero looked at the width and depth, he always felt that it was unusual.

He decided to let the ants enter and explore it. After all, this was the original base camp of the ant colony. He would not feel at ease unless he understood what was going on here.

However, after undergoing several mutations over the years, the size of the ants has changed greatly, especially the sea transporters. Even the smallest explorer wants to enter such a narrow space. Exploration is also beyond our capabilities.

In desperation, Zero had no choice but to use ordinary soldier ants that he had not seen for more than ten years, and slowly crawled in along the inner wall of the crack.

Although the ant tribe has just experienced a huge loss, Zero has preserved the food very well, and the ant colony still has enough labor to survive, so there will be no shortage of food.

For the current ant tribe, the time cost and food cost required to reproduce small ordinary soldier ants are nothing to mention.

Therefore, Zero directly sent hundreds of thousands of soldier ants to swarm into the cracks to explore so that they could figure out the situation below as soon as possible.

He paid close attention to the actions of the soldier ants. According to Zero's instructions, after entering the crack, they quickly spread out and explored in all directions by relying on their numerical advantage.

Various layers of soil and rocks in the cracks are unevenly distributed. There are rugged ravines and criss-crossing roots of unknown plants everywhere.

But this is not a problem for the thin soldier ants, which crawl flexibly over these obstacles and are rarely hindered.

It was fine at first, but as the soldier ants explored further, Zero felt something was wrong.

He judged the environment of the soldier ants in the cracks through their vision and reactions.

Therefore, when their speed slowed down significantly and they gradually began to hesitate, Zero immediately realized that they must have encountered some special obstacle, because he did not see anything in front of the ant colony that could hinder the advancement of the ant colony. , but they did stop.

Zero was a little confused at first, but the next moment, he understood why.

I saw that the soldier ants at the front became more and more anxious in this short period of time, retreating uncontrollably, as if a huge threat was approaching them.

However, the soldier ants in the rear were basically not affected by this. Instead, they faithfully fulfilled Zero's orders and pushed forward hard.

But once they reach the front, they immediately become anxious and keep moving their bodies, trying to retreat.

Zero finally realized that there was something wrong with the wall here!

The further you go, the hotter the wall gets!

Zero's mood suddenly sank at this moment. This was not good news.

Under His instructions, the soldier ants almost continued to explore along the edge of the wall where they could not bear the high temperature. However, they climbed to the end and almost followed the cracks into the deep underground of the mountain. They could not find any way to climb down. road.

Zero actually knew what this meant, but he still didn't want to believe it.

Zero knew that at this depth, there should never be a temperature above the cracked wall that the ant colony could not withstand.

In Zero's understanding, this is a phenomenon that can only occur very deep underground, but now it appears at such a shallow location, then this can only mean one thing - abnormally frequent geological activities here may The lava hidden deep in the ground has been brought up!

In other words, there is likely to be an underwater volcano near this island!

Frequent geological movements, coupled with abnormally high temperatures deep in underground fissures, give zero absolute reason to make such a guess!

The time between earthquakes is getting shorter and shorter, and the intensity is getting higher and higher. This time, a hole is directly opened in the ground of the island. It is uncertain what will happen during the next earthquake, whether there will be magma Overflowing from this crack?

A bolder guess is that if the submarine volcano is nearby, then whether the initial island can even exist is a question!

Zero's heart has completely sunk.

Although the ant colony has now found a new habitat, the area of ​​the archipelago is much larger than this island.

But first of all, Island No. 1 is not particularly far from the initial island. If there is really a submarine volcano nearby, and the seismic waves and tsunamis that have been coming from the south are enough to show that the source of the earthquake is in the south.

So, Zero can make a bold guess, that is, is this place located in a volcanic and seismic zone, and has it been their high-frequency active period in recent decades?

If this is really the case, even if all the ants move to Island No. 1, they may not be safe.

Zero still didn't want to believe his speculation, so he immediately mobilized the sea units on the initial island to explore above the sea.

If this phenomenon is already obvious to this extent, there is no reason why it only appears on islands!

Unfortunately, the maritime units also brought back bad news.

Compared with before the earthquake, the sea water seems to have become warmer...

Thanks to the book friend [My Eyes Are Dark] for the 100 starting coin reward! !

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