Overlord: Rise of the Zerg

In addition to the three exploration teams that had been lost, only two of the remaining seven lost their way and returned towards the northern ant nest. The other two suffered heavy losses, but still insisted on exploring south.

It was not until noon that Zero finally became energetic.

He discovered from the perspective of the exploration team that one of the exploration teams encountered an insurmountable obstacle in the direction of exploration - water.

That's not the dew and rain that you usually see near ant nests, that's the surging river water!

The turbulent water flowed from west to east in front of the eyes. The soldier ants with zero vision could not see the other side of the river. Of course, the soldier ants could not see beyond twenty centimeters, which did not provide a reference for the width of the river. significance.

One of the worker ants who faithfully followed the order tried to enter the water, but was swept away by the current in an instant.

The remaining five ants did not dare to try to cross the river again, but continued to explore along the river for a while, then turned around and returned the same way - if they did not return, they might not be able to return to the ant nest before dark. Although the night does not affect their activities, the queen's orders cannot be disobeyed.

Although they didn't stay exploring the river for long, Zero still gained a lot of information from it.

For example, there are a lot of large and small stones along the river, and there are reeds as tall as giant trees on the river bank.

"I'm sure I can find a stone here that can be used as a breeding room, right?" Zero thought with some joy.

Shortly afterwards, two more exploration teams came to the river from different locations, and after a hasty exploration, they also turned around and returned.

Having obtained the information she wanted, Zero no longer hesitated and immediately ordered No. 3 to start preparations. She would lead five male ants, nearly a thousand worker ants and hundreds of soldier ants to settle near the river.

This is a mammoth operation, and they will take away a quarter of the food reserves in the ant nest at one time. Unlike ordinary ant queens who establish a family, No. 3 is equivalent to directly moving a group of people to survive!

At Zero's signal, No. 3 quickly organized his ant colony, followed the exploration team's footsteps, and headed south carrying food far exceeding his own weight.

In the evening, the ant colony led by No. 3 arrived near the river without any danger. No insect dared to harass such a large ant colony along the way.

Zero Choice asked No. 3 to build a new ant nest under a stone five meters away from the river. The surface of this stone is tilted, blocking a shadow from below. It is also the highest place within one meter around. It is easy to settle here. It is best to prevent rainwater from flowing into the ant nest.

There were many rat women hidden under the stone, but they were no match for the ant colony led by No. 3. Hundreds of soldier ants swarmed up, and the rat women who failed to escape in time became the ants' new food rations.

After driving away the rat woman, half of the soldier ants divided up to protect No. 3 and the food brought from the ant nest, while the other half led the worker ants to quickly start building a new nest under the stone.

The sky quickly dimmed and night fell quietly, but the tireless ants were still carrying earth and rocks to build their new home.

At dawn, this new ant nest already has a rugged passage of more than 50 centimeters leading underground, a flat granary about the size of an egg, and a slightly smaller insect chamber.

No. 3 was placed in this slightly smaller insect chamber, and there were many worker ants around who were busy expanding the insect chamber and carrying food from the outside camp into the new granary for storage.

The new ant nest is about 70 meters away from the ant nest No. 1. It is covered with weeds and separated by four ridges. The vertical distance is about two meters.

In the next few days, No. 3 was busy directing the ant colony to expand its new home by analogy with the nest where No. 1 was located, while Zero had a new project to be busy with - the earthworms in the breeding room began to hatch.

Each earthworm egg can hatch from one to three earthworm larvae. In just five days, fifty eggs hatched into hundreds of tiny earthworms.

The original breeding room simply couldn't accommodate so many earthworms, and we don't know when a new breeding room will be found.

In desperation, Zero ordered most of the earthworm larvae to be killed as food for the ants, leaving only ten as seeds for the future cultivation of a second breeding room.

At the same time, Zero asked No. 1 to continue hatching five queen ants. With the success of No. 3, they will serve as the second batch of colonists and lead the ant colony to expand outward.

After this period of testing, Zero found that the food within the activity range of the same nest ant colony can only support up to six ant colonies led by the queen, about 7,000. If there are more, the worker ants carrying the food will be It requires a long journey, and this process is accompanied by unknown risks.

Of course, there is another solution, which is to continuously expand the ant nest outwards, build more ant nest exits, and spread out the queens. However, this method is essentially not much different from what Zero is doing now, and even because the expansion speed will become very slow, it seems very conservative.

Now Zero is eager to know the surrounding situation and expand his field of vision. While ensuring that the ant colony would not perish, he wanted to explore the surroundings as quickly as possible. With this expansion method, the gaps left between the ant nests could be slowly filled with the future expansion of the ant colony.

In addition, in view of the various situations encountered by No. 3 when sending exploration teams before, Zero needs an efficient explorer.

"It would be great if there was an ant that could fly."

If there was an ant species that could fly, it could explore further places, even across rivers, to explore more unknowns.

"Fly...Fly...Wings...Queen Ant?!!"

Zero suddenly thought, when the queen ant first transformed from a larvae into an adult, didn't she just have wings and be able to fly?

With the current reserves of the ant nest, there is no need for them to eat the fallen wings to reproduce offspring. The abundant food reserves are enough to meet their reproductive needs.

"Perhaps, I could train unmated female ants to serve as scouts for exploring outside?"

This idea is a bit bold. As the queen ant reserve in the ant nest, female ants have very weak fighting ability and are undoubtedly not qualified as scouts.

"However, this is not a problem. I just need them to explore as far as possible. As for losses, there is basically no need to consider this." Zero made a decision.

Soon, No. 1 and No. 5 received the task of breeding the first batch of one hundred female ants. These female ants will not mate with male ants to become queen ants, but will exist as reconnaissance consumables for zero outward expansion. If necessary, they will directly follow Zero's instructions and will become Zero's eyes that can communicate at any time! At the same time, if necessary, they can mate with male ants at any time and become the queen ants of a new group!

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