Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 1 Ant Colony
The warm breeze gently blows across the still yellow grassland. The cold winter has passed, and life is sprouting under the withered yellow weeds. Grasshoppers, aphids, ladybugs... All kinds of small life survive on this grassland.And of course, there are ants.

"What am I?"

Out of nowhere, a consciousness suddenly appeared and asked such a question.

There is nothingness all around, as if you are in the boundless deep space, you can't see yourself, and you can't see everything.

After an unknown amount of time, this consciousness responded again.

"Perhaps I should have a name."

"I am—Zero."

Zero is obviously exploring in this nothingness, exploring this space, and also exploring himself.

Soon, he made a new discovery.

"Is this...an ant?"

The ensuing questions suddenly came to mind.

"Why are they called... ants?"

"Why a name? What is a name?"

"How do I know it's an ant?"

"..."

Obviously, Zero couldn't get the answer, and slowly he couldn't figure it out and didn't care anymore.

Soon, he was attracted by the group of little guys he perceived.

"This is the queen ant." He thought so.

In the dark underground, in the deepest part of the rugged cave, an ant that is more than twice the size of ordinary ants lies quietly there.The biggest difference between her and ordinary ants is that she has a pair of beautiful transparent wings.

She is a newborn ant queen who has just completed the historic mission of developing from a female ant to a queen not long ago. As soon as she gives birth to worker ants, she will gradually become the veritable king of this cave, and all the ants are her people .

When Zero noticed her, she also apparently became aware of Zero out of nowhere.

"Master... Wings... Sacrifice..."

Although it was not coherent, Zero still understood what she wanted to express, and there was a hint of dumbfounding in his hazy feelings.

She wanted to sacrifice her wings to herself, the master.

The newborn queen ant has no long body, only a pair of wings, which are the food for breeding enough worker ants in the future, and it is also her most precious "property" at present.

Not knowing how to respond to her, Zero could only consciously tell her not to use it as much as possible.

The ant queen obviously received zero response, she felt the master's resistance, shaking her tentacles uneasily.

"I don't need your wings, it belongs to you." Zero told the queen again.

I don't know if she understood the meaning of zero, but this time the queen was obviously quiet.

Zero continued to observe her. This was the first creature he saw. In fact, Zero couldn't see more, and his perspective was locked on the ant queen.

"Maybe you should have a name too?"

"I'll call you number one." Zero said to himself, regardless of whether the queen ant could understand or not.

No. [-] made no other movements, just lying on the ground quietly. After an unknown period of time, the wings on her back fell off, and No. [-] swallowed them slowly.

During this time, Zero made new discoveries.Originally, his field of vision was limited only above No. [-], but later he discovered that he could actually see No. [-]'s field of vision.

No. [-]'s eyesight is obviously very poor. In her field of vision, everything looks like a highly myopic person without glasses.Objects in front of me can still be distinguished, but they become blurry when they are a little further away.

But it also provided enough fun for Zero, seeing the world from One's perspective was a novelty for him.

Zero didn’t know how much time had passed, but saw No. 80 lying there quietly, her body shape gradually changed a little, and slowly No. [-] finally started to move. She gave birth to more than [-] pills in a row in the following time Eggs like white rice grains.

Zero knew that the eggs hatched should be worker ants, and after about 14 days, they would be able to work for No. [-].Of course, before that, No. [-] had to feed them to live.

Number One, who finished laying eggs for the first time, became a little weaker, but also became much more active. She kept touching these eggs with her tentacles, looking like she was taking good care of them.

For the next 14 days, No. [-] fed the larvae with the food in her own body, and Zero quietly watched her take care of these little guys tirelessly, and watched them shed their skin again and again, and slowly grow longer. Turned into hard-working worker ants.

After they were able to work, No. [-] changed from the "loving mother" who took good care of their children before, and began to order these newborn worker ants to work.

She divided the worker ants into two groups, one group of about [-] is responsible for continuing to expand the cave, and the other group of more than [-] is responsible for going out for food.

Zero also finally had a perspective other than No. [-], and he followed the first batch of worker ants out of the cave with some anticipation.

Originally thought that he would see a vast world, but the reality is that Zero's field of vision is limited to the top of a certain worker ant, which is basically the same as when observing No. [-], and the perspective cannot be changed.

So he tried to attach his vision to the leading worker ant, and naturally, he got the vision of this worker ant.

Different from the motionless No. [-], the worker ants crawled out of the nest and kept moving forward. In front of them were the receding soil and gravel, weeds like towering giant trees, a huge shadow covering the sky, and two moving ants. huge tentacles.

Unlike No. [-], this group of worker ants did not seem to feel the existence of Zero at all, nor did they have any communication with Zero.But Zero doesn't care, being able to see the outside world instead of facing the immutable nothingness all the time, these novelties are enough to make him feel happy.

By constantly switching the perspectives of each worker ants, after Zero Discovery climbed out of the simple cave dug by No. [-], they did not go together and flock to the same direction, but scattered in a planned way, although there was no one. Orders from number one, they still seem to be well-trained, as if they are programmed into genes, naturally.

Zero kept changing his perspective. In the process, he was pleasantly surprised to find that he could not only see the vision of one ant at the same time. As long as he wanted, all ants included worker ants digging soil and rocks in their caves. And Number One who was waiting for the food to return, he could see it in that empty space.

Just like countless folded screens, as long as he notices, the corresponding perspective will open in his field of vision.After discovering this, Zero no longer chose the perspectives of the worker ants, and simply arranged all the perspectives in his own space, just like watching a No. 1 movie, having a great time.

(End of this chapter)