Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 10 "Highway" and Flying Ants
No. 20 and No. [-] faithfully carried out Zero's order. About [-] days later, a hundred adult female ants with wings will be born in the ant nest, and they will point out the direction for the expansion of the ant colony.

Although he decided to use female ants as scouts for the ant colony, Zero had no intention of waiting for the adult female ants to appear before starting the colonization plan.

Although the newborn ant queen has not grown into an adult and cannot lead the ant colony to complete the migration by itself, this does not prevent Zero Order No. [-] from assigning ants to go out first to find their way.

While dispatching exploration teams in all directions, Zero did not forget to communicate with No. [-], asking her to send worker ants to build a passage linking the mother nest while expanding the population.

This channel will be used as a fast and safe channel between the mother nest and the branch nest, and it can also communicate with each other at ordinary times. For the development of the ant colony, such a channel is very concealed and necessary under the current situation that the surface traffic is not safe. of.

The straight-line distance between the mother nest and the ant nest where No. 70 is located is more than [-] meters. This is undoubtedly a huge project for the ants. Dangers and obstacles to come.

In addition, the direction of digging this route is also a huge problem for ants.

For this, Zero has a few ideas that might come in handy.

He is the only existence in the ant colony that can roughly describe the position of the mother nest and the branch nest. The branch nest is located slightly east of the south of the mother nest, so the ants in the branch nest need to face their own north and west at the same angle Digging, the same is true about the elevation angle.

This does not perfectly solve the problem of direction, but at least it provides a general direction for the ant colony, which can save a lot of effort.

While the worker ants in the branch nest dig towards the mother nest, Ling also directs more ants in the mother nest to dig in the direction of the branch nest.

He can see the vision near any ant at any time, which allows the worker ants to avoid possible obstacles and dangers in the early stage of excavation, and in the middle and later stages, it can also direct the two sides to move towards each other and dock with each other.

Even so, this is still a huge project, so that after the dispatched exploration team has found out the general situation of the surroundings, until the birth of the ant queen as a colonist, the project still has not progressed for more than ten days. to one sixth.

The slow progress of this "highway" project that communicates the mother nest and the branch nest has exceeded Zero's imagination, so that the foraging work on both sides has been delayed, and the food reserves have already begun to be consumed.

In desperation, Ling could only slow down the progress of the project, and transferred most of the worker ants back to forage again to ensure that the newborn queen would have enough food to reproduce her subordinates.

The newly born queen ants use the food stored in the mother nest to quickly breed ant colonies, and these newly born ant colonies join the foraging pairs. Although the existence of excess ant colonies makes the actual efficiency of foraging lower, the ants The increase in the number of groups still increases the actual food output by a lot.

After the five queen ants established their own team, Ling asked them to lead the ant colony out to establish a new colony.

Five populations, two of which were established on the plain under the mound to the west, where it has been proven to be a vast flat grassland, enough to establish two populations.

There are also two ant queens leading their subordinates to the north. There is also a mound a hundred meters away in the north. The difference from the mother nest is that there are trees of all sizes growing on this mound.

There were obviously plenty of other ant colonies out there, but Zero was about to claim them as his own.

The last group went to the west. They will build nests near the ant colonies that exist in the west, and eventually use their numbers to eliminate or drive them away through development.

In Zero's plan, these six sub-nests will exist as a "ring" outside the mother's nest, responsible for guarding the mother's nest.

Although the so-called brood and sub-nest are essentially the same for Zero, subconsciously, Zero still recognizes the brood where No. [-] is located, because he himself wakes up from the brood and sees the first one. Ants are also number one.

While the ant colony was blooming in all directions, it also took away most of the food in the mother nest, and the granary of the mother nest was almost empty for a while.

However, the departure of a large number of ants also greatly reduces the consumption of food, and the remaining food is enough to support the survival of the ant nest.

The female ants hatched on the [-]st and [-]th hatched into adults after five days. Unlike other queens, they were not allowed to combine with any male ants, nor did they have the right to command the ant colony. They existed entirely as scouts.

However, the same as the queen ants, they can also accept orders from zero, so that zero can directly command them without going through the queen ants.

The hatching of the female ants made Ling a little excited. He ordered the group of female ants to hover above the mother nest, slowly flying higher and higher, and using the female ants' vision to observe the land.

Rows of tall and short weeds lined up, and the verdant grass had no end in sight.Scattered trees are dotted on the grassland, and for some reason, they are not tall.

Continuing to fly south, Zero flew over No. [-]'s branch nest, and after flying over the two-meter-wide river, the terrain no longer fell, but became flat.

Grass and trees gradually flourished, and further south, the terrain rose rapidly again, and Zero saw lush forests.

He has the urge to control the female ants to explore the whole world, and there are only a few female ants left and right.He also did not hesitate, and the female ants continued to fly towards the forest.

However, they were destined not to enter the forest. As soon as Zero's vision was lost, he found that he had lost almost all the female ants that flew to the south. The last one was temporarily spared because of its backwardness. With the help of its last vision, Zero saw The existence of hunting flying ants - flocks of birds.

Due to the existence of the flock of birds, Zero gave up the idea of ​​exploring the forest, and he controlled a few flying ants to go to the place where No. [-]'s exploration team disappeared.

He wanted to see what it was that killed the exploration team. Even if it was invincible at the moment, he had to see clearly before he could feel at ease.

Under Zero's command, the flying ants approached that area, which was the reeds near the river beach.

In order to find the enemy, Zero ordered the flying ants to lower their flight altitude, and he was ready to lose this group of flying ants.

The flying ants didn't disobey Zero's order at all, almost flying close to the reeds.

Zero nervously watched the vision of the group of flying ants, but nothing happened.

"Has the enemy already left here?"

"Or does it only attack targets on the ground?"

Zero guessed like this, and ordered the flying ants to circle back, and lowered the altitude again.

This time it almost passed by the grass next to the reeds.

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