Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 13 Development and Fruit Trees

Food always restricts the expansion speed of the ant colony. After ascertaining the surrounding environment, the ant colony should increase rapidly, but it always becomes constrained by food reserves.

While ensuring their survival, they must also complete the food reserves for ant colony activities.

And this point, with the increasing number of ant colonies, the food problem seems to be a problem that can never be solved, and there will always be a gap.

Of course, this is actually just an illusion.As the colony team gradually established its foothold, more ant colonies brought more food at the same time, but because the number of ant colonies was always growing, the required winter rations also increased.

The first batch of colonial teams could only develop slowly because they didn't have enough food. Of course, this slowness was only relatively speaking. They couldn't open up fast violent soldiers, but they were actually quite fast.

In the next month, the ants in the mother nest and the sub-nest where No. [-] was located focused their energy on opening up the underground express passage. Although the progress was still slow, as other geometric sub-nests discovered Two earthworm breeding rooms were established, which alleviated the food problem of several ant nests to a certain extent.

Therefore, the ant colony that freed up some of their manpower was not in a hurry to expand the site, but instead focused on opening up underground passages according to the zero plan.

Except for the daily consumption, the food in the ant nest can only be regarded as a slight surplus, which is the reserve food prepared for the ant nest to survive the winter.

Being able to maintain such a food growth rate while continuously promoting the construction of underground projects, Zero is already very satisfied.

According to this construction progress, in more than a month, the first passage will be completed after autumn, and all the passages from the branch nest to the mother nest will be connected before winter.

The two newly discovered breeding rooms have been tidied up and started to be used. In addition, it is worth mentioning that due to the excellent heat preservation ability of the ant nest, as long as the outside climate is not very extreme, the temperature fluctuation in the ant nest will not exceed [-] degrees Celsius.

This means that even in the cold winter, the earthworms in the anthill will not stop growing and multiplying!

This further highlights the importance of large-scale breeding of earthworms. As long as the ant colony can ensure the reproducibility of the breeding room, food will no longer be a problem in the future. The problem slows down or even stops working.

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Autumn is coming, and the northern part of the mother's nest is divided into nests, and the two queens command the ant colony under their command to clear the nests of other ants nearby.

According to the inherent experience of the previous mother nest, they are very clever to use their numerical advantages to harass another ant colony.

This nest of ants placed the ant nest under a small tree, which is very concealed. At the same time, they can easily climb up the branches to hunt and kill insects hidden on the trunks and branches.

Zero obviously took a fancy to this place, so he asked the two ant queens in the north to focus on this ant group.

When the opponent goes out to hunt, they send troops to snatch food, and kill the opponent's worker ants by the way. Every day, a large number of soldier ants squat at the exit of the opponent's ant nest, just waiting for the opponent's worker ants to come out of the nest to look for food, or kill them on the road. kill them, or follow them until they catch something.

Because of the help of flying ants to communicate, as long as there are flying ants nearby, Ling can command any ant colony at any time.

Such a blow will be fatal to the other party if it goes on for a long time. The ant colony will not be able to obtain food for a long time, the larvae will not be able to grow, and the eggs will not be able to hatch. Eventually, the successor will be weak and they will only face extinction.

The opponent also sent a large number of soldier ants to escort the worker ants out for food, but Zero's ant colony was more than twice that of the opponent's, no matter how many came, they would be wiped out by Zero.

Later, all those who came out of the opponent's nest to look for food were soldier ants.

This caused some casualties to Zero's team, but soon Zero sent more soldier ants to "block the door" at the entrance of the opponent's nest.

The opponent fell into an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, and finally had to recognize the reality and chose to migrate the tribe.

Zero determined this by observing the air outlets of the opponent's lair discovered these days, and the migration team of the opponent did not escape Zero's eyes.

Under the siege of the ant colony led by Ling, these ant colonies with a large amount of luggage threw away their armor and armor, and even the queen was killed on the spot by the besieged soldier ants.

Elimination of this ant colony brought a substantial food income to zero, which also made up for the losses caused by besieging them these days.

After the northern hives defeated their competitors, other hives gradually established their own territories and drove away their competitors.

Zero once again ushered in an expansion of field of vision. The field of vision that was originally dotted with dots has been enlarged by a full circle. Although there is still some distance between them, the progress is visible to the naked eye.

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Summer has come to an end, but the hot weather has not turned cold at all. Swarms of flying ants are constantly circling over Ling's territory, flying over the mother's nest and every branch nest as if on patrol.

The branch nest where No. [-] lives is developing very rapidly, and already has four queens and more than [-] ants.

They built one of the air outlets in the stone gap above the river bank. Due to the change of humidity, the wind speed near the river will be much higher, which is very conducive to the ventilation of the ant nest.

The western sub-nest also had three queens, and they had no rivals at the top of the mound, and began to expand westward again.

The east side is even smoother. The original two queens have become six, occupying the entire small plain, and they are still developing in all directions.

As for the north, it gave Ling a big surprise.

Two days ago, when the ants climbed up the branches to look for food, Ling found a few small fruits hanging on the branches through the flying ants.

It doesn't know what kind of fruit it is, but there is no doubt that it should be a small fruit tree.

Ripe fruits of fruit trees contain a lot of sugar, which is the favorite of ants.At the same time, the rich sugar content means huge energy, and a small fruit can feed the entire northern brood for a week!
Given that this fruit tree is so important to the ant colony, Zero sends flying ants to patrol here every day. With so many fruits, when they mature, this will be enough for Zero's entire ant colony to survive the winter.

In addition, there is another thing that makes Zero very happy, that is, the underground fast passage from the branch nest where No. [-] is located to the mother nest has finally been opened by the ants who are working day and night!

From then on, there will be no hindrance in the exchange of supplies between the brood and the brood. If the brood lacks food, it can be delivered directly through the brood, and there is no need to worry about the risks that may be encountered on the road!

This is a milestone project, which means that the two "cities" in the Ant Colony Underground Kingdom are truly connected underground!

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