Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 16 Underground Transportation Network
Lili on the grass, one year and one withered.

The cold wind was blowing, withered and yellow grass leaves were scattered on the ground, and the originally green forest in the distance no longer looked dark and deep.The cold air in winter ruthlessly deprives the trees of their lush hair crowns, leaving only a bare branch pointing at the sky like complaining.

There are no crystal dewdrops on the frosty grass blades, no insects crawling on the cold ground, the cold wind whizzes past, and the vegetation trembles.

Beneath this icy ground, however, is a scene of intense heat.

After the passages from each branch nest to the mother nest were opened, Zero's field of vision was greatly expanded, starting from the roughly circular field of vision at the mother nest, extending outward along the underground passage, until the location of the branch nest became a Roughly circular field of view, the overall appearance of snowflakes.

From Zero's perspective, each sub-nest is currently digging new underground passages to the two adjacent sub-nests.

The worker ants dug the clods of soil from the wall in front of them, and then moved them along the dug passage to the inside of the ant nest, and filled the dug waste soil into the organic fertilizer originally filled with earthworms, which has now been vacated. In the cave.

The several sub-nests walk toward each other two by two, digging forward day and night.At the same time, a large number of worker ants in the mother nest are not idle. While digging the earthworm domestication field, they also send a large number of worker ants to support the construction of the southern channel leading to the west and east along the underground passage leading to the southern part of the nest. Link the entire area into a ring as soon as possible, so that each ant nest can be quickly communicated.

Since the entire project is larger than the previous project leading to the mother's nest, more soil clods were excavated, and most of the caverns that originally stored organic fertilizers were quickly filled.

Winter is generally cold, but not without exception.

Occasionally there will be bright sunny weather, and at this time, Ling will direct a large number of worker ants to try to empty the accumulated soil in the cave from the air outlet of the ant nest.

The busy days passed quickly. While the ant colonies were busy day and night, before they knew it, a heavy snow fell and covered the entire grassland.

It snowed heavily for five days in a row, and the thick layer of snow crushed and collapsed the branches in the distance.

All the ant nests were pressed down. Fortunately, the vents of the ant nests are usually set in places with relatively high wind speed. Under the action of the wind, the fate of being covered up was avoided.

Otherwise, Zero will worry about the air problem in the ant nest.

After the heavy snow stopped, the sky was still gloomy, as if there would be another one at any time.

Underground after the snow, the temperature has risen a little, but this only works on the surface, and basically has no effect on the deeper underground.

Zero basically lost all ground vision except the ground near the ant nest, because in such cold weather, none of the ants can climb out of the nest.

This made him, who was used to controlling the flying ants to explore outside, a little depressed.

"If only the ants could resist the cold..." Zero thought a little depressed.

"In this way, there are many things to do in winter."

Apart from digging the underground transportation network and building the domestication field that Zero envisioned, the ant colony has nothing to do.

Because the ants no longer have wastage, the queens don't even have to lay eggs to replenish the colony's losses.

This has led to the collective unemployment of the ants responsible for taking care of the larvae, and they can only go to the underground construction site to emit light and heat.

Ants like to live in a warm and humid environment, and will die soon in a climate of zero degrees Celsius.

Therefore, the idea of ​​zero is doomed to only think about it.

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The whole winter ended in the non-stop construction of the ant colonies.Three months of cold winter made Zero very depressed.

Since that heavy snowfall, there have been several snowfalls, perhaps because the seaside has more water, the rain and snow here are particularly frequent.

For three months, Zero could only look at the snowflakes flying in the sky in a daze, and did nothing for the rest of the time.

Everything in the ant colony is proceeding step by step, and the underground in winter is very quiet, there is no danger, and there are no surprises.

However, when excavating the underground transportation network, the ants found three good places suitable for raising earthworms, but for the huge ant colony, it can only be regarded as better than nothing.

What Zero wants is large-scale breeding to completely solve the food problem faced by the ant colony.

However, such conditions are not available at present, and the breeding grounds found sporadically are already dispensable for the increasingly large ant colonies.

Compared to this, the completion of the underground transportation network made Zero feel more delighted.Although this was the inevitable result that He expected, He still couldn't help but feel happy when it was all completed.

In addition, a huge domestication field with load-bearing soil pillars interspersed in the middle is also completely completed on the east side of the mother nest, and the first batch of four adult earthworms have been transferred into it.

And there are hundreds of strong and strong soldier ants responsible for guarding them.

Whenever an earthworm penetrates to a certain depth underground, the ant colony will step forward and drag it out, bite it hard, and then release it back, and so on.

Zero doesn't know if this method is useful for domesticating earthworms, but he can't think of a better way to rely on earthworms as sustainable food for ant colonies.

In fact, Zero is still happy with everything he has done.

This is a very strange sense of accomplishment. He knows that he is not the same kind of ants, but all ants obey him unconditionally, directly or indirectly.

He is indeed the undisputed master of the ant colony, so he also considers himself a part of them.

He is proud of what they have accomplished under His direction.

If it is a natural ant population, they will definitely not take the initiative to open up a straight and convenient channel like a fast channel for them to communicate.

These hidden and safe roads are like blood vessels, linking all the nests together, and the constant crawling ant colonies in the passages also make Zero feel very satisfied.

He seems to be playing a construction game, controlling the ant colony to create everything they can create.

After a whole year, from only one ant queen on the [-]st to the current number of nearly [-], they have expanded a new unit of flying ants, and also built a huge underground transportation network, and they began to raise earthworms , tried to tame them, and even sowed the seeds of fruit trees, looking forward to the future harvest.

Their current behavior pattern is completely different from that of ordinary ant colonies. Ant colonies no longer rely on instinct to act, they follow Zero's orders and are orderly.

They can abandon immediate interests to seek longer-term benefits. This is not a group, but more like a civilization!
Although there is only zero one in this civilization who has wisdom.

This is indeed a very meaningful thing, from scratch, to build everything you need step by step.

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