Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 24 Changing Expansion Strategy and Reflection

The consumption of the ethnic group by the southern colonial group was fully replenished in just half a month, but the food reserves that had been consumed could not be fully recovered in such a short period of time.

Although the ant colonies still have enough food to meet their survival needs, and the amount of food is gradually increasing over time, they cannot afford a large-scale colonization plan in a short time.

For this, Zero does a simple calculation.

If they want to accumulate enough to carry out a huge immigration plan similar to the southern colonization, it will take at least three months at the current food increase rate of the ant nest.

This is not including the grain reserved for the winter.

After all, the food accumulated in the whole year of last year was consumed in this short immigration.Although there is a huge loss caused by overwintering, the food pressure caused by this expansion can also be seen.

Carrying out a similar expansion every three months obviously cannot complete the zero preset plan before winter comes, not to mention that the ant colony must ensure that enough food is kept to survive the cold winter. It pales in comparison.

In order to solve this problem, Zero had to choose to change the existing expansion strategy.

The previous expansion method generally relied on the existing ant colony to gradually accumulate enough resources for expansion, and then completed the outward immigration expansion at one time.

The advantage of this method is that it can achieve immediate results and greatly expand the sphere of influence of the ant colony in a short period of time.

At the same time, when the ant colony is weak, this method can ensure the safety of the immigration team as much as possible and the smooth progress of expansion.So far, none of the teams that have gone out to expand have lost.

However, as the ant colony is gradually becoming larger, after actual testing, this expansion method is no longer suitable for the current group.

One of the most important reasons is efficiency.Take this southern expansion as an example. It will take a very long process to accumulate enough ants, which account for about [-]% of the entire existing ant colony, to complete the colonization activities, not to mention This time will be longer as the ant colony expands again and the scope of expansion becomes wider.

Therefore, in response to this situation, Zero finally decided to abandon the previous expansion method, and to carry out a new immigration method, that is, free-range expansion, for the expansion goals of the east, west and north.

In the current situation of insufficient food reserves, Zero dispatched a hundred flying ants that have completed the integration with the male ants at one time. They will directly form a group and fly to the target location to build a nest without carrying any food or subordinates.

As if returning to the beginning, the search for food and the development of the ethnic group all depend on themselves, and whether they can develop smoothly depends entirely on God's will.

However, Zero is not a complete stocking of them.At least in the place where they are going to develop, Zero has sent a large number of flying ants to conduct detailed exploration, marked the location of competitors, and also made predictions and reminders of possible dangers.

This expansion method can be regarded as an advanced version of the original ant colony expansion. Its benefits are obvious. It only needs to provide queen ants, everything is self-sufficient, and basically does not need to consume any food. It perfectly avoids the current dilemma faced by ant colonies.

After the ethnic group they are in has developed steadily, they will start to build channel links with the ethnic group, which is exactly the same as the previous expansion.

However, when this method was implemented, Zero suddenly began to doubt himself deeply.

He began to reflect on whether his previous strategy was too conservative.

Obviously, the current method is more suitable for the expansion of the ant colony, and the cost it needs to pay is only the risk of losing some flying ants, which is insignificant for the entire ant colony.However, if it develops successfully, you can get a whole colony of ants!

It can be said to obtain the maximum benefit with the minimum risk.

"So, why didn't I think of it before?" Zero was a little strange, and also a little bit bitter of self-blame.

He always felt that there was not enough food in the past, so he didn't dare to start expansion easily. He was not willing to start the colonization plan until he had enough food. He always felt that although this method was slower, the risk could be minimized.

However, after being forced to change his strategy this time, he found that he should have fallen into the misunderstanding of empiricism.

Because of insufficient food, they dare not expand, and after barely expanding, they will face the problem of insufficient food.

He thought that this explosive expansion method was stable enough, but the facts told him that it was actually stupid.

The ants are self-reliant even without his command. Even if they are unlucky and wiped out, the loss is just a trivial flying ant. What's the point? !

Why do you need to be timid and afraid to move forward?As long as the main group still exists, even as long as there is a queen ant, there is almost no risk of death for him, so what is there to be afraid of?
The current ant colony is enough to bear the risk of death of thousands of flying ants!

That being the case, why is it necessary to be so petty?Although the food is not enough, hatching thousands of flying ants is still enough!

Thinking of this, Zero immediately ordered all the queen ants in the nest to hatch [-] female ants immediately, except for the ants that replenished the daily consumption.

He wants to let the fire of the ant colony burn to the entire grassland in half a month!

When the food satisfies the basic consumption of the ant colony, release the combined flying ants with all their strength.

Success or failure depends on God's will. Compared with the possible results, this loss is not worth mentioning.

Even if he faced the problem of insufficient food in the future, it would be after the ant colony occupied the entire explorable area, and by then, he might have a better solution to this problem.

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In the next half month, except for the queen, the ant colony still lived step by step.

The queen who should take care of the queen should take care of the larvae who should take care of the larvae.Predators hunted as usual, and grazing animals grazed normally. Everything seemed calm and peaceful.

However, under this calmness, there is a huge amount of energy, once it spews out, it will burn the entire grassland.

Eggs that are pregnant with female ants are continuously produced, and female ant larvae emerge from the eggs one after another, and then re-cocoon under the feeding of worker ants, and break out of the cocoon again. After several times, Their size gradually increased, getting closer and closer to the appearance of normal ants. After breaking out of the cocoon for the last time, small transparent wings grew from their backs.

Finally, on a sunny afternoon, swarms of flying ants spewed out of each ant nest like a volcanic eruption, hovered over the ant nest for a while, and quickly scattered away.

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(End of this chapter)