Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 27
The weather is getting warmer, the snow is melting, and the weeds on the grassland have experienced another withering.

The spring sunshine shines down from the clouds, spreads generously on the withered grass, bringing warmth to the land that has been frozen for several months.

At noon, the sun became more dazzling, making the passing grassland warm with some winter cold wind.

It was also at this noon that a large number of ant colonies climbed out of the ground and started a new year of survival and work.

The grain consumed in the winter in the ant nest is gradually replenished, and the aphid eggs stored in the ground are also placed on the roots of the grass that have not yet grown new leaves by the ant colonies that emerge from the ant nest.

After they hatch, the grass will be rejuvenated, and they will naturally climb up the young leaves to suck the fresh juice.

A sweep last autumn almost wiped out insects and other species on the entire grassland.However, when spring comes, there are still many insects singing one after another on the grass.

Those are the eggs they shed in the ground, and they hatched again in the warmer environment of spring.They are like the weeds on the prairie, tenaciously living on this land.

After the construction of millions of ants in one winter, there are countless more earthworm breeding rooms under the earth. A large number of earthworm larvae are gradually domesticated and become production machines that provide food for the ant colony.

The eggs they lay will be moved by the ant colony to a special place for incubation. After these larvae are born, except for a small part of them will be filled into the newly built earthworm breeding room, most of them will be directly turned into accumulated food by the ant colony.

It's not that the ants don't want to kill them to get more food after they grow up, it's just that the space in the ant nest is limited, and the growth cycle of earthworms is as long as two months, during which time it is necessary to constantly feed and send a lot of manpower to take care of them They, the cost of consumption in this way is obviously much higher, and it is not cost-effective.

If there is space for feeding earthworm larvae, it is better to use it to build more domestication farms, so as to produce more eggs and hatch more larvae. It is more economical to win by quantity, and it can save a lot of labor.

Today, earthworm pastures have become the second most stable food source for ant colonies after aphid pastures. In spring and summer, the food provided by aphids can meet nearly [-]% of the consumption of ant colonies, and the output of earthworms is also sufficient The supply is as much as [-]%, and with the development of more domestication farms and the settlement of more domesticated earthworms, this ratio is still rising.

Therefore, in spring and summer, even if the ant colonies don't go out for food, they don't have to worry about food reserves at all.You only need to send enough ants to graze aphids and take care of earthworms, and the food will continue to increase.

Zero has calculated that in autumn, the output of aphids will drop sharply to the point where it can only meet [-]% of the ant colony's consumption, and it will even continue to decrease until it disappears completely.But by then, the output of earthworms will increase to the point where they consume [-]% of the ant nest.

Coupled with the food accumulated by the two pastures in spring and summer, it is enough to support the survival of the ant colony in autumn and there is still a lot left.

The ants only need to catch some more food during the harvest season in autumn, so they don't have to worry about surviving the winter.

That is to say, if the ant colony does not increase their numbers in the territory they currently occupy, they only need to move out slightly in autumn to save food for the cold winter.

Even next year, in spring and summer, the output of earthworms will accumulate more, which will further reduce the amount of food that the ant colony needs to capture in autumn, and save more labor for the ants.

This means that, at least in spring and summer, there will be a large number of ant colonies with a number of more than one million to be liberated.

Last fall, Zero decided to send a large number of ant colonies this year to explore the forest that had been shutting him out.

Now, with the ant colony occupying the entire grassland, the entire explored area has been basically completely occupied by the ant colony. Except for the forest, the ants have no second place to expand.

Following Zero's order, a large number of ants began to gather at the intersection of the grassland and forest on the south bank of the river.

The creatures that managed to escape into the forest during the big raid last year, and then sneaked into the grassland after the weather got warmer, started their deadly rush towards the forest again.

Five days later, Zero assembled an army of about 80 ants—this is about [-]% of the idle ants in the entire ant colony—and began to advance deep into the forest.

Zero is not going to let the ant colony come out in full force, he needs to leave enough ants to ensure the safety of the nest and ensure the normal operation of the two farms.

The army of ant colonies marched mightily across the shadow where the forest and the grassland intersect, joined the ant colony that had sneaked into the edge of the forest at the beginning, and marched to the depths of the southern forest again.

Just like last year, wherever the army of ant colonies passed, there was chaos.

Those predators who once threatened the pioneers of the ant colony have become the food in the belly of the ants.

In the direction of the army of ant colonies, all obstacles are chickens and dogs, and no creature can stop their footsteps.

However, what makes Zero a little strange is that the deeper you go into the forest, the quieter the surrounding environment becomes.

As the ant colony continued to deepen, the quiet and mysterious atmosphere kept surrounding them, and continued to deepen. This atmosphere made Zero feel a little uneasy in his heart, and this little uneasiness gradually amplified with the depth.

It wasn't until the ants came near the pine tree where Zero first discovered the pine resin that Zero gradually understood where the anxiety came from.

Here, the ants finally found traces of large-scale biological activities for the first time after going deep into the forest, and even they were their own "kinds".

Said to be the same kind, in fact, it is not the same kind at all.

They are only slightly similar in size. Unlike ants with slender waists, they look much fatter, without slender waists, only chest and abdomen.

This is actually a group of termites trying to carry the resin shed from the pine tree!

Zero once thought about this place when he discovered pine resin. In the case of food shortage, ants can barely eat this pine resin to survive.

The termites also found the army of ants approaching rapidly, but they did not turn around and run away like those flying animals, but made a move that surprised Zero.

I saw that they quickly started to gather in an orderly manner, and they assumed an attacking posture towards the huge number of ant colonies.

Zero looked at the less than [-] termites in front of him with some surprise through the flying ants in the sky. They didn't seem to be afraid of an ant colony that was large enough to threaten super-large carnivorous creatures.

Is it that those who don't know are not afraid, or are they confident?

He doesn't know, but that doesn't matter.

Zero did not order the ant colony to stop because of doubts in his heart.

No matter what the reason is, just run over it. No matter what threat there is, I have 80 ant colonies in hand, and I have the advantage!
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