Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 31 The Era of Great Development and Raids (Read More!)
Autumn passed away quietly amidst the busyness of the ant colony, and the withered and yellow leaves returned to the earth, ground into mud and dust, and became a part of the earth again.

Zero commanded the ant colony to replant the seeds from dozens of fruit trees. So far, it has been the third year since Zero planted the first batch of fruit trees.

The original fruit tree grew taller and taller, and the fruit it produced has also increased year by year in recent years.

And the first batch of fruit trees planted under zero has grown to a height of more than one meter.

The originally slender branches have gradually become thicker, with many branches at the top, and the crown of the tree has initially grown.Maybe in another two years, they too will bear fruit.

As for the seeds planted in the second and third batches, they are still in the state of seedlings.

After these several plantings, more and more fruit trees began to take root and sprout in the northern part of the river.Until this time, plus the dozens of seeds that Zero planted again, if all goes well, the total number of fruit trees on this land will exceed one hundred in the coming year.

The threat of termites was slightly alleviated after Zero discovered that they could not get out of the forest, but it was still unavoidable, so Zero hatched a lot of flying ants in the ant nests on the edge of the forest to monitor the termites.

In order to accomplish his goal of advancing into the forest and opening up more land for the ant colony, Zero must obtain more food sources.

After the current output of the two pastures satisfies the consumption of the ant colony, there is already a [-]% surplus.

In summer, the ants made a breakthrough in the breeding of aphids. The genetic frequency of heat resistance of the aphids is getting higher and higher, reaching [-]%, and the aphids are huge and produce very fast.

It's a pity that it was almost autumn at that time, and Ling could only collect a large number of aphid eggs that almost perfectly met the requirements of the ant colony, hoping that they would bring excess income to the ant colony in the coming year.

In addition, ants are becoming more and more comfortable with the domestication of earthworms. After generations of continuous screening, it was found that the offspring of domesticated earthworms have a natural fear of ants after birth.

This fear is undoubtedly a good thing for the ant colony, allowing them to accept their identity more quickly after moving into the farm.

In addition, the continuous cultivation of this kind of earthworms is still in progress. After a large number of breeding rooms are filled, those first-generation domesticated and mature earthworms will be replaced by their offspring—those earthworms that are naturally afraid of ant colonies. Instead, Zero's plan is to just let the earthworms pass on this fear of the ant colony from generation to generation, until one day they truly become the vassals of the ant colony.

Of course, during this process, the ants also bred earthworms similar to aphids. Compared with the number of earthworms hatched in each batch, the number that the breeding room can accommodate is obviously far from enough.

Then, only earthworms that are naturally fat and easy to domesticate will be selected by the ant colony and placed in the breeding room for cultivation. Earthworms that do not have this quality will all enter the ant colony's granary.

The power of termites forced Zero to find more food sources to prepare for defeating them.In this autumn, Zero took advantage of his vision to search the grass almost inch by inch, hoping to find new food for the ant colony to consume.

He believes that in such a large grassland, there will always be some plants that produce fruits that are suitable as food for ants.

Sure enough, after searching at his level, he finally found two plants that were suitable as food for ants, and these two plants really helped the ant colony a lot.

One is a sweet potato-like plant that produces large tubers in the ground in the fall and produces large numbers of black seeds.Due to the accumulation of a large amount of sugar, its tubers have a sweet taste and are very popular with ants.

The other is a plant that bears red fruits the size of mung beans. The flesh of this fruit is also red and also contains a lot of sugar.As for the seeds, they are located in the pulp and are relatively small.

The discovery of these two plants made Zero even more excited.He can grow fruit trees, why not grow such crops?
He directed the ants to carefully collect the seeds of these two plants, and planned to sow them next spring.

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Time was passing by in the midst of busyness, and when Zero directed the ants to carry out the winter construction nervously, the outside world fell the first snow of this winter.

The snow fell for five consecutive days, and the entire grassland and forest were covered by heavy snow.

Zero has long been used to this, and all work is carried out normally, and the snow on the surface has not affected the ant colony underground at all.

However, just when the snow had just stopped, news that made Ling a little frightened came from the ant nest on the other side of the forest.

A large number of termites rushed out of the cave and came towards the ant colony's nest in the forest!

It was an ant nest located in the deep part of the forest that found the army of termites. However, Ling Ling had time to change his field of view and observe for a while. All the ants in that ant nest, including the queen, had been killed by the termites.

Apparently, they knew the location of the ant nest's vents from nowhere, perfectly avoided the main cave covered by heavy snow, and launched a surprise attack on the ant colony from the vents.

Although the ants in this ant nest didn't buy much time for Zero, during this short observation, Zero still roughly discovered some information.

He was surprised to find that the termites rushing into the ant nest were very different in appearance from those encountered during the spring battle.

First, the antennae on top of their heads are shorter and their bodies are more elongated.The whole body is no longer roughly white, but a strange ice blue.

Secondly, the termites that broke into the ant nest are very powerful. Their upper jaw bite force is amazing, and they can kill a worker ant in a few seconds and they are almost unscathed.

Finally, and most importantly, Zero discovered that the main force of termites did not appear, and only these strange ice-blue termites invaded the ant nest, and the number was probably tens of thousands.

While this discovery made Zero University breathe a sigh of relief, it was also very strange.

This is definitely not a termite. Zero does not think that termites can ignore the temperature of minus ten degrees and enter the ant nest from the ground vents, and their combat power is so powerful.

Obviously, the other party did not know why they had a group of powerful combat forces that could march in winter, and through unknown means, perhaps smell, or some other ability discovered the vents of the ant nest, thus killing the entire ant nest including the ants After all the ants included.

And just a few minutes later, they also appeared in another ant nest adjacent to it.

Undoubtedly, this is another one-sided massacre. The ant colonies are not their opponents at all. This group of weird termites still showed great combat power in the face of the ants who occupy the best position and are ready to fight. , the ants in the ant nest have been killed almost without any loss.

They behaved very fiercely, but seeing their behavior style, Zero was completely relieved.

(End of this chapter)