Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 33 Annihilation and Mutation (Please read more!!)
The invasion team of termites was chased by the army of ants and driven into the ant nest surrounded by ants waiting to work.

They gathered together seemed to have regained the courage to resist, and even rushed in one direction.

However, they soon discovered that the number of ants coming from all directions was increasing.Their killing efficiency is very high, but under the suppression of absolute numbers, they can't exert much of their strength at all.

In the ant nest, the army of ants uses the various worm rooms inside the ant nest, or the connected granaries, or the earthworm breeding rooms in a piece, to re-segregate the group of termites and block them in the nest.

The ensuing battle was lackluster. The ant colonies went on and on, and were killed by the termites in batches, and more ants rushed forward to fight with them.

In the end, after paying five times the number of termites, they were successfully kept here.

Zero doesn't know how smart their commanders are, but it's obviously impossible to be too smart.

What Zero used was just a stupid method. In fact, in the narrow underground, the numerical advantage of the ant colony has been greatly reduced, and the intention to expel the encirclement is also very obvious.

But the opponent obviously didn't see through his tactics, and seemed to be fighting on instinct.

This is another piece of good news.To be honest, Zero is not good at using tricks, and his command skills can even be said to be very clumsy.

But the opponent still didn't respond to this simple strategy, and even took the initiative to plunge into the encirclement of the ant colony.

But the other party was able to take advantage of the winter to send these cold-resistant termites to raid the ant nests. Obviously, their commanders should have a certain amount of wisdom, but not too high.

For this battle with the invaders, the ants can be said to have experienced a miserable victory in terms of numbers.

They paid nearly five times the price of the intruders before they were annihilated. The continuous fighting damaged the construction of many ant nests, and even the earthworms raised in the invaded nests were all slaughtered.

But for the millions of ant colonies at present, as long as the food is sufficient, the recovery of a mere one hundred thousand is only a few tenths of the output of a large-scale reproduction.

At present, the food problem is still like a magic spell, firmly limiting the number of ants, so that they can only maintain a fixed population size.

It will take a long time to accumulate food for the zero plan to be implemented, so that it is possible to complete the eradication of the termite colony in one fell swoop.

So in this process, although there will be a lot of food surplus, Zero is not prepared to expand the colony. The ant colony will maintain this number for a long time in the future, and even actively reduce it if necessary. Some.

After the battle, the ants carried the corpses of their companions and enemies. Seeing the distinctive corpses of the termites, Ling felt moved.

He ordered the ants to transport the corpses of this group of termites to a specific food area for storage.

Zero is curious about these termites, but the ants hardly have any effective research methods, so he can only direct the ants to satisfy his curiosity.

A soldier ant dragged a dead termite to the nest where the queen was. Under Zero's instruction, it bit open the dead dead termite with the pincers on its head, and the liquid in the termite's abdomen It flowed out slowly.

Zero was a little disappointed. With the dissection ability of ants, he found nothing.

A little disheartened, Ling Xia ordered the soldier ant to deliver the corpse to the queen ant, and it would become the queen ant's lunch.

However, Zero's unintentional action brought him an unexpected surprise!
After the ant queen devoured the dead termites bit by bit, she seemed to become a little anxious, and she could barely feel that she was craving for more food.

The worker ants faithfully fulfilled their mission of taking care of the queen, and soon brought her a large amount of food.

She quickly devoured the food in front of her, and her fat abdomen began to squirm visibly.

Her digestive system is rapidly breaking down the food she eats.

But soon, she stopped eating and conveyed another kind of desire - He wanted more of that termite carcass!

Zero had nothing to do, and immediately agreed to her request. In just a few tens of seconds, the worker ants brought dozens of dead dead termites for her to eat.

Almost the moment she saw these corpses, the queen ant danced her tentacles joyfully, and she devoured a dozen dead termites before giving up!

Afterwards, under Zero's shocked gaze, the ant queen who had devoured the dead termite unexpectedly started cocooning again slowly and unbelievably, and, judging by the size, it was completely beyond the size of the ant queen!
You must know that after the queens have undergone complete metamorphosis from larvae to adults, their body structure has undergone tremendous changes. Adult queens have lost their silk-spinning organs, and it is even more impossible to cocoon.

This scene completely exceeded Zero's cognition, which is extremely unreasonable!
"This is………?!!"

Zero doesn't understand what's going on at all, but from the state of the queen ant, he probably feels that although he doesn't know the reason, it's probably not a bad thing, and even if it is, he has the confidence to deal with it.

In the days that followed, the ant colony was not harassed by termites anymore, as if the last failure made their queens realize that this level of sneak attack could not cause too much threat to the ants.Or maybe this special termite in the termite tribe is also extremely rare. In short, the days after that were very peaceful.

Zero has always paid great attention to the ant queen who swallowed the termite corpse. To be on the safe side, he ordered the ants to block the granary containing the special termite corpse, and forbid all the ant colony to eat the food in this granary.

A month has passed, and the cocoon formed by the queen ant is still quiet.

If it wasn't for the increasingly vivid breath of the queen ant, Zero would even have thought she was dead.

Finally, after another half a month, the cocoon, which was as long as a thumb and was huge compared to an ant, started to move.

After a tearing sound, a huge ant with a body length of five centimeters got out of it.

Her body is no longer what it used to be. The black shell has turned into a weird ice blue color like that group of termites. The antennae on her head are much shorter compared to her body size. Yes, her abdomen became long and fat, with a neat circle of holes on it!

"Is this...evolution?" Zero muttered dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)