Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 40 Discovery (Thanks 1 Blue Fish 1 Hundred Rewards!)
The ant queens who ate the huge termite carcass did not show any abnormalities, but Zero was not discouraged. Next, he mobilized a large number of female ants to verify them one by one by directly changing various variables that may affect the mutation. My own opinion.

First, he ordered five healthy common female ants to eat a small amount of termite queen corpses, and then divided them into groups and placed them on the side of the cave.

Then, he directed five of the same female ants to eat more insect meat, and also placed them on the side of the cave.

This formed a control group, that is, how much insect meat was eaten.

Similarly, he set up a control group for common queens and mutant queens, a control group for the amount of insect meat the mutant queens ate, and a control group for queens of the same species inside and outside the cave, and so on.

Finally, after five days, He came to the conclusion he wanted.

Common female ants that ate more insect meat first started to change. After a short period of digestion, they quickly became restless. After this period lasted for three days, they began to form cocoons.

And the next one to start this kind of change was the mutated queen ant who ate a lot of insect meat. However, it took longer for them to react, and the degree of restlessness was more intense, and the time was longer. In the end, they also struggled. Cocooning started.

As for the queens who ate a small amount of insect meat, no matter whether they were ordinary queens or mutant queens, although they all had varying degrees of anxiety, they did not show any signs of cocooning.

At the same time, the ant queen who was arranged by him outside the cave and who also ate a lot of insect meat did not change at all.

"What does this mean?" Zero pondered, and gradually had a guess in his heart.

"This kind of change must be in this cave and under the illumination of this gemstone to be effective?"

Zero was not sure, he remembered that when the queen ants ate the invading mutant termites, there were no special conditions, let alone this gem.

This made him puzzled.

"Similarly eating a lot of insect meat, the queen inside the cave started to cocoon, but the queen outside the cave did not respond. If the necessary factor is not the gemstone in the cave, what else could it be?"

Zero pondered for a moment, and then immediately arranged a group of mutant queens who had eaten the corpses of invading termites as a control group, and let them eat a lot of insect meat and placed them inside and outside the cave respectively.

Three days later, the queen ants inside the cave began to cocoon with difficulty, but the queen ants outside still did not respond.

At this time, Zero can basically be sure that the necessary condition for this kind of mutation to occur is the gem in this cave!

But why the heterogeneous termites that the queen ate did not have this gem can also be mutated, Zero still has no idea.

Maybe there were some details that he didn't notice at the time, or maybe some elements were still missing in the current experiment, He didn't know.

However, soon he stopped being entangled, because the ant queen who broke out of the cocoon in the cave had already attracted all of his attention.

According to Zero's observation, the queen ant's body size has almost increased by five times. At the same time, her abdomen has also become larger, appearing very bloated, and her movements are slow. She can only crawl slowly, almost losing her body. original athletic ability.

But at the same time, its fertility has been greatly enhanced, and it no longer needs the help of male ants, as long as there is enough food, it can quickly produce a large number of eggs.

"It seems that the male ants are completely unemployed." Zero mourned for them in his heart.

What kind of ants hatched from this kind of eggs is currently unknown, but judging by the size of the eggs, the body shape will definitely not be the same as the original, at least twice the size!
This is an astonishing discovery, from which Zero confirmed that in this cave, eating the insect meat of termite queens can cause common ant queens to mutate, and this mutation seems to be in a direction that is beneficial to the ant race, instead of It is better to say that it is a kind of evolution than a mutation!
Of course, maybe this mutation is the same as the mutant ant queen last time, and there is some kind of defect.

However, just getting bigger is definitely a good thing for Zero.

Because for him, the larger the size of the ant, it means stronger mobility. If you can have an ant the size of this queen ant at the beginning of the development of the ant colony, then it will be zero to complete all the current things. Much simpler.

He needs ant colonies with stronger mobility to realize ideas that are currently unrealizable, such as moving larger and complete stones.

Sometimes Zero needs to do some construction, such as building a bridge on both sides of the river, but in terms of the size of ants, no matter how many fine stones and sand they can carry, they will inevitably be washed away by the current. It is also impossible to complete this mission, and only lighter branches and grass blades can be used to build a temporary pontoon bridge that may be washed away at any time.

However, if these fine stones and gravels become larger, and even they can directly move stones to do this, it will become much easier.

No matter what changes this group of ants have made, whether it is good or bad, as long as there is a change, it is a good thing for Zero.

Because he needs more different ant species to undertake different tasks, even if it is a worthless mutation, it doesn't matter. He doesn't miss these few queens, let alone the cost of this experiment.

A few days later, under Zero's watchful eyes, another queen in the ant colony, that is, the queen that had mutated once under the influence of the corpse of the invading termite, also broke out of the cocoon again.

Compared with before, its size change is not too big. It used to be several times the size of ordinary ants. After it mutated again, it was about ten times larger. Compared with the size change of ordinary ant queens, it can only be said that is a slight increase.

This made Zero a little disappointed. He really wanted a larger ant species, and looked forward to this group of ant queens becoming even bigger again, to see if they could produce larger mutated soldier ants. , this hope should have been dashed.

After this batch of ant queens were mutated again, in addition to a slight change in body shape, the original appearance also had some changes, from ice blue to a slightly bluish but somewhat crystal gray blue, and the holes in the abdomen also changed. At the same time, many sharp protrusions have been added to their mouths, which seem to help them break food faster.

As expected, the eggs they produced remained unchanged, only slightly larger than before.

Zero is also mentally prepared for this, so he is not disappointed.Now we'll have to wait and see what happens to the larvae hatched from these two very different queens.

In general, after these several experiments, Zero obtained two types of mutated ant queens, one of which was completely mutated from ordinary ant queens, while the other was formed from the ants that had been eaten before. The queens that mutated from the corpses of termites that invaded the ant nests mutated again.

After this mutation, the appearance of these two ant queens has changed a little. At present, it is not known what changes have occurred in the eggs they produce. We can only find out after they all hatch.

　Sorry, this chapter is a bit messy, this queen and that queen, I changed it a few times and still can't get the point.It was a real mistake not to be able to name these two ant queens before!But fortunately, there is no need to be so troublesome in the future, just call them Mutant Ant Queens (manual dog head) Thank you for your tolerance! (bow)
　　
　
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