Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 41 Brand new ant species (please collect!)

After everything was done, Zero suddenly found that he seemed to have overlooked an important thing.

The tunnels opened by termites are very spacious, and they have undergone a lot of development during the ant colony's attack. In some places, two mutated ant queens can even pass side by side.

It is much more spacious, allowing the ant colony to enter and exit the cave more quickly.But sometimes, being too spacious is not a good thing.

For example, as the weather became colder day by day, a large amount of cold air easily poured into the cave, and even the mutated ant queen gradually began to feel uncomfortable.Therefore, Zero had no choice but to order the ants to withdraw from here, and return to the ant colony's own nest through the rugged and complicated underground passage, and those experiments had to be suspended.

Zero also brought the eggs produced by the queens back to the ant nest. There was no way to continue the experiment in the cave this winter. The larvae hatched by these two queens were the only fruits of the winter.

Due to time constraints, Zero couldn't let the ant colony withstand the cold to insulate the cave, which was still a big project for them.

After withdrawing from the underground ant nest, Zero could only continue to observe the two existing eggs.

One was born after the common queen mutated, and the other was born after the queen mutated again.

He is still looking forward to them, after all, this is the first real mutation of the ant colony.

If the ant species hatched from these two batches of eggs can be used, the strength of the ant colony is bound to usher in a new round of improvement.

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Winter goes to spring, time passes quickly and unconsciously, the outside world melts and the ice and snow melt, and once again enters the thriving spring.

The ants crawl out from the depths of the ground and start their new year's activities.

In this winter, Zero waited for two different species of ants hatched by two queen ants one after another.

Among them, the soldier ants produced by the mutation of ordinary queen ants are not only huge in size, but also have a large increase in strength compared with ordinary ants. If the angle is right, they can lift a stone with a diameter of up to three centimeters!
This is already a very great breakthrough. You must know that the space for ants to drag a stone of such volume is very narrow, which also means that no matter how many ants there are, only a few of them can move. If you work hard on moving the rock, the other ants can only stare beside them.

Now, with the new ant species, this job can be completely left to them.

After careful observation, Zero found that there are many small grooves between their upper jaws, which can provide greater friction when they move objects, allowing them to lift objects conveniently.

At the same time, the existence of this kind of groove also makes their upper jaw rough, so they become unsuitable for fighting.

In addition, their abdomens also store a special liquid, which will become viscous after being sprayed out of the body, and will solidify and harden after a period of time.This liquid can act as glue to connect the gaps between objects well, which is very important for construction work.

Based on their characteristics that are not good at fighting but very suitable for construction, Zero calls them: builders.

Compared with the builder, another kind of ant is much stranger.

The queen ant that has undergone two mutations has produced a total of three types of eggs, one of which is gray-black in size and has a much sharper upper jaw than the builder's. They can easily pinch off At the root of the leaf, at the same time, its pair of forelimbs became flattened, and they were no longer used for crawling. Instead, they were held flat on the side of the brain like a praying mantis, as if they could swing out to attack at any time.

In addition, their only two remaining pairs of hind limbs have also become thick and well-proportioned, able to bear their weight very smoothly.

Zero named this ant species that was clearly inclined to attack: Guardian.They will be the existence of guarding the safety of the ant colony for a long time in the future.

The ants hatched from another kind of eggs are completely ice blue, almost like ice sculptures, slightly smaller than the guardians, and the upper jaw has also shrunk and degenerated into a long, sharp mouthpart.

Similar to the Guardian, its forelimbs have also undergone great changes. The forelimbs originally used to support the body have changed into two sharp weapons similar to military thorns.

Zero did experiments, and this mutation made them basically unable to grasp objects, and almost completely lost the ability to carry goods.

But at the same time, their sharp forelimbs and sharp mouthparts can easily penetrate the insect's body, and even the beetle's hard shell can only block it for a moment.

At the same time, due to their smaller size, their movements are more agile than the guardians, but their bodies have become very fragile except for their heads.

Zero named this ant species that completely abandoned its labor ability but had an overall increased attack power: Assassin.

But after zero tests, the current Assassin still has a fatal flaw - he likes the cold and is afraid of high temperatures.

After spring comes, they are reluctant to climb out of the nest to move around. It is foreseeable that the assassins will basically lose their ability to move in the external environment by the time of summer.

This disappointed Zero, who originally had high hopes for them, but he was not prepared to give up this ant species completely, after all, the assassin's attack ability was obvious to all.

He is going to try to mutate the queens again to see if this situation can be improved. If possible, he wants to make the assassin an ant colony killer that can be active in all seasons!
As for the ants hatched from the last kind of eggs, Ling didn't know how to locate them.

The size of this kind of ants is much smaller than that of ordinary ants, only about half of that of ordinary ants. At the same time, the overall appearance is basically unchanged. The only difference is that they have a pair of wings on their backs.

It is precisely because of this pair of wings that they are barely used by Zero—replacing the original flying ants to explore the unknown world, namely: explorers.

So far, under Zero's first round of attempts, a total of four different ant species have been produced, builders, guardians, assassins, and explorers.

They are still not out of the category of ants in general, and have a very similar appearance to an ant colony. It can be said that they are just a special kind of ants.

However, in a practical sense, they have taken the first step from a weak ant colony to a more powerful race.

The differences between different ant species have begun to appear clearly, and various functional ant colonies will perform their own duties. In other words, the ant colonies already have specialized skills.

Of course, Zero is not satisfied with this.

Spring has arrived, the climate is gradually getting warmer, and the cave is slowly getting warmer.

He ordered the first-order mutated ant queen to start mass-producing builders, and then quickly moved a large number of stones to gradually block and shrink the entrance of the cave, so as to avoid another cold current that would affect the use of the cave.

As for the Assassins and Guardians, Zero didn't have a plan for mass production, but based on the purpose of the ant colony's expansion to the south of the mountain range in the spring, a small number of Guardians were hatched to ensure the smooth progress of the expansion.

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