Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 42 A New Beginning

Spring returns to the earth, and everything recovers.

After hatching four new ant species, Zero was not in a hurry to eliminate the original ordinary ants, but continued to let them expand on the southern plains of the mountains.

Similar to the original one in the north, the ant colony quickly wiped out the snakes, insects, rats and ants on the entire plain, including some herbivores, but failed to escape the pursuit of the ant colony. In the past, they could escape south into the The forest lingered on, but this time, they had nowhere to escape, and eventually all became food reserves for the ant colony.

After completing this work, the ants sowed the seeds of the northern fruit trees and the two previously discovered edible plants on this vast land.

At the same time, aphids and earthworms also began to reproduce on a large scale in forests and grasslands.

They remain the mainstay of ant colonies until they find better food sources.

One of the reasons why new ant species are not used to replace the original ants is that due to their larger size, these new ant species need more food to maintain their vitality. If these new ant species are reproduced on a large scale If not, the food reserves that have just defeated the termite colony and barely survived the cold winter may be insufficient.

Another reason is that although the current four new ant species have shown obvious advantages over ordinary ants, Zero still believes that this change has failed to meet his expectations.

Except for the necessary builders, the other ant species are still not strong enough.

Moreover, the ant colony has already wiped out the entire island, and there is no longer any existence on this land that can compete with the ant colony. Stay away in front of him.

Therefore, Zero is not in a hurry to complete the replacement of the ant species. He wants to see if the group of mutated ant queens can eat termite queen meat again to produce mutations again.

If possible, maybe he could get a more powerful and perfect ant species, and it would not be too late to try to change the ant colony depending on the situation. .

However, although the replacement of ants has not been carried out, Zero is not without ideas about the huge number of ordinary ant colonies today.

When fighting the termite race, under the pressure of the huge number of termites, Zero urgently hopes to have more ants join the battlefield to achieve the purpose of consuming the number of termites.

Therefore, in a short period of time, he hatched tens of millions of ants, and most of them are the first-generation mutant soldiers who are good at fighting. Their combat effectiveness is naturally far inferior to that of the second-generation guardians, but at the beginning It also played a very important role in the battle.

But now, as the termite colony is wiped out, the huge number of this group of mutated soldier ants has quickly become a burden for the entire ant colony.

Although most of them had been consumed in the previous battles, at that time, in order to ensure that they could defeat the termite colony, Zero worked hard to produce such soldier ants in a saturated manner.

Therefore, after the war, there were still about 300 million mutant soldier ants in the nests.

Fortunately, in spring, they can still go out to look for food as the main force. When the weather gets hot in summer, this huge group of ants will be useless and can only be placed in the ant nest, and even their physiological tendency to attack The structure can play a role in engineering treatment is also lackluster.

Therefore, how to deal with this group of mutated soldier ants is an urgent problem for Zero.

In the current situation where there are no foreign enemies, it is obviously not cost-effective to raise this group of unproductive soldier ants.

Zero's current plan is to send this group of ants out as much as possible during the spring foraging activities, so that while harvesting food, they can also reduce their number in battle.

Now that the ant colony has completely occupied the entire island and there are no natural enemies, Zero no longer plans to increase the number of ant colonies, but instead wants to reduce the scale of the original extremely rapid expansion as much as possible.

Zero intends to only leave enough ants to maintain the current ant colony. In the next time, his main energy will be on the research of the gemstones in the cave and the experiment to induce the ant queen to mutate again.

However, how to deal with a large number of mutant soldier ants is indeed a problem, and sending them out to forage can only consume a small part of them.

Zero didn't want to kill himself within the ant colony. Although the ants would not resist under its orders, it was still impossible for Zero to do so.

Not to mention that the current food is still enough, it's just that they consume too much and need more ordinary ants to support them. Even in the case of insufficient food, Zero is unwilling to make such a bad move.

They may not have any consciousness. In essence, they are just tools produced by Zero to deal with termite groups, but Zero is not willing to kill them for this reason.

Therefore, He needs a better way to reduce the number of ants.

However, after thinking about it, I couldn't find a way to get the best of both worlds. I can only place them in the deepest part of the ant nest when they can't go out in summer, so that they don't move anymore, and only provide them with life-sustaining food. Thereby reducing food consumption.

While further reducing the ant colony, he intends to breed a group of builders first, and let them grow a large number of the two kinds of plants that can be eaten by ants.

Builders are physically fit and best suited for this kind of work.

Usually, this work is done by common soldier ants, but their size is too small, and they have to cut and crush the original whole fruit before transporting it back to the ant nest for storage, which undoubtedly greatly reduces the food quality. storage period.

Therefore, Zero intends to let the builders with a larger body do the job and see if it can play a good role.

As for the saved food, Zero also has his own plan.

The experiment inside the cave needs a lot of experimental samples to do the control experiments under various conditions, so a considerable number of ant queens are needed as samples.

And this group of queen ants need a lot of energy supply when they mutate and reproduce, which also means more food consumption.Just use the food saved by the dormant soldier ants to meet the needs here.

In the following time, apart from feeding themselves, the ant colonies will consume the most food here.

There is no doubt that this is the most important place in the entire ant colony, because it contains the hope of the ants soaring into the sky.

Under Zero's planning, groups of controlled experiments were carried out one after another. Unlike the first time of small troubles, this time, each group of controlled experiments involved hundreds of queen ants. Taking into account, even including the shadows cast by the gem light in the cave, Zero is studying the mystery of the mutation with the most rigorous attitude.

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(End of this chapter)