Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 44 Mutated Earthworms (Favorites!!)

After thinking about the upper limit of aphids, Zero gave up trying to mutate them. Unless they can mutate into eating air or stones can grow, otherwise it is meaningless to Zero.

After temporarily shelving the aphid mutation plan, the idea of ​​cultivating mutant earthworms came to mind.If earthworms can produce mutations that are beneficial to ants, it may be a feasible way.

He didn't hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the nearest ant nest to send hundreds of unhatched earthworm eggs to the cave. It is currently very hot, and the outside world is unbearably hot, but the cave is cool and comfortable, which can fully meet the needs of earthworm eggs hatching. condition.

Zero asked a few builders to place these earthworm eggs directly under the gemstone on the top of the cave, and surrounded ten queens of the two types that were still waiting to mutate, so that their distance from the gemstone was almost the same. If it was this colorful light If the resulting variation, presumably they can be satisfied.

It takes nearly a month for earthworm eggs to hatch, which is twice as slow as that of ordinary ants, let alone mutated ants.

Zero carefully recorded that originally it took about fifteen days for ants to develop from eggs to adults, but the eggs produced by the first-order mutated ant queen matured much faster, and the builders only needed seven to eight days to fully grow into adults.

As for the second-order mutated ant queen, it is even faster. The guardians and assassins need five days, and the explorers only need two days!

This change is extremely beneficial to the ant colony, which means that once the war comes, as long as the food is sufficient, the ants' violence speed is more than twice as fast as before in the same period of time!
If today's ant colony meets the former termite colony, Zero believes that there will be no need for months of war at all. Even if there are no guards and assassins, the termites will definitely not be able to withstand this kind of explosion at twice the original speed. degree of consumption.

"I don't know what kind of mutation this termite queen has turned into. The ant colony can't break out of a certain range..."

If it weren't for this, the ants would have no chance to fight the termites later, let alone defeat them.

Back then, it was only necessary for their army to rush out of the forest and enter the grassland. With the number, combat power and food reserves of the ant colony at that time, it was basically impossible to defeat them.

It is precisely because they do not know what restrictions they are subject to, which gave the zero-sum ants a chance to develop, and finally completed the anti-killing of the termite race in one fell swoop after eight years of preparation.

I have to say that Zero is lucky.

The termite group, which possesses such a mutated artifact, has an empty treasure mountain and doesn't know how to use it. In the end, they let Zero, whose original strength is not comparable to them, get into the bag.

In fact, this is also zero preconceived ideas.Thinking about it, no matter how strong the mutation ability of this gemstone is, it definitely does not have the ability to endow termite queens with wisdom out of thin air.

Without wisdom, this queen ant can only use it by instinct, and what is its instinct?Breed termites.

Its huge size and the holes all over its abdomen serve this purpose. It uses this gem to greatly increase its own fertility, and also greatly increases the upper limit of termites it can control.

This is also the reason why the termite colony is so large. Perhaps something happened during the mutation, which caused the termite queen to be unable to control a large number of termites out of the forest, so today's situation of making wedding dresses for zero has been achieved.

Compared with the lonely termite queen, Zero, as the controller of the ant colony, possesses higher wisdom from the very beginning, and he knows how to use his own advantages to grow the ant colony.

Compared with the termite colony, there has never been an upper limit for zero controllable queen ants so far, and it can be said to be almost infinite.

Therefore, He can keep trying to mutate them without worrying about any side effects or adverse changes.

If there is, just deal with it directly.

But termites are different, they have only one queen, so once this unfavorable factor occurs, it has no power to change it at all, and can only suffer.

This is the biggest reason why Zero Energy can attack and destroy the termite colony in one fell swoop after a large amount of accumulation.

Zero just thought about it a little bit. After all, the termite colony has become a milestone on the growth path of the ant colony, and there is no practical significance in thinking about this issue.

What he is most concerned about now is the mutation of earthworms and queen ants.

For some reason, there is no change in the Queen Ant, and Zero has nothing to do. After such a long experiment, except that this cave is the necessary condition for this mutation, Zero has no other useful conclusions. The previous mutation can only prove that this point.

Therefore, he hoped that this earthworm experiment could bring him some surprises.

As time passed day by day, the queen ants in the center of the cave remained unchanged, and Zero's hope for them was also decreasing day by day, and instead pinned this hope on the earthworm eggs around them.

A month passed quickly. During this period, the number of ant colonies dropped again for various reasons. Zero did not make supplements, but allowed this situation to continue.

The current number of ants is still too high. Without enemies, there is no need for Zero to maintain such a large population.In addition, the new ant species produced by the mutation did not meet the zero requirement, so there was no need for large-scale reproduction.

At present, the main task of the ant colony is to connect the various nests and continuously accumulate the food needed for the winter. Everything is back to normal as before.

Of course, except for caves.

A week ago, Ling ordered to hatch a batch of more than [-] guardians in the cave. At the same time, the queens who had not changed for a long time were also removed from the cave, leaving only a circle of earthworm eggs.

In order to prevent possible accidents, the guards surrounded the batch of earthworm eggs and closely monitored them.

And today is the day when the earthworms hatched.

Under Zero's gaze, at noon, the first egg began to move. After a slight shaking at the beginning, it suddenly began to shake violently. After a few breaths, a writhing "earthworm" larva glowing with black light appeared. drilled out of it.

Almost at the next moment, this "earthworm" rushed towards the nearest guardian.

In Zero's field of vision, it raised its head quickly while crawling. The originally smooth head had become sunken, and the inside was covered with dense and small barbs!

The guardian was caught off guard and bitten by it. In a very short period of time, the hard forelimbs of the guardian were ground and swallowed by the "earthworm" larvae, obviously smaller than the guardian. , trying fiercely to swallow the opponent!

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