Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 45 Surprise
The guardian was caught off guard by the most violent attack, and suffered a big loss in the blink of an eye. The two sharp forelimbs had been swallowed by this "earthworm".

Of course, it will not sit still, and immediately launched the most violent struggle and counterattack. While kicking its hind legs towards the opponent, the big "pincers" whose head has been mutated are also desperately pinching the "earthworm".

However, this strange mutated earthworm seemed to be dying. Even though the guardian's sharp upper jaw made huge wounds on its body, it tried hard to open its mouth, stretched out the guardian and stepped on it. Its hind limbs were also swallowed into it.

Without the support of the hind limbs, the guardian had nowhere to rely on, but he still did not die. He desperately used his upper jaw to clamp the mutated earthworm's body, trying to cut it into two pieces.

Soon, it worked.

The body of this newborn mutated earthworm is not as strong as its head, and still maintains the strength of the original earthworm. Under the violent bite of the guardian, the soft abdomen was quickly broken into two sections, which were respectively on the ground. writhing.

However, up to this point, the two sides still refused to give up, and the half-mutated earthworm with the head was still struggling to crawl towards the immobile guardian, stubbornly trying to swallow it into its stomach.

The guardian, who lost his limbs and couldn't move at all, became a fish on the chopping board. He could only forcefully open and close his upper jaw, trying to scare the mutated earthworm into retreating.

However, this obviously had no effect. The mutated earthworm that had been broken in two kept approaching the disabled guardian. In the end, without any suspense, it successfully swallowed the guardian.

But that's it.

For the brief battle between the two, Zero didn't let the surrounding ant colony step forward to stop it. He wanted to see what was so special about this mutated earthworm.

It wasn't until the earthworm killed the guardian that it was still persistently crawling towards the nearest other guardian with half its body, Zero gave the order to kill it.

Dozens of guards moved upon hearing the order, and swarmed up, tearing the mutated earthworm that had lost most of its combat power into pieces in just a few breaths.

At the same time, Zero also had a preliminary understanding of this mutated earthworm.Under the frenzied attack on the ant colony by the continuously hatching earthworm larvae, this cognition gradually became perfect.

First of all, in this experiment, the most obvious change is the shape of the earthworm.

The originally protruding head has become a sunken mouthpart, which is full of sharp barbs, which can easily cut through the guardian's forelimbs and smash them into pieces.

The size of the entire earthworm larva has also nearly doubled compared to the original size.

In addition to body size, the biggest change will be their temperament.

Under the continuous domestication of the ant colony from generation to generation, the original earthworms have long developed a natural fear of the ants.

Not to mention actively attacking the ant colony, even if they feel the breath of ants, they will become extremely well-behaved.

But now, after undergoing a mutation, they attacked the ant colony recklessly as soon as they were born, completely ignoring their own life and death. It can be seen that their temperament has become extremely fierce and aggressive in this mutation.

Even among the same batch of hatched earthworm larvae, there is a phenomenon of cannibalism, and the intensity of the battle is no less than the battle with an ant colony.

Zero originally wanted to tame them for his own use, but seeing how crazy these earthworms were, he finally had to give up.

He ordered the guards to kill all the one hundred mutated earthworm larvae, break them down into sections and transport them to the granary for storage.

When transporting the earthworm corpses, Zero inadvertently thought of the queens who had been unable to mutate again for a long time, so his heart moved, and he fed part of the earthworm meat to the ten queens.

Originally, it was just a casual test, and Zero didn't hold out much hope.

But this time, they really gave Zero a surprise.

I don't know if it's because of eating too little, but the second-order mutant queen seemed a little anxious after eating the mutant earthworms, but there was no sign of mutation.

But the first-order mutated ant queen, after eating the same amount of earthworm meat, became manic not long after. She kept scratching the ground with her feet and limbs, as if she was suffering some kind of pain.

After this situation lasted for a week, the five first-order mutant queens started cocooning again under the eyes of Zero Surprise.

This cocooning took much longer than the last time. After ten days, the outside world was about to enter autumn, and these queens broke out of their cocoons one after another.

Although it took a long time, the appearance of the queens who crawled out of the eggs this time did not change much, only their body size became slightly longer.

After they hatched, Zero ordered them to start laying eggs and reproduce. He wanted to see what kind of troops this mutation would add to the ant colony.

Soon, after only five days, the eggs produced by this group of queen ants completed their hatching one after another.

It took another two days for these larvae to rapidly transform into adults, and at this time, Ling really got the result of the queen's mutation.

The first is the new generation of builders. After growing into adults, they have larger bodies and stronger bodies than the original builders. Zero specially tested this, and he still used sweet potatoes to experiment. , Zero was a little pleasantly surprised to find that this group of new builders had already been able to initially shake objects of mass and volume like sweet potatoes!

Although very inefficient, it is indeed possible to move slowly!
This means that it is becoming possible to use zero-storage sweet potatoes as the main food for future ant colonies!

In an instant, Zero had the urge to proliferate this builder.But after careful consideration, He gave up the idea.

First of all, although the new generation of builders has made great progress compared with their predecessors, the efficiency is still very low and cannot perfectly meet the zero requirements.

In addition, the number of sweet potatoes bred on the grassland is still relatively small, and it is of little significance to breed this kind of builder in large numbers.

In the end, Zero decided to breed a group of about [-] second-generation builders before winter to be responsible for storing the ripe sweet potatoes this year.

As for the construction of the storage place, it is very simple. A large number of ordinary worker ants and soldier ants can dig a cellar on the surface according to Zero's intention within a few days!

Of course, in addition to the second-generation builders, the re-mutated ant queen gave Zero another surprise—that was a strange ant species that Zero called diggers.

　Thank you for your support of monthly tickets and recommended tickets (tearful eyes whirling.jpg)! !Of course, there are also many pertinent suggestions, some of which I have modified and added to the outline, which should be written later. (Thank you again!) In addition, the climbing technology tree mentioned in the introduction refers to the Zerg technology tree. After all, if the Zerg ran to engage in intercontinental missiles, it would be a bit weird~~It’s still Zerg tactics yyds!Having said a lot, I still ask for support! !
　　Well, we are not free to prostitute everyone's tickets, we will add a new chapter at noon today~~ Hehe

　　
　
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