Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 48 Variation Again - Pointing the Way

Zero also tried placing the queen's eggs under the gem to see what would happen.However, for some reason, the hatched ants were no different from normal hatching.

Although it has been a year since he got this gem, Zero still has no idea about its mutation mechanism.I only know that under this light, the queen ants can mutate after eating mutated earthworm meat, and putting earthworm eggs and aphid eggs below will also cause mutations, but what exactly causes the mutations, and why ant eggs cannot mutate Waiting for the question, Zero didn't come up with an answer.

From the earthworms and aphids, Zero seems to have initially drawn a specious conclusion: the mutated insects seem to become fierce and irritable.

And this has also been preliminarily confirmed by the increasingly restless Queen Ant.

As for why the queen ants did not attack others of the same kind, Zero believes that this is because earthworms and aphids are fundamentally different from ants.

Ants are social insects, with a clear division of labor and a strict hierarchy, and the same is true for termites. In addition, there is also Zero in the ant colony, and all queen ants absolutely obey Zero's orders.

Therefore, although the queen ants became more and more anxious as they ate more days, and even kept scratching the ground and walls, they never attacked other creatures in the cave.

However, earthworms and aphids are completely different. They do not have the innate sense of unity and cooperation of ants, and each individual exists independently. biology.

Zero, who came to this conclusion, completely lost interest in the mutated aphids.

Soon, the guards swarmed up, killed and dismembered them all, and fed the decomposed insect meat to the queens respectively.

For the queens who ate the mutated aphid meat, Zero still had enough expectations.Because the last mutation of the queen ant came from eating the worm meat of the mutant earthworm.

Therefore, Zero also made a guess: Is eating mutated insect meat also a necessary condition for promoting the mutation of the queen ant?
Soon, this guess was verified.

After eating a large number of mutated aphid corpses, the queens finally started to cocoon again!This proves that zero's guess is very likely to be right!

By eating different kinds of mutated insect meat, it seems that the queen ant can indeed be mutated!

Having come to this conclusion, the next thing Zero needs to do is to obtain mutants of various insects through various methods, and then kill them and feed them to the queen ant to see what changes will occur. Experiments are constantly improving this conclusion, and at the same time, can better develop the ant colony.

But before that, He still has another guess to verify.

By devouring termite queens, the ant queens mutated to obtain larger body size and stronger reproductive ability, and at the same time gave birth to ant species such as builders with larger volume.

After devouring the mutated earthworms, the ability of the builders has been strengthened, and a new army similar to earthworms has appeared in the ant colony—the diggers.

Judging from these two mutations, it seems that there are some rules in it.

The termite queen is huge in size and extremely fertile, so the mutation produced after swallowing it seems to be larger in size and stronger in fertility?

Earthworms are very capable of burrowing into the ground, so the mutation produced after devouring them can produce diggers?
Zero thinks that this is definitely not a coincidence, most likely it is as it guessed.

However, he was not entirely sure, after all, after devouring the termite queens, the queens also produced smaller explorers, and the characteristics of the builders did not seem to be directly related to the earthworms.

Then, to prove this point, Zero needs another piece of evidence, which is the mutation of the queen ant this time.

The more prominent features of aphids are nothing more than small size, fast reproduction speed, and the ability to produce honeydew.In addition, it is worth noting the sharp assassin-like mouthparts protruding from the mouth of the mutated aphid.

If the queen after this mutation can produce ant species with these characteristics or similar characteristics, then Zero's guess is correct, at least partly correct.

If not at all, it means that this variation is affected by more and more complicated factors.

However, it is clear that this zero guess makes sense.

After more than ten days, the queens broke out of their shells, revealing their true faces after mutating again.

However, in addition to continuing the characteristic that the size of each mutation is slightly larger, at least on the outside, they are not much different from before.

The next thing to focus on is the eggs they lay.

Without any hesitation, Zero immediately ordered them to start laying eggs as quickly as possible.

And only three days later, the eggs produced by the queens hatched, and this hatching speed seemed to have confirmed Zero's guess from the side.

However, the more powerful proof was brought by the ant species that hatched later.

The builder that hatched this time has become bigger again, and correspondingly, its strength has also increased a lot.On the task of carrying sweet potatoes, with mutual cooperation, compared with the reluctance of the previous generation, the current ones have been able to complete it relatively smoothly.

The diggers' abilities have also been strengthened, their bodies have become stronger and stronger, and their digging speed underground has also increased by about [-]%.

However, compared to these, the biggest change is a new ant species—an ant that is similar in size to ordinary ants, but can obtain nutrients from plant roots, stems, leaves and other parts and then produce honeydew.

Zero called them honeydew ants, although its appearance can only be regarded as icing on the cake for the ant colony that has initially got rid of food difficulties.

However, its value doesn't just depend on that.More importantly, the appearance of ants with this characteristic basically means that Zero's previous guess about mutation is correct, and this kind of mutation obtained by eating the meat of different kinds of insects can indeed give the ant colony a part of the opponent's ability!
The determination of this point is undoubtedly equivalent to pointing out a clear path for the future mutation direction of the ant colony—that is, to continuously urge other races to mutate, and then feed their bodies to the queen ants and let them devour them, so as to pass this way to obtain part of the opponent's ability.

This made Zero very excited. He almost couldn't wait to send out the ant colony to find the eggs of other types of insects to continue the experiment, so that even the three advanced battle ant species produced later were temporarily given by him. Neglected.

It wasn't until he hurriedly dispatched the ants to look for insect eggs that Zero remembered that there was such a thing.

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