Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 49 Beetles (please read more!!)

After this mutation, the three battle ant species have their own changes. In addition to increasing their body size again, the guardian's forelimbs have also become sharper and sharper, and the upper jaw has also become larger and wider, which means that it has more Strong bite force.

The explorer looks basically unchanged, but its incubation period has been reduced by one-third again, which means that from now on, it only takes a little more than a day for them to develop from an egg state to an adult insect!

The biggest change is the assassin. The original ice-blue appearance has turned gray again, the awl-like forelimbs have become harder and slender, and the sharp mouthparts that protruded from the outside have retracted into the mouth. It can be pierced quickly, and the instant penetrating ability is extremely strong!
Zero deliberately conducted an experiment, and with the strength of the assassin's current forelimbs, he could easily penetrate into the old bark!And the moment it launches an attack, the sharp mouthparts can even completely penetrate the bark, and can also push out a depression on the internal wooden material!
Zero has no doubt that if it evolves again, the mouthparts of the assassin will be able to penetrate into the wooden material!

It's a pity that the current ant colony has almost no enemies on this small island, and ordinary insects don't need assassins to deal with them at all.However, to Zero's surprise, as the Assassin's color darkens, it no longer has the restriction that it can only be active in winter!
Assassins who were originally only active in winter can now step out of their caves in late autumn!

Zero is not sure whether it can still be active in winter, but with its current performance, it is enough to surprise Zero.If there are enemies, they will not be unable to participate in the battle because they are not adapted to the seasonal climate.

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Since there are not too many insects that are still active in late autumn, and the entire island has been plowed over and over again by the ant colonies, there are even fewer insects that can survive.

However, even so, the ant colony that went out still brought back eggs of five kinds of insects with the cooperation of Zero, but the number was not many, the largest one was only thirty eggs, and the least was only a dozen eggs.

However, these eggs are enough. After all, only one queen ant needs to mutate. Zero is equivalent to having countless mutated queens. As long as he wants, he can breed more at any time.

It is also not possible to wipe out all the insect eggs buried on the island for the winter just to conduct experiments, which will make the already rare insects extinct here directly.

Back in the cave, Zero looked at the eggs in front of him. If he just observed the eggs, he couldn't determine what species they were, so he could only put all the hundreds of eggs under the gems.

In order to prevent them from indiscriminately destroying other eggs due to different hatching times, Zero deliberately asked the ant colony to disperse these eggs, and then sent three assassins to guard each other. Once the hatched larvae moved , to kill instantly.

After all, the previous two experiments proved that the insects would become powerful and manic after this mutation, so he had to guard against it.

It is worth mentioning that in the last aphid experiment, Zero also conducted an experiment on common queen ants, letting them eat the corpses of mutant aphids.

The result disappointed Zero. They did have a mutation reaction, but they were far inferior to the current two ant queens after mutation, and they could only produce a special species of honeydew ants, which was meaningless to Zero. , simply gave up.

Time passed day by day, the cold wind hit, and the vegetation withered.As in all previous winters, the autumn rains turned into snowflakes when they fell.

The cave laboratory where the gem is located, after the builders re-sealed it, has a certain insulation effect. Although it is not as warm as the inside of the ant nest, it is not enough to prevent the ant colony from moving.

The eggs placed by the ants in the middle of the cave remained unchanged, only the assassins who were still not afraid of the severe cold stood by quietly.

The vast majority of ant colonies have entered dormancy, and after a year of complete occupation of the island, they have completed all the projects they can and do not need to be active in winter.In this state, they can survive the harsh winter with only a small amount of food.

Within the entire ethnic group, only the cave here still maintains considerable activities.There are worker ants faithfully carrying food to feed the queen who is still eating non-stop. Under Zero's arrangement, occasionally another group of assassins will come forward to change shifts with the guards.

The whole world seemed to have fallen into silence, and Zero was also waiting for the day when these eggs would hatch.

However, maybe the temperature inside the cave was not suitable, or maybe it was some other reason, the eggs didn't make any movement throughout the winter.

Zero is not disappointed, He has plenty of time to wait.

As the days passed, the earth gradually shed its white shirt and put on new green clothes.

The outside temperature is rising day by day, and although the temperature change in the cave is not as obvious as outside due to the mountain cover, the overall temperature also rises with the outside.

As a matter of course, under such a suitable environment, the eggs in the cave also began to hatch one after another.

Under Zero's observation, the first thing to crawl out of the egg was a beetle!
Different from common beetles, this one is obviously mutated. The shiny outer armor reflects various colors under the colorful light, and the defense is amazing just by looking at it.

Although it is only in the state of a larva, it has a thicker armor than an adult beetle!

Consistent with what Zero expected, the beetle larva was ready to rush to the nearby eggs to eat as soon as it hatched, but it didn't expect that there was already a huge monster waiting for it above it.

Zero watched the familiar scene through the assassin's vision, and sure enough, before the beetle could take a few steps, it was blocked by two sharp forelimbs.

With the current size of the assassin, standing up completely can almost completely block the light above the larva!
One can imagine how huge these two forelimbs are for this beetle!

The larva suddenly stopped in front of the two sharp forelimbs that suddenly appeared in front of it, and retracted its head into the shell. At the same time, like a mechanism, the small shells on both sides instantly popped out to cover the front loophole.

Zero Kan was amazed, and wanted to test the hardness of the carapace, so he ordered the assassin to poke it with his feet.

Unexpectedly, the shiny and shiny shell is actually very slippery. Coupled with the curvature of the beetle's shell surface, the entire larva jumped out several feet away because of the slipping of the forelimb.

Then Zero saw that the larva seemed to be a thief, poked its head out and explored quickly, and then opened its legs and started to flee wildly.

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