Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 5 Division of Labor and Predation

With No. [-], the ant colony that was originally saturated began to grow again.In order to prevent confusion in the command system of the ant colony, Zero made a simple division of labor between No. [-] and No. [-].

No. [-] is in charge of commanding most of the worker ants and a small number of soldier ants. This part of the ant colony is only responsible to No. [-]. They take on the important task of foraging for food, expanding and repairing the ant nest.

And No. [-] commands most of the soldier ants, all drones and a small number of worker ants.This part of the ant colony is responsible for defending the ant nest, supporting fighting, cutting food, breeding offspring, and feeding the queen and larvae.

All ant species have a clear division of labor, and if there is a loss, they will replenish themselves.

Although there is one more queen ant, the efficiency of the ant nest has not decreased.At present, the ants in the ant nest have not reached the upper limit of the command of the two queens. The command system that was originally stretched by No. [-] has become efficient again. Every day, a steady stream of food such as grass seeds and insect corpses are transported from outside the ant nest to the granary. , the food originally consumed by breeding larvae and expanding the cave was quickly replenished.

Through the field of vision of the empty space, Zero has gradually figured out the topography of the ten meters nearby in these days. This is indeed a piece of wild grass. At least within ten meters are densely packed grass, with some high and some low.

At this time of day, the original yellow leaves have faded, and the new green shoots are freely fluttering in the wind, and Zero can't see the border of the grass.

The expansion of the ant colony also allowed Zero to expand his field of vision a lot. In addition to the inside of the ant nest, Ling could also see a radius of one meter outside the ant nest from his own perspective.In other words, any disturbance within a radius of one meter around the ant nest would hardly escape Zero's observation.

Obviously, the void space has already determined that this piece of land belongs to Zero's sphere of influence.

Zero calls the direction where the sun rises in the morning the east, and the opposite direction is the west. The left side of the east face is north, and the right side is called south.

From the perspective of ants who went out to explore, Zero found that the exit of the ant nest was a raised mound as a whole, and the eastern mound of the ant nest quickly became shorter, and then it was flat.

Five meters away to the south is a ridge about [-] centimeters high, and there is also endless grassland below.

The slope in the north is gentler and gradually becomes flat.

As for the higher part of the mound to the west, there is another ant colony there, and it is also the only ant colony that Ling found on the mound besides his own.

This group of ants should be the ones who snatched the beetle's corpse with No. [-]. If there is no accident, No. [-] should have been the female ants born in this ant nest, but they separated and established their own colony.

Zero energy found them thanks to the expansion of the ant colony. In order to obtain more food, the worker ants had to expand their search range to find them.

Spring is the season of revival of all things, and there are not many sources of food. The creatures that have just come out of winter are very energetic, showing their vitality wantonly.It is rare to encounter insect corpses that died naturally.

In the past, the main food source of the ant nest was grass seeds, and the larvae could obtain energy from the seeds of these weeds.However, after spring, a large number of seeds germinate and are no longer suitable for food.

This forces the ant colony to look for new food sources, and new food sources on this large grass mean - fighting.

The worker ants spread out to explore, and once they find insects that can be hunted, they immediately return to the ant nest to summon a large army of soldier ants to hunt.

A worker ant wandered around in the grass, and soon found a grasshopper among the grass.

However, the fast-moving grasshoppers are not their staple food. Unless they are injured, it is difficult for the ant colony to catch up with them.

The worker ants move on, targeting fat, slow-moving larvae.

In autumn, many insects will lay their eggs in the soil. In the next spring, the larvae will break out of the soil and gradually grow into adults.

The worker ants are mainly looking for this kind of larvae. They move extremely slowly and have weak attack power, making them the best prey.

After careful exploration, the worker ant found the target, which was a bulging piece of ground, and there was something slowly struggling underneath, trying to get out of the soil.

This is obviously not a germinated seed. The worker ant approached cautiously and confirmed that there is a pile of small eggs on the ground, several of which have hatched, and the larvae are trying to climb out.

However, they have been discovered by worker ants, and they have no chance to climb out of the land to grow up.

Soon, with the return of this worker ant, a long army of soldier ants and worker ants spread out from the ant nest.

Several larger soldier ants took the lead in getting into the raised gap, and at the same time lifted the exposed ground.

Many ants swarmed up, and dozens of worker ants grabbed the unhatched eggs and ran towards the ant nest. The remaining hundreds of ants quickly attacked the five hatched larvae.

How could the delicate bodies of the larvae withstand such fierce bites?He could only shake his legs helplessly, trying to push away the ants that had bitten him.

However, this is doomed to be in vain. Once the huge mandibles of the soldier ants are clamped, they can easily tear off the legs of the larvae. Soon, the few white and tender larvae have no possibility of struggling, and they are carried back to the ant with the help of the worker ants. hole.

Their bodies can feed the larvae very well, and the nutrient-rich liquid in their bodies can also replenish the energy of the worker ants with small waists. Many limbs can also be stored in the granary for future use, which is very suitable for the ant colony.

According to zero statistics, the number of insect nests that an ant colony can find every day is not stable, sometimes it is three or two, and sometimes it can reach five or six.

Moreover, as time goes on, fewer and fewer larvae can be found overall.

The reason is also very simple. As time goes by, the number of insects within the range of activities of the ant colony gradually decreases. Some are found by the ant colony and become food for the ants, and some are lucky enough to turn into butterflies and become adults.

Without an easy source of food, the colonies challenge the more powerful insects.Relying on their superiority in numbers, they surround the lone and slow-moving bugs, continuously attacking them, consuming their physical strength, attacking their weak spots, and dragging them back to their nests to disintegrate them until they are powerless to resist.

Naturally, losses are inevitable in this kind of battle. Every time, a large number of worker ants or soldier ants are killed in the opponent's resistance, and sometimes even the ant colony that has paid casualties cannot kill the opponent. In the end, the bamboo basket is empty. Zero also saw a lot of this kind of scene.

"Maybe, I have a way to make it easier for them to get food." Zero thought so.

　Ask for collection! ! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)