Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 51 The Fourth Evolution

Although this layer of "armor" of the queen ant is very tasteless in Zero's eyes, when it comes to hardness and protection ability, it is not a simple decoration, it has quite strong protection ability.Even if the assassin's mouthparts are stabbed up frontally, it cannot be pierced in one go.

However, this is not the focus of Zero.

As soon as they crawled out of their eggs, Zero ordered them to produce all the ant species they could produce.

At the same time as they laid the first batch of eggs, the corpses of the mutated grasshoppers had already been brought in front of them, and the hardness test of their outer armor was just incidental.

The hatching speed of this batch of eggs is about the same as last time, basically there is not much change, only a few ant species have changed.

During this mutation, the several ant species did not seem to have changed much. Both the body shape and appearance were basically the same as before, except that the original dark or light color on the surface had all become bright black.

It was a layer of black or thin or thick outer armor, which was integrated with their original skin, and their own hardness was also greatly strengthened because of this.

However, it seems that this enhancement is also targeted.And this pertinence is especially evident in the assassins and guardians.

There is only a thin layer on the assassin's body, but the weapons on the forelimbs and head are more rigid, and their lethality increases linearly. As long as the speed is fast enough, its forelimbs can directly penetrate deeply into the compacted soil in an instant. In the middle of the layer, piercing the bark is not a problem at all.Even the previously impotent beetle shells can no longer block their sharp blades.

The guardians are completely different from the assassins. Their bodies are covered with a thick layer of dark armor, especially the defensive ability of the head has been greatly strengthened.

The forelimbs that were originally like praying mantises have also become slightly wider, and when they are closed in two directions, they can just block the head.

In this mutation, the guardian and the assassin are completely two extremes. One focuses on enhancing its own attack power, while the other is completely opposite, fully stacking armor and enhancing defense power.

Out of curiosity, Zero came up with the idea of ​​attacking the other's shield with his spear, so he also tried it.

As a result, the assassin's forelimbs fell under the guardian's carapace defense, and it seemed that the guardian's defense was better.

However, they also have weaknesses. Compared to the thick carapace piled up on the back, the lower part of their abdomen is much thinner. If the assassin stabbed at this position, the result would be completely different.

Except for these two ant species, other ant species such as honeydew ants and builders have not changed much. The strength of the legs of the builders has been strengthened and can bear heavier cargo, while the honeydew ants are even more Only the head defense has been enhanced a bit, as has the Digger.

In general, each has been slightly strengthened.

After testing the changes of each ant species, Zero refocused on the two queens who were still eating grasshopper carcasses.

However, what makes Zero a little confused is that according to the previous rules, they should have ingested enough insect corpses, and by this time they should start to become uneasy and prepare to cocoon and mutate.

But now, the two ant queens who were fed with zero focus are just eating the delicious meal in front of them in their leisure time, showing no signs of evolution at all.

Zero was a little worried.

Since there were not many eggs collected at the beginning, the corpses of this group of grasshoppers have been almost consumed in the past few days.Although judging from the previous experience, it should be completely sufficient.

But this time seems to be a little different, if there is still no movement after eating them, the grasshopper corpses will be exhausted!
In the current season, the grasshoppers that should be hatched have already completed hatching, and it is unlikely that there are still unhatched eggs.

That is to say, in a short period of time, it is impossible for Zero to provide them with more grasshopper meat.

However, thinking of the fact that the queens ate a large amount of termite queen meat but could not evolve again, Zero felt relieved.

He suddenly felt that this might not be a matter of quantity.

If it was a matter of consumption, how could the huge corpses of the termite queens have allowed the queens to evolve a dozen times, so that there would be no movement after only one time.

"Perhaps, it's a puzzle-like mechanism?" Zero boldly began to guess.

"Perhaps different mutated species contain different mutated substances in their bodies. This substance will not play any role in the next evolution under purely quantitative changes until new mutated substances are added to complement this mutated puzzle. Can open the door to the next stage of mutation?"

There is little evidence for this speculation, but it is very reasonable.

However, Zero didn't try it rashly. Instead, after the queens completely ate up the stored grasshopper meat and still showed no signs of mutation, they took out the mutated praying mantis, locust and cicada meat to feed them.

Among these three, the number of locusts is the largest, followed by cicadas, and the number of praying mantises is the least.

Therefore, Ling first used the insect meat of the mutated praying mantis to feed the queen ant, the purpose of which was to verify his guess.

If during this process, the queens of the ants start the mutation process, then my guess needs to be put aside for a while, after all, the amount of insect meat from grasshoppers was not much before, maybe this time the insect meat from praying mantises made up the amount they needed Maybe.

However, if the evolution has not started after eating the praying mantis meat, then Zero is very confident that it is what he guessed.

Sure enough, even though it took three days to eat all the praying mantis meat, the queens still failed to evolve again, but became a little more active.

Zero does not know why this fourth mutation is so difficult. The queens have already eaten two mutant species. If, as I guessed, they need more mutation puzzles from other species to piece together what they need for mutation, then It doesn't make sense that only one kind of beetle was needed for the third mutation, but for the fourth time, neither of the two mutant creatures could meet this requirement.

Filled with doubts, and having initially confirmed his conjecture, Zero simply fed the mutated cicada meat and mutated locust meat to the queens.

But this time, the ant queens finally had a significant change.

Unlike the last few times when they became restless before evolution, this time, the queens just had a burst of strenuous exercise that seemed to have nowhere to vent their energy. Suddenly, the six queens used for the experiment started cocooning at the same time!

Their cocooning speed was many times faster than the previous few times, and in just a few ten minutes, the cocoon surrounding their now huge bodies was basically completed, and it was obviously bigger than their bodies.

The queen ants sealed themselves in their cocoons, and were silent for a while.

Zero had nothing to do but wait for them to emerge from their cocoons.

However, it took more than two months for them to cocoon this time.

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