Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 52 Ant Colony Air Units

The spring when the grass grows and the warblers fly quietly passed through zero waiting. It was not until the weather became hotter that the cocoons in the cave moved a little bit.

I saw the position of the cave near the wall, and the six cocoons began to shake a little one after another, and then the shaking became more and more intense, until finally, under the action of the internal force, the first crack of the cocoon cracked, followed by more strip.

Fragments of the cocoon gradually peeled off, finally revealing a neat row of six "monsters".

It is said to be a giant, but in fact it is only the size of a fist. Compared to the termite queen who was as huge as a hill at the beginning, it can only be called a small bean.However, compared to the previous beginning, this volume has almost become tens or hundreds of times larger!
And this evolution has not only resulted in changes in body size.

After absorbing the mutation factors in four mutant species, the queens seemed to have created a big move.

The original tentacles on the top of the head have basically degenerated, and there are only two slight protrusions and eyes left on the bare head. The clip-like upper jaw that was still usable has completely disappeared, replaced by a mammal-like The "mouth" that opens and closes up and down.

In fact, it is not appropriate to say that it is a mouth, at least in Zero's impression, the mouth should not be such a carapace-covered thing, but there is no doubt that it is indeed a mouth.

After it opens, it can be the size of a walnut at most, presumably this is to complete eating more quickly.

Except for the head, the chest has almost been shortened to an invisible level, or in other words, compared to the length of its abdomen, the chest has been almost negligible.

The limbs originally used for crawling have also become thin and short, unable to support such a huge body crawling on the ground. Perhaps after the next evolution, the queens can only crawl on the ground like earthworms.

Corresponding to this is their wide and long abdomen, perhaps to take care of patients with trypophobia, the original many holes on it have disappeared, replaced by granulation-like protruding from the lower abdomen A short, stubby organ with a passage at the end leading to the queen's abdomen.

And this organ is the channel for the queens to lay eggs. After the eggs complete the initial development in the queen's abdomen, they will come out of the body through these granulations.

This is essentially the same as the original hole in the abdomen, but in Zero's experiment, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the eggs that reached the body in this way seemed to be more mature than the original eggs!
It seems that there is some kind of ripening factor inside the granulation, which can quickly catalyze the eggs when they pass by.

The existence of this point undoubtedly greatly reduces the time required to hatch the ant colony. At the same time, because the eggs are stored in the queen's abdomen for a shorter period of time, the efficiency of the queens' egg laying has also been greatly enhanced.

This is only a change in the queen ant, and among the offspring produced by the queen ant, various types of ant species have been strengthened to varying degrees, and the most exciting thing for Ling is that it is hatched by the fighting queen ant Ants with wide wings, similar in appearance to assassins, and mutant flying ants hatched by the queen ant, which also have wide wings but are different from each ant species!
In addition to being slightly smaller in size, the former is almost an advanced version of the assassin in the air. It also has sharp and sharp mouthparts. The slight difference is that their forelimbs are no longer vertical vertebrae, but have become The saw-shaped barbs are full of barbs, which is helpful for them to stabilize their opponents when fighting in the air, so that they can win with a single blow with sharp mouthparts!
They are the first generation of mutant flying ants of the ant colony, and they are the air combat unit of the ant clan. Because they resemble assassins, they are called air assassins by Zero, which is simple and rude.

The latter is different from the previous ants. If you have to say it, it doesn't look like an ant in appearance, but more like an enlarged version of a bee.

Its wings are also wide, but they are thicker than air fighters, and correspondingly, their flight speed is far slower than combat units hatched in batches.

However, the thick wings also give them greater load.Their hind legs are covered with fine fluff, and the entire hind legs are slightly bent upwards.

Zero finally obtained more specific data through experiments. This ant species can hang objects three times its own weight with its hind legs while flying.

More importantly, only four of these ants are needed to easily lift the queen, which is about the size of an adult's fist, into the air, and it is very stable. If there is no accident, there is basically no possibility of falling.

Therefore, this ant species is called a transporter by zero.

So far, Zero's ant colony has eight different ant species, which are the rough-skinned and thick-skinned guardians under the fighting queen's command, the attack-focused assassins, the petite explorers, and the aerial assassins as air combat units. .

In addition, the builders responsible for ground transportation, the diggers responsible for underground development, the honeydew ants capable of producing honeydew, and the transporters capable of air transportation under the command of the logistics queen ant.

The eight ant species have basically covered the ground, the ground, and the sky. On the entire island, except for the inaccessible underground rock formations and the inaccessible high altitude, there is no place that can block Zero's vision.

And the sphere of influence of the ant colony, with the birth of the ant clan air unit, has basically reached the limit that can be reached at present.

Unless the queen ants can mutate again, and the results of evolution are of sufficient help for the ants to go deep into the ground or fly into the sky, Zero will no longer see the hope of expanding his field of vision in the short term.

In fact, even if this kind of evolution is achieved, it is of little significance to Zero. Drilling deeper and flying higher are of no practical significance on this island surrounded by sea water.

What's more, the insects on the island have been combed and slaughtered by the ants again and again, and there are already very few left. It is still a matter of whether they can gather the resources for the next evolution of the queen of ants.

Of course, despite this, Zero is still actively searching the entire island through his own field of vision observation, to see if there are any insects that have not been discovered by the ant colony, which can help promote the evolution of the queen ant again.

In fact, it is currently summer, even if Zero finds insects that have never been discovered before, there is no way to make them go against their nature to lay eggs at this time.

At the earliest, it will have to wait until autumn.

And Zero, who was doing nothing, for the first time looked at a field that he had never dared to imagine before—that is, the ocean surrounding the entire island.

"Maybe, I can use the creatures in the ocean to promote the evolution of the ant colony again?" Zero said to himself.

　Ask for support! !Ask for collection! !Ask for a monthly pass! !What do you want, hey~~

　　
　
(End of this chapter)