Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 55 Situation (please read more!!)
The tide receded gradually, and Zero passed the few remaining transporters, looking at the devastated island, he wanted to cry but had no tears.

It's been ten years of hard work, all kinds of hard work, all kinds of hard work, and it's all lost in one day!
Under the attack of this earthquake and tsunami, there are less than a thousand ant colonies that originally numbered over ten million, which is less than one ten-thousandth of the original number!

All the underground projects built with a huge labor force in the past ten years were destroyed, and the well-planted fruit trees and sweet potatoes were uprooted by the waves...

After the tsunami, there were no grasslands or forests on the entire island, only swamp tides and uneven land that could be seen everywhere.

After the disaster, not a single blade of grass grows.

One by one, Zero's mood became extremely complicated.

Just a few days ago, he was complacent and thought that the ant colony now had no natural enemies on the entire island, so he leisurely led the guards to wander by the seaside for entertainment.

But within one day, everything was gone, leaving only this devastated place waiting for Him to clean up.

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Under the desperate protection of the ant colony, only six ant queens survived the disaster. They are the most important thing to protect the zero-sum ant colony. A little bit of kindling was planted, which was considered a blessing among misfortunes.

The foot of the mountain was almost a swamp country, and the ants couldn't get a foothold at all, so Ling simply sent two surviving air units to the cave in the belly of the mountain to check the situation.

The reason why I went there to check was because after discovering the gem, Zero put the focus of the ant colony on the evolution experiment and hoarded a lot of supplies there. Before the disaster happened, it seemed to have become the largest place for the ant colony. One of the material bases.

Moreover, the terrain there is higher, and after the tide recedes, it is the most likely place for the ant colony to live again.

Soon, Zero saw the situation of the cave through their vision.

The original channels established by the ant colony have been basically damaged, but there are still a small number of channels that can barely be used.

Zero immediately sent several surviving builders to clear the passage. He must know what is going on inside the cave today.

There is no doubt that the ant colony that originally remained in the cave must have all died, and Zero's lack of vision inside the cave is enough to illustrate this point.

Fortunately, the builders who have undergone several evolutions are very efficient and strong enough, and soon opened up a passage that can barely lead to the interior of the cave based on a well-preserved passage.

Zero immediately let them go in to see the situation, and at the same time, he led the ant colony to carefully protect the only remaining ant queen and moved towards the cave.

Through the vision of the builder, Zero discovered that after the tsunami passed, almost all the accumulated water in the cave had flowed out, only a little remained in the depression in the middle of the cave, but as time went by, presumably this sourceless water would soon disappear. will dry up.

It is unbelievable that such a large cave has been miraculously kept basically intact under such a disaster, and even the gems on the top of the cave are still emitting colorful lights.

Zero has to lament the unique structure here, such a strong earthquake and tsunami cannot destroy it!
The drowned corpses of the ants were scattered all over the walls of the cave and in the small pool in the central depression, densely packed.

It can be seen that there must be many ants staying here when the disaster happened.

Zero directed the ants to carefully relocate the two types of queens to the edge of the cave along the newly opened passage, and then he was slightly relieved. The closed cave gave him a little sense of security, and he gradually put aside Unnecessary emotions, become calmer.

It is no exaggeration to say that this disaster is the closest to zero.

If it weren't for the ant colony that survived the earthquake to protect several queens in the ant nest on the top of the mountain, I am afraid that Zero will inevitably return to the fate of returning to nothingness.

However, fortunately, all of this has passed, and there are still queen ants in the ant colony, which means that it is not impossible to make a comeback.

After calming down, Zero immediately dispatched the builder to explore the granary closest to the cave.The first step of development must be to ensure a sufficient supply of food. There are no living things on the ground at present. Only by finding the original granary can we continue to survive.

After the center of gravity of the ant colony was shifted to the cave, in order to meet the daily needs of the queen ants, five granaries were naturally built around it for the consumption of the ant colony and queen ants working here.

Now, Zero is sending builders to find one of the granaries and see if they can get the food out.

After a round of exploration, two of the passages among the five granaries are still relatively intact. If you spend time cleaning them up, they should be able to come in handy.

As for the other three, after zero judgment, based on the number of surviving ant colonies, even if they open the passage at any cost, it will inevitably take a lot of time.

In the granary that has been flooded, the original cold and dry environment will no longer exist. Under the rapid reproduction and decomposition of various microorganisms, the shelf life of food will be shortened sharply.

Under the current circumstances, it is the right way to give priority to taking out easily available food.

Even if the granary on the mountainside is like this, let alone at the bottom of the mountain, even if it can be preserved in an earthquake without water-proof structures, it is probably still soaking in the water, and it is impossible to use it.

And to make matters worse, winter is coming.

And on the entire island at present, if microbes are not counted, I am afraid that there are less than a thousand ants, and they are the only living things left.Without living things, there would be no source of food. Therefore, the only thing Zero can rely on now are these two granaries.

Under the hard work of the builders, two passages leading to different granaries were quickly cleared, and Zero directed them to carry out the water-soaked food in the granary one by one, and put them in the cave. Shade dry as much as possible so they can last longer.

Fortunately, before the disaster happened, there were tens of thousands of ants of all kinds in the ant colony in the cave. At that time, the ant clan basically had no food problems, so the five surrounding granaries were full. Because it is the autumn harvest season, most of them are sweet potatoes and berries, and there are still a small amount of fruits left.

With the food, Zero relaxed a lot. He immediately asked the builders to feed a few queen ants, and let them start to reproduce themselves, that is, to breed more queens.Now there are only a few of them, and Zero really has no way to feel at ease. If something unexpected happens, he will not exist.

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