Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 6 Earthworms
The sky turned gloomy, and the billowing dark clouds slowly sank in the sky, giving the creatures on the ground a strong sense of oppression.

Small ants can't feel this kind of oppressive feeling, but they can feel the heavy rain is coming, they carry food in groups, or strengthen the waterproof facilities of the cave entrance and the cave.

Using his vision, Ling directed the worker ants to build some small waterproof facilities around the ant nest.

After a while, the heavy rain poured down, and the ant colony quickly retreated into the ant nest.Bits of rain dripped into the ground along the blades of grass, and seeped into the ground along the cracks in the soil.

The ant nest was basically not affected by the rain, because the ants that were withdrawn from the ant nest by the heavy rain did not sit idle, they continued to expand their nest under the command of Zero, and built homes for more ant colonies in the future .

The front exit could no longer go out due to the rain, so they transported the cleaned up soil particles to the large food-cutting cave for temporary storage, and waited for the weather to clear before transporting them out.

The bottom of the cave has been deepened again, and new vents will be built in the middle of the southern ridge, where the wind speed is faster and the cave interior can be better ventilated.

The queens and larvae were moved to deeper caves, and the vacant caves became the residences of worker ants and soldier ants.

The No. [-] plan is to breed three queen ants again, to expand the colony as much as possible, and to ensure their own survival.

It's not that No. [-] doesn't want to hatch more queen ants to speed up the development of the group, but after calculation, the exploration area currently mastered can only support a maximum of [-] ants to survive. Food is the biggest challenge. If it exceeds this Quantity, the ant nest will face a serious food crisis.

Of course, after the expansion of the ant nest, the corresponding exploration range will also increase rapidly, and the pressure from food can be slightly relieved by then.

Although this kind of ant is omnivorous, it is insensitive to grass leaves and roots. Grass leaves rich in cellulose are no different from slow poison to larvae. Not only is it not beneficial to the growth of larvae, but may kill them.

Only starch-rich grass seeds and insect bodies with extremely high protein content can provide the larvae with the nutrients they need to grow.

Therefore, the main factor limiting the growth of ant colony is not the number of queen ants, but food.

For food, I have some ideas in my heart, but I suffer from the conditions that have not been realized.

However, until today, a group of worker ants finally found traces of earthworms when they were moving soil clods to expand their caves.

The worker ants naturally couldn't distinguish the earthworms, but Ling could tell at a glance that the loose and collapsed caves must be traces left by earthworms!
The cave is slanted upwards. It seems that the earthworm was forced to crawl to the ground because of the rainy weather and the lack of oxygen in the soil.

Zero immediately mobilized a large number of soldier ants and worker ants, and quickly chased into the cave drilled by the earthworm.

In the vision of Zero, earthworms are one of the most important solutions to the food source of ant colonies.Therefore, He had to catch this earthworm.

The soldier ants rushed forward, because the cave was not wide and there were many collapses. The pursuit process was not smooth, and the ants had to clean up the miscellaneous soil that hindered their progress while advancing.

Fortunately, the creeping speed of earthworms is not fast, and the number of ant colonies is extremely large. Although it took a lot of effort, the soldier ants were the first to discover the traces of earthworms.

The ants are naturally not polite. According to the queen's order, they need to drag the earthworm back to the ant nest at all costs.By nature, they are not afraid of anything, not even death can stop them from completing their tasks.

The ants swarmed up and bit the back of the earthworm and pulled it back desperately. Because of the narrowness of the cave, only a few soldier ants could exert strength.

Of course, the remaining worker ants were not idle, they quickly expanded the soft cave behind them, creating conditions for subsequent fighting and consignment.

There are thousands of ants, and the work is going very smoothly, and the cave behind him is getting wider at a very fast speed.

The poor earthworm didn't know why this group of ants suddenly went crazy, and they were fighting with themselves in such a small place. Out of survival instinct, it rolled over crazily, trying to shake off or rub off the soldier ants that bit it.

I have to say that this trick is very effective.The ants, which are much smaller than the earthworm, obviously cannot compete with the earthworm in strength. They are easily thrown by the earthworm on the wall. After a few strokes, the ants who bit it are either dead or disabled.

However, the fearless ant colony doesn't know what it means to be afraid. When the ant in front dies, the soldier ants in the back will naturally go up and hold the earthworm tightly, preventing it from escaping.

In fact, although an earthworm can be said to be huge compared to ants and occupies a favorable terrain advantage, when it is dragged down by thousands of ants, it is doomed to have nowhere to escape.

The earthworm kept rolling, throwing off the wounded or disabled ants, but inadvertently made the originally rugged and narrow cave much wider.

The ants went forward one after another, and more ant colonies attached to the earthworm, dragging it backward desperately.

After an unknown amount of time, the movements of the struggling earthworm gradually slowed down.

It was covered with cuts and bruises, and it almost had no strength to struggle, but the ants were still alive and well, tearing it back desperately, and some ants even crawled to its side, trying to raise it a bit, so that the dragging ants could Drag it more easily.

The earthworm that is no longer struggling is no longer a threat to the ants, and its soft body provides the ants with too many points of strength.Coupled with the expansion of the cave behind it, the ant colony dragged it back to the main passage of the ant nest without much effort.

In the deep and dark underground, Zero indicated that a large group of soldier ants took good care of the earthworm and provided it with humus food. On the other hand, he ordered No. [-] to dispatch a large number of worker ants to search for suitable earthworms near the ground inside the ant nest. Breeding location.

That's right, zero preparation for raising earthworms.

The food of earthworms is extremely easy to obtain on this vast grassland, and they multiply quickly, and they can also produce organic fertilizers, which are the best source of food.

This is not zero whimsy.This is entirely possible with the cooperation of the ant colony and its absolute control over the colony.

As long as the ants have opened up the ant nest, he can "see" the nearby geological conditions. For him, as long as the place occupied by the ant colony for a long time is his field of vision, that is, his territory.

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