Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 61 Summer
Perhaps it was because the fish had lost its strength after being on the beach for too long, or maybe the heavens finally began to take care of the ant colony of Zero, and the hunting of this small fish was surprisingly smooth. After the guards used their forelimbs and upper jaw After controlling the struggling fish, the assassins used their long mouthparts to quickly end its life.

When breeding guardians before, Zero specially allocated a small batch of food for small-scale production of transporters, and let them be responsible for carrying these fresh food.

The transporter has a strong load-bearing capacity. With the weight of this fish, three or four transporters can carry it away from the air with the cooperation of three or four transporters.

Fortunately, there are no birds on the island now, and there is no threat to the air transportation of the ant colony.

Perhaps it was a good start with the harvest of the first small fish, coupled with the guidance of Zero's experience, the subsequent work became very smooth.

The ant colonies are constantly catching prey like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves on the beach, and small fish and shrimps are also constantly transported into the cave.As more and more food piled up in the cave, Zero's mood became more and more relaxed, and the original worries and anxieties gradually disappeared, replaced by a sense of relief.

However, although he was very happy to see more and more food zero, when the number reached a certain level, he stopped the predation behavior of the ant colony.

There is no other reason. Unlike sweet potatoes, the "shelf life" of these "seafood" is very short. With the ability of ants, it is difficult to preserve them for a long time. If they cannot be consumed in time, excessive predation on this kind of food is actually a a waste.

Zero thinks about it and knows that the reason why today's harvest is so rich must be because there has never been such a large-scale sweep this year.

This has happened before. If Zero doesn't take the ant colony out for a long time to hang out for fun, then the number of creatures on the beach will be more, and once he appears frequently, the number will decrease sharply.

Because there are many creatures on the beach that can survive for a long time if there is no ant tribe to prey on them.

Therefore, for long-term consideration, Zero decided to only capture a small part of them each time, enough for the ant colony to consume, and wait until this part is eaten, and then go to the beach.

Zero does not need to use the food produced here to support the expansion and development of the ant colony, all he needs is to ensure that this small colony will not run out of food before autumn comes.

Judging from the current harvest, this goal should not be difficult to achieve.

With the accumulation of food, explorers no longer need to hibernate in their nests, and they are resent by Zero to continue exploring in the vast area in the north.

In the following period of time, the builders successively completed the cultivation of new farmland at the foot of the mountain, and the explorers did not find nothing.

Perhaps the fresh water in the river gradually took away the nearby salt. When they were exploring, they found that new plants gradually grew near the river.

This discovery made Zero overjoyed, and he immediately organized the builders to go to the river to sow seeds. If they sowed at this time, they might be able to catch up with the autumn harvest.

Time passed day by day, and the ant colony, which gradually got rid of the food crisis, also became active.

They began to expand their range of activities at a slow speed, starting from the cave on the mountainside and gradually heading down the mountain. At the same time, the number of ant colonies was also increasing at a slow speed.

This actually stems from the need for predation.As the number of ant colonies preying on the beach increases, the amount of food that is easier to catch here is also declining rapidly.

Although the waves will leave some "lucky people" in the sea on the beach almost every day, but this number is not fixed, it is purely luck.

Sometimes there will be a lot. With the labor force of the ant colony, it is already exhausted just to carry it.

And sometimes, the bare coast even makes Zero wonder if he came to the wrong place.

Zero really hates this kind of uncertainty.This can be seen from His efforts to build earthworm pastures and aphid pastures, and even plant fruit trees and sweet potatoes, etc., to seek a stable food source for the ant clan.

From Zero's point of view, this kind of uncertainty means risk, and the ant tribe, which has just experienced a disaster not long ago, is currently in the period when it can't afford the risk the most.

But there is no way, there is still some time before autumn, during this time, He must accept this unstable food source, and work hard to increase the amount of food that is gradually declining.

This also made Zero have to gradually expand the predatory surface of the beach, which required more combat power to join in, and the number of ant colonies also quietly increased a little without knowing it.

The time has come to summer unknowingly. Before spring, zero has been estimated. If the food reserves of the ant colony at that time are used, then by this time, it will almost be exhausted.

However, due to the development of beach hunting grounds, although it is not stable, there is a steady stream of food that is continuously transported from the sea to the cave. Under the purpose of prioritizing the consumption of these hard-to-preserve foods, the ant colonies did not eat the stored food in the granary. Food, so that the old sweet potatoes that survived the disaster last year still have a little leftover.

This is of course a very good phenomenon. Although the current scale of the ant colony is still not as good as it should have been, with zero efforts, it has finally come out of the aftermath of the disaster and is continuing to develop in a better direction.

The builders planted a large number of sweet potato seeds in a saturated planting method in the spring. Due to the tsunami and earthquake, Zero did not have enough fertilizer reserves, so there was always some concern that they would not be able to germinate.

But the fact is that most of the seeds were pushed out of the ground shortly after planting, and their growth was not necessarily worse than in previous years in Zero's opinion.

Zero thinks that this may be the reason for the massive death of plants and animals on the island. Their buried corpses are fermented by microorganisms to provide enough nutrition for the sweet potatoes under zero species, so that they can grow even without the fertilizer supply of previous years. well done.

Of course, Zero did not forget to let the guardians use their well-developed mandibles to remove dense redundant seedlings and provide living space for the remaining sweet potato seedlings to ensure their quality of life and increase their overall yield.

It is also worth mentioning that after evaporation and infiltration throughout the spring, the muddy grassland gradually became dry again. Only the large and small salt stains left on the ground proved that the sea water had indeed come.

In the hot summer, except for the scarcity of plants on the island, there is not much difference from previous years, except for the bumpy and uneven ground.

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　　That,,, as I said at the end of yesterday’s chapter, when I was saving the manuscript, I set up the next plot with a big brain. In fact, I also know that it is difficult to achieve in reality, but this is still a novel, so I slapped my head and wrote it down, it looked a bit whimsical, and I changed it a few times later, but it didn't make sense.Although it is shameless to say so, I still hope that everyone will not be serious, it is just my imagination.

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