Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 62 Bold Ideas (add another chapter, thank you for your tolerance!)

The sun was shining brightly, and the sea water reflected the sunlight directly from the sky like a blue mirror, reflecting pieces of red golden scales.

On the beach, the guards are besieging a crab that crawled out of nowhere.

This kind of creature has a solid carapace and sharp double pincers. Its body size is five times that of the guardian. For the ant colony, it has almost no fatal weakness on the surface.

However, this is not a problem.

Although the crab's pincers can pose a certain threat to the guardian, the guardian who has undergone several evolutions is not a soft egg that anyone can handle.

As long as it is not caught in the softer part of the abdomen by the crab, its attack is no longer fatal.

Because after several evolutions, the size of the guardian has grown significantly, it is difficult for this crab to open its claws to a "full flank" attack on the guardian, which means that most of its attacks are just wasted Physical strength only.

Of course, with the forelimbs and upper jaws of the guardians, there is absolutely no possibility of penetrating the crab's carapace.

Even so, they are not helpless with this crab.

Can't penetrate the carapace, can't it cut off the limbs?

With the bite force of the guardian's upper jaw, ordinary plant roots are no longer able to make them exert their full strength, and the crab's slender legs are not impossible to try.

Although there is also outer armor protection there, compared to the back, it seems a bit insignificant.

Moreover, the crab's legs still have joint weaknesses, which provides great convenience for the guardians.

Under the siege of the ant colony, soon, in the desperate struggle of the crab, all the lower half of its eight legs were taken off by the guards, and the main parts of the body were only the head and a head. Just for pliers.

Crabs of this level have lost their deterrence to the ant colony even more. Under the cover of the guards, several assassins came to it, and with lightning speed, they removed the forelimbs together with the slender and sharp mouthparts from the ant colony. The joint of the carapace pierced in, causing it to struggle violently.

After several rounds of this, the ants quickly backed away.

This crab is already certain to die, and all the activities now are just a struggle before being beaten to death, and there is no need for the ant colony to fight it any longer.

Sure enough, after frantically waving the pliers for a while, it gradually lost all movement and died completely.

For such predation activities, the ant colonies have been on the beach for several months, and they are already familiar with it.When encountering simple and weak prey, the ant colony swarms up to quickly resolve the battle, while for difficult ones like crabs, the guardians rely on their strong defenses to fight with them in front, consuming the opponent's physical strength and waiting for an opportunity to inflict damage on the opponent. kill.

And behind them, there are a few assassins quietly lying on their stomachs. They quietly wait for the opportunity to attack. Once they find the opportunity, they will use their sharp minions to launch a fatal blow to the prey under the cover of the guards!
This hunting method is very efficient when dealing with creatures like crabs, or in other words, it is very efficient for creatures whose combat power is almost the same as that of ant colonies, and it is almost rare to miss.

During this period of time, Zero, the magic weapon for defeating the enemy, has been used to perfection. He even thought about ways to add the ant tribe units in the sky to improve the combat efficiency.

However, the possibility of realizing this idea is not great. After all, for opponents of comparable size, there is basically no need to launch an attack from the air, and if the size is too large and there are too many ant colonies, this kind of attack may not be meaningful , can't do much damage.

In the end, after several attempts, Zero also gradually extinguished this thought.

However, as the overall capture of ant colonies on the beach has become less and less recently, Zero has another bold idea-can the ants try to explore the ocean?

In fact, since the thought of obtaining food from the beach, Zero has already had ignorant thinking about this kind of thinking, but the crisis facing the ant colony at that time was too severe, and Zero had no time to think about this matter.

And, even at the time, the ant colony didn't have the energy or the food to try to do it.

But now, the food obtained by the ant tribe has been able to maintain the current scale. After the harvest is completed in autumn, a large amount of food will enter the granary. This batch of food is only the most basic to meet the current ant colony activities. If there is no accident, there will be some savings in the next autumn if the ant colony has been maintained.

That is to say, as long as the autumn harvest is completed, the food problem that has plagued the ant colony for a long time will be solved to a considerable extent. After solving the food problem, Zero needs to think about how to re-develop and grow the ant colony.

Under the background that the arable land on the island is severely damaged today, the thought of whether it is possible to search for the ocean naturally appeared in Zero's mind.

He thought about it carefully. Before the disaster happened, he had made similar attempts, but all of them ended in failure.

Because in order to accomplish this, the ant clan must have ant species that can at least enter the water.According to the conclusions drawn from previous experiments, it is necessary for the eggs of aquatic organisms to hatch in the cave and be swallowed by the queen ant.

Among them, there are two main difficulties encountered. One is that the eggs of aquatic organisms are basically very fragile, and it is really difficult to carry them.

The second is that even if he managed to finish the transfer, he couldn't let it hatch in the dark environment of the cave.

These two points are like a moat preventing Zero and his ant tribe from marching towards the ocean. Facing the surging tide, no matter how Zero thinks, they can't move forward.

So, have these two puzzles changed in the present, post-disaster?After thinking about it for a long time, Zero still felt that this was an impossible task for the current ant race.

However, inspired by this, he found another way and thought of a tricky way, that is, to try to build an aquaculture base!
Compared with such a grand cause of going to the ocean, it seems a bit trivial to start an aquaculture farm, but there are many difficulties that may be faced in this process.

Zero carefully considered the feasibility of this idea.The first is the choice of place. If the number is sufficient, let the diggers and builders cooperate to dig a large pit near the seaside as the most basic version of the breeding ground. This should not be difficult. If the design is clever, use The ebb and flow of the tide can even complete the problem of changing the water.

This is just a matter of the size of the project and the amount of labor required. As long as you start to do it, it will be completed sooner or later.At most, it needs zero effort to design a water change structure.

The second is to strengthen the large pit to a certain extent. It is obviously not enough to rely solely on the silt and natural pebbles arranged by the sea. Even if it is barely formed, it will not last long.

For this, Zero's preliminary plan is to collect cobblestones on the edge of the cliff to cooperate with the adhesive secreted by the builders, and then add some clay to try to complete it.

If this step is to be completed, there should be no technical difficulties, and it can definitely be completed.The only thing to worry about is whether this level can meet the needs of zero.

For the current ant colony, the load-bearing capacity of builders and transporters is already very strong, and it is not difficult to carry pebbles the size of eggs to designated locations.Things like clay can be seen everywhere on the island, but they are not lacking at all.

Even diggers can enhance the viscosity of the soil after they swallow it. It is theoretically feasible to use its reprocessed clay products to bond cobblestones, and then use the adhesive secreted by builders. .

But there is a huge problem here, and it is also the point that Zero is most worried about.

That is, can this air-dried and bonded product withstand the erosion of seawater and the damage caused by cultured organisms?
Zero is not sure. He still needs to do experiments to verify the former before he can draw a conclusion, while the latter can only be confirmed after the project is completed and put into use.

If this step can also be successfully completed, then the most critical step has come.

　Thank you for your support, I know it’s a bit whimsical to realize this, and I don’t know how this industry works, but I still wrote it out of my mind, that,,,, just take it as the plot needs (cover face) , Thank you for your tolerance!Also humbly learn from everyone.

　　
　
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