Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 63 Experiment and Harvest

If you want to farm, what kind of aquatic products is more suitable for farming?what do they eatHow to provide it?

This question continued to plague Zero, but as his thoughts stretched, memories from the past gradually came to mind.

Eventually, he came up with the answer, thinking of the earthworms that ant colonies once farmed on a large scale, and the farmable organisms in the sea that might feed on them.

Regarding the breedable creatures, Zero thought of the little yellow croaker that was struggling to survive on the beach two days ago, and thought it might be a good choice.

As for earthworms, with the rapid development of the ant colony, this kind of creature has actually been gradually marginalized by the ant tribe, because it provides too little nutrition, and it is more troublesome to feed. In the end, the ant tribe has no worries about food and clothing. At that time, Zero basically stopped paying attention to them.

However, after being hit by the earthquake and tsunami, Zero still had to pick up this business again. In line with the idea of ​​​​making two shots if there is no date, and to be prepared, he let the ant colony live under the humus-rich soil by the sea. I caught some earthworms and restarted breeding, hoping that they can shine again and make a little contribution to the ant colony through the most difficult period.

However, it has to be said that it is not without reason that the earthworms were eventually eliminated by the ant colony.Their reproductive cycle is too long, and until now there are only a hundred or so, which is not enough to solve the urgent need for the ant colony, and if they wait until their number grows, Zero must have once again solved the food problem for the ant colony.

However, using them to raise fish may be a good choice.

Thus, the third question has been answered.

Then there is only the last question, which is also the most serious question. If the breeding is successful, how to complete the fishing in the water?

This problem cannot be solved by relying on the ants themselves. The ant colony has undergone several evolutions, and its various abilities have been greatly strengthened.

However, so far, Zero has not obtained any ant species that can move in water, let alone move in water, it is not bad to be able to fall into the water without being drowned.This is also the biggest reason why Zero temporarily gave up the idea of ​​exploring the ocean and turned to whimsical research on fish farming.

So, this is actually the biggest problem.

On the premise that there are no ants in the water, Zero must think of a tricky way to solve this problem indirectly, otherwise it will not be called breeding, but a babysitter for aquatic creatures.

As long as this problem is solved, everything else is easy to talk about. You only need to dig channels to introduce seawater into the built aquaculture pond, and try your luck to catch a few small yellow croakers on the beach and throw them in to watch the changes. One can try again.

So far, the problems faced by aquaculture have been listed one by one. Among them, the problem of how to catch the aquaculture products is more difficult to solve. In addition, the resistance of the treated clay-bonded pebbles to seawater erosion needs to be solved. experiment.

As long as these two problems are solved, the construction can basically start, and it will not be too late to solve the remaining problems that may arise after the completion of the project.

Regarding the experiment of drying clay and bonding pebbles to cope with seawater erosion, Zero is actually not optimistic.Although the clay treated by the diggers is indeed very sticky, there are a lot of electrolytes in the seawater, and this kind of electrochemical erosion is very difficult for the clay to resist.

Even so, Zero decided to start the experiment first.After all, although I have this idea, there are still a few months before the harvest season of the ant colony. Instead of waiting for the sweet potatoes to mature, it is better to use this time to complete this experiment, which can be regarded as a result for myself.

Of course, even if this clay bond really couldn't resist the erosion of seawater, Zero didn't intend to give up.

As the saying goes, as long as the mind does not slip, there are always more solutions than difficulties.

If the clay bonding can't achieve the desired effect, Zero is going to abandon the original bonding plan and directly use the clumsy method of multi-layer accumulation to complete the project. It is nothing more than spending more effort, but it is absolutely effective.

In the following days, Zero started the experiment.

He first asked a few diggers to produce a batch of processed clay, and then asked builders and transporters to move dozens of egg-sized pebbles from under the cliff, which was regarded as the completion of the preparation of raw materials.Then the pebbles are moved, glued to each other with clay near the shore, and then allowed to dry.

After that, use the grass stalks that have completely withered but still have a certain degree of toughness as a rope, and a group of strong guards will bite two sections respectively, and then wrap the whole stone block that has been completely dried, and then more builders Helped pull it, exhausted all means, and finally placed it on a rock on the shore where the tide could wash it.

At this point, Zero no longer paid attention to it, and just sent explorers to take a look at it regularly.

While Zero was completing the experiment, time also passed rapidly in the ebb and flow of sea water.

In a blink of an eye, the autumn wind rose again.

Watching the sweet potato leaves above the ground from emerald green to dark green and then gradually turning yellow with zero expectation, he knew that the long-awaited harvest time had arrived!
Zero beamingly ordered the builders and diggers to drive into the ground, completely turned the ripe sweet potato roots out of the ground one by one, and then asked the guards to cut the upper branches and leaves, and then transported them into the ground in a prosperous manner. In the underground granary that has already been excavated.

At the same time, Zero did not ignore the remaining above-ground parts of sweet potatoes. After properly collecting the seeds produced by sweet potatoes, he asked the builders to bury these branches and leaves in the excavated soil and let them decay naturally. The regrowth of sweet potatoes in the coming year provides enough nutrients.

Due to the small number of ant colonies, this harvest lasted for more than 20 days before it came to an end.

A large number of sweet potatoes filled all the granaries that Zero led the builders to build in the summer, and there were still some leftovers. In the end, even in the cave, there were neat stacks of sweet potatoes.

Looking at the large number of well-preserved fresh sweet potatoes in front of him, the joy in his heart is almost uncontrollable.

He has led the ant colony through many crop harvests, and more than once faced with too much food to pile up, but none of them made him feel so excited and satisfied.

Maybe, only when you find it after you lose it, can you realize how precious the things that were originally at your fingertips are...

However, this is still just the beginning.With these grain reserves, Zero has too many ideas to implement.

With food in hand, don't panic.Without the troubles of survival, he can let go of his hands and feet to do some new attempts without any worries.

Perhaps this attempt can bring the ant colony back to its peak and even become stronger!
　Many book friends are concerned about when the creep will be arranged, everyone is very anxious (laughs), there will be.Spoilers are wrong, right?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)