Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 65 Survival and Development (seeking votes!!!)
The eggs produced by the queen ant soon all hatched.

A large number of builders mixed with diggers stepped out of the cave, a small part of them will be responsible for completing this year's planting tasks, and more will go to the beach under the northern cliff to build the first phase of the fish breeding base.

In Zero’s plan, the builders will complete a deep pit with a diameter of about ten meters and a depth of about three meters under the cliff about 30 meters from the coastline before winter.

This is a very huge project, even with the ant colony's current mobility, it is destined to take a lot of time to complete.

Therefore, the time given to them is very generous. Within this year, they only need to complete this step. As for the others, we can only wait until next year. With the current strength of the ant colony, it is not easy to complete such an exaggerated project quickly. Reality.

Of course, Zero also hopes that this progress can be accelerated as much as possible. After all, he has experienced a disaster. He knows what kind of power it is, and it is not something that the current ant colony can resist.

Therefore, he must expand the ant colony as quickly as possible to obtain more labor force, and then use this labor force to find ways to build some defensive facilities in a targeted manner.

Zero always felt that the last earthquake was not accidental, but a periodic geological activity!

Of course, Zero has no evidence to prove this, this is just his intuition.

However, the so-called leniency in anticipating the enemy is not a bad thing to prepare for the worst.

There is always a faint sense of urgency in his heart, so that he didn't stop thinking when he found a field to cultivate to barely maintain the survival of the ant colony, but kept thinking about how to quickly expand the colony.

Only with a large number of individuals can many plans be implemented.For example, build an ant shelter in a place with a solid structure inside the mountain, and let the queens lead part of the necessary labor force to escape the disaster when disaster strikes.

Another example is to build more safe granaries so that the ant colony will not be helpless due to food shortages after experiencing such changes, and so on, and so on.

These are the ideas he derived from his reflection after this disaster, but if he wants to realize these things, he cannot get around a key point.

That is, first of all, He needs enough food.

However, what the ant colony lacks the most right now is food.

The annual output of sweet potatoes planted in the only field is fixed, which directly restricts the development of the ant colony and locks the upper limit of their number.

To break this limitation, Zero must develop new food, and fish farming is one of the attempts.

For the development of the ant colony, no matter how long or how expensive the attempt is, he must complete it.

Of course, the attempt that Zero can think of is not the only one, such as trying to plant crops around the existing cultivated land, because of the mountain peaks, although these places adjacent to the cultivated land are also unable to grow due to sea water , but in these places, this kind of damage is undoubtedly insignificant compared to the land on the plain, so you can give it a try. The builders who are currently responsible for planting sweet potatoes are also doing this work at the same time.

But among all the plans, no one thought about it, only relying on the vast ocean to obtain food is the great plan for the ant colony.

After all, the land area of ​​the island is limited, not to mention that most of it is currently uncultivable.The limited land area determines the upper limit of its development. If it is completely dependent on the food output on the island, just like before the disaster, then the ant colony will face the same problem as it is now after it grows to a certain scale. That is, the total amount of food produced each year is fixed, and there is no way to increase it to more.

And above this boundless sea, there is an unknown amount of edible food.

If this breeding experiment can be successful, then the ant colony is equivalent to taking the first step towards the endless ocean.

Therefore, although the amount of the project is very large, and several problems have not been properly resolved, Zero still resolutely launched this activity, putting most of the existing labor force in the ant colony into it, even the top of the mountain that he was thinking about. For the time being, only a small number of ant colonies were sent to build the shelters.

Of course, this point is mainly based on Zero's belief that at least there should be no second earthquake in the short term. This judgment is based on the age of the trees on the mountain, judging from the thickness of the trunks in his memory before the disaster. It's not too long, about 30 years or so.

Judging from the geological layering of the rocks and the seawater erosion marks on the edge of the cliff, the island has obviously existed for far more than 30 years.

So, why is it that the oldest tree is only about 30 years old on such an ancient island?

After much deliberation, he finally came up with an unsure answer.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this disaster!

If this guess is true, it means that this kind of disaster is not the first time, and there has been at least 30 years between this time and the last time.

Although this does not mean that the next occurrence will be such a long time interval, but it should not occur continuously in such a short period of time.

After all, although the movement of the earth's crust is very complicated, there are still rules to follow.

Therefore, Zero dared to boldly send a large amount of labor to build the breeding project instead of completing the construction of the shelter first.

He felt that if the disaster did not come immediately, it would be more efficient to obtain enough food to grow the ant colony first, and then go back and complete other projects.

Of course, since he wasn't completely sure of his guess, the construction of the shelter never stopped, but the progress was relatively slow.

However, from last winter until now, even if the shelter was excavated at such a slow speed, it was about one-fifteenth the size of the cave.

In terms of the huge space of the cave, it shows that this is no longer a small space. If it is based on the size of the builder, it can accommodate at least two thousand. If it is squeezed again, it can store the next batch of food. .

Therefore, the most basic back road zero is still done, but the pace of large-scale expansion and construction has slowed down.Because after ensuring the most basic survival, development becomes the top priority, because only by developing first can we survive better!

The first phase of the fish farm project is very simple, but the workload is huge, so so far, there are no difficulties, but the progress is slow.

Although Zero was in a hurry, there was no other good way but to wait.

However, before He could wait for the project to be completed, He waited for the enemy to come!

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(End of this chapter)