Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 67 Completion of Phase One
The seabirds that swooped in at such a high speed had no time to react, and crashed head-on into the army of ant colonies that suddenly took off.

In an instant, two or three ant air combat units that looked like assassins climbed on top of the first few seagulls.

Before they could react, the slender and sharp mouthparts of the ant tribe, with the help of their forelimbs, unceremoniously pierced into their bodies.

In the blink of an eye, shrill screams echoed in the sky.

Because of the attack, their flight trajectory was greatly affected, they struggled violently in the air in a panic, and fell into the large army of builders on the ground.

The ant colonies would not be polite to them. They rushed forward while he was dying of illness, and they were completely silent the next moment.

Some of the seabirds in the back also followed in the footsteps of the former. Only a few of them changed their flight trajectory forcibly in a thrilling manner, turned their heads and rushed into the sky, and fled away in panic.

Zero is not sure whether they will come back in the future, so he simply let these ants stay here, and they don't need to go out for activities when they have nothing to do, just dormant.

With their protection, the construction of the ant colony has become smooth again, and the progress is gratifying. It seems that the speed is quite fast, and it may be completed ahead of schedule.

The seabirds came here a few times later, as if they were still dreaming of the spring and autumn dream of getting something for nothing, but they didn't expect to suffer a lot of losses at the hands of the ant tribe, and finally learned to be good again, and Zero was never on the island again. have seen them.

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The bigger the body, the more mobility it will be.The planting of sweet potatoes this year has been completed quickly thanks to the efforts of the builders. In addition, in the outer area of ​​these sweet potatoes, Zero also asked the builders to try to bury the seeds of the berries and move some fish and shrimp corpses by the sea Go into the soil beneath the seeds to fertilize them.

Based on the planting knowledge that Zero has mastered, this is really painstaking and meticulous care.

In addition, He is also very concerned about the expansion of plantable land.After all, all the land here was originally cultivated by the ant tribe. If it can be restored to its heyday, with the current size of the ant tribe, not to mention returning to the number of 3000 million, it is still easy to feed a million tribe.

So, after the seeds of the berries were planted, Zero kept an eye on them.

Unsurprisingly, in the periphery of the sweet potato cultivation land, the degree of damage to the land is relatively low, and the further out, the deeper the degree of damage.

Life is a very tenacious thing, as long as there is any hope of living, it will firmly grasp it.

Although the soil contains a high content of harmful inorganic substances from seawater, none of the sweet potatoes that were tentatively planted here at the beginning failed to germinate, but Zero was surprised to find that after planting the berry seeds, they actually had the ability to open the soil signs!
Maybe it's because the berry species itself has better viability than sweet potatoes, or maybe it's because the pollution here has decreased after a year.In short, this feeling of life sprouting makes Zero feel extremely excited.

Although the germination rate of berry seeds decreases the further you go down the mountain, indicating that they are not completely immune to the damage of this soil, but this is undoubtedly a good phenomenon.

Because this shows that the low concentration of environmental damage is not that great a threat to berry seeds.If this continues to be done, maybe one day, the berries can completely change the soil they are in and make it fertile again!
Although this process may be quite long, and it may not wait for their transformation to be completed, the next disaster will come, but this is not a reason to give up.

In the current situation of the ant clan, every extra grain means an extra batch of labor.

The discovery of this point is the biggest achievement the ant colony has made in agriculture since the disaster, and good news has also come in terms of construction.

After getting rid of the harassment of the seabirds, the construction speed of the ant colony returned to the right track.

Zero found that he still underestimated the ability of the current ant colony. With the close cooperation of builders and diggers, the speed of construction was very fast.

In more than ten days, the entire excavation surface has been extended downward by as much as [-] centimeters.This is the reason why we encountered seabird interference during the period, otherwise there should be more.

In other words, according to this speed, it only takes one month for them to complete nearly one-third of the workload of the entire first phase of the project, and it can be completed in less than four months, while the original estimate given by Zero was to complete it before winter , now it seems that by the beginning of summer, the first phase of construction tasks will be completed.

However, we should not be too optimistic.During this period of time, the weather was beautiful, and the weather was sunny and sunny every day. The ant colony never stopped building, and this is how they achieved what they are today.And once there is windy and rainy weather, this kind of construction will inevitably come to a standstill, thus slowing down the progress of the entire project.

Even so, Zero still felt a little excited.The mobility shown by the ant colony gave him a strong sense of happiness. They would not complain about being too tiring at work, nor would they cut corners, cheat and play tricks, and even in order to achieve their goals, they would not be afraid of life and death!

Most importantly, the entire ethnic group, all have such characteristics!No complaints, no delays, only continuous dedication for the continued development of the group.

Zero sometimes feels a little lonely occasionally, thinking that it would be great if this group of ants could have wisdom to communicate with themselves.

But in fact, he also understands in his heart that it is precisely because he does not have enough wisdom that ants can have such a great quality.

If they really have wisdom, whether this quality can be preserved, Zero can't answer.

This is a big proposition. Perhaps, only with the continuous development and evolution of the ethnic group, will one day get the answer, perhaps never.

As for now, it doesn't matter.

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On this small island, time does not stand still because of anything happening, the tide ebbs and flows, the clouds roll and the clouds clear, spring comes to an end with the hard work of the ant colony, as the weather becomes hotter day by day, Zero knew that summer was coming.

As expected, the continuous occurrence of rainy days had a great impact on the construction behind the ant colony, so that the work that could have been completed in early summer still required two months of construction time until summer came.

But Zero is also very satisfied. After all, it was originally expected to be completed before winter. Now it seems that it can be completed before autumn, which is a quarter ahead of schedule!
In terms of agriculture, as previously expected, the berries planted in places with a lower degree of damage can basically survive, and this result has greatly improved the expected harvest of the ant colony in autumn.

After all, this level of soil is much easier to find than completely unaffected land, and the area is much larger!
Everything seems to be working fine!

(End of this chapter)