Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 69
Zero and his ant colony hid in the cave, listening to the violent wind and rain outside and the sound of flying sand and rocks hitting the mountain, day and night.

He didn't rush to make a decision. It was meaningless to do this kind of thing now. He could only wait for the storm to pass and the weather to improve, depending on the situation.

The storm almost brushed past the island, and when its center was closest to here, it might not have been forty kilometers away.

This distance is impartial, and it is the area with the strongest wind, so the entire island has experienced a baptism.

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He had been hiding in the cave all this time, and Zero was not sure how long it had passed. He estimated that it took about three or four days before the voices from the outside gradually died down.

Zero once again asked a guard to climb out of the cave carefully to investigate the situation, and found that the wind outside was indeed much weaker than before, but the weather was still not clear, and there was still rain in the sky, accompanied by the occasional passing the squall.

In this weather, it is still impossible for ant colonies to go out.So, we have to continue to wait.

After another two days, the rain finally stopped.

But Zero still didn't see the sun, the sky was still gray with clouds, and the sky was dim.

The wind has become much weaker again, and it hardly affects the activities of the ant colony. It can be determined that the storm has passed.So Zero immediately sent a group of explorers to the island to check the general situation.

Regarding the loss, Zero already had considerable psychological expectations, and during this period of time, he had fully accepted this cruel reality.

He knew that under such extreme weather, the crops that the builders had painstakingly planted could not survive, and the big pits that had been dug hard might also be reburied, and all previous efforts had been in vain.

However, he still wanted to take a look and confirm the situation of the disaster. On the one hand, he wanted to give up on himself, and on the other hand, he wanted to collect information to facilitate the next step of planning.

The explorers vibrated their wings and flew out of the cave, flying in all directions, and Zero's field of vision was extended in disguise as they went away.

He observed this devastated land through the eyes of an explorer, and after a while, a strange feeling came to his heart.

As far as the explorer can see, the ground above the island seems to have been peeled off, and all the softer land on the surface has disappeared.

The farmland area under zero-focus observation was even more of a mess, with nothing left.

The built-up area by the sea is slightly better, but it doesn't make a difference.

The potholes that looked relatively regular now seem to have been gnawed by a dog, with a gap here and a collapse there.

As for the bottom, it is full of rainwater, which is more than two meters deep.It is completely unknown what is going on in the water, and there will be no good news, at least in the short term, it is impossible to resume construction.

However, it's not all bad news.

The arrival of the storm brought the sea water up into the sky, and at the same time, there were many fishes in the sea flying up into the sky.

When the storm ended and the wind speed decreased, the group of fish that had been swept into the sky were thrown onto the island.

It's like a rain of fish. If you look around, you can see one every three to five times on the whole land. The density is very high. At the foot of the mountain and under the cliff, because of the steep change of terrain, the two The local fishes are stacked on top of each other, forming fish piles. From time to time, there are still alive fish twisting their bodies in it, struggling unwillingly, which is a spectacular sight.

Some with strong vitality still have the strength to thump a few times, but most of them are already lifeless.

So much seafood is a huge amount of food for the ant colony.

This is also the reason for the weirdness in Zero's heart. On the one hand, he felt heartbroken for the damage suffered on the island, and on the other hand, he was also surprised by the sudden food.

Because he had already prepared to lose all the crops, when he finally saw the result, he had lost much emotion, but this kind of surprise prevailed.

Today, the ant colony that has lost all their crops is the time when they need food the most, and the various fishes that fill the island are more like a compensation.

Zero immediately ordered all the ant colonies to dispatch, and collected all the food that could be transported near the nest as much as possible, and placed them properly in caves and granaries. a little longer.

Fishes, large or small, were carried back by the ant colony in groups, and then went out again to carry them again.

Soon, the fish around the cave were carried away by the ant colony, and they had to go to further places to continue searching.

In just one day, the ant colony has completed enough to meet the needs of the current scale ant clan for a year!

But Zero knew very well that these perishable foods simply couldn't be preserved for that long.

Although ants don't mind eating a little bit of rotten food, and they don't dislike the smelly food, but there will always be a day when so many fish are completely rotten and disappear, and they cannot be within their edible "shelf life" Eat them all up.

Therefore, after transporting and storing to this extent, Zero stopped this behavior and turned to find some surviving fish. When they were dying, they threw them into the original excavation for use. Aquaculture is now in deep puddles.

This puddle, which was devastated before it was completed, came in handy in advance, and it was not in vain for the ants to dig it hard.

Maybe they can survive in the puddle, maybe they can't, Zero doesn't care much, he does this just to extend the shelf life of the food stored by the ant colony.

Although the ant colony has collected a lot of food one after another, the island is full of such fish, and what they carry is only a small part of it.

Most of them are still scattered on the ground, and they will soon rot under the sunlight and be decomposed by microorganisms after the temperature rises.

That's fine, anyway, this year Zero will not have time to plant anymore, these fish carcasses can be regarded as the fertilizer He put on the fields this year.

In order to use these gifts as much as possible, the ant colony collectively moved out to carry the fish carcasses piled up at the foot of the mountain to the field, adding a bit of fertility to the earth.

In fact, Ling has a somewhat surprising conjecture, but he is not completely sure.

This storm can be said to have scraped the entire island three feet away, and even a layer of soil on the ground was blown away.

So, has the pollution level been reduced so that it can be cultivated by ants?
He thought it was possible, and was more than willing to give it a try.

If this conjecture is true, then this storm can be regarded as a great help!

The so-called misfortune and blessing depend on it, but that's it.

　Thanks to the book friend [nickname has been handed in to 999] for the reward of 100 starting coins!In addition, I also noticed that some book friends seem to have initiated sporadic rewards, but there is no prompt in the background, sorry!Thanks also! !
　　
　
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