Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 7
With the help of the field of vision provided by Zero, the ants quickly found a suitable location, which was a concave rock with a diameter of about [-] centimeters located [-] centimeters above the surface and about four meters away from the main passage of the ant nest.

This rock was obviously outside the surface a long time ago, and the surface was very smooth. When the ants explored it, Ling could only see a part of the rock through his own vision. The overall condition of the rock was that the worker ants walked along it. Gradually digging He slowly saw.

It is worth mentioning that on the way these worker ants were looking for a suitable breeding place, they found three more earthworms. There is no doubt that these three earthworms were dragged back to the ant nest without exception. At this time, three full days had passed since the ants caught the first earthworm.

The rain in the grassland stopped two days ago, but the water infiltrated into the ground still keeps the soil moist, and at the same time interferes with the respiration of the earthworms, forcing them to dig upwards. This is the main reason why the ant colony can catch them.

In the past few days, three queen ants have hatched. Although they are still in the form of larvae, it is foreseeable that the ant colony will usher in another big expansion before long.

In the past few days, in order to find a suitable feeding place and catch earthworms, the ant colonies did not go out for food on a large scale, which inevitably led to a decline in food reserves.Fortunately, the previous accumulation was enough, so it didn't have a big impact.

After finding the breeding place, Zero did not let the ant colony develop, but ordered them to send fifty soldier ants and three hundred worker ants to guard and provide a small amount of food for the earthworms, so as to ensure that they would not die and at the same time go forward at any time Consume their physical strength, so that they have no strength to escape.

The remaining ants left the soldiers who took care of the ant nest, and they all went out to look for food.They need to find enough food for the more larvae that are coming.

Days passed, everything went according to plan, and after fifteen days, the three female ants grew into adults.Another [-] days later, the first batch of about [-] ants of various types rushed out of the larva rearing room and became qualified laborers.

A small part of them will be assigned to No. [-]'s subordinates to forage for food and provide enough food for the ant nest, and the rest will be under the command of the newly born No. [-] to open up the selected area. Breeding place.

As for No. [-], he took over the heavy responsibility of guarding the earthworms from No. [-]. It is worth mentioning that the prisoner earthworms, who were only provided with barely a living every day, actually experienced one mating and laying eggs within this month!
The four earthworms successively laid a total of about fifty eggs. After about a month, these fifty eggs will hatch into hundreds of earthworm larvae. After about two months, the larvae will grow into adult earthworms.

No. [-] undoubtedly took over a big project from Zero. It is not an easy task to completely clear out a huge boulder with a diameter of [-] centimeters and leave enough space above it for raising earthworms.

According to zero estimates, if only No. [-] commanded a thousand worker ants to complete this work, it would take at least a month to basically complete it.

So Zero mobilized another hundred soldier ants from No. 20 to cooperate with No. [-], so that the project would be shortened to [-] days, just enough to move them into the breeding pond before the first batch of earthworms hatched.

As for No. [-], because of the rapid increase of the ant colony, she was also in charge of directing the ant colony to go out for food.

The recent food consumption is indeed a bit high. The rapid increase in the number of ant colonies has consumed a large amount of food reserves. In addition, some soldier ants have to be allocated to take care of the earthworms. No. [-] and No. [-] commanded the ant colony to snatch food from the ant colony in the west many times, and even at the suggestion of Zero, relying on the large number of soldiers, they directly guarded the door of the ant colony of the other party, waiting for their food delivery team to return. , At the entrance of their ant nests, they grabbed food openly and aboveboard, and by the way, transported the dead ants back as rations.

However, such days did not last long, and the queen of this ant nest was not stupid, and soon Zero found that the entrance of the ant nest he found no longer had ants coming in and out. Obviously, the queen ant responded to this situation. Zero guessing that they have a high probability of switching to another outlet.

But Zero doesn't care, as long as they don't compete with their own group here, Zero will let them go.

After the ant colony expanded, Zero was able to directly observe a place three meters away from the ant nest, and all the bugs and animals that appeared here could not escape his gaze.

This also greatly improves the predation efficiency of the ant colony. Zero can accurately tell them where the prey is, so as to quickly kill it and drag it back to the ant nest.

In addition, the expansion of the population also caused the original entrance and exit of the ant nest to become a bit crowded, and expanding the entrance will reduce the concealment and increase the danger of the ant nest, so Zero asked No. [-] to lead the worker ants to dig in four different directions. Through an exit, in this way, the problem of crowded exits can be solved, and the ant colony can quickly reach the location of the prey nearby, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Under Zero's guidance, the development of the ant colony is back on track.The granary has undergone another expansion and new construction. New granaries have been built in the four directions of east, west, north, south, and under the tireless hard work of the worker ants, although the consumption is still huge, the granary has gradually begun to fill up little by little.

In the blink of an eye, 20 days have passed, and the time has come to summer. The number of active insects outside the ant nest has increased significantly, which has also enriched the food storage of the ant nest.

However, relying on predation is still an unstable food source. If unexpected risks are encountered, the food source may be cut off one day.Besides, Zero knows that there will be no insects active outside in winter, and his own ant colony cannot go out to hunt at low temperature, and can only consume the stored food to survive. This will cause the development of the ant colony to stagnate, and Zero cannot Allow this to happen.

Therefore, when No. [-] roughly cleared the farm, Zero immediately asked No. [-] to consume the energy of the earthworm colony again, and then led the ant colony to move them into the farm, and their eggs that were about to hatch were also treated the same.

The breeding ground is a disc-shaped stone with a diameter of 7 centimeters and a sunken stone in the middle. No. [-] led the ant colony to open up a space about [-] centimeters high above the stone.

Hard stones do not allow earthworms to burrow into the ground and escape. The moist environment in the ground is sufficient to meet their survival needs. The ant colony will bring them enough food to survive, except that there are ant colonies guarding them day and night to prevent them from escaping. , In a sense, they have also come to heaven.

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