Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 74 Ants' Underwater Units

After the queen ant was squeezed out of the cocoon, she gradually fully stretched her body.

Zero looked at the ant queen the size of a watermelon in surprise, and exclaimed in his heart.

Although the size of the queen ant was very large before, compared to the guardians, it was actually only two-thirds the size of a football.

And this time of evolution, the queen ant has obviously undergone great changes, and her body size has increased by as much as three times!
But in other respects, it doesn't look much different from the original, but the size has become a lot bigger.

Zero is very curious about what kind of ant species such a huge queen ant can produce.In other words, he was very curious about what kind of increase the ant species produced by such an ant queen would have on the original ant colony.

After the queen ant got out of the cocoon, she immediately ate a large amount of food, eating a full amount of food equivalent to half of her size, and then seemed to be finally satisfied, lying on the spot without moving.

In the end, Zero urged it to produce eggs, and the queen ant moved slowly like a tractor that had suddenly turned on its engine.

But although it moves slowly, its spawning speed is not slow at all.If it moves at the speed of a tractor with its engine turned on, it spawns at the speed of a locomotive with the throttle twisted, or the kind dedicated to the arena.

I saw that the tubular objects under it were like gun barrels, and within a short period of time, insect eggs that were half the size of eggs kept pouring out one by one.

Zero was shocked by his production speed.In the past, the spawning speed of the queen ant was zero, which is not too slow, but compared with the current efficiency, that is really the difference between an old chimney and a machine gun.

However, this is not the end, less than 15 minutes after the eggs were laid, larvae have already crawled out of them!
Zero looked at these larvae waiting to be fed with joy and surprise, shocked in his heart.

If the queen ant can produce such a change, it is not in vain that she has been sending the ant clan around to seek for mutations for so long!
The newly hatched larva is only the size of an egg when fully unfolded, and looks completely different from any existing ant species.

Zero knows that this should not be their final form.

Although ants have evolved several times, they still maintain some original characteristics, which is an important reason why Zero has always called them ants.

Among them, the larva hatched and developed again, and it has not changed from the beginning to the end.

After they grow up for a period of time, they will start to cocoon again. After hatching, both their appearance and function will undergo great changes. Sometimes, this process will even continue several times until the final adult. By that time, it has become nothing like a larva.

Multiple evolutions have not been able to change this characteristic, but in the initial ant colony, this cocoon developed quite a lot, sometimes it took four or five times.

After the queens have completed the fourth evolution, these eggs no longer need so many cocoons to develop.

Ant species like explorers and builders are not that different from the original ant colony as a whole, and the larvae only need to cocoon once to hatch into adults.

And ant species like assassins and guardians, which have changed a lot, only need two cocoons to grow into adults.

This is probably a new change after the evolution of the queen ant. Presumably, the eggs have already developed to a certain extent in the queen ant's body. Instant combat power.

That's certainly a good thing, and Zero would love to see it happen.

However, the hatched larvae after evolution this time were completely different from what he expected.

Zero watched them start to eat big mouthfuls, watched their bodies quickly become full, and watched them quickly cocoon.At this point, everything is the same as before except that their cocoons are much larger.

But then, their changes took Zero by surprise.

After breaking out of their cocoons for the first time, they once again started feeding in an exaggerated manner.

Zero observed carefully, and he found that the larvae changed rapidly after breaking out of the cocoon for the first time.

The most intuitive manifestation of this change is that, on the surface, they already have a very obvious difference!

In one of them, after the first cocooning is completed, the back becomes extremely wide, while the legs become wider and shorter. The six front and rear legs all become this flat and short shape, lying on the ground, From a distance, it looks like a small table the size of a palm.

The other ant species is completely different. It is also the first cocoon completed. The body shape of this ant species presents a streamlined and lean curve, with a narrow and long back, and it looks very powerful.

In addition, the feet and limbs under their bodies have also undergone tremendous changes, among which the four near the rear have become wider and larger, similar to palm-leaf fans, while the forelimbs have sharp vertebral bodies similar to assassins.

At the same time, its head became sharp, and it could protrude from its mouth with barbed mouthparts. Zero carefully observed that there was a small channel in the center of its mouthparts. He knew that it must not be just For drinking water!
Unlike the former, which looked like a small table, this ant species looked like a sharp sword from above!
However, this is only their first cocoon.

Then, Zero saw that after they ate again, they started cocooning again quickly.

Then it was the third time, and the fourth time!

Since the ant colony began to evolve, it has been a long time since Zero has seen an ant species that needs to cocoon so many times!
It wasn't until the fifth cocooning was completed that they finally stopped this non-stop cocooning process, and four days passed.

In other words, they quickly completed five cocooning activities in just four days, and each time they broke out of the cocoon, their size would become larger.

After the last completion, the ant species with a wide back has become about the size of the queen!
As for the other body shape, it is not so big, the length is only about the size of two palms, and the width is also much smaller, only about eight centimeters.

However, although they are small in size, they have stronger and more powerful hind limbs, dark outer armor, and harder forelimb weapons.

Looking at their grotesque appearances, Zero muttered in his heart,

"Is this still an ant?"

Obviously, these two ant species, except for a very small part, can still vaguely see the characteristics of ants, but in terms of overall structure, no matter in size or appearance, they are no longer comparable to ants.

Looking at their distinctive feet, Zero feels that they should be specially made for activities in water.

How exactly zero has not been tested, but this should be certain.After all, this time the evolution of the queen was actually promoted by that strange mutant fish, and it is not surprising that the new ant species of the ant colony have the ability to move in water.

Of course, the specific extent to which they can move in the water still needs to be tested, but as long as they can move on the water surface, it is enough to make up for the shortcomings of the ant clan in this regard.

　Thank you book friend [I'm really not a hero] for rewarding 100 starting coins! !

　　
　
(End of this chapter)