Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 77 Explore
Several consecutive disasters have left a deep impression on Zero's heart, prompting him to lead the ant colony to move forward and never be satisfied with the status quo.

As early as when the ant colony was just able to produce enough food to meet its own needs, it began to actively dispatch a new generation of air units and water transporters with stronger endurance to set off from the island and explore in all directions.

During this process, a large number of underwater units disappeared in the boundless sea. They either lost their direction and finally died of exhaustion, or were taken as a good meal by other sea creatures.

Similarly, the air units sent out to explore suffered heavy losses, but also gained nothing.

Until now, except for a little more understanding of the surrounding sea area, Zero has not found anything valuable to the ant colony.

Although the loss was huge, and he hadn't seen any returns, Zero was still sending out various ant explorers in a steady stream.

He knows that if he continues to explore, he still has a glimmer of hope to lead the ant clan to grow stronger, but staying on this island, at a time when there are almost no organisms that can provide evolution factors for the queen ants, basically means that the ant clan The clan will never have another chance to become stronger.

Therefore, He cannot stop, nor does he dare to stop.The threat of disaster was always hanging over him and the ant tribe, and it might fall down at any time.

Maybe the ant colony that has built enough shelters is no longer afraid of the earthquake and tsunami like last time, but what if?What if the intensity of the disaster increased?Just on this increasingly narrow island, they cannot escape, and Zero can't stand this kind of event!

Therefore, although all the explorers sent out never returned like mud cows entering the sea, not only did He never stop exploring, but the number of teams sent out to explore became more and more.

The furthest time the ants have explored without losing their way is about ten kilometers away from the island. Looking back from the sea, it is impossible to see the peaks of the island at all. Looking in all directions, all are rushing moving sea water.

Ant colonies do not have the ability to distinguish directions, so they can only rely on the position of the sun in the sky to barely estimate the recognition, but the accuracy of this estimation is very poor, it can only be said to provide a rough reference, while on the sea, a slight difference may would produce a huge fallacy.

Once it is night, there is only a little bit of starlight in the sky, and only a slightly larger bright spot can provide a little brightness. I guess that it should be a satellite that is far away from this planet. Although it is much brighter than the stars, it is only Talk is better than nothing.

And at night, it was also the time when the ant exploration team had the most casualties.

There are endless dangers lurking in the boundless ocean, and there will never be a shortage of predators who can swallow the seemingly large ants in one gulp.

So far, among the thousands of exploration teams dispatched by Zero, only Liao Liao successfully survived the dark night and traveled far away, but without exception, they were all lost and could not find their way back There is no way to talk about continuing to explore.

Because even if they have exploration results, Zero doesn't know how to find them.

Of course, Zero did not let these lost ant tribes sit still, but let them take the sun as the coordinates and still go in the original direction of exploration. If they can really survive and gain something, then in the future In the days to come, Zero will continue to send exploration teams, at least there will be a general direction.

None, however, and none of them survived.

Even so, Zero still insisted on sending out exploration teams in all directions from the small island every month, and it has never stopped for several years.

Until now, the development of the ant colony on this island has once again hit a bottleneck.

And Zero, who has learned the lesson from the last time, will no longer be satisfied with enjoying peace.

When this peaceful and harmonious place can no longer accommodate more ant colonies, it is in fact no different from a huge prison.

The surrounding seawater is an invisible high wall, imprisoning the entire ant clan here, unable to leave.

And those exploration teams sent out by Zero are undoubtedly the escapees.

There are tens of thousands of escapees, but none of them succeed.

But difficulties are by no means a reason not to do it, especially today when the ant clan has reached the bottleneck of development here, there is no way out if they are confined to this place.

The exploration team sent by Zero is getting bigger and bigger, but very few of them can come back alive in the end, and none of them will bring any good news.

Eventually, Zero came up with a new idea.

He asked some sea transporters to bring a batch of food and a small number of builders responsible for chopping and transporting the food to the sea, and then let another group of sea transporters bring a large group of air explorers, and they formed a team to go out to explore together.

The usefulness of this is obvious, because of the unique body structure of the ant clan, they cannot directly obtain enough supplies from the ocean, even if the ant clan's sea combat units can kill fish, with the shape of the ant clan's mouthparts, they They cannot be eaten directly, and other ant species like builders must chop up food to replenish energy for them.

But the bad thing is that the ant tribe sea combat units that can catch food just can't carry other ant species, and their own endurance is also very worrying, and the builders have no way to decompose food in water.However, sea transporters that can carry other ant species have almost no ability to attack.

Once they go out to sea, they can only rely on the food they carry to complete the cutting and decomposition directly on the back of the sea transporter, and finally provide energy for the various ant species that go out to explore.

So, the sea transporters with food and builders are like supply ships, and the other group with air explorers on their backs is like an aircraft carrier.

The "supply ship" will provide enough food for the "aircraft carrier" and the explorers on its back when the power is insufficient, and the "aircraft carrier" is responsible for taking the air explorers far enough, and then the explorers It will take off from the back of the sea transporter, start from the "aircraft carrier" of the ant tribe, explore around, then return to its back for supplies, and then move forward again, continue to explore, return to replenish, and repeat until " until the food on the "supply ship" is completely exhausted.

The biggest advantage of this method is that the original linear exploration area is expanded to the limit of the exploration radius of the air explorers, which greatly increases the actual exploration area of ​​the ant exploration team.

Moreover, because of the large amount of food carried, this method of exploration can allow the exploration team to reach farther places.

Of course, this approach still has its shortcomings.

First of all, they still can't overcome the problem of disorientation. Once lost at sea, they will live a little longer and will not be any different from previous exploration teams, unless they are lucky enough to find a new habitat.

Secondly, for the unknown predators in the sea, the joint exploration team still has no effective measures and can only gamble by luck.

However, there is no way to do this, Zero can only face it.

With this method of exploration, the places that a zero-form joint sea-air exploration team can reach will be greatly increased.

While exploring, he is also constantly sorting out the underwater data of the nearby sea area through these exploration teams. Where there are reefs, where there are rifts, and where there are coral colonies, these are the key points of his records. Normal navigation has no effect, but it can help him complete the mastery of the nearby sea area, which is important positioning information for the ant colony exploration team!

As batch after batch of exploration teams go out to sea to explore, although there is still no good news, but with the increase of exploration density, there are always some lucky teams that escape all kinds of risks, come to unknown sea areas, and continue to expand outward. known world.

Zero believes that as long as the Ants persevere in exploring, one day, there will always be a lucky person who will be able to find a new land!

Unless, within one's own exploration radius, this kind of land does not exist.

(End of this chapter)