Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 87 Cracks and Guessing

After the disaster, it was a mess.While commanding the ant colony to resume production, Zero sent explorers to check the changes on the surface of the island after the disaster.

After each disaster, the topography of some islands will be changed more or less, some places will subside significantly, and some places will be submerged by sea water. This will have some impact on the production activities of the ant colony, so it is necessary to explore in advance. bright.

After the disaster, due to various loss reasons, the vision of zero in many places can no longer be observed, so He needs the help of explorers to complete this work, and at the same time, after the exploration is completed, the vision of this land will be restored light up.

After every disaster, this is a routine action, and Zero has long been used to it.Just like exploring an unknown map, the act of lighting up his vision makes him feel very happy.

Of course, it's better to really light up completely unknown places than to explore this island over and over again that I have observed for decades, which is really boring except in the case of taking control of the entire island again.

Zero originally thought that this exploration would be the same as usual, and only some information such as ground subsidence and seawater backflow could be explored, but this time it was just a little more serious.However, this time he really found something abnormal.

At the beginning, the explorers only found some ordinary information, and Zero didn't pay much attention to it. When they explored the bottom area of ​​the mountain range, Zero suddenly became serious.

Through the explorer's field of vision, he saw a crack about five centimeters wide, spreading down from not far below the mountainside, reaching the plain at the foot of the mountain, leading to the sea at a distorted angle, and there are more small cracks around it. cracks.

Some seawater has been poured into it, but the depth is unknown at all, and the water surface cannot be seen in the crack.

This means that the crack has a considerable depth.

It is actually quite common for strong earthquakes to cause cracks on the ground, but when Zero looked at the width and depth, he always felt that it was unusual.

He decided to let the ant colony enter it to explore. After all, this is the original base camp of the ant colony. He will not feel at ease until he understands what is going on here.

However, over the years, after undergoing several mutations, the individual size of the ant clan has changed greatly, among which the sea transporters are the most, and even the smallest explorers want to enter such a narrow space Exploration is also limited.

In desperation, Zero had no choice but to use ordinary soldier ants who hadn't seen a figure for more than ten years, and slowly crawled in along the inner wall of the crack.

Although the ant colony has just experienced a huge loss, zero food is well preserved, and the labor force for the ant colony to survive is still sufficient, so there will be no shortage of food.

As for the ordinary soldier ants, which are very small in size, for the current ant clan, no matter the time cost or the food cost required, it is not worth mentioning.

Therefore, Zero directly sent 10,000+ soldier ants to swarm into the cracks to explore, in order to be able to get the situation below as soon as possible.

He paid close attention to the actions of the soldier ants. According to Zero's instructions, after they entered the crack, they quickly spread out and explored in all directions, relying on their numbers.

The various soil layers and rocks in the cracks are unevenly distributed, with uneven gullies and unknown plant root systems criss-crossing everywhere.

But this is not a problem for the thin soldier ants, who crawl nimbly over these obstacles and are rarely hindered.

It was okay at first, however, the further down the soldier ants explored, the more it felt wrong to Zero.

He judged the environment in the crack through the soldier ants' vision and their reactions.

Therefore, when their speed slowed down significantly and gradually began to stagnate, Zero immediately realized that they must have encountered some special obstacles, because he did not see anything in front of the ant colony that could hinder the progress of the ant colony , but they do stop.

At first, Zero was a little confused, but the next moment, he understood why.

The soldier ants at the front became more and more anxious in this short period of time, retreating uncontrollably, as if a huge threat was approaching them.

But the soldier ants in the rear were basically not affected by this, but faithfully followed Zero's order and tried to squeeze forward.

But once they reach the front, they will immediately become anxious, moving their bodies constantly, wanting to retreat.

Zero finally realized that there was something wrong with the wall here!
The further you go, the hotter the wall will be!
Zero's mood suddenly sank at this moment, which is not good news.

Under His signal, the soldier ants continued to explore along the edge of the high temperature wall that they could not bear, but they climbed to the end, and almost followed the cracks into the deep underground of the mountain range, and did not find any way to climb down. way.

Zero already knew what this meant, but he still didn't want to believe it.

Zero knew that at this depth, there should be absolutely no temperature above the walls of the cracks that this kind of ant colony could not bear.

In Zero's cognition, this is a phenomenon that can only occur at the extreme depths of the ground, but now it appears at such a shallow position, then this can only mean one thing-the abnormally frequent geological activities here may The lava hidden deep in the ground has been brought up!
In other words, there are likely to be submarine volcanoes near this island!
Frequent geological movements, coupled with the abnormally high temperature deep in the underground cracks, there is absolutely no reason to make such a guess!

The interval between earthquakes is getting shorter and shorter, and the intensity is getting higher and higher. This time, a hole was directly torn on the ground of the island. It is uncertain what will happen in the next earthquake, whether there will be magma Spilling from this crack?

A bolder guess, if the submarine volcano is nearby, then it is even a question whether the initial island can exist!
Zero's heart has completely sank.

Although the ant colony has now found a new habitat, the archipelago is much larger than this island.

But for one thing, Island No. [-] is not too far from the original island. If there are really submarine volcanoes nearby, and the seismic waves and tsunamis that have been coming from the south are enough to show that the epicenter is in the south.

Then, Zero can make a bold guess, that is, is this place on a volcanic earthquake belt, and in recent decades, is their high-frequency active period?

If this is the case, even if all the ants are relocated to Island No. [-], it may not be safe.

Zero still didn't want to believe his speculation, so he immediately mobilized the sea units on the initial island to explore above the sea.

If this phenomenon has been obvious to this extent, there is no reason to only appear on islands!
Unfortunately, the sea units also brought back bad news.

Compared with before the earthquake, the sea water seems to have become warmer...

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