Autumn passes quietly amid the busy work of the ant colony, and the withered yellow leaves return to the earth, crushed into dust, and become a part of the earth again.

Zero directed the ant colony to replant the seeds dropped by dozens of fruit trees. At this point, it was already the third year since Zero planted the first batch of fruit trees.

The original fruit tree has grown taller and taller, and the number of fruits it has produced in recent years has also increased year by year.

The first batch of fruit trees planted by Ling have already grown to more than one meter tall.

The original slender branches have gradually become thicker, with many branches at the top, and the crown of the tree has begun to grow. Maybe in two years, they will also bear fruit.

As for the seeds planted in the second and third batches, they are still in the state of seedlings.

After these several plantings, more and more fruit trees have begun to take root and sprout in the north of the river. Until this time, plus the dozens of seeds planted again by Zero, if everything goes well, the total number of fruit trees on this land in the coming year will be

There will be more than a hundred trees.

The threat of termites was slightly relieved after Zero discovered that they could not leave the forest, but they were still necessary to guard against, so Zero hatched many flying ants in the ant nest at the edge of the forest to monitor the termites.

In order to complete his goal of advancing into the forest and opening up more land for the ant community, Zero must obtain more food sources.

After the current output of the two major pastures meets the consumption of the ant colony, there is actually a 30% surplus.

In the summer, ants made breakthrough progress in the breeding of aphids. The genetic frequency of heat resistance in aphids is getting higher and higher, reaching 80%, and they are large and produce extremely fast.

Unfortunately, it was almost autumn at that time, so Zero could only collect a large number of aphid eggs that almost perfectly met the requirements of the ant colony, hoping that they would bring excess benefits to the ant colony in the coming year.

In addition, ants are becoming more and more adept at domesticating earthworms. After generations of continuous screening, it was found that the offspring of domesticated earthworms were naturally afraid of ants after they were born.

This fear is undoubtedly a good thing for the ant colony, allowing them to accept their identity more quickly after moving into the breeding farm.

In addition, the continued cultivation of this kind of earthworms is still in progress. After a large number of breeding rooms are filled, those first generations of domesticated and mature earthworms will be replaced by their descendants - those earthworms that are naturally afraid of ant colonies.

Instead, Zero's plan is to let the earthworms pass on this fear of the ant colony from generation to generation, until one day they truly become the vassals of the ant colony.

Of course, the ants also conducted aphid-like breeding of earthworms during this process. Compared with the number of earthworms hatched in each batch, the number that the breeding room can accommodate is obviously far from enough.

Then, only earthworms that are naturally fat and easy to tame will be selected by the ant colony and put into the breeding room for cultivation. Earthworms that do not have this quality will enter the granary of the ant colony.

The strength of the termites forced Zero to find more food sources to prepare for defeating them. In this autumn, Zero used his vision advantage to search the grass almost inch by inch, hoping to find new food sources.

Food for the ant colony to consume.

He believed that in such a large grassland, there would always be some plants that would produce fruits suitable as food for ants.

Sure enough, after searching to this extent, he finally found two plants suitable as food for ants, and these two plants really helped the ant colony a lot.

One of them is a plant similar to sweet potatoes that produces large tubers underground in autumn, and also produces a large number of black seeds. Due to the accumulation of large amounts of sugar, its tubers have a sweet taste and are popular among ants.

Like.

The other is a plant that can produce red fruits the size of mung beans. The pulp of this fruit is also red and contains a lot of sugar. As for the seeds, they are divided into the pulp and are relatively small.

The discovery of these two plants made Zero even more excited. He can grow fruit trees, why can't he grow this kind of crop?

He directed the ants to carefully collect the seeds of these two plants, intending to wait until next spring to sow them.

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Time kept passing in the busyness, and just as Zero was directing the ants to carry out winter construction nervously, the first snow of this winter fell outside.

It snowed for five days in a row, and the entire grassland and forest were covered by heavy snow.

Zero has long been accustomed to this. All work is carried out normally, and the snow on the surface has not affected the ant colonies underground at all.

However, just when the snow stopped, news came from the ant nest in the forest that made Zero a little scared.

A large number of termites rushed out of the cave and came to the ant nest in the forest!

The termite army was discovered in an ant nest located deep in the forest. However, Zero had time to change his field of view and observe for a moment. All the ants in the ant nest, including the queen, had been killed by the termites.

Apparently they learned the location of the ant nest's vent from somewhere, perfectly avoiding the main entrance covered by heavy snow, and launched a surprise attack on the ant colony from the vent.

Although the ants in this ant nest did not buy much time for Zero, during this short observation, Zero still roughly discovered some information.

He was surprised to find that the appearance of the termites that rushed into the ant nest was hugely different from the ones he encountered during the spring battle.

First of all, the antennae on their heads are shorter, and their bodies are longer and narrower. The entire body is no longer roughly white, but a weird ice blue.

Secondly, this group of termites that broke into the ant nest are very powerful in fighting, and their mandible bite force is amazing. They can kill a worker ant in a few seconds and leave themselves almost unharmed.

Finally, and most importantly, Zero discovered that the main army of termites did not appear. Only these strange ice-blue termites invaded the nest, numbering in the tens of thousands.

This discovery made Ling Da feel relieved, but also felt very strange.

These are definitely not termites. Zero doesn’t think that termites can ignore the temperature of more than ten degrees below zero and enter the ant nest from the ground vents, and they are so powerful.

It was obvious that the other party did not know why they had a group of powerful combatants that could march in the winter, and discovered the vents of the ant nest through unknown means, perhaps smell, or some other ability, thus killing the entire ant nest including the ants.

All ants including the queen.

And just a few minutes later, they also appeared in another adjacent ant nest.

There is no doubt that this is another one-sided massacre. The ants are no match for them. This strange group of termites still shows strong combat power in the face of the ants who have occupied the best position and are ready to fight.

, it has killed all the ants in the ant nest with almost no loss.
Chapter completed!