Chapter 33 Annihilation and Mutation
The invading teams of termites were chased by the ant army and pushed into the ant nest surrounded by ant colonies waiting for work.
Gathered together, they seemed to have regained the courage to resist, and actually rushed in one direction.
However, they soon discovered that the number of ants coming from all directions was increasing. Their killing efficiency was very high, but under the absolute suppression of numbers, they could not exert even a fraction of their strength.
In the ant nest, the ant army used various insect chambers inside the ant nest, or connected granaries, or patches of earthworm breeding chambers to re-divide the termites and block them in the nest.
The ensuing battle was lackluster. The ant colonies rushed forward and were killed by the termites in batches. More ants rushed forward to fight with them.
In the end, after paying five times the price of the group of termites, they succeeded in keeping them here.
Zero doesn't know how smart their commander is, but it's obviously not too smart.
What Zero used was just a stupid method. In fact, in the narrow underground, the numerical advantage of the ant colony was greatly reduced, and his intention to expel the encirclement was also very obvious.
But the opponent obviously didn't see through his tactics and seemed to be just fighting based on instinct.
This is another good news. To be honest, Zero is not good at using strategies, and his command skills can even be said to be very poor.
However, the other party still did not respond to this simple strategy, and even took the initiative to plunge into the ant colony.
But the other party was able to take advantage of the winter to send these cold-resistant termites to raid the ant nest. Obviously, their commander should have a certain amount of wisdom, but not too high.
Regarding this battle with the invaders, judging from the numbers alone, it can be said that the ants experienced a tragic victory.
They paid nearly five times the price of the invaders to annihilate them. The continuous fighting damaged the construction of many ant nests, and even the earthworms raised in the invaded nests were slaughtered.
However, for the current millions of ant colonies, as long as there is sufficient food, the recovery of a mere 100,000 is only a few tenths of the output of a large-scale reproduction.
At present, the food problem is still like a curse, firmly limiting the number of ants, allowing them to only maintain a fixed population size.
If Zero's plan is to be implemented, it will take a long time to accumulate food before it is possible to complete the eradication of the termite population in one fell swoop.
Therefore, in this process, although there will be a lot of food surplus, Zero is not prepared to expand the colony. The ant colony will maintain this number for a long time in the future, and even actively reduce it if necessary.
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After the battle, the ants carried the corpses of their companions and enemies. Zero looked at the distinctive corpses of the termites, and his heart moved.
He ordered the ants to transport the corpses of the termites to a specific food area for storage.
Zero is somewhat curious about these termites, but the ants have almost no effective research methods. He can only direct the ants to satisfy his curiosity.
A soldier ant dragged a termite corpse to the nest where the queen ant was. Under Zero's instruction, it used the pliers on its head to bite open the termite's body with missing arms and legs. The liquid in the termite's abdomen
It slowly flowed out.
Ling was a little disappointed. With the dissection ability of an ant, he found nothing.
Some frustrated soldier ants brought the corpse to the queen, where it would become the queen's lunch.
However, Zero's unintentional action brought him an unexpected surprise!
After the queen ant devoured the termite carcass bit by bit, she seemed to become a little anxious, and Ling could feel that she seemed to be craving more food.
The worker ants faithfully fulfilled their mission of taking care of the queen and soon brought her a large amount of food.
She quickly devoured the food in front of her, and her fat belly began to squirm visibly.
Her digestive system is rapidly breaking down the food she eats.
But soon, she stopped eating and conveyed another kind of desire - He wanted more of the termite corpses!
Ling was confident and immediately agreed to her request. In just a few dozen seconds, the worker ants brought in dozens of strange dead termite corpses for her to eat.
Almost the moment she saw these corpses, the queen ant kept dancing her tentacles with joy. She greedily swallowed a dozen termite corpses before gradually giving up!
Afterwards, in Zero's shocked eyes, the queen who had devoured the termite carcass unexpectedly slowly and incredibly slowly started to form a cocoon again. Moreover, looking at the size, it was completely beyond the size of the queen!
You should know that after queen ants transform from larvae to adults, they undergo complete metamorphosis and develop. Their body structure undergoes huge changes. Adult queen ants have lost the organ for spinning silk, and it is even less possible for them to spin cocoons.<
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This scene is completely beyond Zero's cognition, it is extremely unreasonable!
"This is...?!!"
Zero didn't understand what was going on at all, but from the state of the ant queen, he probably felt that although he didn't know the reason, there was a high probability that it wouldn't be a bad thing, and even if it was, he was confident to deal with it.<
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In the days that followed, the ant colony was no longer harassed by termites, as if the last failure made their queen realize that this level of sneak attack was unlikely to pose much threat to the ants. Or perhaps the termite tribe was
This kind of special termite is extremely rare in the world. In short, the days after that were very peaceful.
Zero has always paid great attention to the queen ant that swallowed the termite corpse. To be on the safe side, he ordered the ants to block the granary containing the special termite corpse and prohibited all ant colonies from eating the food in this granary.
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A month has passed, and there is still no movement in the cocoon formed by the queen ant.
If it weren't for the Queen Ant's increasingly vivid aura, Zero would have even thought she was dead.
Finally, after another half a month, the cocoon, which was as long as a thumb and huge compared to an ant, started to move.
After a tearing sound, a huge ant with a body length of five centimeters emerged from it.
Her body is completely different from its original appearance. The originally dark shell has turned into a weird ice blue color like that group of special termites. The antennae on her head have become much shorter compared to her body size. Correspondingly,
Yes, her abdomen became long and fat, with a neat circle of holes on it!
Chapter completed!