And Zero also saw that the side facing the ant colony was almost vertical and extremely steep, and it was covered with traces of various seawater erosions.

"No wonder the small island behind it was able to survive a tsunami of this magnitude." Zero murmured.

In front of such a tall and majestic mountain that seems unshakable, it seems that such huge waves are not so scary.

After that, this group of exploration teams landed on this big island. Because it is located at the front of the island and is the largest island among them, for the sake of convenience, Zero named it Island No. 1, and behind it

, depending on the distance, they are No. 2 to No. 7.

The surviving sea transporter is on Island No. 3. After the exploration team logged in, it has completed the rendezvous with them.

At the same time, on the island where the main body of the ant colony is located, Zero has organized a convoy of more than 100,000 ants, preparing to explore the island group.

Most of them are combat arms, including all combat units of sea, land and air.

Of course, there are also some logistics units, but they only occupy a small part. They mainly provide services for other ant species.

Finally, there is a transport brigade composed of more than 30,000 sea transporters under them!

This part accounts for more than 99% of the entire dispatch team. However, they all exist for one purpose, which is to safely escort more than a hundred ant queens scattered on the backs of different transporters to the islands.

Of course, in addition to the individual ants, this transportation team also scattered a batch of sweet potato seeds and the eggs of that strange fish.

There is no doubt that this is a huge colonial team! Their purpose is to survive and reproduce on the newly discovered vast land and expand the group again!

With such a mission on their shoulders, they drove into the boundless sea and rushed towards the target at high speed.

However, this time, their journey is destined not to go smoothly.

The newly discovered archipelago is in the sea about 120 kilometers northwest of the original island. For the ants, it took them more than a year and the deaths of countless exploration teams to successfully explore this distance.<

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Zero has lost count of how many exploration teams he has sent into the deep sea over the years. He only remembers that before the last batch was lost, the next batch had already set off.

And this kind of exploration did not stop after the exploration team successfully arrived at the archipelago. There are still a large number of exploration teams working tirelessly to complete their missions in the surrounding sea areas.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that under this route, the corpses of ant colony explorers are buried everywhere.

There are more than 100,000 ants. Today, when the number of individuals is already relatively large, they are above the sea, almost completely covering the water surface of hundreds of meters in radius. From a distance, they look like a huge black blanket floating on the sea.

Above, slowly sliding to the northwest.

The reason why so many ant colonies are dispatched is mainly to escort the arrival of the ant queen. Although the ant colony has explored it, the route has not become safer. There are still countless unknown predators underwater.

ants may attack passing ant colonies at any time.

But Zero is not worried. He specially reproduced and sent so many guards just to escort the ant queen to the island.

Even if only one queen ant successfully comes ashore, the colonization activity will be considered a success!

However, He ignored one thing.

Ling thought that sending more ant colonies to escort the queen would scare the predators so they would not dare to attack, or they could defeat them when attacked.

But he never thought that in the vast and mysterious sea, no matter how large the ant colony is, it is just a drop in the ocean.

In the sea, there is always a shortage of various creatures. Some of them are docile and will not take the initiative to attack, but there are also some who never know what it means to be afraid.

Less than twenty kilometers away from the island, the huge ant colony suffered a devastating blow.

A huge mouth like an ancient behemoth rushed out from under the water. While breaking up the ant colony, it also swallowed a large number of ants at the center of the team.

And just from this simple attack, the ant colony lost nearly one-third of its population!

That was more than 30,000 ants that were as big as a palm! Just one bite, and they all disappeared!

The remaining ants were also completely dispersed. Zero was anxiously directing them in an attempt to withdraw. However, this effort had no effect. Under such a huge size, it shook its tail gently, even the surrounding ants

The sea water will be stirred into whirlpools!

Not even one out of ten can survive! This is the final outcome of this group of ants.

This unknown huge predator didn't even launch a few attacks. Hundreds of thousands of ants were already wiped out. Most of the ants that survived several attacks died in the whirlpools stirred up by the opponent and could not escape at all.

There was no way to escape, and the air units that were lucky enough to fly into the sky eventually fell into the water due to exhaustion of physical strength. Zero didn't even have time to rescue them. In the end, only some combat units in the sea were lucky enough to survive.

It was only then that Zero finally realized his mistake. He thought that such a large team could ensure his safety at sea, but in fact it turned out to be a signpost for a more powerful predator.

And if you do this in the form of a small team exploration, although you may be attacked, you will not encounter an enemy that is so powerful that you cannot escape.

In past explorations, exploration teams have often encountered attacks, and losses are common. However, the number of times a team has almost died in just one attack is still very few.

After figuring out the key, Zero also felt a little distressed.

The number of one hundred thousand is not an unbearable huge price for the current ant colony, but it is definitely a strain.

To repopulate so many ants, the food consumed alone is a huge amount.

However, Zero is not discouraged. The ant colony can still bear this kind of loss. Although it is more painful, it only costs some food and a few days of time.

Having learned the lesson from the first time, Zero once again sent out a total of one hundred queen ants.

But this time, there is no such overwhelming scale at all. There are only the same number of builders, a batch of seeds and fish eggs, a batch of food, and sea transporters underneath.

The one hundred queen ants were completely divided into one hundred teams, and were divided into five groups starting from the initial island. Even the twenty queens in the same group continued to move around, and finally dispersed completely.
Chapter completed!