Chapter 9 New Home and Try

Author: The Flying Wind

Chapter 9 New Home and Try

In addition to the three exploration teams that have been lost, only two of the remaining seven lost their direction and returned to the direction of the northern ant hole. Two more suffered heavy losses, but they still insisted on exploring the south.

Until noon, Zero was finally shocked.

He discovered from the perspective of the exploration team that an exploration team encountered an insurmountable obstacle in the direction of exploration - water.

That is not the dew or rain that is usually visible near the ant hole, it is the surging river water!

The turbulent water flows from west to east from now on. The ants who borrow from zero cannot see the opposite bank of the river at all. Of course, the ants' vision is also not twenty centimeters away, which is not of reference significance for the width of the river.

Among them, a worker ant who faithfully executed the order tried to enter the water, but was swept away by the water flow in an instant.

The other five ants did not dare to try to cross the river again, but continued to explore along the river for a while, then turned around and returned. If they did not return, they might not be able to return to the ant hole before dark. Although the night did not affect their activities, the orders of the queen of the ant should not be denied.

Although they didn't stay by the river to explore for a long time, Zero still got a lot of information from it.

For example, there are a large number of large and small stones by the river, and the reeds like towering trees on the river bank.

"I guess you can find a stone that can serve as a breeding room here, right?" Zero thought with some joy.

Shortly afterwards, two more exploration teams came to the river from different locations, and then hurriedly explored and turned around and returned.

Having obtained the information he wanted, Zero stopped hesitating and immediately ordered No. 3 to start preparing. She will lead five male ants, nearly a thousand worker ants and hundreds of soldiers to settle down near the river.

This is a huge action, they will take away one-quarter of the grain reserves in the ant hole at one time. Unlike ordinary ants who establish a family, No. 3 is equivalent to moving directly with a group of people to survive!

Under the sign of zero, No. 3 quickly organized its ant colony and moved south along the footsteps of the exploration team.

In the evening, the ant colony led by No. 3 arrived near the river without any danger. No insects dared to harass an ant colony of such a size along the way.

Zero chose to let No. 3 build a new ant hole under a stone five meters away from the river. The surface of this stone is tilted, blocking a shadow below. It is also the highest place within one meter around. Setting up a home here can prevent rainwater from flowing into the ant hole.

There are many rat women hidden under the stone, but they are not the opponents of the ant colony led by No. 3. Hundreds of soldiers rushed forward, and the rat women who failed to escape in time turned into new food for the ants.

After driving away the rat woman, the soldiers and ants divided half of them to protect No. 3 and the food brought from the ant hole, and the other half led the worker ants to quickly start building a new nest under the stone.

The sky soon dimmed and the night fell quietly, but the tireless ants were still carrying soil and rocks to build their own new homes.

At dawn, the new ant hole already had a rugged passage over fifty centimeters leading to the ground, as well as a flat-shaped granary as an egg-sized place and a slightly smaller insect chamber.

No. 3 was placed in this slightly smaller insect chamber. There were still many worker ants around who were busy expanding the insect chamber and transporting grain from the outside camp to store it in a new granary.

The new ant hole is about seventy meters away from the ant hole where No. 1 is located, with weeds and four ridges, with a vertical distance of about two meters.

In the following days, No. 3 was busy directing the ant colony to expand its new home similar to the nest where No. 1 was located, while Zero had a new project to be busy - the earthworms in the breeding room began to hatch.

Each earthworm can hatch one to three earthworm larvae in the eggs. In just five days, hundreds of small earthworms hatched in fifty eggs.

There were so many earthworms in the original breeding room, and I don’t know when the new breeding room will be found.

In desperation, Zero ordered the killing of most of the earthworm larvae as food for ants, leaving only ten of them as seeds for the cultivation of the second breeding room in the future.

At the same time, Zero asked No. 1 to continue hatching five queens, and with the successful precedent of No. 3, they will lead the ant colony to expand outward as the second batch of colonists.

After this period of testing, Zero found that the food within the range of the ant colony in the same nest can only be allowed to feed the ant colony led by six queens, about 7,000. If there are more, the worker ants carrying the food will need to travel a long distance, and this process is accompanied by unknown risks.

Of course, there is another solution, which is to continuously expand the ant hole outward, build more ant hole outlets, and disperse the queens. However, this method is essentially not much different from what Zero has done now, and even because the expansion speed will become very slow and seem very conservative.

Now Zero is eager to know the surrounding situation and is eager to expand his vision. While ensuring that the ant colony will not perish, He wants to explore around as quickly as possible. Now, in this way of expansion, the gap left between the ant cave can be slowly filled with the expansion of the ant colony in the future.

In addition, given the various situations encountered by the previous No. 3 dispatch of the exploration team, Zero needs an efficient explorer.

"It would be great if there was an ant that could fly."

If there is an ant seed that can fly, it can explore farther places, even cross rivers, and explore more unknowns.

"Flying...Flying...Wings...Queen Ant?!!"

Zero suddenly thought that when the queen ant just turned from a larva into an adult, wouldn’t she just be able to fly with her wings?

With the current reserves of ant holes, they do not need to eat off their fallen wings to reproduce offspring. The abundant grain reserves are enough to meet their reproductive needs.

"Perhaps, can I raise unmatched female ants as scouts to explore outward?"

This idea is a bit bold. As the reserve for queen ant in the ant hole, the female ants have very weak combat capabilities and are undoubtedly not qualified as scouts.

"However, this is not a problem, I just need them to explore as far as possible, and as for the loss, there is basically no need to consider this." Zero made the decision.

Soon, No. 1 and No. 5 received the task of breeding the first batch of 100 female ants. These female ants will not mate with male ants to become queens, but will exist as consumables for Zero's outward expansion. If necessary, they will directly obey Zero's instructions and will become the eyes that Zero can communicate at any time! At the same time, if necessary, they can mate with male ants at any time to become queens of a new group!

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