Juggernaut: Rise of the Zerg

Chapter 59 Rebuilding the Farmland (Seek to read!!)

This is a piece of land located in the depression of the mountain below the mountainside and above the foot of the mountain. It is only about 20 square meters in size. In the morning sunlight, on the green leaves, the crystal dewdrops are shining with little light.

For zero, that is the light of life!

He finally let go of the heart that he had been hanging on. With such a piece of land, at least the ant colony can be guaranteed to survive and not die out.

The explorers continued to search forward with a net, and in the cave, three hundred builders and fifty diggers were already ready to go under Zero's command.

They carried some of the surviving sweet potato seeds in several granaries on their backs, and headed for the land in a mighty way.

There they will sow the seeds of hope, the seeds for the ant colony to rise again.

Sweet potatoes were chosen because of their clear advantages over berries and fruit trees.

The unknown fruits produced by fruit trees are sweet and sweet, but their growth cycle is too long. It takes at least five or six years from germination to fruiting, and the number is not large. unacceptable.

Although a single plant produces a lot of berries, the water-rich fruit is very difficult to preserve and cannot continue to supply the life of the ant colony.

The sweet potato is different. First of all, its internal sugar content is very high, which is not too much compared with berries, which means that its energy supply efficiency is very high, and a small amount of food can satisfy the consumption of the ant colony for a long time .

Secondly, the rhizome-like outer cortex of the plant can play a very good antiseptic effect on the inner pulp. As long as the outer cortex is not damaged, it can be preserved for a long time in a cold and dry environment.

The length of food storage time is very important for the ant colony that still needs to hibernate to avoid the severe cold. If all the stored food is inedible in winter, and it is impossible to obtain food from the outside world, it is conceivable that the ant colony will What kind of scene will you face.

Finally, and the most important point at present, the growth cycle of sweet potatoes is similar to that of berries, which are ripe once a year. Moreover, the rhizomes buried deep in the ground are very large, which means that its yield is very high, and it is currently a food shortage. The best choice for an ant colony.

With the current size and strength of the builders, growing crops is not a difficult task for them.

Their well-developed body structure allows them to easily move the soil and gravel on the surface. With the help of diggers, they quickly cleaned up the plants on this land and planted 120 seeds at the same time.

On this piece of land of about [-] square meters, this kind of planting density is quite high, and it will definitely affect the yield of sweet potatoes.

However, considering the current crisis that the ant colony is facing, Zero has no choice but to adopt this saturated planting method, because he must consider the various risks that the seeds may not be able to germinate, so as to ensure that enough plants will survive.

He doesn't want to waste any precious land. As for the problem of affecting the yield, it is not too late to streamline after the seeds germinate, and the guardians can take on this task very well.

While the builders were working hard, the explorers never stopped searching.

With zero attention, they completed the search of the central area in the following time.

In the subsequent exploration, Zero once again discovered a total of eight areas that can be planted, the largest of which can be about [-] square meters, and the smallest is only a few square meters.

In this regard, Zero does not dislike it, as long as some are planted.

Due to the insufficient number of builders, the areas discovered later have not yet been planted. Zero is just making a record. After the builders are free, the planting will be completed one after another.

It's not that Zero doesn't want to breed more builders to complete the work faster, it's just that the current food storage status of the ant colony is not optimistic.

Although some land suitable for planting crops has been found, this has not brought about any improvement in the current food storage of the ant colony. Instead, it has consumed a lot because the builders ended hibernation and started working again.

Before the autumn harvest comes, Zero must do a good job of calculating every morsel so that the ant colony can continue into the autumn with the current supply.

But at present, the situation is not optimistic.

Zero has done simple calculations. Based on the current food reserves and the number of ant colonies, even if they only maintain a minimum level of activity, they can only survive until summer, and there is still a window of three or four months before the harvest!
How the ant colony will spend this period of time is currently Zero's biggest headache.Although it has basically got rid of the survival crisis, it is impossible to expect the newly planted crops to alleviate the food crisis in the short term. He must think of new ways to solve this problem.

After completing the most likely exploration of the central region, the explorers turned to the west again to continue their search.

Compared with the unique advantages of the central region, the possibility of plantable areas in the east and west is greatly reduced due to the lower mountains.

However, Zero didn't want to give up, even if he could find a place by chance, he could let Zero feed more ants.

Compared with the smooth progress in the central part, the western part is much more difficult and there has been no progress.

Zero waited patiently. Since the soil that he needed could exist in the central part, it proved that this possibility existed completely. These are the places.

The day passed quickly, and the western region was much larger than the central region, so until dusk, the explorers had only completed less than half of the search.

However, the good news is that in this half of the foothills, the explorers have also found two places suitable for farming, although they are not large, one of which is dozens of square meters, and the other is only a few square meters in size.

But this is undoubtedly a good start, and Zero firmly believes that in the following explorations, similar places will definitely be found.

Sure enough, during the exploration of the last part of the west, Zero discovered two relatively hidden places again, and the area was not small. The combined size was about 50 square meters, enough to plant hundreds of seeds.

After the exploration of the west is over, it is naturally the east.

Everything is done step by step, nothing special.

However, compared with the west, the area suitable for planting crops is found in the eastern region is larger and more, with a total area of ​​hundreds of square meters, presumably because the mountains in the east are steeper and taller than those in the west.

After the search at the foot of the mountain was over, the explorers did not rest idle. They still have a vast land in the north to explore. Although the possibility is even smaller, Zero will not miss any possibility, but this part of the exploration is not enough So let him be so concerned, just let the explorer do it.

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