Civilized Zerg Lord

Chapter 33 The Mouth of the Abyss
This is already the second winter that Gu Hao has entered civilization.

But compared to the first winter, the quality of life has made a qualitative leap.

However, the rapid development of the tribe also brought happy troubles.

The current population of the tribe is 800, which is only slightly larger than other surrounding tribes.

But don't ignore the growing size of the insect swarm of the Gu barbarian tribe.

More than 400 digging bugs have grown to nearly half a meter in size and have almost entered their maturity stage as soon as winter is over.

Even though they are not big, they are quite capable of digging up soil in winter, but they also consume a lot of food.

These digging bugs consume almost 1000 people's food stocks every day.

And that doesn’t include the more than 1000 bone centipedes that just hatched.

There are also salt worms, bat moths in the tribe, as well as spiders, mantises, scorpions, poisonous mosquitoes, black flies and other miscellaneous creatures that Gu Hao is cultivating.

There is a building in the city specially built for Gu witches, and the number of bugs inside is simply uncountable.

Under the control of the witches, this area seemed to have become an independent ecosystem.

Various bugs thrive here, forming a unique bug society.

In the insect nest, the insects shuttle busily, some are digging new nests, and some are taking care of the newborn larvae.

All of this is going on in an orderly manner, as if it were a precise machine, with every part performing its duties.

This is why Gu Hao can no longer expand the population size.

On the surface, the tribe only has the mouths of more than 3000 people.

But in fact, there is still a large group of growing insect swarms.

Their needs are like a bottomless abyss, devouring the tribe's resources.

This is why the Gu barbarian tribe sends out a large number of digging insects and tribesmen to open up wasteland in winter.

In the cold wind, the tribesmen wore thick animal skins, held farm tools, and worked together with the digging insects.

Digging bugs dig in the icy ground, and their powerful forefoot digging makes the frozen soil helpless.

The tribesmen directed from the side and organized the excavated land into neat farmland.

Merely having farmland is not enough, water conservancy hubs cannot be ignored either.

Gu Hao will open up tens of thousands of acres of farmland. If there is not enough water, a large number of crops will wither.

It happened that winter had frozen the river surface, so Gu Hao used a large number of digging insects.

It then took several weeks to dig out several storage dams on several rivers with the largest water flows.

Canals were then dug in the farmland, and these canals were connected to reservoirs.

Once the ice thaws, large amounts of water will flow near farmland.

When the time comes, it will be very convenient for the Gu barbarian tribe to water their farmland, and they will no longer need to go to the river to fetch water.

Without the help of the Digger, Gu Hao might not dare to expand the scale of the Bone Centipede next year.

By then there will be tens of thousands of bone-armored centipedes, and which tribe can afford to raise so many insects.

This also made Gu Hao realize that the Zerg civilization cannot blindly follow the path of invasion and war.

The number of resources obtained through robbery is always limited, and if Gu Hao only survives by plundering resources.

The other lords are not fools, as long as they burn all their resources before failure.

Without enough resources, how long can Gu Hao's insect swarm army maintain its scale?

If the farming skills are not improved, this problem will undoubtedly become a major weakness of the Zerg.

In addition to developing his talents in insect farming, Gu Hao is also unremittingly developing the insect killer: the queen ant.

Although Gu Hao has failed many times in cultivating the queen ant.

But Gu Hao still didn't give up, and still spent blood to evolve every day.Gu Hao tried to stop the queen ant from reproducing, and then used the blood of evolution to guide her transformation.

The result is conceivable, although the queen ant evolves in the direction of increasing body size.

But it is slowly losing its terrifying reproductive ability.

The uncontrolled reproduction method that was lost was not what Gu Hao wanted.

If this ability is lost, the queen ant will be reduced to the same role as an ordinary insect.

Able to maintain the original reproductive capacity, as long as the size of the ants exceeds ten centimeters.

I really don’t know if there is anything in nature today that can check and balance them.

Humans can't even eliminate mice and cockroaches, let alone the emergence of ants of this size.

The enlarged ant colony can dig its nest hundreds or thousands of meters below the ground.

Even nuclear bombs cannot destroy such creatures at all. The only thing that can destroy them is nature.

If Gu Hao succeeds in cultivating a queen ant one day, the scene will be unbelievable.

Millions of insect swarms will sweep through all enemies standing in front of Gu Hao.

This will be a shocking war, with countless insects like a black torrent that cannot be stopped.

This will be the rise of the Zerg and the rise of the Gu barbarian tribe.

However, no matter how powerful Gu Hao's insect swarm develops, the food problem will be a difficult problem accompanying the development of the insect swarm.

Gu Hao felt that it was necessary to evolve a plant that was easy to grow and resistant to cold.

Otherwise, every time winter comes, these insects will consume too much food stocks.

And various cold-resistant crops can also start to be cultivated.

You have to take it one step at a time, don't aim too high, and the Zerg cannot be trained in one day.

If he wants to become a real Zerg, there are still countless problems waiting for Gu Hao to solve.

.........

Just as winter was mostly over, the farmland, water conservancy and city walls of the Guman tribe were almost completed.

A long-lost voice from the system suddenly sounded in Gu Hao's mind:
"It has been detected that the development progress of the ZDY45626 batch of reserve lords has reached the first stage threshold, and the space rift will be opened in the third year. Please check the lord log for specific information."

Gu Hao was stunned. He didn't expect that there would be a next stage in the reserve lord mission.

Gu Hao quickly found the lord's log in his mind, and after opening it, he saw a detailed introduction to the next stage.

At the same moment, all the preparatory lords around the world received this news.

The reserve lords paused their work and began to carefully study the details of the next stage.

Gu Hao took a preliminary look at it and immediately found that his understanding of the prototype of civilization was misleading.

The prototype of civilization that the system refers to is not some ideological change.

Rather, it is a concrete prototype of civilization, also known as the heart of civilization.

Only by possessing this can one be among the true lords.

Without this, even if they achieve great achievements in this world and establish a tribe with a population of millions, they will still not be able to rank among the lords.

Of course, if there are really 100 million people, it should not be difficult to obtain the heart of this civilization.

The way to obtain the heart of civilization is actually very straightforward, that is, through competition.

Once the space rift is opened, special props will appear in random locations in the world.

This includes the civilized heart necessary to become a lord.

(End of this chapter)