Zerg Overlords of Civilization

Chapter 24 Breeding Gu Insects
Gu Hao quickly found dozens of female centipede Gu species from Xie.

He poured all these Gu seeds into the Gu pit and started cultivating the Gu seeds.

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A month passed, and finally only two female centipedes were successfully cultured.

But at this moment, they have not yet entered the mature stage, and it will take a long time to let them grow freely.

According to Gu Hao's understanding of centipedes, it may take another year to enter the mature stage.

Therefore, Gu Hao decided to continue using the blood of evolution to speed up their maturation process.

Every day, Gu Hao would feed the two centipedes a few drops of blood.

Another month later, these female centipedes were finally successfully cultured to the breeding stage.

Just as spring is coming to an end, it is the mating season of centipedes.

Gu Hao put the bone-armored centipede and the two newly cultivated female centipedes into the breeding room.

This breeding room was carefully built by Gu Hao. The indoor temperature was moderate and filled with moist air.

The walls are covered with moss and the ground is covered with soft fallen leaves, providing a comfortable environment for the centipedes.

The breeding process went very smoothly and there was no reproductive isolation.The female centipede successfully begins to gestate centipede eggs.

The process of expulsion of centipede eggs takes at least more than a month.

It takes another month to hatch a small centipede from an egg, and then to grow up. Even with Gu Hao's blood to promote it, it will take at least one to two months.

Therefore, it would take Gu Hao at least four months for these centipedes to grow into combat effectiveness.

This is despite accelerating growth.Once the number of centipedes increases, Gu Hao will no longer be able to use blood to promote the growth of the worms.

Although each centipede only requires a few drops of blood, Gu Hao's body cannot bear the consumption of hundreds or thousands of centipedes.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the reproduction cycle of bone centipedes should be one to two years.

This is more than three times longer than without blood to promote growth.

After Gu Hao successfully handed over the breeding room to Xie, he continued to deal with other matters at hand.

When the winter war ended, Gu Hao stored some stored blood.

It is this blood stored over the winter that is used to grow female centipedes.

On the other hand, Gu Hao is using his other time and fresh blood to cultivate other insect species.

Such as mole crickets (also known as earthworms) and earthworms.

Gu Hao did not spend too much blood on cultivating these two bugs, because Gu Hao did not intend to make them too big.

The evolved mole crickets are named diggers, and they are about half a meter long.

Anyone who grew up in a rural area will know how powerful mole crickets are at digging in the soil.

According to this plan, Gu Hao trained these digging bugs into agricultural tool bugs.

They can dig soil faster than cattle, so the Gu barbarian tribe will not need to raise cattle in the future.

The efficiency of the digging worm was extraordinary, when Gu Hao put a digging worm into the ground.

It was like a mini excavator, moving quickly through the ground.

In just half an hour, a two-acre piece of land had been turned over.

As for earthworms, they are only slightly larger than ordinary earthworms and about twice as large.

Gu Hao's plan is not to let earthworms fight, but to use them to speed up the decomposition of waste debris and also provide better fertilizer for crops.

You don’t need to worry too much about earthworm reproduction, you just need to throw it into the field.

So the earthworms have already started working in the farmland, and the digging insects have been handed over to Xie, who is responsible for multiplying the numbers.

The growth cycle of digging worms also takes about a year, so now the Gu barbarian tribe can only use four digging worms cultivated with blood.But it's enough. The Gu barbarian tribe doesn't have so much farmland now, and it won't be until next year when the first batch of skilled farmers come out.

It just so happens that next year there will be at least hundreds of digging insects, and by then the Gu barbarian tribe will be able to open up tens of thousands of acres of farmland.

At that time, Gu Hao's only worry was that there would not be enough manpower during sowing and harvesting, resulting in a large amount of crops being wasted in the fields.

However, the more digging bugs, the better. They are not only needed in farmland, building roads and foundations, digging rivers and canals, and mining.

They can even be used when digging tunnels facing city walls.

Originally, Gu Hao wanted to try to cultivate a queen bee, hoping to use the barrier-breaker bee as the queen bee and cultivate a large number of barrier-breaker bees.

However, after seeing that the queen ants he had cultivated since last year had only increased in number and size of soldier ants, Gu Hao gave up this idea.

Obviously, this creature that is always laying eggs will consume a lot of Gu Hao's blood.

As a result, the evolutionary ability of blood is dispersed among hundreds or thousands of descendants, which in turn weakens the evolutionary ability.

And if they are not allowed to lay eggs, it is likely to lead to the wrong direction of evolution.

It may happen that the queen ant or bee changes into other types of insects.

Regarding this problem of controlling the direction of evolution, Gu Hao is currently unable to accurately control it, and can only leave it to the future to find a solution.

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In this spring, the Guman tribe is still living a peaceful life.

Not only did they find a new vein of iron ore, but they also discovered several salt wells.

It won't be long before Gu Hao can confidently say that the Gu barbarian tribe has entered the age of cold weapons.

To Gu Hao, the extra salt wells were like having several money-making machines.

In this era without a monetary system, salt was the most important commodity.

Although there are many salt wells under the ground, not every tribe has Gu Hao's ability to accurately find salt wells, so other tribes are very short of salt.

Even at the peak of feudal society, salt was still a very important strategic resource.

So although the road to trade became longer, Gu Hao still made a lot of wealth through salt trading.

What makes Gu Hao most satisfied is the growth of population.

Every time his trading team set out, he could always trade some unwanted populations from other tribes.

Over time, the population of the Guman tribe has reached 500 people.

The steady increase in population did mean that the Gu barbarian tribe needed to expand further.

Nowadays, metal tools have become more and more common, and their use in the construction field has gradually expanded.

The people of the Guman tribe also began to change their original construction methods, gradually switching from the previous civil structures to the use of kiln-fired bricks and tiles.

Thanks to the efforts of the tribe’s members, kilns for firing bricks and tiles stand around the tribe.

Those red bricks that are still being heated are full of power.

Each brick can be formed into a solid wall by the tribesmen's skillful stacking and construction.

The bricks that have just come out of the kiln are very hot, red and translucent, and feel hot to the touch, as if there are little suns hidden inside.

After a period of natural cooling, the reddish-brown bricks and tiles gradually darkened, appearing steady and solid.

In just a few days, new houses have been built on the originally chaotic tribal open space.

It is made of bricks and tiles laid one after another, and the roof is also made of the same bricks and tiles. It is neat and uniform and full of new vitality.

The newly built buildings are neat, beautiful, solid and durable, heralding a new chapter in tribal life.

These new houses are a symbol of the Go barbarian tribe's transformation from barbarism to preliminary civilization, and are a mark that they are one step closer to the Iron Age.

(End of this chapter)