Laws of the Insect Hive

Use [Corrosive Slime] to block the passage near the rock pile to prevent ants from passing by.

System sometimes used [Teleportation] to brainwash the worm eggs near the rubble, sometimes jumped to the construction team led by the soldier ant Dasha to check the progress of the construction of the winter nest, and sometimes carried the worm eggs that Dasha brought him. , to select the eggs.

System looked very busy.

Three days passed.

The first batch of thirteen eggs was successfully brainwashed by him.

It was earlier than System expected. Most of the eggs would be brainwashed successfully in about two days, and he would never doubt him again. Only a few eggs really hypnotized him for three days.

After brainwashing the worm eggs, as long as System activates [mental connection] to connect with these worm eggs, these worm eggs will be as if they were thrown into the mother's body, sending System a feeling of incomparable peace of mind. Mu regarded as relying on.

System reckoned that no matter how much time passed, these insect eggs would not rebel against him.

However, compared to the smooth brainwashing of the eggs, the search for different types of ant eggs was not very smooth. In three days, System had checked hundreds of ant eggs, but only three ant eggs were found.

Most of the ant eggs are worker ants, and the other two, one has five and one has one.

The five ant eggs with a large number should be soldier ants, but with only one ant egg, System could not tell whether it was a male or a female ant.

In fact, even if this ant egg was a female ant, System would not be satisfied.

What he wants is a female ant and a male ant. Only with these two kinds of ants can they safely breed ant offspring.

In desperation, System could only let the soldier ant Dasha continue to look for more ant eggs for him to choose from, and strive to gather all kinds of ants as soon as possible.

In three days, compared to the search for ant eggs, the construction team of worker ants led by the soldier ants Dasha made great progress.

Especially on a recent day, the soldier ant Dasha directed nearly 150 ants to widen all the passages in System's wintering nest to a suitable size, without System's excessive instructions at all.

Soldier Ant Dasha seems to have gotten a lot smarter.

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Ants are social gregarious insects with simple yet complex living habits.

It is complicated because of the social relationship of ant colonies. Sometimes they will perform many behaviors that ordinary people cannot understand, and these behaviors usually have certain meanings.

Simple, because everything the ants do has a clear purpose, all for the prosperity of the ant colony.

It is precisely for the overall prosperity of the ant colony that the female ants, the soldier ants and the worker ants, are not capable of reproduction, and their living conditions are very harsh and bad.

After pupation from larvae to adults, worker and soldier ants will work tirelessly, and they will only eat a minimum amount of food, just to the extent that they can maintain their physical fitness.

The same is true of the soldier ant Dasha, it will only eat a small amount of food every day, and will not continue to eat.

It wasn't until Dasha met System that this situation changed.

After being ordered by System to eat for a few days until its abdomen was stretched to some extent, the soldier ant Dasha's body began to grow slowly.

The level of Soldier Ant Dasha should have increased, but because he didn't have System's talent [Numerical Code], Soldier Ant Dasha's body growth was only a slow change, and it wouldn't suddenly become much bigger like System's.

After these days, Dasha's body has grown from 3 centimeters to 4.5 centimeters in ordinary soldier ants, and this change has not stopped completely. The body shape of soldier ant Dasha is still improving step by step.

Due to the increase in level and the occasional communication with System using [Spiritual Connection], Dasha has learned how to think.

Soldier ants Dasha may be smart because of this.

It may be worse than the grasshopper queen, but the soldier ant Dasha obviously has a new trait.

In the process of instructing the worker ants to build System's wintering nest, it always likes to hold a translucent stone the size of a peanut.

This translucent stone was found by System in the forest by accident. He found it beautiful and picked it up. He didn’t know if it was a crystal, a diamond, or any other kind of stone.

System found that the soldier ant Dasha seemed to like this stone, so he gave it to him.

After that, Dasha will always hold on to the stone.

Sometimes it will hold the stone to play on the ground, and sometimes it will hold the stone to observe the sun or moon in the sky, and it does not know what it is looking at.

All in all, System found that Dasha had become a little spiritual.

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Because of Dasha's improvement in intelligence, the overwintering crypt was very spacious, so System directly requisitioned this place to build a one-and-a-half-meter-deep crypt.

Brainwashing many ant eggs near the rubble, System needed to always pay attention to what was going on around him, and he had to keep his nerves tense at all times, which was very inconvenient.

This is a quarter of the wintering nest built by Dasha, because the passage has been widened, which is just suitable for System's temporary use, and some empty rooms inside can also temporarily store food and ant eggs.

As for the construction of the wintering nest, because of the improvement in the efficiency of the construction team of the soldier ant Dasha, he can completely let Dasha build a brand new crypt.

System decided everything and acted, and quickly moved to the crypt with numerous ant eggs.

Two days passed quickly...

Soldier Ant Dasha's construction team methodically built a brand new winter underground nest. It is estimated that the progress of the new nest will reach the crypt requisitioned by System before long.

On this day, after continuing to select nearly two hundred ant eggs, System finally collected all kinds of ant eggs.

The most basic conditions have been met to reproduce a nest of ants.

And in the spare time of brainwashing ant eggs for the past two days, System also cultivated a magical crop.

He successfully cultivated a kind of mushroom that is very common in the vicinity by digesting the fleshy corpse solution and some dead leaf impurities in the dark cave.

This is an amazing mushroom that is edible and tastes just like ordinary mushrooms, with a light yogurt flavor.

Although it does not possess any magical power, this mushroom is very magical and can emit weak fluorescence.

After observing, System found that the mushroom's fluorescence only appeared during the growth process, and when the mushroom stopped growing, the shimmer slowly disappeared.

System couldn't figure out what the mushroom's light was.

Because the growth of this mushroom consumes a lot of nutrients, he only cultivates a small amount in the cave to make his [Dark Vision] effective.

Another day later.

Among the twenty or so ant eggs System had brainwashed, one finally hatched into ant larvae. It seemed that the growth cycle of this black-brown ant was not very long.

After the ant eggs became ant larvae, the attitude of the ant larvae towards System did not change, and still regarded System as the queen of the colony.

System picked some soft fungi and butterfly larvae to feed these ant larvae.

The ant larvae liked the food provided by System and grew up very fast.

Everything is proceeding steadily according to System's plan.

However, things went wrong in the least likely places—

In the process of using [spiritual connection] to communicate with the soldier ant Dasha on this day, the soldier ant Dasha suddenly sent a message to System: "You, no, the queen ant..."

"what?"

System had never imagined that he would also have such a panicked mood in the face of the foolish soldier ants.