Laws of the Insect Hive

The spirit of the soldier ant Dasha seemed a little confused. After telling System that he was not the queen ant, it continued to send the message: "You are, the queen ant."

"Well, I am."

System responded to Soldier Ant Dasha with [Teleportation]. Although he was calm on the surface, his heart was already very flustered.

This was the first time Soldier Ant Dasha had questioned him, but System knew that it would never be the last.

As the Soldier Ant Dasha's intelligence improved, it would definitely continue to question System.

And these ant eggs and larvae that he is brainwashing now, won't he question him in the future?

Give up brainwashing these bug eggs?

Or try to suppress the intelligence of these eggs?

System's heart was a little confused, he had to find a way to put an end to these hidden dangers.

And how to deal with the big fool of the soldier ants is also very troublesome.

Continuing to keep Dasha is undoubtedly a ticking time bomb. Maybe one day the soldier ants Dasha finds something wrong and will come to kill him.

System already knew the soldier ants, a crazy fighting class among ants, and they would fight to the death against creatures that were unfavorable to the ant's nest like a madman.

However, he needs the soldier ant Dasha very much now. After all, the construction of the wintering nest must be completed by Dasha, and the same is true for storing food for the winter.

System is very confused...

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Fortunately, Soldier Ant Dasha only doubted System once, and didn't mention it again after that, as if he had forgotten about it.

But since then, Soldier Ant's silly behavior has gotten more and more bizarre.

In addition to fiddling with the translucent stone that System gave it, Dasha would also go to a nearby puddle that had not completely dried up.

After completing some of the tasks given to it by System, it would silently stare at the reflection in the water, and occasionally touch the reflection on the water with its feet, no matter it was day or night.

It seems to be thinking about something.

System would often spy on him from a distance, and he couldn't understand what the soldier ants Dasha was thinking, but from the looks of it, Dasha should not rebel against him in a short period of time.

It went on like this for two days.

In the process of communicating with the soldier ant Dasha again, Dasha didn't know what to think, and suddenly asked System: "I am, what?"

"You are a soldier ant." System replied.

"Soldier ants, what are they?"

"An ant that protects the ant's nest. There are many kinds of ants, just like you are a soldier ant and I am the queen." System explained.

Soldier Ant Dasha seemed to think for a while, and it didn’t take long for him to ask System a new question.

"I, why, are... soldier ants? You, why, queen ants?"

"This……"

Hearing Dasha's question and tone, System was stunned. He finally understood why the soldier ant Dasha asked him a few days ago if he was the queen of the ants.

Dasha is not suspicious of his fabricated ant queen identity, but because of his improved intelligence, he has a new understanding of the world.

Dasha should be aware of the concept of self.

Self, also known as self-awareness or self-concept, mainly refers to an individual's cognition of his own existence, and is the result of an individual's self-evaluation of his social role.

In our experience, being aware of everything about ourselves and distinguishing it from other things around us and other people is the self, the self-consciousness.

There is no doubt that after this period of growth, Soldier Ant Dasha has given birth to its own unique wisdom, allowing him to recognize himself.

At that time, it was not in a daze watching the reflection on the water, but saw itself in the reflection and had doubts.

The question of Dasha has undoubtedly risen from an ordinary problem to a philosophical level.

It's like asking a human, why is he human?

Why is it a soldier ant, and why is System a queen?

This is a question with no clear answer at all, and it is difficult for System to answer.

But System is not helpless, he can completely push the problem to fate, everything is fate.

The mysterious and mysterious things like fate are the most suitable for explaining this problem.

But Dasha will definitely continue to ask what destiny is, and continue the question endlessly, just like a rude child who always likes to ask why.

Fortunately, the soldier ant Dasha is not a soldier ant who likes to cry and make trouble with children, but a soldier ant in the ant's nest.

After hearing System's order to continue to instruct the worker ants to build the wintering crypt, it resolutely gave up its doubts, chose to implement System's order, and began to instruct the worker ants to continue to build the wintering nest for System.

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The Soldier Ant Dasha was only aware of his own self, and it did not doubt System.

But this incident did not make System feel completely relieved.

If the soldier ant is stupid, if its intelligence continues to grow like this, it will sooner or later find that System is not the same species as it, but a grasshopper.

When the time comes, System cannot predict what will happen.

Since System ordered Dasha to keep eating, Dasha's body has grown further, and now it has reached 5.5 cm.

Although it was not as powerful as System, the pair of giant fangs and the stinger on its tail were enough to threaten System.

System felt a little uneasy, he was worried that sometime, the soldier ants would find out that something was wrong and attack him.

There is nothing to do. Tum can only order Dasha to build his wintering nest as soon as possible. At the same time, he begins to distance himself from the soldier ant Dasha and reduce his contact with Dasha.

System had already made a decision that when Dasha helped him build the overwintering nest and filled the granary in the overwintering nest, he would let Dasha return to the ant nest and not touch it.

Of course, he also thought about killing Dasha in order to eliminate future troubles after being a soldier ant Dasha.

But this kind of bird hides everything, and he can't do the things that rabbits die and dogs cook.

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As time passed, the system's wintering nest was gradually built by Dasha's construction team by half, reaching a depth of 4.5 meters.

Ants may seem unintelligent, but their underground nests are perfect.

The passages inside the nest extend in all directions, which can effectively ventilate from the hole, and the worker ants have gradually excavated dozens of granaries for him to store food.

These days, System's brainwashed ant larvae hatched one after another from the eggs, and dozens of ant larvae had gathered around him.

The first batch of ant larvae have coagulated into pupae under sufficient food. It seems that the growth cycle of these ants is not too long.

And System also reached level 12 when he was 25 days away from the end of his lifespan.

His body grew further, reaching 17 cm, and the [Insect Adaptability] (12/21) in his bloodline was increased to [Insect Adaptation] (13/21).

Starting from level 11, every time his [Insect Adaptability] talent level is increased, his grasshopper bloodline will send him some images, and this time, too, swarms of ants appeared in System's mind again. The sight of grasshoppers in flight.

It's just that he still can't know what the locust swarms are doing.

With this upgrade, his newly acquired derivative ability [Sharp Vision] (3/9) has been upgraded to [Sharp Vision] (4/9), and his eyesight has been further improved.

However, compared to these, System, who had successfully reached level 12, felt his talent [Degenerate Growth] the most.

Since rising to level 12, the blood flowing in his body has been rolling like a boil, and the exoskeleton of his whole body has become extremely itchy.

His body is urging him to undergo the third molting immediately...