Law of the Swarm

Chapter 32 Shadow

System acted quickly, ordering Dasha, the soldier ant, to direct ordinary worker ants to build a nest for him to survive the winter.

Dasha's command of ordinary worker ants was relatively easy. By spraying special acid and colliding with antennae to communicate, it didn't take long for him to attract more than a hundred worker ants from the vicinity of the ant nest, and then went to a location a few meters away to dig.

As the middle-level leader of the ant nest, Dasha has the right to dispatch ordinary worker ants.

Usually, ordinary soldier ants can command dozens of worker ants, but smart and foolish ones can command more soldier ants, and can drive about a hundred worker ants.

It's not that Dasha can't drive more worker ants. In theory, there is no upper limit to the number of worker ants that soldier ants can control with their formic acid.

However, driving too many soldier ants will undoubtedly make the soldier ants with insufficient command ability lose sight of one another, and let them control the worker ants into chaos, greatly reducing their efficiency.

The method of how to drive the worker ants seems to flow in the blood of the soldier ants from birth. The soldier ants are born to know how to control ordinary worker ants, and they are also born to know the number of soldier ants suitable for their control.

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However, although the idea of ​​digging the overwintering nest was good, after watching Dasha, the soldier ant, leading the worker ants to dig for a while, System discovered many unsatisfactory places.

Although he had asked Dasha, the soldier ant, to order the ants to dig wider holes, but he didn’t know whether Dasha’s message with the acid was wrong, or the IQ of ordinary ants was too low. In short, the holes dug by the ants were too narrow. up.

It took nearly an hour of communication, and under the command of the soldier ant Dasha, the worker ants gradually widened the soil near the entrance of the cave.

But this was only the entrance of the cave, System didn't know the width of the cave at all.

When System wanted to approach the cave for inspection, he would be attacked mercilessly by these ordinary worker ants.

In the final analysis, System commanded these ants by relying on the soldier ant Dasha as a transit point.

As a result, Dasha, a soldier ant with a lower IQ, commands the worker ants with a lower IQ, resulting in a tragedy where one plus one is greater than two.

System ordered Dasha to move all these worker ants away, only to find out that this group of ants had built a wider hole, and the internal passageway was almost identical in structure to the ant nest, which was so narrow that he couldn't get in at all.

The whole afternoon, except for the first two hours, the worker ant construction team led by System and soldier ant Dasha basically stayed in place.

In terms of progress, there is actually some progress. As long as he keeps ordering Dasha, the soldier ant, to follow his method, the group of worker ants will more or less obey some orders.

But doing so is obviously too inefficient, and it simply can't reach the passing line envisioned by System.

"Can't there be more ants like Dasha?"

System looked at Dasha, the soldier ant who was rubbing against his thigh affectionately. If there were hundreds of obedient worker ants like Dasha to drive him, it would not be a problem to build five, let alone one wintering burrow. .

Tell Dasha to continue digging with these worker ants.

System unbelievingly went to the vicinity of the ant's nest again, trying to use [Teleportation] to find obedient ants like Dasha.

After driving nearly a hundred ants mad with lies, System finally determined helplessly that the soldier ant Dasha was just a special case among ants.

Even if ordinary ants are deceived by his lies, they will basically find something wrong within tens of seconds, and then attack him without hesitation.

"Dozens of seconds?"

System suddenly realized something, but for a while he didn't think of the key point.

System thought for a while, played back the image of the derivative ability [Information Recording] in his mind, and then used the light curtain menu of [Self-Information Generation Technique] to upload the specific information of the hundreds of ants that he had just deceived with lies. input for statistical analysis.

The time it takes for these ants to go mad from being deceived by him is basically between 30 seconds and 60 seconds. Usually, in the first 20 seconds, these ants will trust him very much, and in about 25 seconds they will enter a sluggish state and become mentally confused.

After entering the chaos, according to the individual differences of different ants, the time for these ants to wake up is not the same, and there is a big difference, the short one is only 5 seconds, and the long one lasts for nearly 30 seconds.

"Could it be that the lies I tell them are different?"

System shook his head. The message he sent to these ants using [Mind Teleportation] was basically the same, even the tone was similar.

Thinking back to the images in [Information Recording] again, System suddenly thought of something.

Adjusting the [Information Recording] image forward for several hours, System finally discovered the key point he thought of before.

A few hours ago, he had asked the soldier ant Dasha to catch an ant larva from the ant nest.

Before eating the ant larva, he also told a lie to the ant larva with [Mind Transmission].

Although the ant larvae finally saw through his lies, they were deceived by him for nearly 5 minutes, much longer than the adult ants.

If Dasha the soldier ant can catch some ant larvae from the ant nest for him to test...

Do not!
Ant larvae may still have a low success rate, but what about the eggs before they become larvae?
If you start brainwashing ant eggs from an early age, will these ants become as obedient as soldier ants?

If this idea can be successful, let the soldier ant Dasha carry some eggs for his brainwashing, as long as the eggs hatch after a period of time, and then wait for the larvae to become adults, he can have many ants that only work for him.

The only disadvantage is that he cannot determine the time required for this process. System does not know how long the growth cycle of this dark brown ant is.

And the soldier ant Dasha has no sense of time at all. System asked how long it took it to mature, but it just showed a very dazed expression and was completely unable to answer.

If it takes too long to transform from an egg to an ant adult, he can only give up and think of other ways out...

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And while System was planning the preparations for the winter.

A worm returned to the abyss from the Lierte forest across the void...

The Lierte Forest is covered with ice and snow all the year round. Since the glaciers of the Lierte Mountains disappeared 300 years ago, the ice and snow here have begun to melt, creating a climate with four distinct seasons.

It has been 30 years since Shadow went back and forth between the Abyss and Lilte Forest.

Every year at the end of summer, she will be sent to the main world by her master, an abyss druid with a special secret method, and then search for bugs that transcend the limits of race and bring her back to the abyss.

Ying really likes the sunshine in the main world, but she can't stay in the main world for too long...

Abyss druids, they were formerly known as swarm druids, good at driving swarms of nature, belonging to a branch of druids.

After the swarm druids surrendered to the demon lord Orgen, the druids' traitors, the swarm druids, were called abyss druids.

They used the flesh and blood of the bugs to transform the demon nest, which significantly improved the hatching efficiency of newborn demons, and developed many new demons as a result.

Ying didn't know these things before, and it wasn't until the last ten years that she gradually understood these things.

She is very regretful, she regrets killing two of the same kind who betrayed the master a long time ago...

She didn't know anything then.

Ying knew that she now had the same wisdom as those two traitors.

After handing over a bug that had reached its racial limit to her master, Ying disappeared into the shadows...

She concealed a special bug in the Lierte Forest - Kun.

Ying looks forward to meeting her and Kun again next year. Although the other party is much weaker than her, Kun has something she doesn't have...

(End of this chapter)