Law of the Swarm

Chapter 34 You Are Not Ant Queen

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

System sometimes uses [Teleportation] to brainwash insect eggs near the rubble, sometimes jumps to the vicinity of the construction team led by the soldier ant Dasha to check the construction progress of the wintering nest, and sometimes carries the insect eggs that Dasha brought him. , to select the eggs.

System looked very busy.

Three days passed.

He successfully brainwashed the first batch of thirteen eggs.

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

After brainwashing the worm eggs, as long as System activates [Spiritual Connection] to connect with these worm eggs, these worm eggs will feel like being thrown into the mother's womb, sending System a feeling of incomparable peace of mind. Tom is regarded as relying on.

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

However, compared to the smooth brainwashing of insect 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 types of ant eggs were found.

Most of the ant eggs are worker ants, and the other two kinds have five eggs and one egg.

The five ant eggs with the largest number should be soldier ants without accident, and the ant egg with only one ant egg, System can't tell whether it is a male ant or a female ant inside.

In fact, even if the 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 the ant offspring be safely bred.

In desperation, System could only let Dasha, the soldier ant, continue to search for more ant eggs for him to choose from, trying to gather all types of ants as soon as possible.

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

Especially on the most recent day, Dasha, the soldier ant, commanded nearly 150 ants to widen all the passages in System's wintering nest to a suitable size, without needing too many instructions from System at all.

Soldier Ant Dasha seems to have become a lot smarter.

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Ants are social social insects with simple and complex living habits.

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

And simplicity, because everything that ants do has a clear purpose, which is for the prosperity of the ant nest.

It is precisely for the overall prosperity of the ant colony that the two types of female ants that do not have the ability to reproduce, soldier ants and worker ants, live in very harsh and bad conditions.

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

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

This situation did not change until Dasha met System.

After being ordered by System to eat for a few days until its abdomen was stretched and ruptured, the soldier ant Dasha began to slowly grow in size.

Soldier Ant Dasha's level should have increased, but because he does not have System's talent [numerical code], Soldier Ant Dasha's body shape growth is only a slow change, and he will not suddenly become much bigger like System.

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

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

Soldier Ant Dasha may have become smarter because of this.

It may be worse than the Grasshopper Queen, but the soldier ant Dasha obviously has a new quality.

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

System accidentally found this translucent stone in the forest, and picked it up because he thought it was beautiful. He didn't know if it was crystal, diamond, or some other kind of stone.

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

After that, Dasha would always hold on to this stone.

Sometimes it holds a stone to play on the ground, and sometimes it holds the stone and points it at the sun or moon in the sky to observe, but it doesn't know what it is looking at.

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

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Due to the improvement of Dasha's intelligence, the wintering crypt was very spacious, so System directly requisitioned this crypt with a depth of one and a half meters.

Brainwashing many ant eggs near the pile of rocks, System needs to keep an eye on what's going on around him all the time, and has to tense his nerves all the time, which is very inconvenient.

Dasha built a quarter of the wintering nest here, 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 overwintering nest, because the efficiency of the soldier ant Dasha's construction team has improved, he can completely let Dasha build a brand new crypt.

After deciding everything, System took action, and quickly moved to the crypt with many ant eggs.

Two days passed quickly...

The construction team of Soldier Ant Dasha has built a brand new winter underground nest in an orderly manner. It is estimated that the progress of the new nest will reach the level of the cave that System has requisitioned in a short time.

And on this day, after continuing to pick nearly [-] ant eggs, System finally collected all kinds of ant eggs.

Propagating a nest of ants already has the most basic conditions.

And during the two days of spare time spent brainwashing the ant eggs, System also cultivated a miraculous crop.

In the dark cave, he successfully cultivated a mushroom that is very common in the vicinity by using his solution of digesting fleshy corpses and some dead leaves.

This is a very magical mushroom that can be eaten. It tastes like ordinary mushrooms, with a slight yogurt flavor.

Although it does not have any magical powers, this mushroom is very magical and can emit faint fluorescence.

After observation, System found that the fluorescence of this mushroom only appeared during the growth process, and when the mushroom stopped growing, the shimmering light would slowly disappear.

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

Because the growth of this kind of mushroom consumes a lot of nutrients, he just cultivated a small amount in the cave to make his [Dark Vision] work.

Another day passed.

Among the more than twenty ant eggs brainwashed by System, one finally hatched into an ant larva. It seems that the growth cycle of this dark brown ant is not very long.

After the ant eggs became ant larvae, the ant larvae's attitude towards System did not change much, and they still regarded System as the ant queen of the group.

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

Ant larvae like the food provided by System very much, and grow very fast.

Everything was proceeding steadily according to System's plan.

However, things have gone wrong where they are least likely to go wrong——

During the daily communication with Dasha Soldier Ant using [Spiritual Connection], Dasha Soldier Ant suddenly sent a message to System: "You, no, Queen Ant..."

"what?"

System never thought that he would also feel such flustered emotions when facing the soldier ant Dasha.

(End of this chapter)