Law of the Swarm

Chapter 51 The first snow under the clear sky
"Could it be that these worker ants left?"

System shook his head. Although he didn't indoctrinate these ants with the idea that he is the queen these days, these ants still regard him as the closest existence, and they will never disobey his instructions.

Even if these worker ants will breathe outside the temporary nest, they should return to the nest, and then continue to feed the ant larvae according to System's previous instructions.

System did not get any clear answer when he asked Sawa.

If System hadn't asked, Shava who ate slime jelly wouldn't even know that the number of worker ants in the temporary nest had decreased.

Although Shava has a certain amount of wisdom, she has never been very sensitive to numbers. Up to now, she can't even figure out addition and subtraction within ten.

System was also very helpless about this.

While System was thinking, he suddenly felt a special feeling.

This special feeling comes from his ability [intuition].

System selected a worker ant and took it away from the nest.

System had a secret feeling that as long as he took a worker ant out, he could find out the truth about the disappearance of the two ants.

The group of ants that had been patrolling the entrance of the cave before had been transferred by Shava to carry out construction for the overwintering nest not far away.

However, because this place is very close to the ant nest of dark brown ants, it didn't take long for System to encounter an "ant search team" responsible for foraging.

An ant in the ant team found him and gradually approached him, as if wanting to find out what he was.

However, before the ant approached, the worker ant brought by System went up to meet it.

The two ants touched each other with their antennae, as if they were communicating, but suddenly the two ants seemed to feel something was wrong, and in the blink of an eye, the two ants were biting together.

Seeing this, System immediately separated the two worker ants with his tentacles, and twisted off the ant's head with his tentacles.

These two worker ants were originally descendants of the same queen, but when they met at this time, they were already like enemies, and there was an endless emotion for each other.

Even if System is not here, these two worker ants will fight without hesitation.

Seeing the two worker ants fighting, System could easily guess the reason for the disappearance of the two worker ants. They should have gone out of the temporary nest, and died due to fighting in the process of coming into contact with the black-brown ants. up.

Different from Sawa, these ants hatched by System have an innate hatred for the ants in the anthill.

When System used [Teleportation] to question the worker ant, he got a very clear answer from the worker ant—the enemy.

Not food, but enemies.

Just like when System lied to the ants that they were the same kind, when the ants reacted, the anger and hostility that came to him.

"...So that's how it is."

Taking the worker ant to jump on the branch of the plant, System observed the ant nest not far away, and he quickly thought of a more reasonable explanation.

The ants raised by System and the ants in the anthill are all descendants of the same queen.

But because of the different growth environment, it produces a slightly different smell, and it has become a new nest of ants.

This may be the habit of ants. In two ant colonies of the same species in the same area, only one is destined to survive.

Thinking about it now, in fact, when he deceived the ants that he was the queen, maybe the ants didn't find out that he was a grasshopper, but regarded him as an ant of a hostile group.

Otherwise, the ants would not have such angry emotions at that time.

……

But no matter what, the matter has come to this point, what System has to do is not to recall the past, but how to deal with this ant nest.

As the new ant queen raised by System continues to produce offspring, there will definitely be a war between him and the ants in this ant nest.

Even if this war does not happen this autumn, after this long winter, next summer, if System still intends to live here, his ant people are destined to have an undead battle with this ant nest Endless war.

Within a range of more than ten meters, there can only be one nest of ants.

System can't say for sure what will happen after a winter, and if he fights this ant nest next summer, his ant people will definitely suffer heavy casualties.

After some consideration, System made a choice between spending this winter smoothly and then migrating tomorrow spring, or eradicating and occupying this ant nest this fall.

System finally chose the latter.

After all, System now has two groups of slimes as his thugs, and after winter, these two groups of slimes may disappear, System does not want to miss this excellent opportunity.

These two groups of dark green slime jelly are much stronger than his old friend's brown slime in terms of body shape, elasticity and digestion ability of the jelly.

It should not be a problem for this medium-sized ant nest with about 10,000+ ants.

And with him in command, he can take the initiative to control the slime to leave after discovering that the slime's devouring ability has declined.

With slime's powerful digestion speed and recovery speed, it must be far faster than the hatching speed of queen ants.

Even if the first two attacks of two slimes will not have a fatal impact on the ant nest, multiple attacks will definitely cause heavy losses to the ant nest if it lasts for a few days.

At that time, let Shava find a way to kill the queen, and then let Shava instruct the worker ants to carry the ant eggs, ant larvae, and chrysalis in the ant nest, and wipe them all out.

In this way, the nest of ants has been declared completely extinct, and the ant nest that has lost all the eggs has no possibility of producing a new queen. Even if he does not do anything, the remaining ants will die out naturally after a period of time.

And with his action, the speed of this ant nest's demise will be further accelerated.

After that, let Shava lead the ant construction team to expand the ant nest, and then he can clean up the remaining ants, and the majestic dove occupies the magpie nest and the ant nest.

In the ant nest, there is enough food for 10,000+ ants to survive the winter, enough for him to breed new queens for development, and it is not impossible to even raise a small slime with these foods to provide gelatin stably.

The more System thought about it, the more he felt that exterminating this nest of ants this autumn was a wise choice.

And even if it fails, it won't have any impact on him. The big deal is to let his ant people not go out in autumn, and they will migrate next spring.

It's just a pity that he made the wintering nest dug by the ant construction team led by Shava completely useless.

But if he can occupy the ant nest as System imagined, then such a trivial matter will be irrelevant.

……

System, who had made a decision, acted very efficiently. After ordering Shava to keep watching the ants in the temporary nest and not to go out, he spread his wings and flew to the swamp where the slime was.

Today, System will control two slimes to launch the first attack on the ant nest...

However, during System's flight, he suddenly found many white ice crystals—snow—falling from the sky.

There is not a cloud in the sky, and the temperature is as mild as early autumn, but snowflakes are falling in the sky like this, and more and more snowflakes are falling...

(End of this chapter)