Chapter 47 Uninvited guests
Feng Ge breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the task requirement of "Adjusting the ant nest to an automatic operation within 24 hours".
Fortunately, I only need to stay in this dense forest for another 24 hours to complete the task, without actually waiting for the ant kingdom to take shape. You should know that even the worker ant with the shortest growth cycle will take several days to hatch, and even dozens of days to grow into adults. Fengmo doesn’t have that much time to wait.
Overall, this main task is not difficult, it only requires hundreds of millions of details.
Well, billions of dollars.
I was secretly glad that I had purchased ornaments and checked many information about ants building nests. Feng Bei tried hard to recall the details of the original, while directing the big mantis to dig a cylindrical room about twenty centimeters deep in a soft and wet soil layer, and then put the queen ant who had become a meat bug and the mushroom in it.
This site selection is quite particular. Ants like dark and humid but ventilated environments, but most of the time, ventilation and humidity are opposite conditions; but this is also necessary. If not ventilated, the air of the ants is not enough, which will hinder the health of the ants. If not humid, the newly produced eggs will be damaged and cannot be hatched. In view of this, "soft wet soil" has almost become the only choice for ants to build nests.
After having such a hidden cave, the queen of ant began to adjust her endocrine system and began to prepare for a large number of egg laying - no wonder, many races with lower levels of life have the ability to regulate their endocrine, and the higher the race, the less they can't do it, because the internal environment of higher races is complicated, and it will affect the whole body. If the brain has the ability to regulate endocrine, it is easy to kill yourself.
This is an extremely painful process. From now on, the newly promoted queen will not eat, drink, pull, and stop all unnecessary activities, and focus on laying eggs. At this time, all its energy comes from the decomposition and metabolism in the body. Its weight will become lighter at an extremely fast speed, the whole insect will become thinner and weaker, and it will be on the verge of starvation to death.
Even in such a uncomfortable state, the queen of ant still must carefully lay eggs and take care of the larvae, because it must wait for the first batch of worker ants to grow before the body restarts its eating and digestive function and relies on those worker ants to obtain a stable source of food.
This "carefulness" is mainly reflected in the size of the eggs produced. The queen of ant must control the size of the first batch of ants to ensure that they are all worker ants after hatching. Once the queen accidentally grows the eggs and cultivates a soldier ants, its limited resources will be completely consumed.
In this process, the queen of ants must make full use of every limited resource and not allow any mistakes. Otherwise, not only will it not be able to create a huge ant kingdom, but it will lose its life and die silently in a dark cave isolated from the world. The corpse is eaten by its first batch of children. Then the children will starve to death one after another within a few days after gnawing the queen's corpse.
Ha, after looking at it, is the Queen of Ant very much like a small entrepreneur who sells a house, land, and repays the loan, and invests in all his wealth? Once the business fails, it is inevitable that his wife and children will jump off the building and commit suicide by jumping off the building. Who told us to take a detour?
If it is a wild queen, it is difficult to control the size of the egg. Generally speaking, one of the thousand female ants can evolve into a queen, and one of the thousand queens can successfully survive the difficult early stage of entrepreneurship. Then one of the hundred queens who "successfully started a business" has the opportunity to become bigger and stronger, manage their ant hole to a size of five meters in size, and reach the peak of ant birth and become the true king.
Overall, the probability of one in 100 million is very similar to that of human society.
Of course, if Feng Bei helps to watch, the new queen didn't have to worry about her failure in starting her business. From the time she was buried in the soil, in an hour, the new queen had already laid more than 200 eggs. Among them, those that were too big and had flaws on the egg surface were picked out and threw them directly to the mantis next to her as food.
The remaining eggs that meet the standards are not required to be personally served by the queen. Feng Bei directly arranged two pairs of mantis to let them act as worker ants temporarily:
One team kept licking the eggs to keep the eggs moist; the other team carried the licked eggs to a higher place in the cave so that they could enjoy the best humidity and temperature.
During this process, one or two mantis were inevitably attracted by the smell of ant eggs when licking them, and they swallowed the eggs as they licked them. In order to stop this unhealthy trend, Feng Bei naturally made a fierce move. He cut off the egg-eating mantis directly without hesitation, dismembered the corpse, and threw it to other mantis as food. After killing three in a row, making the scene extremely bloody, the mantis put away their little thoughts and became obedient.
Time passed by minute by minute, and in a blink of an eye, it was a night. The moon slowly disappeared with the stars, and a trace of white fish belly appeared in the sky. For eight hours, the queen of the ant did not take any rest and kept laying eggs throughout the whole process. The white balls had already laid a thin layer at the bottom of the cave, forcing the big mantis to take action again and dig out a new hatching room for the queen of the ant.
After a night of observation, Feng Bei confirmed that the queen had no intention of suicide. Even though all kinds of senses were destroyed, she became a plant insect that could not eat or give birth. She was also doing her best to survive.
Think about it, even under normal circumstances, the queen who stayed motionless underground for a long time would have her senses degenerated. In the end, her eyes were blind, deaf, and her whole body was paralyzed, and even her food was fed. She even needed worker ants to feed her. Now it looks miserable, but in fact it was just living a retirement life ahead of schedule.
Seeing that everything was on the right track, and after instructing the mantis to hide underground and continue to expand the size of the ant hole, Feng Le quietly emerged from the underground-
There is another last job waiting for him to do, which is to modify the appearance of the nest on the surface, and not to make it a hilly shape like an ordinary ant hole, so that other monsters can tell that there are ant holes here at a glance, and if it attracts pangolins or even ant eaters, it will be frustrated.
Using the magic that has increased greatly after the promotion, the wind blew up and whirlwinds, blowing the digging of soil everywhere and evenly sprinkling around. In this way, from the outside, this place is like an ordinary flat ground, no one can find it. There is a forming ant kingdom below.
After doing all this, Feng Ge looked around and nodded with satisfaction. Then he found a leaf to cover himself, and quietly lay on the ant nest to guard him, just in case there were uninvited guests such as birds and beasts coming. With his current strength, the tiger could fight when it came, so he had the confidence to keep the door.
Wait patiently for another sixteen hours and you will be able to complete the task and go back. Katyusha, you must hold on!
Feng Bei thought silently, and suddenly his crotch moved slightly, and heard something strange. He carefully distinguished the direction of the sound source. He turned his head to look northwest and frowned!
In the morning mist, a huge black shadow with a huge belly was walking towards this place. In fact, it was not appropriate to use the word "travel". The black shadow was struggling and staggering, as if it was moving and squirming! A breeze blew, blowing the thick fog a little, revealing the true appearance of the black shadow:
Chapter completed!