The queen ant agreed to Zhang Ning's "research application", and made it clear that she could hand over a few young ants with hope of enlightening intelligence to Zhang Ning for research, collect some lingling mushrooms, sugar insects, silk ants and soil samples, and investigate the ventilation system and the Pansi trade route. However, the three directions of education, medical care and entertainment still need to wait for her to successfully prolong her life before thinking about it in the long run......

Well, this 200-year-old monster is not old and confused, although it is a little regrettable, but you can't be too greedy, and agreeing to half of the terms is already a great trust.

After hesitating for three days, the queen ant finally began to set up a formation around her own body—Zhang Ning keenly felt the slight movement of the aura of the entire ant nest.

As soon as he thought of Mr. Jun Yan's strange style of chess, Zhang Ning felt uncomfortable - the noisy cow's lips wrapped in two-tailed ponytails, the emerald feathers and yellow feathers arranged in a very mysterious space, and the starry horns frozen in the fat of the bar...... These locally sourced biomass chess pieces have challenged the limits of Zhang Ning's imagination.

At the same time, he also experienced a little bit of the sadness of the twilight of heroes, how many former emperors in his world denounced and suppressed the "elixir" and "immortality" when they were young and strong, and how many were "really fragrant" and "really good" while taking drugs in their twilight years.

The once wise silver pincer ant demon ant queen was not exempt from vulgarity, pinning her hopes on two unreliable monks...... The future of the Silver Pincer Ant Demon Kingdom is uncertain.

At this turbulent moment, Zhang Ning stepped forward and resolutely shouldered the burden of saving the civilization of the Silver Tong Demon Ant Clan!

Like a conscientious scientific researcher, he began to investigate and investigate. Because Jie wants to protect the Dharma, he is changed to two unenlightened soldier ants to "closely guard" Zhang Ning - the Silver Pincer clan who open the spirit will have their own ideas, and it is very likely that they will leak the news - after all, Zhang Ning is "loyal and commendable", and everything he does is to consolidate the dominance of the queen ant.

Zhang Ning first investigated 108 vents - the outlets of these pipes in the nest chamber were thick enough for a young man like Zhang Ning to pass through, but the passages divided into several small pipes when they reached a certain height - so this plan could be abandoned.

In the next stage, Zhang Ning began to race against time to "collect samples".

In the hatching room, more than a dozen strong demon ants are constantly turning the eggs on the warm sand seat...... If you don't know it's hatching eggs, you'll think they're baking eggs.

There are two kinds of silver pincer demon ant eggs, according to the different silk quality of the outer layer of the egg shell, it is divided into milky white and silver two, milky white eggs can hatch ordinary silver pincer ant demon larvae, and the larvae hatched by silver eggs can become the crown prince if they can produce intelligence, and those who fail to produce wisdom will develop into male ants.

Next to the Silvertongs Ant Demon Hatchery is the Silk Demon Ant Hatchery, where the worker ants work more delicately - because every Silk Demon Ant Egg is the property of the Ant State.

Zhang Ning was ordered to investigate, and unceremoniously picked and chosen, just like the aunt who bought vegetables in the vegetable field, and selected a few largest, best and most beautiful eggs of various types to be included in the Qiankun treasure snail.

Although the ant in charge of the hatchery room of Kai Lingzhi had a bad attitude, he did not make a fuss, and it was possible that the Silver Pincers had seen monks use storage magic weapons.

In the nursery, more than a dozen petite ants without silver tongs are tending to the larvae, feeding the almost transparent white larvae meat and cleaning the sand from their bodies.

The silk larvae in the adjacent nursery are also cared for with the same meticulous care, but are taken out of the nursery when they are mature and begin to spin.

The silk spit out by the larvae of the silk demon ant and the silk outside the egg shell of the silver tong ant are two completely different substances. The silk spit out by the silk demon ants will soon condense into a hard cocoon similar to the construction of asbestos netting, so in order to use their silk to build a silk mesh lined with the silk road, the silver tong ant demon does not allow the silk ant larvae to form cocoons, and the silk demon ants that spit out all the silk but fail to form a cocoon will die.

In fact, the adult of the silk ant can also produce silk from the feet to weave a silk net when walking, but the strength of the silk net of the adult is far less than that of the larvae spinning the silk knot, so the silk demon ant larvae are consumables and have been obtained through foreign trade.

In order to use it sustainably and reduce costs, Zhang Ning confidently collected dozens of silk ant larvae for "research".

After that, he began to inspect the crop planting and livestock areas.

The starling mushroom cultivation area is the most extensive area in the Silver Pincer Ant Demon Country. The nest floor of the growing area is covered with a thick layer of black soil, which is completely different from the yellow fine sand soil of the desert, and the color of the starling mushroom is milky white with a faint white fluorescence, and the shape of the mushroom umbrella resembles a toy bone.

Zhang Ning excavated a piece of soil with roots of about 10 square meters and the fruit part of the ground of the starling mushroom for "research".

The four areas in the "livestock shed" of the sand sugar insect are respectively raised with eggs, larvae, pupa, and adults in the four life stages of the sand sugar insects, each area has a special worker ant responsible for taking care of it, the egg and pupa area of the worker ants are few, the larval area and the adult area are one-to-one service - the larval sand sugar worm is raised by the special ants, and the sand sugar worm is carried to the starling mushroom planting area, to help it secrete honeydew, and then carried back to the livestock shed; the adult stage of the huge belly of the sugar moth is responsible for reproducing offspring, and the worker ants assist them in breeding. The sand sugar moth dies after completing its breeding task, but the luciferase that has accumulated in its abdomen by gnawing on the starling mushroom continues to glow, at which point their keepers insert the sand sugar moth with its wings removed into the walls of the nest chamber and passage as a light source before serving the next sand moth.

Zhang Ning "ordered" to investigate, and hundreds of sugar insects in four life stages were collected.

Worker ants carry sugar worms into the starling mushroom planting area for grazing every day. With the assistance of worker ants, the sand sugar worm with almost transparent shell clumsily climbs up the bone-like umbrella and bites through the top of the "bone", and the mushroom umbrella of the starling mushroom quickly secretes mucus, and the sugar worm immediately begins to suck the mucus, which is the first dish of the sugar worm;

When the sugar worm feeds, the worker ants who are responsible for feeding it also give it a full set of "horse killing chickens", using its antennae and two pairs of forefeet to continuously massage and promote its digestion, and soon the hind parts of the sugar worm will secrete honeydew. The first drop of honeydew with the highest sugar content is enjoyed by the keeper alone, and the subsequent honeydew is eaten by other worker ants who come to eat. During this period, the worker ants that raise the sugar worm will continue to massage and stimulate it to secrete honeydew until the sugar worm has finished eating or there are no more diners.

After the massage is stopped, if the sugar worms continue to secrete honeydew, the keeper will collect the honeydew and send it to the food storage warehouse after reaching a certain reserve.

The pantry is stocked with all kinds of meat, seeds, and fruits, which are guarded by the wise ants, and the other materials are stored in the warehouse for wood, stone, jade, and other means of production. Without permission here, Zhang Ning naturally wouldn't rashly stretch out his hand - all the warehouse managers guarded him like thieves, he was really speechless, Zhang Ning was an immortal, how could he do that kind of thing of stealing chickens and touching dogs?!

Hatchery, larval room, crop planting and animal husbandry areas and other departments that Zhang Ning has inspected are managed by the silver tongs clan and the demon ants who have not opened their minds serve as employees, which perfectly interprets the great truth of "the wise man who opens the spirit governs the ants, and the unopened wise man governs the ants".

Later, Zhang Ning came to the engineering area, where a team of worker ants are tirelessly digging nests and tunnels to expand the nest.

Zhang Ning is concerned about the inheritance of the civilization of the silver tong ant demon clan, and always keeps in mind the historical mission of "saving" the demon ants——

These unenlightened silver pincer ant demons work hard and complain, and have been working since they became adults, relying only on a little honeydew to maintain the body's energy consumption, without any other material requirements, and there is no concept of "complaining" in their empty minds, let alone spiritual pursuits, and only a few minutes of sleep every day can be rejuvenated, busy and practical...... And now, due to the secret operation of some scheming and bereaved human race, they will no longer be able to work peacefully until death, and they will be thrown into the garbage and graveyard with a smile, and this small but real happiness will soon be deprived for no reason—it is really a sigh!

Therefore, Zhang Ning rescued ants from fire and water, and selected more than a dozen demon ants that looked more orderly to be included in the Qiankun treasure snail......

So far, the "number of samples" is almost enough, and a small silver-pincer demon ant nest should have been able to be established in the Qiankun Treasure Snail.

Zhang Ning immediately rushed to the last stop of the research work - "Pansi Business Road".

After a day of selection, he walked out of a thousand meters along a trade route that was diagonally upward, which was already very close to the ground, and Zhang Ning resolutely dodged and hid in the Qiankun treasure snail.

He observes the two "accompanied" soldier ants that are panicking and circling around, and at the same time sets up a new home for the immigrant silver-pincer demon ants......