Chapter 54: The Ant Country
Becoming a member of the Cold Mountain Dao of the Silver Pincer Clan? Let him be a traitor? Don't you think it's too cost-effective to raise a group of Terrans for nothing, and be ready to fully squeeze the creativity of the Terrans? Zhang would rather not do this kind of thing! It seems that he needs to seize every opportunity to escape.
Following behind the demon ant Jie, Zhang Ning thought about whether to show his specialty of mastering the lingua franca of the demon clan.
Jie led Zhang Ning to a slightly smaller mound palace nearby.
It is inhabited by five or six large silver-pincer ant-demons who resemble the queen ants, but with large silver pincers on the front of their mouthparts and an uninflated balloon on their abdomen. Each demon ant has five or six worker ants on its body who are responsible for serving and taking care of it.
"The Crown Prince. After Jie finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Ning.
Zhang Ning didn't know the etiquette of demon ants, so he nodded lightly to the crown princes.
The crown princes were unresponsive.
"The Crown Prince. Jay said it again, his tone slowing down, and he spoke every subtle pronunciation of the word clearly.
Zhang Ning frowned, is the profession of rape so strict? I don't have to kneel when I saw the queen ant just now, there is no reason to kneel to the crown prince. Even if he immediately turned his face and was trapped in the Qiankun Baoluo again, he would not kneel.
"Wang ...... Chu ......" The tone of voice this time is simply weird.
Zhang Ning frowned and was silent, he was about to die if he couldn't say it, and he didn't know if the spa cabin family could compete with the billions of silver pincer ant demons......
But Jie didn't insist anymore, turned around and left the palace, and motioned for Zhang Ning to follow.
The crown princes did not say a word or move from beginning to end.
Walking in the tunnel, Jie pointed to the "energy-saving lamp" aphid and said, "Lamp." ”
Zhang Ning couldn't help but blurt out: "Lamp?" You can't even worship the lamp! Do people need to kneel and lick the lamp?
Jie looked extremely excited, dancing his tentacles and saying, "Lamp, lamp......"
Zhang Ning suddenly understood...... This is teaching him the lingua franca of the demon clan!
Then Jie pointed to the ground and said, "Lu ......"
In this way, Jie took Zhang Ning to visit the ant nest and taught him the lingua franca of the demon clan.
The Silverpincer Antdemon Kingdom has countless mound-shaped "chambers", each with a road connecting to the others. Countless rooms can be divided into aristocratic palaces, incubation rooms, larval rooms, pupal rooms, planting bases, livestock sheds, garbage dumps, etc.
The population of the silver tong ant demon is very large, and the demon ants are not all demon clans: some of them are high-level silver tong clans who have opened their minds and know the language of the demon clan, accounting for 10% of the total; the others are demon ants who have not opened their spiritual intelligence, and they rely on friction sounds, smells and other ways to transmit information, and unconditionally obey the silver tong demon clan.
In addition to the division of labor, the hierarchy is also reflected in the diet - the silver-tongs eat honeydew, all kinds of meat, and spiritual fruits, and the demon ants can only eat honeydew.
The larvae are fed meat regardless of rank, until they reach adulthood, when the enlightened ones become the ruling class, and the unenlightened ones will work until they die.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Ning found that there are two kinds of larvae in the larval room, one is silver and the other is milky.
Honeydew is an important food in the Silverpincer Ant Demon Kingdom, which comes from a Chihuahua-sized demon insect called "Sand Sugar Worm", which eats "starling mushroom" and secretes honeydew in the hind body.
In order to raise these sugar worms, there are "planting bases" dedicated to growing starling mushrooms and "livestock sheds" where sugar worms live. The planting base and the livestock shed are also the canteen, where hungry demon ants will come to squeeze out the honeydew of the sand sugar worms and eat it, and return to work immediately after eating.
In each room, there are full-time demon ants working in it – some tending to the larvae, some growing starling mushrooms, and some raising and grazing sugar worms.
There will be soldier ants patrolling every corner of the ant country, but the interval varies according to the degree of importance, for example, the ant queen's palace will pass by once every half an hour, and there will be soldier ants patrolling the remote corner once every ten days.
At the farthest end of the Ant Nation is the Garbage Cemetery, where dead ants and all other useless things are thrown in.
In addition to the roads full of "energy-saving lamps" in the ant country, there is also a kind of light-free tunnel with an extra layer of wire mesh, and the worker ants squeeze the milky white larvae to spin silk and weave the "inner tank" of the tunnel.
Because he found that Zhang Ning's "language talent" was extremely high, Jie was so happy that he was about to break his tentacles. So when Zhang Ning "stumbled" about this kind of tunnel, Jie happily told him that this is called the "Pansi Trade Road", and the maltose raw materials, spirit fruits, seeds, etc. enjoyed by the queen ant are all exchanged with other demon clans;