When he saw the task requirement of "within 24 hours, adjust the ant nest to the state of automatic operation", Feng Bei was greatly relieved.

Fortunately, I only need to stay in this dense forest for a maximum of 24 hours to complete the task, and I don't need to wait for the ant kingdom to take shape. You must know that even if it is a worker ant with the shortest growth cycle, it takes several days to hatch one, and it takes dozens of days to grow to an adult.

Overall, this main quest is not difficult, but it requires a hundred million points of detail.

Well, billions of points.

Secretly glad that he had bought ornamental ants, and checked a lot of information about ant nesting, Feng Bei tried to recall the details of the beginning, while directing the big mantis to dig a cylindrical room about 20 centimeters deep in a soft and damp soil, and then put the queen ant who had become a meat worm and the mushroom into it.

This site is quite particular, ants like a dark and damp but ventilated environment, but most of the time, ventilation and humidity are opposite conditions, but this is necessary, if there is no ventilation, the air of the ants is not enough, which hinders the health of the ants, if it is not wet, the newly laid eggs will be harmed and cannot hatch. In view of this, "soft wet soil" has become almost the only option for ants to build their nests.

After having such a hidden cave, the queen ant began to adjust her endocrine system and began to prepare for a large number of eggs - don't be surprised, many races with a lower life level have the ability to regulate their endocrine, and the higher the race, the more unable to do it, because the internal environment of the higher race is complicated, and it affects the whole body, if the brain has the ability to regulate endocrine, it is easy to play itself to death.

This is an extremely painful process, and from then on, the new queen ant will not eat, drink, or move, suspend all unnecessary activities, and focus only on laying eggs. At this time, all its energy comes from the decomposition and metabolism in the body, and its weight will become lighter at a very fast rate, and the whole worm will become thin and deflated, and it is on the verge of starvation.

Even in such an uncomfortable state, the queen ant must carefully lay eggs and tend to the larvae, because it must wait for the first worker ants to grow before the body can restart its feeding and digestive functions, and rely on those workers for a stable source of food.

This "carefulness" is mainly reflected in the size of the eggs produced, and the queen 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 eggs and breeds a soldier ant, its limited resources will be completely depleted.

In this process, the queen ant must make full and effective use of every bit of limited resources, and do not allow any mistakes, otherwise not only can not create a huge ant kingdom, but will lose his life, die quietly in the dark and isolated cave, the corpse is eaten by his first children, and then those children will also be starved to death in a few days after gnawing the corpse of the queen ant.

Ha, if you look at it this way, isn't the queen ant very much like a small and micro entrepreneur who has sold his house, sold his land, repaid the loan, and invested his entire net worth? Once the business fails, it is inevitable that his wife will jump off the building and commit suicide, who told us to take a little detour?

If it is a wild queen, it is difficult to control the size of the eggs, under normal circumstances, one in a thousand female ants, one can evolve into a queen, and a thousand queens, only one can successfully survive the difficult early stage of entrepreneurship, and then one of the hundred "successful entrepreneurs" queens, only one has the opportunity to become bigger and stronger, operate their nests to a radius of five meters, and embark on the peak of ant life to become a king in the real sense.

Overall, the 1 in 100 million chance is, well, very similar to human society.

Of course, there is Feng Bei to help watch, this new ant queen basically does not have to worry about the failure of her own business, from the beginning of the soil, in an hour, the new ant queen has produced more than 200 eggs, one of which is too big, the egg surface is flawed, he picked it out, and directly threw it to the praying mantis next to him as food.

The remaining eggs that meet the standard do not need to be served by the queen ant herself, Feng Bei directly arranged two pairs of praying mantises and asked them to temporarily act as worker ants:

One team licks the eggs to keep them moist at all times, while the other team carries the licked eggs higher up in the burrow so that they can enjoy the optimal humidity and temperature.

In this process, it is inevitable that one or two praying mantises, attracted by the smell of ant eggs when licking, do the thing of licking and licking the eggs to swallow the belly, in order to stop this crooked trend, Feng Bei is naturally ruthless, without hesitation will eat the eggs of the praying mantis directly hacked to death, the knife is divided, and thrown to other praying mantis as food. After hacking three in a row and making the scene extremely bloody, the praying mantis also put away their careful thoughts one by one and became well-behaved.

Time passed minute by minute, in the blink of an eye it was a night, the moon slowly disappeared with the stars, and the sky revealed a trace of fish belly white, in this whole eight hours, the queen ant did not take any rest, the whole process was constantly laying eggs, those white balls, have been laid a thin layer at the bottom of the cave, forcing the big mantis to do it again, digging a new hatchery for the queen ant.

After a night of observation, Feng Bei determined that the queen ant did not have any intention of committing suicide, even if all its senses were destroyed and became a plant insect that could not eat or give birth, it was still trying its best to live.

Think about it, even under normal circumstances, the queen ant who stays motionless in the ground for a long time will have various senses degraded, and finally be blind and deaf except for *, and the whole body will be paralyzed, and even the worker ants will have to feed her. Now it looks miserable, but in fact it is just an early retirement.

Seeing that everything was on the right track, after instructing the praying mantis to hide in the ground and continue to expand the size of the anthill, Feng Sad quietly came out of the ground-

There is one last task waiting for him to do, which is to retouch the appearance of this nest on the surface, and not to make it into a small hill like an ordinary anthill, so that other monsters will know that there is an anthill at a glance, in case it attracts pangolins or even anteaters.

Using the magic power that has increased greatly after his promotion, Feng Bei continues to blow whirlwinds, blowing the excavated soil everywhere and sprinkling it evenly around, so that from the outside, this place looks like an ordinary flat land, and no one can find it, and there is an ant kingdom that is taking shape below.

After doing all this, Feng Bei looked around, nodded with satisfaction, and then found a leaf to cover himself, and quietly crouched above the ant nest to guard, in case an uninvited guest such as birds and small beasts came to the door. With his current strength, the tiger can fight a dozen when he comes, and he has the confidence to guard the goal.

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, suddenly his crotch moved slightly, heard something strange, carefully identified the direction of the sound source, he turned his head to look northwest, and couldn't help frowning!

In the morning mist, a huge black shadow with a huge belly is walking towards this, and the word "walking" is not appropriate, this black shadow is walking with difficulty and staggering, as if it is moving and squirming! A gust of wind blew, blowing away the thick fog a little, revealing the true face of the black shadow:

It was actually the leader of the previous generation of the praying mantis tribe, the big bug Mantes who was ruthlessly abandoned by the wind and sorrow!