Chapter 360: Birth and Crisis.
While the Hunters' Association was still guessing the heads and tails of the coin, something was happening in a small coastal closed country on the Nile continent at the moment.
In a cave in a mountain, the queen's abdomen has become huge, an insect egg is poking its head out of the passage, and the stone wall is surrounded by pale cyan and translucent insect eggs, and if you look closely, you can see a creature curled up inside through the membrane.
These are worker ants that are born by the queen ant and used to provide food for themselves.
From yesterday to today, the queen ant has given birth to more than a dozen eggs, which are staggered and sitting, as if guarding her, and now the last egg has been born.
The queen ant has stopped giving birth, and since she gave birth last night, basically these worker ants have consumed most of the nutrients in her body.
A team of worker ants is enough to cope with the environment here, protect her life, and provide nutrition.
Suddenly, there was a small sound, like the sound of silk tearing, and one hand carried the mucus inside the egg, penetrating the membrane.
This is the first egg that the queen ant gave birth to last night, and it is also the leader of this team of worker ants.
"Queen!"
A half-human, half-ant, worker ant covered with cyan scales came out of the eggs, almost a teenager's height, and the mucus on his body had not yet dried off, so he knelt down and saluted the queen ant.
"Get up, my child." The queen gasped.
These more than a dozen worker ants consumed almost all her nutrients, and they stayed on the water drifting mountain for almost half a year, moving rapidly every day, and the anthill had long been dilapidated by the impact.
There is no shelter, and you hide from dangerous rocks all day long, and there is no chance to eat at all.
From leaving the water drifting mountain to today, four or five days have passed, and there are no high-nutrient ingredients around, so she barely ate a little human stomach, and then squeezed herself to give birth to these worker ants, mainly to accelerate ripening, and need to consume more nutrients, so she naturally squeezed her physical strength dry.
Although the worker ants born after ripening do not have a long lifespan and are weak, they are not even qualified to be insects in the food industry.
However, in this land, the queen ant is still very confident in the children she has born, after all, this place is too vegetable, and these children are still the worker ants born by integrating the excellent genes of this continent.
The queen believes that they will perform their tasks perfectly until the end of their lifespan.
"Go hunting for your king's sake." The queen gave the first order to the group of workers.
Now the queen ant urgently needs nutritional supplements and the construction of a biological gene bank, after all, she has not much time.
At the beginning, the sacrifice of the entire race allowed her to successfully escape from the water drifting mountain and survive, even if she was lucky to survive, but the queen ant's body was still injured a lot.
These injuries doomed her to not have a long lifespan, and the most important thing now was the continuation of the race.
All the animals here will be the objects of her feeding, and humans have given her hope of breaking through the barriers.
Races that can break genetic boundaries are almost non-existent in the hierarchical gastronomic world. As long as this gene is paired with their ability to fuse genes unique to chimeric ants.
If the genes that break through the genetic restrictions are integrated into the genes of other organisms, how terrible will it be to be born with the potential of the children who can burst out?
The queen ant's brain capacity is not high, and just thinking about this, her body can't help but tremble with excitement.
She was convinced that she could produce the strongest king of all time. Baiyue
"Yes, Queen!" The unnamed Captain Worker Ant stood up.
It's just a few seconds of conversation, and a few more worker ants break out of their shells, but compared to this captain, it seems that their IQ is much lower, and they can't even talk completely.
Soon, the footsteps were getting farther and farther away from the queen, and the little animals that had lived in the forest for generations did not know what would happen next.
The invading creatures of the gastronomic world, like seeds in the soil, have been given abundant nutrients and abundant sunlight, the epidermis cracks, and a white and tender root quietly pokes into the soil, takes root, and quietly sprouts.
At this time, what happened in this small closed coastal country is not known to outsiders, but the appearance of gastronomic creatures on the Nile continent seems to be known to humans.
"Are you sure what you're saying is true?" The headquarters of the Hunters' Association, a hunter in charge of national defense and security, stared at the screen in front of him with his eyes.
Inside the screen is a young man with a stray beard on his chin and an unusually determined look in his eyes.
"I don't have to risk jail time and talk nonsense to you, I'm sure there was a gourmet creature in human form that night, falling from the top of the waterdrifting mountain."
This young man is the hunter team who used to track the water drifting mountain.
When the cherished ingredients were sold into the dark realm, and his companions took a big sip of the banknotes that smelled of copper coins, the young man left the group and came to the office of the Hunters' Association in this bustling city.
There is this scene in front of me.
"Damn." The hunter cursed secretly, thought for a moment before raising his head and said to the young man in front of the screen, "Thank you for the information.
If there are no errors, we will give you a bonus, and we ask that you stay in the Hunter's Office and do not leave while we check the situation. ”
"We must deal with this matter as soon as possible, and as of today, almost four and a half days have passed. I'm worried that this gastronomic creature has arrived on land with ocean currents. ”
The young man knows what the biological invasion of the gastronomic world looks like, and if this gastronomic creature is lucky enough not to die in the sea, then it has already stepped on the land of the Nile continent at this moment.
"I'll report to my superiors." With that, the hunter got up and left, ready to report the situation upwards.
Assoya's talent is to judge whether others are lying or not, and it is clear that the young man in front of him is not lying.
This is not a trivial matter, first of all, it doesn't matter what kind of food creature it is, whether it is alive or dead, things need to be reported to the superiors.
As long as there is the slightest probability that the creatures of the food world will arrive on the Nile continent alive, it will be a serious biological invasion.
The dead are in tens of thousands, and they are all human lives, and no one can carry such a heavy burden.
It's still a gourmet creature in human form, and this is the highest level of danger.
In short, to see people in life, and to see corpses in death, this is a requirement for death.
As the hunter left behind the screen, the others sat in their original positions, chatting with the youth, asking about various things, gathering clues, and making further confirmations.
"Hello, I'm Asoya, a hunter from the Nile Continent Security Department, and I want to apply to connect to the hunter's internal line." Assoya, the hunter who left, picked up the phone bug and called the Hunters' Association's phone customer service.
"Confirmed to be the hunter Assoya, who do I need to transfer to?"
"Please contact the communications of the Minister of Security." Asoya spoke.