Chapter 124: Pupation (I)
Once Sistemm has made up his mind, he will not hesitate to execute it immediately, and will not drag his feet.
Back in the lair, Systm immediately worked with the excavator on how to dig a tunnel down the water.
At the same time, Systham also called in Black and Sava to plan the development of his nest in the chrysalis.
Because he was completely unable to move after turning into a pupa worm, Systm set the tone for the nest with only one thing, and that was to keep a low profile.
When encountering an unknown existence, try not to provoke unless the other party has obvious intent to attack.
Systm decided to ask the Ant Folk to reduce or stop overkilling the rats, to keep the surrounding food chain as normal as possible, and not to expand the size of the Ant Folk for the time being after Linda broke out of her chrysalis.
Ora, the lord of the glaciers, has turned into a butterfly, but the Lierte Forest and the Warren Plains still have winter.
This winter will not be as cold as before, but it will fluctuate above and below zero, with occasional snow and ice.
If you take the liberty of expanding the size of the ant population, you will inevitably fall into an inevitable crisis in the autumn and winter when food is scarce.
Receiving Sistham's spiritual message, Sava and Blake nodded from time to time.
However, there was a clear difference between the two ants, the intelligent Blake had generally understood the meaning of Systham's words, while Sawa just kept nodding his head in the same way as Blake.
Heatham decided to leave his pupation to Blake, but Blake's status in the nest was really not very high, and when the queen Linda broke out of the chrysalis, it was likely that there would be some disagreements, so Heatham called Shawa and asked Shawa to follow Blake's instructions completely.
In this way, Linda, the queen of ants, can completely follow his instructions.
Excluding Linda, the queen of ants, the only unstable factors in the nest are the butterfly Ora and his son Meatball.
The little meat ball has returned to the size of a basketball after these days, and its strength has basically returned to the level that Syst first encountered, and there will definitely be unimaginable consequences when he goes crazy.
However, the little meat ball is not very intelligent, simple-minded, and in addition to Systm, he is also very kind to Blake and listens to Blake.
As long as you take care not to leave the small ball of meat aside and make it feel lonely, and take it outside from time to time, there is basically no problem.
As for Ora, the awkward butterfly, it is a bit tricky, after all, he has the power of frost that Sisterm is also very afraid of.
But Ola always does things that he himself feels contradictory, but Ola has his own principles.
You can't say he's evil, you can't say he's good, but there's one thing about Ola that's similar to Sistum, he doesn't hurt his allies.
He may have acted unreasonablely, but he never abused his frost powers to freeze ordinary ants.
And after activating the ability of [Regeneration of Severed Limbs] in Ora's body, Sistemm found that Ola's attitude towards him had changed inexplicably in the past few days.
On the surface, Ola still treats him the same as before, but Ola sometimes unconsciously expresses affection for him, like Sawa, which makes Systham feel very uncomfortable.
Sava is already frustrating for Sistelm to like to play bundled games, and now it seems that this butterfly likes it too.
Dragons are extremely, this sentence is really good.
Heatham also didn't know what to do with the emotions of the female butterfly with the remnant of a male dragon.
In the end, Sisstem decided not to say anything, pretending not to know, with Ola's character, it is estimated that he is very similar to Nansava, and will play tentacle games with him when he has nothing to do.
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After agreeing with Blake and Sava about what to do with his pupation, Heatham was still not completely reassured by Ola and decided to talk to Ola personally.
The conversation with Ola went unusually well, Ola's personality was still not good, and he didn't explicitly agree to anything, but he surprisingly didn't sneer at Heathem, and there was an extremely faint sense of concern.
Sistemm knew that although Ola didn't say anything on the surface, when it really came to the crisis in the lair, Ola would definitely not sit idly by.
At this point, Systm could think that the matter of the lair had been largely settled.
There was only one thing that made Heatham a little helpless, and that was the lifespan of the ants themselves.
Perhaps after his pupation is over, most of the ants that have not entered the secondary pupation will die due to their lifespan.
Eventually, Systm decided to go with the flow, and even if he went to help, it would be difficult for these ants with low qualifications to pupate twice......
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Excavation research was carried out with the large worker ant excavator, and the excavator finally made a waterproof passage using the compacted solid and fine yellow-brown soil, and avoided most of the groundwater area.
In ten days, the excavator has opened up the area with more water content than ten meters to more than 20 meters deep, reaching a depth of 30 meters, and the excavation speed of the excavator has also begun to further increase.
After these ten days, half of the water in the meadows of the Warren Plains has receded.
The vicinity of the nest of the Heatham has largely dried up, and only the low-lying areas still have some standing water, forming many temporary lakes of varying sizes in the grasslands.
As for the nezumi and druids, there is still no movement.
The grassland after the rain has fewer ordinary rats, but there are many more frogs and tadpoles, far more than the frogs that appear during the rainstorm in the Lierte Forest, and one or two moving brown toads appear almost every few meters on the wet meadows.
Perhaps due to the lack of snakes in the Warren Plains, these frogs, which can gnaw on decaying plants, reproduce at terrifying rates after the rains.
Heatham found many large brown toads that burrowed deep into the mud after mating and never came out of the mud again, presumably in a dormant period.
Heatham didn't know the name of the toad, but Heatham could have guessed the toad's habits with a little thought.
Due to the unique climate of the Warren Plains, the growth of tadpoles into toads must be completed within a month of the rainy season, and the remaining dry climate toads are largely unable to survive.
Therefore, the toad does not lay eggs immediately after mating, but wraps its body in silt to reduce water loss, and then enters a year-long dormancy, waiting for the next rainy season to lay eggs.
The toad's unique way of survival amazes Systm.
And these dormant toads hiding in the mud also provide a new source of food for the ant people of Sistum.
Toads tend to gather together to go to the same mud pit when they are dormant in the mud, and almost every silt pit will have dozens of large toads to sleep collectively.
The dormant toads were like food with a year's shelf life, and Systham only had to record the location of a few mud pits and tell Blake that even in the winter when food was scarce, his ant people would have plenty of food without catching mice.
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Another ten days have passed, and the stagnant water in the Warren Plains has basically subsided, and the nezumi and druids still have no special movements.
By this time, the excavator had already dug eighty meters deep into the ground, and after Sistm decided not to wait any longer and arrange everything again, Sistm began to chrysalis his third journey towards a magical life.