Chapter 34: You're Not the Queen of Ants

Use [Corrosive Slime] to cut off the passage near the rubble pile to prevent ants from passing by.

Heatham sometimes uses [teleportation] to brainwash insect eggs near the rubble pile, sometimes jumps to the construction team led by the soldier ant Dasha to check the progress of the construction of the wintering nest, and sometimes carries the insect eggs brought by Dasha to select the eggs.

Heatham seemed busy.

Three days passed.

The first batch of thirteen eggs was successfully brainwashed by him.

Sooner than Sistemm expected, most of the eggs would be brainwashed in about two days, and he would never be doubted again, only a few of the two eggs really hypnotized him for three days.

After brainwashing the eggs, as long as Systum activates [Psychic Connection] to connect with these eggs, these eggs will be like being thrown into the mother's body, sending extremely reassuring emotions to Systm, who already regard Systum as dependent.

Sistemm reckoned that no matter how long time passed, these eggs would not rebel against him.

However, compared to the smooth brainwashing of insect eggs, the search for different kinds of ant eggs is not going very smoothly, in three days, Syst has examined hundreds of ant eggs, but only three kinds of ant eggs have been found.

The vast majority of the eggs are workers, and there are two other types, one with five and one with one.

Of the five eggs, which are numerous, they should be soldier ants, and with only one egg, Systm can't tell whether they are male or female.

In fact, even if the egg was a female, Systm would not be satisfied.

What he wants is a female ant and a male ant, and only by having these two ants can he safely breed ant offspring.

In desperation, Syst had no choice but to ask the soldier ant Dasha to continue to look for more ant eggs for him to choose from, and strive to gather all kinds of ants as soon as possible.

In three days, compared to the search for ant eggs, the worker ant construction team led by the soldier ant Dasha made great progress.

Especially on the most recent day, the soldier ant Dasha commanded nearly one hundred and fifty ants to widen all the passages in Sistum's wintering nest to a suitable size, and there was no need for too many instructions from Sistum.

Soldier Ant Dasha seems to have gotten a lot smarter.

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Ants are social social insects with simple yet complex living habits.

It is complicated because of the social relationship of the ant group, and sometimes they will do many behaviors that ordinary people cannot understand, and these behaviors usually have a certain meaning.

And the simplicity is because everything the ants do has a clear purpose, it is for the prosperity of the anthill.

It is precisely for the overall prosperity of the anthill that the soldier ant and the worker ant, two female ants that do not have the ability to reproduce, their living conditions are very harsh and bad.

After turning from larval pupa to adult, worker and soldier ants work tirelessly, eating only a minimum amount of food to sustain their physical energy.

The same is true for the soldier ant Dasha, who only eats a small amount of food every day and does not continue to eat.

It wasn't until Dasha met Systm that this situation changed.

After being ordered by Syst to feed for a few days until its abdomen was slightly broken, the size of the soldier Dumb began to slowly grow.

The level of Soldier Ant Dasha should have increased, but because there is no Sistem's talent [numerical code], the growth of Soldier Ant Dasha's body shape is only a slow change, and it will not suddenly become much larger like Sistum.

After these days, Dasha's body has grown from 3 cm to 4.5 cm of ordinary soldier ants, and this change has not completely stopped, and the body shape of Dasha is still improving step by step.

Because of the increase in level, coupled with the occasional communication with Systm with [Psychic Connection], Dasha learned how to think.

Soldier ant Dasha may have become smart because of this.

It may be a little worse than the grasshopper queen, but the soldier ant Dasha obviously has a new trait.

In the process of directing the worker ants to build the wintering nest of the Sisttm, it always likes to hold a translucent peanut-sized stone.

The translucent stone was accidentally found by Heatham in the forest, and he picked it up so he felt so beautiful, he didn't know if it was a crystal, or a diamond, or some other kind of stone.

Sistemm noticed that the soldier ant Dasha seemed to like the stone, so he gave it to him.

After that, Dasha would always hold on to the stone.

Sometimes it will hold a stone and play on the ground, and sometimes it will hold the stone and look at the sun or moon in the sky to observe, and it doesn't know what it is looking at.

All in all, Heatham found that Dasha had become a bit of spirituality.

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Because of the improvement of Dasha's intelligence, the wintering crypt was built very spacious, so Sistemm directly requisitioned this one-and-a-half-meter-deep crypt.

Brainwashing numerous ant eggs near a pile of rubble, Systm needs to keep an eye on what is going on around him, and he must always tense his nerves, which is very inconvenient.

A quarter of the nest was built by Dasha because the passage had been widened for temporary use by Sistem, and some of the empty rooms inside could also be used to store food and eggs temporarily.

As for the construction of the wintering nest, because of the improvement of the efficiency of the construction team of the soldier ant Dasha, he can completely let Dasha build a new crypt.

Decided to do anything, Systm went into action, and soon moved to the crypt with a large number of ant eggs.

Two days passed quickly......

Soldier Ant Dasha's construction team is methodically building a new wintering underground nest, and it is estimated that it will not be long before the progress of the new nest will reach the one requisitioned by Sisstem.

And on this day, after continuing to select nearly two hundred ant eggs, Systm finally gathered all kinds of ant eggs.

The most basic conditions for breeding a litter of ants are already in place.

And in the spare time of these two days of brainwashing ant eggs, Heatham also cultivated a magical crop.

He managed to use his solution of digesting fleshy corpses and some dead leaves in the dim cavern to cultivate a mushroom that was very common in the vicinity.

It's an amazing mushroom that's edible, and it tastes like a regular mushroom, with a faint yogurt flavor.

Although it does not possess any magical powers, this mushroom is magical and can emit a faint fluorescence.

After observation, Systm discovered that the mushroom's fluorescence only appears during growth, and when the mushroom stops growing, the glimmer slowly disappears.

Heatham couldn't figure out how the mushroom glowed.

Because this mushroom consumes a lot of nutrients to grow, he only cultivates a small amount in the cave to make his [Dark Vision] effective.

It's been another day.

One of the more than two dozen eggs brainwashed by Systm finally successfully hatched into an ant larva, and it seems that the growth cycle of this black-brown ant is not very long.

After the ant eggs became ant larvae, the ant larvae's attitude towards Systm did not change, and they still regarded Sixt as the queen of the colony.

Heatham selected some soft fungi and butterfly larvae to feed these ant larvae.

Ant larvae love the food that Systm offers and grow quickly.

Everything went steadily according to Heatham's plan.

However, things went wrong in the most unlikely place -

During the day's daily communication with Soldier Ant Dasha, Soldier Ant Dasha suddenly sent a message to Sistem: "You, no, Queen Ant ......"

"What... Is it? ”

Sistemm never thought that he would have such a flustered mood in the face of the soldier ant Dasha.