Chapter 51: First Snow Under a Clear Sky
"Could it be that these worker ants are leaving?"
Systham shook his head, although he hadn't instilled in these ants that he was a queen these days, these ants still regarded him as their closest being, and could never disobey his instructions.
Even if these worker ants will be ventilated outside the makeshift nest, they should return to the nest and continue feeding the ant larvae as Systm previously instructed.
Heatham asked Shava but received no clear answer.
If it weren't for Systm asking, Shava, who was feeding on slime gum, wouldn't even know that there were fewer worker ants in the makeshift nest.
Although Sava has a certain amount of wisdom, he has never been very sensitive to numbers, and he still can't even figure out the addition and subtraction of less than ten.
This, Sisstem, is also helpless.
And just as Syst was thinking, he suddenly felt a special feeling.
This special feeling comes from his ability [intuition].
Systham picks a worker ant and leaves the nest with it.
Systham had a feeling that he would be able to find out the truth about the disappearance of the two ants as long as he went out with one of them.
The group of ants that had been patrolling the entrance of the cave had been removed by Sava to work on a wintering nest not far away.
However, because of its proximity to the black-brown anthill, it didn't take long for Systm to encounter an "ant search team" in charge of foraging.
One of the ants in the squad spotted him and gradually approached him, as if trying to find out what he was.
However, before the ant could get closer, the worker ant brought by Syst greeted him.
The two ants touched each other with their antennae, as if they were communicating, but suddenly the two ants seemed to sense that something was wrong, and in the blink of an eye, the two ants tore together.
Seeing this, Syst immediately used his tentacles to separate the two worker ants, and twisted off the ant's head with his tentacles.
These two worker ants were originally offspring from the same queen, but at this time, they were already like enemies when they met, and they had an endless mood of dying before each other.
Even if Systm wasn't here, the two worker ants would not hesitate to fight.
Watching the two worker ants fight, it was easy for Syst to guess that the reason for the disappearance of the two worker ants was that they had gone out of a makeshift nest and died in the process of encountering the black-brown ants.
Unlike Shava, these Sistem-hatched ants have an innate hatred for the ants in the nest.
When Heatham questioned the worker ant with [telekinesis], he received a very clear answer from the worker ant - the enemy.
Not food, but enemies.
It's like the anger and hostility that Sistemm sent to him when he lied to the ants that they were of the same kind.
“…… I see. ”
With the worker ant jumping onto the branches of the plant, Systm observed the ant nest not far away, and he quickly came up with a more plausible explanation.
The ants raised by Systm and the ants in the colony are the offspring of the same queen.
However, because of the different growth environment, it has a slightly different smell and has become a new nest of ants.
This may be the habit of ants, two colonies of the same species in the same area, destined to survive only one of them.
Now that I think about it, in fact, he deceived the ants that he was the queen ant, maybe the ants did not find out that he was a grasshopper, but took him as an ant of a hostile race.
Otherwise, the ants would not have been so angry at that time.
……
Regardless, at this point, what Systm has to do is not to remember the beginning, but how to deal with this anthill.
As the new queen raised by Systm continues to produce offspring, there is bound to be a war between him and the ants in this nest.
Even if this war doesn't happen this fall, after this long winter, if Sistm still plans to live here next summer, his ant people are destined to have a never-ending war with this ant nest.
Within a dozen meters of this, there can only be a nest of ants.
After a winter, Sistemm couldn't say for sure, and if he fought the anthill next summer, his ant people would be killed and wounded.
After some consideration, Systm made a choice between surviving the winter and then migrating tomorrow spring, or destroying and occupying the nest this autumn.
Heatham eventually opted for the latter.
At the end of the day, Heatham now has two slimes as his fighters, and when winter falls, those two slimes may disappear, and Heatham doesn't want to miss out on this great opportunity.
These two dark green slime gels were much more powerful than his old friend's brown slime in terms of body shape, elasticity and digestion.
It shouldn't be a problem for this nest of about 100,000 medium-sized ants.
And with him in command, after discovering that the slime's devouring ability has decreased, he can take the initiative to control the slime to leave.
With the slime's powerful digestion speed and recovery speed, it must be much stronger than the queen's hatching ant speed.
Even if the first two attacks of the two slimes do not have a fatal effect on the nest, multiple attacks that last for a few days are sure to cause the nest to lose a lot.
At that time, let Shawa kill the queen ant, and then let Shawa direct the worker ants to carry the eggs, ant larvae, and pupae in the anthill, and destroy them all.
In this way, the nest of ants has been declared completely extinct, and the anthill that has lost all its eggs has no possibility of producing a new queen, and the remaining ants will naturally die out after a period of time even if he does not do it.
And with his help, the demise of this anthill will be further accelerated.
After that, after letting Sava lead the ant construction team to expand the anthill, he can clean up the remaining ants, and the doves can occupy the magpie nest and occupy the anthill.
There is enough food for hundreds of thousands of ants to survive the winter in the ant nest, enough for him to breed new queens for development, and even it is not impossible to raise a small slime with these foods to provide gum steadily.
The more Syst thought about it, the more he felt that it would be a wise choice to exterminate the nest of ants this fall.
And even if he fails, it won't have any effect on him, and it's a big deal to get his ant people not to go out in the autumn and migrate again tomorrow spring.
It's just a pity that the wintering nest he had let Shava lead the ant construction team dig was completely useless.
But if you can occupy the anthill as Sistemm envisioned, then such a trivial matter is no longer a trivial matter.
……
Having made the decision, Sistem's actions were very efficient, and after ordering Shava to continue to watch over the ants in their makeshift nests and not to go out, he spread his wings and flew to the swamp where the slime was.
Today, Sistemm will control two slimes to perform the first wave of attacks on the anthill......
However, as Sistemm was flying, he suddenly noticed that many white ice crystals - snow had fallen from the sky.
There were not a single cloud in the sky, and the temperature was mild like early autumn, but this is how snowflakes are falling in the sky, and more and more snowflakes are falling......