In this extremely important experiment on the cultivation of parasitic ants, there is another point that the protagonist is very concerned about:

After cultivation, according to the cultivation method of "Dongyang City", the original parasitic ant's large worker ant pupae were almost exactly the same as Xiao Mi in size and appearance because they were not infected by silk thread parasites after breaking the pupa and were not infected by silk thread parasites.

And Xiao Mi's previous intelligence level was far stronger than that of ordinary big-headed ants' worker ants and soldier ants, which had always made the protagonist very strange before.

He once thought that if all the worker ants were as smart as Xiaoqing, then the development speed of "Dongyang City" would be faster. Because relatively intelligent male ants are reluctant to engage in work outside of military and politics due to their identity, Xiaoqing is a worker ant in the first place, but there is no such identity-based obstacle - some of the protagonist's current craft research topics can only be handed over to Xiaoqing.

Now, the results of the experiment have proved that Xiaoqing and the parasitic ants are indeed inextricably linked. However, the protagonist does not intend to guard against Xiaoqing, who has already proven her loyalty and ability.

As for Xiaoqing's specific origin, the protagonist can only guess that she is an unwitting fellow left by parasitic ants when they lurked in "Dongyang City", and the specific process needs to be unearthed with more evidence.

And the light gold big worker ants and big worker ants with high IQ hatched this time, the protagonist naturally does not plan to appoint them as the commander of the unit like the parasitic ant nest. In the protagonist's opinion, it will be more important to add some high-IQ students to Xiaoqing's scientific research team.

As for the different developmental results of the worker ants, the large worker ants and the light gold large worker ants in the parasitic ants, the protagonist has already had corresponding speculations before - the difference between innate and acquired raising.

With this guess in mind, the protagonist immediately begins to verify it. If the principle is understood, the protagonist believes that the idea of making every ant smarter will become a reality, and the impetus for development will be obvious.

There are more queens in Dongyang City than other side nests, and these queens are completely at the mercy of the protagonist.

The protagonist then orders one of the queens to lay three eggs that will be cultivated as females and ten eggs that will develop into worker ants, and then put the eggs in a nursery room dedicated to experimentation, where they will be cared for by experienced nursery.

The protagonist first carefully examines the difference between the female and worker eggs.

In appearance, there is no obvious difference between the two eggs, and the size, shape, and color are almost the same. The only difference is that on the eggs of the female, the protagonist smells a special secretion.

The protagonist asks the nursery worker ants, who tell the protagonist that this secretion can only be found on the eggs of ants that will develop into females, but that they are unsure of the exact composition and source of the secretions.

It seems that the protagonist can only go and ask the queen ants. He chose a relatively familiar queen, that is, the little female ant who once fought side by side with Roll and eliminated a large worker ant, and it was also the marriage partner chosen by Roll after the wedding flight ceremony.

According to the customs of the big-headed ant and the rules set by the protagonist, after the wedding ceremony, the little female ant and the roll spent a night together in the newly built queen ant's dormitory.

On this night, the little female ant transforms into a queen, storing millions of sperm in her body, enough for her to have offspring for the rest of her life.

And in the world of big-headed ants, the little female ant and the roll are just a one-night couple. After that, Roll will continue to serve as the commander of the army and the henchman of the protagonist for "Dongyang City", and the little female ant will also stay in the underground space forever as a childbearer.

If there is no special reason, the little female ant and the roller will never meet in this life, this is not a tragic love story, but the normal development process of ant society. From then on, two ants who had been married overnight would dedicate their lives to the entire nest in their own way.

Among all the queen ants, the protagonist also had a little friendship with the little female ant, so he did not hesitate to choose the little female ant to communicate.

Coming to the queen's dormitory, the once young female ant is now a mature and plump queen, and she produces eggs of worker ants and soldier ants every day according to the production plan. Recently, "Dongyang City" has no plans to explode the population, so her current production task is not arduous, and it also gives the protagonist more time to have in-depth communication with her (no dirt here).

The protagonist raises her own questions, and the former little female ant, now the queen ant, thinks about it, and she tells the protagonist:

The queens do apply some of their own secretions to the eggs that are about to hatch females, and the eggs are actually the same as the eggs of the workers.

She didn't know why she did this, it was instinct that taught her to do it!

But she guessed (the queen also has a high IQ, basically the same as the male), that these secretions can counteract the effects of the inhibitory hormones secreted by the queen.

Inhibition hormones, which are hormones secreted by the queen ant, can suppress the development of the reproductive organs and the production of egg cells of the worker ants throughout the nest, ensuring the exclusive reproductive rights of the queen ant.

Therefore, in some nests where queen ants die, due to the loss of inhibitory hormones, many worker ants will develop their reproductive organs rapidly and begin to lay eggs. But since these worker ants have never mated, they can only lay unfertilized eggs, and the unfertilized eggs can only develop into males, which does not help the continuation of the entire nest. As a result, biologists will see a large number of male ants as a sign that the nest is about to die. Ant keepers describe the situation as "mosquito feeding".

In a nest with multiple queens, although each queen secretes inhibitory hormones, it is not affected by its own or other queens' inhibitory hormones, because each queen can also secrete a counterinhibitory hormone to protect itself.

Similarly, in order to protect the eggs of the females, they also apply their own secreted counter-inhibitory hormones to these eggs. Worker eggs, on the other hand, are physiologically identical to female eggs, but they are under the control of inhibitory hormones from the moment they are born.

Knowing this result, the protagonist does not completely solve the mystery of the development of the big worker ant and the light gold big worker ant.

Because the nursery worker ants have examined the large worker ants that have just reached adulthood and the light gold large worker ants, their reproductive organs are shrunk like ordinary worker ants, and they are not fully developed like female ants. It can be seen that the eggs of large worker ants and light gold large worker ants should not be protected by anti-inhibitory hormones, and their different development results must be due to other reasons.

Since it is not a congenital cause such as the difference in ant eggs, nor is it a cause of anti-inhibitory hormones, then the protagonist naturally focuses on the acquired way of raising.