The next day, the wedding ceremony proceeds normally according to the protagonist's plan, and the ceremony begins at sunrise.

The female ants don't have anything to do during the wedding ceremony, and the protagonist lets them move freely in the nest, as long as they wait for the notice at dusk before going to the conference room to gather.

Each of the 32 males left the nest with his own team to hunt, freely choosing the direction and area of the hunt. The squads were not neatly organized, with only four soldier ants and twenty worker ants each. The rest of the team members are left by the protagonist to work on infrastructure construction in "Dongyang City".

According to the rules, these squads are allowed to travel back and forth between the den and the hunting grounds several times before sunset in order to carry their prey, and are ultimately judged on the cumulative amount of prey in a single day. Each squad can only hunt live prey, plant food and dead prey do not count towards the score.

In this way, the wedding ceremony actually became a competition, and there was only one referee, the protagonist himself. Such an obviously easy black-box setting did not arouse opposition, and the simple ants had no concept of deception at all.

The referee's main job is to count the number of prey, but the protagonist doesn't have time to keep guarding the entrance of the cave by himself. He asked the secretary to help him with the inventory, which required a certain amount of mathematical knowledge, and the secretary did not have the skills to do so.

The protagonist knows that the male and female ants in the middle of the ants have basic mathematical concepts and knowledge. For example, the male ants know how to assign squads according to a group of fifty ants, and can also carry out complex legion formation and battle damage statistics; Whereas, the female ant will lay a fixed number of ant eggs per day according to the requirements of the nest. In this way, it seems that the mathematical ability of the ants is roughly equivalent to the level of the first and second grades of primary school of humans, and they can master the basic four operations, which should be mastered through learning.

The protagonist doesn't have the kung fu to popularize mathematical knowledge for illiterate ants like Xiao Mi, so he experiments and finds that Xiao Mi can understand the mathematical concepts of one, two, three, four, five, six by counting his arthropods and antennae, which is enough.

So, the protagonist asks the worker ants to draw 4x8 squares on the black ground with tree branches, a total of 32 squares, and each grid represents a male ant. Then the worker ants found a large amount of shiny white sand from all over the place and piled it up next to the lattice.

The protagonist tells the secretary that after each male ant team returns with their prey, they will drop 1~5 white gravel on the corresponding grid of the male ants according to the size of the prey. 1 small game, 3 medium games, and 5 large games. The size of the prey is judged by the secretary himself, and the ants also have this basic judgment. In this way, you only need to look at the total amount of sand and gravel in each cell to know the final score of each male.

So will the secretary confuse the correspondence between the lattice and the male ant? The answer is no, ants have an amazingly good memory of their companions, and as long as they have touched it once, they can remember each other firmly for a lifetime. The protagonist asks the secretary to arrange the grids according to the order in which she knows the male ants, so that there will be no confusion.

After leaving the little secretary to guard the entrance of the cave, the protagonist tells her to inform him when the first few teams return. He had to come over to see the little secretary's counting work, and he was not very relieved to do this work for the first time.

Later, the protagonist takes Mulan and other ants back to the underground of "Dongyang City", and he has to do some construction in the nest.

Most of the remaining ant construction team went to the construction site of the combustion chamber, and the protagonist left one hundred and twenty worker ants with him, and he planned to build a separate house for each male and female.

The female ant becomes the queen after the wedding ceremony. In each secondary nest, all queens live together. It is precisely because of this that these mixed queens always want to fight with other queens due to genetic and traditional factors, which is no less exciting than the Qing palace fighting drama. As a result, only a small percentage of the queen ants in the secondary nest survive, and most of them either die or leave the nest with a small number of worker ants.

There will soon be twelve queens on the protagonist's side.,Although the protagonist gave an order to prohibit infighting.,But this kind of order is short-term.,The protagonist can't say what the long-term effect will be.。 Naturally, the protagonist doesn't want the queens of "Dongyang City" to die in large numbers due to internal friction, so the best way is to let these queens live separately.

Under Mulan's guidance, the protagonist finds the queen's dormitory, which he has never been to before. The protagonist had never seen an ant queen during his time in Dongyang Castle, and this time he finally came to this place. The queen's dormitory is tucked away from the protagonist's two-bedroom apartment, about the south side of the nest, deep underneath the nest. The queen's dormitory is surrounded by worker dormitories, hatcheries and nurseries.

The protagonist calculates that the original nest layout here has been fixed, and it is not easy to re-excavate the new queen queen's dormitory, even if the queen ant is very close to each other, it is still easy to give birth to right and wrong. The original queen ant's dormitory was abandoned, and later converted into a granary or something.

The protagonist leads the worker ants to the southwestern corner of the nest, near a drainage channel, where the humidity and temperature are enough for the queen and eggs. And the nest room that has not been built here is completely a blank sheet of paper, which can be planned by the protagonist.

The protagonist quickly sends the information packets he has planned to the workers, who are responsible for the specific construction.

According to the protagonist's vision, the harem area where the queen ants live will occupy an entire underground level. Directly in the middle is a large hatchery and nursery room, which have several upper and lower passages, where all the queen eggs will hatch together in the future, regardless of each other.

The hatchery and nursery area takes the form of a circle, and twelve passages are dug radially next to these circles, like the shape of a sun. At the end of the passage is the queen's dormitory, so that all the queens' residences are far away, and the queen ants are inconvenient to move after entering the production mode, so it is not easy to cause a fight if they can't see each other.

The queen's dormitory is designed with drainage channels, and there are special small passages to connect the central area of "Dongyang City", so that it is convenient for the queen ants to escape in special situations.

That's all there is to the harem area. It's sad to think about it, other protagonists travel back to open the harem, and they are all their own women. And the protagonist opens a harem, and these twelve female ants are all other people's daughters-in-law, and they have to build a house for them.

The protagonist left more than 100 worker ants here for construction, although there are many new nests that need to be built here, but the volume of each is not large, and the protagonist estimates that it will be about the same for half a day.

The protagonist stares at the construction site for a while, and because the workers are responsible for the specific construction, there are sometimes subjective deviations in the implementation of the design drawing information package. At this time, the protagonist will instruct Mulan, who also received the information packet, to correct it, and Mulan has done a good job.

Halfway through the project, a worker ant came to report that the first team had returned with prey at the entrance of the nest.

The protagonist leaves Mulan to continue supervising the work and walks out of the nest by himself.