Compared with the unruly and untamable hunting sickle fierce ants, the paving ants can be regarded as relatively smoothly integrated into the army of the Divine Envoy King.

Based on the good performance of the Floating Leaf King since his surrender, as well as his contribution to the protagonist's ambush of the Paving Ant Clan, the protagonist has begun to slowly change the way he was both defensive and using the Floating Leaf King.

The Floating Leaf King was instructed to form a new garrison corps of "Southern City", with two-thirds of the legion being paving ant warriors and one-third being big-headed ant soldiers. Due to the relatively weak combat effectiveness of the paving ant worker ants, the combat effectiveness of this garrison corps is not as good as that of other garrison corps, but the town is guarded in the southern hilly areas that have been cleaned up and threatened by few indigenous scythe hunting ant tribes in the near future.

And letting the Floating Leaf King serve as the commander of the garrison is also a sign of trust and promotion. It's just that as a restriction, the big-headed ant male ant Gardenia is still appointed as the deputy commander of the legion, mainly in charge of the big-headed ant squad in the garrison legion.

In this legion, the command between the paver ant and the big-headed ant is still relatively smooth, and the thinking and behavior patterns between the two ants are similar, and there is no obstacle to communication, if they are willing to communicate with each other.

Perhaps it is precisely because of such similar habits that ants of two different races will become mortal enemies, forming a situation of confrontation across the river and dominating one side!

Those who are not of my race will have different hearts, and the same will be true among ants. What is more difficult to reconcile is the issue of mutual discrimination between the two races.

The big-headed ant clan looked down on the paving ant clan and thought that they were some vanquished, some barbarians. And the paving ant clan, especially the floating leaf king, etc., are only willing to submit to a strong person like the protagonist, and other big-headed ants are also regarded as rude barbarians.

Just as racial discrimination and regional blackness are prevalent in human society, ants are also not exempt from vulgarity. Just like the main nest "Qingqiu City" in the big-headed ant kingdom before, the protagonist also realizes that the male ants in the main nest have discrimination against the male ants of each secondary nest.

There is no good way for the protagonist to eliminate this kind of discrimination in the short term, and it is unrealistic to completely eliminate it, which cannot be done in modern developed human society. And the mutual discrimination between different races is objectively also conducive to the protagonist's counterbalance to his subordinates, and it is partly for this reason that the protagonist promotes the Floating Leaf King as a clamp against the male ants of the rolling and other big-headed ants who are becoming more and more arrogant because of their military exploits.

In addition to dealing with the problem of hunting sickle ants and paving ants integrating into the army of the Divine Envoy King, another problem that the protagonist is concerned about is the domestication and integration of beetles into the army.

After the Big-headed Ant Remnant presents five beetle eggs and breeding techniques, the protagonist immediately organizes the ant hand to start hatching and domesticating these beetles.

The five beetle eggs are placed in a special greenhouse, which is built next to the combustion chamber and has air passages to regulate the temperature, which can ensure that in the cold winter months, there is also a suitable temperature for the beetle eggs to hatch and the beetle to live.

With the technology of the big-headed ant remnants, they can only hatch and domesticate a batch of beetles in the warm season every year, but with the help of technology similar to human greenhouses, the protagonist can achieve year-round hatching.

The humidity can be adjusted by allowing the worker ants to humidify by holding water droplets, or by introducing hot air to reduce humidity.

The incubation cycle of beetle eggs is about ten days, and now that the first beetle eggs are about to break, the selected breeding worker ants are working around the clock to care for the eggs, which are highly valued by the protagonists.

In addition to the eggs of the five medium-sized beetles given away, the protagonist also mobilizes the ants of "Dongyang City" and "South City" to search for beetle eggs when foraging.

The eggs of various beetles lay eggs in similar locations, usually in the soil, while ants generally forage on the surface, and it is difficult to find these buried beetle eggs.

However, there are exceptions, when there is a strong wind or heavy rain, there will always be some soil layers that are stirred, revealing a small number of eggs. Some of these eggs have died, but whether they are dead or alive, the ants also use them as food when they find them.

Now, under the strict orders of the protagonist, the ants begin to rummage around to find the eggs and bring them to "Dongyang City".

Dead eggs are still used as food, and these protein- and fat-rich foods are an important part of high-end foods.

The eggs of the other living insects were thrown into the beetle hatching greenhouse. Some eggs are not beetle eggs, but it doesn't matter, it's never too late to kill them after hatching and noticing that something is wrong.

Some eggs are not adapted to the greenhouse environment, especially if they have just been turned out of the ground at a constant temperature, and after a cold environment, they will be sent to a relatively warm greenhouse, which will cause some eggs to lose their vitality. Raising worker ants can only clean up these eggs and use them as food.

At present, more than 20 insect eggs have been collected in the greenhouse, most of which appear to be beetle eggs, including many large beetle eggs.

As long as the different beetles can form a scale, it is expected to reproduce internally, which will greatly increase the number of beetles and eliminate the need for time-consuming and laborious search for eggs in the wild.

However, in order to maintain genetic diversity and enhance the beetle's physique, it is also necessary to constantly replenish fresh blood from the wild to prevent the beetle from falling into inbreeding.

Although inbreeding does not seem to be a big problem for insects. While long-term repeated inbreeding theoretically results in a decrease in genetic diversity and an increase in the chance of homozygous for harmful genes, the chance of homozygous for beneficial genes also increases. Combined with insect population numbers and generally short life histories, inbreeding does not always mean degradation.

Some ant species, such as small house ants, stubbornly insist on inbreeding, and the newborn breeding ants are digested internally, and then the nest colony produces a new ant colony in the form of sprouts, which is very different from the mating practice of most ants in the form of marriage flight.

However, considering that if the beetles are inbred for a long time, it may still lead to a great increase in the probability of recessive homozygousity, so that the probability of disease in the offspring increases, and the vitality, productivity, fecundity, stress resistance, adaptability and slow growth and development are generally reduced. The protagonist decides that he still has to stick to the costly search for insect eggs in the wild.

In preparation for the hatching of the first beetle eggs, a group of domesticated ants are already being trained, and they will learn the domestication techniques taught by the big-headed ant remnants, combined with the experience of the protagonist in domesticating flies and flies, and will be responsible for the training of the beetles after pupation.

Right next to the beetle hatchery greenhouse, new beetle stables have been excavated as a place for beetles to domesticate and live in the future.

The army is also ready to receive beetles, but all the commanders have not yet understood the status and role of beetles in the army!