The acquired factors, in the final analysis, are nothing more than the environment, food, education, and so on.

Education aside, worker ants basically work according to instinct when they become adults, and there is no education for worker ants or soldier ants in "Dongyang City", and the protagonist thinks that parasitic ant nests will not have this kind of education. Therefore, the acquired factor in education was ruled out first.

What about the environment? In terms of growth environment, different species of ant eggs, larvae or ant pupae are cultivated in the same nursery room, and there is no difference. Comparatively, female eggs do have anti-inhibitory hormone protection, but there is no relationship between this and the different developmental outcomes of parasitic worker eggs.

Then, the only thing that may affect development is the leftover food.

The protagonist asks about the nursery workers, and sure enough, the nursery workers tell the protagonist that they provide different food when feeding the female and worker larvae.

Ants have a strict hierarchy in society, and there is also a strict hierarchy in food.

Male and female ants can enjoy plenty of honeydew, meat and other foods, while worker ants and soldier ants can only enjoy very little meat, which is better than no honeydew, and their diet is still mainly low-end food of plants such as grass seeds and fungi.

The only exception to this is the conservation worker ants, who sometimes eat the same diet as male and female ants. However, the reason why they receive such preferential treatment is not because they are compensated for the hardships they have worked.

Only when male or female larvae need to be fed will they eat higher foods, and then feed back from the stomach with semi-digested food rich in nutrients such as protein and sugar for these larvae to eat, which is easier to digest and absorb, like the "milk" of the larvae.

However, if only the larvae of ordinary worker ants and soldier ants are fed, the nursery worker ants will stop eating higher food and only eat ordinary food. The nutrients they feed back to the young are relatively simple.

The protagonist carefully asks about the types of food and compares them. He found that the composition of higher foods (the food fed to male and female larvae) was more heterogeneous, and relatively rich in fat, protein and amino acids, while the normal food (the food fed to the larvae of worker ants) had less protein and amino acids and could only ensure an adequate caloric supply.

It seems that the nutritional value of the two foods is indeed different, is this the reason why the protagonist is pursuing?

Since the eggs, larvae, and pupae of the captured ants are all adults, and the protagonist is no longer able to experiment with these parasitic offspring. Therefore, he asked the queen ant to lay another hundred worker eggs, intending to test them with ordinary worker eggs.

The 100 worker eggs were quickly transported to the experimental nursery.

The protagonist divides the eggs into five groups of 20 eggs each, which are placed in different nursery rooms, and each nest is tended by four nursery workers - a much higher level of care than a normal nursery.

While waiting for the eggs to hatch, the protagonist confirms that the offspring of the parasitic ants are not a threat after careful examination and observation, and that they all consider themselves to be members of the "Dongyang Castle".

So, the protagonist decided to make the best use of his talents and made a placement for them.

Most of the ordinary parasitic worker ants are no different from the ordinary worker ants in "Dongyang City", and they are assigned to the positions where the workers should go. It's just that they have a little mineral dot on their foreheads that can't be erased.

The intelligence of the big worker ant and the light gold big worker ant is outstanding, and the protagonist asks the little secretary (the little secretary should be a big worker ant) to lead them to familiarize themselves with the existing technology - pottery, construction, breeding, etc., and will train them as technicians in various industries in the future.

A few days later, the eggs of the workers in the experimental nursery were hatched one after another.

The protagonist numbers the five nurseries as Labs 1 through 5.

For Lab 1, where the usual culture is still followed, the nursery worker ants are only provided with ordinary food for the larvae.

Laboratory 2 provides 25% high-grade food and 75% normal food, Laboratory 3 provides 50% high-grade food and 50% normal food, Laboratory 4 provides 75% high-grade food and 25% normal food, and Laboratory 5 only provides high-grade food.

When the nursery workers heard that they were going to provide high-grade food to these ordinary workers, they gave a lot of feedback. In their opinion, high-grade food needs to consume more and scarce food in the nest, and feeding it to ordinary worker ants is very wasteful.

The protagonist is not worried, the food in "Dongyang City" is still relatively abundant, and after the large-scale mealworm and fly maggot farms have basically no shortage of meat, and the nectar source has also expanded after a batch of scale insects have been scavenged from the vicinity of the parasitic ant nest. With these sufficient material guarantees, not only is it enough to support this experiment, but it will also be more than enough to support a few hundred large worker ants who only need to enjoy the treatment of the king or queen in the future.

When it comes to conserving worker ants, the protagonist doesn't need to be as cautious as he is with the dissenting king. As soon as he gives an order, the nursery worker ants can only be carried out obediently, without any complaints and complaints, and there is no need to worry about their disobedience.

In this way, after being fed according to the food ratio determined by the protagonist for a while, some changes gradually appear in the larvae fed in nurseries 2 to 5.

Taking the ordinary worker ant larvae in the No. 1 nursery as a control, the larvae in the No. 2 to No. 5 nurseries were all one size larger. In terms of body size alone, the larvae in Nursery 3, 4 and 5 are all similar in size, while the larvae in Nursery 2 are slightly smaller than those in the other three nurseries.

In addition, in nurseries 4 and 5, the larvae had a faint golden sheen, while this was not the case in nurseries 2 and 3.

Upon learning of this, the protagonist is very happy. The huge body size and golden color of the body surface are the external characteristics of the large worker ants and light gold large worker ants in the parasitic ant nest. If the larvae exhibit a high level of intelligence when they reach adulthood, then the experiment is considered a success.

Under the orders of the protagonist, the number of nursery workers in each nursery room from No. 2 to No. 5 has doubled again, taking care of these precious young ants.

And the Second Legion of the Divine Envoy King, also led by the commander Rambo Ford, built a small fortress at the entrance to enhance the defensive capabilities.

The supplies in Dongyang City, whether honeydew, insect meat or grass seeds, are available to the laboratory without restrictions.

The protagonist's attention to this experiment is obvious to all in the entire "Dongyang City", although Roll and Lan Bofei still don't understand the meaning of the experiment, but they also pay attention to it. In the exchanges between different kings, there is also more and more content about this experiment.

Astute ants are aware that a great revolution is coming.