Agriculture is an industry that uses the laws of growth and development of animals and plants to obtain products through artificial cultivation. Among them, the agriculture that cultivates plants is called planting, and the agriculture that cultivates animals is called breeding.

If ants want to develop a farming industry, a ready-made example is that leafcutter ants can learn to grow fungi.

But leafcutter ants are able to grow fungi because they have evolved a high division of labor, from large workers who are responsible for chopping leaves, to medium-sized workers who are responsible for handling, and small workers who are responsible for making leaves into culture media, and even young ants. The protagonist doesn't understand the trick, so he can't lead the big-headed ants down the path of growing fungi.

What if the grain was sown like humans? This is a feasible solution, the protagonist wants to wait until autumn to find a suitable piece of land, sow the grass seeds he collects, and gradually find suitable plants to plant through experimentation.

But this is a long-term project, and it will take at least a few years to bear fruit.

In the short term, it is the farming industry that can be effective, and the aphids grazing near Dongyang City can provide a certain amount of honeydew every day, which is the high-end drink in the ant colony.

The protagonist already knows that the sweet water he likes to drink is honeydew excreted by aphids, but he has become accustomed to it and accepted it. If it was just when he first crossed, the protagonist would definitely not be able to drink it after knowing the truth.

However, grazing aphids does not provide meat. According to the protagonist's knowledge, there are no ants that herd bugs for meat.

However, the protagonist has a good idea, which is to breed mealworms.

Mealworms do not pick the environment, digging some nests under the nest can meet their temperature and humidity requirements. Mealworms also eat miscellaneous mealworms, and they can live by feeding some grass leaves, and if they throw the garbage and carcasses produced by the ants into them, they will also eat them.

Moreover, mealworms grow fast, have strong fecundity, can raise three generations a year, and are rich in nutrients. For ants, this is an excellent livestock comparable to cows, sheep and pigs to humans.

Now that the goal of breeding mealworms has been set, the protagonist spends the next few days working on this work.

On the one hand, some remote nests in "Dongyang City" were expanded into breeding farms.

On the other hand, the protagonist sends several squads to the northern depression every day to try to search for and catch live mealworms.

However, since ants do not have the tools (such as nets), it is very difficult to catch a mealworm alive. After several fruitless attempts, a team unexpectedly spotted a mealworm cowering under a rotten tree to lay eggs, and brought several eggs back to the nest.

The protagonist is very happy that these eggs are the source of the future herd. Later, the protagonist changes the goal of the search team, from trying to catch live mealworms to digging through the ground to find eggs.

In the following days, more than 100 mealworm eggs were returned to the nest. The protagonist selects a group of worker ants to take care of the eggs on the farm.

In addition to this, there is good news, the paver ant eggs are starting to hatch one after another. After receiving a report from the worker ants tending to the eggs, the protagonist rushes to the hatchery to check on them.

Five of the 48 paver eggs showed signs of death during hatching and were cleaned up by the worker ants in their care. The remaining 43 have been hatched one after another.

Looking at these white and fat larvae like small maggots, it is impossible to tell whether they are worker ants or something else for the time being, but considering the location where they were captured, it should be more likely that they are worker ants.

The construction of the combustion chamber is also progressing steadily. The new twelve queens have already begun laying eggs, and more than 7,000 eggs are already hatching. Everything in "Dongyang City" seems to be in form.

In order to prepare for the consumption of the upcoming ant mouth explosion, the protagonist first asked the queen ants to drastically reduce the number of eggs they lay, keeping it at three or four hundred a day.

At the same time, except for the ants that were under construction and the ants that had to stay in the nest, the others were sent out in small teams to find food.

Especially in the depression to the north, there are countless mealworms hidden here, and they can be found under any stone, inside rotten wood, and on blades of grass. In addition, mealworms are easy to catch, so this depression has become an important hunting ground for "Dongyang City". Every day, dozens of mealworms are carried back to the nest, greatly enriching the granary.

In order to preserve the meat for as long as possible, the protagonist also teaches the worker ants the skill of drying insects on a stone slab next to the entrance and exit of the nest.

But this positive vision of labor was soon shattered.

On this day, when the protagonist is inspecting the first batch of hatched mealworms, the joy that has just been generated by the normal feeding of these mealworm larvae is ruined.

The Courier arrives for help: The unit hunting for mealworms in the depression is attacked by a giant praying mantis and asks for help.

Mantis! Praying mantis again?

The protagonist will not forget that when he led his team out hunting for the first time, he had already successfully hunted a prey, but a green praying mantis suddenly attacked his team.

The protagonist can clearly remember the tragic situation of the male ants and soldier ants who died tragically under the mantis's broadsword. The protagonist will not forget the fear and helplessness that filled his heart at that time, and it seems that he was facing a death with a scythe instead of a praying mantis.

Now, the Grim Reaper has reappeared. Although I don't know if it's the praying mantis last time, the protagonist has a strong premonition that it's it.

The Grim Reaper attacked the ants again, and his subordinates were confronting and fighting with the Grim Reaper, and they called for help, without which they would certainly not have survived.

To go or not to go?

If you go, there aren't many soldiers in the nest now, only a small number of guards around the protagonist, and the protagonist will have to fight in person, so he will have to face this death-like opponent again.

Not going? may be able to escape for a while, but his subordinates will definitely suffer heavy losses, these are the veterans of the Divine Envoy King's legion. And the protagonist can't escape the palm of this demon for the rest of his life.

Go, I must, the protagonist thinks to himself.

What was once fear and humiliation has now turned into a fighting spirit. The protagonist immediately asks Mulan to gather her own escort team and hurriedly kill the northern depression.

The protagonist does not go out to die as soon as his brain is hot, but the decision after weighing his strength.

In the previous counteroffensive war against the paving ants, the protagonist has found that his strength is far greater than that of ordinary ants, and after activating the "killing god" mode, the protagonist has the strength to fight against a thousand. Although after starting the "God Killing", there will be problems of being unable to control the desire to kill and being prone to detachment.

Later, the protagonist experiments with his own strength, and he is able to lift a stone of three or four cubic decimeters, a force that no single insect can resist.

That's where the protagonist's confidence lies!