Chapter 45: Attack of the Bellied Ants (1)
I have to say that the efficiency of the ant world is very high.
The "Lu" incident only ended yesterday, and today the protagonist learned that the only female ant in [Xinyang City], ah, no, is now the queen ant!
Let's call her "Eve" (there has to be a name, don't ask me why), and "Eve" has laid the first batch of about 200 eggs by tonight.
Of the 200 eggs, half are soldier ants and half are worker ants. Anyway, it's the protagonist's baby - the protagonist, hehe, who isn't a baby!
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According to the report of the fairy who quietly slipped into the nursery, this batch of eggs is quite peculiar, the other ant eggs are white and translucent, but this batch of eggs has a little yellow and red color, but the color is relatively light, and the whole is still white.
The worker ants in the nursery didn't pay attention to these small differences, anyway, these eggs had the breath of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and they took care of all the ant eggs without discrimination, and they would not take extra care of them just because they were the descendants of the Divine Envoy King.
Tianxian is a big soldier ant, and his observation is a little more delicate, only to discover this, no one said anything, and ran back to tell the protagonist. It seems that yesterday's act of assistance also made her have a good impression of these eggs.
The protagonist doesn't think it's anything unusual, but lately there are more aquatic products in the food in the nest, all of which are snails, shells, shrimps, and seaweed found from the river beach. It may have something to do with this.
Don't you see that flamingos eat these aquatic products every day, get pigments from food, and all of them grow yellow and red...
The descendants of the protagonist are more than just these 200 little ants. According to the plan, in the next 3 days, "Eve" will do her best to lay 200 eggs, but this extreme method of egg laying is very depleting to the body, even if the young queen's body foundation, plus the best food every day, can not make up for this overdraft consumption, so it can only last for 3 days.
In the next few days, the queen ant can only maintain a rate of 50 eggs a day, and by the way, she will nourish her physical strength.
After learning the news, the beef-beetle also ran over and asked the protagonist if he wanted to visit this batch of eggs, but he had gone to see his first batch of eggs after his wedding flight.
Ants do not have the father-son concept of human beings, after all, a whole nest is related, as long as the generations are distinguished, anyway, the next generation of ants is either the offspring of this male ant, or the offspring of that male ant, and the genetic difference is not large. Ants don't care about inbreeding either, and they don't seem to be harmful.
But after all, it is an intelligent creature, and after knowing that this batch of eggs is their offspring, they still have some different emotions, so it is not uncommon for young male ants to visit eggs with their own genes, but it is also rare.
A cow ran over to offer advice, and the protagonist was angry, and kicked him outside the dormitory. Without the huge power of "the gods descending to earth", it was enough for the cattle.
Don't look! Don't look! What to see!
Although he has become an ant, there is no mirror in this world (this mirror is not another mirror), and the protagonist will not see his appearance every day.
But if suddenly there are a bunch of little ants, and he clearly tells that this is his son and daughter, he still can't accept the appearance of the child... At least temporarily unable to accept it!
The protagonist thinks again: According to human habits, should I protect my shortcomings? Abuse of power for personal gain? For example, all the worker ants in their offspring are bred into large worker ants? Soldier ants are bred into big soldier ants?
The more you think about it, the more complicated it becomes...
- I'm the dividing line -
Not to mention that the protagonist's offspring are happily hatching in the nursery.
After encountering the bellied ants and fighting on June 20th, the protagonist restricts his subordinates not to go to the Golden Beach to minimize the chance of conflict, and wait for this month.
But the bellied ants don't seem to be about to give up. Love Book House
Don't look at them as weak chickens when they really fight, but after coming back to their senses, the nature of ants still makes them unable to swallow this evil breath.
On June 22, a group of foraging Divine Envoy King Warriors reported that they had found dozens of belly-raising ants on the riverbank.
That river beach is only thirty meters away from [Xinyang City], and there is a beach of seventy or eighty meters from the woods where the bellied ants are located, and there has never been a trace of the bellied ants in this area before, indicating that this is not the regular range of activities of the other party at all.
Then the other party's intentions are obviously not good.
In particular, the ants who reported said that after the other party found their tracks, they did not come up to attack, but sent a messenger to turn around and return.
The remaining bellied ants neither attack nor retreat, always keeping a safe distance from the Divine Envoy King's warriors, watching from the side.
Naturally, the Divine Envoy King warriors could not continue to forage for food while the enemy was watching, but the male ants who led the team also felt that they could not return to their nests like this, and the enemy would be able to find [Xinyang City] by tracking them.
He sent a messenger to inquire about countermeasures, and he led a large army to resist the bellied ants, so that the bellied ants would not follow the messenger back to the nest.
The protagonist immediately sends a squad of elite warriors to kill the enemy.
These belly-raising ants don't look weak and timid, but it is precisely because of this weakness that they are very cunning.
The protagonist would rather go head-to-head with other straightforward ants for hundreds of rounds than deal with these slippery enemies.
The warriors of the Divine Envoy King who attacked quickly pushed the enemy back.
But in the next few days, more and more belly-raising ants moved around [Xinyang City], and they wandered around in several teams, and they also got closer and closer to the nest.
The enemy is clearly scouting to find out where the Divine Messenger King's legion is based.
The Divine King's legion also divided its forces to resist, trying to confine the enemy to a greater distance, disrupting the enemy's reconnaissance operations on the one hand, and covering the foraging team on the other.
Otherwise, there will really be no food in [Xinyang City].
The pressure brought by the bellied ants to the army of the Divine Envoy King is increasing, and on June 25th, the bellied ants have basically determined the location of [Xinyang City] in the see-saw for several days.
On this day, as many as 3,000 bellied ants appeared on the river beach east of [Xinyangcheng].
What the protagonist doesn't know is that he should be glad that these bellied ants thought that the Divine Envoy King's legion was just a small number of alien ants that were washed by the flood, and there were not many of them, so they only sent this little army.
In previous years, it was not uncommon for aliens to be washed in during the flood season, although not every year. The topography of the peninsula makes it easy to intercept the drifting ant colonies.
They guessed correctly, although the Divine Envoy King Legion took the initiative to get on the ship and launch into the water, but it was really forced to flow here because of the weather.
It's just that the number of warriors of the Divine Envoy King far exceeds the estimate of the bellied ants, and in the past, there were dozens or hundreds of ants floating along the driftwood at a time.
In addition, the Divine Envoy King warriors had also dispatched a team of up to fifty before, and the maximum number of them dispatched at the same time was only about a hundred.
This made the belly lifter seriously underestimate the strength of the Divine Envoy King Legion!