Here I have to mention the slave ant is a special kind of ant.

Slave ants, known as ant slave owners, are a kind of "lazy" ants whose survival is completely based on plundering ordinary ants for their servitude.

They do not engage in any productive activities, and their only job is to rob ants and young ants from other nests to come back as slaves, or to snatch the eggs and pupae back to the nest and hatch ants to be slaves.

Slaves dug tunnels and transported food for slave ants, while others worked as "nannies" in nurseries to raise slave ant larvae or hatch raided common ant pupae and do all the work that should have been done by worker ants.

These ant slaves worked in humiliation until they died. As a result, slave ants live a life of real food to open their mouths, and they don't even know how to eat, so they can only rely on slaves to feed food in their mouths.

The only advantage of the slave ant is that it has strong combat ability, it is a natural fighting race, and even has evolved combat and plunder into an art.

The body structure of the slave ant also evolved to adapt to combat and predation. Their tiniest joints form curved spines at the tips, their carapaces are twice as thick as brown ants, and their narrow heads are perfectly triangular in shape, leaving no room for the foes attacking them. And the most striking thing is the pair of large jaws on their mouths, like two full moon scimitars, which are both damaging and flexible. They are all professional fighting machines.

For a long time, slave ants have evolved to build nests, raise children, and even feed themselves. Although the scimitar-like mouth is invincible on the battlefield, it is unable to eat normally.

In general, each slave owner needs to have 3 slaves to serve him, and one to feed him; one groom it (the slave ant's own salivary glands have long since atrophied); One clears the excrement (otherwise too much accumulation will corrode the carapace).

The saddest fate of these fierce warriors was to be abandoned by slaves. At this time, they must immediately find a new target nest, and if they do not find it in a short time, these brave slave ants will even freeze to death or starve to death.

Slave ants tend to target small or medium-sized black, termite or yellow ant nests.

Their plundering methods are also very diverse.

Before snatching ants, they had to send scouts out to reconnoiter to see where they could get slaves, and they never fought unprepared battles.

When the scout found the black ant to be robbed, he hurried back to the nest to report to the queen ant, if the size of the slave ant is still small, the queen ant will personally lead a large group of subordinates to kill the target nest.

When the guardian of the target nest detects an enemy attacking, they will defend their home to the death. When the fierce battle between the two sides is inseparable. The slave ant queen will deliberately be surrounded, and then suddenly pretend to fall to the ground and die.

When the target ants drag the dead slave queen into the anthill and offer it to their own queen as a major trophy, they fall for the slave queen's trick.

When the soldier ants retreat, and only the slave ant queen and the target queen are left in the anthill, the former will immediately get up and pounce on and kill the target queen like a hungry tiger.

Then, the slave ant queen will desperately bite the corpse of the target queen, constantly licking her wounds in order to absorb the chemical pheromones from her body into herself.

In this way, the slave ant queen has the chemical information of the target queen, and she pretends to be the target queen ant to give orders. So, the battle immediately stopped, and as if brainwashed, the black ants and workers regarded their original enemies as their own, and approached the slave ant queen and began to serve her.

In addition to this strategy of outwitting more with less, slave ants often storm the nest of the target ant in order to plunder the slaves.

When the Scouts find a target, the Slave Ant Reinforcements will surround the target's stronghold. At this point, the frightened worker ants of the target nest will try to dig other escape exits to get the eggs to safety. The slave ants are blocked in front of each exit, forcing the worker ants to put down the ant eggs and ant chrysalis they are carrying.

Slave ants only kill ants that do not obey orders. When the war is over and the slave ants occupy the target nest, they force the surviving workers to move their eggs to their territory to continue to care for them. The hatchling may become a loyal effort.

During each raid, the slaves who had served for a long time would cooperate with the slave ants, and the slaves would hide far away under the weeds, waiting for the slave owners to clear the area. When the slave ants returned triumphantly, the slaves entered the land and became clever housewives, mixing the newly snatched eggs with the old ones, and educating the prisoners of war and their children.

Slave ants also have a quick predatory tactic.

They sent a few slave ants to reconnoitre, and when they found other nests, they rushed in to kill the guards, and then secreted a message hormone from their abdomen, and a large group of slave ants swarmed in, they did not seek to occupy the target nest, but specifically robbed the ant chrysalis, and ran back with one in their mouths.

Interestingly, while the slave ants were invincible in battle, the slaves they plundered sometimes revolted.

It is often the preded adult ants that revolt, and the newly hatched slave ants rarely rebel. Slave rebels would decapitate slave owners and throw their eggs out of their burrows, leaving them to die without a care for them.

Theoretically, a rebellious slave ant would be enough to lead the slaves in an uprising, and it would not be difficult to kill the young of the slave ants. However, the outcome of this revolt seems to have sided with the slave owners, and at least 30% of the slave ants have always survived the Spartacian revolt and continued to plunder.

This scene of a slave revolt is always reminiscent of the Spartacus revolt, and the ant world is so similar to the human world.

In general, the social system of slave keepers was close to slavery, with a class of slave owners who did not produce and a special slave class converted from prisoners of war.

Although the big-headed ant also has occasional captive behavior, it has not yet become a normalization, and slave production has not been regarded as the most basic economic activity.

According to the protagonist's understanding, the kingdom of big-headed ants is still in the civilization stage of the transformation from primitive communes to slavery, and if there are slave ants in this world, then they are naturally more suitable to enter the slave society.

According to the Marxist point of view, the slave society was obviously more advanced than the primitive society. Its productive forces and labor productivity have increased considerably, and social products have begun to have a surplus in addition to the necessities of life.

And the emergence of surplus products will lead to the emergence of a non-productive class, such as slave ants who are only responsible for war, or male ants of the big-headed ant kingdom are actually out of production.

This social division of labor will prepare the conditions for the emergence of private property, which has obviously not yet appeared in the society of the big-headed ant.

"Private ownership", the protagonist silently mutters this magical word.