Chapter 133: The Establishment of a City-State
The queen ant's stomach boiled violently, pulling, pushing, and kicking inside, and the people of the last city-state couldn't wait to be born.
Instead of picking and choosing, she chose a small hole in mud red and black, and decided to establish her city-state here.
The location is actually not bad, there are neither monkey ants, termites, nor the smell of wasps nearby.
However, it seems to smell a little bit of red ant path, pointing out that red ants have visited here.
She tasted the earth, which was full of organic elements, moist enough but not too wet, and a small bush on top of it.
The queen set out to clear a circular site about one meter in diameter, indicating that this was the optimal size of the city.
Exhausted, she tried to regurgitate some food from her stomach, which was already empty.
She had exhausted all her stored energy, so she didn't hesitate to rip off her wings and gobble down the fleshy part of the root.
The energy gained from this can last for a few more days,
Then, the queen ant hid her tentacles deeply.
During this time, she was helpless and could not be discovered by any living being.
She waited, and the city hidden within her slowly woke up.
What should she give the city a name?
First of all, she had to find a queen name for herself.
In the world of ants, having a name is equivalent to having an automatic and spontaneous group.
Worker ants, soldier ants, and male and female ants before mating can only be called each other by the serial number they were born into, and once the female ant is pregnant, on the contrary, she has the right to take a name.
Well! She finally broke through many obstacles and successfully settled here.
Then according to his original name, let's call Su Sanem.
Her home, the future city-state, was called "Su Sancheng".
Empress Su was extremely hungry.
It's not just a single individual, it's the entire city of ants asking for their own rations.
How do you feed the whole group that is hidden deep in your body?
Eventually, she decided to get out of the cave where she spawned.
Laboriously dragging his body and crawling a distance of about a third of a meter, he brought back only three needles, and greedily licked and chewed.
That's not enough.
It would have been nice to find some prey, but she was weak and there were thousands of marauders nearby.
Surrounded by powerful enemies, he is in danger of being hunted.
Therefore, she crouched in the cave and waited quietly for death to come.
On the contrary, an egg is released, her first Su Sancheng citizen! She barely felt it coming.
She moved her numb feet and squeezed her intestines as hard as she could.
It has to be successful, or it's over.
An ant egg rolled out, small, dark gray almost black.
If Empress Su allowed this egg to hatch, the born young ants would not live long, or even ......
She doesn't know if she'll be able to supply enough nutrients until she hatches.
So she opened her mouth and ate her first child.
It is said that the Su San Ant Queen is laying eggs and incubating eggs at this time, working hard to establish her own city-state.
Su San immediately gained an extra stream of heat.
She had one less egg in her abdomen and one more in her stomach.
The sacrifice of the first egg was exchanged for the birth of the second.
Now she felt the strength to give birth to a second, small, grayish egg, exactly like the first.
Empress Su tasted it carefully and felt that her spirit was better.
The third egg was not much better, and she still swallowed it.
It wasn't until the tenth that the queen changed her strategy.
The eggs she lays turn normal gray and are about the size of her eyeballs.
Su San lays three of these eggs, eats one and keeps two, and keeps them warm under his body.
She continued to incubate, and the two older eggs metamorphosed into long-shaped maggots, but on her head was a bitter face that lingered.
They started crying for food.
The calculations get a bit more complicated.
In this way, in a closed cycle, from scratch, when one of the young maggots is larger, the smaller one becomes food for the other.
This is the only way to get the protein it needs to grow into an ant.
But the only remaining maggot was still crying out for hunger, curling its body and wailing, and the feast of its sister's body could not satisfy it.
In the end, Queen Su ate the first child who was about to grow up.
"I have to succeed, I have to succeed." Su San told himself repeatedly.
As soon as she thought of her suffering, she expelled five brighter eggs at once.
She gobbled up two of them, allowing the remaining three to continue to grow.
In this way, killing the child and feeding the child, life continues.
Three steps forward, two steps back, the miserable exercise of life, finally created the first complete adult ant.
Ants are thin and weak, and seem to be mentally retarded due to nutritional deficiencies.
In any case, she finally succeeded in raising her first Su Sancheng people!
For the survival of the domain, the bloody journey of killing the same kind has finally been halfway through.
In the future, this congenitally defective worker ant will be able to bring some food back to the neighborhood:
Insect carcasses, grains, leaves, mushrooms...... And it did.
Su San was finally able to get a normal and adequate diet, and the eggs he laid were bright in color and much stronger, and the egg shells were thick enough to withstand the cold.
The size of the young maggots has also returned to the general standard, and the new generation of newborns will be tall and robust, and they will be the basic backbone of the ant mouth of the three city-states of Su.
As for the first mentally handicapped ant, the task of providing food to the breeder (Su San) was completed, and it died not long after, and the body has been shared by the brothers and sisters.
Since then, all the killing and suffering before the establishment of the city-state has been forgotten.
The three city-states of Su were born.
The city-state slowly grew stronger, and the ant-people of the city-state first built an imperial city.