139 Secret Cultivation
"It's hard to say. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info" Professor Qin's expression was gloomy, "We know too little about giant ants. ”
"What then, watch it starve to death?" Xu Jiaye's tone suddenly became extremely stiff, and his eyes shot a dissatisfied.
"The safest way is to simulate the natural environment for it, let it lay eggs and hatch normally, cultivate a few worker ants, we feed the worker ants directly, and then let the worker ants feed the queen." "This is the safest and safest solution. ”
"Are you sure?" Xu Jiaye asked worriedly, "Old Qin, how important this queen ant is, I don't need to say that you also know it, this matter has alarmed the Northern Capital, and you and I can't afford to take this responsibility if something goes wrong!" ”
"It's a big deal." "The first number of eggs laid by the queen ant will not be very large, and we plan to take the excess eggs and leave only a few for it, and concentrate resources on ensuring that it breeds a few worker ants first," Professor Qin said. ”
"That's a good idea." Xu Jiaye nodded, "Elder Qin, the stakes are very high, I will live here for the past few days, waiting for your good news!" ”
"No problem!"
"Also, can I take a look at it? I'll have to report back to Beidu, and it's best to take two more photos. ”
Professor Qin shook his head slowly but firmly: "The queen ant is now in a simulated underground environment, and the light may cause her to be alert. ”
"What about the daytime? Tomorrow during the day! Xu Jiaye asked unwillingly.
"It's dark under the ground during the day, what do you say?" Professor Qin replied with a soft nail, and Xu Jiaye had no temper at all.
This queen ant is a baby bump in the eyes of the high-level officials of the Northern Capital at the moment, and whoever dares to fight it will affect the plan formulated by the Northern Capital, and it will definitely not end well.
Ye Han didn't know what was happening in the research institute, and when he got up the next day, he still entered the ant-occupied area as usual, and continued to capture raw materials for the train factory, but every time he went back and forth, he would stare at the research institute with resentful eyes.
The research institute is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, all research has stopped, and all the limited resources are concentrated on the queen ant, and the researcher of the good thing actually gave it a nice name: Yiyi!
There is no way to verify who came up with this name, most people think that Yiyi is a homonym for ants, but because the pronunciation is a little off the hook because of the excessive calling, it has become Yiyi.
So Yiyi unknowingly became the official code name of the queen ant, and even wrote it into the research institute's document report and listened to the heavens.
Yiyi laid a total of more than 20 eggs the size of goose eggs, but Professor Qin took more than half of them, leaving only seven for it.
Perhaps because young Yiyi was inexperienced, or perhaps it was the loss of six legs that made it feel in danger, and three greedy young soldier ants were actually bred out of the seven ant eggs!
Fortunately, the researchers intervened in time after discovering the abnormality of the three young ants, removing the young soldier ants from the "nest", leaving only the worker ants with Yiyi.
With the careful help of the researchers, the four offspring were fed with difficulty, and the four small worker ants gradually grew, but in just one week, the body length doubled.
The research team thought that the worker ants had to grow up to hunt out of the nest, but the small worker ants showed the desire to forage for food when they were just the size of a palm. Hope.
Professor Qin adjusted the cultivation plan in time and tried to put some ant meat into the nest, but the four small worker ants did not hesitate to drag the meat back to the nest, tear up the meat pieces and feed them back to the queen.
The sky is pitiful, the disabled ant queen Yiyi finally waited for the day when she raised her eyebrows, and the abundant meat made Yiyi recover quickly, and laid dozens of ant eggs in a row a few days later.
Professor Qin and his research team immediately stepped in to take care of the second batch of eggs, hatch and raise the second batch of worker ants.
The research team carefully used pheromones to influence the hatching of ant eggs, creating the illusion that the ant colony was very strong and the number of worker ants was large, and confusing Yiyi in order to control the size of the ant colony.
Unexpectedly, this move unexpectedly cultivated a batch of flying ants!
The news quickly spread throughout the research team, and the first reaction of everyone who heard the news was disbelief, the second reaction was that it was all impossible, and the third reaction was that you lied to me.
However, when the facts were in front of them, the entire research group instantly boiled.
What is most important in an ant colony?
Queen!
What is the core of an ant colony?
Or the queen ant!
Where do ant colonies come from?
Still the queen ant!
If you master the queen ant, you will master the ant colony, and the male and female flying ants with wings are precisely the key to the appearance of the queen ant!
These flying ants immediately received the best care, and a group of researchers forgot to sleep and eat, and pounced in the "ant nest" 24 hours a day, eager to learn to transform into giant ants on the spot, and drill holes with the ant colony to forage for food and take care of the queen ants.
Flying ants belong to the aristocratic class that cannot be carried on their shoulders and cannot be carried by their hands, and must be fed by worker ants, and there is a shortage of worker ants in the mini ant nest of the institute, and under normal conditions, dozens of worker ants can never support dozens of flying ants.
Fortunately, there are also researchers who put in the bait in time, and the worker ants do not have to spend a lot of time going out to forage for food, as long as they crawl out of the hole to carry a large amount of food back to the nest, all the time saved is used to take care of the delicate flying ants, and finally barely feed the hungry flying ants.
The competition within the flying ants is very fierce, in less than half a month, there are only about a dozen of dozens of flying ants left, and the rest are all eliminated in the process of growth.
It may be that the simpler the creature, the faster it grows, but in the early month, nine males have grown to more than two meters long, and the average length of six females is close to three meters, which is almost the same as the queen.
Professor Qin was so anxious that he almost used hormones to stimulate the rapid maturity of the flying ants, and finally endured it for forty days, and more than a dozen giant ants finally crawled out of the nest.
The research team didn't dare to let them go to the sky at all, so they simply acted as matchmakers to pair up with flying ants, locked up in pairs, and then rotated the groom for the princesses after mating.
I don't know why, Professor Qin suddenly felt that he was a pimp, or a pimp for bugs.
A few hours later, the research team obtained six wingless quasi-ants, and the news reached the northern capital, and the high-level officials of the northern capital instantly boiled.
When there is only one queen ant, mastering the queen ant is equivalent to mastering the colony is just an empty word, because as long as there is a problem with Yiyi, the colony will immediately lose its foundation.
With these six queens, it is equivalent to locking six insurances for the insect control plan, and there is no need to be afraid of the queen ant because there is only one queen in his hand.
Beidu immediately issued an urgent instruction, requiring the institute to take full care of the six new ants, and at the same time, the giant insect control center was expanded to establish a giant ant research institute based on the research institute, of which the general institute is responsible for administrative affairs and does not carry out research and cultivation of giant ants; The institute has seven branches, each of which is responsible for the cultivation of a queen ant and the cultivation of ant colonies on a small scale, laying the foundation for the insect control program.