On a rugged mountain road, an old Hongyan bicycle is racing at a speed far beyond its design capabilities.

In the car seat, a strange picture from a horror movie is being staged - in the front seat, a man is holding the handlebar, revealing a hideous and uninhibited laugh against the wind that can barely open his eyes; In the back seat, a woman in white in ancient costume was stubbornly holding the back of the man in front of her, and a pale bloodless face loomed in her messy black hair.

The Hongyan brand bicycle rushed down the long slope, flashed the sharp bend, splashed the water caused by the occasional showers in the mountains on the side of the road, and cooperated with the cheap talk and laughter, so angry that the uncle and aunt who sat on the roadside at the door of several farmhouses and smoked and set up stalls to chat and fart left a stinking sentence with dirty words behind their backs.

Fortunately, Xiaoqian can't be seen by anyone other than Zhong Heng now, otherwise they won't be able to scold when they see this "ghost on the body" scene.

The way back was much easier than when I came because it was all downhill, and the cool evening mountain breeze dissipated the fatigue of the day.

Today's harvest is not abundant, with more than 30 litters of yellow lynx ants, ranging from dozens to thousands; More than 300 evolution fragments; the two loyal golden-ringed wasp guards who have been successfully controlled; There is also a litter of more than 300 "reserves" who have just moved to the side of the national highway and are ready to move home next time.

"Seeing that 1-kilometer downhill, let's rush down it!"

"Be careful, if you fall and get injured, don't say anything, the next pack of harvest will be gone!"

"Don't worry, I've been playing this trick since I was 8 years old, and this old bike is very sturdy and doesn't fall apart so easily. Let's talk ...... again."

"You don't have a physical entity right now, and you're afraid of being thrown out? Haha, sit tight! ”

"Ahh

As the bicycle accelerated to almost 50 kilometers per hour, it rushed down the mountain, and the excitement of extreme speed made Zhong Heng and Xiaoqian feel weightless like a roller coaster.

In less than an hour, Zhongheng returned to the tube building where he lived.

After sorting out today's harvest, the exhausted Zhong Heng hastily took a shower and collapsed on the bed.

"Don't call me tomorrow, let me sleep until I wake up naturally."

When I fell asleep and opened my hazy sleepy eyes again, it was already one o'clock the next day.

"What time is it?!"

"It's half past one, lazy!"

"A little...... Ah, so late...... When did you get in?! Didn't you say I wasn't allowed to come in while I was sleeping? ”

"You ask me what time it is, of course I'm in, and besides, you're not naked, what are you afraid of!"

"Don't BB, I have to get to work, why don't you show me while I'm sleeping...... Oh, forgot, you don't have a physical ...... right now."

In a panic, Zhong Heng hurriedly opened the laptop that had been with him for nearly 5 years, and the roar of the machine brought by the boot was like the breath of this old guy who was over-aged, heralding the beginning of busyness.

Sure enough!

opened the Taobao store, boarded the QQ account, WeChat account, and a bunch of accounts of various messy insect forums, and finally found that it had been crowded with all kinds of information.

"Damn, 30 a yellow queen, a liar, right?"

"Is the landlord still there, bring me 10 new queens!"

"I want a litter of 300 workers!"

"Is it there? I didn't buy it anywhere else! ”

"I want it, anything else?"

"Let's disperse, the landlord has gone to the worship room!"

"Hello, where are you, how much is the postage, if it all adds up to less than 1000 yuan, I will cover it all......"

Large and small orders, as well as all kinds of questionable information, according to this posture, all the yellow ants that have been negotiated this time can not only sell them all, but I am afraid that the final balance will have to bear at least 20 orders.

All combined, nearly 20,000 income! And it's net income!

Looking at the dense information, Zhongheng was so excited that he wanted to cry, and sure enough, this price war was very successful, and the yellow ant market, which had no fluctuations, was forced from a buyer's market to a seller's market belonging to Zhongheng!

Of course, now is not the time to be happy, after all, the money has not yet been credited, while excitedly tapping on the keyboard to answer a dizzying number of questions, Zhong Heng used the tired spirit that has not fully recovered to open the ability of insect manipulation again.

He wants to do something that countless insect friends can't think of - let the ants be artificially reproduced!

The reason why ants have not been able to reproduce artificially is entirely because of their unique mating patterns.

This type of mating is called "marriage flying".

As a female ant for breeding, the male ant has wings when it first emerges into adulthood. During the breeding season, they will fly out of the nest to find mates, on the one hand, to obtain fresh genes to prevent genetic degradation caused by inbreeding, and on the other hand, to expand the living space of the race and find new habitats.

When the male and female ants in heat meet, they will start mating, and all the mating process is done in the air, and their "lingering and fluttering" range can even reach several kilometers in diameter. In order to prevent encountering male ants with "infertility" who need to be seen by the andrology, the ants are mated in chaotic group marriages in order to obtain more high-quality sperm cells, which will be stored in the queen's butt until the queen dies.

Therefore, in the spring and summer, when ants are breeding, you can often see countless male and female ants mixed in the sky in the evening when there is a lack of predators, starting a spectacular "**" air battle.

Such harsh breeding conditions naturally make insurmountable mountains block the road of artificial breeding ants: where to get so many male and female ants, where to find such a large breeding ground, where to pick up the mated queens who are only centimeters long, how to ensure that they will mate......

But these are the same as the previous collection, for the final balance is not a problem, not to mention in the breeding season, that is, in the cold winter wax moon such as the non-breeding season, the final balance only needs to use the simplest of the three control modes to manipulate, the next "mating" command, you can let the ants in the square inch of the sorting box to reproduce successfully.

Open the jars one by one, Zhongheng first uses puppets to manipulate and control one or two worker ants to send out information such as "unmated male and female ants are out of the queue", and then catch the male and female ants who fly out one by one with flapping their wings, give a "mating" command in contact, and finally throw them into a plastic sorting box with a length of more than one meter.

The society of ants is a matriarchal society, the queen ant is a fully developed, female who can give birth after mating, worker ants, and soldier ants are all non-developing females, and they can hardly lay eggs after being stimulated by the special pheromones secreted by the queen ant, of course, even if they can, they can only lay unfertilized eggs commonly known as "vegetative eggs".

These unfertilized eggs can also hatch into males of the opposite sex that are different from them, i.e., males with only half chromosomes and almost free from the mainstream society of ants.

As a haploid organism that lacks the other half of its chromosomes, males are like incomplete failures compared to females.

They are thin and short, not even half the size of the largest queen in the nest, and some species of ants have males that are even one-tenth the size of the queen. Lacking half of the genetic code, not only do they look more like mosquitoes than ants, but they are also underdeveloped – many species of ants have males that pupate and do not even have mouthparts to eat and a complete digestive system, and can only starve to death and die of exhaustion after the stored organisms in the larval stage are exhausted.

The sole purpose of the male ant's existence is to fly out during the breeding season to mate, pass on the lineage, and finally die after exhausting the energy in the body.

These vegetative eggs are only hatched in large quantities during the breeding season, and they are a dessert for the females during the non-breeding season, especially during the long winter months.

Fortunately, it is the breeding season, there has been no mating, there are many queens commonly known as "princess queens", and there are more male ants used as cannon fodder, and there are more tossing until the evening, and the ground of the sorting box is covered with a thick layer of "****" male ant corpses, and there are more than 200 mating yellow lynx ants who folded their wings after completing mating, and crawled in panic on the translucent ground that they could not understand.

After working until one o'clock in the middle of the night, he closed his laptop and fell asleep to save up his energy for the next day, which would be even busier:

Packing, shipping, collection......