Chapter 011: The Beginning of the Kingdom
The Domination Throne is indeed an imitation of the ant king.
The 'eggs' produced by the Throne of Domination are exactly the same as the eggs produced by the female Ant Queen.
The larvae hatched from the eggs belong to the 'semi-Force life', which can eat and grow, develop rapidly, and look like one day a day.
The dragon cypress carved words on the stone wall to record the time.
The first two eggs lasted 38 days, and the larvae grew from centimeters to two or three centimeters in length.
The 'producer' is the first to spin the silk and form a cocoon.
Two days later, the 'Guardian' also cocooned and entered the final stage of development.
At the same time, the dragon cypress uses a 5-day cycle to continuously generate ant eggs through the 'messenger' function of the Throne of Domination.
At present, there are 2 ant eggs and 6 larvae of different sizes in the hatchery.
The cypress spends most of its time in the hatchery, taking turns feeding the larvae, and at the same time, by vibrating the membranous wings, the body is constantly heating up and raising the temperature of the nest.
Giant ants like moisture, and occasionally need to go out to fetch water and sprinkle it in the hatchery.
Temperature and humidity are key to the rapid development of ant eggs and larvae.
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"Long Bai, has another larva formed a cocoon?"
Mo Lan came to the ant nest in the middle of the morning to report, helped hunt on the way, and placed a frog corpse at the mouth of the ant nest hole.
During this season, the frog hibernates in a cave, and I don't know where it came from.
Mo Lan seems to have a deep grudge against the frog.
Long Bai has been eating frog meat for more than fifty days in a row.
Cypress: "Yes. Not surprisingly, it will be a full-time fighting soldier ant. ”
Mo Lan: "Soldier ants? But it looks so small. In my inherited memory, the Giant Ant Clan can create soldier ants that are even bigger than the Ant King. ”
Longbai: "Yes......"
Mo Lan: "Then you can use the ant eggs produced by the Throne of Domination, can you do it?" ”
Long Bai: "I'm trying, and it seems to be working." ”
The giant head ant is the most differentiated ant family.
At the current 5th instar stage, the dragon cypress has awakened 7 kinds of inherited memories that control the differentiation of worker ants with pheromones.
They are small worker ants, medium worker ants, and large worker ants; Small soldier ants, medium soldier ants, large soldier ants, and specialized soldier ants.
Junior warriors of the 6th to 9th age stage, each time they evolve from sleep, they will also awaken the corresponding inheritance memories one after another.
Without pheromone interference, the breed is a medium-sized worker ant or a medium-sized soldier ant, and the current two cocoons are 'medium-sized'.
The dragon cypress is using pheromone control to try to breed specialized soldier ants and small worker ants.
With an effect, there is a clear differentiation in the larval stage.
Specialized soldier ants are huge, so they feed a lot and the larvae grow quickly, but the development cycle is prolonged.
Small worker ants are small in size, which is manifested by less feeding, and the larvae grow slowly, but the development cycle will be shortened.
According to a preliminary estimate, it will take more than 60 days to start from the egg and grow into a specialized soldier ant.
It may only take about 30 days to raise a small worker ant.
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"Long Bai, when can we explore the starship?"
Mo Lan asked.
Dragon Cypress has reaped the benefits, and is looking forward to exploring the starship as well.
But this is not in a hurry.
Long Bai pondered and said, "Recently, the weather has begun to warm up, and spring is coming. Mo Lan, do you have the seed of life to be sown? ”
Mo Lan: "Yes. I bred a Xuelan life seed when I was a junior warrior at the age of 8, but it was a little late, and I didn't have time to plant it. ”
"I also have a cypress seed that I plan to plant this spring."
Long Bai: "Let's plant it as soon as possible to protect it through the most fragile seedling stage, and then it should be about the same, and we can go." ”
"That's right! We still have to take care of the life species, it's very busy in the spring......" Mo Lan said distressedly, thinking about it, and said:
"Then it may not be summer until you go."
Mo Lan asked again, "What about the caravan?" ”
Long Bai: "Do we have any goods that we can trade with the caravan?" ”
"Nope." Mo Lan: "But let's go over and have a look." ”
Long Bai readily agreed: "Let's go over and have a look when the time comes." ”
"Yay!"
Mo Lan cheered with joy.
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On consecutive sunny days, the temperature on the south side of the mountain range is rising steadily, maintaining a relatively comfortable level.
After 5 days, the third larva formed a cocoon.
Two days later, the first 'medium-sized worker ants' to form cocoons were the first to break out of their cocoons.
The body length is more than 3 cm.
Without wings!
It is no different from the worker ants bred by the female ant queen.
Seeing this, Long Bai calmed down.
The first worker ant was born, fed to replenish his physical energy, and after a day of recuperation and development, he immediately threw himself into his work: taking care of the eggs and larvae
Long Bai has the first right-hand man.
Soon, the first 'medium-sized soldier ant' broke out of its cocoon, and its body length was just over 3 centimeters.
Compared with worker ants, soldier ants have much smaller abdomen, large heads, well-developed jaws, sharp hook shapes, and X staggered after full bite.
The small abdomen is used to run faster, and the well-developed jaws are used as combat weapons.
The dragon cypress rummaged through the rocks and caught a live cricket.
First wave the tentacles to give the soldiers the hunting order and let go of the crickets.
Crickets jumped and fled.
The soldier ant rushed out, locked the cricket's landing position, and charged violently, striking with lightning in both jaws, biting the cricket, firmly clamping it, and exerting force......
The hunt was easily completed, and the corpse returned to the dragon cypress.
Seeing this, Long Bai was very satisfied, his previous worries were completely unnecessary.
The soldier ants bred with the help of the Domination Throne are exactly the same as the soldier ants bred by the female ant king, with the same appearance, the same combat power, and the same command and control.
Long Bai arranged his first soldier ant at the entrance of the cave.
The ant nest has combat guards, and there are working worker ants, which has a little bit of an ant country.
Within two days, a third small worker ant broke out of its cocoon, only about 1.5 cm long, and was still arranged in the hatchery room, responsible for taking care of the eggs and larvae.
The fourth and fifth small worker ants were born one after another, and the work in the hatchery was entirely carried out by three small worker ants, which was more suitable for small size.
A second medium-sized worker ant is born.
At present, there are two medium-sized worker ants, and after thinking about it, Long Bai took precautions and dug up the rocks to open a second hatchery by himself, while the two medium-sized worker ants were responsible for carrying the gravel.
There is also a medium-sized soldier ant, which stands at the entrance of the cave in a daze every day, and also beckons over to help carry the gravel......
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Large worker ants were born, with a body length of about 5 centimeters, and Long Bai Duo had a powerful helper.
As expected, the eggs hatched larvae, larvae grew and pupated, and the pupa emerged, and it took a total of 58 days for the whole development to develop.
At this time, after growing to a body length of more than 10 cm, the larvae of the specialized soldier ants finally spit out silk and form cocoons and enter the final stage of feathering.
"Dragon Cypress!"
"It's time to eat!"
"Wow! What a big cocoon, are your specialized soldier ants about to feather? ”
From outside the nest came Mo Lan's amazing spiritual thoughts.
The dragon stopped working and ran out of the nest.
"Yes, it just formed a cocoon last night. According to my estimates, the emergence-period of specialized soldier ants is about 10 to 15 days. ”
It's raining outside the cave and the temperature is dropping a bit.
Today's food is frogs again.
Long Bai shook his tentacles and gave an order to arrange for the three worker ants that ran out to decompose the food.
"Mo Lan, hard work."
Long Bai thought of remote manipulation, and the throne of domination placed in the bedroom quickly shrank and flew out.
The volley levitates in the air, expands and does not stop until it is about one meter in diameter.
Mo Lan jumped lightly and jumped on the seat first.
Long Bai flapped his wings and flew up.
Immediately, the top of the throne backrest released its original energy, forming a colorless and transparent shield that kept the rain out.
This is a new feature that was discovered only a few days ago, and both Long Bai and Mo Lan are very curious, and they are stunned to watch the rain slide down.
Mo Lan came back to his senses and asked, "Long Bai, how high can the Dominion Throne fly?" ”
Long Bai: "Seems to be able to fly very high...... I don't know, I haven't tried. ”
Mo Lan: "Can you fly above the clouds?" What's inside the clouds? ”
Long Bai seconds understood what it meant.
"There is thunder and lightning in the clouds. If it is triggered, we will be killed by lightning. ”
"Can the Throne protect us?"
"Most likely, it will protect us. However, if we can't, or can't protect it, then wouldn't we ......?"
"Then we'll be chopped to death. You can't risk your life indifferently. ”
Mo Lan knew what Long Bai was going to say next, and hurriedly finished the second half of the sentence, and changed his words to a serious point:
"In my experience in previous years, this is the first rain of spring, and after the rain comes spring. Dragon cypress, you can sow seeds. ”
"My Syranny seed has been planted! Hurry up, too. ”