Generally speaking, the core part is the queen's dwelling and the place where the queen's food is stored, and the outer area is where the eggs are placed and hatched, and then the outer part is the living area of the larvae.

It takes about 300 days to hatch from the beginning of laying eggs, and it takes about two years to grow from larvae to adults, that is to say, a production cycle of the star ant family is three years, and the replacement cycle of the star ant family is about 100 years.

The sensor goes all the way to the center of the ant nest, along the way you can see the star ants that are still crowded into a ball that will block the same road tightly, in this case, the sensor can only detour, although the distant ant queen may not be able to find these small detectors, but the star ants close at hand can find it, even if they don't know what this is, but all the substance, in fact, is their food, in case they eat the sensor, Lin Shu will regret it too late.

It would have taken almost a day for the sensor to walk to this place, and if it was to walk all over again, Lin Shu and the hairball would have to wait for two more days, and the people who were waiting for the news outside would have to be frightened for several days.

After patiently detouring for a long time, something different finally appeared in front of Lin Shu's eyes, which were some spider-like star ants and very small larvae star ants.

"This is the internal nanny star ants, whose job is to transport, care for and hatch star ant eggs, as well as care for the young star ants, which release secretions from their tails. Form a flexible 'support'. The eggs are placed in these trays. You see, here it is. ”

Lin Shu was surprised to look at what looked like a white spherical mushroom growing on the wall of a metal cave, 'Tuo' had a thin stalk, attached to the metal cave wall, the function of this handle was to ease all kinds of forces, from the actual situation, the effect of these stalks was very good, at least after the ant nest suffered such a serious disaster. Not many of these eggs were destroyed.

Even more interesting are the nanny star ants, who attach themselves and their juvenile star ants to the wall with their secretions, like web-weaving spiders.

"Those secretions are good stuff. ”

"Yes, it's much more useful than the flexible safety device on Hope, and if it's large enough, it can even be used as a structural shock device, which is very good for use on Space City. ”

"It seems that there are still a lot of advanced things in the Star Ant Clan! I haven't heard you say anything about it before?"

"Without the mother worm, these things that rely on the production of lower-level star ants can't be made, you let me say. I don't know the ingredients of that thing, I just know how to mix genes. The star ants that come out can produce that kind of thing. ”

Lin Shu smiled: "I don't blame you, I just sigh a little, the Star Ant Clan is worthy of being one of the most powerful cosmic races, and there are many good things." ”

"Hmm. ”

"When you get to this area, you shouldn't be too far away from the queen ant, right?"

"Well, down then is the food warehouse, and after the warehouse area, it should be the queen's territory. ”

"This is," Lin Shu asked, pointing to the big fat and white insects, and asked in surprise.

"The function of transforming star ants is to convert ordinary substances into carbon-based proteins and silicon-based gels, and their recipes are very mixed, and in the absence of substances at all, it is okay to directly feed on the energy condensates secreted by star ants. After eating, they restructure these substances in their bodies and excrete these globulous mixtures on which the mother worm survives and produces. ”

Lin Shu nodded with emotion: "Awesome! It is completely dependent on living things to condense matter, and at the very end, it can actually form a body as strong as a fighting star ant." ”

"Well, actually, the nest itself is made of the secretions of these guys, but this requires another kind of secretion. ”

"A very powerful material refining machine!"

Maoqiu snorted, she was still a little complacent about Lin Shu's feelings.

"There are a lot of these insects transforming star ants, they make so much food, can the mother worm eat it?"

"I must be able to eat it, the mother worm almost keeps eating, and besides, these transformation star ants are not all producing food, many of them are producing materials to repair the nest, I think, this queen ant must be stepping up the production of things that block the door." ”

"Oh, that's what you did back then? I thought it was just a star ant carcass to block the door. ”

"Additional binders and plugging agents are also needed. ”

Lin Shu nodded in understanding, but his eyes kept staring at the small projection he released.

"These working star ants are dedicated to taking care of transforming star ants?"

"They are also responsible for transporting food, and following these star ants that clamp the food, they can reach the mother worm. ”

Lin Shu meeting, the mind moved, the sensor has been quietly attached to the food held on the pincers of a working star ant, this time even the flight is saved, naturally someone will send the sensor to the place it wants to go

On the little asterisk, Nilaya has arranged a shift, but everyone doesn't seem to want to leave, or Nilaya forced to drive away, now in this situation, everyone needs to be calm, and must always maintain a high degree of vigilance, so it is very important to be full of spirit, rest is a must, and it must not be rotated.

At this time, Nilaya's advantages are reflected, even Xiaoxing needs to rest his functional area in shifts, but Nilaya is a model who does not need to rest at all.

"Elder Nilaya, is there any news?"

The voice of Jessie came from the door of the command room before she came in, which shows how eager she is, it is no wonder that Lin Shu's mission this time is really a little frightening, although Nilaya also knows that the risk of the Dao is not great in theory, and it is inevitable that she will be uneasy in her heart, not to mention that she cares about Jessie, and she is also a person who never hides her emotions.

"Not yet, but the lack of news is also good news, indicating that the plan is going well, and if we want to withdraw, Lin Shu will take the initiative to contact us. ”

Jessie smiled reluctantly, "Oh, that's fine. ”

As she spoke, she had already stood beside Nilaya, her eyes carefully looking at the various data on the projection.

The fluctuations of the dragon vein have been completely calmed down, the burden on the small star is already very small, the stability of the anchor is very high, and there is no need to make nonlinear corrections.

In addition, judging from the projection of the real space, the star ants in the ant nest seem to be busy tidying up, they are not in a hurry to get on the road, but are slowly speeding up in a uniform acceleration state, and those lost spearheads need to be replenished, the spearheads sent out also need time to recover, and the queen ant also needs time to readjust the state of the ant nest.

"It seems to be calm, and the more it is, the more successful Lin Shu's action is. ”

"Well, I know that you have to catch the queen quietly and replace it with a hairball, the calmer the better. ”

Niraya smiled beautifully: "Don't worry, the danger of this mission is really not as high as you think, didn't the furball say, even if you can control a large number of subordinates at the same time, but the spirit of the queen ant is always consumed by daily affairs, so the internal vigilance of the ant nest is much lower than the outside." ”

"Well, I know that I know you, thank you, Nilaya, fortunately, you are here!"

"Isn't that what I'm worth? ”

"Hee-hee, I know it, I'm going to pour tea for everyone, everyone has worked hard. ”

After Jieqian finished speaking, she turned around and walked out, but Lan Yi had already come in with tea, and Jieqian greeted her, sent the teacups to the work one by one, and said a few words to everyone with a smile, trying to relieve everyone's nervousness

"It's been seventy hours, and sure enough, as you said, the level of vigilance inside the nest is much lower. ”

"Because I've never been hacked into an ant-nest, I don't think she would either. ”

Lin Shu nodded: "Therefore, group living is the best environment for wisdom growth, and the experience does not necessarily need to be experienced by oneself one by one." ”

Hairballs naturally agree with this sentence.

"Master, the probe is about to enter the living space of the mother worm. ”

The scene on the projection has changed, no longer the butt of a working star ant in the front, the head of a working star ant in the back, surrounded by black walls.

The passage suddenly opened, and the sensor entered an open space, and a huge female worm appeared in front of Lin Shu and the hairball, and above the body of this female worm, a hairball that looked exactly like the hairball was busy working, because her body hair was standing upright like a dandelion, and it was constantly shaking, forming a very wonderful wave.

Lin Shu saw this situation when the hairball was fully analyzing the data, and he had to admit that the hairball used body hair to distract the method of manipulating the mind was simple and effective, in fact, the hairball could not divide the mind into so many parts, but it could be classified and processed, and the rapid classification and grouping was the secret of the hairball's powerful distraction ability.

However, it is really a complicated task to deal with this huge ant nest by one person, and the queen ant is really busy and hard, so the queen's management ability is not as strong as Lin Shu imagined. On the contrary, in fact, the management of the queen ant seems relatively sloppy, in a sense, the queen ant is not as strong as Xiaoyu's ability, because Xiaoyu can continue to increase her processing power, as long as she increases the data core and spirit, but the queen ant only has one brain.

Lin Shu carefully observed the situation of the mother worm's nest, in addition to the working star ants coming in and out, there are only dozens of communication star ants on one side, not even a protected battle star ant, the hardest 'shell' of the star ant clan is on the periphery, but the core place is almost completely undefended, Lin Shu can't help but feel that he has made a fuss before, in fact, relying on his own speed, even if he rushes in regardless of it, the queen ant may not have time to mobilize troops to intercept.

"Furball, is there a problem?"

"Nope!"

"Very good, get ready to act, this ant nest will be yours soon!teleport!" (To be continued......)