Laws of the Insect Hive

Picking up two tiny ant eggs with his tentacles, and then picking out one, System got another female ant egg.

What System was playing with was not the ant eggs of Queen Linda, but the ant eggs that he had caught a few queens in Warren Plain.

System's research on flying ants has always been in his heart.

Because of the need to migrate to the abyss, System also sent the four different species of queen ants that he captured to the half-plane, and they were taken care of and fed by Black.

It was not until recently that his ant people returned from the demi-plane that the four ant queens were able to come to the abyss for him to continue his research.

It's a pity that the environment of the abyss is somewhat different from the main world. After these four ant queens arrived, three died because of the soil and water within two days. Even the Druid's [healing power] did not save the lives of these ants. .

As a result, of the four queens, only one survived.

Similarly, some of System's ant people who did not enter the second pupation also showed symptoms of acclimatization, became lethargic, and finally died.

However, after the second pupation of Queen Linda, the ant eggs produced generally have a good physique, and only a dozen of the more than 400 adult ants died. After that, the ants returned to normal.

As for the remaining more than 500 ants that have completed the second pupation, they have not been affected by the changes in the environment.

In other words, the humid and warm climate at this level of the abyss makes the ants very comfortable, and the ants quickly adapt to the environment here, and then start to get busy.

Some worker ants help excavators to clean up the underground floating island, while others go out to hunt and store food.

System did not let the ants immediately attack the large prey, but only hunted down the very common mosquitoes, tadpoles in the swamp, and pupated larvae within the territory of Meatball.

Although mosquitoes in the abyss are very aggressive, ants are born with strong carapaces. These mosquitoes attack ants and undoubtedly send themselves to the table.

The only thing that can threaten the ants are the mosquitoes and insects that are ten to thirty centimeters in length. However, once such mosquitoes and insects appear, the soldier ant knights nearly half a meter high will rush forward.

If there are no soldier ant knights nearby, these 10-centimeter-sized worker ant knights will also cooperate with each other to fight against mosquitoes and beasts.

Mosquito worms only have a slightly hard needle, and under the siege of several worker ant knights, they basically have no fighting ability.

Just like ordinary mosquitoes cannot defeat ants, mosquito worms are not a threat to ants, even if these mosquito worms are larger than worker ant knights.

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Through these days of observation and statistics, System found that out of the more than 500 giant ants and ant knights that had pupated for the second time, about 50 of them had mastered special abilities.

In fact, when he was in the Warren Plains, System discovered that a dozen or so ant knights who had pupated twice had mastered special abilities.

But at that time System had been preparing for the abyss, so he didn't pay too much attention to the abilities of the ants.

After these days of detailed observations, System found that the abilities mastered by the fifty ants were all very close, and they were basically related to the manipulation of airflow.

Send a breeze; release a strong airflow; launch wind bombs for bombardment; use the airflow to float the body; control the wind to form a rotation to form a cyclone...

Ants' ability to manipulate airflow varies, but all are inseparable from airflow.

By inquiring and communicating with these ants, System also learned that the sound of the world that these ants heard during the second pupation seemed to be somewhat different from that of him, Shava, and Black.

It can be said that these ants did not really hear the voice of the world, nor were they truly empowered by the will of the world, but only awakened the bloodline that Queen Linda gave them.

That is to say, after the second pupation, Queen Linda, who still doesn't know what kind of ability she has mastered, actually gained the ability to control the airflow, that is, the ability to control the wind.

All the second pupation has not stimulated the ability of the ants in the body, and in fact all they have mastered are the ability of the wind.

Although this way, the ants would not have a variety of abilities, but in this way, System also clearly learned that the ability that the ants possess is the wind.

By letting the ants that can use the ability use the ability near the ants that cannot use the ability, the ants who could not master the ability in the body will gradually master the ability to control the airflow.

In fact, for the past few days, there are two or three ants that pupate twice a day, so they gain this ability to manipulate airflow.

But in fact, the ants' ability to acquire these wind-related abilities has little obvious effect.

Among the many ants, only one worker ant knight has a unique talent for controlling airflow. It can suspend its body and float freely by manipulating the airflow, and it can also launch compressed air bombs that can explode.

Whether it is the strength or weakness of the ability, or the degree of control of the ability, it is dozens of times that of other ants.

System also gave this talented ant rider a name—Jet.

In terms of the degree of ability to use, the jet is even more proficient than the original excavator.

It's just that this ability to manipulate wind is far less practical than the ability of an excavator, and System doesn't know what to do with the jet.

For now, the jet can only use its air cannons to fight mosquitoes outside.

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After eating the harvested common ant eggs, System transferred the newly obtained female ant eggs to a relatively safe place in the room.

Because of his low intelligence and the fact that the queen has been imprisoned by System, the queen's mood has become a little confused.

If System didn't transfer the eggs, the queen would eat the eggs she produced after a while.

After binding the queen's legs with a string of plant fibers, System left the stone building on the underground floating island with Jess the snail.

The snail Jess, who followed behind System, also complimented: "Congratulations to Your Majesty for obtaining another special ant egg."

In fact, the snail didn’t know why System collected these ant eggs until now, let alone the idea that System wanted to study flying ants.

Hearing the snail's compliment, System was noncommittal, grabbed the snail Jace and continued to travel along the stone passage inside the floating island.

The snail's crawling speed is too slow.

After these days of excavating the underground floating island, System has learned more about the appearance of the floating island, and has already transferred his lair to this underground structure.

The entire floating island is circular, and there is a huge blue crystal in the center of the floating island, which is the one that the original shadow failed to activate.

There are many stone buildings on the surface of the floating island. Most of these buildings have been damaged and buried in the soil, and the excavator cannot clean them up in a short time.

However, after these days of excavation, the excavator found a lot of space inside the floating island.

That's why System moved his lair to this underground floating island.

Apart from the fact that it is more than a thousand meters away from the ground, it is very inconvenient to go to the ground. System is very satisfied with the large and square slate passage of the floating island.

And because of the magical candles from the demi-planes, these channels are already full of light and look good...