Laws of the Insect Hive

In a gravel pile near the Soldier Ant Dasha's lair, System collected food on a sunken stone block, and then secreted [Corrosive Slime] onto the food.

Ever since he discovered that Dasha can dispatch ordinary worker ants, System no longer has to worry about getting food, and no longer has to work hard to snatch ants every day.

He just needs to sit back and wait for nearly a hundred worker ants to carry food from the ant's nest as his free labor.

Now it was no longer the time it took to snatch an ordinary ant, but the speed at which System was eating.

After all, he can't swallow the prey directly like a snake.

Eating by chewing will undoubtedly waste a lot of his time.

The solution System came up with was to use his [Corrosive Mucus] to digest the food in vitro, and then he could save him a lot of time by simply ingesting the half-digested food with all his strength.

[Corrosive Mucus] After several upgrades, the amount of mucus that can secrete is enough to help him complete his in vitro digestion.

Although secreting [corrosive mucus] and recycling it will have some consumption, but with worker ants transporting almost unlimited food, these losses are basically ignored.

The only thing System was worried about was that these different insect carcasses and some mushrooms were mixed with the slime, and the taste would become strange.

Fortunately, System tried it later and found that it was not the case.

The taste structure of grasshoppers is completely different from that of humans. After swallowing these liquid systems, they did not feel any peculiar smell. Instead, they felt very delicious, with a feeling of mixing fruity yogurt.

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After sucking on the mucus to make his abdomen swell a little, System began to brainwash a few ant eggs brought by the soldier ant Dasha.

The eggs of this black-brown ant are translucent white, slightly yellowish, about three millimeters in size, and faintly exude an acidic odor unique to ants.

Several ant eggs have different degrees of hatching. Some of them can see the outline of the new ant larvae inside through the outer layer of gelatin, and it is estimated that they will hatch in a short time; while others do not form a solid body of larvae. There is still a long way to go before the ants hatch.

System used [Teleportation] to communicate mentally with these ant eggs.

Unlike ant larvae, this ant egg can convey to him the intimacy of returning to its mother's body as long as his [mental transmission] is slightly connected.

The farther away from the hatching time, the more intimate the emotions produced by the eggs, but the weaker the mental power they feedback.

And if it is the kind of worm eggs that have just been laid by the queen, and the larvae in the worm eggs are completely unformed, it will not have any effect on System's [Teleportation]. Obviously, these worm eggs are like plants. Without any thinking.

Those worm eggs that are about to hatch, after being hypnotized by System for six or seven minutes, they will see through System’s lies, and then, like ordinary adult ants, they will forever regard System as an enemy.

The eggs that have been hatched for a longer time can be deceived by System for a longer time. After a full ten minutes, they will realize that System is not their kind.

And it's not the same as the eggs that are about to hatch into larvae.

This kind of distance from hatching some bug eggs will not permanently treat System as an enemy.

As long as it regards System as an enemy, System continues to use [Teleportation] to appease, and after a while, they will believe that System is their queen again.

Of course, after a certain period of time, they would find that System was not of the same kind.

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After brainwashing the ant eggs repeatedly, after a whole day, System gradually figured out the rules of brainwashing these worm eggs.

By continuing to communicate with [mental transmission], these worm eggs believe that his time has been significantly extended, and the degree and time of doubting him gradually decrease.

If he continued to perform [mental transmission] on the worm eggs according to this trend, System speculated that in about three days, he would be able to completely subdue a worm egg and turn it into an existence like a soldier ant.

Although this method successfully realized System's vision, and it should not be a problem to continuously collect hundreds of ants, this result obviously did not satisfy System.

The efficiency of brainwashing these worm eggs with [Teleportation] is too low. He must keep an eye on these worm eggs. Once these worm eggs are suspicious of his birth, he needs to use [Teleportation] to appease them immediately.

Otherwise, if you don't appease for a long time, the various brainwashing effects on ant eggs will fall short.

Therefore, he must constantly monitor the eggs for about three days, and he cannot leave for too long in the middle.

There are only a few worm eggs, but if the number of worm eggs is too large, it will not only make him unable to operate, but also accelerate the loss of his mental power, making him less than three days at all.

But no matter what, System, who had enough food at this time, actually had nothing to do.

As long as he eats with peace of mind these days and waits for about 14 days, he can reach level 12 and then undergo the third molting.

System pondered for a while, and brainwashing these worm eggs was obviously a better and more secure choice than going out on an adventure to find edible magical creatures.

He instructed Dasha to go to the ant's nest to steal a few eggs, and then let the soldier ant Dasha continue to lead the hundreds of worker ants to build a wintering nest for him.

System was busy near this rubble.

Discarding the eggs that were close to hatching and those that were too far away, System ended up leaving 13 eggs.

If he removes the necessary rest time at a rate of 13 pieces at a time, in about a month, System will be able to obtain a hundred ant subordinates who are loyal to him.

Of course, these subordinates may only be larvae of ants, and they do not have any ability to act, and they will need him to be busy for a while.

System in turn used [Teleportation] to transmit the intimate feelings of a mother to a child to these worm eggs, and then responded to the feedback of these worm eggs one by one.

After groping all day before.

The brainwashing of worm eggs by System was very familiar. Although there were more 13 worm eggs, it was not impossible.

System carefully observed the eggs in front of him, he suddenly discovered something, and a blue halo flashed from his compound eyes.

[Information reading] Activate!

System carefully inspected several worm eggs, rubbed them with his hard feet, and then put the rubbed mucus in his mouth and began to taste it.

System finally picked out a distinctive ant egg from these worm eggs. The pattern on this worm egg was slightly different from other worm eggs, and the data displayed on [Information Reading] was also Explain that this egg is different from the rest of the eggs.

System recalled some knowledge about ants in his previous life, and the habits of ants in this world should be similar to those in his previous life.

In a nest of ants, the eggs laid by the queen can hatch into four types of offspring, one of which is male, called the male ant, who mates exclusively with the queen or female ants and dies shortly after mating.

The other three are females: female, soldier, and worker.

Female ants have the right to mate, and if they are lucky, they can build new nests and become new queens, usually only one queen per nest.

Soldier ants and worker ants belong to incomplete female ants. Although they are also female, they cannot mate. Soldier ants are mainly responsible for defending the ant nest, while worker ants are responsible for all the chores of the ant nest.

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System stared at this ant that was different from other ant eggs, and the antennae on his head kept shaking.

He actually couldn't tell whether the ant egg was a soldier ant, a male ant, or a female ant, but it didn't matter. By discovering the difference between the eggs, it undoubtedly opened a new door for System.

Why did he just brainwash ordinary worker ants?

He can completely brainwash a female ant, and then cultivate this female ant to become a queen.

If the queen sees him as a kind, there is a high probability that the queen's offspring will also see him as a kind.

So he can control a new ant nest!