Chapter 4 The Second Queen Ant

Author: Shuo Feng Floating Leaves

Chapter 4 The Second Queen Ant

Thanks to No. 0, the ant colony is now a small kingdom with more than a thousand ants. This has also caused greater food consumption and increased the burden on No. 1.

There is obviously an upper limit to No. 1's command ability. When the ant colony reached its current size of thousands, Zero keenly discovered that No. 1's control of the ant colony was no longer as easy as before.

Although everything still looks orderly and peaceful on the surface, No. 1's behavior pattern has begun to change in recent days.

There are worker ants that go out to explore every day and never come back. Most of them died in the fight, and a small number got lost due to various reasons. Once it exceeds 5 days, these lost worker ants will be found and come back.

The smell on their bodies will also change, and they will no longer be accepted by the ant colony.

A large number of ants are lost every day. Under normal circumstances, No. 1 will lay more eggs every day. Therefore, the number of ant colonies has not declined, but has increased in number.

But in the past few days, No. 1 has become a bit uneasy. She is no longer so active in laying eggs. Under Zero's observation, the number of ant colonies began to slowly decline, and finally remained at about 1,300.

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However, No. 1, which was originally used as a fertility machine, would only produce one-fifth of its previous eggs every day to make up for the loss of the ant colony. The rest of the time, it was either eating or lying motionless.

Zero was a little curious about how ants solved the problem of population limit, so he focused his main attention on No. 1.

For several days, there was no movement on No. 1. Apart from eating and laying eggs every day, everything was almost back to square one.

During this period, Zero made a surprising discovery. As the ant colony continued to grow, his attention was divided among various ant species. He had a great time switching perspectives between the ants every day. Now he calmed down and

Come, he was surprised to notice that, unknowingly, his perspective of observing No. 1 had changed somewhat.

When there was only No. 1 before, his perspective was almost fixed a few centimeters above No. 1 and could not move.

However, now, his perspective can actually be zoomed in and out according to his thoughts. At its maximum, it can encompass the entire ant nest, and all the ants in each passage, each chamber, and all the ants in the ant nest can be seen at a glance.

"This is………"

He was a little surprised.

"My territory?"

Zero suddenly had a glimmer of enlightenment.

It seems that as the ant colony expands, these places completely controlled by the ants will be completely open to Him.

"Then... what if all the ants die?" Naturally, Zero had a somewhat extreme idea.

"Am I... going to die too?"

He remembered the time when he first became conscious, hazy, everything before was blank, and everything was eternal loneliness.

He doesn’t want it to become like that!

At this moment, He had different emotions towards this little ant colony.

All of his previous actions were basically based on curiosity or boredom, but once this point is made clear, everything will be different. All of his motivations will be a simple reason - survival, a better survival.

Although the current ant colony has not encountered any crisis, in fact, the current population is very fragile. Not to mention natural enemies such as anteaters, on this dry grassland, once a fire breaks out, all creatures within one meter underground will be lifeless.

Once the population becomes extinct, Zero will inevitably fall back into chaos, which is a result he absolutely does not want to see.

"We must find a way to strengthen the race!" Zero secretly made up his mind.

The current population has stopped growing. There are currently more than a thousand ants. They have no ability to resist such natural risks. If they encounter natural enemies such as anteaters, they can only wait for death.

"Only a large enough population can withstand risks." Zero thought.

As soon as he thought of it, Ling immediately asked the increasingly experienced No. 1 if he could control more ants.

"More... out of control... can't... die..." vague negative feedback came from No. 1.

"Then how can we control more ants?" Zero fell into thought.

"If No. 1 can only control so many ants, then if there are two No. 1s, can we control more ants and expand the group?"

Zero asked One again if the idea was feasible.

"The new... queen... can't... control... the new... group... master... try..."

Zero understands.

No. 1 cannot control the newly born queen ants and can only let the new queen ants establish a new colony. However, with him here, we can try to control more ant colonies at the same time.

Zero expressed the idea to No. 1 that he could give it a try.

Three days later, No. 1 laid an egg that was much larger than other eggs.

Five days later, the egg hatched into a female ant larvae.

After three cocoons, half a month later, the mature female ant emerges from the pupa.

Although all worker ants are also female, this female ant is fundamentally different from them.

The reproductive function of worker ants has deteriorated, which means that they cannot become new queens. But this female ant is different. She has a pair of small, transparent wings on her back, and she can actually produce offspring.

As long as the ant species combines with the male ant, she can become a new queen ant!

Zero was delighted to find that the newly born female ant immediately expressed her obedience to him. The aura on her body was exactly the same as that of No. 1.

This means that she is not an outlier in this nest, and all ant colonies will recognize her as the queen.

At the same time, this also means that there are two queen ants in one ant nest!

This is something unprecedented. In the world of ants, every day, an ant nest can only have one queen. Once a second queen is born, the new queen will immediately leave the nest to combine with the male ant.

Then, like the first ants, they find a place to hibernate, waiting for the birth of worker ants to establish a new population.

However, this time is different. This will be a brand new way of survival. From here on, this ant population will embark on a completely different path from other similar species.

Zero named the new queen ant No. 2, and asked No. 1 to command the male ants to combine with her. At the same time, she commanded the worker ants to build a new cave next to the "royal house" No. 1 as No. 2's residence.

The construction was proceeding in an orderly manner under the command of No. 1, and Zero also began to think about the division of labor between the two ant queens.

The breaths of No. 1 and No. 2 are exactly the same, and there is no difference between them to other ants.

If No. 1 and No. 2 issue different or even completely opposite orders to the ant colony, it will inevitably cause chaos in the ant colony, which is something Zero does not want to see.

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