After about twenty minutes, Zhang Fan had almost rested. He got up and jumped into the pit, and began to look at the huge iron box.
The iron box is a cube with six sides in total. Zhang Fan spent two hours carefully browsing the contents of these six sides. This is the development process of an ant colony from scratch. The process of
The core is the queen ant.
The content of the first picture is that as the ruler of an ant colony, the queen ant must first find a nest suitable for survival and reproduction. After the nest is built, it breeds the first batch of worker ants. The worker ants here are the workers.
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These first batch of worker ants are actually the daughters of the queen. They can grow up quickly. They are responsible for foraging for the queen and taking care of the queen.
At this time, the queen ant has completely turned into an egg-laying machine, and its main responsibility is to reproduce offspring.
The content of the second picture shows that in addition to meeting the needs of the queen mother, the worker ants are willing to give up their reproductive rights in order to raise their younger siblings, and even sacrifice their own lives for the benefit of the ant colony. It is very dangerous to go out of the nest to look for food.
In addition, worker ants have to build an ant house to expand the ant nest, and they also have the responsibility of cleaning the ant nest.
The entire picture mainly celebrates the great contribution of worker ants to the entire colony.
The content of the third picture is that when the ant colony grows, some female larvae will fully develop into virgin and female queen ants. They have wings and the ability to give birth, preparing to become queen ants and establish new ant colonies.
The queen's son, the male ant, is produced after the worker ant colony is well established and before the queen mates. The gender of the ant is determined in the simplest way. After the egg is fertilized, the female is produced.
Ants produce male ants when they are not fertilized. Male ants can only survive for a few weeks or months. Their only default ability is to ensure the continuation of the bloodline of the ant colony.
When the virgin queen and male ants leave the nest to participate in the nuptial flight, they begin the life cycle of the next colony.
The whole picture talks about the physiological characteristics of the ant colony and the early stage of the emergence of the queen.
The fourth picture is about ants using secretions, body movements, and sounds from tentacles to transmit information to ensure the coordination and operation of their large whole.
The fifth pattern is about domination. Since the queen ant in the later period is only responsible for laying eggs and has no time to take care of other things, while the worker ants contribute to the entire ant colony, they also have powerful ruling rights, which is somewhat like the "constitutional monarchy" of humans.
They can independently decide the life and death of their younger siblings, and they are the determiners of the final size and composition of the colony.
The sixth pattern, you can only see the meaning clearly if you look carefully. Ant colonies are like humans. They create a temperature environment suitable for their own living in a temperature and environment that is not suitable for their own living. It is much like humans install ants to avoid the heat after building a house.
Fans and air conditioners were installed, and stoves and heaters were installed to avoid the cold.
At the end of this painting, there is a scene of the ant colony uniting and living a happy life.
While Zhang Fan finished reading the six pictures, Nangong Qing also finished reading the sixth picture.
"This...there is no information about opening the box..." Nangong Qing scratched his head and said, then he turned his attention to Zhang Fan, "Eh?
Xiaofan, have you found any clues?"
"No..." Zhang Fan shook his head, "It's almost noon, it's getting hot, and I'm a little hungry. Let's retreat and get some food."
"Okay, let's go back, have some food, rest for a while, and then come back."
Nangong Qing nodded in agreement, and then asked, "Then let's add this soil?"
"Need not."
Zhang Fan waved his hand, "As long as we don't spread the news about catching the demon cat, no one will dare to enter this forest."
"That's true..." Nangong Qing continued, "The villagers are very secretive about this forest."
The demon cat has no value anymore. Under Nangong Qing's coercion, the demon cat's soul entered the underworld, and the demon cat's body was collected by her. This is an explanation to the villagers, and also to those who were killed by the demon cat.
Memorial to the dead.
They had just dug a hole and put a lot of sand into Nangong Qing's shoes. She wanted to go back and change a pair, so the two of them first went back to the private house in the village committee, Nangong Qing's residence.
As soon as the two of them arrived at the door of this private house, they saw a balding middle-aged man and quickly greeted him.
"Master Nangong, where have you been these two days?"
The middle-aged man asked tentatively, "Is there something wrong with our hospitality?
We are all country people, and we may not understand some of the habits of city people. If there is any offense, please don't be offended.
If you are not satisfied with anything, just mention it and we will definitely make changes according to your opinions.”
The middle-aged man looked embarrassed. Obviously, this middle-aged man was afraid that Nangong Qing would leave. Once Nangong Qing left, their leaves would not be sold.
Nangong Qing smiled hoarsely, waved his hand and said, "Village Chief, you misunderstood. I am not strong enough. Please ask my friends to come over and help."
With that said, Nangong Qing pointed at Zhang Fan.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man looked at Zhang Fan and immediately became respectful, and held Zhang Fan's hand, "Master, thank you for coming to help our village. What is your surname?"
"Surname Zhang."
Zhang Fan replied.
"Master Zhang, hello, I am Wang Tie, the leader of this village."
The middle-aged man introduced himself.
"Village Chief Wang, hello..." Zhang Fan also greeted politely.
Wang Tie smiled and then said: "Two masters, the meal has been arranged. Let's go home and have dinner."
"In the past few days since I came here, I have been eating at Village Chief Wang's house. The village chief's wife's cooking is very good!"
Nangong Qing praised, "Let's go and try it. After dinner, we will go back to study...study how to deal with the evil spirit."
"Sure! Then let's go to Village Chief Wang's house to eat."
Zhang Fan responded. If you don't want to eat at the village chief's house, you have to go to the town. The town is ten kilometers away from the village. You have to spend a lot of time on the way. In this way, you save time on the road. If you have this time, you can take a rest.
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Wang Tie invited Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing to his home very politely. The food was very rich. Zhang Fan and Nangong Qing had been tired for a long time and were really hungry. The food was delicious.
"Village Chief Wang, why is there an ant placed on your tribute platform?"
When Zhang Fan entered the door, he glanced at the tribute platform in the west room. On the tribute platform was an ant made of gray clay and about half a meter in length.
Hearing Zhang Fan's words, Wang Tie put down his chopsticks, "Oh...that's what happened..."