The first encounter between the ants and the horn beetles ended in a resounding victory for the ant army.
However, many ants also died; of the original 4,000 worker ants, about 1,000 died.
Of the remaining 3,000, some were injured. There were about 70 soldier ants left, and the two specialized ones were fine, suffering only minor injuries.
Throughout the battle, the soldier ants were indeed very fierce, but the main reason was that Zhao Zian required the worker ants to risk their lives to protect the soldier ants when they were in danger.
The soldier ants only suffered about 30 casualties, which was actually because the worker ants often served as fodder for them; otherwise, given the soldier ants' fierce fighting style, they would have died very quickly.
The same applies to specialization. Worker ants protect it fiercely, and if an enemy gets close and tries to climb onto the specialized body to bite its weak points, the worker ants will desperately stop it.
Worker ants are really useful cannon fodder units.
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Zhao Zian breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling extremely pleased.
After winning this battle, the number of ants can increase again.
Even though so many ants have died, dragging all the dead ants back will make up for a significant portion of the losses.
Although the bodies can be recycled into protein and then reproduced, this process consumes a significant amount of food.
However, if you add in the carcasses of the hornworms, which are recycled into protein, the total number of ants will definitely be much greater than before the war.
The battle at the front lines has already ended, but the Horned Bug headquarters is still sending troops over one after another.
However, they were slow to realize that they had already lost the battle on the front lines.
He immediately ordered his own base to halt troop deployments and cease providing support.
Seeing that the Horned Worms had stopped sending troops, Zhao Zian was unsure whether he should go back to rest or launch a full-scale attack to destroy their lair.
He instructed the other ants to rest in place, and then sent a small group of ants to probe the horned beetle's nest.
Goodness, it was fine if we hadn't tested them, but what we found was quite a surprise.
The place was teeming with horned beetles; at a glance, there were at least ten thousand.
We don't even know how many unseen insects are lurking beneath their nests.
However, their entire base was surrounded by pheromones of panic.
They were clearly intimidated after being beaten.
However, the horned beetle is a bit timid now.
Zhao Zian was also very scared.
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Dude, do you have that many good brothers in your family?
You should have said so earlier! If you had said so earlier, how would I have dared to hit you?
He quickly ordered all the ants that had been probing back to their nest, and also told the ants that were resting to hurry back to their home.
However, he didn't completely lose his mind.
Along the way, the ants still leave behind some pheromones commonly used in warfare, such as those for attacking, killing, advancing, and gathering.
He stayed behind to scare the hornworms, pretending to be very powerful...
No problem, no problem. Once we digest all this food, my ant army will definitely become even stronger, and crushing the horned beetle will be a dream come true.
However, it takes time to digest this food.
There is only one queen ant, and her abdomen is so full of eggs that it's almost sparking, but they're so small, how fast can they lay them?
Besides, it takes time to put food in your mouth.
The queen ant is now eating, digesting, and defecating all at the same time; the entire ant is constantly busy.
Even the donkeys in the production team wouldn't dare to produce like that.
But there's no way around it; producing troops from a single barracks is just too slow.
Oh, right.
Ants can have multiple generations!
Why not just have a few more queen ants?
But the current queen ant has developed some intelligence; I wonder if it would be willing to have more new queen ants.
Although Zhao Zian has been controlling the ant army recently, making the queen ant seem to have little presence.
However, logically speaking, all the ants in the ant colony should be subordinates of the queen ant.
As the queen ant, she has absolute authority over the ant army.
Zhao Zian didn't know which ant would obey if his orders conflicted with the queen ant's orders...
However, to his surprise, when he conveyed this idea to the queen ant...
The queen ant responded to his idea almost without hesitation.
"Okay...okay...ant tribe...new queen...god..."
Furthermore, Zhao Zian could sense a strong sense of trust and reliance from the queen ant's brief responses.
The exchange between Zhao Zian and the Queen Ant ended.
Ant Queen promptly began to carry out Zhao Zian's orders.
It first stopped laying eggs and kept having worker ants bring it food.
It ate a lot of food, but did not lay eggs. At this time, its tail swelled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After a while, it finally laid a pure white ant egg.
At this time, the queen ant's swollen abdomen had not yet completely shrunk.
After holding it in for a while, I finally managed to poop again.
Another ant egg was laid.
These two ant eggs look much larger than ordinary ant eggs.
Soon, the effect of this talent will be activated through rapid reproduction.
The two ant eggs gradually hatched into larvae, which then began to eat food to grow.
Soon, the two larvae spun a larger cocoon.
The large cocoon vibrated continuously, finally tearing open a crack, and the last two female ants emerged from the cocoon.
However, in theory, a female ant needs to mate with a male ant before she can become fertile and become a queen ant.
However, Zhao Zian, who was checking the nest, did not find any male ants.
The typical task of male ants is to mate with female ants, and then they die after that.
Normally, there shouldn't be many male ants in each ant nest, but it would be very strange if there weren't any.
Just as Zhao Zian was wondering, the Queen Ant had already come to her senses.
After giving birth to these two new female ants, it lay there for a long time, as if it were completely exhausted.
If it weren't for the fact that Zhao Zian could still see it from his divine perspective, he probably would have thought that the queen ant was already dead.
However, the queen ant's condition in the picture has changed from a very healthy green to yellow.
The two new female ants quickly hatched into adult ants, more than half an hour after the first ant eggs were laid.
After resting for more than half an hour, the queen ant finally regained some energy.
It could be seen that its mouth was constantly wriggling, and eventually a white substance gathered in front of its mouth, like a liquid, but it did not drip from its mouth. Instead, it kept changing shape and sticking to its mouthparts.
It's somewhat like a non-Newtonian fluid, sticky and gooey.
Finally, the queen ant spat these substances into the mouths of two new female ants.
Each female ant ate half of the white substance.
Suddenly, the newly emerged female ant shuddered, her two wings began to fall off one after another, and her whole body began to swell.
They gradually grew into adults.
After undergoing evolution after being transported to another world, the queen ant has eaten a lot of food from that other world, and her mouth has been constantly full. She has now grown to a length of five centimeters.
The bit-modified ant is even larger.
These two new queen ants stopped growing when they reached four centimeters in length.
They were a size smaller than the original queen ant, but the three queen ants looked almost identical.
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