While his mental strength was still not fully recovered, Zhao Zian also visited many posts, forums, and discussion groups related to ants...
The ants he caught were actually common big-headed ants, also known as Echinochloa chinensis.
The distinctive head is actually quite easy to identify. Even a novice who is just learning about ants can recognize it just by looking at a picture of the head.
In terms of size, they are relatively small, medium-sized ants, which are considered relatively easy to keep.
They have relatively low requirements for their growth environment and other aspects, and many ant enthusiasts have basically kept this type of ant.
The Yidatou ant has worker ants and soldier ants, and it is relatively easy for them to specialize, and they are also quite cool.
Basically, if you feed them more, it's easy for a huge swarm of ants to emerge.
Once the numbers increase, specialization is very likely to occur.
As the race grows, the number of worker ants and soldier ants will gradually increase.
However, Zhao Zian has always had some difficulty distinguishing between the large workers and the soldier ants.
The term "large worker" refers to larger worker ants, which are actually not much smaller than soldier ants.
Their fighting power is no weaker than that of soldier ants; sometimes, in conflicts, the giant workers charge even more fiercely than the soldier ants...
Similarly, although soldier ants are specialized combat units after differentiation, they also help with things like carrying, and can be used as worker ants to some extent...
As for specialized ants, these are ants that grow to be exceptionally large, basically only slightly smaller than the queen ant.
They are much larger than ordinary soldier ants, so they can actually be considered as large soldier ants.
Another theory suggests that the ant underwent a special mutation, and its size may not have been very large.
However, it looks very different from ordinary ants, and has undergone some unique changes, which can be considered as specialization.
Under normal circumstances, multiple Yi Da Tou can live together in the same nest, and once their numbers grow, their fighting power is definitely not weak.
Among ants, they are fast runners, very agile, and daring to fight and charge. When they get ruthless, they will even attack their own kind.
When food is scarce and worker ants are hungry, they dare to destroy their own soldier ants...
However, Zhao Zian only has one Seed of Faith and currently only one Queen Ant follower. With only one Queen Ant, the development speed may not be fast...
Of course, what is mentioned above refers to the pre-evolutionary form of Yi Datou.
After its evolution, the large head has been fully upgraded. In terms of combat power, it seems capable of taking on many large ants.
As for the situation of a single race rapidly increasing its numbers, Zhao Zian was not worried at all.
The queen ant has likely awakened, possessing talents such as rapid growth and reproduction.
The eggs are being produced like a machine gun; if it doesn't develop, then something truly strange is going to happen.
After learning about the ant species, Zhao Zian was quite satisfied. Although these ants were not as good as the real ferocious ants, they were still quite good ants.
At least after undergoing a round of evolution in another world, they won't be bullied by creatures from that world.
After chatting in various posts and groups for a while, Zhao Zian put his mind to it and continued exploring the other world.
I was too hasty. If I had known about ants earlier, I wouldn't have just dug up a queen ant and rushed into another world to fight.
First, find a helpful guy to get it for free, or buy a queen ant from Taobao.
After being transported to another world and undergoing another round of evolution, it feels like I could directly destroy the lower-level ecosystem of that other world...
After all, in a sense, this can be considered an invasion of species.
After gathering his jumbled thoughts, he refocused his attention on the queen ant.
In such a short time, two or three white worms had been consumed, and the ant colony now had about 200 more worker ants.
As for the soldier ants, Zhao Zian did not allow the queen ant to reproduce.
Zhao Zian had previously discussed with the queen ant how to compare the consumption produced by an ordinary worker ant to a unit.
Producing one soldier ant requires approximately ten units of food.
Although soldier ants are about twice the length of worker ants, after evolution, their body width and height are also much larger than those of worker ants.
It's like a two-meter giant and a one-meter child, with a one-meter height difference.
However, the actual size of the giants is several times that of a child, and the difference in their fighting power is even more terrifying.
Given the soldier ants' more developed muscles and thicker carapaces, it's not surprising that they consume nearly ten times more energy.
Moreover, the evolved soldier ants hardly engage in production. They are excellent fighters, but they are basically unable to collect food and can only be fed by worker ants.
Moreover, once they are produced, it's not enough to just consume ten times the amount of food. Even if the soldier ants don't fight or do anything else, they still need to eat a lot every day.
Food is not plentiful now, and if there isn't enough food, we'll suffer terribly.
Ant colonies are very abstract concepts; sometimes they inexplicably attack their own kind.
This can happen even when there is plenty of food, let alone when there isn't enough food.
Sometimes, even the queen ant in your own home can be dragged out and killed by the baby ants...
Very abstract.
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The queen ant's talent can only accelerate growth, not conserve food.
Zhao Zian observed for a while and found that the amount of food the larvae were eating was roughly the same as the amount of food they would normally consume for growth.
Zhao Zian originally thought that with the shorter growth period, the amount of food he would eat would also decrease.
Okay, looks like I was overthinking it.
With a sudden thought, Zhao Zian selected the 200 newly produced ants and sent them to continue fighting the slimy worms.
As for food, the more the better, and who knows how many more insects are in the horned beetle's base camp? We need to make more preparations.
He also wanted to test whether these newly produced ants had any defects.
After all, they grow so fast, who knows if there will be any side effects? In many games, after the positive effects end, there will also be some negative effects.
For example, it's common for things to flare up for a period of time, and then stagnate for a period of time.
The ants produced in this accelerated manner may also have some negative effects, such as weakened attack power and weakened defense.
You only know for sure after you've actually tried it.
Soon, they were already familiar with the route, and when they arrived at the place where the slimy worms used to be, they found that they had all disappeared.
Good grief, they all ran away, huh?
After all, they're not completely stupid. Seeing so many of their companions dead, they certainly won't stay here for long.
However, they move very slowly, so even if they run, they can't go very far.
Zhao Zian stroked his chin and then gave his orders to the ants he had led out.
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