Although the strain was obtained from old fallen leaf balls that fell into the water, big-headed ants, pavement ants, and sickle ants do not know how to grow this fungus. They can only store it temporarily in the cabin. If there are no Bachie ants to come, Provided a bacterial bed, these strains do not survive long.
The protagonist vaguely remembers that leaf-cutting ants chew up plants to make bacterial beds, but the specific method is unknown. It seems that the ant's saliva is used as a medium, which can be said to be the unique skill of leaf-cutting ants.
So tonight's "Egg Stealing Operation" will continue as usual.
It is already dusk, and the leafcutter ants outside and in the leaf balls have returned to their nests.
In this world, ants are at the top of the biological chain. Like the characters at the top of the food chain in the world that the protagonist is most familiar with, they like to be active during the day, and only the weaker creatures like to come out at night. In this world, the protagonist has not yet discovered a race of ants that are mainly active at night.
The tree nests of Bachie ants are scattered on several ash trees. At dusk, there is a constant flow of water in front of all the ant nests, creating a prosperous scene.
These leaf-cutter ants did not know that the companion who climbed out of the water yesterday reported the intrusion of other ants. Although these alien ants disappeared during the day, they were coveting their nests at this time.
The protagonist personally leads the team, including Tianxian and other imperial guards and elites selected from other legions. A total of 120 God Envoy King warriors participate in the operation - this operation focuses on stealth and speed, and the soldiers are more valuable than more expensive.
Because he needs to climb up and down trees and drill into narrow tree holes, it is inconvenient to move with a mace. The protagonist does not carry a long weapon, so he takes an obsidian jaw knife from the warehouse and hooks it in his hand. This is better than a hollow one. The copper jaw knife is more suitable as a dagger. Before leaving, the protagonist polished the black glass weapon carefully.
The team climbed up the metasequoia from the moored boat, ignoring the green leafhoppers reporting groups on the tree trunks. They passed through the swarms of rose sawfly larvae that huddled on the backs of the leaves at night, passed through three trees, and reached the target.
This is the outermost ash tree in the tree nest of Bachie ants. There is a bug hole in the branch branch about 3 meters above the water. It is now the nest of Bachie ants.
The protagonist sent Tianxian and other 20 warriors to the leaf ball to get some strains and bacterial beds. It is estimated that there are no Bachie ants left in the leaf ball, and if there are, there will not be many. This team can easily eliminate them. Their mission relatively simple.
The protagonist personally leads a large army to steal the eggs. There are no sentries outside the Bachie ant's nest or inside the entrance. It seems that the defense is not tight.
However, the protagonist does not dare to take it lightly. There must be a different scene inside the lair. As soon as you enter the nest, it will be full of enemy ants. Most of the ants do not rest even if they stay in the nest at night, but are working. It is really unique to sleep for several hours a day like the warriors of the God Envoy King. Once the enemy is disturbed, they will definitely be attacked in groups.
However, the protagonist has already made a plan. Generally, there are multiple chambers for storing ant eggs in an ant nest, which are relatively scattered. They only need to find the egg chamber closest to the nest entrance, grab some and run away, so that the risk is minimal.
However, the queen ant eggs may not necessarily be placed in such a peripheral area, and the queen ant lives in the surrounding area. The protagonist is not sure whether he can capture the queen ant or the queen ant eggs, and his hope is relatively slim.
The next best thing is that as long as there are worker ant eggs, after hatching, the protagonist can let the big-headed ants or pavement ants learn the technology of growing fungi, and the purpose will be achieved.
The protagonist uses scent and friction sounds to give instructions, and then rushes into the lair at the earliest opportunity.
As soon as you enter the cave entrance, there is a passage that turns right. The three sides of the sloping downward passage are xylem on the upper, lower and left sides, and only the right side is bark texture.
There is no fluorescent fungus lighting in the burrow of Bachie leaf ants. The protagonist suddenly thought that in fact, big-headed ants can also grow fungi, but the fluorescent fungi cannot be eaten. This makes him more confident that big-headed ants have learned the planting techniques of leaf-cutting ants.
Although the cave is dark, the protagonist still sees it as day, and the sense of touch and smell of other warriors relying on their tentacles is not affected at all.
Darkness is a good cover, and Bachie ants are also unable to use their vision to detect danger. Only the protagonist can see further, which is beneficial.
The passage turned down, and the protagonist and the others entered the first nest almost vertically.
This is a cabin where debris is stored. There are some strange-smelling wooden fragments in it, which look like the inner layer of bark. I don’t know what they are used for. There are also some dry plant fibers in the nest chamber, as well as a pair of eye-catching black and white wings of adult brown wax scales. I don’t know what they are used for.
There was a medium-sized Bachie leaf ant in the warehouse. It seemed that it had heard the "rustling" footsteps of the warriors of the God's Envoy King crawling through the passage just now. It turned its head this way and waved its tentacles.
She couldn't see clearly in the darkness, but her hearing told her something was approaching. She was not on guard, thinking that he was probably a companion, and just followed her instinct and wanted to touch the other person with her tentacles to confirm her identity.
But what she was waiting for was a cold, life-stealing blade. The protagonist uses the obsidian jaw knife as a dagger. The extremely finely polished blade is almost as sharp as iron. Driven by the protagonist's huge force, the blade effortlessly cut off the head of the Bachie ant.
The Bachie ant worker did not realize that this was an invasion until it died, and it failed to sound an alarm.
After searching this small warehouse, nothing was found. The protagonist left five soldiers to guard this place. This is the only way to exit the nest.
Then the team continued to move forward, with the protagonist in front, killing more than a dozen Bachie ants they encountered on the road, but they failed to warn them.
But the protagonist also feels that as he gradually goes deeper into the nest, the frequency of encountering the nest residents is rapidly increasing. Soon, they approached the second nest chamber.
This is a fork, with the nest room on the right and another path on the left.
The protagonist poked his head into the nest and took a look, and was shocked: there were hundreds of Bachie ants crowded inside.
However, these Bachie ants are extremely small, much smaller than the miniature Bachiere ants we have seen before. They can be said to be mini Bachiere ants. These mini ants are crowded together and motionless. Unlike other large, medium and small ants that are still working at night, they seem to be resting.
These mini ants were also indifferent to the noises made by the warriors of the Angel King and did not look towards the entrance of the nest.
Since the other party is not aware of it, and the protagonist does not intend to enter this nest, so many mini ants cannot be killed in a short time. If one escapes, his side will be exposed.
The protagonist and others chose to go forward from another way, but they also left two soldiers to guard the entrance of the nest to prevent other Bachie ants from coming through the back door and accidentally hitting the back road.
Not far ahead, two more Bachie ants were killed, and the protagonist finally found a nest with ant eggs.
