This ant egg was carefully protected by the nurse ants and put into the nursery.
This is a spacious and luxurious nursery, about the size of a grape. The walls, ceiling, and floor are all covered with thick ant concrete to prevent moisture and waterlogging. In this humid season, the room also maintains a suitable humidity.
The floor was first covered with a thick layer of hay fiber, then covered with a layer of ant felt, then ant silk fiber, and finally covered with a layer of ant silk cloth to form a soft mat.
The glistening golden ant egg was placed in the middle of the multi-layered mats. In such a large nursery, there was only one egg, and with its golden color, it really seemed like a rare treasure.
There are 6 nursery worker ants in the nursery, divided into three groups, guarding the ant eggs every step of the way. From time to time, they use their tentacles and mandibles to lick the ant eggs, remove dust on the surface, and turn the eggs over, taking better care of them. Ordinary ant eggs are much more delicate.
Outside the only exit of the nest, 12 warriors were also divided into three groups and guarded the nest. Except for the nursery ants and a few licensed ants, other ants were prohibited from entering. These warriors guarding the gate are not ordinary, they are all guards directly belonging to Zhu Jue!
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About 5 days later…
This nest room located underground in [Xinyang City] welcomed its first visitor.
Zhu Jue used his tentacles to communicate with the guards guarding the door. The guards who had blocked the door made way for Zhu Jue and the "Celestial Immortal" to get in.
The light in the nest room was dim, with only two clusters of fluorescent fungi emitting a faint light, making the room dim and quiet.
After Zhu Jue and "Tianxian" entered, the experienced nurse ants immediately smelled the wet smell on their bodies. This was the smell they picked up when passing through the moist area underground.
It is the flood season at this time, and the underground area of [Xinyang City] is like previous years, with waterlogging in many places. In order to avoid the tide, many queen ants that originally lived in underground chambers moved to their palaces in the above-ground ant mounds, but this ant egg was not moved.
Therefore, special attention should be paid to cleanliness of this nest chamber to avoid the growth of mold and affecting the growth of golden ant eggs.
The nursery ants used their big jaws to carefully clean away the water drops and mud on the bodies and joints of Zhu Jue and "Tianxian" before letting them get close to the ant eggs.
Under the faint blue light, this originally golden ant egg exuded a strange color, and a black spot could be vaguely seen through the translucent egg membrane.
Zhu Jue lovingly touched the ant egg with his tentacles. Suddenly, the small black dot in the egg squirmed slightly, as if he felt something!
Zhu Jue also felt it, the fresh and intimate vitality in the egg! This is the direct descendant of the God Envoy King, the first egg of a divine female ant that has survived to this day!
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The fact that this divine female ant egg has been lucky enough to survive to this day has to be said to be a stroke of luck, and it also accidentally revealed a "palace conspiracy"!
After Zhu Jue had previously cultivated the divine soldier ants and the divine worker ant queen, he tried to breed the divine male ants and the divine female ants in order to obtain more intelligent and stronger direct-breeding ant offspring, and gradually improve the entire big-headed ant family genetically and physiologically.
However, the eggs of the male and female ants that were previously cultivated always "withered" within a few days of being born and turned into dead eggs without vitality.
There are only more than 10 queen ants that can produce divine male ants, divine female ants, divine soldier ants, and divine worker ants, living in the palaces of [Xinyang City] and [Pioneer City] respectively.
Although Zhu Jue can impregnate a female ant through the self-ruling method after a period of time, this requires a lot of energy and energy. Not to mention seven times a night, once a month is a huge loss, so it can only be done occasionally.
Therefore, the number of ant queens who have been gifted by the God Envoy King is not large, and most of their energy is used to produce eggs of magic soldier ants and magic worker ants to meet the demand for highly intelligent ants in various industries. When it is necessary to produce larger female and male divine ant eggs, it will consume far more energy and energy than ordinary priest ant eggs. Basically, after one birth, you have to rest for a month or two and cannot continue to lay any eggs. .
Even if you pay such a price, what you get are dead female and male ant eggs.
For this reason, Zhu Jue could only ask the scientific research team to assist, and only let one queen ant at a time try to lay the eggs of the female ants, and study how to make these female ant eggs survive. The eggs of the male ants temporarily gave up.
Unfortunately, more than two years have passed, no matter whether the eggs laid are placed next to the queen ant and taken care of, or sent to a special nursery, whether the temperature and humidity are controlled at different levels, or even taken care of together with other ordinary female ant eggs. All the female ant eggs have not survived for more than 3 days. They will quickly wither and even start to grow mold, so they have to be disposed of immediately.
Although Zhu Jue was disappointed many times, he did not take it to heart. The body he obtained through time travel might not be born with the ability to produce offspring of divine female ants and divine male ants. Anyway, now relying on the magic worker ants and magic soldier ants, the Ant Alliance is still growing rapidly.
However, this time, an egg from a divine female ant successfully survived, making Zhu Jue overjoyed and furious at the same time!
The fact that this divine female ant egg survived is entirely a matter of luck!
After repeated experiments failed, and just after the development of a certain key project was successful, the director of the scientific research department "Secretary II" had some free time and decided to take charge of the project personally.
It happened to be the second day after the female ant egg was laid, and the condition was already deteriorating visible to the naked eye: the egg membrane was dim, water was lost, vitality was disappearing...it was about to repeat the same mistakes before our eyes.
"Little Secretary II" personally took care of and inspected the ant egg. At first, he found nothing, but a strange feeling always made "Little Secretary II" feel that he seemed to have missed something!
Finally, she thought about it and noticed it!
This ant egg has been smeared with a certain hormone at a certain location - a hormone that only the queen ant can secrete, a hormone that inhibits the maturation of the sexual organs of other ants.
Although the amount applied is very small, it is not enough to interfere with the sexual maturity of ordinary worker ants without the assistance of other similar hormones in the nest.
However, compared with those hormones floating in the air, applying them directly to the ant eggs is enough to cause irreversible and sustained damage to the eggs of this divine female ant!
Moreover, this hormone is deceptive to ants except the queen, causing them to ignore its faint smell.
But "Xiao Mi II" is a unique worker ant that matures without the suppression of queen ant hormones and has fertility. This is how she was left in this world by "Xiao Mi".
"Secretary II" is precisely the only ant in the entire ant alliance, other than the queen ant, who can distinguish this inhibitory hormone without interference!
