Back then, "Xiao Mi" was a fertile worker ant that was born on its own in [Dongyang City]. Therefore, Zhu Jue deduced that after the attack on them at "Gun" and the disappearance of the native ants in [Dongyang City], Before, the queen ants in [Dongyang City] had died or disappeared.
Therefore, without the inhibitory hormone secreted by the queen ant, the "little secret" will develop on its own and have mature reproductive organs.
When "Xiao Mi" died, she laid an ant egg. Zhu Jue initially thought she was laying an unfertilized male ant egg, because worker ants can lay such eggs without mating (mysterious Worker ants are also allowed, but this behavior is strictly prohibited!)
However, when the egg hatched and grew into an adult queen, Zhu Jue discovered that he had made a mistake. "Xiao Mi II" was a large worker ant, female. This also means that Zhu Jue did not know that "Little Secret" had secretly mated with a certain male ant.
Zhu Jue had no intention of tracing back the kinship of "Little Secret II". Most of the ants in his hometown had died in the war with the Destroyer, or died in a swamp full of parasites. There was no point in tracing it.
He has always regarded "Xiao Mi II" as the incarnation of "Xiao Mi" and has great trust and respect for him. "Secretary II" lived up to his expectations. As an ordinary worker ant, he was intelligent and knowledgeable, and led the scientific research department to solve many technical problems. This time, he finally discovered that the eggs of divine female ants are always bizarre. The underlying cause of death.
Those queen ants who had been gifted by God were immediately severely interrogated by the imperial guards directly commanded by Zhu Jue. The frightened queens quickly confessed...
This is a fight within the queen ant and is not uncommon.
Reproductive rights are the most important rights in every ant group. The reproductive male ants also hold political power in the big-headed ant family, while the queen ants only have reproductive rights, so they will do anything to protect their reproductive rights.
After Zhu Jue reformed the marriage and flight system of the Ant Alliance, although most female ants can safely obtain the right to mate and reproduce, the instincts imprinted in their bodies by 10,000 years of memory make them still resolutely defend it subconsciously. own reproductive rights.
Many ant tribes have a single queen system, and there is no struggle for power among queens, unless the old queen is unable to prevent the birth of a new queen and seize power.
Most powerful ant groups have multiple queens, and open and secret fights between queens are inevitable. Therefore, like the big-headed ant group, it is possible to strictly control the scope of the queen's activities and give each queen a separate bedroom. Reduce a lot of unnecessary fights.
But there is a common behavior among the queens that cannot be stopped.
These queen ants continuously release hormones that inhibit the sexual maturity of other ants into the air, and diffuse throughout the entire ant nest through the ventilation system that extends in all directions in the ant nest. This hormone has no effect on adult queen ants. Unmarried female ants are placed in special nests with low hormone concentrations. Its main function is to inhibit ordinary worker ants from becoming big worker ants.
Zhu Jue knew about this and let it go. He did not want many worker ants to have the ability to reproduce, which was often a sign that an ant clan was about to be destroyed.
When you want to breed big job ants or god ants, the worker ants will follow the instructions and choose those nurseries that have independent ventilation systems and are not suppressed by hormones. The same is true for the eggs of male and female ants. Other worker ants continue to be subtly suppressed.
The queen ants confessed that in the past two years, whenever they struggled to give birth to a larger male or female ant egg, they would feel fear and jealousy from the bottom of their hearts. The eggs are completely absent, and the eggs laid by ordinary female ants are also very slight.
They are afraid and frightened, as if what they are giving birth to is not ant eggs, but some kind of ferocious beast, some kind of strong competitor that will inevitably occupy their resources, some kind of ant that must be eliminated quickly!
Such emotions make the queen ants not want to keep the male or female ant eggs at all. They sometimes secretly eat the eggs. If there are worker ants specifically waiting for this egg, they secretly apply inhibitory hormones directly to the eggs. .
Even if the eggs are taken away before they have time to apply, these queen ants will quietly order their dedicated worker ants to find opportunities to sneak into the nursery and reapply the hormone.
These inhibitory hormones are extremely deceptive to ants. Except for the queen herself, other ants will not pay attention to them. Therefore, they have not been noticed and killed as many as dozens of male and female ant eggs.
When the guards asked the queens why they did this and whether there was some kind of connection, they found that the queens were acting alone and had a tacit understanding to interfere with the development of the male and female eggs they laid. .
The truth was revealed. Zhu Jue severely reprimanded the more than ten queen ants. In addition, he could not punish the queens themselves. He could not even reduce the supply of high-end food - these queens were members of the ant alliance. The common mother of the domestic big-headed priest ants, in order to continue to obtain the priest ant eggs, could not punish the queen ants.
In order to scare the monkeys, Zhu Jue executed all the worker ants around the queen who participated in the operation, even though these worker ants had no idea what substance they had applied or why they did it.
Zhu Jue wants the queen ants to know that their bodies are nothing more than a reproductive machine. What they give birth to, how much they give birth to, and how they give birth are all decided by the country, the ethnic group, and the God Envoy King. They have no right to make the decision themselves!
This time is just a warning, there may not be any punishment next time!
The queen ants were trembling with fear, but the egg of the golden divine female ant that had escaped death was left in an exclusive underground nursery that was slightly humid but free of hormone interference. With a team of ants taking full-time care.
When Zhu Jue came to the nursery for the second time, "Secretary II" was also waiting here, along with nursery worker ants.
At this time, there was a hole in the ant egg on the soft cushion, and a golden, chubby worm-like young ant was twisting its head, trying hard to break free from the egg membrane.
Whenever she struggled hard for a while, she seemed to get tired, and then stopped, using her almost invisible mouthparts to gnaw at the ant film that once protected herself and now bound herself, tearing it apart and eating it.
"Zhu Jue" and the others did not intervene. If the larvae of the divine female ants cannot escape from the egg membrane on their own, they will be eliminated.
Fortunately, the young female ant finally escaped. Zhu Jue kissed it with his tentacles and confirmed that it was a very healthy and strong young ant!
Then, the nursery worker ants gently picked her up and walked to another exclusive nursery room. And soon, several new eggs of male and female divine ants will be sent here to hatch!
