Laws of the Insect Hive

Inside the floating island, there are many stone gates blocking the building passages. These gray stone gates of different sizes are basically lift-type.

Most of the stone gates are inlaid with some blue spar, and are printed with unknown patterns, and there are still some silver-white metals that have not been completely decayed.

System speculated that these stone gates in the underground building of the floating island should belong to the high-tech of the fantasy world. When the magic stone gate is in good condition, it is estimated that it is not automatically sensed, or it can be remotely opened and closed.

But after so many years, these magic stone gates have not resisted the erosion of time, they have lost their original function and cannot be moved at all.

Fortunately, the excavator has the ability to manipulate soil and rocks. It only takes dozens of minutes for the excavator to destroy the mechanism that these stone gates are held up underground, and let these gray stone gates blocking the way sink into the ground.

This time, the excavator found a strange magical item by opening the stone door, to be precise, a staff composed of blue crystal and red gemstone.

This staff excavator cannot be used, and the shadow can activate the staff, causing the gems at the top of the staff to emit a faint fluorescence, which is brighter than the brightness of fluorescent mushrooms.

The reason why Ying thinks this crystal gem staff is valuable is not because Ying feels that there is any strange ability inside the staff, but because this staff is strange enough.

Even after System saw this staff, he discovered the extraordinaryness of this staff.

It is not to say how exquisite the shape of this staff is, how fine the lines are, and how clear and bright the diamond-shaped ruby ​​at the top of the staff is.

It was this staff that was quietly suspended in mid-air. No matter how System moved the staff, the staff would return to its original upright state like a tumbler, about ten centimeters above the ground.

System fiddled with this staff for a while, and found that several of his abilities could not be activated by this staff.

From the Rat Man's lair to the temple of the evil god Rafael, most of the magic items System got could not be used by him.

By now, System had gradually become accustomed to the embarrassing situation of not being able to use magic items that were empty.

And this staff has other uses besides magic power.

By wrapping the staff with tentacles, and then pulling out the tentacles holding the staff, the staff will rotate rapidly during the suspension process.

The rotating staff can rotate for half an hour before slowly stopping.

I have to say that this wand is a very good decompression toy, like a spinning top.

It's just a pity, with System's mind, after turning this floating staff a few times, he lost interest in this staff, and then handed this staff to Ying, so that when Ying was fine Try activating the other hidden abilities of this staff.

At the same time, System also used the [mental connection] ability to secretly inform Shadow not to let the snail next to him touch the staff.

After all, the power of the snail and the shadow belong to the same source, and this staff can also be activated.

This can effectively prevent snail Jace from using the staff to cause any trouble.

...

After disposing of the magic items, System once again came to the room where Queen Linda was ovulating.

Because of the huge amount of experience provided by the dragon bone marrow, Queen Linda has been raised to the upper limit of level 16. As an ant queen, her level upper limit is slightly higher than that of ordinary ants.

Today's queen ant has grown to nearly 4 meters in size, making it more inconvenient to move, but Linda's egg-laying ability has also been further strengthened, and can produce about 150 large ant eggs every day, or nearly two Thousands of small ant eggs.

System also continued the previous strategy, still letting the queen ant produce large ant eggs and breeding ant offspring with high qualifications.

More than half of these ants with higher qualifications will naturally enter the second pupation.

Only these ants that have pupated twice can stand firm in such a cruel environment as the abyss.

And System came to Queen Linda's nest today because after nearly ten days, the first batch of ant eggs laid after Queen Linda came to the abyss had hatched.

System came here today to examine these newly born ant larvae.

The first batch of ant eggs has hatched more than a dozen. These newly hatched ant larvae seem to be much more active than the ant larvae in the main world, wriggling back and forth on the gray stone bricks at an extremely fast speed, the same pair of ants. After that, the slime gel controlled by Linda was swallowed.

Before these ant eggs hatch, the queen uses [spiritual connection] to instill the spiritual message that System is the king, and the blood of the species ants is born with obedience, so these ants are born to System. The mood is generally friendly.

But System still found some differences between these ant larvae and the ant larvae in the Overworld.

Just like the low-IQ mosquitoes in the abyss, the breath of the abyss does have an impact on the ant larvae, and the ant larvae born in these abyss are obviously much lower in IQ.

Not only that, the ant larvae born in the abyss also have the characteristics of most abyss creatures, being irritable and irritable.

In the process of biting the slime glue, these ant larvae are easily inexplicably angry, biting the slime frantically, and at the same time twisting and twisting the body is very irritable.

Fortunately, the species of ants is extremely united. Even if the ant larvae are angry, they will not attack other larvae of the same kind. They will only twist their bodies unintentionally and throw other ant larvae away.

Through further observation, System found that it seems to be related to the enlightenment education of the ant eggs with [spiritual connection] by the queen. most of the instructions given.

If the ants in the main world are defined as normal people’s IQ; then the ants born in the abyss are probably equivalent to mild mental retardation, some are stronger than mild mental retardation, and some are worse than mild mental retardation; and the mosquitoes in the abyss are equivalent to severe mental retardation, and Fools make no difference.

And there are disadvantages and advantages. Although the ant larvae in the abyss have lower IQs, their physical quality is also higher than that of the ants in the main world.

System estimated that if these ordinary worker ants entered the second pupation to become worker ant knights, their body size should reach more than twenty centimeters, which was much larger than the original worker ant knight's body size of about sixteen centimeters.

However, because of the intelligence of these ants in the abyss, it may be difficult for them to understand the short video shared by Shava in [Spiritual Network].

If the ratio of ant knights to big ants in the main world is four to one, then after reaching the abyss, this ratio may reverse to one to four, or even lower.

...

Regarding this change of ant larvae in the abyss, System decided to let nature take its course after some thought.

Everything had to wait for the first batch of ants in the abyss to pupate for the second time, and System could determine the direction of the ants' breeding in the future after inspection.

System was not particularly concerned about whether ants could become ant knights.

But if these ant larvae grow up in the abyss, their characters become more violent and chaotic, and they will even kill each other.

System will transfer the queen Linda to the half plane again, and let the queen ant hatch and nurture the ant eggs on the half plane, and then transport it back to the abyss after the ants grow...