Chapter 22 A Lost Pearl in the Ocean
The night comes wind and rain, Whispering Colour.
After a night of wind and rain, Ma Yi stepped on the morning dew and left the nest with yesterday's team configuration.
He planned to accumulate as many evolution points as possible while [Gluttony] was still there for a few days.
In the nest, the queen ant Yiyi also began to arrange for the worker ants to start working according to Ma Yi's wishes.
Some worker ants were arranged to sort out the materials seized yesterday and put them into categories.
Some worker ants continued to expand the cave. In view of Ma Yi's increase in size, the ant nest must be made larger.
There are also some worker ants digging holes on the other side. After Ma Yi evolves, he can breed more powerful soldier ants, so the couple discussed it and hatched all the eggs they laid before into worker ants. The soldier ants will use new ones to be more powerful in the future. of this batch.
Ma Yi has already planned it.
When the new batch of soldier ants reaches a certain number, he will send out troops to occupy the aphid pasture!
Over the past few days, he had already figured out the details of the fire ant group, and even had some guesses about the approximate location of their nests.
Ma Yi estimates that it has not been taking root in this area for a particularly long time, and the population is not very large. The estimated total number is only between 10,000 and 20,000.
In a normal ant colony, the number of soldier ants is generally about 10% of the total number.
Ma Yi's family, which has reached about 25%, is an outlier.
In a normal ant colony, this ratio is likely to cause some ants to starve to death.
Because in a normal ant colony, worker ants are needed to build and expand nests, go out to collect food, feed young ants and queens, etc.
If the number of worker ants is too small and something goes wrong in one of the links, it may cause food shortages or even chaos in the entire ant colony.
But Ma Yijia is different.
Thanks to Ma Yi's leadership, getting food to them was relatively simple and more efficient.
Therefore, he does not need too many worker ants to search for food everywhere, and the demand for worker ants is naturally smaller.
In other words, the total number of combatants of this most ferocious neighbor entrenched nearby is about 2,000.
But normally, half of the soldier ants will be left to protect the nest. After all, the queen ant is the core of an ant nest.
In this way, if Ma Yi can use a trick to lure them out of the nest, the number of soldier ants he has to face will be reduced by half.
A thousand soldier ants and over 10,000 worker ants, this was probably the entire force Ma Yi would face in a field battle.
Ma Yi estimated that he would be able to reach this level in about two months.
So he tentatively planned to carry out the "preemption of aphid pasture plan" in two months.
On the one hand, this plan can eliminate half of the hostile forces and prepare for subsequent annihilation operations. On the other hand, it can seize the important strategic resource of aphid pasture.
It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.
As for the issue that the other group may become larger in two months, Ma Yi also considered it.
He will naturally observe it carefully before making a decision.
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Lu Yuan withdrew his attention from Ma Yi and couldn't help but sigh.
Although Ma Yi has evolved again, he is still an ant only 5cm long. It is estimated that he cannot even defeat a praying mantis.
And his tribe was not recorded as a member of the "creatures" like the mechanical tribe, indicating that it did not meet a certain evaluation standard.
Lu Yuan speculated that this standard may include comprehensive factors such as development and intelligence.
At this moment, something moved in his heart.
On the panel, there were changes again.
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[Mod name: Heroes Emerge Module]
[Explanation: Several heroes are randomly born among the inhabitants of the planet. 】
[Hero No. 1-the protagonist of the roguelike game (awakened). 】
[Hero No. 2-King of the Ant Colony (Awakened)]
[Hero No. 3-Son of Cybertron (awakened)]
[Hero No. 4 - Lost Pearl (Awakened)]
[Hero No. 5 (to be awakened)]
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"A hidden gem in the ocean?"
Lu Yuan felt that he could no longer understand the titles of these heroes.
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Shi Ming is a student at the Luyuan Star Federation College of Human Life Sciences and Progress, but in fact he doesn't like studying so-called life sciences.
Compared to dissecting organisms on the operating table and turning biological blood samples into biological slides, he actually prefers to deal with machinery.
He actually does not approve of the biological sciences that are strongly supported by the federal government and strongly promoted by college professors.
Professors from the School of Human Life Sciences and Progress believe that they need to find inspiration from the mutations of other organisms, try to evolve human genes according to the environment, and finally achieve the purpose of allowing humans to adapt to the new environment.
But Shi Ming believes that humans should not just sit on this planet and watch the sky.
They should raise their heads and look at the sky.
If you want to detect heavily polluted uninhabited land, you can use artificial satellites flying in the sky - satellites like the moon that always surrounds and protects the Abyssal Star.
If you want to detect heavily polluted oceans, you can develop submarines that can dive into the ocean.
These weren't exactly his thoughts either.
He had seen in some ancient documents that in the pre-catastrophic era, when Luyuan Planet had not yet established a federal parliament, two of the countries had the technology to launch artificial satellites into the sky that could work for a long time.
Aeronautics!
There's even space-oriented knowledge.
That's its name.
But for some reason, this discipline disappeared in the disaster.
Even its name has gradually faded out of people's sight.
Even scientists rarely mention him anymore.
"We are trapped on this planet!" This is what Shi Ming thinks every time he looks up at the stars.
He doesn't want to be trapped on this planet!
Humans shouldn’t be trapped on this planet either!
So, he studied hard and finally graduated from university with excellent grades. After graduating from university, he was selected into the School of Human Life Sciences and Research.
This is the highest college in the Lu Yuan Star Federation. Every professor in it is a master who can be written in the textbooks. The students in it are also selected from the top talents from various universities.
It can be said that the best of all mankind are gathered here.
Shi Ming originally thought he could find a few like-minded people here.
But alas, he was wrong.
Even here, no one recognized his idea.
Everyone is delving into an eternal topic: how to adapt human beings to the current environment.
Shi Ming couldn't bear it anymore and finally asked his mentor this question.
So, his mentor told him something he didn't know before:
alien!
Because of the existence of aliens and the wrong actions of a certain country before the disaster, they no longer dare to think too much about space.
In fact, there were many people who had similar thoughts to Shi Ming in the past.
But that kind of person was either oppressed by reality and bowed his head, or was taken away by the FBI.
This time, Shi Ming understood.
They just want to shrink their heads, hide in this one-third of an acre of land, and live their current lives peacefully.
Late at night, Shi Ming looked up at the stars again, roaring unwillingly in his heart.
"Don't we even have the spirit to show our swords to each other?"