Chapter 51 - Chapter 51: Chapter 46 Grade Two Lightning Worker Ant 1 (1/2)

Chapter 51: Chapter 46 Grade Two Lightning Worker Ant 1

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Taming an insect may seem easy, but nurturing it after the fact requires a great deal of effort and time, and one must consider the long-term.

The lifespan of a Queen Bee is generally around three to five years, with the long-lived ones possibly reaching over nine years.

Compared with the Termite Ant Queen, their lifespan is clearly much shorter.

In the Green Demon’s beekeeping manual, there’s hardly any mention of how to extend the life of bees.

He only mentions that Royal Jelly can prolong the lifespan of bees.

The Ant Queen that Qin Niu tamed actually doesn’t have a long life either.

Initially, it even had only a 4.2-year lifespan, which, after being fed bear blood, bear meat, and centipedes, grew to 4.5 years.

Thus, extending its lifespan by 0.3 years.

Its lifespan has increased so much probably because it was initially malnourished and then received dietary supplements.

The lifespan of Fourth actually also increased by three months.

He was considering destroying this beehive and then feeding the Royal Jelly inside it to Fourth and the Ant Queen of the termite swarm.

To see if it could help them extend their lives.

Now that the ant colony is increasing by about 10 new members each day, Qin Niu could no longer treat them equally and had definitely prioritized fostering the outstanding termites in the colony.

If one had to prioritize, the order would be Ant Queen, Fourth, Strong Worker Ants and Strong Soldier Ants, Poisonous Ants, Ordinary Worker Ants, Ordinary Soldier Ants, Young Ants.

That was roughly how it went.

He soon arrived in front of the Ant Nest and sensed that the ant colony seemed to be somewhat agitated.

After checking, no intruders were found.

“Fourth, come out to eat!”

Qin Niu always called for Fourth first whenever there was something good, unless it was something extremely dangerous like Banyan Tree Blood, then he wouldn’t dare let it try it first.

Fourth climbed out nimbly.

Among those that came out with it was a small Worker Ant with a faint green hue to its body.

Moreover, the speed at which this small Worker Ant moved was much faster than Fourth’s.

You should know, Fourth is a composite of Soldier Ant and Worker Ant, its crawling and attack speeds were higher than ordinary Worker Ants.

Its attack speed was even a bit faster than that of a Soldier Ant.

Not to mention its biting force.

Killing that large black stink ant, which was much bigger than itself, was as easy as slicing through vegetables.

But now, there was a Worker Ant that crawled much faster than it.

And it was a very small Young Worker Ant at that.

It was just about two or three days since it had molted into an adult ant.

Fourth was now almost two months old and could be considered a rather mature Worker Ant.

If it wasn’t a secondary Worker Ant, its size would be closer to that of an adult Termite.

Compared to this Young Worker Ant, Fourth was like the difference between a young man and a two or three-year-old toddler.

A toddler running faster than a fifteen or sixteen-year-old youth was quite astonishing.

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Is this the Young Worker Ant that drank the Banyan Tree Blood?”

Qin Niu was excited.

This morning when he came to check on it, it could only move its antennae nimbly, and Fourth had to drag it in and out.

Unexpectedly, it had now digested the Banyan Tree Blood it had consumed and completed a second evolution of its body.

He quickly checked the ant colony’s attributes.

One Grade Two Lightning Worker Ant, lifespan 13 years, special abilities (agility, ultra-strong biting, ant acid secretion assists plant wound healing).

Qin Niu could hardly believe it.

A little bit of Banyan Tree Blood directly nourished a Grade Two Lightning Worker Ant.

And it had three special abilities.

It was simply terrifying.

Moreover, its lifespan had increased by a full ten years.

What would happen if Fourth also ate the Banyan Tree Blood?

Probably even stronger than this Grade Two Lightning Worker Ant.

But Qin Niu didn’t rush to act; instead, he prepared to experiment on a few more Worker Ants first to confirm it was safe before letting Fourth consume the Banyan Tree Blood.

After all, for him, while a Grade Two Lightning Worker Ant was indeed precious, Fourth was more important in his heart.

And had even greater potential.

So far, no other Termite in the entire ant colony could shake Fourth’s position as ‘Marshal.’

“Just right, tonight you’ll go down the mountain with two Ordinary Soldier Ants and two Ordinary Worker Ants, and we will test your pest control abilities.”

Qin Niu couldn’t contain his joy at the sight of how fierce this Grade Two Lightning Worker Ant was.

The more ‘experts’ the ant colony had, the safer it would become.

Since it was his first time using termites to help with pest control on the crops, he didn’t know whether the Worker Ants or the Soldier Ants were more formidable, so it needed to be tested to be clear.

If it came to fighting, the Soldier Ants would definitely be fiercer.

The Core-Boring Worms they were going to face this time would be easier to handle if they were larvae, but if they were the kind of sturdy, mature bugs that Qin Niu had caught this morning, the termites would probably need to exert some effort to kill them.

Too bad for now, only Fourth had evolved to produce venom; otherwise, with venom to assist, their pest-killing efficiency would be higher.