Chapter 32 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

System acted swiftly and ordered Foolish to command the worker ants and build a nest for him to spend the winter.

Foolish communicated with the worker ants by spraying special acid and touching their antennae. It did not take long before it led more than 100 worker ants from the ant nest nearby and started digging a few meters away.

As the middle management of the ant nest, Foolish had the power to assign normal worker ants.

Usually, a normal soldier ant could command dozens of worker ants, while Foolish, who was smarter, could command more of them, probably around 100 or so.

Theoretically, Foolish could command more worker ants because there was no upper limit to the number of ants that its antic acid could control.

However, commanding too many worker ants would undoubtedly make the soldier ants with poor command ability unable to attend to everything at once. Thus, the controlled worker ants would fall in confusion, lowering their efficiency.

Soldier ants seemed to be born knowing how to command and the appropriate number of ants they could control.

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The idea of digging a nest was brilliant, but System found it unsatisfactory when watching Foolish lead the worker ants to dig.

Although he had asked Foolish to dig a wider cave, he did not know if Foolish had sent the wrong order or normal ants’ intelligence was low. In short, the cave the ants dug was too narrow.

It took nearly an hour of communication for the worker ants to widen the soil near the cave’s opening under Foolish’s command.

Nevertheless, this was only the opening, and the width of the cave’s interior was not known to System.

When System tried to get close to the cave to check, the worker ants would attack him without mercy. After all, System relied on Foolish to command these ants.

As a result, when the less intelligent Foolish commanded lesser intelligent worker ants, it led to a tragedy.

System ordered Foolish to transfer all these worker ants away. Then he discovered that except for the cave’s entrance, the inner passage was almost identical to an ant nest. It was so narrow that he could not possibly go through at all.

Except for the first two hours, System and the ant construction team led by Foolish were making no progress for the entire afternoon.

If he kept ordering Foolish to command in the way he wanted, this group of ants would more or less understand and listen to some orders. But this was inefficient in order to meet System’s expectations.

“Can’t there be any more ants like Foolish?”

System looked at Foolish that was rubbing its limb. If there were hundreds of soldier ants like Foolish under his command, it would not be a problem to build one, or even five caves.

He instructed Foolish to continue digging the cave with the worker ants.

System approached the ant nest and tried to use [Mind Transmission] to find obedient ants like Foolish.

After driving nearly a hundred ants into a rage with his lies, System concluded that Foolish was just a special case among ants.

Even if deceived by his lies, normal ants would notice something wrong and then attack him without hesitation.

“A few dozen seconds?”

System suddenly realized something, but at that moment, he had yet to find the key point.

He thought for a while, played back the images with his [Information Entry], and then keyed in the information of the hundred ants that he had just tried to deceive into the menu of [Self-Information Generation] for statistical analysis.

The time between being deceived and going into a rage was generally around 30 to 60 seconds. Usually, these ants would believe him in the first 20 seconds, but at around 25 seconds, they would become dull and mentally confused.

The time those ants needed to awaken from confusion varied greatly from 5 to 30 seconds, depending on the individual differences.