Chapter 205: Report
Ch. 205 Report
I follow along with the other red ants, who themselves are following the red ant commander, and return to their nest.
I finally arrive at the innermost part of the nest where there is not much space. The red ants line up the crimson cocoons that they brought back side by side along the ground. I open up my mouth and spit out the cocoons that had been tossed into it.
Eugh, this feels rather disgusting. Ptui!
A total of forty cocoons were brought back to the nest. It would seem that the most red ants that the other nest could raise at any one time was forty. Shouldn’t it be possible to raise one to two hundred at a time? If they did increase like that, then they could have red ants covering the whole world!
However, if they can lay up to forty at a time, then why are there only two hundred in the nest? Is there a limit to how many eggs a queen ant can lay in her lifetime or does this desert have a high ant mortality rate? It might be quite some time until the next larvae hatch.
Of what was carried back, the red ants brought back twenty, I brought back ten, and partner brought back ten… Huh? What’s wrong? Partner, hurry up and spit them out already!
“Gaa?”
Partner barks and opens her mouth, revealing nothing inside of it. No way, you’re kidding me, right?