Thousands of clones starting from ants

Chapter 72 Specialized New Species, Artisan Ants
After collecting a lot of information, Du Jia finally figured out why a single ant has no IQ attribute.

A single ant, given its infinite lifespan, can it build an ant colony with different functional areas, temperature control, ventilation, and waterproof?
Not to mention ants, creatures with small brains and extremely simple behavior patterns.

It’s a human being who has never learned the relevant knowledge. If you ask him to dig a cellar, it’s okay to dig a basement with more than a dozen rooms and ensure ventilation and temperature control. Can he handle it?

But a swarm of ants, they can handle it.

It is obviously composed of stupid individuals one by one, why do they become smarter when there are more numbers?
Could it be that the three stooges really beat Zhuge Liang?
Some people may think that it is because of the orders given by the queen ant.

But is the queen ant that smart?
In fact, there is a view that an ant is not a living thing, but a group of ants is a living thing.

The relationship between ants and ant colony is like the relationship between human neurons and brain.

A neuron alone is nothing.

But a brain composed of hundreds of millions of neurons can invent the atomic bomb.

Do you remember what you ate last night, is it recorded by a neuron?No, if you cut off a little neuron, you will most likely not lack any memory.

Scientists have confirmed that a single neuron has no thinking ability and no memory ability.

But the brain made of it is invincible.

Is it the same as ants? An ant and a group of ants are completely different things.

……

Du Jia began to think about what kind of attributes to pinch out.

Thinking about it, he remembered the history of human development.

A living example.

No matter how powerful an individual is, it can't compare to those who use weapons.

Strength, there is almost 2 o'clock, too little to do work.

Endurance is also a truth, 1 point.

The remaining 7 points are all for agility.

Du Jia thought about it again, made sure there was nothing wrong, and clicked Next.

The property interface disappears.

The ant figure in the background is pushed to the front.

Du Jia pondered for a while before figuring it out.

Just now it was about assigning attributes, but now it's about pinching faces.

The attributes can be concentrated and strengthened on certain body organs. For example, if Du Jia concentrates all his agility on his legs, the ant will most likely become a shadow warrior, with ghostly mobility.

Du Jia thought of termites again.

When the monsters attacked the city at that time, the head of the termite ant was the most eye-catching, like a large melon seed-shaped shield buckled on the head, one head was bigger than the body, and it was all bones.

Afterwards, he searched why the white soldier ants evolved in this way.

The main purpose is to block holes when foreign enemies invade.

The big head just blocked the opening of the hole, and the fragile body was inside the hole, so there was no fear of being attacked at all.

That's why he specialized in this look of caring about his head and ignoring his back.

Without thinking, Du Jia kept his strength and endurance unchanged, and directly added all his agility to the ant's forelimbs.

Suddenly such a picture appeared in his mind.

An ant walks very slowly, just like Mr. Sloth in "Zootopia", it is always much slower than other ants.

It seems... a bit scary.

Can't be too extreme.

So Du Jia returned 1 point of agility to the body.

Final attributes: strength: 2; agility: 7; stamina 1.

Click OK.

"Ants are being specialized..."

"Ant specialization succeeded!"

A brand new ant appeared in front of Du Jia.

This ant is smaller than ordinary worker ants in size. After all, it has less strength and endurance than worker ants, which means that its natural body cannot compare with worker ants.

But its most obvious is the two forelimbs, which are thicker than ordinary ants, and there are two pincer-like organs at the end that function as fingers.

Although it is not as good as the five fingers of humans, it is already very good for ants, and it can do a lot of meticulous work.

Like the ants in the current weapon workshop and equipment workshop, they all rely on the pliers in their mouths to make equipment.

"Please name the specialized ant!"

Du Jia thought for a while and said, "Let's call it a craftsman ant!"

"Confirm, the specialized ants are called artisan ants!"

"From the larval stage, you can choose whether to grow into artisan ants! Compared with worker ants, artisan ants will consume extra protein and sweets, please pay attention to keeping food abundant!"

Du Jia adjusted immediately.

First produce 500 artisan ants and send them to the weapon workshop and equipment workshop.

There is no need for more. Artisan ants are obviously not good at daily work such as finding food and digging holes, and it seems that they are not good at fighting either.

Soon, the first artisan ants were produced.

Seeing this artisan ant, Du Jia felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

Hastily ordered it to go to the weapon workshop.

This artisan ant obviously crawled slowly, and the worker ants and soldier ants next to it all swished past it.

And halfway up the road, it couldn't move.

The horror of low stamina is undoubtedly revealed.

Du Jia felt that it was conveying two messages.

"Hungry, hungry, hungry!"

"Tiny, tiring!"

Fearing that it would die from exhaustion, Du Jia quickly sent worker ants to bring food for it to eat. It took about four to five minutes for the crafter ant to recover.

Du Jia thought for a while, and ordered to dig a food storage room next to the production area (that is, the weapon workshop and equipment workshop), specially for the artisan ants to eat.

Otherwise, the food storage room is far away. What if the group of artisan ants with poor stamina just climb back after eating and get hungry again?
Anyway, Du Jia's positioning for them is a group of technical geeks, just work honestly, and don't go out for a stroll if you have nothing to do.

Although this artisan ant looks like an otaku with poor physical strength, once it enters the weapons workshop, it immediately becomes a majestic professional.

I have to feel the collective wisdom of the ant colony. The newborn ants know the route of the entire ant colony, and even go out to find food.

Newborn artisan ants also know how to forge weapons.

It kicked a worker ant nearby who was tearing a wooden stick with its mouthparts.

Poor stamina, poor balance, poor strength.

Nothing happened to the worker ant, it just fell to the ground.

The worker ants looked at it suspiciously.

It stood up, shook its body, and walked to a workbench, its two strong and well-developed forelimbs got up on the wooden stick.

In less than a minute, a wooden horn was produced by it, and the workmanship was much better than that of worker ants.

It looked at the wooden horn triumphantly.

Then I took another wooden corner and scratched it a few times on this wooden corner.

"Congratulations, your artisan ants have improved the wooden horn, and you can produce 'wooden horn with blood groove'!" Du Jia reminded in his mind.

"That's awesome!" Du Jia couldn't help admiring.

But this craftsman ant didn't seem satisfied. It took a wooden horn to test, and then another, and another...

In a blink of an eye, 10 wooden horns were damaged by it.

Then it was not satisfied with the wooden corner, so it directly found a piece of wood and started to polish it.

"What does it want to do?" Du Jia was full of anticipation. Looking at it like this, it should get a very powerful weapon.

then……

The craftsman ant was exhausted and fell asleep holding the wood.

Du Jia: "..."

(End of this chapter)