Chapter 253 Preparations continue (1/2)

It would be utterly ridiculous if the humans were to be working harder than the ants. That is a situation that could never be borne! Never! Ants are the hardest working, most industrious species on the face of the earth.

Never tiring! Never slowing!

Now it's time to show it!

Watching the humans feverishly working as if possessed by a spirit of madness has ignited a fire within my ant soul. I refuse to be outworked!

I mean … the rest of the colony are working their guts out, as always, it's only me that takes breaks. The workers are either tending to the sudden influx of eggs, keeping them clean, keeping them the right temperature, s.h.i.+fting them between chambers to make sure the moisture in the air is correct, or tending to the larvae, feeding them, keeping them plump and happy. Not to mention that Vibrant has been racing about, followed by her own loyal posse of workers, at a mad dash, hauling piles and piles of surface monsters back to the nest.

According to her, the surrounding forest is starting to look a little thin of surface monsters so I recommended she take her group into the Dungeon farms and upper tunnels to beef up her helpers and provide some more Bioma.s.s rich material for the colony.

No sooner had the words left my mouth than she was off, das.h.i.+ng down into the Dungeon and soon enough she was back with her team, carrying large mandible loads of Bioma.s.s.

Naturally this means the Queen is getting ready to lay another clutch in the next few days. All of this Bioma.s.s has largely been funnelled towards her which means my own preparations need to step up a gear!

First!

The farms!

What's wrong with the farms? Nothing!

What do we need? MOAR FARMS!

We need to pump out Bioma.s.s and cores at a faster rate than ever before in order to kick start the growth of the hatchlings, and there are going to be a heck of a lot of them!

So the first thing I do is clear out the existing farms and chow down, no need to waste the food and I somewhat spitefully want to keep it from the Queen in order to slow down the rate of growth, if only a little.

This nets me a quick 30 Bioma.s.s, since they were relatively empty already due to Vibrant and Crinis' attention over the last few days. Then the excavation starts. Currently the farms are four , round chambers about twenty metres beneath the surface. In my grand expansion plan I add another eight chambers, the new ones roughly double the size of the previous.

Due to the size of the task I end up recruiting Vibrant and her gang when they return to the nest and we get our face hands stuck into the dirt.

Ah! The bliss! Ant zen, how I've missed you!