Chapter 3209 Research and War

It seems that most civilizations have a hard time dealing with this kind of problem.

That is about the discharge point of waste.

The same is true for the creatures on this particular planet, 'Ersh'.

This is even more troublesome for them than for any single civilization that occupies the world.

At that time, various ape-like creatures, octopuses, and some other intelligent creatures occupied the surface of the earth.

They cannot throw everything into the sea like the Ershi people do.

Intelligent creatures in the ocean rarely interact with land creatures, but there have been several wars caused by them dumping a lot of waste into the sea.

There is no contact between "soldiers" in the war between the sea and the land. It is just missiles fired at each other.

Every fight would result in heavy casualties, so the surface creatures soon decided to use another method to deal with the waste.

Later, the creatures on the surface decided to bury all their waste underground.

They started out by digging big holes and dumping them in to fill them up... then slowly they began to drag them deeper into the ground.

Because this world itself has many huge 'natural' underground caves.

They kept trying to move the waste deeper, again and again, with the waste transport machinery shuttling between the leaf-cutter ants'...burrows.

Leaf-cutter ants, which originally lived underground cultivating fungi, discovered these civilized tools for disposing of waste.

But... they did nothing.

This group of leaf-cutter ants hid themselves.

The civilized creatures that come to the surface to dump waste can only occasionally see the "edge" of their huge groups, and know nothing about them.

Leaf-cutter ants sent some troops to the surface to observe the civilization on the surface. This was the first time they discovered that there were biological groups on the surface that were so different from their own.

So leaf-cutter ants began a long-term study of surface civilization.

Leafcutter ants rarely enter cities directly because their appearance is too...conspicuous and their size is too large.

However, they are still learning more and more about the civilization on the surface because of the waste.

By studying waste, leafcutter ants can learn about the technological level of surface creatures, what is happening, and everything else.

Because the species on the ground are very different from themselves, leaf-cutter ants also spend a long time to understand them all.

But they finally figured it out, learned the language used by the surface creatures, and also understood the operation of their urban systems and everything else.

In fact, most of the information is obtained from waste.

Although the creatures on the surface have seen the leaf-cutter ants' army many times, they do not regard them as a "civilization".

I haven't even had a deeper understanding of it.

Leaf-cutter ants do not have any aversion to throwing waste underground. Instead, they are very interested in surface creatures.

They find it very interesting that each of these creatures has a different consciousness and countless different ideas.

Then, the leaf-cutter ants decided to defeat these civilizations on the surface.

It's not because I think the surface creatures are a threat or anything like that.

I just want to see...what changes will occur to these surface creatures in extremely dangerous environments.

Each of them has independent consciousness, so how they respond when faced with a crisis depends on their situation.

To put it simply, I just want to see their reactions.

Another reason is that leaf-cutter ants feel they have a complete chance of winning.

And after the war began, this was indeed the case.

Leaf-cutter ants have a complete understanding of everything on the surface of the earth, mainly information such as how stable the ground building structures are.

They can easily bring down these buildings.

The surface creatures had no experience in fighting against underground creatures and were thus defeated one after another.

In the later stages, the leaf-cutter ants almost drove these creatures to extinction, and during the war, they also saw all the interesting parts of the surface creatures.

Like the initial fear of the surface creatures at the underground attack, the continuous disputes over how to formulate tactics, and the continuous display of immense selfishness and mutual cooperation in times of crisis.

Finally, they regard unity and cooperation in fighting the enemy as the highest ideal, and try to unify all different consciousnesses to fight.

All of this is really amazing for leaf-cutter ants.

Lin felt that what the leaf-cutter ants did was somewhat similar to what the Ershi people were doing today. In order to understand the ants, they poured molten metal into ant nests, captured them and brought them back to the laboratory for research, and investigated their ecology.

Leaf-cutter ants do not feel that these creatures on the surface are threatening enemies and should be eliminated.

The whole process is simply... one creature's interest in another creature with a completely different form of consciousness from its own, and its understanding and admiration of these alien lives.

Therefore, leaf-cutter ants did not destroy these creatures. Instead, they had an attitude of research and understanding from the very beginning.

However, although they have a considerable understanding of these independent conscious individuals, they do not have much "respect" for them.

To be precise, there is no respect for the individual.

As long as the population does not die, it is not considered dead. This is true for leaf-cutter ants.

Therefore, no matter how miserably a creature screams when it dies, it is difficult for them to understand that emotion.

So the leaf-cutter ants destroyed most of the cities without any sense of "guilt".

In the later stages of the war, leafcutter ants created some unique individuals, which were essentially the products of research on unique organisms.

Lin discovered that the soldiers they created were similar to the early brainworms, mainly to allow the soldiers to undergo "nuclear information mutation" during the larval stage to give birth to different "abilities".

This requires huge numbers and time, but leaf-cutter ants have no shortage of these.

Later, leaf-cutter ants became more and more precise in regulating nuclear information, thus producing some unique individuals.

The purpose of the birth of individual individuals is to blend into the surface biological civilization and conduct more in-depth investigations on them.

This approach was considered quite successful.

Because after the surface civilization fled into the void, this group of unique individuals still played a very good role. They continued to provide the leaf-cutter ants with a lot of information, allowing the leaf-cutter ants to understand what these creatures encountered and experienced in the void.

These individual individuals can reproduce independently, and they also have many uses that are created by leaf-cutter ants.

This meant that most of these escaping civilizations did not deal with these individuals.

Leaf-cutter ants are always looking forward to coming into contact with them again.

In fact, some civilizations think so.

After developing in the void for a period of time, they tried to go back... They felt that they were strong enough to completely eliminate the leaf-cutter ants on the surface.

But what they didn't expect was that the leaf-cutter ants had undergone tremendous changes.