"So it's a pregnancy; no wonder the belly is so big. I thought it was just fat."
Li Zheng remembered that after breaking open the ant nest, besides the fertilizing gland fluid, he also found a small heap of things that looked like insect eggs, which he casually put into the capsule without a second look.
[Leaf-Cutter Ant Eggs
Tier: None
Type: Insect
Status: Gestating (Advanced Stage)
Description: Eggs of the leaf-cutter ants, which can only successfully gestate in the presence of the queen. If separated from the mother for too long, they will lose vitality and become dead 'embryos'.]
The ant eggs weren't big, only the size of two grains of rice, with a crisp green color that looked somewhat like emerald.
A total of two hundred and thirty-three ant eggs were harvested earlier, eighty-three of which were in the advanced stage of gestation, eighty in the middle stage, and seventy in the early stage.
