Published: February 12, 2025
In the world of evolvers, sleeping at night no longer holds much significance, but Ye Zhongming still used this excuse to decline many invitations and requests for meetings.
Most of these people were well-meaning, but there were also those with ill intentions, though Ye Zhongming didn't pay much attention to them.
With his current status, at least within Black Dragon City, no one could stand on equal footing with him. Ye Zhongming wanted to gather more information about the northern region, which meant he would have to connect with the various big shots in Black Dragon City.
Many things were beyond the reach of someone like Brother Hei. Logically speaking, this was an opportunity to build relationships with these individuals. However, Ye Zhongming politely declined, primarily because he had already obtained many valuable items from the Pinnacle Pavilion.
For example, there were the Cracked Coldstone on the second floor. This was a widely applicable material that could be used in equipment to enhance ice abilities, and it was also a primary material for a type of gauntlet called the cold fist gauntlets.
At that time, due to the need for gauntlets, Ye Zhongming had collected schematic diagrams for a period, and the cold fist gauntlets were one of those items, but he had given up on manufacturing them because he couldn’t find Cracked Coldstone.
Another example was the Ice Marrow Liquid, a liquid that could be consumed by evolvers with ice skills or those with overall ice attributes, directly increasing their power in that domain. It was even more suitable for ice-type battle beasts.
Now, both of Ye Zhongming's ice birds had reached the eighth level, and obtaining Ice Marrow Liquid would give them a significant boost.
Then there were the Snow Pattern Ants; this was the first time Ye Zhongming had heard about this lifeform. After reviewing the detailed introduction prepared by the Pinnacle Pavilion, he learned that these ants were very easy to tame. By controlling the queen ant, one could control this special group that included worker ants, soldier ants, and general ants.
Worker ants took care of the colony's livelihood, constructing nests and gathering resources, while also producing a type of food through their secretions to feed the entire colony.
Soldier ants were responsible for hunting and guarding the nest, protecting the territory and the foraging worker ants.
The primary responsibility of the general ants was to breed with the queen, but they were also the highest combat strength in the entire colony, safeguarding the queen from attacks.
This group had a clear division of labor and a strict hierarchy.
Although the queen of this ant nest was just a newly born mutated lifeform, and only at level two, having produced only a few dozen level one worker ants and five soldier ants after her first breeding, not a single general ant was present, the description stated that they had extremely high development potential.
Once the queen reached level five in evolution, there would be a qualitative change, and general ants would appear among the offspring, ushering the entire colony into a rapid growth phase.
As long as they had sufficient food and suitable temperatures, they would experience bottleneck-free evolution in a very short time, quickly becoming advanced mutated lifeforms.
Simultaneously, due to the special nature of ants, their numbers would be enormous. People in the northern region had once encountered a colony with an eighth-level queen migrating, a scene that was unforgettable. The number of fifth-level worker ants was over a hundred thousand, sixth-level soldier ants numbered in the thousands, and there were hundreds of seventh-level general ants.
If they were still the same small size as before the apocalypse, then having over a hundred thousand wouldn’t be much. But one must understand that fifth-level worker ants were as large as calves, sixth-level soldier ants were as big as rhinoceroses, and seventh-level general ants were like elephants!