"My brave believers, you have proven your courage, so I intend to reward you with a broader world to survive in."
Deng Ru's words left the ants stunned for a moment.
They had just moved not long ago, and now they had to move again?
And it would be even broader than their current home?
This was simply...too good to be true.
Even small ants desired a big house.
The queen ant made her way through the swarm to Deng Ru.
[Benevolent Father, you will bestow upon us another world to survive in?]
"Yes, I have felt your bravery and will reward you with a brand new world to survive in. Follow me."
Deng Ru then walked towards his bedroom.
Seeing this, the queen ant quickly waved her antennae, frantically relaying the message to the swarm.
[Children! Follow in the footsteps of the god! We will settle in a broader world!]
When the ants entered Deng Ru's bedroom, they were stunned.
Based on their experience living in Deng Ru's rental room over the years.
This place was the resting ground of Deng Ru and another seemingly weaker deity, known as the legendary divine resting place.
Was Deng Ru really going to give up his resting place for them to live and multiply?
[Oh my, the god is actually willing to give up his resting place for us to live in. This is truly a unique divine favor!]
[This is the god's, the god favors us, and our ant race will rise!]
Excited, the swarm of ants waved their antennae. To their amazement, Deng Ru stored all the furniture in the room, such as the bed, table, computer, and other items into his divine space.
He then filled the entire room with cabinets he had bought from the mall.
From the ants' perspective, it was as if a miracle had occurred.
The world was suddenly cleared, and then skyscrapers rose straight into the heavens.
All of this was beyond the ants' capabilities, a miracle.
[Oh my, not only did the god give us his world to live in, but he also built so many tall and exquisite nests for us!]
[Benevolent and generous god, we praise you. You are the greatest existence in this world.]
A plethora of praises began to emerge.
Deng Ru ignored the praises of the small ants and used his divine power to bring the queen ant before him.
It was the queen ant's first time flying in the air, and she appeared extremely unnatural, constantly waving her six legs, fearing that Deng Ru would drop her to her death.
"My believer, henceforth, you and your kind shall dwell in these two worlds. Then, I hope that you can share with your kind the feelings and state you experienced when absorbing my divine power. If your kind can absorb my leaked divine power like you, as long as a thousand of them can do so, I shall grant you a wish."
Deng Ru now intended to expand the ant race and cultivate some fanatic believers.
Fanatic believers could provide far more faith than ordinary believers. Out of the 50 million ants, surely there would be a thousand or so fanatic believers, right?
It was just that currently, there were only methods for humans to absorb divine power and cultivate, and there were no such methods for ants circulating. Otherwise, Deng Ru would have already obtained one or two copies.
Then he could have let the queen ant give birth to ants relentlessly, creating a fanatic believer assembly line.
The queen ant in the air obviously stumbled for a moment before slowly waving her antennae.
This time, the queen ant did not offer a plethora of praises.
She only replied to Deng Ru with one word.
[Huh?]
It was evident that she did not understand Deng Ru's meaning.
What was absorbing divine power, feelings, state? She didn't know!
"It's when you felt that you had received my blessing and your body became stronger. Share these experiences with your kind."
Deng Ru realized that this little ant might not have understood his words, so he changed to a more colloquial explanation.
This time, the queen ant understood and quickly waved her antennae.
[Benevolent Father, when I received your blessing, I felt as if I had received the blessing from the greatest and most powerful existence in the world...]
"???"
Deng Ru's face was full of confusion. Who the hell asked her to say this?
Who the hell asked her to flatter like those treacherous courtiers in ancient imperial courts?
Deng Ru understood that relying on the queen ant's childish intelligence was basically hopeless in researching a systematic method of divine power absorption suitable for all ants.
He would have to rely on himself for this matter.
"Alright, you shall now begin to grow and expand your swarm. You don't have to worry about food. When you finish the food in that world, you can come to me anytime, and I will provide you with endless food again. If you can expand your swarm to 500 million within 15 days and nights, I will clear away all the rats in the surrounding area and bestow upon you an even broader world to dwell in."
Since he couldn't rely on this little useless creature to research the techniques for the ant race, he would make this little useless creature an emotionless breeding machine.
Deng Ru gave the queen ant a rigid target. Reaching a population of 500 million ants within 15 days was already the minimum requirement.
If this requirement was not met, he, as a fresh deity in the divine realm, would definitely not be able to defeat the old geezer in H City.
The queen ant stumbled for a moment before shaking her antennae twice and asking.
[Benevolent Father, when should I start reproducing my kind?]
"Right now."
Deng Ru couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth. Damn, every second counts. When? Now!
There was only one month left, and he couldn't afford to wait even a second more. If he waited, people would die.
Not just Qiu Yuan, but also the nearly 10,000 brides-to-be of the old geezer in H City would die.
Saving lives is akin to building a seven-story pagoda. What he was doing now was saving nearly 10,000 innocent and beautiful young girls.
The queen ant understood Deng Ru's meaning and quickly crawled into the middle compartment of the middle cabinet.
Her seemingly hard as iron abdomen began to writhe.
Soon, a maggot that was a hundred times larger appeared in the compartment.
"??? If my biology is not wrong, this maggot, ah no, this ant, is what a queen ant should look like in biology, right?"
Deng Ru was obviously stunned when he saw the maggot.
Had he misunderstood for so long? Was that maggot actually the queen ant?
But soon, the next scene shattered Deng Ru's newly established belief.
The queen ant's abdomen did not stop writhing, and one maggot after another was born.
"My believer, what are you doing?"
Deng Ru was now very curious. Were these maggots the real queen ants?
The queen ant heard Deng Ru's words and stopped her movements, waving her two antennae to answer Deng Ru's question.
[Benevolent Father, I can give birth to offspring, but it's slow, so I created these breeding beds to help me give birth to offspring!]
The queen ant's words answered Deng Ru's question. She was indeed the queen ant and could give birth to small ants, but it was slow, so she created a bunch of small queen ants to help her give birth to small ants.
This way, it would be much faster.
These breeding beds were like infinitely weakened versions of the queen ant, retaining only the functions of reproduction and eating.
The endless spawning of the ant race relied entirely on them.
As if to confirm the queen ant's words, the tails of those breeding beds began to spit out large clumps of white eggs, which looked like ant eggs.
As they spat out the egg masses, ants quickly climbed up to take the eggs away and store them in a dark corner, while another group of ants carrying various foods came to the breeding beds and fed them the food in their mouths.
As the food was fed, the breeding beds also began to produce, and the queen ant did not stop working. She had already given birth to a total of more than 50 clumps of breeding beds.
"So that's how it is. Wonderful, too wonderful. A breeding factory for the ant race has been born like this."
Deng Ru couldn't help but applaud at the sight. The queen ant was still producing breeding beds, and at this point, she had produced more than 50 clumps.
A breeding bed could give birth to 200 to 400 ant eggs at a time.
With more than 50 clumps of breeding beds producing together, they could give birth to 20,000 eggs at!