Theo watched as the Ant Queen experiments with different strategies.
One involved luring a slime toward the colony with the help of the worker ants. It worked, but at a cost, leading to some casualties. Once they were above the ground, the ants lost much of their strength, which led to them dying.
Theo saw the slime dissolve them within its body, only to realize something unexpected: the ants' carapaces were so strong that they didn't disintegrate fully.
That made Theo feel uneasy. If the slime recognized them as a rich source of nutrients, it might start actively hunting the ants as well. At least, that was what Theo suspected.
The next tactic was something that caught him completely off guard, never having thought that the Ant Queen would try.
The ants pinpointed the location the slime would surface above the ground and rapidly dug toward the exact spot; hundreds of ants worked with a single goal: reach the slime before it could react.
