The Difficult Ten Centimeters

Tom learned that the mutated ant queen would evolve to secrete complex command pheromones when he first encountered her.

The ant colony surrounded the shelter and quietly waited for them to come out, which was impossible before. They didn't have such good patience unless there was a strong pheromone guidance.

This was also the reason Tom judged that the ant queen of this nest had mutated. Because the previous pheromones of ants were guided by a specific smell, only the pheromones secreted by the pheromone organs inside the mutated queen's body could act directly on the collective mind without fear of external wind and water interference. Tom understood very well after contacting the ant queen in the apartment building; this was already very close to the mind control in StarCraft.

However, the spread distance of this type of pheromone was still limited, so ants capable of transmitting this pheromone needed to be hatched to convey the queen's control pheromone.