Chapter 68: Half a Year (I)
Like all the intelligent creatures in the Lëlte Forest, the winter in the Lëlte Forest has not ended since the return of the Lord of the Glacier.
The cold winds have caused the forest to cool down, but in the last two months the cold winds have weakened a bit, and the cold winter in the Lliorte Forest has stabilized, at least not any longer.
During these few months, there are many ice and snow creatures in the Lierte Forest.
Snow-white foxes, pale blue frost slimes, blue butterflies, and some strange insects.
The leaves of the original trees in the forest have basically dried up, and most of them have fallen with the snow and ice, but some special plants have grown on the branches of some trees, which are green and yellow moss.
These moss plants secrete special sap and have the ability to dissolve snow and ice, and the inside of the moss cannot be frozen by the cold.
This peculiar moss and a mushroom that resembles a snowy color are the basis for the revival of the Lillte Forest in winter.
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The sunny weather in the Lierte Forest has lasted for half a month, and in the icy white world, just the moonlight and starlight at night will make it not dim.
In a snowy cave, a snow-white mouse wakes up from a sweet sleep.
Like the nocturnal habits of rats in Liltsen climates, white-furred rats also forage in the wild at night.
The white mouse has only been born for two months now, and it will never know how good the conditions of its predecessors are in the warm climate.
At that time, the forest was full of plants, and you could find a variety of food just a few steps away, dig through piles of rotting dead leaves, and eat delicious and nutritious earthworms and centipedes.
However, there are pros and cons.
Although food is scarce in the Ice Forest, there are far fewer dangers in the Ice Forest.
The white rat could never have imagined how frightened its predecessors were every time they went out to forage in the snowy forest.
Sniffing with its sensitive nose, the white mouse's idea was simple, it searched for the moss and white mushrooms in the forest on the one hand, and the scent of the female mouse on the other.
A few days ago, it had noticed the cry of a female rat and the feces left by the female rat in the snow, but it had not been able to find the female mouse for the past two days, as if the female mouse had left.
The white mouse suddenly smelled a delicious aroma and followed the smell, and soon spotted green moss and mushrooms piled up in the corner of a tree.
The two foods were mixed with each other as if they were crushed, and even though they were far apart, the white rats could smell a rich sweet smell.
The white mouse seemed to feel that something was wrong, but it couldn't think of what was wrong with its intelligence, and after hesitating for a while, because of the hunger in its abdomen, the white mouse moved over and began to eat.
The white rat in its feeding suddenly had an idea.
Why does it go out at night to forage for food, when it has a better view outside during the day and is easier to spot food?
The white mouse's head showed a thoughtful expression, and it found that its body seemed to be a little stiff, and its two forelimbs grasping food twitched uncontrollably.
The white rat tumbled uncontrollably to the ground, its body as if it was paralyzed, and it was not under its control at all.
The icy cold wind blew through its hairless belly, and the white mouse tried to roll over and warm its belly, only to find that it couldn't.
It didn't take long for the eyes of the white rat to spot several strange insects that were four centimeters in size and had grayish-white bodies.
The white rat has never seen much of this insect, but its survival instincts tell it what it is, which is a slightly larger ant and a food that can be eaten by it.
Saliva flowed involuntarily from the mouth of the white mouse.
Since birth, he has only eaten moss and mushrooms except the lotion of the mother rat, and has never eaten anything else.
In the sight of the white mouse, two ants crawled in front of it and opened their chelicera, as if they were biting at its throat.
It didn't feel any pain, and the bubbling blood didn't seem like it was its own.
The white mouse only felt that its body was cold, especially the cold wind blowing on its belly became colder, and it wanted to turn over......
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After five large gray-white ants killed the white rats, it wasn't long before seven worker ants of the same size came to the snow.
The twelve ants first ate the blood gushing from the mouse's neck, and then cooperated with each other to lift the mouse's carcass and carry it towards their nests.
These ants appear to have a higher level of intelligence than ordinary ants.
Unlike some ants in the summer who also like to carry large pieces of food, those ants are always mentally retarded in the process of carrying food, and may even drag the food in the opposite direction to drag it back.
Twelve ants took almost the same steps, carrying the mouse's carcass over the rugged snow and ice, as if it were walking on the ground, and after ten minutes, they carried the mouse to the entrance of the five-meter-deep wintering crypt.
There are not many ants in this wintering burrow, probably just over a hundred.
Near the entrance to the wintering crypt were two 10-centimeter-sized soldier ants, and when the ant team returned from hunting, they moved out of the way and communicated with the ants with their tentacles......
It wasn't long before a dozen ants crawled out of the nest of Sistem's wintering nest, and the two dozen ants worked together to carry the mouse carcasses to an empty room in the nest where meat was stored.
Successfully catching a rat with a trap containing paralyzing toxin is obviously no small thing.
It would take a few days to catch such a large game if their king or Shava didn't make a move.
Although the two dozen or so worker ants have higher IQs than ordinary ants, there are also obvious differences in their IQs.
One of them had a dark spot on his head, and the worker ant named Black by Systm had great intelligence.
In addition to the name Black, it is often referred to as Little Black by the king.
Blake's body is smaller than the average worker ant, and although it is much larger than the average black-brown worker ant, it is a stunted worker ant in this nest.
But as the king said, when Heaven takes away one thing from it, it gives it another.
According to the king, its body has the possibility of activating a strange ability, and after possessing this ability, it can have the ability to transmit spiritual messages like the king.
In the entire nest, except for the king and queen Linda, he is the only one who has the possibility of transmitting spiritual messages.
Blake moved back and forth in the five-meter-deep lair, and after the king discovered that he had great intelligence, he was given a special task by the king -
Usually patrol the lair, and when there are some major and minor incidents, they will find the king to report.
However, Blake searched the empty chamber where the king was always in the five-meter-deep lair, but still found no trace of the king, not even the knight Shava.
According to Blake's guess, the king should have gone out with Shava at this time......