Chapter 57: The Wedding Ceremony (4)
them one by one, they knew the bad news, and one by one their heads were lowered, and their tentacles hung on the ground, listless.
The protagonist was about to go over to comfort them, but he saw that many soldiers had been instructed by the kings to climb behind the male and female ants and bite off their wings in one bite.
"Damn, what are you doing...... the protagonist gets angry! Don't let them participate in the wedding ceremony, forget it, and now they have bitten off their wings, this is deliberately hurting!
Compared with the main nest, the protagonist has a sense of belonging to the sub-nest of "Dongyang City" where he was born, and came to the main nest just to verify the legendary fire, and then stayed temporarily because he was able to systematically learn knowledge. The protagonist doesn't have much nostalgia for the identity of the Divine Envoy King and the environment of the main nest, and if he can, he would rather go back to "Dongyang City" and get along with them. As a result, now his partner is being "bullied" in front of him, and the protagonist quits.
The protagonist angrily runs up to the judge and asks them why the ants of the main nest did what they did. The judge was confused, and returned to his rightful emotions.
The protagonist hurriedly runs to Roll and comfort him, but Roll and the other male and female ants have no grievances about the wings being torn off, and in their opinion, they can no longer participate in the ceremony, so these wings are optional.
The protagonist realizes that he seems to have misunderstood something, scratches his head and retreats.
After deciding to withdraw from the ceremony, the king of the main nest informed them to follow the guide ants to the temporary settlement to rest, at least after they had eaten and drunk enough, they could leave for home tomorrow.
The protagonist doesn't bother to watch the rituals that follow, and he follows them to the temporary settlement. Along the way, the protagonist occasionally glances at the sky.
By this time, the sky had gradually darkened, and more than half of the male and female ants had finished the ceremony. The females have successfully mated, while the males have both winners and losers who have given up the ritual and chosen to survive.
The darkness made the atmosphere of the whole ceremony seem dangerous, and what made the ants who participated in the ceremony feel even more uneasy were some dragonflies that were attracted. Although these dragonflies are still small in number, and they are also suspicious of the mating ceremony site with great density, the temptation of food makes them tentatively approach the center of the ceremony.
With fewer and fewer ants left in the air, the dragonflies finally got into action, and after a swift glide in the air, the first unlucky male ant was stuffed into the mouthpiece by the giant dragonfly and chewed into puree, opening the curtain on a new aerial killing.
The flying ants who are carrying out the ritual seem to have only now discovered these uninvited guests who have been eyeing them for a long time. Some of the flying ants no longer cared about what to mating and hurriedly landed on the ground to accept the protection of their companions. But there are also many lucky flying ants who choose to continue.
The ants on the ground did not react at all to the constant hunting of their air companions by dragonflies, I don't know if it was because the ant kingdom did not have air power to help, or if they thought it was also part of the cruel ritual of natural selection.
The protagonist no longer cares about these titular kindreds, and after a whole ceremony, the protagonist has a new understanding of the morality of this ant kingdom. "As long as my buddies are alive." The protagonist thinks to himself.
Coming to the temporary settlement site, the protagonist puts out the shelf of the Divine Messenger King, and asks for a whole nest room to house the partners from "Dongyang City", anyway, there are enough rooms in this underground city-state. All the males, females, and their subordinates crowded into the nest, making it a bit crowded. At this time, the guards of the main nest no longer forced these male and female ants to live separately, anyway, the ceremony was over, these ants lost their qualifications to reproduce, and they should not violate the custom if they follow the rules.
After the main nest ant who led the way is gone, the protagonist runs to continue comforting his companions, and they are both very disappointed and lose the desire to communicate. The protagonists read their emotions of disappointment and anger in their tentacles.
The protagonist doesn't know how to solve it, but fortunately, the ants didn't kill themselves. The protagonist decides to let them eat and sleep first, maybe tomorrow will be fine.
The protagonist grabs a worker ant passing by the door and asks her to bring a few of them to bring the most delicious food in the granary. As the king of the gods, he still has this authority, and the protagonist thinks to himself that he has never eaten meat anyway, so let's take the share saved in so many days to get rid of them.
After arranging dinner, the protagonist returns to his bedroom. Xiao Mi and Hua Mulan had been waiting for a long time, happily coming around, Xiao Mi inquired about the wedding ceremony with excitement, and didn't know how a worker ant who should have been stupid could be so gossipy.
The protagonist told them all the scenes they saw, and they didn't mosaic those bloody and cruel scenes, anyway, the two ants didn't care, but listened to them with relish, as if these things were taken for granted, and they didn't care at all that the kingdom lost a large number of people in one day.
The protagonist is waiting for the senior brother to come back, he has a lot of things he wants to ask the senior brother, and only the senior brother can answer himself in detail and patiently.
It wasn't until the protagonist fell asleep and woke up in a daze that he found that the senior brother on the other side had just returned. He hurried over. As a result, before his question was spoken, the senior brother on the other side had already boasted excitedly:
"I've mated with two females today." The elder brother looked extremely excited. The protagonist is confused and doesn't know what he has to brag about twice a night.,I've heard of a lot of spicy hot in my last life.γSeven times a night.γ
The elder brother sensed the protagonist's confused mood, so he had to explain: "It is rare to obtain the mating rights of one female ant, and it is a very great thing to obtain the mating rights of two. β
Finally, the elder brother added embarrassedly: "However, the second female ant was later snatched by other male ants, but I have succeeded and ignored it." β
Only then did the protagonist realize that the wings behind the elder brother were gone, and when he thought of getting them, he hurriedly inquired about the wings.
"Wings, you need to tear them off after the ceremony." The elder brother has no regrets about the lack of a pair of wings: "The absence of wings means that you are an adult." β
"What about ants whose wings were torn off for the ritual or who didn't make it for mating?" The protagonist asks.
"Then they are also adults, but they didn't succeed in mating." The elder brother explained.
"Then can't I come back next year to participate in the wedding flight?" The protagonist is a little unwilling, although there is no discrimination against whether they are virgins or not, but it seems that they still attach great importance to this.
"Of course not, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." The elder brother replied categorically. The protagonist has no choice but to give up this opportunistic little calculation.
"Oh, did you succeed?" The eldest brother finally remembered to ask the protagonist, and the protagonist had to lie to him and say that he had succeeded, otherwise he would lose face.
"Your wings haven't been torn off yet, do you want my help?" The elder brother asked again. The protagonist quickly refused, thinking: The body is skinny, and I still have this pair of wings, although I can't even fly.
At this time, the protagonist suddenly thought of another question: Who are my parents in this life? Mom should be the queen ant in "Dongyang City". And what about Dad? "Dongyang City" seems to have only seen Lao Wang an adult male ant......
The more the protagonist thinks about it, the more sweaty he becomes......