The general meeting of the male ants of "Dongyang Castle" was held on the second day.

On the first day, the protagonist gets the report late, and after calling the surviving paver ants to understand the situation, the protagonist becomes more and more angry.

But it was getting late, and the protagonist himself was a little sleepy, so he decided to hold a conference the next day, a convention that would inevitably consume a lot of effort and emotion.

That night, the protagonist eats dinner and feels like chewing wax.

He realized that it was difficult for the big-headed ant to coexist in harmony with other ant races under his command, but due to the level of working ants, the two sides did not show too many contradictions, so the protagonist ignored it, and he didn't expect to cause a murder today.

For the protagonist, whether it is human life or ant life, it is the passage of life. This is not the concept of equality of all beings, as the Buddhists believe, but simply the naïve concept of measuring the protagonist himself.

When he is a human being, it is natural to assume that all people, including cats, dogs, cows, and horses that are close in size and form, are alive. At that time, he didn't care about the life or death of one ant, and when he walked, he stepped on several ants with one foot, and even if he noticed it, he would not be upset about it.

But when he is an ant and is surrounded by busy worker ants and soldier ants, he will naturally regard these creatures that are similar to him in size, shape, and race as the same kind in a sense, and think that they have the same and similar rights to life as himself. But he won't care about the life of bacteria, unless one day he turns into a bacteria......

Now, there are two ants that the protagonist thinks should have the right to life and are killed by a bad nature, this is a murder, this is a murder, this is different from war, this violates the legal and moral red line in the protagonist's heart.

After the protagonist calms down, he carefully sorts out the deep reasons behind this case, which makes him feel very frightened.

In addition to the rival contradiction between the big-headed ant and the paver ant, on another level, this is also the contradiction between the male ant class and the occupational ant class.

The males never think of these ants as life equals to themselves, but as lowly slaves, undignified slaves, and pawns to be sacrificed! Therefore, although they rarely take the initiative to kill the occupational ants, after all, this is a waste of resources for the ant nest, but in the food supply, in the living environment, in the face of danger, the male ant class is everywhere, all the time to exploit the occupational ant class.

It is precisely because of the dual reasons of race and class that the kings of the new generation will unscrupulously kill two innocent paving ants and worker ants who are performing the protagonist's task.

Behind this, the protagonist has always been unaccustomed to trying to correct the cross-racial and cross-class gap that he wants to bridge. But apparently with little success.

The protagonist never questions why he wants to include an ant race other than the big-headed ant, which is a practical need in addition to a collector's habit.

Paver ants have proven their worth in winter, and they can complete the tasks of going out to scout and communicate in winter when the big-headed ants are not up to the task. As scout warriors, the Scythe Hunting Ant is also better than the Paving Ant and the Big-headed Ant.

The protagonist does not believe that he can accomplish the feat of integrating the two sides of a large river just by virtue of the strength and characteristics of a race of big-headed ants, and that the advantages and disadvantages of a single race are equally obvious.

And class is also hated by the protagonist.

The protagonist admits that ants are born different, with male, female, and occupational ants. However, this biological difference is not an excuse for the class divide.

For example, the little secretary who just died is a big worker ant, strictly speaking, she belongs to the occupational ant. However, due to her special life and experience, she not only has fertility, but her intelligence is also rare.

The protagonist wants to give more power and status to these large worker ants, but is unanimously opposed by the male ant class, simply because of her identity.

This makes the protagonist very uncomfortable, and the main reason for his discomfort is that he sees the huge and stubborn power of the male ant class, and he needs the effectiveness of these male ants at the same time, but he has to guard against their backlash all the time.

- I'm the dividing line -

That night, the protagonist dreams again!

At the beginning of the dream, it was still an unreal, spreading black line from the north, and then it turned into a black current and a black tide.

Such dreams appear from time to time, and the protagonist can't understand the meaning, which will only make him anxious to improve his strength as soon as possible to deal with the warnings in the dream.

But in the second half of the dream, the scene is very different.

In a chaotic, unclear space, the protagonist suddenly sees his own body.

It was a human body: fair and soft skin, slender and elastic thighs, dexterous fingers.

The protagonist has no mirrors, but his hands touch his face, feeling the bridge of his nose and lips, his eyebrows and hair, and a sense of ecstasy wells up in his heart.

He didn't know he was dreaming.

But just then, a huge ant appeared in front of him.

The ant has a hard carapace, a pair of waving antennae, and is on all fours, with its abdomen parallel to the ground, and its thorax erect vertically, with its two forelimbs hanging at its sides.

The protagonist is startled at first, but he is used to seeing ants as big as himself, so he is not alarmed. He just felt that the ant seemed familiar.

This is a male ant of a big-headed ant, and each male ant looks about the same, but as long as the tentacles have communicated deeply, the protagonist can accurately determine who the other person is.

This male ant protagonist doesn't know, he's a strange male ant?

As if seeing the protagonist's sake, the ant spoke, and human language came out of "it", which had no vocal cords and could not make a sound, and the big jaws closed one by one, and the sound waves entered the protagonist's ears and directly entered his brain:

"I'm you!"

The protagonist suddenly realizes that the opposite person is indeed himself, himself with the body of an ant. For some reason, the protagonist is so sure.

"You are me, so who am I?"

The protagonist is a little confused.

"You are you, and you are me. I am me, and I am you. ”

The ant replied like this, and the protagonist was a little headache, and then suddenly enlightened.

"We are one." The protagonist smiles: "I'm a human, but I'm also an ant, how strange, isn't it?" ”

"It's weird." The ant shrugged, he didn't have a shoulder, just a shake of his upper body, but the protagonist knew what he was doing, and the protagonist himself often liked to shrug, but that was when he was still human. After becoming an ant, the protagonist has quit this habit.

"What do you want to do now?" Ant asked.

The protagonist of "I ......" is a little confused.

Then, his eyes became resolute: "I want to kill a few ants!" ”