As the last male entered, the eldest king in the middle of the cobblestone floor lowered his tentacles to the ground. The kings have arrived, and the meeting is about to begin.

The young male ant next to the protagonist also straightens his body, lowers his head, and stretches his tentacles flat without touching the ground. In terms of body language, this is a gesture of respect, except for the oldest king and the king, only the protagonist and the young male ant with wings are present, which stand out like a flock.

The meeting of the ants is transmitted through the slightly convex white pebbles on the ground, and the information of the male ants whose tentacles touch the ground is transmitted in a group chat, and the ants who do not use their antennae to access the group chat do not know the content of the communication. Readers can imagine the WeChat chat group, the oldest king is the group leader, the 500 kings are the group members, they can talk freely in the group, and the protagonist and the young male ant are the identities who know that there is this group but are not invited to the group.

At this moment, the protagonist leans against the corner, watching a group of male ants chatting motionlessly on the pebbles, while the young male ants around him have always maintained an unusually respectful posture and no longer speak. The protagonist who lost the conversation with the communication partner suddenly fell into a boring situation, forgive him, if anyone has no object to chat with for many days, then if you catch a communication partner, you will definitely talk endlessly and chatter.

The protagonist simply begins to think about the paver ants mentioned in the chat just now, and he tries to search his mind for some information about the paver ants. As a child bear, the protagonist is no stranger to the big-headed ant and the paver ant, which are the two most common ants in Chinese cities, and the two poor creatures that he plays with most often.

When I was a child, the protagonist did not know the scientific names of these two types of ants, but simply called the big-headed ants yellow ants and the paving ants black ants according to the colors. These black ants are smaller than yellow ants, and they also nest in the soil, and are very common on the side of the street, in the grass, in the fields and under the corners of the wall, and have excellent adaptability, and they can be found in the north and south of the country. There is no special soldier ant in the paving ant colony (it should be noted that the soldier ant is actually a kind of worker ant, which is a kind of worker ant with specific differentiation, which only exists in a few kinds of ants), but the community size is usually larger, and the worker ants can be as many as hundreds of thousands. Paver ants mainly prey on small insects, or graze aphids to obtain honeydew, large colonies are more aggressive, but individual aggression is very weak, biting is not painful, there is no formic acid and stinging, and the big head ant relies on the big jaw to attack. In addition to the frequent civil wars between different nests, paving ants often compete with big-headed ants for territory, and in the battle with big-headed ants, paving ants with low individual combat effectiveness often use their numerical advantages to offset the single combat power advantage of big-headed soldiers.

The protagonist hasn't seen a large-scale war between ants yet, but think of hundreds of thousands of ants fighting in a group in the howling cold wind of winter, covering a large snowfield, and tearing the limbs of their opponents with their big claws, which is much more cruel and bloody than the battle in the age of human cold weapons. In the Middle Ages, human armies would have been defeated if they had suffered one-tenth casualties, but this also prevented too many living forces from being lost in battle. And the ants will never be afraid to flee without receiving the order to retreat, and will continue to fight until one side is dead and wounded.

The protagonist is thinking about it, and suddenly finds that the public security actually left the cobblestones of the meeting and walked in front of him.

"Please follow me, young king." The emotions transmitted by the public security were very solemn, and they were faintly full of respect.

Am I feeling wrong? Before the protagonist has time to think carefully about the meaning of this emotion, he is anxiously urged by the police to climb onto the cobblestone platform. All the kings along the way consciously gave him a passage, so that he could smoothly follow the public security to climb in front of the oldest king.

The protagonist doesn't understand how he was involved in this meeting of the five hundred kings of the main nest, whether it is the Roman Senate of five hundred elders or the five hundred wastes of Lingao, you should have nothing to do with yourself. I'm just a fake ant sneaking around here to see if there's any fire and if I can get some cooked food.

The police retreated among the kings, leaving the protagonist and the oldest king alone in the middle, and the oldest king put his tentacles up and asked in an unquestioning tone: "Do you know fire?" ”

"I ...... Know. The protagonist thinks that this atmosphere is too serious, but the cowhide that he bragged about before has to continue to circle no matter what. Otherwise, I am afraid that these semi-savage ants will be thrown into the fire and roasted.

"I recognize your breath, you come from the 'By-Nest under the Aspen of the East', and you are no older than a full moon. So you can't have finished the course and you haven't been to the main nest before, right? My son. The oldest Wang stated the identity of the protagonist he identified in a very positive tone, and finally had to confirm it again.

The protagonist quickly replies to the confirmation and the affirmative message back. "The sub-nest under the aspen to the east", look at the direction and markers, as well as the meaning before and after, this is the place name of the sub-nest where I was born, the place name of the ants is really complicated, referred to as "Dongyang City" or not, compared to the Chinese ancestors, the name level alone is a lot worse. But can you smell it? The ants' sense of smell is too good! However, age and education are also accurate, does the full moon time refer to the 28-day moon waxing and waning cycle? I was indeed a skipper who only took two classes!

"I think you are." The oldest king came to a sentence without a beginning or an end, and then ended the communication with the protagonist, and hung down his tentacles to chat with the kings.

"What am I?" The protagonist was stunned, we have no head or tail, I haven't said anything, hey. I really don't understand the brain circuits of you ants.

The males continued to stand motionless on the cobblestones, unaware of what they were communicating.

Why don't I hear it too? The protagonist thought to himself, I've been invited to stand on this cobblestone, do I also have the right to participate in the group chat?

The protagonist hesitates, do you want to listen to it? What if I commit a taboo and get caught and burned at the stake, I don't have the ability to kill from the 500 male ants, it has to be a peerless possession.

After much hesitation, curiosity kills the ants, and the protagonist decides to pretend to inadvertently flick the antennae, and then the antennae accidentally touch the pebbles a little to see what they can hear.