Chapter Twenty-Seven: Old Wang, Shall You Not?

The protagonist and Lao Wang have only had three encounters, both times in the classroom, and Lao Wang, as an irresponsible teacher, always leaves after conveying a few words. The protagonist always feels that other males can quickly master skills such as group command techniques by relying on genetic instinct after getting a simple click, while the protagonist himself can only grope for a long time, and he is far behind in learning efficiency. Fortunately, the protagonist has thousands of years of accumulation of civilization knowledge when he was a human being, and he can barely keep up with the progress.

The second meeting between the protagonist and Wang is not even more pleasant, as the protagonist breaks into Wang's private nest, causing Wang to be furious, exuding intense anger and hostility, and finally blasting himself out.

But now, the protagonist still has to go to meet Lao Wang. Although Mulan had been to a family's lair that was said to have fire, she refused to take her there. It may be that there are some hidden ant rules that bind her, and the intelligence and logic level of the soldier ant is roughly equivalent to that of a simple computer program with a small amount of emotion, and it is unlikely that such mandatory rules will be violated. Even if the protagonist tries to find other soldier ants who have also been to their destination, it is useless, and they will also refuse to lead the way. It seems that the breakthrough can only be on Lao Wang.

After a few encounters with Wang, the protagonist already feels that Wang is estimated to be a wise and elder in the ant colony, and only this important role can impart the necessary knowledge to the other males. The protagonist and Roll and Rambo can communicate with each other in a relatively simple way, which is far more efficient than communicating with the mechanical and rigid soldier ants and worker ants. Referring to the example of rolling, then there should be no obstacles to the protagonist's communication with Lao Wang.

The only question is how to meet Lao Wang. Since the last unpleasant trouble, the protagonist feels that if he breaks into Lao Wang's private nest again, he will probably be torn apart by those huge soldier ants. Just like if other ants break into their two-bedroom apartment without permission, they must be very unhappy, not to mention that they are repeatedly offended, so it is already a restraint to let Mulan kick the other party out.

Another way is to wait until class time to naturally see the old Wang in class, although the old Wang lives in a simple place, but the class time can still appear on time. However, the protagonist has been lying on his stomach in the two-bedroom room for the past few days, and he doesn't know if he went to take a few new classes, and when the next class will be.

The protagonist goes to look for him first, trying to get some information about the class from him. The protagonist is alone and runs away to the nest where they are. When I got there, I found the whole nest unusually empty, with less than twenty males and the same number of soldier ants inside.

"Is it another batch of classes?" The protagonist thinks to himself, after all, the hunting lesson with the praying mantis was carried out by eight males alone, and the other males are here to stand by.

The protagonist finds the nearest male ant and asks him, who honestly tells the protagonist that the males who have completed the hunting course have moved away and have their own nests.

"Damn, you've only graduated in two classes, right? I've been assigned a house, so why didn't anyone inform me of this good thing. The protagonist was suddenly dissatisfied: "I dug a nest for myself by self-reliance!" ”

The protagonist hurriedly asks the male if he knows where they have moved, and the male says he doesn't. The protagonist asks Lao Wang if the course has appeared in the past few days, and the male ant says that he has not gone to the ground to participate in the course, and he does not know.

As soon as the protagonist hears that the male ant has not been to the ground, it seems that the hunting lesson is not over. Quickly counted, there were a total of eighteen males in the nest room, so counting today, thirty-two males have participated in the hunting course. If you go out in one batch a day, and each batch is the same as your own time, then four days have passed since you encountered the praying mantis.

Unable to find the roll, and there is no news of Lao Wang, the protagonist simply decides to go to the ground and find the guide worker ant, she must be Lao Wang's cronies, or at least important subordinates, who can independently take charge of guiding the male ants to the task of hunting lessons.

And the protagonist feels that the communication ability of the guide worker ants far exceeds that of other ordinary worker ants, and it seems to be more intelligent.

The protagonist quickly crawls out of the lair, and when he emerges from the cave, he is surprised to find that the entrance to the lair has turned into a hollow pointed cone made of gravel and dirt, which looks like a miniature volcanic crater from a distance. And there are constantly worker ants holding on to the sediment to heighten and thicken this sharp cone.

The protagonist clearly remembers the first two times he visited, although there were also worker ants going back and forth to clear the mud and sand out of the nest, but there was definitely no such a large pointed cone built on top of the nest. Looking at the sky again, the sky has turned blue, the sun is dazzling, and the howling wind has weakened into a gentle breeze.

The protagonist has a hypothesis that the loose sand outside the nest has been blown away by the strong wind, not to mention that the wind is usually stronger at night than during the day. Now that the weather is calm, the discarded sand cleared by the worker ants is discarded outside the nest nearby, and a crater is piled up again. This conjecture can be easily verified, just wait until the next windy day to see it. So the protagonist left this trivial matter behind him first.

The protagonist quickly found the guide worker ant, since he felt that the wisdom of this worker ant surpassed that of other worker ants, the protagonist carefully looked each other up and down this time, and found that her size was actually larger than that of ordinary worker ants, which was close to the size of a soldier ant. But judging by her smaller head, it was in the form of a worker ant.

Ignoring these anomalies, the protagonist hurriedly goes up and asks if he can meet with Lao Wang. The guide ant replies that he will convey the protagonist's request to Lao Wang, and then asks the protagonist if he needs to practice again because he failed to get the prey in the last hunting class.

The protagonist hurriedly refuses, and the last time he met a praying mantis, he killed two of his men, and he didn't want to be unlucky again. And if it goes well, then I will soon have to go on a long journey, and the destination is the nest of my relatives who are said to have fire, and even if I want to exercise and hunt, there is time on the way.

The protagonist and the guide ant make an agreement, and if Wang agrees to meet, then the guide worker ant will go to the two-bedroom room to inform the protagonist. As for the meeting place, the protagonist is tentatively set in the classroom, so that he and Lao Wang are more acceptable and familiar with the route.

The busy protagonist returns to the two-bedroom apartment and asks Mulan to catch two worker ants and bring sunflower seeds and honeydew for herself. After the meal, the satisfied protagonist falls asleep, ending this busy day.