Chapter 3 The First Meeting of Ants

In the depths of the cave, in the dark corners where the light could not reach, there was the sound of rapid arthropods running across the ground, like the rustle of a bamboo broom sweeping across the sandy earth. An ant head with long tentacles waving emerges from the darkness and rushes towards the protagonist!

It turns out that there is a hole in the dark area leading to the outside, the protagonist thinks to himself, and then quickly gets out of the way of the little ant who is trying to move forward. This dodge is purely instinctive.

Little ants, that's right, if you fake it, the ants that are one size smaller than the protagonist, the total length of the little ants is about the same as any of the protagonist's limbs. If you look closely, this little ant has no wings, and its chest is not so developed (don't think about crooked here), and it looks like it has a large head and a small body. Swift and quick, but his eyesight seems to be worrisome.

After the protagonist gets out of the way, the little ant ignores the protagonist not far away, and runs to the winged ant that is making noise, the winged ant feels the arrival of the little ant, and the tentacles of the two touch slightly, the little ant turns around, and begins to seriously check the chrysalis next to it with its forelimbs and tentacles. The winged ant followed the little ant step by step, like a follower.

At this time, a few small ants of general size ran in at the exit of the cave, and they also looked like they were roaring urgently, but at this time, the winged ants were no longer rubbing and making sounds, so the new little ants were a little dazed. Finally, they checked the remaining pupae together, and the two pupae skins were dragged away by them, and the winged ants followed along.

From beginning to end, the protagonist tries to avoid these little ants, and the little ants don't notice the protagonist. "From this, it can be analyzed that these ants do not have good eyesight, I see them, but they can't see me, as long as the antennae are not touched, they will not be discovered." The protagonist thinks to himself: "And it doesn't count, there is only one winged ant in the two pupae skins, and they don't show anything abnormal, but it would be strange if the ants could count!" "Yes, ants can count, then that's science fiction.

In fact, the protagonist has been struggling with whether to come forward and meet with the little ants, after all, ants are social creatures, although the protagonist is a traverser, he is not so arrogant that he thinks that he can run rampant in the world with just one small ant, kill into the city to find scientists, and then successfully turn back into humans, accept interviews, publish books to make money, marry Bai Fumei, and embark on the pinnacle of life.

The reason why he didn't come forward to recognize each other in the end (confessing his relatives, the protagonist finally gave in, and the ants are his relatives in this life) is because although the protagonist has been playing with insects since he was a child, he doesn't have a strong sense of disgust and resistance to the strange appearance of insects, and he has also eaten delicious fried golden cicadas. But the thought of communicating with a swarm of ants with antennae and arthropods gives me goosebumps (no, a body of bristles).

Now that the little ants have gone, and the winged ants have followed, the protagonist will no longer be entangled in the question of challenging the bottom line of ethics for the time being, and continue to calm down and think about his future plans.

"Finding humans and scientists is the first step, and then how do you communicate? You have to get their attention first, but the ants are so small that they will be trampled to death if they are not careful. The protagonist is very distressed: "Which feudal novel have I read before, the ants crawled together to form a word, which helped the protagonist, it seems that you still have to rely on the power of the ant colony!" ”

"Moreover, if it is really the queen ant, then without the supply of worker ants and the protection of soldier ants, I don't know how to die." The protagonist shuddered: "That's why God crossed me into an ant queen?" ”

"Can the queen be the head of an ant colony?" The protagonist is distressed again: "No, even if it's an ant queen, it seems that she has to fly out to mate first...... I'm going to have to mate with ants......" The protagonist breaks down again and curses God for injustice.

"Hey, copulation? Yes, there are also male ants with wings, not necessarily queens! The protagonist looks down at his abdomen: "This abdomen doesn't seem to be big, so it's not a queen ant!" Male ants, yes, male ants, at least not denatured after crossing over. "It's really the only thing to be happy about since the crossing, although it's not yet certain.

"But the male ant is even more miserable, he is not the leader of the ant colony, and he doesn't have any ability......" The protagonist is anxious again: "Everything is to blame on ants, and the start of becoming a mouse is better than that of ants, this is really the worst start in history, and cultivating an immortal is 108,000 miles worse than others!" ”

"Oh, cultivating immortals, can this be cultivated immortals, if you can, you can cultivate a human form on your own, the ant demon is an ant demon, and the human form is enough." The protagonist's mind diverges again......

Then the protagonist's divergent thinking was interrupted before entering the level of Da Luo Jinxian, and it was a winged ant that broke the chrysalis shell. Looking at the size of the pupal shell, this hole is full of large winged ant pupa.

The ant was obviously irritable, and before it had completely left the chrysalis shell, it rubbed its waist with one of its hind limbs stretched out, and the sound of the file scraping the glass came back to mind.

"Whew", the protagonist sighs in his heart, ready to go out to meet the other ants. Just when the protagonist subconsciously sighed, he felt a few small holes in his abdomen gently spray out: "...... , my nostrils are on my stomach now! ”

Soon two more small ants ran in and ran towards the winged ant that was making sounds, and one ran to the winged ant, helped him take off his pupa, and communicated with it with his antennae.

The other one was stopped by the protagonist who was like a great enemy, and then, the tentacles hanging down by the protagonist were lightly touched by the tentacles of the little ants.

"Wang, follow me", a stream of information from the tentacles to the mind, this is not the imprint of any language in the mind in the previous life, there are no words or phrases, no grammar and pronunciation, just like a text is copied from the USB drive into the computer, the meaning of this news is transmitted into the brain, directly through the tentacles into the brain.

",,. To die, to die, to die! The protagonist shook off his tentacles: "This ant can speak, it's a refinement, is this a fantasy world or a fairy world, scientists are out of play, I have cultivated human form for thousands of years?" ”。

At this time, the little ant who had finished delivering the information went to check the pupae again, and did not notice that this unusual winged ant was not following behind.

"What does king mean?" The protagonist is thinking again, "Am I the Ant King?" How can anyone be an ant king when he is born, then I am a prince? I can't imagine becoming a prince, but the prince of ants ......".

"Hey, Wang, it means male, why can the language of ants reflect gender so accurately! This language is advanced, but you can't say it with your mouth. But my mouth has no vocal cords, and I can't even breathe out on my stomach, and my mouth can't make a sound at all! ”

By this time, the two little ants had finished their work, leading the grumpy winged ant to leave. At this time, the little ant who had communicated with the protagonist before finally found that the protagonist had not followed, and hurriedly turned back, ready to communicate again with his tentacles.

The protagonist also immediately gathered his energy and was ready.

"Wang, follow me" and "Who am I and where is this", the messages of both sides were quickly passed on without reservation, like sending an email.

"Wang, follow me", but the little ant did not respond, turned his head and took two steps, to see that the protagonist did not react, and touched his tentacles again, conveying the same message.

The protagonist was stunned and had to follow first. "This little guy can't communicate, he can only say this one sentence?".