Chapter 124: A New World (10)
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- I'm the dividing line -
The arrival of the queen was accompanied by a fragrant wind.
Incense, generally used to describe the scent of a beautiful woman, often has an ambiguous pink color.
But here, incense is just a common word, with no emotionally unique meaning.
After all, even if he has lived in the ant world for a long time, he has gradually accepted his current body. However, you have to radically change the aesthetic of the protagonist to think that a female ant with a hard carapace, shaggy hairs, six arthropods and a pair of huge compound eyes is beautiful, and even if she is fragrant, it is absolutely impossible.
The protagonist's interest in the queen in front of him is focused on her origins, mysteries, and the civilization of the race behind her, rather than on her individual and gender.
This ensuing fragrance is so unique that it deserves a special mention.
Ants rely on smell to get information and distinguish between friend and foe. It can be said that smell is to ants what images and sounds are to the human senses.
The queen's unique scent is mixed with the scent of her race and community, and she is not afraid of being mistaken for an enemy by simple-minded worker ants. At the same time, the smell of herbaceous aromas and unique glandular secretions is mixed with a hint of solemnity and nobility.
Human beings can perceive noble temperament through sight and hearing, for example, seeing the throne and crown means that this is the luxury and dignity belonging to the royal family, and symphony and chime music naturally have a sense of nobility. In the same way, ants can also detect nobility and elegance in their scents or occasions.
The fragrance of this queen is a symbol of nobility, elegance and solemnity. It may be difficult for human beings to substitute for it, for example: if the body odor of an ordinary ant is like wearing a bad perfume, then the queen's body odor is Guerlain's One Thousand and One Nights perfume.
Accustomed to the vulgar and simple body odor of ordinary ants, the protagonist couldn't help but feel a little ashamed when he smelled the queen's fragrance at first glance, and felt that he should find a way to adjust the smell on his body when he went back. The dignified gods make the king, the dignified human beings, should be surrounded by a worthy fragrance.
The queen walks up to the eldest king and the protagonist, and the way of communication is still the intersection of tentacles, which is no different from the way the ants on both sides of the river that the protagonist was familiar with.
It is also easy to understand that when humans encounter the same kind of primitive tribes in modern society, the two sides will still try to communicate in language, but the complex language system of human beings has brought obstacles to this communication, while the consciousness exchange of ants has no such obstacles.
From the queen's tentacles, the protagonist actually reads a fleeting sense of disappointment, as if he was hallucinating for a moment.
But the protagonist feels that maybe it's not a hallucination, because at the same moment, he also sees a scorching glow in the queen's compound eyes fading.
What does this mean? The queen doesn't seem to be happy with herself after making contact with herself?
However, the queen quickly disguised this emotion and continued to communicate with the protagonist. It's all very formulaic communication, and in human language, it is:
It is a pleasure to meet you, and I hope that the two sides will maintain long-term friendship and cooperation.
As a generation that grew up under the influence of news broadcasts, the protagonist actually has an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
After a brief greeting, the queen was invited into the lair by the Elder, and several warriors followed her, while the giant unicorn remained on the ground, standing beside Tempest.
Tempest was obviously a little afraid of the big man next to him, and although the big man was a vegetarian, the lethality of his huge horns was not covered. Just like wolves are very good at hunting, but they are also afraid of an elephant that grazes quietly.
Fortunately, there were many Divine Angel King warriors nearby, and these familiar smells made Tempest feel at ease. After living in Dongyang City for a long time, Tempest has become accustomed to the smell of ants.
The Queen, the Elder, and the Divine Envoy King returned to the conference room, and each of them occupied a corner of the circular conference room and began to enter conference mode.
The protagonist and the Queen Antrant Legacy faction have already communicated with each other, which is not very pleasant, but the two sides have basically shown a cooperative attitude: the protagonist provides some assistance that seems to be small in the eyes of the Queen Ant Legacy faction, and the two sides will cooperate against the King's Council faction.
Although the protagonist left a living mouth, he did not pick out when he would start dealing with the King Council faction, and he currently needs the King Council faction to help him deal with the more powerful Paving Ant Barbarian State.
And the Queen Ant Inheritance faction didn't know if it didn't see this loophole, or if it felt that it still needed time to keep it in the dark, and it didn't raise any objections to it.
The queen of the big-headed ant "remnant family" communicated with the eldest king and others for a while, and the protagonist listened silently and did not speak.
From the communication between the other parties, the protagonist learns that the big-headed ant "remnant" has only had brief contact with the queen ant inheritance faction before, and there was a conflict after the first contact.
This is also normal, and there is usually a big fight after the encounter between ants of different races.
However, the two sides are obviously very restrained, the strength of the queen ant inheritance faction is still very weak, and the big-headed ant "remnant" does not seem to want trouble, so the two sides quickly reached a preliminary peace treaty, demarcated a buffer zone, and prepared for friendly coexistence.
Later, the Queen Ant's Legacy faction has a food crisis, and they didn't plan to ask the protagonist for help at first, after all, they are not completely sure of the protagonist's position, and they are afraid of revealing their existence. The old king sent a messenger to ask for food from the "bereaved family" of the big-headed ants, who had just concluded a treaty of friendship.
And this messenger of the oldest king, obviously not the queen's opponent in the negotiations, quickly revealed the situation of the queen inheritance faction and the big-headed ant kingdom, which made the oldest king very angry.
The queen and the Big-headed Ant "Bereaved Clan" are clearly interested in a series of never-before-seen actions of the main character, the Divine Envoy King. As a result, the queen supports the king with a batch of food, but asks the king to convey a request to the protagonist for a meeting.
The eldest king thinks twice and agrees to the queen's request, and while sending a messenger, he also asks the protagonist for help again.
This is the origin of this tripartite meeting.
The protagonist can understand the reason why the queen wants to meet with him, after all, many of the protagonist's actions are the same as the big-headed ant "remnants", with a civilized atmosphere.
For example, the protagonist can domesticate flies, while the "remnants" can domesticate beetles; The protagonist has opened up farmland and breeding farms, and the "remnants" have used polished stone tools, and it seems that they have also entered the stage of agricultural civilization.
In a wild and wild environment, when you find another civilization at first glance, you naturally want to get in touch with it.