Spring is coming so quickly.

Maybe it's not that spring comes early, but because the ants in the cat winter are really idle.

According to the theory of the speed of mental perception of the passage of time, put forward by the French philosopher Paul Janet in 1897. When a person is constantly stimulated by new things, he will feel that time passes slowly, and conversely, he will feel that time is speeding up.

For example, the proportion of time in a person's memory is not the same. When you are 1 year old, 1 year is the whole of your life, and you accept basically new things. When you're 50 years old, 1 year is only 2% of your life, and all kinds of things that happen to you in your life are commonplace. In this way, the longer your life, the smaller the proportion of 1 year will be and the less unknown you will not be exposed to. To translate, the feeling of a 5-year-old waiting 24 days for Christmas is equivalent to making a 54-year-old wait for 1 year.

It seems that this psychological theory is valid for the ants, or at least for the protagonists.

The protagonist is now nesting in the nest every day** wakes up to eat, eats and sleeps again, and all the work is basically stopped, because in addition to what can be done, the protagonist can't find any new work.

When the weather is good, the protagonist will go out for a walk, but many times it is either wind or snow, or even wind stirring up snow, and the protagonist can only obediently squat back in the lair.

This feeling of idleness is terrible, the fluorescent bacteria are all dead in the winter, and the dark nest** only has a light source near the combustion chamber. Every day, the protagonist can only get up in the dark, eat in the dark, and be in a daze in the dark.

Maybe that's how the other ants came, and they spent the winter in their dark nests year after year.

After all, the protagonist is a ten traverser, and he has the human hope for the light in his bones, so as long as the weather allows, he will go outside. Even shivering in the cold wind is better than being tormented by loneliness in a warm nest where you can't see your fingers.

Loneliness, the demon that the protagonist has been haunting since he crossed over, is extremely powerful this winter.

Lonely, because the protagonist is a traverser.

He came from another world, and there was only very little overlap with his experience from this world. Even though the vegetation and insects in the two worlds are almost the same, observing everything from a human perspective is not much different from living in a microcosm with the world of ants, and it is not much different from coming to a different world.

Loneliness, because of the body of the protagonist.

Human beings have facial features, limbs, smooth and hairless skin, and well-developed eyesight. Ants, but compound eyes, large jaws, six limbs, and a hard, hairy outer carapace. The two are completely different in form, and the way of life is very different because of this.

The protagonist must struggle to survive in this completely different world with a body he has never used before. In the beginning, he had to get used to eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet. No other ant could help him, everything was on his own.

Loneliness also stems from the desire to communicate.

Human beings are social beings who need to communicate, and the main way of communication is through the articulatory organs to produce complex and combinatorial tones, that is, language.

Language is one of the human talents, which is acquired by human beings through biological evolution and heredity, including the rational ability and principles of language formation, and is easily awakened by the external learning environment. Therefore, although human beings have the talent to learn language, they are not born with language, and they still need to develop, learn, understand, and use in the acquired language mechanism to be formed.

But what if a person who already has a mature language habit is suddenly closed from all channels of language communication?

There are two examples in linguistics:

During the interrogation, the police found that he had never spoken for more than 10 years, and became really mute, not only had obstacles in speaking, but also had great flaws in his personality, and could only communicate with people with pen and paper.

With the popularity of smart phones, there are more and more people who bow their heads, and a 17-year-old high school student is addicted to mobile phones all day long, resulting in language degradation.

Language skills are degraded. Anthropologists believe that language is an instinct, a manifestation of thinking, and a reaction to thinking. In addition to the damage to the brain or other functional organs, the cause of degeneration, the frequency of use of too low functional organs and too low stimulation of brain language thinking will cause the decline of the overall language ability, although the mode and degree of decline are different, but they will cause obstacles to communication.

If you don't speak for a long time, your brain's language organization ability may decrease, and you will experience language scarcity, grammatical errors, and even aphasia when communicating.

The protagonist is now in such a state.

Although the ants can't pronounce words in the first place, the protagonist has been thinking in his head and communicating with the ants in the form of human language.

For example, the antennae communication with other ants, the information sent by other ants are all direct expressions in consciousness, such as the "tree" they say, which is the specific meaning and image of a "tree", not the Chinese pronunciation or other language pronunciation of "tree" of "Shuwu-tree".

When the protagonist receives a message from another ant, "Tree", he will first translate it into his own language in his mind. And when he sends the message to other ants, he also needs to convert Chinese into the most basic consciousness first. In other words, compared to other ants, the protagonist's brain is constantly translating two different languages or thoughts.

But now, due to the long absence of someone who can communicate in Chinese, the protagonist has become more and more accustomed to communicating directly with other ants through consciousness. This has led to him using Chinese less and less frequently, and even when he is meditating, his brain is running at high speed, and he can no longer rely on Chinese as a tool, but with instinctive consciousness. I don't know if it's luck or misfortune.

It is also for this reason that the article that readers see about the most bizarre time-traveler in history has dialogue in the first few dozen chapters (translated in the protagonist's mind), and it rarely appears again later, because the protagonist can understand and feedback without translation.