The first rays of sunlight in the morning pierced through the sloping tunnels and shone into the depths of the nest chamber, and the small nest room, which had become gradually colder, quickly warmed up.

The main character's body was warmly sunburned, and he moved his hands and feet comfortably, and if he could make a sound, he would have moaned happily by this time.

The protagonist got up, and last night as the temperature gradually decreased, his body became colder and colder, and he didn't want to move in the end, and if the centipede came at this time, then the protagonist's resistance would drop a lot. After all, the temporary camping site is not a regular ant nest, and it is too close to the surface to keep the nest insulated. In addition, the temperature difference between day and night is also large, and it looks like late spring or early autumn during the day, but it is cold like early winter at night.

And cold-blooded animals have unique shortcomings, if it is really winter, then you can only hide in the deep underground cat, otherwise you will soon be eroded by the cold and lose your ability to move, and eventually freeze to death outside.

The protagonist looks at the entrance to the nest and at the five soldier ants that were injured last night. The miracle didn't happen, the five soldier ants had already stopped struggling, their limbs stiff on their backs and fell to the cold ground, and their bodies were already cold. Although the second poisonous mist sprayed by the centipede was much thinner and did not immediately kill these warriors, the final outcome was no different, and it added to their long, long time of pain and struggle.

The protagonist silently calls up the secretary, Mulan, and the other worker ants, and asks everyone to move their vehicles and luggage out of this small campsite.

"Go?" The secretary asks the protagonist, "Do you want to continue to let the soldier ants carry those strange things on their backs?" Although the secretary has seen how to use the vehicle and has a general understanding of its purpose, he has no corresponding noun in the vocabulary of the ant's consciousness exchange, so he can only call it a strange thing.

"No, wait a minute." The protagonist doesn't ask everyone to hurry up, and he orders the worker ants to seal the hole in the temporary camp with dirt.

This work is the skill of the worker ants, who soon bury their burrows in the ground and build a small hemispherical bag of dirt as requested by the protagonist. If anyone could see it, they would recognize it as a typical grave bag.

The protagonist himself dismantled a single ant vehicle, and had already eaten a sunflower seed last night, and this vehicle was empty and empty, so it might as well play a little more role. The protagonist removes the sunflower seed shell on it, and because the binding is too tight, the protagonist has to use a lot of tossing and turning to finally get his wish.

The protagonist holds the small, long, half-piece of sunflower seed husk on his front two legs, without asking anyone else to help. Quietly walked to the small grave bag and stuck the sunflower seed shell on the ground. Without pen and ink, the protagonists are unable to write their names on the tombstone of the sunflower seed husk. The protagonist can only silently recite the names of five ants in his heart, and these five names casually given by the protagonist are now the last evidence that they once lived in the world and fought bravely: Wei 2, Wei 6, Li 1, Li 2, and Li 7.

After the protagonist did all this, the little secret who was silently observing came up: "Strange king, what are you doing?" ”

"I'm burying my companions." The protagonist gently explains that he feels closer to the secretary after a big battle last night. Although she is not expected to understand what she is doing, it is also a good thing to have someone to talk to. The lack of communication partners is very painful for human beings, and many shipwreck survivors who are stranded on desert islands often lose the ability to speak due to the lack of communication for a long time.

"Why bury it?" The secret's curiosity is unique among all the ants he has seen.

"Settle in the ground." The protagonist's answer left the secretary confused.

The protagonist asks rhetorically, "What do you do with your dead companions?" The little secretary thought for a while: "If you find it, you will carry it to the cemetery." ”

The protagonist thinks about it, remembering that ants have a special cemetery, and they have the characteristic of placing dead ants in a unified manner.

"This is the graveyard of the five of them, and it belongs only to the five of them." The protagonist explains.

Xiao Mi was still confused, and she asked what the sunflower seed shell was doing when it was inserted in the ground? Then continue to not understand what the protagonist means by leaving a memorial tombstone.

"You don't understand, and you probably won't." The protagonist is helpless, looking back at Mulan, or Mulan, a soldier ant who doesn't ask questions every day is cuter.

After building the ant grave and answering the little secret's question, the protagonist prepares everyone to go on the road.

Three soldiers were killed last night, so they had to pick up Guard 7 and Guard 8 from among the guards, and carried the remaining five single ant vehicles and two double ant vehicles. There are only nine soldier ants left to guard this time, including Hua Mulan, and the four of them who protect Xiao Mi.

This time, when the protagonist tied the rope of the vehicle to the soldiers one by one, the little secretary actually ran over to observe, and finally took the initiative to go up and test it once, using both hands and mouths, looking clumsy and abnormal, and finally failed. But her ability to move her hands and mouth really surprised the protagonist.

The small team set off again, moving quickly along the ant path, temporarily forgetting the fatigue of last night's battle, forgetting the seven companions who had been sacrificed, and moving firmly towards the goal.

In the morning and afternoon, the small team passed through the territory of a secondary nest, and the closer they got to the main nest, the greater the density of the secondary nests, and the smaller the empty space between the different secondary nests without ant activity. Throughout the day, the squad was in no danger.

When camping in the evening, the secretary introduced that he would be able to arrive at the main nest the next morning. The camping place also happens to be in the empty area of the main nest and the secondary nest. Seeing that it is almost night, the protagonist stops and directs the worker ants to dig a second temporary camp with the little secretary.

This time the protagonist learns the lesson of the first night and has the worker ants dig two burrows. The first one was for the ants in the party, and the entrance was very small, a little smaller than the passage that the ants used to dig, and the two ants could only move side by side in a crowd. The second cave has a large opening and is not dug deep, and the protagonist has the soldiers unload their vehicles and luggage here.

After eating the day's food by himself, he hurried back to the campsite, and asked Zhuang 1 and Zhuang 2 to hold a small stone to block the entrance, leaving only a gap to ensure air circulation.

In this way, the camp is very secretive, and even if the luggage is found by centipedes and other beasts, it will not attract their attention. The only downside is that the air in the nest is very dull, and if the protagonist is thirsty at night, it will take a lot of trouble to go out and drink water.

But safety comes first, and the protagonist can barely tolerate these. After arranging for six soldier ants to take turns in three shifts, the protagonist falls asleep with peace of mind, and wants to make up for the lack of sleep on the first day.