Chapter 9: Civilization Evolution
The protagonist is a little uncomfortable, and the humidity in the underground lair is a little heavy, which makes him toss and turn and can't sleep.
After all, this is on a sandbar in the middle of the river, and the water can be dug down a meter or two under your feet, and the moisture overflowing around makes the protagonist very uncomfortable.
He simply left the dormitory, roasted for a while in the small fire in the burning room, dried himself, and crawled outside the lair to breathe, and to soothe the negative emotions that had been pent up in his heart because of failure.
The anthill was not fully completed at this time, it was only about a decimeter high, and the protagonist crawled out of the antmound construction site with a mixture of sand and ant gum.
Although the anthill is not high, it is close to the cliff bank, and it used to be the anchorage of the walnut boat not far away, and the vegetation nearby is relatively sparse, and the view is very good.
In the chimney behind him, smoke from the combustion chamber keeps pouring out, and the protagonist is very close, and he smells a trace of choking smoke in his tentacles, which makes him have to move downwind.
The protagonist does not complain about the smoke, in such a humid environment, even if the fuel is dried for a while, it will be damp, and it is inevitable that there will be smoke when it burns.
And the smoke is also good, at least the mosquitoes flying in the sky do not dare to approach the ant mound, although these mosquitoes do not suck blood, but it is also annoying if they buzz around.
The protagonist sees a mosquito perched on a nearby grass plant, digging its mouthparts into the fat stalks of the grass and sucking the sap of the plant. When there seems to be no blood to feed and flowers are lacking, these mosquitoes feed on grass juice.
Today, the moonlight was exceptionally bright, and the clouds in the sky had almost slipped away, leaving only a few wisps of residual clouds hidden in the night sky, which seemed to be only a little more obscure than the deep night, and the edges of the clouds could not be distinguished without careful inspection.
The moon is not obscured at all, and the moonlight reflected from the sun does not have the dry and hot temperament of early summer that it has begun to shine during the day, but is soft and full of tactful imagery.
In this moonlight, countless Aedes mosquitoes are flying, and the protagonist really didn't expect that this sandbar could hide so many Aedes mosquitoes during the day, seemingly endless, flying and circling in the sky, flickering east and west, sometimes gathering into a cloud of mosquito mist, a stream of mosquito columns, and sometimes suddenly scattered into a starry sky.
Tonight, it is not dark clouds that obscure the moonlight, but mosquito clouds, which may have hidden in the sandbar grass during the day, or may have partially hidden on the riverbank, and during the day they are quiet, and do not reveal their true faces until after dusk.
The protagonist has entered the nest at dusk, and he didn't see the magnificent scene of mosquitoes taking off, and the ants saw it, but they didn't feel anything, and they didn't report it.
The protagonist is speechless at the moment and is shocked by the wonders of the sky. It is said that when the starlings and traveling songs in the Americas migrate, the number can be as high as one million, covering the sky and the sun as if it can turn day into night, and now the passenger pigeon has become extinct, and the protagonist has never been to the Americas to see the starling wonders, only seen in a documentary, and has no intuitive feeling.
But at this moment, the scene of hundreds of millions of mosquitoes taking off seems to be not far behind, and when the gathered mosquito swarm just flies to the position of the moon, it can really obscure the silver moon without missing a trace of color, and it seems that the brightness of the night has been lowered by a few degrees in an instant.
At this time, the protagonist noticed that among the mosquitoes, there were constantly huge figures colliding, although the number was scarce, but the momentum was more fierce.
It is the figure of a dragonfly like a large passenger plane, they prey on the mosquitoes, and the mosquito swarm that covers the sky must also be in awe of these air overlords, constantly gathering and scattering, hiding from predators, but there are always unfortunate prey killed.
Predation and flight, such a competition for survival is everywhere, and the protagonist only then learns why there are no predators on the sandbar, because these dragonflies hide in other places during the day, and only appear with active mosquitoes at night.
Predation, killing, death, survival, the rules of nature are so simple and direct in front of your eyes, and everyone will have their own personal understanding.
The protagonist looked at the cloud-like mosquitoes in a daze, looked at the fierce and ruthless dragonflies, and sighed, this is the power of life, the power of nature, this is the competition for survival, although it is cruel, but whether it is a predator or a prey, they all have their own way of survival.
Nature does not leave any species without life, and evolution under competition is the only way for every species to reproduce.
At this moment, the huge pressure brought by the destroyer faded in the protagonist's heart. Nature is so powerful that the Destroyer is nothing compared to it. At the beginning, primitive people walked through the Ice Age and faced huge beasts such as mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, but in the end, the thriving human civilization made the beasts either extinct or reduced to rare and protected animals, relying on the power of evolved civilization.
In an instant, the protagonist has the confidence to develop civilization, which is the key to defeating the destroyer. In his homeland before, the protagonist only developed some systems and technologies according to local conditions, and he had already made the Divine Envoy King's legion proud of both sides of the river.
However, the civilization level of the entire Divine Envoy King Legion is still very low, and it is not as good as the primitive people of the Neolithic Age, that is, it is not as good as the level of the cave people in Zhoukoudian. Therefore, in the face of the most vicious destroyers, the gods have made the king's legions subject at every turn.
If the Divine King's Legion had a higher level of civilization, the odds would be much greater. The protagonist knows that he must improve the civilization level of the Divine Envoy King Legion as soon as possible, which only he can do as a traverser, he has knowledge beyond the times, has unique authority, and only he can lead this civilization forward. If we only expect this budding ant civilization to evolve on its own, perhaps it will not be able to make much progress in another thousand years.
Of course, there may be other advanced civilizations in this world, but they are hard to come by. If this were the Earth, then for ants, the surface area of the world would be more than 10,000 times the size of the Earth as seen by humans. There must be a Magellan in this ant world, and it is a million times more difficult for him to travel around the world than the human Magellan.
Under such objective conditions, the geographical environment will divide the whole world into countless small regions isolated from each other, and civilizations will develop independently, and exchanges will be limited to a certain range.
The protagonist doesn't know how far civilization has developed in other parts of the world, and perhaps the Legion of the Divine Envoy is the most civilized. He doesn't expect to meet any advanced civilization, and that's not necessarily a good thing.
Instead of relying on ethereal external forces, it is better to manage your own forces and use your own strength to fight against the Divine Envoy King Army, which is the right way
Under the mosquito swarm flying in the sky, the smoky mosquito-free land, the protagonist has the answer in his heart.