On the second day of the cold wave of inverted spring, the protagonist takes advantage of the warm noon to go outdoors.

At this time, the outside temperature is acceptable due to the warm sunlight, and most ants also take advantage of this rare and suitable time of day to go out to work.

The protagonist notices that there are already many corpses of frozen insects under the vegetation not far from the nest, and there are all kinds of insects, flying and crawling, and it seems that they have not survived the first winter under the cold of spring.

The big-headed ants who went out to forage happily carried the low-hanging food back to their nests. However, they did not carry the carcasses of these insects into the granary of the nest, but put them outside the nest to dry in the sunny open field.

After questioning, the protagonist learns that the corpses of these frozen insects are generally stained with dew or moisture, and often have a large number of bacteria or parasites in their bodies. Carrying these corpses back to the nest can cause a plague, and it would be a shame to abandon them without eating. Therefore, ants will be disinfected by drying it, and it can also extend the shelf life of food.

The protagonist appreciates the ants' hygienic habits, but he immediately orders that the meat of these frozen insects should not be added to the food for his own consumption. This is completely out of habit, just like in his previous life, as a human being, he would not eat chickens, ducks, pigs and beef that died unnaturally, who knows what is unclean in it.

The next day, the inverted spring cold not only did not decline, but had a tendency to become more and more intense. At four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the ants who went out to play withdrew to their nests before the sun set and the temperature was still warm.

This night, the north wind is still howling, and the room temperature of the nest is rapidly decreasing. The fuel supply to the combustion chamber has continued to be increased in the "Waterfront City", but fortunately, there is no shortage of fuel after the beginning of spring, and it can withstand such consumption. In addition, the protagonist had to order some airy entrances and exits to be blocked with plant fibers to prevent the cold wind from pouring directly into the openings.

On the second day, the third day, and the fourth day, the power of the inverted spring cold was finally fully revealed.

On all the ground as far as the eye can see, you can see the corpses of frozen insects everywhere, and they seem to cover the whole world.

There are huge adult insects, larvae that have just hatched and have not yet pupated, and spiders that are not completely metamorphosed and look like miniature versions of adults. Without exception, they have all lost their vitality. At sunrise every day, some of the corpses even carry ice crystals, revealing their tragic fate last night. Under the cruel judgment of nature, all living beings are so equal in the face of death.

However, the fate of aquatic insects is better, thanks to the physical properties of water, even in the coldest early morning, the surface of the river does not freeze, but maintains a relatively high water temperature.

Because of this, the river has become a haven for all kinds of aquatic insects, all kinds of insects that are enemies of each other have to reluctantly gather together for a short time in a very high density and an eerie peaceful atmosphere to deal with the cruel threat of nature.

The plant also suffered from extensive frostbite under the severe cold.

The newly grown leaves of many plants have undergone low temperature damage and have a variety of similar or different symptoms, such as: black spots appear on the leaves, the leaves begin to wilt, turn yellow or even wither and fall, the branches and leaves become soft, and the petioles appear water patches.

This is still an early sign of frostbite, and if the weather does not continue to deteriorate, the plant can still repair itself. However, if the cold weather is not alleviated, the root system of many plants will also be irreversibly damaged.

But in general, the ability of plants to resist the spring cold is still stronger than that of insects.

This season, it used to be a world where flowers bloom all over the mountains, but now most of the buds fail to open on time, some fall off, and some close tightly.

Bees have their own nests to shelter from the elements, and they also raise their temperatures by shaking their wings en masse. It stands to reason that they originally hid in the nest ** without fear of the cold wave of spring.

However, food is tight in the spring colonies, and in search of food, bees prefer to venture out and hunt for flowers that can still provide nectar for the hungry herd.

This foraging is destined to be costly, and many bees that stop flying and fall to collect honey will be quickly frozen, and finally they will not even be able to spread their wings and take off.

Beneath each flower are several dead bees, and the brightly colored flowers resemble the bees' cemetery headstones.

Only the bees that come out to collect honey in the middle of the day can bring a little food to the swarm of bees waiting to be fed, but this is also a drop in the bucket.

It is only at this time that the protagonist begins to realize the potential harm of this inverted spring cold. In such a spring when everything is multiplying, the cold wave is like a grim reaper wielding a frost scythe, wantonly cutting innocent lives.

And this sickle is still long-term, when a large number of plants and insects die, this year both plants and insects will look unusually sparse.

Perhaps for some solitary herbivorous insects, this means that the competition for survival will be less intense. But for ants that need to feed large groups of members, it means that foraging becomes more difficult.

It looks like this year is going to be a famine.

Thinking of this, the protagonist can't help but become anxious.

Dongyang City will be in relatively good shape, with a large number of mealworm eggs, fly eggs and grass seeds being properly stored in ant nests last autumn due to well-established mealworm farms and farmland. Even if there is no food from the wild this year, as long as the farmland and breeding farms are opened, it will be enough for the existing ant population to barely make a living.

But other nests, including the main nest with a large ant population, feed mainly from gathering and hunting. This large-scale and lethal spring cold will cause a serious food crisis for these nests.

Food is the foundation of the ant kingdom. Without food, let alone supporting the war with the paving ant barbarians, it will be quite difficult to feed the existing ant population.

In modern human society, if faced with famine, there will be a rise in crime rate, a decline in government control and other bad situations, while in ancient times, famine caused by natural disasters will give rise to a large number of displaced people, threaten social stability, and even become the fuse for the change of dynasty. Ming died of the displaced people, but also died of the harsh climate of the Xiaoice Age.

In the animal world, natural disasters can also have a bad impact.

In years of food scarcity, competition between species of the same species or similar food sources intensifies, and some species that are unable to adapt to this intense competition may be eliminated from the area, or even entire populations extinct.