The protagonist follows the young winged male ant in the corner of the room. I saw more and more males entering this nest. There are two entrances to the nest, the protagonist follows the police through the passage of the nest with the fire, and the other males enter through the other entrance.

There were more and more males, and they stood on the periphery of the cobblestones in a regular manner, gradually forming a circle that became tighter and tighter, still surrounding the oldest male ant in the middle.

"Is that male ant the oldest?" The protagonist asks the male ant next to him, who still has wings like himself.

"Yes." The young male replied.

"The oldest king, how old is he?"

"Legend has it that the oldest king spent twenty winters." The voice of the young male ant was full of reverence.

Twenty years is short enough. The protagonist is not without malice to measure it by human standards. For human beings, the age of 20 is only the beginning of life, and death at this time is regarded as an untimely death, such as the great poet Wang Bo.

But for ants, twenty years old is already an out-and-out high life. There are many types of ants, from worker ants to live for a few weeks, long ones for three to ten years, queens for several years or even ten years, and males often leave their nests and die soon after mating.

And the ant society that the protagonist is in now, not only will the male ants not die after marriage and mating, but can survive in the ant nest for the same number of years as the queen, and have become the de facto ruling class of the ant kingdom. But no matter how you measure it, the legendary twenty-year-old Wang is indeed an out-and-out birthday star.

"Why do you have wings?" The protagonist is bored and begins to have nothing to say. The male ants who came in one after another only knew to bury their heads and did not make any extra movements.

"I haven't gotten married yet, of course I have wings, and you have too." The young male ant wonders why the protagonist would ask such a non-nutritious topic.

"I see that the other ants have gone to the pebbles, why don't you go up, you have to accompany me."

"Only the Great King is qualified to go up and communicate with the Most Elder King." The young male replied.

"How many kings are there, haven't you come yet? I've seen it all. "The protagonist is very depressed, and the wait is always difficult, especially when he sees more and more ants lining up in dense circles, ring by ring around the oldest Wang, this is really a picture of a person with dense phobia.

"There are five hundred kings in our kingdom!" The young male ant is very proud and "is the most powerful big-headed ant in the kingdom." "He is very clear about the numbers, unlike some males who can only say a lot or a lot and a lot. It's just that the number spoken by the young male ant is hexadecimal, probably because the ants have six arthropods, and the protagonist understands this data naturally, and can convert it into the habitual decimal system in his mind without any obstacles. Maybe this is also the golden finger given by the god of crossing, at least it is convenient for the majority of readers.

Wait, this sentence is very informative. The protagonist immediately asked: "The name of our country is the Big-Headed Ant Kingdom, it's really a distinctive name." Are there any other kingdoms of big-headed ants? ”

"Yes, there used to be three big-headed ant kingdoms, and now they have all become our secondary nests." The young male ant begins to tutor the protagonist in history lessons.

"Vice-nest, they've been wiped out?" The protagonist asks curiously.

"No, they just failed, and both the king and the queen were killed." Young males convey a frenzied mood of victory.

"Isn't that still wiped out!"

The young male ant conveyed a strange emotion: "No, as is customary we have captured the eggs of the new queen and sent the king to rule the secondary nest. ”

In this way, the protagonist roughly understands that although the king and queen of the defeated enemy country have been killed, but their remaining eggs that can hatch a new queen are still there, and when a new queen is hatched, the king sent by the main nest can reproduce ants with the new queen ant with the genes of both the main nest (the big-headed ant kingdom) and the former enemy country, and a large number of soldier ants and worker ants that are still alive in the enemy country will serve the new king until they die and are replaced by newborn soldier ants and worker ants. This method of conquest is somewhat similar to that of some barbarians in ancient times, who would kill the local men, marry the local women, and produce offspring of their own male blood, while the children of the conquered would be used as slaves or trafficked.

"In addition to the big-headed ant kingdom, are there other ant kingdoms?" The protagonist proceeds to ask a second question. You should know that there are many kinds of ants.

The young male's mood became angry and warlike: "Yes, there are evil paving ant barbarians on the other side of the river. ”

"Paving ant barbarians?" The protagonist asks again, "Ah, I'm sorry, I haven't been to school yet, so I don't know a lot about it." ”

"Why did the king of public security bring you here......" Although the simple young male ant didn't understand, he also accepted the protagonist's explanation that he hadn't gone to school, after all, the protagonist's age was less than ten days after hatching from the chrysalis.

"The paving ant barbarians live on the other side of the river, they have the color of rotting earth, they are small and vile, and they are the sworn enemies of our country." The young male explained.

"Then why did my country fight with the barbarians?"

"Because they're alien!" The young male ant replied as a matter of course. Well, these ants also have the idea that their hearts must be different if they are not of our race. The protagonist thinks of the war between Claumanon and Neanderthals, and there are countless wars between Homo sapiens, and Homo erectus and Homo erectus are in a state of endless death.

"How big is the river?" The protagonist asks.

"The river is so wide that you can't see the other side, and there is the flow of the river from the westernmost side nest to the easternmost side nest."

In terms of the eyesight of male ants, even if it is wide, it is not necessarily how wide it is to see the other side...... It is also not possible to give an approximate figure about the length based on the words of the young males.

"The river is so wide, how can our country attack the barbarians?" The protagonist asks again.

"When the rivers freeze in winter, it is time for our country to fight to the death with the barbarians." The young male ant is full of fighting spirit: "After the wedding flight this year, I will participate in the war." ”

"Uh, well, I still want to know how many years my country has been fighting with the barbarians......"

"How many years?" Now the young male ant was puzzled: "The oldest king didn't teach me this, and when I counted the six oldest kings in the past, my country completely wiped out the barbarians on the south side of the river......

What a protracted war. Even if the oldest king lived for ten years, it was from sixty years ago, and every winter the big-headed ants and paving ants would cross the frozen river to have a big battle.

Huh, wait, winter? What does the protagonist suddenly find out that he has overlooked? Shouldn't cold-blooded insects like ants sleep underground in winter? Won't you freeze to death if you run on the river?

Just as he thought of this, he saw that as the last male ant entered, the eldest king in the middle of the cobblestone floor also lowered his tentacles to the ground.

The kings have arrived, and the meeting is about to begin.