Representatives of all ethnic groups left the white cobblestone floor with their tentacles and got up from the mats that had been lying on their stomachs for a long time.

Only then did the protagonist remember that he hadn't asked what was going on with the white pebbles, as if there were ants of all races in the conference room, which was very magical.

Maybe the leaf-cutting ants and bullet ants who have been inherited for a longer time will know a thing or two, right?

But now that everyone is excited to watch the insect and beast fight, he can't call everyone back.

When the female guide guides the delegates out of the meeting room in turn and down the passage. The protagonist asks the guide, but the guide says not to come up, saying that only the old female ant who is responsible for passing on the memories can know.

It seems that most ants are used to this thing.

The protagonist can only give up temporarily.

On the way, the protagonist asks the guide again, what is a "worm and beast fight"? And what is the "Holy Duel"?

After some explanation, the protagonist understands. "Worm and beast fighting" is a group of hungry insects in a cage, and the ants watch the fierce insects fight to the death, and the final winner will become a high-class food for the delegates to enjoy, which is said to increase courage.

The "sacred duel" is when there is a conflict between the queen, female, male and other high-level ants of different ant tribes, one party can propose a duel. After the other party agrees, both sides designate an equal number of professional ants to fight until all of them are killed. The losing side also has to apologize and compensate the winning side.

This ant civilization seems to have the style of ancient Rome, and likes gladiatorial and duels to the death.

The protagonist is interested, and this ant world seems to be getting more and more exciting.

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The delegates followed their guide and got out of the interior of [the City of the Sacred Tree] and onto the surface.

On the ground, not far from the noisy mount "parking lot", is the "gladiatorial arena".

As the protagonist passes by, he looks at his clan's mount, which is fine, although he still hides from the wasp next to him, but it is not damaged.

Looking at the "gladiatorial arena", it is located on a cleared flat land, and the stones, fallen leaves, and wild grasses on the ground have all been cleared. A slightly flattened square cage made of thin branches stood on the ground, this cage did not exist yesterday, and apparently was made today.

The cage is about 40 centimeters long and wide, only about 23 in height and about 23 in length, and the gap is about the size of a pea, enough for ants to drill through. There are flaps on all sides that can be opened upwards.

The open space around the "gladiatorial arena" should be the auditorium, and the ants around it can safely watch the gladiatorial fight through the gap between the branches.

In addition to the representatives of various ethnic groups, a large number of leaf cutter queens and females are already waiting a little further away from the cage, and many leafcutter ant warriors control the nearby trees and ground to escort this grand gladiatorial competition.

At the moment, the spectators are not allowed to approach the cage, and when the spectators are all there, the fierce insects start to be sent into the cage.

The protagonist sees that there are four holes in the ground around the cage, and when the lid is opened, four different insects are pulled out of it, and it turns out that the insects were all locked in the ground.

At first, it was a huge centipede, more than 10 centimeters long, with a black and shiny carapace, like heavy armor cast in iron. The centipede's tentacles, the fangs behind it, and the fifty feet were all bright red as blood, and they were fierce and vicious at first glance.

The centipede's tentacles and fangs were bound by the ant's silk and could not sting, and it was bitten by the leafcutter worker ants on its buttocks and beside it, and had to move towards the cage.

The female guide of the leaf-cutting ant took the initiative to put her tentacles over and introduced to the protagonist: this centipede was captured from the territory of the Red Fire Ant barbarians who had just conquered, and more than a dozen brave warriors were killed for this purpose, and it took 4 Star Bulls to transport it back.

The centipede was brought in through the trap door in the cage, and the trap door was closed and tied, but the part where the centipede was tied was not loosened, and an additional set of ropes was added to the wall of the cage so that it could not move too far.

Then, the bug on the left was pulled out, and it was a scorpion with a body color darker than a centipede, nearly 10 centimeters long, its carapace shining in the sun like black iron, a pair of pincers as huge as broad beans, and a sharp crochet needle on its tail that seemed to pierce everything. It's just that the tail needle and big jaw of the scorpion are also trapped by the ant silk and can't move.

This scorpion is reported to be from the northern part of the forest.

The scorpion was then also sent into the cage, again without untying the rope, and was tied to the cage.

Next was a praying mantis and a wasp being put into a cage one after the other.

The appearance of the praying mantis makes the protagonist's eyes tighten, and when he just crossed into this world, a praying mantis once almost killed him, leaving him a shadow for a long time.

This praying mantis is actually bigger than the green mantis that the protagonist is impressed with, 15 centimeters long, yellow-brown all over, and there are spots on its body, which I thought it was a dead branch if I didn't look closely, which has a strong camouflage effect.

According to the guide, this praying mantis hid in the fallen leaves and killed a sacred beast of the Leaf Cutting Ant Country, Star Tianniu, and then was caught by the army that rushed in, which was very powerful.

The wasp is no different from the wasp of the slender foot swift ant inherited from the wind god, with a yellow-black body color, sharp jaws and stinging needles. It's just that the wings of this wasp have been torn off, and only a little residue on the wing roots remains, probably because it is afraid that it will fly away.

When all four fierce insects were sent into the cage, the audience rushed forward. At the front and closest to the cage are the representatives of the various ethnic groups and the queens with the highest status, and the lower the status of the audience, the further back the audience can be.

This venue is also not like the modern stadium or the Colosseum, which has a stepped auditorium with a worrying view of the spectators in the back.

Fortunately, the fierce insects in the cage are all tall and eye-catching, and the audience in the back row can still see some of them.

The protagonist's position is very close to these fierce insects, and some representatives are almost lying on the gap in the cage to watch, which provokes the hungry fierce insects inside to be restless.

The leafcutter workers checked the movable doors on all sides again to make sure they had been retied after feeding in the predators.

At this time, centipedes, scorpions, praying mantises, and wasps are each entrenched on one side of the cage, their jaws and weapons are tied, and they themselves are also tied to ropes and cannot get close to the enemy in front of them.

The centipede writhed restlessly, the scorpion remained motionless, and the mantis faced the wasp relatively close to it, while the wasp spun around on top of the cage.

After these fierce insects are caught, they are locked in burrows in the ground, and they are fed only a few dead leaf-cutting ants every day, a small amount, which can keep them from starvation and have the strength to fight.

At the moment, the hungry insects looked at everything as if they were eating.

At this time, the guides explained that the "insect and beast fight" began, and they saw more than a dozen leaf-cutting ants and small worker ants burrowing into the cage at the same time!