Chapter Seventy-Two: Mutation
253 worker ants are digging holes in the makeshift camp. This means that about 12 worker ants who could be the killers are still hiding in the team......
The protagonist looks through the rolling vision, and for a moment he feels that all the worker ants seem to be hideous, and their digging action is like sharpening knives, are they digging holes or preparing to dig and bury the grave of this team? Are they talking to each other or are they complicating tonight's murder?
The protagonist feels a little dry in his mouth while watching, and he wants to loudly remind them to pay attention at night, the murderer is by their side, they are the companion with the same aura that they trust immensely, and the night is the murderer's umbrella. However, this is just a replay of the old scenes, and the protagonist can't do anything but read the images.
The protagonist laughs at himself and thinks that he is too into the play, rolling and Rambo are now safely following him, everyone is running together to avoid the heavy rain, why should he be so worried. There is no bond between the male ants who really died and the protagonist, and the only thing to worry about is the situation of "Dongyang City".
The protagonist calms down and continues to quietly watch the progress of this past video.
The workers quickly completed the excavation of their underground burrows, and this time they only dug 12 burrows due to the downsizing of the team.
Roll still lives with Lan Bofei, Lan Borui, and Lan Bowan, and there are 21 worker ants in the same nest. The protagonist takes a closer look at the frame, and the remaining 10 nests are inhabited by 4 males and 21 worker ants each, and the last nest is inhabited by the only female and 22 worker ants.
The protagonist looks at the worker ants who are rolling in one of their nests, and they are all obedient and quietly snoozing in the burrow, without the slightest sign of looking like ant killers. However, the physiognomy is not always accurate for humans with very different appearances, let alone ants carved out of a mold. The protagonist still doesn't understand how he can recognize at a glance who is rolling and who is Rambovan, obviously they are all the same face, which is more similar than the Internet celebrity face in his previous life.
Roll quickly fell asleep, and as he continued to snooze and wake up, the picture changed to that kind of coming and going again. Through the occasional brief scene, there are still worker ants who wake up from time to time and run out of their burrows, not knowing whether they are going to defecate or participating in some covert action. However, these worker ants did not appear to swarm.
Roll suddenly became fully awake, and the male ants next to him also woke up, and they sensed the changes in air pressure and humidity keenly. The protagonist also reacts, and on the night after the first rain, there was a great rain. Rolling and Rambo Fei briefly touched each other, thinking that the scale of this rain was not small, and this small underground nest would definitely not be able to shelter them from the heavy rain safely, and they had to find a place to hide from the rain.
So the four male ants together shouted at the worker ants who were still napping. The worker ants were slightly less sensitive than the males, and they did not yet sense the impending rainstorm, but at the command of the males, the ants in the burrows climbed to the ground.
In addition to rolling, there are several burrow males who have crawled out, and they all feel the power of this rainstorm that is about to water the world. Some of the caves have not yet moved, so Roll immediately ordered the worker ants around him to go to the various caves to inform them to evacuate.
The ants in the burrows closer to the center of the camp came out and gathered around Roll. After informing a few nearby caves, one of the worker ants in charge of the order continued to crawl towards the last remote cave in the makeshift camp.
Rolling eyes watched her crawl into the cave, and within two seconds, the worker ant suddenly showed its head out of the hole, and it looked like she was in a hurry to climb outside, but the next second she disappeared into the hole, as if she was pulled into it by something.
There is a situation, get out of their instant reaction. In their minds, they thought it was the carnivorous bugs that killed their companions last night again.
As the males emitted alert scents and acoustic signals, the worker ants immediately formed a tight defensive formation. I don't know if the male ant in that cave is dead or alive, but the male ant has a noble status, and he must send a few ants to see what is going on.
He gave an order to the four worker ants around him, and the four worker ants crawled to the hole in a column, and the large army of male ants and worker ants also formed a tight defensive formation, slowly approaching the hole.
The four worker ants who were tasked with reconnaissance came to the cave **, and did not rush into it, they had already received an order to roll, and they wanted to conduct reconnaissance according to the mode of enemy search. I saw two worker ants moving the small stones and gravel in the hole, and kept throwing them into the hole, which is a small trick often used by ants, which has the meaning of throwing stones to ask for directions. The other two worker ants watched the entrance warily.
Perhaps it was the stone-throwing that helped, and there was the sound of rustling arthrops rubbing against the tunnel from under the cave, and something was climbing up.
They were all staring at the hole intently, and when they felt something crawl out, all the males tensed their strings, ready to give the command to attack.
The rustle is getting closer.
Suddenly, a dark shadow emerged from the cave.
With only the faint moonlight, they didn't immediately judge the identity of the person who was rolling farther away. However, the four worker ants near the entrance of the cave did not attack after verifying the identity of the black shadow with their tentacles.
The protagonist with the help of the rolling vision still has his excellent night vision, and he can see clearly that it is a worker ant that comes out. It is a worker ant covered in ant tissue fluid.
"That's the enemy, it's the murderer." The protagonist immediately determines that a murder has just taken place in the cave inside, and it is not known whether the tissue fluid on the worker ant belongs to the worker ant herald who has just been dragged in, or the other ants who were resting in the cave originally.
At the entrance, the four worker ant scouts only knew that they were their companions with the same breath, and they kindly slapped the carapace of the comer with their tentacles, and even tried to help her lick the dirty liquid off the carapace.
The fierce hand ant did not make any unusual moves, and she quickly left the hole, and then the second, third, and fourth worker ants crawled out one after another.
The protagonist sees that the four fierce hand ants who have just come out of the hole have crawled behind the four scout worker ants at the entrance of the cave. In comparison, the body size of these four worker ants is obviously slightly larger, although it is not as large as the size of the soldier ants, but it is also larger than the abdomen of the four reconnaissance worker ants, and the upper jaw is also more developed.
There are also worker ants who continue to crawl out of their burrows, but there is not a single male ant in sight.
At this time, there is a sudden change!
I saw that the fierce hand ants that had gone around the back of the reconnaissance worker ants suddenly pounced and bit their necks. The detective worker ant was startled, and instinctively twisted his body to struggle and escape, but the murderer, who had already taken the lead, had the advantage in position and strength, and quickly twisted the victim's head off. The dead Scout ants didn't even have time to send a distress signal, and they didn't understand why they were being attacked by their own kind until they died.
Although they have poor vision at night, they also vaguely notice that something is wrong ahead. Roll and a few other male ants who came forward to witness the abnormality immediately issued a warning command. The whole group that was slowly approaching the entrance of the cave immediately stopped, and all the ants waved their tentacles nervously, trying to figure out the current situation by smell and touch.
The protagonist sees seventeen worker ants crawling out of the cave one after another, and only the first four of them are larger, but the larger ones are not very large, so the protagonist did not notice the difference between them for the first two days.
After all the seventeen fierce hand ants crawled out, after the four big worker ants had a brief exchange with them, they actually gathered into a group and rushed towards them.
Are they crazy? The protagonist thinks that with the help of the cover of night and the identity of their companions, these worker ants can unknowingly eliminate the ants resting in the caves one or two, but now this mere seventeen worker ants are actually coming towards the team of more than 200 ants!
Before the protagonist can figure it out, these seventeen worker ants have already killed in front of the team where the roll is located.
The team's worker ants were on full alert, spotting the enemy before they approached, but after tentacle contact, the worker ants were confused—it was a companion.
The fierce hand ants quickly took advantage of the defender's stunned gap and bit the more than a dozen worker ants in the first row with their palates. The bitten worker ants instinctively struggled desperately, and because they were attacked head-on, they were not bitten to the fatal part.
them off, they finally confirmed that it was the enemy who had killed them, even if the workers in the first row were strangely not the first to take action to counterattack.
The male ants gave off signals to attack, and the worker ants around them moved over with a hula and surrounded the attackers...... Then, the worker ants were also confused, and they did not find any enemy breath. And after such a crowd, all the worker ants are crowded together, and the protagonist can't tell which ones are the murderers and which are the guards! Only a handful of worker ants are still fighting each other.
But even so, the males are safe, after all, the number of murderers is too small, although it is impossible to distinguish, but if they dare to break out of the worker ant colony to attack the males, they will also be discovered and eliminated by other worker ants who are loyal to the guardian.
At this time, the situation on the field actually changed again......
I saw a few worker ants suddenly pouting their buttocks, bending from below and rushing ** in the direction of their upper body. As a mist of water was sprayed out, these worker ants were immediately stained with a layer of scent, which was different from the smell that everyone had before that belonged to "Dongyang City".
The protagonist pauses the screen to take a closer look, and it is the four slightly larger fierce hand ants that are spraying water mist! If it weren't for this action, he wouldn't have been able to distinguish the four killer workers from the other mixed worker ants.
What are they doing?