The little secret is dead!

Under the dim and cold light of fluorescent bacteria, the protagonist stares at the stiff body lying on his back in front of him.

Her tentacles drooped, her jaws opened, her huge compound eyes lacked a hint of brilliance, and her carapace glowed with a bleak sheen.

The two worker ant servants who served her were nowhere to be found. The protagonist was suddenly very angry, these two damn worker ants, they didn't even tell him that the little secretary was dead, and left the little secretary here alone, I don't know where to run!

But when he thinks about it, the protagonist can only sigh again. These worker ants have to give specific instructions before they do it. The protagonist had only asked them to take care of the seriously ill secretary before, and did not tell them to report the funeral in time. Now that the little secretary is dead, the two "hard-working" worker ants have no task, so they naturally run to rest or do other work.

Even if the protagonist wants to be held responsible, it is difficult to find them out of the many worker ants in "Dongyang City", and the protagonist has too little lighting with them to remember them.

didn't throw the stiff body of the little secretary into the garbage dump where the corpses were usually dumped, and it was already regarded as the worker ants treated her with respect as a male ant or queen ant.

In the kingdom of big-headed ants, the corpses of worker ants and soldier ants, which are all discarded in garbage heaps, are so-called ant mounds. If they can't be discarded in the wild in winter, they will be stored somewhere in an underground nest and discarded in the spring of the following year.

Male ants and queens are better, although there is no written funeral system, but the corpses of male ants and queens are generally discarded separately in a corner of the anthill, and will not be mixed with those corpses of professional ants, which can be regarded as a bit of hierarchical comfort.

In the event of a famine, the carcasses of the queen and male, because they are larger, more nutritious, and softer, will be used as emergency food, and will be given priority to the living queen, males and larvae. Other ant carcasses are also used as food.

The protagonist looks at Xiao Mi's corpse, and scenes from the past emerge, and a frustration and sadness that has rarely been seen since the rebirth crossing is spreading.

That's how life ends, and it's just the beginning. In a few years, the Floating Leaf King, Roll, and Rambo Fei will all come to the end of their lives!

Even himself, the protagonist doesn't know how long his body can live, a year or two years? Although now, the protagonist feels that he is infinitely powerful and free from illness and disaster. But one day, you may wake up and find yourself faltering and weak. The life of an ant is too short, and aging comes so quickly that the protagonist can't help but be afraid.

But there is no point in thinking about this, as a "person" who has died once, the protagonist can only be grateful for this extra "life" even if it is only a few years of new "life". At least he had seen a world and civilization that was very different from the human world, an experience that no second person had ever experienced.

Looking at the stiff body of the little secretary, the protagonist wants to hold a funeral for her, the most primitive funeral. At the very least, her body should be buried in the ground, plus some of the simplest funerary goods. For example, a piece of pottery, a gravel knife, these simple tools are condensed with the labor of the little secretary. In this way, it can also prevent the corpse of the little secret from being eaten by ants or other hungry insects, so that the whole corpse is left.

So, the protagonist goes out and summons two passing worker ants, asks them to fetch the burial goods first, and then temporarily seals the nest room until the beginning of spring next year.

But just after the worker ants left, the protagonist realized that on the corpse of the little secret, the originally swollen abdomen was actually shriveled. After seeing the abnormally swollen abdomen, the protagonist once thought that it was the source of the disease, just like many humans who suffer from parasites or malnutrition have a huge abdomen.

The protagonist can't do anything about the disease, so she can only try to supply a high-quality diet to the secretary, but her belly shows no signs of shrinking at all.

But at the moment, this belly is shriveled like a deflated balloon.

The protagonist suddenly thought of something, he stared at the top of Xiao Mi's abdomen, and under the glow of the orchid, he finally saw something abnormal - a crystal white egg was quietly trapped in the soft silk wool, the silk wool was white, and the egg was also white, so if you were not careful, the protagonist would almost miss it.

This is an ant egg, the egg of Xiao Mi, and the protagonist suddenly wakes up.

The secretary is still alive! At least she left her genes!

The protagonist is a little excited, he never thought that Xiao Mi would pass on his genes and life in this way, but now all this is happening in front of his eyes. The little secretary is a worker ant, although it is a big worker ant, but it stands to reason that it will not lay eggs!?

Later, it takes a long time for the protagonist to figure out the reason why Xiao Mi laid eggs.

In most ant nests, although the occupational ants are also females, due to the suppression of hormones secreted by the queen, their gonads are immature, so they cannot reproduce. There are only a few ant races, there are no specialized queens, and all females are reproductive ants.

If the queen in a nest dies and there is no new queen to succeed the queen, the nest will come to an end. Without the hormonal suppression of the queen ant, the gonads of the worker ants have matured. Since there are no males to fertilize them, they are left to produce unfertilized eggs, which can only hatch males and not queens or workers. Therefore, a dying nest often has an unusually large number of males, who do not work and consume extra food, which accelerates the collapse of the nest.

As a large worker ant, Xiao Mi has always enjoyed food that is not inferior to that of the queen, and the nutrition of the large worker ant is very good. As long as the conditions are right, the gonads of large worker ants will mature faster.

The queen ant of each nest has to rely on the assistance of the worker ants who serve themselves to spread hormones that inhibit the gonadal development of other female ants in the nest to prevent too many queen ants in the nest.

However, the site of the scientific research group where the little secretary is located is heavily guarded, and the worker ants of the queen ant cannot enter, so the big worker ants of the scientific research group have developed and matured in this environment. It's just that due to the busy work of the scientific research team and the consumption of a lot of energy, these large worker ants do not have the time and energy to lay eggs, and this aspect of physiology has been suppressed in another way.

The protagonist can guess what mood the little secretary chooses to conceive an egg in after realizing that his time is short. So in the last moment, she was so serene and calm.

As the smartest of the ant family, and the one closest to human thinking, Xiao Mi uses this way full of human plots to extend his life in a sense!

The protagonist looked at this egg that can hatch a male ant, and was full of emotion for a while.