When the protagonist stands in the center of the conference room and faces the many kings in "Dongyang City", he is facing more than ninety percent of the middle and high-level leaders under his command, and he is also the backbone of the conservative forces.

So, the protagonist has overestimated the opponent's opposition as much as possible. However, when his proposal is dissuaded or even questioned by the males, the protagonist feels that his estimation is still too conservative, and he also feels that he has misunderstood the meaning of the dream before.

When waking up from a series of dreams, the protagonist feels a blank in his mind, his whole body aches, and every air hole is damp, like a profuse sweat.

But it didn't take long for him to wake up, and he was able to accurately recall every word, every trace of demeanor, and every detail of the dream. This is unusual, most dreams are not recalled, and even if they do, a lot of content is lost.

He was no longer sure that the ant in his dream was himself, although he could be sure that the human body and the soul in it were his own, and he had been convinced that the ant was himself, himself in ant form.

But when the ant tried to tell him something with stories and fables, he hesitated. What is he trying to express? What am I trying to express? Is it the real mind in the subconscious? Or is it some omnipresent being who wants to give me a hint?

Ants keep reminding themselves in their dreams, "Do you know what I'm trying to express? ”

It seems that there are very important ideas that the protagonist wants to understand, but he refuses to say it directly, but uses real stories in history as metaphors.

In the dream, the protagonist once asked the ant in confusion: "How do you know the story of Benjamin Smith and Mumguru when there is no history book about it?" ”

The ant smiled again, as if with a hint of evil spirit: "That's not important, this is the true story, and the most important thing is the story!" Do you know what I want to express in the story? ”

At first, the protagonist thinks that the ants want to say that a society with better military technology and organization is crushing another lower society. But when I heard the fourth story, I rejected my own idea.

If that's all you want to say, you just need to tell the stories of Henry Lawr, Lobengula, and Hiram Stevens Maxin, and there's no need to add the latter two stories in a nutshell.

But is the ant in the dream drawing a snake? The protagonist doesn't think so, so he feels that the last two stories, like the first three, should be strung together to know what the ants want to express.

The latter two, compared to the first three, are out-and-out little people, and that's the biggest difference. The protagonist realizes this.

Henry Lawr became a British hero, received a knighthood, and was recorded in the history books, military stories, and military science and technology history for the war. Even if Lobengula failed, he was still the outstanding leader of the kingdom of Matabele, and once lived a life of luxury that the warriors of the tribe did not dare to touch. Makqin went down in history because of his invention patent and became a millionaire.

And Smith is just a well-known middle class, except for successfully passing on his genes, he has not left anything to boast about in this world.

Mumguru was an ordinary indigenous African, who had been taken from his homeland and loved ones, trained day after day as a warrior, until he died on the battlefield, and no comrade or enemy cared where he came from, what he was thinking, or what his wishes were.

History is written by the big people, and the little people are just like worker ants and soldier ants, although they give their all, and the role of many worker ants and soldier ants must not be underestimated. However, only the stories of the big people are recorded in the history books, just like in the legends of the ant world, there are only legends of male ants and queen ants. From this point of view? Ant and human societies are also very similar.

The protagonist thinks that's what the ants want to say.

Thinking day and night, before the plenary meeting was about to be held because of the killing of the paving ants, the protagonist had such a dream, he thought that his subconscious was warning himself not to offend the powerful "big people" because of a few worker ants.

He hated this admonition, and his dissatisfaction with the "big guys" of the current ant society had accumulated to a certain extent, and the recent events were like a fuse that made him want to subvert and reshape the order.

Neither his values, nor his need for solipsistic rule, nor his future development needs can tolerate the current model of decentralization.

What the protagonist wants is an opportunity for change, and now there is one. The subtle warning of dreams, although important, does not want to be bound by it.

When the protagonist proposes at the convention that the big-headed male ant who killed the paver ant worker ant should be sentenced to death, he is faced with overwhelming opposition.

None of the male ants support the protagonist, including Rambo Fei and Roll, whom the protagonist trusted, much to the protagonist's surprise.

However, the protagonist feels that his authority is shaking in the face of the opposition of all the male ants, and he himself retreats a little. This is something he didn't think of beforehand, and the protagonist always thinks that with the soul and mind of a human being, he can not care about the thoughts of hundreds of ants.

But when these ideas come together and all stand on opposite sides, the protagonist realizes that even ants are united like a tsunami.

The protagonist wants to take a step back and withdraw the proposal. But he figured it out in a blink of an eye, taking a step back may be a catastrophe, and once I retreat from the enemy, not only will the prestige that I have built up for a long time be shaken, but it will be more difficult to implement any measures and carry out any reforms in the future.

The protagonist didn't dare to back down, but all the participants were on the opposite side of him, and he thought that there would be at least a few followers who were blindly superstitious about him, but none of them were there. That's what shakes and scares him – no matter how hard he tries, it seems that it's hard to break the traditional notion of ants.

At one point, the protagonist wants to move out of the divine will to subdue the ants, but he still gives up. The concept of "God" is the creation of the collective consciousness of the ants, and if the collective consciousness is used again and again to subdue the opponents, it will put the already shaken authority of the king on the fire.

At this point, the protagonist remembers the dream, and the protagonist feels that he had misunderstood the meaning of the dream. Now, the protagonist has come to his senses, and he has also decided to take a gamble!