Chapter 296: Memory (1)

Judging from the packet sent back by the Divine Envoy King Warrior, this queen ant has largely lost her original consciousness as a big-headed ant.

Her mind was filled with a mixture of memories and emotions, and her logical thinking was almost gone. She did not respond at all to the inquiries sent by the Divine Warrior in place of the protagonist, and all the information in her mind was as if it were unguarded, allowing other ants to read it through their tentacles.

The packet of information that the Divine King warrior hastily reads is a combination of emotions and memories, and this information is very useful.

If you just look at the emotional part of the queen's mind, it is filled with the same mania and murder appetite that you have read from other parasitic ants before, as if you want to kill and tear apart all non-infected subjects.

In addition, the protagonist also reads the longing for sunlight and temperature contained in this emotion?

Parasitic ants love sunlight and temperature!? This is the first time the protagonist knows about it.

Parasites as fungi generally prefer dark and humid environments, don't they? Why do they prefer sunlight and temperature like plants or cold-blooded animals?

The protagonist has also seen it with his own eyes, and if the parasite leaves the host, it will quickly dry up in direct sunlight. Although it takes many days to die in the sun, as long as you add some water in the middle, you can move again. However, it also means that these fungi are not adapted to the hot sunlight.

The protagonist doesn't have time to think about it, and continues to read the message, as the Divine Messenger King tells him that this contains the queen's last memories before her mind becomes confused.

- I'm the dividing line -

The queen's eyes are the protagonist's eyes, and the queen's feelings are the protagonist's feelings.

When reading the packet, all feelings are shared, and the protagonist is able to immerse himself in the other person's scene as if he were watching a 99D movie.

In addition to being able to think independently, it can't interfere with the memories that have happened and control the body, which will almost make the protagonist forget his original identity.

The protagonist once suffered from sequelae due to reading a large number of other ants' memories, but fortunately, his brain capacity and intelligence as a human finally prevented him from completely substituting himself into an ant and losing himself.

Now, the protagonist is "incarnated" as this queen ant who is destined to have a tragic end, and feels the last time she is awake.

- I'm the dividing line -

In the dark cave, only a fluorescent fungus grows alone on the soil wall, illuminating the outline of the creature of this small cave.

The protagonist sees himself now in this body, prostrate on the ground, with a mixture of ant silk and plant fibers underneath.

It can be seen that the production of this nest is not abundant, and even the queen ant can only live in a very narrow dormitory, and the bedding is not pure ant silk, and it is mixed with a lot of hay fibers.

With the twisting of this body, there was a slight tingling sensation from time to time, it was a rough and hard grass silk stuck in the gap in the carapace.

But the body couldn't stop wriggling because she was in labor.

The abdomen, which was two or three times larger than the upper body, was rested on this pile of rudimentary bedding, and because it was too inflated, the carapace of the abdomen was stretched extremely thin, revealing a large area of tender flesh in the gaps in the carapace. It is these tender flesh of the secondary nest that is constantly stimulated by the grass silk and produces pain.

In contrast, childbirth is not a painful thing for the queen ant, but like an internal emergency, it can't be held back.

In the small cave, many worker ants were busy scurrying around, and ants kept coming in and out of the entrance not far away, and soon left with an ant egg.

This is the body's dormitory and delivery room, and it is also her prison for the rest of her life.

The protagonist can't read the body's earlier memories, but she must have left this dark underground world when she was young to participate in the marriage flight in the outside world.

If nothing happens, her fate is to be locked up in this nest for the rest of her life, never to leave, until she is too old to lay eggs, and after she dies, the body will be discarded in the garbage heap on the ground and see the light of day for the second time.

Or in a failed defensive battle, become the enemy's trophy, and the big belly full of ant eggs and rich protein will be one of the enemy's favorite trophies.

No matter what the ending is, it is pitiful and pathetic from the perspective of the protagonist.

But that's the fate of the queen ant. Although the protagonist implements a new wedding flight ceremony in his own territory, it does not change the situation of the queen ant who is still imprisoned in the dormitory. Although he provided the queen with a more spacious dormitory, more comfortable furnishings, and a richer diet.

This is also the reason why he and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction could not coexist in the end, and the Queen Ant Inheritance faction included the Queen Ant into the ruling class, and the Queen Ant was completely free to participate in the decision-making within the ruling class in addition to laying eggs.

But the protagonist can't, only he can call the shots in his territory, neither other male ants nor queens can subvert this.

In the memory of the last two days of the queen, she lay on her stomach and laid eggs, dozens of eggs a day. She couldn't move too far, her upper body was dragged down by her bloated abdomen, and it was extremely difficult to even turn around.

The worker ants would bring her nutrient-rich food at regular intervals, either mouth-to-mouth feeding her some half-digested viscous liquid, or meatballs made from a mixture of meat and fat from some tender insects, all of which were nutrient-rich foods with little to no chewing.

But apart from feeding and removing the eggs, or occasionally anxiously slapping the queen's abdomen with their antennae to promote egg laying, these worker ants will not do anything else for the queen, even if the queen once used her antennae to get a worker ant to help her move her stiff upper limbs, and the ants did not pay attention to her.

Until the last day!

The protagonist's mind is tense, and in the dark light, he sees a worker ant with a long parasite on its back entering the burrow, and the other ants who are busy around him ignore the parasitic ant and let it approach the queen.

The parasite bacteria behind the parasitic ant queen are fluorescently imprinted, like a scythe-carrying grim reaper, approaching this body little by little.

The protagonist feels an unusual discomfort and wants to stay away, but he can't control it, and he can't control the body in his memory.

The queen ant didn't feel anything unusual at all, she seemed to think that the parasitic ants were here to feed, and obediently opened her mouth.

The parasitic ant doesn't seem to move very neatly, and it staggers to the queen, and suddenly shakes violently.

The queen ant had never seen a worker ant like this, and some doubts came to her mind. But the worker ants around them were still busy turning a blind eye, and the queen ant did not feel dangerous.

The parasitic ant shook for a moment and then didn't move, and behind it, a long mycelium was pulling its body out of the parasitic ant's corpse little by little, crawling towards the ant queen like a snake!