The protagonist guesses that there is only one possibility for the death of male ants and worker ants last night, that is, they were killed by a group of companions with the same breath, so they did not give early warning and did not resist. Moreover, the oil on their bodies should have deteriorated quickly after their death, giving off a pungent smell of oleic acid, which could be clearly smelled outside the nest. And there is only a faint smell of oil and sourness on these corpses, could it be that the murderers have cleverly licked off these spoiling grease? Why did they cover up the scene of the death?

The protagonist puts the rolling packet back upside down, and carefully searches for details that may have been missed from the moment the team first encounters the worker ant guard when they leave "Dongyang City".

First of all, Roll asked one of the worker ants, and the worker ant replied that he was ordered to escort Roll to the main nest. So whose orders were they? Before, both Roll and the protagonist took it for granted that these worker ants had been arranged to carry out the guard mission before Lao Wang's death, but now it seems that this is obviously not the case. There is a murderer in these worker ants, and Lao Wang also died at the hands of the murderer, so Lao Wang cannot be in the same group as the murderer.

If these worker ants are not under the orders of the king, then whose orders are they on? Roll clearly knows that there is only one adult king in the entire "Dongyang City", and only he has the qualifications to give important orders to the ants in the whole nest. This in itself is an abnormal thing, this kind of remote secondary nest generally has a few to dozens of adult kings depending on the size, and it is impossible to have only one king.

Could it be that there is an adult king hidden in "Dongyang City" that everyone doesn't know? He sent this convoy mixed with this murderer? Or did he send murderers to infiltrate the guards assigned by Lao Wang? The latter is more likely, and if it is the former, then the entire escort should be the murderer.

Secondly, the protagonist learns from the elder brother that the average remote secondary nest will give birth to about 20 young male ants every year to participate in the wedding ceremony, but "Dongyang City" has given birth to 50 male ants this year, including the protagonist, which is also very abnormal. The protagonist remembers the words that seemed to have something in the words of the police: "Maybe it's God's will...... This is not normal, you go to "Dongyang City" according to the will of God, please be sure to find out the reason, this may be related to the survival of a side nest, or it may be directly related to the will of God. "Does the police know something?

Third, ants don't lie, rolled and asked a worker ant, this worker ant said that she was in charge of escorting, if this is true, then in this worker ant guard team, at least some of the worker ants and the murderer are not in the same group, they are indeed seriously carrying out the escort task. The protagonist regrets coming to the main nest ahead of time, and if the protagonist sets off with them at that time, then take full advantage of the fact that ants don't lie, and the protagonist has a way to find out the murderer by interrogating them one by one.

But then again, the protagonist used to know that ants would not intentionally harm their own kind, but now the successive murders have overturned this iron rule. So, is the rule that ants can't speak still valid? The protagonist is also afraid to guarantee it.

Fourthly, on the first night of camping, 4 male ants and 8 worker ants died in a remote camping cave**, and according to the scene, they did not make any effective resistance. In addition to explaining that the ant companion committed the crime, it also shows that the murderer has the ability to kill 12 ants at the same time, so as not to alarm other victims who have not yet been killed, after all, ants sleep very lightly and are easy to wake up. According to the average number of each cave, there are also about 20 worker ants in this cave, so the number of about 12 worker ants missing just meets the number of murderers, will they be murderers? Where did they go?

These doubts, the protagonist can't find enough evidence to explain for the time being, and he can only continue to watch the rolling information packet, hoping to gain something.

After a brief discussion with the other males, they believed that the deceased had died at the hands of carnivorous insects, so after leaving behind the corpses of their companions, they continued towards the main nest without much suspicion.

Today the team was moving much less than on the first day because they were lost.

As mentioned in the previous chapter, the ant expressway to the main nest in "Dongyang City" is mainly marked by the long-lasting pheromones left by the males, but this long-term pheromones can only be effectively maintained for eight or nine months, and then it will become weaker and weaker until it disappears, and the annual wedding flight is a full year apart. When they get to their current location, they are faced with the problem of not being able to find pheromone road signs. The reason why this problem did not exist yesterday is that there is a large number of worker and soldier ants in the area near the nest, and they will leave a large number of short-term pheromones, especially around the ant expressway, which can serve as an alternative to road signs. But now the section of the road where they got lost is a blank area between the two secondary nests where there is very little ant activity.

The protagonist of this pot also has to memorize half of it, and when he set off for the main nest half a month ago, he could still read the long-lasting pheromones that had not completely disappeared. As a matter of convention, he should also keep his pheromones as a supplement, but the protagonist, who lacks the experience and awareness to do so, does not do so. And get out, they all kept their pheromones all the way.

Getting lost is not a big deal, and the team that sets out to participate in the wedding flight ceremony of the main nest every year will be encountered more or less. Roll them to a halt and send a large number of worker ant scouts to find out the location.

After waiting for a long time, a worker ant returned, and she found the pheromones left by the worker ants in the west side of the nest, which could point the way. They immediately set off with the guide worker ants, and at the same time left exclusive pheromones along the way, so that those scout worker ants who have not yet returned can catch up with the large army all the way back.

Due to the impact of getting lost, the distance they traveled today was relatively short, but this was not enough to cause them to miss the wedding flight ceremony. Soon, it was camping time again, and while the sun had just set and the sky was still full of bright reflections, the ants began to build camp. The scout worker ants who followed also caught up one after another.

The work of digging burrows is carried out by the worker ants, and the male and female ants gather in groups on the side and do not participate in the labor. By the way, the protagonist immediately pauses the scene, and he carefully counts the number of male and female ants. There were 44 males and 1 female, and only 32 males and 1 female arrived at the main nest, which means that 12 females were killed by the killer on the next journey.

Since he can count the number of male ants, the protagonist remembers to simply count the number of worker ants. Counting the worker ants scattered and burrowing is more difficult than counting the males that have gathered in groups. The protagonist stitches together several different scrolling vision pictures in his mind, and then counts them one by one, and also removes the duplicate worker ants, and it takes a lot of effort to finally count them clearly.

A total of 253 worker ants. There were 13 burrows at the camp the night before, and each burrow was inhabited by an average of 20 worker ants, so the convoy should have about 260 worker ants in total. But last night 8 worker ants died, about 12 worker ants were missing, there should be about 240 worker ants today, why is it 253 now?

What does this mean? This means that about 12 of them are likely to be the killer's worker ants, and they are still hiding in this team......