The entrance to the nest in front of it emitted a warm orange glow, the light of the flames. The protagonist is thrilled that the goal he is looking for on his long journey is close at hand.

"The oldest king is in front. The young king, who is not yet married, is forbidden to send messages after entering, and obeys my commands. The police turned around and warned the protagonist, and the emotions conveyed were unusually solemn.

The protagonist hurriedly submits, and then follows the police to the lair with flames. Getting closer and closer, the protagonist's heart is also excited a little bit.

Is it fire? The smoke and this feeling of warmth shouldn't be deceiving.

Walk through the doorway, and suddenly it will open.

The protagonist's eyes are immediately drawn to the flames in the middle of this incomparably large lair. That's right, there is fire.

It's said to be a flame, but it's actually a bit reluctant, these beating flames are unusually small, so small that they exceed the protagonist's imagination. Although it can be regarded as a large fire for ants, it is the size of a torch for humans. But the beating flame and the warm glow still delight the protagonist, yes, the flame, the real flame is in front of him. Even if you travel to a foreign land alone, facing a group of ants that are not human at all, you are extremely uncomfortable from eating and drinking to Lazar, as long as you get to the ground, you may even encounter life-threatening danger at any time, and there is no trace of human beings, and there is no clue whether you can become a human being. But it's such a desperate world, at the moment when this flame appears, the protagonist feels the temperature of his former home, and suddenly has the hope of struggling again.

In contrast to the tiny flames, the space in this nest is unusually large, surpassing all the ant holes the protagonist has ever seen. The nest is the size of a human yoga ball, and given the ant's tiny size, the protagonist walks in like a person walking into an empty theater. The protagonist wonders how the ants managed to dig up such a huge space, the amount of labor that is definitely a huge project even with the engineering ability of hard-working ants, and how the nest that was dug up was managed so that it would not collapse. The protagonist looks around the nest, which is also covered in cobblestones, leaving only six entrances and exits and a chimney on top. Perhaps it is these firmly stacked pebbles that bear the weight of the nest.

The nest was empty, only the fire in the center burned lonely, the fire was not large, but there was a lot of ash accumulated underneath.

From a nearby entrance, worker ants were constantly coming and going, clinging to the dry twigs and grass roots, crawling to the fire and handing the fuel to the bottom of the fire. Several large, sturdy soldier ants worked together to push the fuel right in the middle of the fire with their long, thin branches, and pulled aside some of the burned fuel debris. These thin branches will burn after a few more uses, and become part of the fuel, but the soldiers have many spare branches around them. Workers who have delivered fuel will pick and choose at the edge of the fire for less hot debris and char to carry away them so as not to accumulate too much ash. The protagonist notices that the departing worker ants are taking a different entrance from the same entrance. It is precisely with these industrious ants guarding that this small flame can be maintained day and night, lighting the flame of the birth of a civilization.

Although the flame is not large, it burns firmly, and due to the large amount of fuel impurities, the thick black smoke drifts down the chimney at the top to the outside world, forming a column of smoke that the protagonist has seen from afar. Due to the long smoke, the pebbles on the shell of the hemispherical nest are smoked black and yellow.

The nest has six entrances and exits, one of which is the main character's entry path, and two are the passage for the worker ants to carry fuel and garbage. There were also two openings in the middle of the wall, and no ants came out of them, but there were gusts of breeze pouring in, blowing the flames and shaking gently, these two should be vents.

The police bypassed the fire and walked to the last entrance directly opposite their entrance to the nest. The protagonist hurriedly followed.

From this exit, a short passage with white cobblestones leads to a large nest chamber in a few steps.

This nest has a familiar layout for the protagonist - a large, intact, slightly raised pebble on the ground. If it weren't for the scattered white pebbles on the walls, the size of the nest room would have been many times larger than Wang's classroom, and the protagonist would have almost thought he had run back to Wang's classroom.

There were seven or eight wingless males in the nest room, and they formed a circle on a cobblestone platform, with a male ant in the middle who did not stand out from the outside. This male ant looks old, and the protagonist obviously thinks that the appearance of the ants of the same species is almost the same, but he only needs to look at it to tell who is Mulan and who is Wei 1, and now he can actually see at a glance that the male ants are getting older.

Except for the old male ant in the middle, these males have their heads lowered and their antennae next to the pebble floor. In the experience of the protagonists, it is they who are engaged in collective communication. This is also the only way the protagonist knows of a group conversation, otherwise the ants must intersect with their antennae in order to communicate complex meanings, and only two ants can talk to each other. And if you want to have a simple group communication, then the group command technique through abdominal vocalizations and deflats that the protagonist has mastered before can come in handy.

When the police walked in, a winged male ant approached and intersected with his tentacles. Then the police told the protagonist: "Wait here, the oldest king has just notified all the kings to come here, and there is a new great divine decree." ”

"And when am I going to wait?" The protagonist asks.

"Wait until the Great God's decree is delivered." The police replied.

"Okay, I still have a question, what is the king?" The protagonist is once again incarnated as a curious baby, and there is too much new knowledge about the ants.

"It's the old king who can rule over a hundred new kings." Well, the protagonist has been successfully dazzled by all kinds of new, old, oldest, and big.

"And what is the Great Divine Decree?"

"It is the most important divine decree." The police finally got annoyed: "New king, you need to learn the most basic knowledge of the king first." ”

The protagonist shook his tentacles, who let himself only take two lessons.

Seeing that the protagonist does not continue to ask questions, the police ask the winged male ant to take the protagonist to the corner of the nest against the wall, and he himself climbs up to the cobblestone platform, also lowering his antennae.