Chapter 6 The Problem of Eating
When the protagonist wakes up, he doesn't know how long he has been asleep, after all, the ants don't have timekeeping tools, and they can't see the sky in the deep underground cave.
After waking up, the protagonist found that there were five more winged ants in the cave**, some lying on the silk bed, and some were wandering around the cave** without a head or a brain.
The protagonist looked around and quickly recognized Roll, but he was confused about which one Rambovan was, except for Roll, the other six winged ants were exactly the same, and there was nothing unusual about their behavior. "It's strange, everyone looks the same, why can I recognize it at a glance!" The protagonist thinks to himself, "Is it because I communicated with Roll?" ”
After thinking about it for a while, the protagonist still felt that it had something to do with the tentacle communication, so he went over one by one to communicate with the six winged ants, and decided to name them respectively: Rambo Wan, Rambo Tube, Ramberray, Rambo Fo, Rambo Fly, and Rambosser. As for why these names are chosen, it can only be said that the protagonist (or the author) is too lazy? Anyway, the ants don't care about the syllable names given by humans, they have their own system for distinguishing each other.
There is not much to gain from communicating with the six winged ants, these newly pupated winged ants are like babies, although they can express a lot of emotions but cannot express much meaningful information.
After communicating with the six, the protagonist deliberately doesn't look at them, and after a while, when they are no longer in the same position as they move around each other, they look over again. Sure enough, it was easy to separate the six, confirming the protagonist's suspicion that he was able to identify the different winged ants that his tentacles had communicated.
At this time, the protagonist found that Roll hurriedly ran to a worker ant, and after some tentacle exchange, Roll and the worker ant actually kissed mouth to mouth.
"Damn, it's exciting, ant base!" The protagonist's eyes light up and he prepares to run over to take a closer look.
"No, rolling is a male ant, a male, and a worker ant are all females, so they can't be considered the basis of the situation." At this time, the protagonist remembers some common knowledge about ants.
"But the worker ants are not reproductive, and they are too hungry and thirsty, they are really hungry! No, these two will be performing in a small film live...... "The protagonist's imagination has flown out of the sky.
After the protagonist observes it up close, he finally understands what these two are doing. I saw that the mouth of the worker ant continued to gush out of the viscous oily liquid, and the whole of it was sucked into the stomach without leaking.
"Damn, it turns out that these worker ants are wet nurses, this way of feeding ......" The protagonist suddenly remembered, he wouldn't have to eat like this in the future!!
"No, no, it's so disgusting, I can't accept it at all and talk to an ant!" Once again, the protagonist feels that God is playing with him. "God, can't you put a time-traveling drama with a normal painting style? This mode is simply hellish difficulty, and even filling your stomach will be a huge challenge! ”
Although he is psychologically disgusted and uncomfortable, after watching Roll eagerly finish his first meal, the protagonist can't help but feel hungry. "It turns out that ants feel hungry almost like people are hungry......"
After all, the protagonist is the first ant to pupate, a little earlier than rolling, and his overly abundant brain activity consumes far more energy than ordinary ants, and only then does he feel hungry thanks to the sleep.
"You can't be fed like this!" The protagonist finally makes up his mind that the ants are omnivorous insects, and he decides to find the ant's granary to see if there is anything that can feed him.
So the protagonist endured the growing hunger, turned his head away from the Rambo who were looking for worker ants for food, and got out of the cave.
Along the short passage, the protagonist soon arrives at the entrance of the cave guarded by four soldier ants, and the soldier ants sense the protagonist coming out, and immediately grope their tentacles to reach over.
The moment the protagonist communicates with the tentacles of the soldier ants, the protagonist feels a sense of scrutiny, and then disappears. Then the soldiers stopped caring about the protagonist and continued to be on duty.
"Whew." The protagonist lets out a breath, and the blowholes in his abdomen emit a slight airflow. "I'm afraid I'll be locked up inside and won't be allowed to run around!"
So the protagonist turns around and enters the main passage, this time without the company of worker ants, and the protagonist feels much freer.
Looking up at the sloping upward exit of the main passage overhead, the light at the exit is still warm, it seems that the day has not passed, and the protagonist has not slept for long before.
Now it's time to get down to business, and the protagonist has to find the granary. This is not difficult, because the main passage is full of busy worker and soldier ants, and many ants are carrying food, just follow them.
But when you get closer to the past and look at these foods up close, the protagonist feels like he's going to vomit out stomach acid, although I don't know if ants have stomach acid.
I saw that most of the worker ants held in their mouths and forelimbs, all of which were substances like insect thighs, wings, and pieces of meat. An insect is enough to irritate the eyeballs, let alone a freshly dismembered corpse with green tissue fluid......
The protagonist stayed next to him and was disgusted for a long time, of course, in the eyes of other ants, he was just in a daze with his head down.
It is a reckless little worker ant who rescues the protagonist from his predicament. The protagonist is nauseous and suddenly feels like he has been poked in the abdomen. Looking back, a worker ant was trying to hold a shriveled and malnourished sunflower seed between its beak, which was too large for a small worker ant, and the worker ant struggled to maintain its balance, swaying forward, occasionally hitting other ants or walls.
The protagonist was hit by her before turning back, but as soon as he saw the sunflower seeds, the protagonist's eyes immediately lit up, and he rushed up and bit the shell of the sunflower seeds with the crow in his mouth.
The little worker ant was struggling to move forward, and the sudden resistance struck her as strange. Putting down the sunflower seeds, the little worker ant sees the protagonist. The protagonist hurriedly put the tentacles on it, and the confused message of the worker ants came, and the protagonist replied with a roar, "Give this to me." ”
I don't know if the worker ants understood, or didn't dare to disobey, anyway, she ran away without saying a word.
At this time, the protagonist's hunger is almost to the limit of what he can endure. The protagonist doesn't care about the ants around him, and opens his mouth to gnaw on the shell of the sunflower seed, and then the whole Ao feels like it has been broken...... This behavior confirms the old saying that you can't eat sunflower seeds in a hurry.
In the end, the protagonist finally took advantage of human intelligence, made full use of the weakness of sunflower seeds, tore off a few shells from the edges, and finally took out the sunflower seed kernels from the stomach of sunflower seeds and munched on them.
While eating the main character, he thought, "It seems to taste different from when it was human, and it is more fragrant." ”
Regardless, the protagonist finally solves the problem of eating for the time being.