In the middle of the night, Roll was awakened by his subconscious, and his tentacles felt the smell of rain - it was raining, which meant that the next day the young male ants had to set off on the road to the main nest for the wedding ceremony.

Roll on, hurry up and rest. The protagonist feels that the scene of the packet is dark, which means that Roll is asleep, and soon the scene switches to the moment when Roll wakes up.

Roll back to the classroom, where the young male ant and the only female ant have gathered. They were in a meeting, discussing how to wait until dawn to get on their way. If the old king is still alive, then he will be responsible for assembling an escort team to accompany the kings and queens to the main lair. But he was gone, so the young males expressed concern about the absence of a guard. Limited to the constraints of ideas, they never thought of forming their own escort team like the protagonist.

The male ants discussed for a long time without any results, and it was more like an emotional catharsis meeting. At this time, the biological clock reminds the ants present that it is sunrise time. Both the male and female ants looked at the roll, and when the king and the protagonist were not there, the roll was the first male ant to break the pupa and had the highest priority. Rolling thought about it, the tentacles touched the pebbles, and gave the order to go. He had already figured out that even without a convoy, the sense of mission engraved in his genes required him to hit the road, either die on the road or overcome all odds to reach the main nest.

But unexpectedly, when the male ants arrived at the exit of the nest, a group of hundreds of worker ants climbed to the ground with them. At first, I didn't think there was anything, maybe it was just a team of worker ants who went out to find food. But after leaving the nest, the group of worker ants still closely surrounded the male and female ants and marched westward. Curiously, he used his antennae to communicate with a worker ant, who said that he had been ordered to accompany them to the main nest as a guard. It's relieved to get out, maybe Lao Wang arranged the escort task before he died.

After all the young males left, it meant that there was no king left in the entire "Dongyang City", whether adult or juvenile. The absence of a king means that there is no commander, and the influence is not great in peacetime, and the soldier ants and worker ants can consciously collect food, repair nests, and take care of larvae according to their instincts. But in the event of an enemy attack, a major disaster, etc., these ants who lack command are just a plate of scattered sand. Moreover, there is also a killer ant lurking in this nest, which may even be a swarm of murderers of their own kind......

The protagonist is anxious, "Dongyang City", as the place where he was born and raised in this world, has an important bond, so many days have passed, the protagonist does not know how "Dongyang City" is doing now, and whether the murderer has committed the crime again.

"End the war as soon as possible, I'm going back!" The protagonist makes up his mind.

A team of hundreds of males, females, and workers quickly made their way to the main nest. Although it only rained lightly last night and the ground was a little muddy and wet, it didn't stop the ants from moving forward.

The protagonist saw that there were no special circumstances during this part of the journey, so he skipped it in a way similar to video fast-forwarding.

They travel until it is close to night, stopping to dig up the makeshift camp, and the distance they have covered on the first day is much farther than the first day the protagonist has set out for the main nest. The protagonist feels strange.,Roll at this speed.,Even if they encounter a torrential rain the next day.,It's not going to delay the arrival.,What happened next?

Due to the large number of ants, in order to save time digging the burrows of the temporary camp, they dug thirteen entrances at the same time, each of which was connected to a small shallow hole. After the excavation was completed, there were four males and about 20 worker ants in each small camp, and the last small camp was occupied by the only female ant and five worker ants. The entrances to these small camps are very close to each other.

The protagonist has a lair with Rambo Fei, Ram Borui, and Rambo Wan, and after entering the lair, he rolls and rests. The protagonist continues to fast-forward to the past, rolling like a normal ant in a short sleep, waking up from time to time, looking still for a while, and then sleeping for a while, and so on until dawn. This kind of sleep is more like a constant nap.

After daybreak, they came out of the lair, and before leaving the "Dongyang City" they were all well fed and drunk, although they had not eaten for a day and a night yesterday, and they did not feel hungry and thirsty. After seeing the females and females in each nest come out with their subordinates, Roll was ready to let everyone go, and he, the relatively oldest male ant, was now the temporary captain.

But Rambofer ran to stop him, and Ramboover told him to roll that there were now only 44 males and 1 female, and 4 males were missing.

Roll feels a little strange, and the protagonist is also strange, ants don't sleep lazy. Roll and ask his worker ants to go to various nests to check the situation, and soon the worker ants will come back and reply.

Roll hurriedly took a few elderly male ants such as Rambo Buddha and Rambo Fei to the cave where the worker ants returned. It was a makeshift cave on the edge of the camp.

The 4 males and their 8 workers who did not come to gather lay quietly in the burrow, never to get up again. Like Lao Wang, these ants are separated from their heads. Through the faint smell of oily acid on his body, Roll knew that they were all dead.

Roll them out of the cave at once, gathering all the remaining males. Because there are no pebbles, they can only form a circle, and the ants on the left and right sides touch each other with their antennae, so that all the ants can indirectly realize the connection of their antennae, and they form a temporary meeting formation.

Roll immediately sent what he saw in the cave ** to all the males through a packet and asked for their opinions. The males were surprised by another casualty, but they didn't express too much skepticism due to the already casualty on the road to the main nest. The result of the discussion was that the nest of the four male ants was attacked by carnivorous insects and died.

Roll raised another question, there should be about twenty worker ants in each nest, and now there are only eight worker ant corpses in the nest, where did the other worker ants go. The male ants discussed it again, and Lan Bofei felt that he had been eaten by a carnivorous insect, and this opinion was accepted by everyone.

After discussing it, they decided to continue on their way, and the body of their partner was quietly left in the makeshift cave.

Although the protagonist can only quietly watch these things that have happened, this time he sees the scene of the death in detail, and he believes that it is still a murder. Murderers or murderers, he (or they?) Hidden in this team heading to the main nest!

Why the ants murdered their own kind, the protagonist has no way to explore the motive, but the death of the four male ants and other worker ants is what the ants in this team did.

Although carnivorous insects can also kill a large number of ants, the entrance to the death site is very narrow, and there is no sign of damage to the entrance and walls of the nest. And the smaller carnivorous insects, even if they could get in, would not be a match for a swarm of ants.

What if it's a swarm of carnivores? Among the insects, only termites, ants and bees are social, and the bees are generally large and cannot enter this nest, even if termites and hostile ants can enter, the ants in the hole can resist for a period of time, and there will be injuries such as broken limbs on the body of the casualty due to fighting, rather than like this All the dead are separated from their heads, as if they were murdered by a surprise attack in an instant.

And whether it's carnivores or hostile termites and ants, after killing these ants from "Dongyang City", they will also transport the corpses away as food, so there's no reason why they are all in the same place. Insects rarely have the habit of not eating corpses.

Then there is only one possibility left, they were killed by their companions with the same breath, so they did not give warning in advance 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?

Also, where are the remaining dozen or so worker ants in the nest, are they the murderers?