Chapter 54: The Wedding Ceremony (1)
After the protagonist has eaten and drunk enough, he rests quietly in the bedroom. The wedding ceremony begins at dusk, when the sun has completely sunk below the horizon, but there is still light in the sky, and the male and female ants begin the most important wedding ceremony of their lives. The wedding ceremony will not end until all the queens have mated and rejected the suitors. It's still early, and the protagonist is in a bad mood, so he's ready to go back to sleep.
After sleeping for a while, Wei 1 and Wei 3 run back, anxiously shaking the protagonist awake and telling the protagonist that a team of kings and queens has arrived.
The protagonist almost forgot that he asked the two soldiers to go to the entrance of the main nest to inquire about the news, and he never canceled the order, but he didn't expect it to come to fruition. The protagonist's heart perks, and he rushes to the entrance of the main nest with Wei 1 and Wei 3, and asks the other ants where the newly arrived male ants are located, and runs over.
The male ants move around each other, and the guard ants don't stop them, and the protagonist enters the nest without any problems. There are usually fifty kings in the nest, but at present there are only twenty kings still in this nest, some of the others have gone out on their own, and some are still waiting to receive the male ants who have not arrived or will never come.
It doesn't take much effort for the protagonist to recognize the new king. Compared to the other settling and tidy males, the mud and dust on their bodies had not yet been cleared, and they were constantly licking their tentacles and arthropods with their mouths, trying to wipe their bodies clean. It's a pity that there is no rolling, and there is no male ant in the "Dongyang City Vice-Nest" that the protagonist knows.
The protagonist doesn't know whether to be disappointed or rejoicing. The reason for the loss is that there is no news of them, and I don't know what happened to them, or even whether or not they have escaped the overwhelming rainstorm. Fortunately, if it was the team of "Dongyang City" that came, and Roll and Rambo were not among them, it must be more than lucky, and now at least there is a possibility that they are still alive, maybe due to the weather, they will go home!
As his partner since his reincarnation, in this world where no trace of human beings has been found, they are the first batch of partners of the protagonist, and they are biologically twin brothers born in the same batch, and they still have an important position in his heart. Maybe this is the spiritual sustenance without sustenance.
The protagonist went back disappointed again, and then until the afternoon, four more teams arrived, and each time the protagonist went to see with a little less hope than the last time, but each time he was a little more disappointed.
316 teams have arrived, including no team from "Dongyang Castle".
It wasn't until the eldest brother came to the door and informed the protagonist to go to the ground now, waiting for the wedding ceremony to officially begin, that the protagonist finally gave up.
The protagonist climbed to the ground alone with the elder brother, and his subordinates were forbidden to bring them into the house according to the rules, so the protagonist let the little secretary and Mulan move freely.
On the ground, most of the males and females had already entered, and in the open space south of the castle on the hill of the main nest, the males gathered in a pile on the left and the females in a pile on the right, and the number of males was about ten times that of females. The protagonist conjectures: The basis for the ants to divide the pile should be male left and female right.
The ceremonial site was all gravel and mud, and there was no grass, in stark contrast to the surrounding meadows, shrubs and woods not far away, apparently artificially cleared by the ants.
The weather was very good at this time, after the heavy rain the day before yesterday, the sun had dried the surface of the ground, and the water vapor in the air was still abundant, which just happened to form a suitable warm and cold weather.
In addition to the male and female ants preparing for the wedding ceremony, a large number of main nest ants also joined. Dozens of kings with thousands of escorts were on top of the hill castle, condescendingly overlooking the entire ceremony site. Around the wedding field, as many as hundreds of ordinary kings and patrols composed of their subordinate soldiers and ants were divided into multiple cordons to patrol non-stop. Farther away, a large number of agile worker ant scouts are scattered far away, and if an enemy is disturbed, they will send back a warning signal in time. All foraging and hunting activities stopped, and the other ants were on standby at the nest, giving up the venue to the ceremony. At the same time, once something happens, the army that is always ready will also support the people on the ground at any time.
The reason why the security level of the wedding flight ceremony is so high is because the stakes are very high, and it is related to the reproduction of the big-headed ant kingdom. On the other hand, it is also because there is still a real threat, after all, a day's journey, there are six auxiliary nests that were captured by the paving ant barbarians in winter, and there are at least tens of thousands of enemy troops in them.
The protagonist stays in the ranks of noisy male ants, enduring an almost intense smell of hormones. The males had already entered the state in advance, ignoring each other, treating all of their kind as competitors, and the compound eyes were almost red. Now all it takes is one command, and these winged genitals, which have lost the ability to think and are full of copulation, will pounce on their targets.
The protagonist sees that even the elder brother has entered this state of near-madness, and he does not have the wise and calm appearance of the successor of the oldest king.
"What a curse! What a desire to kill! "The protagonist wants to touch his face with his forelimbs. With his aesthetics, he really doesn't think that the other group of female ants gathered in a pile is so heavy and beautiful, but it is indeed very lethal to the male ants around him. The protagonist begins to understand why the elder brother said that a large number of male ants and females will also die during the wedding ceremony, but this ceremony has not yet begun, and the male ants are almost red-eyed.
The sun was slowly setting and slowly hiding behind the canopy of trees in the distance. Most of the males have been standing on the ground for more than half an hour, and there are no new males and females coming out of the main nest. This shows that all the protagonists who participated in the wedding flight ceremony have arrived.
But the time for the wedding ceremony has not yet arrived, and the males who are excited by hormones can only wait patiently under the suppression of their innate sense of discipline. Some males are already swaying as if they are about to stand unsteady due to the excitement and direct sunlight for a long time. It seems that a good body is really the capital of revolution and love.
Half of the sun has finally set below the horizon. All the males had their heads turned in the direction of the setting sun, and they were extremely neat. Their burning gaze was not afraid of the setting sun's not too strong light, and they watched it grow smaller and smaller, until the top point of the red circle disappeared below the distant horizon.
At this time, it was not dark yet, and it was even brighter than the previous dusk for a short time, which was the time to return to light.
As the last trace of the sun disappeared, all the male and female ants seemed to be instructed at the same time, and they flapped their wings and rushed into the sky as fast as they could.
As soon as the protagonist, who has not yet understood, turns his head, he already sees two black tornadoes composed of ants flying into the sky.
"Damn, this is the beginning!"