The protagonist leaves the cave entrance with ten of his soldiers and heads south.

To the south there is a small bush, the size of which a human can cross in a few minutes, but for an ant it is a dense forest.

These shrubs are relatively low, not bullied by the wind like trees, so the branches and foliage are very lush. The protagonist doesn't know what season it is, and the sun's rays are very scorching, so it feels much more comfortable after hiding in the shade of the bushes.

There are also many solitary worker ants in the bushes, either searching the ground or climbing the branches of the shrubs. The protagonist and his subordinates walk and observe the actions of the worker ants.

These worker ants mainly collect grass seeds and some fungi to bring back to the nest, and some full-time worker ants take care of aphids on some plants. When the protagonist was still a human, he read some books that introduced that ants would graze aphids like cattle and sheep to protect them from being eaten by predators, in order to obtain honeydew secreted by aphids.

The protagonist notices that the worker ants do not actively hunt small insects, except for carrying back the carcasses of some dead insects. The protagonist analyzes the reason why the worker ants don't go hunting, most likely because the worker ants' eyesight is so poor that they can only see moving objects at close range, and the insects can easily avoid the ants that are groping forward. Even if they are accidentally touched by a worker ant, the insect will have enough strength to escape before the worker ant has time to notify its partner to come to help.

"It seems that hunting is not an easy task for other males!" The protagonist thinks to himself that although the other male ants have better eyesight than the soldier ants and worker ants, they are only 50 steps and 100 steps of laughter.

However, this difficulty is nothing for the protagonist, who has the same good eyesight as the human period, if not more than that, at least in the low-light environment underground, the protagonist is as comfortable as a night owl.

As long as you can see the insects in advance and arrange for your subordinates to complete the encirclement and raid, it will be difficult for ordinary insects to resist the attack of ten wolf-like soldiers. When it comes to group combat, no insect is stronger than ants.

At first, the protagonist is worried that he will encounter some natural predators of ants, such as pangolins, anteaters, etc. But after coming out for so long, except for all kinds of insects, snails, and earthworms, the protagonist didn't see any other creatures, all large creatures seemed to be extinct, and there was not even a shadow of a bird in the sky.

The protagonist and his party weave through the ground in the bushes, and the soldiers dutifully leave pheromones on the ground along the way, while the protagonist, as the commander, occasionally relies on the sun to correct the direction of progress.

It was morning when he first came out of the cave, and the direction he was assigned was southeast, and he was facing the sun. So every time the protagonist sees the direction of the sun, it is a little more to the right, which is roughly south.

led the team for half an hour alone, and there were fewer and fewer worker ants in the same nest around him, but the protagonist never found a worthy hunt. The aphids on the trees are basically guarded by the worker ants in the same nest, and the occasional snails and earthworms found also make the protagonist uninterested, and the hard carapace of the snail is definitely not something that these soldiers under his command can gnaw open, and the slimy body of the earthworm also makes the protagonist feel sick to his stomach. Although he knows that ants are not reluctant to eat meat, the protagonist has no intention of hunting snails and earthworms at all.

There are also some particularly tiny little bugs, which are not taken into account by the protagonist. Since it was a hunting exercise, it was necessary to seize the opportunity to exercise, and it was better to bring a fat insect back and show off in front of the other male ants and the nervous old king.

After a short walk, deep in the bushes, the protagonist finally finds a suitable target - a caterpillar.

The caterpillar was green, chubby, and had a soft body with a number of prickly hairs, which looked like it was supposed to be a moth or butterfly larvae.

The protagonist does not notice it at first, and the protagonist's eyes are searched on the ground, which is a mistake of human empiricism. The protagonist simply ignores that there may be targets worth hunting above his head.

The protagonist is concentrating on searching the ground, when he is suddenly startled by a "click" sound from above not far away, and looks up to find this unlucky caterpillar.

The caterpillar fell from one leaf that had been eaten on about the same as it had been eaten on, and onto another plump, juicy green leaf. The sound of the floor grabs the attention of the protagonist.

The reason why this caterpillar is unlucky is that ordinary ants are not sensitive to sound, and even if they feel the vibration, they cannot have such good eyesight to see the target.

But the protagonist is not an ordinary ant, this is the body of the soul hand-picked by the god of crossing, and the gaze as sharp as a human quickly locks on the caterpillar on the leaves about two meters away from humans.

For caterpillars, their greatest means of secrecy is their ability to camouflage. The skin color that closely matches the color of the leaves allows them to avoid most dangers. And now, in the case of being locked by the protagonist, the caterpillar's biggest reliance is gone.

After all, it is the first time to hunt, and the protagonist is more cautious, carefully searching for all kinds of knowledge about caterpillars in his mind. At present, it seems that this caterpillar only has the hard bristles on its body and is still a little troublesome, and it is not known whether there is venom or not. Without venom, these bristles alone would not be enough to harm the smaller, sturdy carapace.

In the end, the protagonist evaluates and thinks that he is still very sure that he will be able to capture the caterpillar without casualties.

So, the protagonist gathers ten soldier ants and passes on his hunting plan one by one. After the communication is completed, the protagonist shakes his abdomen and gives the command to "attack" by vocalizing and dispersing air.