Chapter 10 Ants Have to Attend Classes Too?
The protagonist thinks of Roll and Rambo, and for some reason a sense of intimacy swells up in his heart, probably because this body and they both hatched from the chrysalis at about the same time, and in a sense, everyone is a brother.
So the protagonist climbs into the inclined main passage again and climbs upwards. After climbing for a short while, and when they were about to reach the cave where they were, the protagonist suddenly saw a column of winged ants, which were in a neat line, led by several soldier ants, crawling in his direction. And at the top of the winged ant team, it is Rambo Fei, behind Rambo Fei is rolling, and then there are five other Rambo, and other winged ants that the protagonist did not communicate with yesterday.
The main passage is so big, and the protagonist doesn't think about dodging, so not long after the protagonist sees the roll of their group, the soldier ant who leads the way also finds the protagonist.
The soldiers stretched out their tentacles, and after the exchange, the protagonist read from the antennae that the soldiers were stunned for a moment, probably not expecting that there was a lone winged ant here. Subsequently, the soldier dutifully sent a message: "Wang, follow me, the old king is waiting."
"Damn, Lao Wang, is it the Lao Wang next door!" The protagonist complained, and when he hesitated whether to follow, he saw Lan Bofei and Roll retreat in turn, giving up the position of the head behind the soldier ants.
"This treatment is good, you treat me as the boss at first glance!" The protagonist is a little proud, and the respect from the ants is also respect. Although I know from the bottom of my heart that looking at the order of the ants in line, it is obvious that they come in the order of pupation, so it is natural that I should stand at the head of the line. And Rambo Fei should be the original Rambo Wan, but later the protagonist couldn't recognize the six Rambo, and when he renamed him, he was ranked fifth and renamed Rambo Fei.
Now that they have decided to be the boss of the team, the protagonist is no longer entangled, and decides to see what the old king in the ants looks like, whether he has the same big head as the eldest son. Thinking about it, these ants are not going to conspire to kill their kind.,It shouldn't be dangerous to go.,The protagonist doesn't want to do something dangerous.,It's hard to be reborn again.,I'm sorry for the god of crossing when I die.。
Following the soldier ants, a group of winged ants walked not far down the passage before turning into a large fork in the road. This fork in the road was also passed by by the protagonist yesterday.,But at that time, I was busy looking for a remote corner to sleep.,This road with a lot of ant flow was ignored by the protagonist.。
Walking along this passage for another time, there are many worker ants coming and going in the passage, and there are also many soldier ants in groups in a patrol state, which is obviously more heavily guarded than the rest of the nest. Unlike other passages, which usually get narrower at the end, this passage becomes more open after passing through the entrance, and although it is not as spacious as the main passage.
There were very few forks in the passage, and at the end of the passage was a huge cave, guarded by more than a dozen soldier ants at the entrance of the cave, and the guardians used their tentacles to verify the leading soldier ants and the subsequent winged ants, and let them in.
As soon as you enter the cave, you will find that the floor of the cave is not dirt in other places, but is inlaid with a single piece of white pebbles, and the part of the pebbles that emerges from the ground is a slightly curved plane, high in the middle and low on all sides. The cobblestone floor appears unusually clean, with not a single speck of soil and mud visible, apparently as a result of frequent cleaning by worker ants. In addition to the cave where the protagonists entered, there is an entrance and exit directly opposite, and on the walls of the cave, it is densely packed with almost all fluorescent bacteria, and the light source of fluorescent bacteria is similar to cold light, illuminating the entire cave with extraordinary light.
The protagonist is curious about what this unusual cave is for, so he puts his tentacles on the soldier ants, but these soldier ants, like the worker ants they have communicated with before, do not respond to any questions from the protagonist, as if they have been brought here as designated, and then they have completed their mission and entered a standby state.
The protagonist puts his tentacles on Rambo Fei behind him: "What are we doing here?" ”
"I don't know." Rambo Fei replied neatly, and then didn't reply, standing dumbfounded. The protagonist knows that he can't ask anything, so he simply stands and waits to see what happens in a while.
After being inspected by the gatekeeper ants one after another, the other winged ants burrowed into the burrow and lined up in a garden circle along the cobblestone platform, vacating the main one in the middle of the platform, and the winged ants did not communicate with each other, just waited silently.
When the last winged ant entered the burrow, a gatekeeper ant came in and drove the leading soldier ants away, and then the gatekeeper ant burrowed into the opposite passage.
Not long after, the protagonist sees an ant similar to himself crawling out. This ant is obviously not a worker ant or a soldier ant, he has a similar body to the protagonist's current body, with a well-developed chest and a small head (in fact, in terms of absolute size, it is larger than the head of the soldier ant), and the body is tall, and the soldier ant next to it looks like a small dot in contrast. The only difference from the protagonist is that this ant has no wings.
The ant walked slowly on all fours, with its front two limbs hanging down in front of it, and slowly walked to the middle of the cobblestone platform, and the gatekeeper ant who led the way also followed to the middle, and began to shake her waist and abdomen violently, and a grinding sound was heard.
"This is Lao Wang?" The protagonist is thinking wildly, and suddenly hears this friction sound, and an instinct immediately springs up in his heart - he lowers his head and touches his tentacles to the ground.
The protagonist turns his head to see that the other winged ants have lowered their heads and rested their antennae on the pebble plane. So the protagonist decides to do it instinctively, and he also hangs his tentacles.
Seeing that all the winged ants lowered their heads, the "old king" in the middle of the platform also lowered his head and rested his tentacles on the cobblestone platform.
The protagonist is wondering what everyone is doing, but suddenly receives a message from the tentacles. Obviously, it didn't intersect with the antennae of other ants, but the tentacles that were only placed on the pebbles actually sent a message.
The message reads: "Wait for the new king, I am the old king, and I am responsible for teaching you how to be kings!" ”
"Damn, ants still have to go to class......" This is the protagonist's first thought.