On the last day of July, the protagonist and "Little Black" finally leave the plains and enter the mountains, a place that may be in the same vein as the mountains where the swamps are located.

Although it is a flight, it is not as obstructive as trekking on the wild ground, but once you enter the mountains, you also feel extremely inconvenient.

The mountainous terrain is rugged, and the path to fly is limited, after all, it is very difficult to let "Xiao Hei" climb along the mountain, so the easiest way to save effort is to go along the valley between the mountains, and there are only a few valleys.

The protagonist flies along a valley with a stream, which is clearly a natural main passage in the mountains. The valley of the stream is the most densely vegetated place, and all kinds of trees, trees, weeds, and ferns grow wantonly, forming a dense green barrier.

It's not just the barrier and the labyrinth, this dense green world is also full of murderous opportunities, and the protagonist relies on his good eyesight to control "Little Black" to avoid a wasp nest and three cobwebs.

Whether it is next to Hu Feng's nest or on the spider web, there are many mutilated corpses of insects, showing the tragic fate of the previous unlucky eggs.

But with all the caution, the protagonist is still accidentally chased by a jumping spider - the other party also has good eyesight.

The jumping spider reminded him of "Tempest", his own jumping spider mount, which should be in the swampy area now, and I wonder if the narrow treeless environment of the island will make it boring, and I don't know if the worker ants will take care of it comfortably.

For the sake of "Tempeste", the protagonist does not take this spider-jumping killer who is eyeing him, although the other party really scares him when he jumps from behind a leaf.

At the time, the protagonist and "Little Black" were resting on another leaf, unaware that they had become the target of the jumping spider.

This jumping spider is slowly stealthy after spotting the protagonist's landing from a distance.

The protagonist was opening his luggage to find something to eat, and a black shadow flashed in his eyes, and he automatically entered a state of imminent combat, and reacted very quickly to draw a spear from his right middle limb, and swept it like a stick, smashing the jumping spider that had not yet landed.

This place is not suitable for a long time, and the protagonist sees that the jumping spider does not seem to be injured, and climbs to chase after it. Then he took off again and found another place to rest and eat.

When an ant and a fly Shi Shiran flew away, the jumping spider just chased to the location just now, and saw the protagonist and "Xiao Hei" stay away, and a look of regret and disappointment could be seen in a circle of shiny compound eyes.

It's really like "Tempest", the protagonist thinks of his mount again, although he spends little time with it, but his mount has a cuteness and clinginess that fly mounts don't have, and a touch of cunning energy, much like a cat.

Why do you think of cats? Did I have a cat before I crossed?

Got rid of the distractions in my mind, and the meal began, this time there were no jumping spiders or other bugs to disturb, and one ant and one fly quickly ate up their quota.

The protagonist looks at the deflated bag - there are only two quotas left in it, and it should be cut off tomorrow...

The protagonist looks around, and the peanut trees are full of greenery, and it looks like there should be a lot of food to eat.

Even if he is alone, it seems that it is not difficult to find food with the strength of the protagonist, but what he needs is food that is easy to process and carry, and easy to preserve.

Like most insect prey, the protagonist doesn't want to go to great lengths to cut and dismember the carcass of the bugs, which basically have hard carapaces, to get some raw meat. Except for the meat of the farmed mealworms and maggots in the nest, which are thoroughly cleaned and cooked, the protagonist really doesn't eat much other meat.

There are also plant foods, most of them are fruits, such as the black berries of nightshade and the red crystalline particles of snakeberry fruits, some of which taste good, and some of which taste like that, but the common denominator is that there is more water, less calories, and can only be eaten freshly and cannot be carried.

Riding "Little Black" and walking along the valley for a long time, the protagonist still didn't find the right food, he also thought about what he should be looking for, it would be great if there were eggs, the eggs are nutritious, easy to carry, and have a long shelf life.

However, it is really difficult to find the eggs just by walking around the air, and those conspicuous eggs have long been eaten by other predators, and the insects always lay their eggs in hidden places such as soil to preserve their offspring.

There was nothing to gain along the way, and he made a mistake when choosing a fork in the road, and the protagonist soon strayed into a small mountain basin with only one entrance and exit.

The protagonist looks at the mountains around the basin, some tall and some short, but "Little Black" obviously can't climb over it, so he plans to go back the same way and continue his search from another valley road from the previous fork.

But as he flew in the air, he was suddenly attracted by a landscape in the basin.

It was a chore, ochre-red mound, which suddenly appeared in the midst of the greenery in the green glade.

And unlike the naturally occurring mound, this mound has highly sloping, sometimes near-vertical sides, and is full of small holes, which are sure to make people with dense phobia feel uncomfortable.

It's like an ant mound!

The protagonist leans cautiously over with "Little Black", wanting to study what kind of indigenous ants are here.

Even if some ants he doesn't recognize their species, he can deduce some information from their body shape, and if he looks at the food they bring back for a while, he can deduce more things.

This anthill is very large, and the protagonist is not close, it feels like a pilot piloting a small two-person plane with a big mountain in front of him.

There are hundreds of nest mouths on the protagonist's side alone.

The protagonist hides in a tree not far from the nest and stops after double-checking that there are no ants or other threats nearby.

Soon, he saw clearly that there were many "ants" coming in and out of the ant mound.

The protagonist finds that these "ants" are very strangely long, although they also have ant-like round heads, long antennae, and eye-catching jaws, but the body is not divided into a distinct chest, waist, and abdomen like ants, but is chubby and almost oval, with a carapace on it in the form of a link.

Looking at their slightly white body color, the protagonist finally realizes that these are not ants, but termites.

Termites are closer to cockroaches by blood, but they are true social insects like ants, and their habits are also close to ants, so they are often mistaken for ants.

After the protagonist came to this world, he has seen all kinds of ants, and another true social insect - bees have also seen a lot, but the termite colony is the first time to see it, it seems that in this world, termites are very rare!