Chapter 2 What is an ant?

There is a lot of mental activity in the first few chapters, after all, I have crossed over, and I have become an ant, and there is always a psychological transition period.

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Ants, crossed into ants.

Ants, what are they?

Ants, is an important organism, belonging to the phylum Arthropods, Insecta, Hymenoptera, and Antidae.

There are many species of ants, there are more than 11,700 species known in the world, there are 21 subfamilies and 283 genera, and there are more than 600 species of ants that have been identified in China.

These tiny individuals account for nearly one-fifth of the terrestrial biomass, and the combined weight of all ants is equivalent to the total weight of all humans.

Ants form an indispensable link in almost all ecological environments, and if humans suddenly disappear from the earth, the biosphere will still flourish, but if the ants disappear, the entire ecosystem will immediately collapse.

But ants are small creatures.

This ubiquitous small insect can be found on the roadside, grass, houses, sewers, and any inconspicuous corner of human settlements.

Humans who walk in a hurry rarely pay too much attention to these millimeter-sized creatures, and unintentional footsteps can often kill many ants.

Not to mention the strange ants in the rainforests, deserts, and islands far away from humans, which are even more unnoticed.

Even the protagonist was only in the naughty childhood, and he had more contact with ants.

The protagonist thinks to himself: Is this my retribution for flooding my grandmother's yard with water when I was a child?

Or was it that he lured two nests of ants with powdered sugar and fought for hours, and the corpses were everywhere?

Or did you once chase a few poor little ants with fire and burn them, curl up after being scorched, and have no compassion as a bear child?

Regardless, the protagonist finally determines that he has crossed into an ant, not a hallucination or a dream, and that there is no such lucid and unusually clear dream.

Although the protagonist wants to pinch himself immediately, how and where to pinch his arthropods and carapace becomes a problem.

It's not just a crossing, but it's supposed to be a soul piercing, the protagonist thinks.

In terms of the starting experience of otaku in the past few decades, only the soul will become someone else (or non-human), and the body of his previous life should be cooled down with the bright and shocking red in his memory!

"Calm down, calm down, I want to be calm" The protagonist forced himself to calm down, and the series of thoughts just now were just a lot of thoughts that turned in his mind in an instant.

At least in terms of thinking efficiency, the brain of this ant body is currently no worse than the protagonist's home brain that has been away from studying for a long time.

After these thoughts were over, the winged ant that had broken away from the chrysalis shell and confirmed the protagonist's current identity had just completely shaken off the restraints of the remaining shell and licked the front and back arthropods with its pincer-like palate.

It, or he or she, ignores the protagonist not far away, and just quietly licks his carapace.

That's fine, the protagonist doesn't know how to face a person of his current kind......

"Calm down, I want to be calm" The protagonist once again forces his cranky brain to calm down, but with little effect.

Just now, he had gone through all the connections and grievances between himself and ants in his previous life.

This time, his mind drifted to something else—"If I can become an ant, can I change back?"

This thought inevitably arises, grows savagely, and takes over the whole mind, nourished by the deepest and most urgent desires of the heart.

"Yes, I can travel over, I may not be able to travel back, there must be a way, now the technology is so developed......"

As soon as he thought of "technology is so advanced now", the protagonist immediately stopped the sentence that came to his mind, which is generally not to comfort terminally ill people, and often does not end well.

"Since there are ants, then I should still be on the earth!" The protagonist thinks to himself, "God wouldn't throw me in a place where there are also ants, but it's not the earth, it's too nasty."

"Will there be a human society? It seems that ants appeared much earlier than humans! If there were human society, I would have been able to go to the city first and find scientists to attract their attention. Yes, that's the idea. ”

The protagonist is proud of his ideas, and if he finds a scientist, he may be able to turn back into a human, but what if it is the future society? Perhaps technology has advanced to the point where consciousness can be transferred, to the body of a clone.

It can be seen that this protagonist has been poisoned by various science fiction novels.

"I have to survive and find humanity." Finally have the protagonist of the goal, really calm down, and finally be able to carefully observe the surrounding environment.

There were still faint fluorescences around him, and when you look closely, these fluorescences look like they are emitted by some kind of fungus.

"Strange, aren't ants a visual system consisting of a monocular and a compound eye? It is said that I am blind, but I think my eyesight is no different from the original, I can see this dark environment more clearly than before, as long as the power goes out at night, I am blind......" The protagonist complained in his heart: "Scientists' research is all fraudulent funding!" ”

Under the faint fluorescent light, the protagonist who gradually adapts to the dark environment after opening his eyes can see the general environment around him.

It is a dirt cave, rugby in shape, with nothing but elongated fungi that fluoresce.

But there are a lot of ant chrysalis in the cave, and it is estimated that there are no less than forty or fifty.

In addition to himself and another winged ant that came out of its shell, at this time, two more chrysalis cracks appeared on their backs, and it seemed that the contents were impatient to come out.

The protagonist looks at the other winged ant again.

"Do ants have wings? Aren't they all crawlers? The protagonist thinks to himself, "It is said that the queen ant has wings and lies in a groove, so I was not unlucky enough to cross into an ant, and I also dressed as a female ant."

The protagonist is about to collapse again, he at least remembers his human gender, male, and now he thinks he must be the unlucky number one in the Traveler......

The protagonist is scrambling to move his arthropods and check his carapace body, and the six hands and feet are used naturally, as if they were not affected by the protagonist's previous experience of using only four limbs.

But the protagonist quickly gives up! He didn't know how to tell the sex of an ant......

The protagonist doesn't think about gender now, because there is a change.

The other winged ant finished licking its body, and for some reason became irritable, and he (or she) used the last two limbs to rub the nodule part in the middle of the abdomen and chest, this part is slender and slender, and it is called the waist.

With the violent friction, a slight noise like a file scraping glass spreads, a sound that most humans are extremely disgusting, a sound that the protagonist hears but feels familiar, a sound that has never been heard before but is imprinted in the genes.

Just as the protagonist is struggling to understand the meaning of sound, and is about to discover the meaning in the depths of his soul.

Deep in the cavern, in the dark corners where the light could not reach, there was the sound of rapid arthropods running across the ground.

An ant head with long tentacles waving emerges from the darkness and rushes towards the protagonist!