Chapter 11: The Ants Saved Me
Hu Feng ate two pancakes with gruel and hurried on the road. It will take two months to say goodbye, but on the days of the exam, the old father will go to the county seat to accompany him. As the saying goes, when fighting tigers and brothers, fathers and sons go into battle, there is always confidence when accompanied by relatives.
The sky of the 1231007 Soldier Ant was now darker again, even darker than it had been last night, and it had been transferred to a large canvas bag along with the cylindrical house. Depending on the change in the geomagnetic field, it knows that it is translating rapidly.
The queen teachings: Some gods have wings and some don't, but they can all fly.
The god flies so fast, faster than the terrible swallow, it thought.
"Driver, stop at the place where there is a billboard in front, our school has arrived." Hu Feng was carrying the bag and was already standing by the door of the drop-off.
"Okay."
Hu Feng walked into the classroom with the bell ringing, and he didn't have time to put anything in the dormitory. This is a biology lesson.
"This semester is mostly about review and review." The biology teacher was in front of the blackboard: "We spent two months to do a systematic review and combing of what we have learned in the past three years according to the exam syllabus, and from today onwards, we will spend a month doing mock exercises." ”
"It's a test again, how can I finish the test." There was a lot of grumbling below.
"This is not a test, it is just an exercise, it is not scored, and if you don't understand, you can ask me. Next, the class representative will come forward to hand out the test paper "Part 1, Molecules and Cells"
"Whew" seemed to exhale in unison, quieter.
Hu Feng stared at the test question for a while, and suddenly raised his hand. The biology teacher was quite surprised by Hu's initiative, and she walked over.
"Teacher, can I ask an off-topic question?"
"As long as it's about biology, it's fine."
"Do you know how ants communicate?"
"Ants belong to entomology, and biological classification is a junior high school course, and the college entrance examination syllabus does not require it."
"But entomology is also biology, as you just said, as long as biology is fine."
The teacher smiled, revealing two small dimples when she laughed, looking elegant and imaginative, but she didn't want to expand her imagination on this question: "There are two ways for ants to communicate with their antennae. One is to identify smells, and the other is to wave the antennae, which is a bit like we wave our hands, beckon, and nod our heads. ”
"Can ants communicate with other insects?" The teacher thought it was over, but he didn't expect another question to pick up again.
"Occasionally, they will communicate, such as cockroaches, beetles, fleas, etc., but different insects simply express feelings of fear, disgust, friendliness, etc., and the information is much less than that of their kind." It's finally over, and the teacher just wants to leave, and the problem comes again.
"Teacher, can ants communicate with more distant species, such as people?"
"Hu Feng! Are you also playing that game called Ants? Is your brain playing with water? If you think that humans can communicate with monkeys, then people and ants can communicate. "The teacher wanted to give him a look, but it was an unanswerable question, and as long as he couldn't answer it, he would be freed.
"I think the communication between people and monkeys should be richer than the communication between ants and cockroaches, such as the monkey master in the circus," Hu Feng said seriously.
The biology teacher really didn't expect Hu Fengfeng, who is usually wooden, to answer like this, which makes people laugh bitterly, but it makes people unable to argue: "Okay, even if what you say makes a little bit of sense, but now I don't have time to answer your series of questions about ants, there are other students waiting, look at the third row."
Hu Feng followed the teacher's gesture and looked, his eyes immediately dodged, it turned out that he saw Li Xiaoyan, she was also looking at him, the two looked at each other, like elastic balls, and quickly returned to their places.
"Then don't you think it's possible for humans and ants to communicate at all?" Hu Feng still didn't give up.
"Theoretically, yes, if ants have minds, but to understand the minds of animals, you must first learn biology well." The biology teacher turned to the other classmate.
Ants can communicate if they have thoughts, do ants have thoughts?
After class, when Hu Feng looked at the railing in the corridor on the fifth floor, the question still sounded in his mind - do ants have thoughts? So when someone tapped him on the shoulder, he almost jumped out of the railing in fright.
"What are you thinking? So seriously. Li Xiaoyan tilted her head and said. She is so flowing every time, not only with her slender body and long black hair, but also with her eyes and body odor.
"It's you, it scared me."
"What did you say to the teacher in class? Say it so vigorously. She also looked into the distance by the railing, as if the sky could tell her the answer.
"Actually, it's nothing, just some biological problems."
"I see that the teacher's face is a little wrong, lying is not your forte." Her surprised smile, simple and full of hope, made it impossible to refuse.
"It's biology, but it's about ants. Hey, do you think ants have thoughts? Hu Feng unconsciously said something that filled his mind.
"Ants don't have thoughts, ants are just insects." Li Xiaoyan turned her attention to the football field in the playground on the right, where a team was about to pull off.
"But many of their behaviors show thoughts, such as solidarity, cooperation, division of labor, industriousness, and sacrifice, which other animals do not have except humans, such as dogs." Hu Feng seemed to be talking to himself.
"Are you also playing the ant game?"
"Yes, it's not been a long time."
"You're talking about this from the game, right?"
"Not exactly, you know, there was an ant that killed an anteater thousands of times larger than itself."
But as if she hadn't heard, she said, "What's all the fuss about?" Paleontology also records evidence that ants killed Tyrannosaurus rex! The college entrance examination is coming soon, and we should focus on revision in the hope of being admitted to the same university. She said her last words in a wistful tone.
"Actually, I've always had a good impression of ants in my bones, but I didn't show it before, which is a bit like a recessive gene."
She didn't answer, and Hu Feng recalled to himself: "When I was a child, one spring when I went up the mountain to pick wild strawberries, I was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake. It was a pit viper, a sloth insect full of yin and yang, but very poisonous. My feet were swollen and my trousers were broken, I couldn't walk, I sat on the ground and passed out, and my companions who went with me were crying in a hurry. Later, when the adults came over, I didn't die, do you know who saved me? ”
"Is it the companion, or the passing hunter?" She pretended to be naughty.
"The doctor said it was ants. There was a large ant nest where I passed out, and I don't know if it was the flesh on my leg that attracted them or something else, but I knew that countless ants crawled on the poisoned leg and bitten, and as a result, the ant's saliva offset part of the snake venom, and in this way, I miraculously survived. So in a sense, my life was given by ants. ”