Earth in the solar system, a small mountain village in the mountains of southwest China.

"Ah Feng, stop watching TV, go to the bridge to see if your dad is back, the sun is about to fall." The woman was busy calling in the hearth.

"I'm not watching TV, I'm surfing the Internet." A young voice came from the room.

"You can't do anything serious except watching TV and playing games?"

"Oh, got it, I'll go." The teenager didn't argue either, and stopped the ant colony in the computer. He was playing a character game called "Ants" developed by Nebula. After a while, he came out of the room in his slippers.

"Change your shoes, it's cold outside." The woman added some wood to the hearth.

The boy ignored it and walked straight out the door towards the stream in the back mountain. The boy's surname is Hu, and his single name is a peak. I really don't know what the fortune teller thought at the beginning, and he gave him such an "insect name" (wasp, a close relative of the wasp, although it is the peak of the mountain, but the pronunciation of the two is the same).

When he arrived at the bridge, his father was washing the dirt on his trouser sticks by the stream, and the boy saw the monster lying on the bank of the stream.

"Dad, what's this?" There was a hint of horror in the teenager's curiosity.

"A beast that eats ants, and the people in the village call it the Ant Hades?" The old father took a handful of spring water and splashed it on his face, exhaling happily.

The boy looked at the monster in front of him and crouched down. He fiddled with his mouth like a water pipe: "Ant Hades, the name is quite scary, you killed it?" He said this with a bit of admiration, after all, compared to those monsters on the computer, this is real, and you can't catch this thing in a few moments.

"This thing runs faster than the wind, and your dad isn't a hunter." The old father stood up and smiled: "I picked it up when I went down the mountain, the ancients waited for the rabbit, I picked up a big guy for nothing today, it seems that bad luck has come out." ”

"Could it be someone else's beating, and when the time comes, I will chase him to the house and ask for something, but he will lose his face." The son quipped.

"Stinky boy." It seems that the relationship between father and son is not bad, and they often joke like this: "This guy is heavy enough, and he is so tired that my old waist is sore." Hurry up, don't let the one in the house wait. ”

"Okay, piece of cake." The boy picked up the beast on his back, and the two of them talked and laughed and walked back.

Before entering, the boy unloaded his things in the yard, and he wanted to surprise his mother. Sure enough, as soon as he entered the door, his father became the wrongdoer.

"I told you, I still don't believe it. The sweet mallet (a wild fruit, sweet and edible) did not ripen so early, no, it took half a day in vain. ”

The father smiled, and the son began to help: "I didn't pick a single wild fruit today, but I got a big baby." ”

"Don't be serious, hurry up and eat, give me a good review of my homework after eating, June is here in a blink of an eye, and we all pin our hopes on you."

"Who's not serious? I don't believe you go out and have a look. ”

"Eat and eat, and don't pretend to be ghosts." The woman began to spread out the dishes and chopsticks.

It seemed that this trick didn't work, Hu Feng could only drag the monster in front of his mother: "Do you believe it now?" ”

"Oops, Mom!" The woman jumped far away before she spoke: "What kind of thing is this, the mouth is longer than Zhu Bajie, it scares me." ”

"That's what Daddy did in an afternoon, how about it? It's worth a basket of sweet mallets, right? The son asked knowingly, smiling evilly.

"Could this be a national protected animal? You killed? The woman pointed the finger at her husband again.

"It's a pick-up, so I don't know if I want the village chief to come and take a look." Dad is a strict wife, and the excitement along the way disappeared all of a sudden: "Let's eat first." He was the first to sit down.

By the time the family started eating, the 1231007 ant had already dug a lot into their brains.

Today is Sunday, the Sunday at the end of the month, the woman cooked a few good dishes, including braised fish, chestnut roasted pork, mushroom and tofu soup, steamed eggs, all of which are brain-nourishing dishes. Hu Feng is in his third year of high school at a senior high school in the county, and he will take the college entrance examination in two months. He is a boarding student, and he was at school in the last two months before the exam, and he was originally going to be at home, but considering the convenience of asking teachers at school, this may be the last dinner he eats at home before the college entrance examination.

"Eat more fish to nourish your brain." The mother put vegetables in her son's bowl: "Don't play that ant game when you go to school tomorrow, after the exam, you will be a college student in the future, don't always be ignorant." ”

"I know Mom, you've said it n times."

Dad bowed his head to eat, with an attitude of not participating.

"If you can listen to me, will you still use me to say it over and over again? Remember Nakamura's big neck? It's 5 years older than you.,The one who drooled when I was a child.,I heard that I'm now admitted to the civil service as a section chief.,Which is like you.,Time is spent on games.,Is it possible to rely on games to eat in the future? ”

"What's wrong with the game, the game can still make a career."

"Hey, this is the first time I've heard of it, but what kind of career can you do?"

"Does Nebula Network know about it? Now the largest online game company in Asia, it was originally founded by seven game fans. ”

"What's 'lucky', his father, you are giving a comment, isn't it right to play games and not read?" The woman turned to her husband for third-party help.

"In a way, both of you have a point." The man stood up: "Oh, I'm full. The weather was really nice today, so I walked around the door. He acted as if nothing had happened, and walked out. This is the old father's practice, every time the mother and son quarrel, both sides will not be offended, and then slip away.

"I'm full, too." Hu Feng quickly finished the leftovers in the bowl, chewed and ran into the small room, because looking at his mother's face, the rain was about to start falling. But every time I play those old words, Hu Feng can recite them almost word for word, so I still learn from my father's method and go ahead.

Back to his own world, as soon as the door is closed, it is 'my territory, I am in charge', and the game cannot but be played. This is a game about ants, this is the world of ants, and there are no less than a hundred types of ants.

There are brown ants that are good at nesting and expanding their territory; There are velociraptor ants with venomous tail spines; There are small yellow house ants with small bodies; There are big-headed ants as big as beans; There are stinky ants that emit unpleasant gases; There are leafcutter ants that use leaves to propagate mushrooms; There are termites that eat wood; an Australian giant ant as thick as a thumb; There are red ants that are as bright as flames; There are textile ants that can spin silk and build nests; There are bullet ants that shoot poison bombs; There are honey ants that can ruminate tree sap; There are nomadic ants that migrate around. Anyway, as long as there are properly documented ant species, you can find them in this powerful game software.

At the beginning of the game, you'll have to choose what type of ant you're going to play next, which is what type of ant. Of course, this is not arbitrary, you have to draw lots, just like smashing golden eggs, but here you are smashing ant eggs.

Hundreds of ant eggs are densely spread across the screen, the player picks up a small sharp hammer and smashes it, and the eggs will crack like a broken chicken, but it is an ant that crawls out, as for what kind of ant depends on your luck, if you smash out a termite, then the following game branch will have to develop along the habits of termites. At this time, you are a termite, and your task is to build a great termite kingdom, as for how far this kingdom will develop, it depends on your strategy, if the strategy is wrong, it may be eaten by swallows soon after birth.

The last time Hu Feng smashed out was a brown ant, which is the most playful species, and the best results can be played until the brown ant rules the entire universe. However, he has only reached the second level for now.

While Hu Feng was concentrating on the ant game, the 1231007 soldier ant had already dug a passage in the beast's skull, and was now advancing along the inside of the Heavenly Spirit Cover to his face.

Hu Feng came into contact with this ant game a month ago, and played it several times, although each time he stopped at the first three levels, he quickly fell in love with this seemingly simple but complex game. It's not so much how exciting the game is (of course, it's a lot of excitement, like wars between other species when expanding the city-state), but because of the variety and non-repetitiveness of the game's paths, it's fair to say that every start is a new journey, which is what sets this game apart.

Take the route that Hu Feng is playing now, he has replayed it more than a dozen times, and there has not been a single repetition, some online players ridiculed in the chat room, this is simply a maze, all failed to repeat more than 200 times, and none of the patterns are repeated.

Let's take brown ants as an analogy: when you smash out brown ants, the next step is to choose the sex of the ants. There are three kinds of genders, non-fertile females, fertile males or females, and non-fertile females can be divided into worker ants and soldier ants, and worker ants can be divided into nurses, guard ants, breeders, porters, cleaners, etc., soldier ants can be divided into infantry, artillery, scouts, engineers, tank soldiers (the jaws are particularly large, the activity is sluggish, and the infantry carries forward during the battle, and when it encounters the opponent's enemy ants, it can be bitten off at the waist). Of course, these are also determined by lottery, and the identification alone requires four selections, and the probability of generation = ant species x gender species x different division of labor = 100x3x10 = 3000 species. Each corresponds to a different scenario.

If you think that the game branch is one of these three thousand, you are very wrong, in fact, this is just the identity of the first level. In the next level, there will be a choice, such as the route will have a fork, choose different conquered regions, and different conquered regions have different conquest objects for draw, which will affect the player's fate in the future. Some players have estimated that there are no less than 1 million possible game branches, and each one is not repeated.

Therefore, if you want to play and clear the level, not only ability, but also luck is also very important. For example, if a male ant is drawn, it needs to be transferred, otherwise the male ant's life will come to an end after mating/mating. And to change sex is to defeat the wasp, eat the royal jelly in the queen bee's belly, although the male ant has wings, but to defeat the wasp that requires a lot of skill.

In addition to the abundant possibilities of the game, the Internet company also offers attractive prizes to attract players to join, and it is said that players who play the ruling universe can get a domestic car, which may be the reason why many game fans are obsessed with "ants". The online call these people the ant family, this metaphor is very vivid, the player is like an ant walking into a maze, to constantly choose between different intersections, which requires not only wisdom but also luck, bad luck must take a lot of crooked roads to reach the end. Gambling is human nature, coupled with the need to use the brain, and there are exciting battles, and finally you can enjoy the superiority of being exclusive and ruling the world, which can be described as a trip.

The light in Hu Feng's room was still on, it was already nine o'clock, the village had already quieted down, and the door of the small house suddenly slammed.

"Stop playing, it's time to sleep, and you have to get up early tomorrow?!" Mom called out loudly as she knocked on the door.

"Oh, got it, I'll go to sleep right away."

"If you play again, don't take your notebook to school tomorrow!" Mom gave me an ultimatum.

"Okay, okay." There was a sound of footsteps in the room, and it seemed that this trick still worked, and the door quickly opened: "Where's Dad?" , still wandering? ”

"Don't digress the topic, if you don't sleep again, the computer will really be confiscated."

"I have a lot of class videos stored on my computer, and I can't do without it."

"Don't give me a hippie smile, go, go wash your face and brush your teeth."

"Oh." Before Hu Feng left, he didn't forget to take a look at the ant king lying at the foot of the wall, which scared him a lot. One of the previously closed furry eyes was ajar, and blood mixed with a white, viscous substance rolled out of the pupil.