There are a lot of psychological activities in the first few chapters. After all, I have traveled through time and become an ant. There is always a psychological transition period.
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Ant, traveled through time and became an ant.
Ant, what is it?
Ant is an important organism, belonging to the phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta, order Hymenoptera, and family Formicidae.
There are many types of ants. There are more than 11,700 known species in the world, including 21 subfamilies and 283 genera. There are more than 600 ant species identified in China. Different species have different body shapes, structures, living habits, nesting habits and even reproductive modes. All very different.
These tiny individuals account for nearly one-fifth of the biomass of terrestrial organisms, and the combined weight of all ants is equivalent to the total weight of all humans.
Ants form an indispensable part of almost all ecological environments. If humans suddenly disappear on the earth, the biosphere will still prosper, but if ants disappear, the entire ecosystem will immediately face collapse.
But ants are tiny creatures.
This kind of small insect can be seen everywhere. They can be found on the roadside, in the grass, in homes, in sewers, and in every inconspicuous corner of human settlements.
Humans walking in a hurry rarely pay too much attention to these millimeter-sized creatures. Unintentional footsteps can often kill many ants.
Not to mention all kinds of strange ants in rainforests, deserts, and islands far away from humans, and they are even more unnoticed.
Even the protagonist only had more contact with ants when he was a naughty boy.
The protagonist thinks to himself: Is this retribution for filling the ant nest under the wall of my grandmother’s house with water when I was a child?
Or did you use powdered sugar to lure two nests of ants into fighting for several hours, leaving corpses everywhere?
Or have you ever chased a few poor little ants with fire, and curled up into a ball after being burned, but as a naughty child, you have no compassion?
In any case, the protagonist is finally sure that he traveled through time and became an ant. It is not a hallucination or a dream. There is no such a sober dream with extremely clear thinking.
Although the protagonist wants to pinch himself immediately, facing his own joints and carapace, how and where to pinch becomes a problem.
It's not just time travel, it should be soul time travel, the protagonist thought.
Judging from the experience of being an otaku for decades in the past life, only through soul piercing can one become someone else (or non-human), and my body in the previous life should have cooled down along with the bright and shocking red color in my memory. !
"Calm down, calm down, I want to calm down." The protagonist forced himself to calm down. The series of thoughts just now, many thoughts passed through his mind in just a moment.
At least in terms of thinking efficiency, the brain in this ant body currently performs no worse than the protagonist's nerd brain that has been away from studying for a long time.
After these thoughts, the winged ant that escaped from the pupa shell and confirmed the protagonist's current identity has just completely escaped from the shackles of the remaining shell, and licked the front and rear joints with its pliers-like mandibles.
It, or he or she, ignored the protagonist not far away, and just quietly licked its carapace.
That's fine, the protagonist doesn't know how to face someone of his own kind...
"Calm down, I want to calm down." The protagonist once again forced his chaotic brain to calm down, but with little effect.
Just now, he had gone through all the connections and grievances between himself and the ants in his previous life in his mind.
This time, his thoughts drifted to other places - "Since I can become an ant, can I also change back?"
This idea inevitably appeared, grew wildly, and took over the entire mind, nourished by the deepest and most urgent desire in my heart.
"Yes, I can travel through time, but that doesn't mean I can't travel back. There must be a way. Technology is so advanced now..."
Just when he thought, "Technology is so advanced now", the protagonist immediately stopped the words that were floating in his mind. These words are usually meant to comfort people with terminal illnesses, and they often have no good results.
"Since there are ants, then I should still be on the earth!" The protagonist thought to himself, "God wouldn't throw me into a place where there are also ants, but it's not the earth. This is too funny."
"Will there be a human society? Ants seem to have appeared much earlier than humans! If there is a human society, I can go to the city first and find scientists to attract their attention. Yes, that's the idea."
The protagonist is proud of his idea. If he finds a scientist, he might be able to turn back into a human being. What if this is the future society? Perhaps technology has advanced to the point where consciousness can be transferred to a cloned human body.
It can be seen from this that this protagonist has been tortured by various science fiction novels.
"I have to survive and find humans first." The protagonist finally has a goal to fight for. He truly calms down and can finally observe the surrounding environment carefully.
There is still dim fluorescence around him. If you look closely, these fluorescences seem to be emitted by some kind of fungi.
"Strange, don't ants have a vision system composed of a single eye and a compound eye? It is said that they are blind with one eye open, but I feel that my vision is no different from before. I can see more clearly in this dark environment than before. In the past, whenever there was a power outage at night, I would It's like being blind with your eyes open..." The protagonist complained in his heart: "Scientists' research is all about cheating funds!"
Under the faint fluorescent light, the protagonist, who gradually adapts to the dark environment after opening his eyes, can clearly see the general environment around him.
It was a dirt cave, shaped like a football, filled with nothing but long, fluorescent fungi.
But there were quite a few ant pupae scattered throughout the cave, probably no less than forty or fifty.
In addition to himself and another winged ant that had escaped from its shell, two more pupae had cracks on their backs during this period of time, as if the things inside were eager to come out.
The protagonist looked at the other winged ant again.
"Do ants have wings? Aren't they all reptiles?" The protagonist thought to himself, "It is said that the queen ant has wings. Damn it, isn't it bad enough that I traveled through time and became an ant? I also turned into a female ant."
The protagonist is about to collapse again. He at least still remembers his human gender - male. Now he feels that he must be the most unlucky person among time travellers...
The protagonist hurriedly danced the joints and inspected his carapace body. The six limbs were used naturally, as if they were not affected by the protagonist's previous experience of using only four limbs.
But the protagonist quickly gave up! He has no idea how to identify the gender of ants...
The protagonist should not think about gender for now, because there is a change.
Another winged ant finished licking its body and became agitated for some reason. He (or she) used the last two limbs to rub the nodule between the abdomen and chest. This part is slender and slender, let's call it the waist.
With the violent friction, a slight noise like a file scraping glass spreads out. This sound is extremely disgusting to most humans. The protagonist feels very familiar when he hears it. It is a sound that he has never heard but is imprinted in his genes.
Just when the protagonist is thinking hard to understand the meaning of the sound, and is about to discover the meaning deep in his soul.
Deep in the cave, in the dark corners where light cannot reach, there is the sound of rapid arthropods running across the ground.
An ant head with long waving tentacles emerges from the darkness and rushes towards the protagonist!
