Following the new worker ants walked into the hole, there was also a narrow dirt passage behind the hole. Fluorescent bacteria were dotted around, providing a bright light, which seemed brighter than the main passage. After passing this short passage, the protagonist and his party arrived at a quite large cave.
Looking around, this cave is also made of earth, and there are large clusters of fluorescent fungi on the ceiling. The cave is as bright as under the moonlight, and it can be seen clearly that there is no other exit except the entrance.
If converted to human proportions, this cave would be about more than one hundred square meters in size. If it were placed in an imperial capital where every inch of land was precious in the previous life, even the basement would be worth three to five million. The floor of the cave is slightly higher in the middle and slightly lower around it. There is also a layer of white thread-like objects piled high in the middle. A similar winged ant lies on the thread to rest.
"This is just the guy who was taken away just now!" The protagonist thought to himself: "Simmons is sleeping on these. These are real silk!" Also, where did the ants get the artificial silk?
The worker ants led the protagonist and Gun in and left. Gun also climbed onto the silk bed and lay down, minding his own business, while the protagonist continued to observe the surroundings. A world of ants was too new for him.
There are not only three winged ants including the protagonist in the cave, but also a few worker ants who are busy against the wall.
The protagonist also slowly moved towards the white silk bed. The silk on this silk bed was slender and white, and was messily intertwined. However, it looked fluffy and elastic. It was hard to tell where it came from. It looked like silk, but where did the ants get silk? ? It is said that some ant larvae can also spin silk. I wonder if the ants produce it for their own use.
The size of this silk bed is large enough to accommodate a dozen winged ants of the protagonist's size lying down at the same time without being crowded. After the protagonist also lay down on the silk bed, he began to think about some things again. Today's impact was a bit big, and his brain seemed to be unable to rest for a while. I don't know if an ant's big brain would be overloaded and burned out!
The protagonist discovers that he has very good control over the ant's body. A mammal suddenly controlling an insect's body shouldn't be so skillful. It would be normal for it to clumsily waddle and babbling like a baby.
Take the simplest walking as an example. Human beings rely on their left and right legs to take turns stepping forward while swinging their arms to maintain balance. If you switch to a four-legged animal, such as a cat or a dog, each time you walk, two sets of limbs take turns moving forward, with the left forelimb and right hindlimb in one group, and the right forelimb and left hindlimb in one group.
But switching to the body of the ant now, the protagonist stares at the busy worker ants next to him and observes that they move in two modes. One is to move the four limbs, with the front two limbs hanging in the air to do other things. The moving method is similar to that of cats and dogs, with the left middle limb and right hind limb in one group, and the right middle limb and left hind limb in another group, taking turns to move forward. Another method is to land on six limbs. At this time, the left forelimb, right middle limb and left hind limb form a group, and the right forelimb, left middle limb and right hind limb form a group, taking turns to move forward.
These two ways of moving are very complicated just thinking about it, but when the protagonist subconsciously wants to move, he starts walking very naturally, without any violation or discomfort, just as natural as breathing. On the way here, the protagonist has tried both walking methods, and his proficiency seems to be engraved deep in his genes.
Another example is language. Although ants have no language, several brief communications with worker ants and rolling tentacles prove that the protagonist can naturally and easily communicate with other ants as long as he has an idea in his mind while in contact with the tentacles of other ants. Ants exchange information, that is, talk. It is impossible for the protagonist to understand the language or writing used by the ants to exchange information.
The protagonist lies on the soft silk bed, and no one can answer these questions for him.
Looking at the two winged ants lying not far away, one was rolling, and the other one the protagonist decided to call "Rambovan" because he was the first (No. 1) winged ant to be born besides the protagonist himself. . Now that I'm used to it, I don't think their insect faces are so disgusting and strange anymore. Lambo Tu lay quietly on his stomach, not sure if he was asleep or not. Anyway, the ant's eyes couldn't be closed, while Gun kept shaking his wings, looking restless.
"Do you want to take off when you roll like that?" The protagonist thought, "Hey, by the way, can I fly?" The protagonist suddenly remembered that he also had a pair of wings, and hurriedly left the silk bed again, trying to flap his wings vigorously. This action attracted the attention of both Gun and Lambert. It seemed that their eyesight was not bad, at least better than those of the blind worker ants.
The protagonist experimented for a long time, but finally failed because the protagonist had no idea how to control the wings on his back. Different from walking, the protagonist has experience of walking, so he naturally makes walking movements, and is not affected by the number of legs he has now. But flying is different. In the previous life, the protagonist did not fly on his own power. It is completely unclear how the muscles and nerves are coordinated. Just giving the "fly" command in the mind has no effect at all. The wings on the back are the same as the cloak when there is no wind. , motionless.
The protagonist tried for a long time and finally gave up. Just treat it as two decorations growing on his back, hey! Continue back to the silk bed and lie down.
The three winged ants just lay there, while the worker ants next to them were busy about their own business. The protagonist thought to himself, it seems that I may be a male ant now. Only the most useless male ant in the entire ant nest can be so leisurely.
With these messy thoughts spinning around in his mind, the protagonist felt that his head was gradually becoming heavier, which was a very familiar sign of sleepiness.
"I can't even close my eyes. Those worker ants are dangling around and the lights are not turned off. How can I sleep..." The protagonist thought to himself, but before he finished thinking, he had already fallen asleep with his eyes open.
