Although he only ate half of a sunflower seed kernel, the protagonist is already satisfied. The abdomen of his current body has obviously swollen. The smooth eating just now was like a whirlwind of clouds. It is completely impossible to tell that this is the first time in the protagonist's life. It eats with the claws on its mouth. Moreover, this ant's body does not seem to have much demand for water. If a human eats such a large amount of dried fruits in one go, he will definitely be looking for water in a hurry, but the protagonist does not feel thirsty.
After eating, the protagonist didn't bother to take away the remaining sunflower seeds, so he threw them on the ground casually. Anyway, other worker ants will soon move away the food.
What to do next, the protagonist thought for a while and decided not to return to the silk bed cave for the time being, although there were many "companions" and nannies there, as well as soft silk beds. But thinking about the fact that there are more and more winged ants in the cave now, lying on the silk bed, head to head, feet to feet, and having close contact with several of the same kind, the protagonist feels a numbness in his head. Staying with these same kind, even if you have now adapted to their appearance and don't feel sick and uncomfortable, is definitely not fun.
The protagonist looks up at the light at the entrance of the main passage above his head, and human beings' yearning for light takes over.
"Let me go and see it on the ground. What if this ant nest is in someone's home!" The protagonist encouraged himself. If this is the case, then it will save a lot of trouble and you can have a closer look at which human society this is. And whether there is enough way to turn yourself back into a human.
Along the increasingly sloping main passage, the protagonist uses six limbs to squeeze through the crowded ants around him, and crawls towards the exit step by step. Ants are natural climbers, so on the final slope of almost 60 degrees, the protagonist was still walking on flat ground and quickly approached the exit.
As the protagonist climbs higher and higher, the light becomes more and more abundant, and the protagonist feels as if his whole body is surrounded by light.
Nearing the end, there were several more soldier ants on duty. Their tentacles swept over the protagonist and after confirming that he was a companion, they did not stop the protagonist's actions. The message transmitted by the tentacles also contained a faint meaning of respect.
The protagonist couldn't care so much at this time, and hurriedly ran out of the cave entrance, and then instantly felt that his eyes were stimulated by the strong light, and the yellow carapace all over his body was faintly heated under the direct sunlight.
Because they have no eyelids, all the protagonists use their forelimbs to block the single eye in the middle of their heads, so they can finally see the outside world clearly. Ants use a single eye to sense light and a compound eye to perform other visual functions.
After adapting to the light of the surface unit and gradually recovering his vision, the protagonist looked up. The first and most conspicuous thing I saw was a giant tree above the ant nest. Perhaps in the eyes of humans, this is just an ordinary poplar tree, but in the eyes of ants, this tree is as majestic and majestic as "Yuktrashir" in Nordic mythology, as if the whole world is surrounded by giant trees. Hold up.
The protagonist can recognize that this is a poplar tree, a very common street tree in the memory of the previous life. The type of tree can be easily determined from the bark and leaves. But there is something different about this tree. It has an unusually thick trunk and pitifully few branches. The green leaves on the branches are even more sparsely arranged in clumps. There is no sense of a dense crown at all. Just like the clear hair on the top of the head of a semi-bald man, although there are some, they look pitiful.
If you turn your eyes away and see the howling wind around the tree picking up all kinds of broken branches, broken leaves and clods of soil, or swirling up into the dim sky, or quickly passing through the sky and being blown into the distance, You can understand why this tree grows like this. Perhaps only after being ravaged by the constant strong winds for many years, the trees that barely survived became such a pitiful appearance with sparse leaves and thick trunks.
In the entire field of view, except for the poplar tree next to the entrance of the nest, there are a few trees as far as the line of sight. It is too far away to see the species clearly, but they all have a pitiful appearance with sparse branches and leaves.
The sky is overall dim and dark, maybe because the wind is too strong. Countless sands in the sky seem to never fall. Through this layer of sand barrier, the sun looks dim, but the sunlight pierces the carapace, and the hot feeling makes the protagonist immediately I just want to go back underground.
Compared with trees, all kinds of weeds on the ground are extremely prosperous. After all, the wind on the surface is not very strong. At least when the protagonist sees his companions moving near the nest, they will not be blown away by the wind.
The weeds on the ground are like a forest to the ants. In the end, the protagonist still didn't want to go back underground so early, so he carefully followed a dirt road outside the lair that was sporadically walked by his companions, and walked towards a bush of grass very close to the entrance. The protagonist is always on tenterhooks all the way, fearing that a gust of wind will blow him away. In that case, with his current small size, even if he has wings, it will be difficult to find his current cave in this life. Unconsciously, the protagonist has become somewhat identified with the identity of the ant and the sense of belonging to the nest.
The grass soon arrived, and when I looked up at the large handfuls of slightly dry grass stems and grass leaves hanging down above my head, it felt like a human being walking into a dark forest. The protagonist watched many worker ants searching around in the grass. Occasionally, a lucky companion picked up a grass seed and happily carried the food back to the nest.
"It seems that the outside is the collection place for the nest!" The protagonist thought to himself, these ants really have poor eyesight, and they cannot detect the food that is clearly right in front of them unless their tentacles directly touch it. But it is wrong to say that they are completely blind with their eyes open. They are more sensitive to moving objects. The protagonist observes that if the worker ants are separated by about ten body lengths, they can see other ants, and then they can communicate with each other by approaching their antennae. It should be They are judging each other's identities.
At this time, the protagonist stood under the sky and remembered that his eyesight seemed to be no different from when he was a human. It was definitely not comparable to those of his ant companions.
"What the hell... other people who have traveled through time have superpowers..." the protagonist complained: "I traveled through time and became an ant. They didn't give me any training manuals. They just gave me the eyesight of a normal person! Ants obviously have How do monocular and compound eyes achieve the vision of two human eyeballs..."
The protagonist once again feels the malice of the entire world after time travel!
