After wandering in the grass for a long time, the sun gradually became darker. Looking up, the sun had already set near the horizon. The protagonist knows that it will be dusk soon.
The reason why he stayed on the surface for so long was because the protagonist had a glimmer of hope. Although the cave exit is not in a family's home as imagined, but in an obvious wilderness, if there is a road nearby, it is still possible for humans or vehicles to pass by.
Finding humans is the protagonist’s most urgent hope at the moment. He feels that only by seeing humans can the protagonist clearly judge the era he is in, decide whether he should seek help from humans, and most importantly, whether he can transform back into a human being. In a future high-tech world, there are still many problems. Great hope.
But until this moment, the protagonist didn't even see the shadow of a flying bird, not to mention humans and vehicles. Although the windy sky was so vast, it seemed that only the sun was the only master, and there was no room for anything. biological existence.
As the already gloomy day became darker, the flow of worker ants returning to the nest gradually became denser. The bustling ants chased each other, pushing each other and flowing into the only valve of the cave. After a traffic rush, the number of ants gradually became sparse again.
"I didn't expect ants to rush to get off work during the rush hour." The protagonist thought: "I really miss the crowded highways and subways in the imperial capital. If I were allowed to go back, I would rather be crowded with a car full of fat people in a 40-degree summer." In the nest, he did not have the courage to spend the night outside alone as an ant. He could tell with his toes that the night was by no means friendly to small insects, and was even full of hostility.
Returning to the main road in the nest, the protagonist walked downhill for a while along the route in his memory, and returned to the cave with a soft silk bed. After a brief verification with the tentacles, the four soldier ants at the door He was given a pass.
But as soon as he entered, the protagonist found that the cave was already crowded with winged ants. Not only on the silk bed, but also on the open space were full of ants lying and standing in various postures. There were estimated to be forty or fifty of them. It seemed that they were all together. All the pupae hatched. The protagonist took a closer look and saw that Gun and the six Rambos were among them, but the protagonist was no longer in the mood to say hello to them, nor did he want to interact with the remaining dozens of winged ants.
The protagonist retreated silently. It seemed that there was no place to stay. Spending a night with a group of weird-looking companions packed together like sardines in a can would easily lead to nightmares.
The protagonist got out of the cave again and continued walking down the main road. The protagonist has already walked the way up. Although many forks and cave entrances have not been explored, now he wants to continue to see what is below. So while climbing down, the protagonist saw a cave and went inside, thinking that if he could find a quiet and comfortable little corner, he could rest there for a night.
But I found many caves in succession, either granaries or nests filled with soldier ants or worker ants. Some of the granaries were filled with messy insect corpses, which disgusted the protagonist again.
There are also nurseries. In each nursery, there are several worker ants taking care of a group of white fleshy maggot-like ant larvae. These larvae crawl around on the silk bed, busying the worker ants nearby. . After getting used to the ferocious faces of adult ants, when I suddenly saw these larvae, I found them very cute.
And in one of the nurseries, the protagonist discovered something very useful - silk from the silk bed. Some larvae are spinning out silk from time to time, and the worker ants nearby will collect the silk in time. Some are padded under the larvae, and some are piled together. Obviously, they will be moved to other places to make silk beds. or other purposes.
The protagonist is worried about sleeping at night. After all, the biological clock of a human being is still functioning. As the night gets darker, the sleepiness becomes more and more intense. So the protagonist unceremoniously used his forelimbs to pick up all the piled silk, but the worker ants did not stop them, not even extending their tentacles to explore.
Holding this pile of silk, the protagonist finally found a cave on the side of a half-collapsed path. This cave seemed to have been abandoned, with few ants coming, and it was quite a distance from the main road.
Although the small cave seems to have been neglected, and there are still some large particles of soil and stones on the ground, the protagonist is not that picky. He simply kicks a few large soil particles aside, spreads the silk on the ground, and then spreads these The silk was pressed flat and straightened, and a pretty good silk bed was made.
Lying on the silk bed, the protagonist feels that although it is slightly worse than the silk bed made by the ants and not smooth and smooth, it is enough to comfort a tired body.
The protagonist, who was resting on his stomach, unconsciously sorted out the day's experience again.
"No one is like me anymore. I died once, and I felt like I would sleep forever."
"Who knew I would wake up and turn into an ant? I was really shocked when I saw what I looked like."
"Fortunately, I am also someone who has read hundreds of millions of words of time-travel novels. At least I am still alive. Let's take it one step at a time."
"Ant's body is not as difficult to control as imagined, except that it cannot take off."
"It seems that my eyesight is still the same as that of humans, and my brain should be too. After all, I feel so smart now, and my brain is even better than when I was a human."
"It would be great if I could turn back into a human being. This world is so windy and it's so difficult for ants to live..."
"I can't even eat, and I haven't drank water all day..."
With these thoughts running through his mind, the protagonist fell into a deep sleep again. I don’t know what kind of experience I will have tomorrow!
