The protagonist thinks of Gun and Rambo, and for some reason he feels a sense of intimacy in his heart. Maybe it's because this body and they hatched from chrysalis at about the same time. In a sense, we are all brothers.
So the protagonist climbed into the sloping main passage again and climbed up. After crawling for a short distance, when they were about to reach the cave where Gun and the others were, the protagonist suddenly saw a row of winged ants, lining up in a neat line, crawling away in his direction under the leadership of several soldier ants. At the front of the queue of winged ants is Rambo Fei. Behind Rambo Fei is Gun, followed by five other Rambos and other winged ants that the protagonist did not interact with yesterday.
The main passage is only so big, and the protagonist didn't even think about avoiding it, so not long after the protagonist saw them rolling, the soldier ants leading the way also discovered the protagonist.
The soldier ants stretched out their tentacles. After the exchange, the protagonist read from the tentacles that the soldier ants were stunned for a moment. They may not have thought that there was a lone winged ant here. Later, the soldier ant dutifully sent a message: "Wang, follow me, Lao Wang is waiting."
"Damn, Lao Wang, is it Lao Wang next door!" The protagonist complained, and when hesitating whether to follow or not, he saw Lan Bofei and Gun retreating in turn, giving up the position of the leader behind the soldier ants.
"This treatment is good. You can think of me as the boss at a glance!" The protagonist was a little proud, and the respect from the ants was also respect. Although I knew in my heart, looking at the order of the ants lining up, it was obvious that they came in the order of emerging from pupae, so of course I should be at the head of the queue. Rambo was probably the original Rambo, but later the protagonist couldn't recognize the six Rambos, so when they renamed him, he was ranked fifth and renamed Rambo.
Now that they have decided to be the boss of the team, the protagonist no longer hesitates and decides to see what Lao Wang in Ant looks like and whether he has the same big head as Big Head's son. Thinking about it, these ants are not plotting to murder their own kind, and there shouldn't be any danger here. The protagonist doesn't want to do anything dangerous. It's hard to be reborn again. If he died casually, he would be sorry to the god of time travel.
Following the soldier ants, a group of winged ants walked down the passage for a short distance before turning in from a larger fork in the road. The protagonist also passed by this fork in the road yesterday, but at that time he was busy looking for a remote corner to sleep, so this road with obviously more ants was ignored by the protagonist.
After walking along this passage for a while, there were many worker ants busy coming and going in the passage, and there were also many soldier ants in groups on patrol, which was obviously more guarded than other parts of the nest. Unlike other passages that usually become narrower towards the end, this passage becomes wider after passing the entrance. Although it is not as wide as the main passage, it still seems very spacious.
There are very few forks in the passage, and when you go straight to the end, you will find a huge cave. There are more than ten soldier ants guarding the entrance of the cave. The guards used their tentacles to verify the leading soldier ants and the subsequent winged queen ants, and let them in. .
As soon as we entered the cave, we discovered something unique here - the floor of the cave is not like dirt in other places, but is inlaid with a whole piece of white pebbles. The part of the pebbles exposed on the ground is a slightly curved plane, with a middle High and low all around. The cobblestone floor looked extremely clean, with not a single particle of soil or mud visible. It was obviously the result of frequent cleaning by worker ants. In addition to the cave where the protagonists came in, there is an entrance and exit directly opposite. The walls of the cave are almost entirely densely packed with fluorescent bacteria. The light source of the fluorescent bacteria, which is almost cold light, illuminates the entire cave extremely brightly.
The protagonist is very curious about what this unique cave is used for, so he puts his tentacles on the soldier ants. However, these soldier ants, like the worker ants he communicated with before, did not respond to any of the protagonist's questions, as if they were assigned to the protagonist. After they brought it here, they completed the task and entered the standby state.
The protagonist put his tentacles on Rambo Fei's tentacles behind him again: "What are we doing here?"
"I don't know." Lamboffi replied simply and neatly, and then stopped replying and stood blankly. The protagonist knew that he couldn't ask any more questions, so he simply stood and waited to see what would happen after a while.
After other winged ants were inspected by the guard ants one after another, they got into the cave and formed a circle along the cobblestone platform. The center of the platform was left empty for the main one. The winged ants did not communicate with each other. Waiting silently.
When the last winged ant entered the cave, a gatekeeper soldier ant came in and drove away the soldier ants leading the way. Then the gatekeeper soldier ant got into the opposite passage.
Not long after, the protagonist saw an ant similar to himself crawling out. This ant is obviously not a worker ant or a soldier ant. He has a body similar to the protagonist's current body. He has a well-developed chest and a small head (in fact, in terms of absolute size, it is larger than the soldier ant's big head). He has a tall body and is surrounded by The soldier ants look like little dots in contrast. The only difference from the protagonist is that this ant has no wings.
The ant's gait was slow, walking on only its hind limbs, with its front limbs hanging in front of it. It slowly walked to the middle of the cobblestone platform. The guard ant who led the way also followed to the middle and began to shake her waist violently. A friction sound came from the abdomen.
"Is this Lao Wang?" The protagonist was thinking wildly when he suddenly heard the friction sound, and an instinct immediately emerged in his heart - he lowered his head and touched his tentacles to the ground.
The protagonist turned around and saw that the other winged ants lowered their heads and rested their tentacles on the cobblestone surface. So the protagonist decided to follow his instinct and also lowered his tentacles.
Seeing all the winged ants lowered their heads, the "Old King" in the middle of the platform also lowered his head and rested his tentacles on the cobblestone platform.
The protagonist was wondering what everyone was doing when he suddenly received a message from the tentacles. Although the tentacles of other ants did not intersect, the tentacles just placed on the pebbles actually sent a message.
The content of the message is: "You wait for the new king, I am the old king, and I am responsible for teaching you how to become a king!"
"Damn, Ant still has to go to class..." This is the protagonist's first thought.
