Perhaps because he was too tired from practicing group command skills, the protagonist fell asleep on the soft and comfortable silk bed without knowing it.
This sleep was extremely sweet. After becoming an ant, the insomnia that the protagonist had due to stress during his human period seemed to have disappeared.
After sleeping until the next day, the protagonist is woken up hastily. What woke him up was a soldier ant that broke in from the outside, not Hua Mulan or the other six soldier ants who were forcibly left behind to become the protagonist's subordinates. But the protagonist also knows this soldier ant. The gatekeeper soldier ant rolling into their cave has also come to the protagonist once before to inform about class.
The message sent by the gatekeeper ants is that the guide ants have arrived at their side. It seems that today we will have class to practice group command skills, as Lao Wang informed us yesterday.
The protagonist quickly got up and called out to Hua Mulan, but the protagonist did not bring the other six soldier ants with him. After all, they were subordinates he secretly recruited, so it was better not to expose them in front of others.
That's the bad thing about not living with your companions. If something happens, you have to run there quickly. Fortunately, the ants did not need to wash their faces or brush their teeth, so the protagonist quickly arrived at the cave where they were. This speed was faster than when the protagonist was still a human, and it only took ten minutes to get out of bed and rush to the subway station.
Before the guiding ant left, Gun saw the protagonist and came over to say hello, waving his tentacles. The mood he conveyed seemed very happy, not as arrogant and irritable as when they first met. And Rambo Fei also crawled over and said hello.
At this time, the protagonist discovered that there were no servant ants in the cave, and they all left. The protagonist thought to himself that it was a good thing he didn't live here, otherwise Hua Mulan would have run away. In order not to attract attention, the protagonist quickly ordered Hua Mulan to go home by herself.
After driving away Mulan, the protagonist reads the information from the leading ant. The information should also be released by Lao Wang. It is very complicated and cannot be designed by a leading worker ant. There are eight male ants going to practice today. In order of birth, they are myself, Gun, six Rambos, and a male ant that I have never dealt with before. This male ant has an eye-catching feature. Its wings are larger than Other male ants are shorter, as if they only have half their wings.
The leading ant waited patiently for a while before the eight male ants were completely ready and followed her up from the main passage to the exit of the cave to the ground.
When they were about to crawl out of the cave, the leading ants stopped at a relatively flat spot in the passage below the cave entrance, and sent messages to the male ants one by one, asking them to wait where they were.
The leading ant shook its body on the spot and made a penetrating friction sound. After a while, ten soldier ants turned out from a nearby fork in the road and came to stand in front of the male ants.
When the protagonist was confused, he felt like he was hit by a roll in the back. The protagonist quickly communicates with Gun. "Lead them." Gun replied.
At this time, ten more soldier ants crawled out from the fork in the road. The protagonist has an epiphany and immediately has tentacles with ten soldier ants. All ten soldier ants responded with the emotion of absolute obedience, exactly the same as Mulan's performance at the beginning.
At this time, more and more ants came out from the other side of the fork in the road, all in groups of ten. Soon, the eight male ants also obtained their subordinates through communication.
At this time, the guiding ant came over again and sent a message to follow her. Then, a large group of nearly a hundred ants climbed up from the entrance of the hole to the ground.
This is the second time the protagonist has come to the ground, and it is also the first time to roll them.
After his eyes gradually adapted to the strong sunlight, the protagonist saw that the sky was still dim and gloomy. The sunlight was harsh but gloomy. A tall and thick poplar tree with washed leaves stood strong at the entrance of the nest, and the strong wind howled from the tree. The branches and leaves scraped past, leaving a sharp sound of tearing the air.
"What a place with bad weather." The protagonist thought to himself. At this time, his desire to find humans was no longer so urgent.
They climbed onto the ground for the first time, looking curious and a little anxious. They kept waving their limbs or spinning in circles.
At this time, the guiding ants finally gave them the lesson content: Each of the eight male ants led their subordinates to move in a fixed direction to search for prey and hunt.
There is a clear emphasis here on searching for prey, not food. This also excludes plant foods such as grass seeds. As for hunting prey, it is obviously not something that one soldier ant can accomplish independently. It requires male ants to command the soldier ants to coordinate operations. It can be seen that the training significance of this course is greater than searching for food.
As the first born male ant, the protagonist is assigned to the direction of the noon sun, which is due south.
The protagonist looks up at the surrounding scenery in the distance. It is similar in all directions: occasionally a few giant trees stand on the ground, and the ground is covered with gravel, soil and large areas of various weeds.
Gun took the lead to stop his anxiety about the unfamiliar environment and led his subordinates to the southeast. The last six Rambos and the short-winged male ant also set off. Among them, the short-winged male ant ran to the southwest direction next to the protagonist.
The protagonist sets off last. The protagonist has never felt so happy when he has been living underground with only weak light. Human beings are still used to bathing in the sun. When he first came to the ground, the protagonist was still full of fear and full of hope to find humans. This feeling was not strong yet. And now, even though the sky is so gloomy and the sunlight shining on the carapace is faintly hot and painful, definitely not a comfortable sunbathing, the protagonist is still extremely happy.
After taking another greedy and careful look at the sky and the distance, the protagonist finally decided to set off. Through the combination of abdominal generation and gas dispersion, the protagonist issued the follow me command to ten subordinates at the same time without passing through the tentacles.
Soon, the small group of ants disappeared into a bush on the south side of the cave.
