Shit, a familiar feeling. It's been several days since he became an ant, and the protagonist didn't even notice that he wasn't excreting. After all, becoming an ant, a thing that shattered the world's outlook on life, has completely disrupted the protagonist's usual life, and the protagonist has no time to think about the new, strange, or dangerous things that followed.
The reason why the two important things of eating and drinking are not forgotten is because the feeling of hunger and thirst often occurs. The feeling of internal anxiety has completely disappeared these days.
As for the reason, maybe it's because the protagonist has eaten a lot of sunflower seeds and drank a lot of honeydew these days. Sunflower seeds are rich in fat, while the basic components of honeydew are water and sugar. These two things produce relatively small amounts of metabolic waste, and it is normal for it to take several days to be excreted. As for whether there are some factors related to time travel, only God knows. Or maybe the author didn't write it because he didn't think of it before, only God and the author know.
The protagonist hurriedly ran out of the two-bedroom apartment. This was the first time the protagonist ran out of the room after escaping from the encounter with a mantis. After all, the protagonist forgot to dig out a bathroom for himself. But even if he remembered it, the protagonist still didn't know how to solve the problem of sewage and sewerage in the bathroom.
After coming out, the protagonist still doesn’t know where to go to solve his physical problems. It is said that most ants will set up a small chamber in the nest specifically for excretion, and will regularly transport accumulated feces out of the nest for cleaning. Leafcutter ants even use their feces as fertilizer and use it with leaf fragments to cultivate fungi for food, much like farmers who water their fields with manure.
But even when the protagonist was exploring around the ant nest and was curious about everything, he never paid attention to where there were facilities like public toilets. So now the protagonist is in an awkward situation where he doesn't know where to go.
As the saying goes, people have three kinds of urgency, and the ants don't give in too much when they are anxious. The protagonist's stomach is churning, and he feels like he will burst into tears if he disagrees with him. The protagonist really wants to solve it on the spot, but no matter how remote the main passage is, there are still ants passing by from time to time. The protagonist is still a bit of a human being with a thin-skinned habit, and is embarrassed to take off his clothes and pants in public.
There is always a way out. The protagonist hurriedly slipped into a very narrow abandoned passage nearby that had collapsed at the end. This passage was discovered by the protagonist during his exploration. He took a few mouthfuls of dirt to cover the entrance a little, and then he lifted his butt up with peace of mind.
The protagonist doesn't know what posture the ants should use to defecate, but once the poop comes to their head, they will naturally make a posture of arching their backs and sticking out their buttocks. Then I felt an incomparable feeling of relief after clearing my stomach. Without any effort, countless solid liquids flowed out of my body, just like the bottle cap of champagne had just been opened after shaking.
After solving the personal problem, the protagonist instinctively wanted to take out the toilet paper, but then he remembered that finding toilet paper now was a fantasy. The ants did not have such modern living supplies. So the protagonist used his forelimbs to hook an unlucky fluorescent fungus on the wall without mercy, bent his abdomen forward, and wiped it briefly.
Throwing away the fluorescent bacteria, the protagonist habitually looked back at his results. I saw five small brown balls falling on the ground, and the soil on the ground was still a little damp.
"Here I go, it seems that my feces and urine come out together. The way I go to the toilet looks like a woman..." The protagonist is still very concerned about his gender.
Pushing away the dirt at the door, the protagonist returned to his two-bedroom apartment. Thinking about it, I can't always solve problems like this in the future. I am too incompetent, and it is easy to step on landmines everywhere. The protagonist then made a fricative sound and summoned Hua Mulan.
"Where do you go to the bathroom?" the protagonist asked, and Hua Mulan replied with a confused message.
"It's where you go to use the restroom, go to the bathroom, have sex, relieve yourself..." The protagonist is speechless. Human language is so broad and profound that ants often cannot understand it.
"Okay, okay, where are you going to poop and pee?" Although the opposite Hua Mulan is a female, the protagonist can only ask in the most straightforward language. Friendly reminder, dear readers, in daily life, if you need to ask someone of the opposite sex where to find a bathroom nearby, please do not be like the protagonist, who may easily cause trouble, not big or not.
When it comes to pooping and peeing, Hua Mulan immediately understood and sent out the message to follow me. She led the protagonist around left and right, and ran to a fork in the road next to the main passage not far from the exit of the lair. She got in and walked away. After a short period of time, the protagonist saw a very large nest chamber. In addition to the entrance, there were many tunnels flowing into the nest chamber, which seemed to extend in all directions.
Many ants are hunching their backs and sticking out their butts inside... The floor of the nest is very damp, and countless black or brown small dung balls are piled on the ground. From time to time, they are kicked by passing ants.
"..."
Although the excrement of ants has no peculiar smell, the protagonist is still intimidated by a place full of feces and urine.
"Damn! These ants are simply crawling around on the pile of shit!" The protagonist immediately gave up his plan to come here for convenience in the future. The conditions are no less favorable than the old-fashioned dry toilets in the countryside.
"Here, what are those two worker ants doing? Are they eating shit?" The protagonist saw something that refreshed his perspective: "Hey! Fortunately, they just moved the shit away." The protagonist looked at a few worker ants. He used his mouth to remove the excrement, and immediately felt glad that he had made the right decision to refuse to be fed mouth-to-mouth by the worker ants. The ants' jaws are simply universal tools.
It's right to think about it. Although the protagonist doesn't know how many ants there are in the entire nest, if there are no worker ants to clean up the excrement, no matter how large the nest is, it will sooner or later be filled with ant feces.
Now that he has given up the intention of solving the problem here, the protagonist thinks of digging a special bathroom for himself. The protagonist immediately thought of the abandoned passage where he had just solved the problem. There would be no other ants there and it was close to his residence. All he had to do was expand the space inside a little. This amount of work was too much for the ants. Not too big either. But before construction, you need to clean up those damn piles of your own excrement. The protagonist doesn't want Hua Mulan or other subordinates to step on landmines and construct inside.
So the protagonist took Hua Mulan back to the main passage, randomly caught five worker ants on the road, and gave them the task of cleaning up the excrement.
The worker ants didn't dislike it at all, and each worker ant walked away with a small ball in its mouth. The protagonist suddenly wonders where they will clean up all this shit. It is said that many ants are thrown directly out of the nest. I just want to go and take a look, so that I can avoid the minefield when I act in the future.
So, the protagonist followed these worker ants.
