The police took the protagonist and the senior brother out of the lair where the king's meeting was held and retreated.
The police officer turned around and said: "Elder brother is responsible for settling you. You live in the core area. The guards here are my subordinates. You can also contact Soldier Ant to find me at any time."
It seems that the kings still have different divisions of labor. Previously, the protagonist thought that the police were just ordinary kings responsible for the peripheral security work of the main nest hill castle, so he was the first to come over to check the identity after his group appeared. Later it was discovered that he actually attended the meeting of five hundred kings in the main nest and was one of the most powerful kings in the main nest. Now it seems that the public security still shoulders the heavy responsibility of garrisoning the internal core area. This is the commander of the capital garrison area.
The protagonist hurriedly expressed his obedience to the arrangement. He was just a little ant with no one to rely on. A country man who went to the city without a support could not offend the big shot among the ants. It's sad to think about it. After time travel, I still can't do whatever I want!
After the police officer finished his instructions, he turned around and left. The protagonist looked at his senior brother and wondered where he would place me. He suddenly became the King of Laozi Divine Envoys. Will he receive preferential treatment? Spacious housing? Many servants? All kinds of delicious vegetarian food?
The elder brother motioned for the protagonist to follow him. The passage here was not piled with white cobblestones, it was just a very ordinary dirt road. They walked up a short distance, and the passage gradually opened up. After entering from a small fork on the side, they found that the entrances to the nests were neatly and symmetrically arranged on both sides of the passage, extending to the place where the protagonist could not see. .
The senior brother takes the protagonist to the entrance of the first nest on the right, indicating that the protagonist lives here.
The protagonist poked his head in and saw that there was a small nest room inside, and the area was not as big as the bedroom in his two-bedroom apartment in the "Dongyang City Vice Nest". There were neither fluorescent bacteria nor silk beds inside. There were only some dry grass shreds stacked in the corner. It looked like the withered grass had been torn into strips of fibers and piled together in a messy way to serve as a bed.
The protagonist suddenly became unhappy. Not to mention that he was the King of Gods, even an ordinary male ant shouldn't live in this kind of environment. I had a silk bed to sleep on when I was in the "Dongyang City Vice Nest", but now I have to sleep on a haystack? Isn’t this how prisoners were treated in ancient prison cells? And this room is so small, how can I put Xiao Mi, Hua Mulan and the others in it?
The protagonist was dissatisfied and confessed his thoughts to the senior brother, with a hint of protest in it. Is the senior brother trying to show off his power to the newcomer? After all, he was also Lao Wang's student. Suddenly he had a classmate like him who was regarded as the Divine Envoy King. If he were a human, he would definitely be dissatisfied. The protagonist guessed maliciously.
"Am I going to live here? The environment is too bad. Where do you live? At least my room can't be worse than yours!"
The big brother is not as complicated as the protagonist thinks. Ants are all straight-headed, one-bone creatures. Although civilization has evolved, these social creatures that are naturally altruistic (altruistic only towards members of the same colony) are still No complex intrigues evolved. The eldest brother indicated that his nest room was directly opposite the current one. The protagonist followed him and climbed over to take a look. He was immediately disappointed. The area inside was also small, with a small straw bed huddled in the corner.
"We are the disciples of Lao Wang, right? Why are we treated so poorly!" The protagonist complained: "Isn't there a silk bed?"
"Silk beds?" Senior Brother said, "Only the kings have silk beds."
"You are not short of silk, are you? The larvae will spit them out? This nest is so big and there are so many ants, there must be a lot of larvae!" The protagonist was in disbelief: "There is no need to be so stingy."
"The silk in the main nest is very nervous." Senior Brother explained: "They have all been used to build walls."
Build a wall? The protagonist continued to ask, only to learn that the cobblestone walls he had seen before were all made of mucus spit out by ant larvae mixed with fine loess as an adhesive.
Well, it seems that the result of clicking the construction technology tree is sacrificing people's livelihood and well-being.
"This nest is too small. How will I place the ant subordinates I brought?" the protagonist asked again.
"You shouldn't have subordinates." The senior brother replied firmly.
"Why?"
"A king who is not married has no subordinates!" said the senior brother.
The protagonist complains about why there are so many broken rules in the main nest, but think about it, they don't have permanent subordinates in the "Dongyang City Deputy Nest", and only temporary subordinates are assigned during the hunting class.
"What would I do if I had subordinates?" the protagonist asks.
The senior brother was stunned for a long time. It seemed that he was engaged in intense thinking activities in his mind. His tentacles kept dangling around. What this male ant did that did not follow the rules was beyond his current knowledge. Finally, he replied: "I don't know, I have never encountered such a situation."
"You won't confiscate my subordinates, right? If you confiscate them, they will be distributed to other kings! No? Then there will be no problem."
After the protagonist finished asking his questions, he drove away the senior brother and prepared to pick up the little secretary and the others.
But first of all, he didn't know the road. He still remembered the path he took all the way from the sacred passage, but when he wanted to go back the same way, he was stopped outside the nest where the king's meeting was held.
A dozen ferocious and strong soldier ants refused the protagonist's request to pass and sent out threatening signals. The protagonist saw that these soldier ants were much stronger than Lao Wang's personal bodyguards, and with the idea that a good man should not suffer the immediate losses, he retreated in dejection.
Then we can only change the route. The protagonist asks the worker ants he encounters along the way, but because he can’t tell the specific location of the nest where the little secretaries and others are placed, the worker ants who are asked are also confused. Completely unable to help.
In the end, the protagonist simply let a worker ant lead him to the ground. From the ground, he should still be able to remember the path the police took him.
The protagonist follows the worker ants and climbs up through a maze-like underground network full of forks. It seems that the protagonist followed the policeman and crawled very far in the almost vertical sacred passage, and has entered deeply into the underground space. The underground road network of the main nest is criss-crossed, and the ant flow is dense. If it weren't for the worker ants who lead the way, the protagonist would definitely get lost. The sense of direction developed during the human period is more suitable for flat traffic lines, but the three-dimensional road network of ants is far more complex than the flat road network.
The protagonist felt dizzy, feeling that the passage he walked through was getting wider and wider, the light was getting brighter, and there were more and more ants around him, and they were crowded with people. The shoulders are rubbed together, the folds become a curtain, the sleeves are lifted up to form a curtain, and the sweat becomes rain."
Then, the protagonist got through the exit. The sun was shining brightly in front of him, and he suddenly became enlightened and climbed up to the ground again.
