The protagonist finally realized that this was a wall made of white cobblestones! It seems that there must be a nest behind the wall, and it is a relatively important nest, and it may even be related to gods. The places covered with white cobblestone walls that the protagonist had seen before were either meeting places for power agencies such as the meeting room of the Five Hundred Kings, the location of fires, or places with religious structures such as sacred passages.
The protagonist rested his tentacles on the cobblestones. There was no movement from the other side. There should be no ants on the other side. The protagonist suddenly thought that since the floors of the classroom and the King's Conference Room are cobblestones and can be used for group chats, then the white cobblestone walls can also be used for communication. It's just that the cobblestone floor is a whole, but the cobblestone walls are small stones connected to each other.
The protagonist decided to ignore the wall for the time being, since it would not affect the integrity of his bedroom anyway. At this time, the protagonist is already very sleepy, so getting an early rest is the top priority. So the protagonist briefly explained to the little secretary, then asked her to go out and move the straw bed in, and then rested alone.
A night of silence.
The next day, the protagonist got up after sleeping until he woke up naturally. He went to the nest room outside, and other subordinates also got up. They stayed there bored because they did not receive orders. The protagonist was almost scratching his head when he saw them idle, thinking that they would not be needed for the time being, so he let them move around freely, as long as they remembered to come back and sleep at night. Now these ants have followed the protagonist and have gradually developed the habit of sleeping at night. They no longer have to take a nap when they are sleepy as before and continue to work.
The protagonist only leaves Xiao Mi and Hua Mulan behind. He dug out sunflower seeds and nuts from the luggage he brought and ate them for breakfast, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not good to eat this kind of food all the time. So he climbed to the opposite side, found the senior brother who was staying inside, and asked him how he solved the problem of eating.
"Just ask the worker ants to bring the food over." The senior brother told the protagonist.
"Then what do you eat?" the protagonist asked curiously.
"You can eat whatever is brought to you." The eldest brother is really not picky: "The worker ants usually bring honeydew and meat to the kings."
The protagonist is still not sensitive to insect meat, and the honeydew also feels that it is not full, so the breakfast must be dry or watery. The eldest brother obviously doesn't like the fireworks of the world. He can eat whatever others give him, and he can't give the protagonist more choices.
The protagonist decided to go to the granary and take a look. He took Xiaomi and Hua Mulan outside, stopped a worker ant, and asked her to take him to the granary. Of course, the protagonist has made it clear in advance that he is going to the Vegetarian Granary. The ants do this very scientifically. They know how to store meat and vegetable food separately to avoid contamination with each other. This also saves the protagonist from being disgusted when he accidentally sees a room full of insect limbs.
There are usually many granaries in an ant nest, and the worker ants take the protagonist to the nearest one. When I got inside and took a look, I found that this granary was quite large. It was the same size as the classroom taught by Lao Wang in the "Dongyang City Vice Nest". However, the grain stored there was very little. It was piled on the ground to cover the ground, and it was covered with a thin layer of grain. layer.
These vegetarian foods are mainly various grass seeds, dried fungi, and shelled nuts (such as sunflower seeds). The protagonist had been eating nuts before and was always worried that he was not nutritionally complete. Grass seeds are a good choice as a staple food, which is more in line with the protagonist's unique preference for cereal staple foods as a Chinese before time travel. However, the protagonist tried it and couldn't chew raw hay seeds at all.
It is said that some ants, such as harvest ants, process hard grass seeds into soft seed bread. The specific method is to remove the shell of the grass seeds, then use their strong claws and mouth to chew the seeds, mix them with saliva, and wait for the saliva to form. After the enzymes complete the fermentation, a soft, nutritious and easy-to-digest seed bread is ready.
However, the protagonist is not an encyclopedia scholar, and he does not know this method. But he had another solution - fire.
The main nest has fire, and fire can handle a lot of food. Although frying and frying are not possible now, you can still do it with a simple barbecue. The only obstacle is that the soldier ants guarding the gate do not allow the protagonist to enter the venue of the Five Hundred Kings, so there is no way to take this road to the fire. Then there is only one way left to enter the nest where the fire is.
Sacred passage.
I don’t know if the ants think the sacred passage is too sacred, so except for authorized ants who will enter from there, generally no ants enter or exit that passage, and there are no soldier ants guarding it. It is simply an excellent sneaking path. It's just that the military strength of the big-headed ants in the main nest is extremely powerful, and no insects or hostile ants can sneak into the vicinity of the main nest without anyone noticing.
However, as the saying goes, it is difficult to guard against domestic thieves during the day and at night. The sacred passage welcomed its first uninvited guest after its completion today, and of course the second and third ones soon followed.
The protagonist took Xiao Mi, Hua Mulan, a grass seed and a dried fungus, and swaggered from the ground to the door of the sacred passage. The patrols along the way were dissatisfied with these partners who were already members of this nest. Wen Buwen didn't know how they knew that the protagonist had obtained a household registration in the capital.
The protagonist got into the passage, but Xiao Mi and Hua Mulan shivered and shrank forward.
"What's going on?" the protagonist asked angrily, why did the chain fall off at the critical moment.
The secret tells the protagonist that there is a scent mark at the entrance of the passage, which carries the scent of high-level male ants. Soldier ants and worker ants do not dare to enter this scent-marked passage.
The protagonist probed around with his tentacles, and there was indeed a slightly irritating smell nearby. The tentacles smelled like ammonia. When he came in last time, the protagonist was busy chatting with the police and didn't notice the smell at all. But it’s unclear whether this is the protagonist of ammonia. After all, the smell mechanisms of the tentacles and the nose are not quite the same. Just like human hearing, the sound of one's own speech is transmitted through bones, which is different from the air transmission. When many people hear their own voice in the video, they will be surprised that it is different from the personal voice they usually hear.
The protagonist thought for a moment that the last time the police took him in, there were many soldier ants following him. It seemed that this was not a mandatory no-entry sign.
So the protagonist forcibly ordered Xiao Mi and Hua Mulan to follow him and crawl into the passage first. Xiaomi and Hua Mulan looked a little uncomfortable at first, and their walking movements were a little stiff. However, after climbing for a short distance, the pungent smell was gone and they returned to their normal state.
