After the protagonist had eaten and drank enough, he rested quietly in the bedroom. The wedding flight ceremony begins at dusk, when the sun has completely dropped below the horizon but there is still light in the sky, the male and female ants will begin the most important wedding flight ceremony in their lives. The wedding flight ceremony will not end until all queens have mated and rejected their suitors. It was still early and the protagonist was in a bad mood, so he was ready to continue sleeping for a while.
After sleeping for a short while, Wei 1 and Wei 3 ran back, shook the protagonist awake anxiously, and told the protagonist that a team of kings and queens had arrived.
The protagonist had almost forgotten that he had asked these two soldier ants to go to the main nest entrance to inquire for information. He never canceled the order. He didn't expect that it would actually come to fruition now. The protagonist was heartened, and hurriedly led Guard 1 and Guard 3 to the entrance of the main nest. He asked other ants where the newly arrived male ants were placed, and ran over.
The guard ants did not stop the male ants from moving around each other, and the protagonist entered the nest smoothly. There are usually fifty kings placed in the nest room. Currently, there are only more than twenty kings in this nest room. Some of the others have gone out to hang out on their own, and some empty seats are waiting to receive those who have not come or will never come. Male ants.
It doesn't take much effort for the protagonist to recognize the newly arrived king. Compared with other clean and tidy male ants who have settled down and cleaned up, these kings have not yet been cleaned of mud and dust. They are constantly licking their antennae and joints with their mouths, trying to clean their bodies. Unfortunately, there is no Guan here, nor any of the male ants from the "Dongyang City Vice Nest" that the protagonist knows.
The protagonist doesn't know whether to be disappointed or grateful. I am disappointed because there is no news about them, and I don’t know what happened to them, or whether they even escaped the heavy rain that covered the sky. Fortunately, if the team from "Dongyang City" arrived, and Gun and Rambo were not among them, then the situation would definitely be in danger. At least there is a possibility that they are still alive, perhaps due to the weather, they were able to make their way back. The government is here!
As his companions since his reincarnation and time travel, in this world where no human traces have yet been found, Gun and the others, as the protagonist's first batch of companions and physically twin brothers born in the same batch, still have an important place in his heart. . Maybe this is spiritual sustenance without sustenance.
The protagonist went back disappointed again, and until the afternoon, four more teams arrived one after another. The protagonist went to see it with less hope than last time, but each time he was more disappointed.
316 teams have arrived, and there is no team from "Dongyang City" among them.
It wasn't until the senior brother came to visit and told the protagonist to go to the ground now and wait for the official start of the wedding flight ceremony that the protagonist finally gave up.
The protagonist climbed to the ground alone with his senior brother. According to the rules, subordinates were not allowed to enter, so the protagonist let Xiao Mi and Hua Mulan move freely.
On the ground, most of the male and female ants have already arrived. In the open space south of the main nest hill castle, the male ants are gathered in a pile on the left, and the female ants are gathered in a pile on the right. The number ratios are very different. Male ants are approximately ten times more numerous than female ants. The protagonist guesses: The reason why the ants are divided into piles is that men are on the left and women are on the right.
The site used for the ceremony was all gravel and soil, with no grass growing on it. It was in sharp contrast with the surrounding grass, shrubs and woods not far away. It had obviously been artificially cleared by ants.
The weather at the moment is very good. After the heavy rain the day before yesterday, the sun has dried the ground surface, and there is still enough water vapor in the air, which just creates a warm and cool weather.
In addition to the male and female ants preparing for the wedding flight ceremony, a large number of main nest ants also joined in. Dozens of kings and thousands of escorts were on top of the hill castle, overlooking the entire ceremony site. Around the wedding flight venue, as many as hundreds of ordinary kings and patrol teams composed of their subordinate soldier ants were divided into multiple warning circles to patrol continuously. Further away, a large number of agile worker ant scouts are spread out far away. Once there is any enemy trouble, they will send back early warning signals in time. All foraging and hunting activities ceased, and other ants stood by in the nest, leaving the site to the ceremony. At the same time, if something happens, the army in the nest is always ready to support the compatriots on the ground at any time.
The reason why the security level of the wedding flight ceremony is so high is, on the one hand, because it is a very important matter, related to the reproduction of the big-headed ant kingdom. On the other hand, it is also because there are still real threats. After all, a day's journey away, there are six sub-nests that were captured by the pavement ant barbarians in winter, and there are at least tens of thousands of enemy troops inside.
The protagonist stays in the noisy male ant team, enduring the almost strong and audible smell of hormones. These male ants have already entered the state in advance, ignoring each other, and regard all the same kind as competitors, and their compound eyes are almost red. Now with just one command, these winged genitals that have lost the ability to think and are preoccupied with mating will pounce on their target.
The protagonist sees that even the senior brother has entered this state of near madness, completely lacking the wisdom and calmness of the successor of the oldest king.
"What a beauty! What a desire to kill!" The protagonist almost wanted to touch his face with his forelimbs. From his aesthetic point of view, he really didn't think that another group of female ants gathered in a pile was so beautiful and fragrant, but it was indeed extremely lethal to the male ants around them. The protagonist begins to understand why the senior brother said before that a large number of male and female ants will die during the wedding flight ceremony. But the ceremony has not even started yet, and the male ants are almost red-eyed.
The sun gradually slanted lower and slowly hid behind the canopy of trees in the distance. Most of the male ants have been standing on the ground for more than half an hour, and no new male or female ants have come out of the main nest. This shows that all the protagonists participating in the wedding flight ceremony have arrived.
But the time for the wedding flight ceremony has not yet come, and the male ants, who are driven crazy by hormones, can only wait patiently under the suppression of their innate sense of discipline. Some male ants are already staggering and seem to be unable to stand due to long-term excitement and direct sunlight. It seems that a good body is really the capital of revolution and love.
The sun was finally halfway below the horizon. The heads of all the male ants turned to the direction of the setting sun, extremely neatly. Their scorching eyes were not afraid of the not-so-strong light of the setting sun, and they watched it get smaller and smaller until the topmost point of the red circle disappeared below the distant horizon.
It's not yet dark at this time, and in a short period of time it's even brighter than the previous dusk. This is the time for the light to return.
As the last shadow of the sun disappeared, all the male and female ants seemed to have received instructions at the same time. They flapped their wings and rushed into the sky as fast as possible.
The protagonist, who had not yet understood, turned his head and saw two black tornadoes composed of ants flying into the sky.
"Damn, it's about to start!"
