In the middle of the night, Gun was awakened by his subconscious, and his tentacles felt the breath of rain - it was raining, which meant that the next day they, the young male ants, had to hit the road and go to the main nest to participate in the wedding flight ceremony.
Roll on and seize the time to rest. The protagonist felt that the scene of the information package went dark, which meant that Gun fell asleep, and the scene soon switched to the moment when Gun woke up.
Gun returned to the classroom, and the young male ants and the only female ant also gathered here. They were having a meeting, discussing how to hit the road at dawn. If the old king is still alive, then he will be responsible for forming an escort team to accompany these kings and queens to the main nest. But he was gone, so the young male ants expressed their concerns about not having a bodyguard. Limited by the constraints of their concepts, they never thought of forming their own escort like the protagonist.
This group of male ants discussed for a long time with no results. It was more like an emotional catharsis meeting. At this time, the biological clock reminds the ants present that sunrise time has arrived. Both the male and female ants looked at Gun. When Lao Wang and the protagonist were away, Gun, as the first male ant to emerge from the pupa, had the highest priority. Gun thought for a moment, his tentacles touched the pebbles, and gave the order to set off. He has already thought about it, even if there is no escort, the sense of mission engraved in his genes requires him to go on the road, either to die on the road, or to overcome all difficulties and reach the main nest.
But unexpectedly, when the male ants arrived at the nest exit, a group of hundreds of worker ants followed them and climbed to the ground. At first, Gun didn't think it was anything. Maybe it was just a team of worker ants that went out to look for food. But after leaving the nest, the group of worker ants still closely surrounded the group of male and female ants and headed west. Gun curiously used his tentacles to communicate with a worker ant, and the worker ant said that he had received an order to accompany them to the main nest as a guard. He was relieved. Maybe Lao Wang had arranged the escort mission before he died.
After all the young male ants have left, it means that there is no longer a king in the entire "Dongyang City", whether they are adults or minors. The absence of a king means the absence of a commander, but the impact is usually not significant. The soldier ants and worker ants can instinctively and consciously collect food, repair the nest, and take care of the larvae. But if they encounter enemy attacks, major disasters, etc., these ants lacking command will be like a piece of sand. Moreover, lurking in this nest is one or even a group of murderer ants that murder their own kind...
The protagonist is very anxious. As the place where he was born and grew up in this world, "Dongyang City" has an important bond. So many days have passed, and the protagonist doesn't know what is going on with "Dongyang City" now and whether the murderer has committed another crime.
"End the war as soon as possible, I want to go back!" the protagonist made up his mind.
A line of hundreds of male ants, female ants and worker ants quickly moved towards the main nest. Although there was a light rain last night and the ground was a little muddy and wet, it did not stop the ants from moving forward.
The protagonist saw that nothing special happened during this period of travel, so he skipped it using a method similar to fast forwarding in a video.
Gun and the others marched until close to night before stopping to dig a temporary camp. The distance they walked on the first day was much further than the protagonist walked on the first day when they set out to the main nest. The protagonist feels strange. If they roll at this speed, even if they encounter a heavy rain the next day, their arrival will not be delayed. What happened next?
Due to the large number of ants, in order to save time in digging caves in the temporary camp, they dug 13 entrances at the same time, each entrance connected to a small shallow cave. After the excavation was completed, four male ants and about twenty worker ants settled in each small camp. The last small camp housed the only female ant and five worker ants. The entrances to these small camps are very close to each other.
The protagonist is in the same lair as Lamborghini, Lamborghini, and Lamborghini. After entering the lair, he goes to rest. The protagonist continues to fast forward, rolling like a normal ant and sleeping for a short time. He wakes up from time to time, stares at the place for a while, and then falls asleep again for a while. This repeats until dawn. This kind of sleep is more like a constant nap.
After dawn, they came out of the lair. They had eaten and drank enough before leaving "Dongyang City". Although they didn't eat all day and night yesterday, they didn't feel hungry or thirsty. After seeing the female ants and female ants from each nest coming out with their subordinates, Gun was ready for everyone to set off. He, the relatively oldest male ant, was now the temporary captain.
But Rambofo ran over and stopped him. Rambofo told Gun that there were only 44 male ants and 1 female ant, and 4 male ants were missing.
Gun felt a little strange, and so did the protagonist. Ants don't sleep in. Gun asked his worker ants to go to each nest to check the situation, and soon the worker ants came back to reply.
Gun hurriedly took Lambofo, Lambofei and several other older male ants to the cave where the worker ants reported. This is a makeshift cave at the edge of the camp.
The four male ants and their eight worker ants that did not come to gather just lay quietly in the cave and never got up again. Like Lao Wang, these ants had their heads and bodies separated. Through the faint smell of oleic acid on his body, Gun knew that they were all dead.
They immediately left the cave and gathered all the remaining male ants. Because there were no pebbles, they could only form a circle, with the ants on the left and right touching each other with their tentacles, so that all the ants could indirectly communicate with each other through their tentacles, and they formed a temporary meeting formation.
Gun immediately sent an information package to all the male ants about what he saw in the cave, asking for their opinions. The male ants were surprised that there were casualties again, but since there were already casualties on the road to the main nest, they did not express too much doubt. The result of everyone's discussion was that their four male ants' nests were attacked by predatory insects, so they died.
Gun raised another question. There should be about twenty worker ants in each nest. Now there are only the bodies of eight worker ants in the nest. Where have the other worker ants gone? The male ants discussed it again, and Rambo Fei thought that he was eaten by carnivorous insects. This opinion was recognized by everyone.
After the discussion, Gun and the others decided to continue on their way, and their partner's body was left quietly in the temporary cave.
Although the protagonist could only quietly watch what had happened, this time he saw the death scene in detail, and he believed that it was still a murder. The murderer or murderers, he (or they?) is hiding in this team heading to the main nest!
Why ants murder their own kind, the protagonist has no way to explore the motive, but the death of the four male ants and other worker ants is what the ants in this team did.
Although carnivorous insects can also kill a large number of ants, the entrance to the death scene is very narrow and cannot be penetrated by larger carnivorous insects. There are no signs of damage to the entrance or walls of the nest. Even if smaller carnivorous insects can get in, they will not be a match for swarms of ants.
What if it was a group of carnivorous insects? Among insects, only termites, ants and bees are social, and bees are generally too large to enter the nest. Even if termites and hostile ants can enter, the ants in the hole can resist for a period of time, and casualties will occur. The bodies of the deceased had injuries such as broken joints and limbs due to the fight, instead of all the dead being separated from their heads, as if they had been raided and murdered in an instant.
And whether it was carnivorous insects or hostile termites or ants, after killing these ants from "Dongyang City", they would also take the corpses away for food. There was no reason why they should just stay where they were. Insects rarely have the habit of not eating corpses.
Then there is only one possibility left. They were killed by companions with the same aura, so they did not issue a warning in advance and did not resist. Moreover, after they die, the oil on their body surface should quickly deteriorate into a pungent oleic acid smell that can be clearly smelled outside the nest. There was only a faint smell of oily acid on these corpses. Could it be that the murderers had cleverly licked off the deteriorating oil? Why did they cover up the death scene?
Also, where are the dozen remaining worker ants in the nest? Are they the murderers?
