After learning that the enemy might be evacuating, the protagonist immediately decided to go to the temporary starting base of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army on the north bank of the river to investigate in person.
This is done out of necessity. The enemy's movements are still unclear, and if you want to know, the protagonist needs first-hand intelligence information, and this can obviously only be obtained by going to the starting base where people may go to the nest. Considering that big-headed ants do not have the ability to move in the wild, only the protagonist's unique body can complete this investigation.
There may be some danger in this trip, because there is a certain probability that there are still a small number of enemy garrison in the temporary base, and the protagonist may encounter them.
Judging from the fact that the enemy's march lasted for more than half a day, even if there were defenders left in the temporary base, the scale would be very small. Even if they encountered it, the protagonist would still be confident that he could escape safely with his own strength.
After making up his mind, the protagonist first returned to "Linshui City" and informed the legion commanders of the latest information and his decision to investigate personally. As expected, the subordinates warned the protagonist not to take personal risks. After all, in the eyes of the male ants, they are the brains responsible for thinking in the ant colony, not the eyes responsible for detection or the hands and feet responsible for execution.
The protagonist is not an ant who can reason with common sense. He has made up his mind and gives Gun the temporary full responsibility for the defense of "Linshui City" in the form of an order to prevent the enemy from crossing the river from elsewhere and launching a surprise attack here - although this The probability is very low.
The protagonist himself enjoyed a sumptuous meal: he drank honeydew, ate dried mushrooms roasted in rock salt, fully cooked roasted mealworm meat, and grass seed porridge. After squatting outside for a day, the protagonist was already hungry. , and the food prepared for the protagonist is on standby 24 hours a day. Therefore, as soon as the protagonist gave the order, the food was quickly placed in front of him.
After a year of transformation by the protagonist, although most of the worker ants and soldier ants can still only eat simple baked cooked food, their condition is much better than before, where they were eating hair and drinking blood, which greatly enhanced the ants' digestive ability and physical resistance. . The male ants, on the other hand, have gradually been following the lead. After the popularity of pottery, in addition to baked food, cooked food such as various porridges began to become a symbol of high-end food.
After the protagonist had eaten and drank enough, he continued to wrap himself in his plant fiber coat, left the nest, climbed to the big banyan tree, and walked towards the unknown land on the north bank of the river.
Following the roots of the big banyan tree extending towards the river, the protagonist quickly climbed onto the ice.
When the soles of the feet came into contact with the clean and flat ice, a chill came from the soles of the feet - other ants have very few nerves on their exoskeletons, but the protagonist has a very keen sense of the body's condition, as if he has a layer of Like human skin.
The soles of the feet are very cold, but fortunately the ants' feet are small and the contact area with the ice is not large, so the heat loss is still within the acceptable range.
The weather is very good today, the temperature is not too low. The sun is shining on the back of the protagonist, and the places not covered by the coat are warm. The body wrapped in the coat is also very warm, but the soles of the feet are cool. This feeling It's amazing, and it also amplifies the discomfort in the feet.
"We must make one pair, no, three pairs of shoes," the protagonist thought as he looked at himself on all fours.
He walked north along the snow-free path carved by the pavement ants on the ice. This path was a straight depression across the entire river surface. This was due to the energy-absorbing material melted out by the pavement ants. of.
The road surface of the path is lower than the ice layer, and the ice layer on both sides is higher than the height of the protagonist. It blocks the cold wind that is not strong, but the sun can continue to reach the body without any hindrance. It has to be said that if it was intentional, the paving ants who built the road had fully considered their own needs.
Walking on the ice path is like walking on a crystal road. There are transparent and pure ice layers under your feet and around your body. Ice patterns, large and small, can be seen everywhere in the ice layer, some of which are white and very special. Obviously, some of them require you to lie on them and look carefully to see the cracks reflected by the light.
The protagonist feels as if he is walking on the frozen Arctic Ocean. What leads him forward is not the six legs of ants, but many sled dogs, pulling him along at a high speed.
The sleigh turned around, but the protagonist was startled - a dark, ferocious-looking creature as big as a truck appeared in front of him, like an alien monster.
The protagonist broke into a cold sweat, and all his fantasies about sledding, huskies, Alaska, and Samoyeds disappeared.
The ice layer is still the same ice layer, the protagonist is still the six-legged protagonist, and the monster is indeed right in front of you, appearing at the corner of the road.
However, the protagonist calmed down. The so-called ferocious monster was just a water spider frozen to death on the surface of the ice.
Water spiders, also called silver spiders, are the only species of spiders that live in water. Water spiders live underwater in trumpet-shaped nests made of spider silk and plant materials. The nests are filled with air bubbles brought into the water by body hairs. They feed on small animals such as small fish, tadpoles, insect larvae, and leeches on the surface and in the water. The males are about 15 mm long and the females are 10 mm long.
When they dive into the water, many air bubbles will attach to the waterproof fluff all over their bodies, as if they have entered a sleeve with a closed air layer. They can also move freely on the water surface, using the tension of the water film to ensure that they do not sink.
This water spider seemed to have been gradually frozen to death while floating on the water. The ice wrapped its body and prevented the body from sinking into the water. Due to the protection of the solid ice, this corpse was not dug up and eaten by pavement ants who were short of food. It just stayed quietly in the ice at the corner, like a specimen in amber, completely recorded. Its struggle and unwillingness before death.
After briefly observing this ice sculpture, the protagonist continued to move forward while sighing at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature. There are many strange sights along the way, such as frozen water spiders and the majesty of the ice field, which cannot be felt when looking from the big banyan tree. Only by close contact like today can one feel the shadow of death in winter. Such a beautiful scene.
However, the protagonist is not in much mood to enjoy the beautiful scenery at the moment. The sun has already crossed three-quarters of the arc of the sky. In two or three hours, the protagonist must rush back to "Linshui City" to spend the night before the sun sets.
The sun and the cold touch on the soles of the feet constantly urge the protagonist to hurry up. He can only move quickly along the ice road, carefully avoiding the snow particles to avoid contamination on his body.
Soon, the protagonist stepped onto the exposed black soil on the north bank of the river.
——I am the dividing line——
An update today, because I have to take a test tomorrow, so I went to review T_T
