Of course, maybe the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army is unable to go out due to its own reasons, such as famine in the territory, or invasion from outside, etc.
If that's the case, that's really great for the protagonist.
As long as it lasts until the spring of next year without incident, the protagonist believes that the Beetle Legion after he forms an army will completely overturn the military balance on both sides of the river, the God Envoy King Legion will completely rise, and his future plans will also be laid. solid foundation.
——I am the dividing line——
Winter passes very slowly, but life passes very quickly.
Shortly after winter began, the secretary of the scientific research team was not in good health, until fatigue and aging finally defeated this once smart body - she fell ill.
After Xiao Mi is no longer able to work, the protagonist temporarily hands over the work of the scientific research team to Xiao Mi's two deputies. The protagonist calls them "Xiao Ju" and "Xiao Li" based on the names of famous female scientists in human history. ".
Xiao Mi, on the other hand, was recuperating in a nest specially built for her.
The protagonist has visited Xiao Mi several times, and the nest where she is recovering was specially built for her. It has a soft silk bed, two dedicated worker ant servants, and an unlimited supply of honeydew and high-end food. Usually only male ants and queen ants can enjoy this kind of treatment, and the big worker ants are not eligible for this. But this time, the protagonist used his status and majesty to force the arrangement and suppress those opposing voices.
In the protagonist's opinion, the secretary's qualifications and contributions are worthy of these treatments. He hoped that Xiao Mi would get better soon. As the first ants he came to know in this world, Xiao Mi's bizarre life experience and clever mind left a deep impression on the protagonist. He was also given the important task of leading the scientific research team by the protagonist.
If these generals are the protagonist's powerful weapons and thugs, then Xiaomi's scientific research team and subordinate craftsmen are the protagonist's dexterous fingers and important assistants.
However, contrary to expectations, Xiao Mi's condition worsened day by day.
There is no medicine or doctors in the big-headed ant kingdom. The ants rely almost entirely on their own immunity to resist diseases. Although ants also know to isolate patients to ensure the safety of the group when facing a plague, their other medical knowledge is almost zero.
And the protagonist's poor knowledge of human medicine cannot be of any help to Xiao Mi. The protagonist can only watch helplessly as this ant, who has taken a place in his new life, weakens and languishes little by little.
Now, Xiao Mi could only lie on the soft silk bed, with six limbs and antennae hanging down weakly. His jaws were loosely open, and he only responded when the servant fed him. She could only drink honeydew and very watery liquids, and could not chew even the soft, nutritious fats.
At this moment, Xiao Mi remained motionless for almost a long time, making people think that she was dead. In fact, her whole body smelled of weakness and dying, and only her huge abdomen showed a hint of vitality.
In the previous visits, the protagonist, who lacked common sense in the ant world, did not know what Xiaomi's bulging belly meant, but he would soon know.
In the past few days, the protagonist will go and chat with the little secretary. This is a rare opportunity for him in this world to call communication a chat.
Xiao Mi is an old and frail worker ant. When the protagonist meets her, she has already entered her prime.
According to the ecology of ants, the ant egg stage is roughly equivalent to the human pregnancy period in the mother's womb; the young ants are equivalent to human infants; when they pupate, they are teenagers; from the time they emerge from the pupa, the ants enter adulthood. The youth stage, and then the inevitable middle age and old age.
The life of an ant is so short that life and death are so quick and frequent. Xiaomi has known the protagonist for two years. In the past two years, she has passed through her most prosperous and powerful years, and has helped the protagonist a lot with her brains and diligence.
Now, although her physical strength and life are passing away, experience and wisdom are still filling her mind.
The protagonist will put his tentacles on the low-hanging tentacles of the little secretary. This time he no longer issues orders to the little secretary, but exchanges with her a lot of information that she would have found boring and useless before.
In the past, Xiao Mi was not willing to waste time on this kind of exchange of memories of shared experiences. In her opinion, she still had a lot of experiments that the protagonist had ordered but had not yet completed, and she had no time to waste these precious time. , especially when she knows that her positive side is short-lived and time is precious.
But now, just as the elderly like to find someone to talk to and talk to, and like to reminisce about the past, the little secretary who can no longer work also likes this way of communication, which she has rarely tried before.
The more intelligent a creature is, the greater the need for communication. The little secret at the end of life is when she is the smartest. Experience and experience, especially the words and deeds of the protagonist, make her smarter than ever before, and her leisure and wisdom are also Give her more emotional needs.
She will talk to the protagonist about her days with the Oldest King, the first time the protagonist went out hunting, but encountered a praying mantis and fled back in embarrassment, and the friends who died on the way to the main lair with the protagonist. . Along with the memories, there should be deep unexpressed regrets.
The word death was passed through the little secret tentacles, making the protagonist's body tremble slightly. He didn't want to talk about this word at the moment. But Xiao Mi didn't care. As an ant, she had seen too many deaths, including those who died while foraging, those who died in wars, those who died in nest collapse accidents, and those who died in a heavy rain in summer.
Xiao Mi also knew that she was about to die. Although she had never experienced it, the inevitable decline before death had already made her understand the ending. She does not shy away from death. Ant's primitive religion does not have the concept of death and the afterlife. She knows that death means the end, which means that she can no longer move, eat, or see the midday sun, and it also means that she can no longer see those familiar faces.
Therefore, although the little secretary is very sorry, she tells the protagonist that she can no longer help him solve some masonry and pottery problems, and she can no longer see the protagonist. But that's all. She wasn't sad, nor was she unwilling. She just quietly allowed life and time to flow in her conversation with the protagonist.
The protagonist cherishes the last time he spent with Xiaomi and comes here every day to stay for a short time or a long time.
When the protagonist came to Xiao Mi's nest one day and found the body that was lying on the silk bed every day, but still with its limbs in the air, he knew that Xiao Mi was dead.
