The general meeting of the "East Yang City" male ants was held the next day.
On the first day, the protagonist got the report relatively late. After calling the surviving pavement ants involved to understand the situation, the protagonist became even more angry.
But it was getting late, and the protagonist himself was a little sleepy, so he decided to hold a meeting the next day, a meeting that would definitely consume a lot of energy and emotions.
That night, the protagonist's dinner was tasteless.
He had previously realized that it was difficult for the big-headed ants to coexist harmoniously with other ant races under his command, but since the two sides did not show much conflict at the level of working ants, the protagonist ignored them, and did not expect that a murder occurred today.
For the protagonist, whether it is a human life or an ant life, it is the passing of a life. This is not the Buddhist concept of equality of all living beings, but a simple concept measured by the protagonist himself.
When he is a human being, he will naturally think that all people, including cats, dogs, cows, and horses of similar size and shape, are alive. At that time, he didn't care about the life or death of an ant. He would crush several ants to death while walking. Even if he noticed, he wouldn't be upset about it.
But when he is an ant and is surrounded by crowded and busy worker ants and soldier ants, he will naturally regard these creatures that are similar in size, shape, and race to him as the same kind in a certain sense. They believe that they have the same right to life as themselves. But he won't care about the life of bacteria, unless one day he becomes a bacteria...
Now, two ants who in the protagonist's opinion should have the right to life are killed in a vicious manner. This is a homicide, this is murder. This is different from war. This violates the legal and moral red lines in the protagonist's mind.
After the protagonist calmed down, he carefully sorted out the underlying reasons behind the case, which made him feel very scared again.
In addition to the old enemy conflict between the big-headed ants and the pavement ants, on another level, this is also the conflict between the male ant class and the worker ant class.
The male ants never regard these worker ants as beings equal to themselves, but regard them as lowly servants, slaves without dignity and expendable pawns! Therefore, although they rarely take the initiative to kill worker ants, after all, this is a waste of resources for the ant nest, but in terms of food supply, living environment, and when encountering danger, the male ant class is always there. The working class is exploited everywhere and at all times.
It was due to the dual reasons of race and class that the kings of the new generation unscrupulously killed two innocent pavement ant workers who were performing the protagonist's mission.
Behind this, the protagonist has always been dissatisfied with the cross-racial and cross-class divide that he wants to correct and bridge. But apparently with little success.
The protagonist has never questioned why he wants to bring ant races other than big-headed ants into his command. In addition to being a collector, it is also a practical need.
Pavement ants have proven their worth in winter. They can complete winter reconnaissance, communication and other tasks when the big-headed ants are unable to do so. As a scout warrior, the Scythe Hunter Ant is also better than the Pavement Ant and the Big-headed Ant.
The protagonist does not believe that he can accomplish the feat of integrating both sides of the river just by relying on the strength and characteristics of the Big-headed Ant race. The advantages and disadvantages of a single race are equally obvious.
And class is something that the protagonist hates deeply.
The protagonist admits that ants are born different, and there are male ants, female ants and worker ants. But this biological difference does not excuse the class divide.
For example, Xiao Mi, who just died, was a big worker ant, strictly speaking, a worker ant. However, due to her special life and experience, she not only has the ability to have children, but her intelligence is also rare.
The protagonist wanted to give these big worker ants more power, treatment and status, but was unanimously opposed by the male ant class simply because of her identity.
This made the protagonist very uncomfortable, and the main reason for his discomfort was that he saw the hugeness and stubbornness of the male ant class. While he needed the help of these male ants, he had to guard against their backlash at all times. .
——I am the dividing line——
That night, the protagonist had another dream!
The beginning of the dream is still an invisible and spreading black line coming from the north, and then it turns into a black current and a black tide.
Such dreams appear from time to time, and the protagonist cannot understand the meaning, which only makes him anxious and wants to improve his strength as soon as possible to deal with the warnings in the dream.
But in the second half of the dream, the scene was completely different.
In a chaotic and unclear space, the protagonist suddenly saw his own body.
It was a human body: white and soft skin, slender thighs with elastic muscles, and dexterous fingers.
The protagonist does not have a mirror, but he touches his face with his hands, feeling the bridge of his nose and lips, eyebrows and hair, and a kind of ecstasy of being restored to a human being comes to his heart.
He didn't know he was dreaming.
But at this moment, a huge ant appeared in front of him.
This ant has a hard carapace and a pair of waving tentacles. It lies on its back limbs, its abdomen is parallel to the ground, its chest stands vertically, and its two forelimbs hang down on both sides of the body.
The protagonist was startled at first, but he was used to seeing ants as big as himself, so he didn't panic. He just thought that this ant seemed familiar.
This is a male ant of a big-headed ant. Each male ant looks similar, but as long as the tentacles are communicated in depth, the protagonist can accurately determine who the other party is.
The protagonist doesn't know this male ant. Is he a strange male ant?
As if seeing the protagonist, the ant spoke. Human language came out of "its" mouth that had no vocal cords and could not make sounds. Its jaws opened and closed, and the sound waves passed into the protagonist's ears and directly entered his brain:
"I am you!"
The protagonist suddenly realizes that the person facing him is indeed himself, with the body of an ant. Somehow, the protagonist is able to be so sure.
"You are me, then who am I?"
The protagonist is a little confused.
"You are you, and you are me. I am me, and I am you."
The ant replied like this, which made the protagonist have a headache, and then he suddenly became enlightened.
"We are originally one." The protagonist smiled: "I am a human, but I am also an ant. How strange, isn't it?"
"It's very strange." The ant shrugged. He had no shoulders, just his upper body shook a little, but the protagonist knew what he was doing. The protagonist himself often liked to shrug, but that was when he was still a human. After becoming an ant, the protagonist has given up this habit.
"What do you want to do now?" Ant asked.
"I..." The protagonist was a little confused.
Then, his eyes became determined: "I want to kill a few ants!"
