Judging from the information packets sent back by the warriors of the God Envoy King, this queen ant has lost its original consciousness as a big-headed ant to a large extent.
Her mind was filled with a mixture of memories and emotions, and her logical thinking was almost gone. She didn't respond at all to the inquiry sent by the God's Envoy King warrior on behalf of the protagonist, and all the information in her mind seemed to be undefended, allowing other ants to read it through their tentacles.
The information packet read hurriedly by the warriors of the God's Envoy King is a combination of emotions and memories, and this information is very useful.
If you just look at the emotional part of the queen's mind, it is filled with the same mania and bloodlust that we have read from other parasitic ants before, and she seems to want to kill and tear apart all non-infected bodies.
In addition, the protagonist also read the desire for sunshine and temperature contained in this emotion?
Parasitic ants love sunlight and heat! ? This is the first time the protagonist knows about this.
As parasitic fungi, don’t they generally like dark and humid environments? Why do they prefer sunlight and temperature like plants or cold-blooded animals?
The protagonist has also seen with his own eyes that if the parasitic fungus is separated from the host, it will quickly dry up under direct sunlight. Although it will take many days to die in the sun, it can still move as long as some water is added in between. But this also shows that these fungi are not adapted to environments with strong sunlight.
The protagonist had no time to think about it and continued to read the information, because the warrior of the God Envoy King told him that it contained the last memory of the ant queen before her thinking was confused.
——I am the dividing line——
The queen ant's eyes are the protagonist's eyes, and the queen's feelings are the protagonist's feelings.
When reading the information package, all feelings are shared, and the protagonist can put himself into the other person's scene immersively and empathetically, just like watching a 99D movie.
In addition to being able to think independently and unable to interfere with the memory of what has happened and control the body, it almost makes the protagonist forget his original identity.
The protagonist once had sequelae due to reading a large number of other ant memories, but fortunately, his brain capacity and intelligence as a human finally prevented him from completely replacing himself as an ant and losing himself.
Now, the protagonist "incarnates" as this ant queen who is doomed to have a tragic ending, and experiences the time when she was finally awake.
——I am the dividing line——
In the dark cave, there is only one fluorescent fungus growing alone on the earth wall, illuminating the outline of the creatures in this small cave.
The protagonist sees "his" current body, crawling on the ground, with a pile of ant silk and plant fiber mixture underneath.
It can be seen that the output of this nest is not rich. Even the queen ant can only live in a very narrow palace. The bedding material is not pure ant silk, but also mixed with a large amount of hay fiber.
As the body twisted under his body, there was a slight tingling sensation from time to time, which was caused by rough and hard grass threads getting stuck in the gaps in the carapace.
But the body couldn't stop squirming because she was giving birth.
The abdomen, which was two or three times larger than the upper body, was placed on this pile of crude padding. Due to the excessive expansion, the carapace of the abdomen was stretched very thin, exposing a large area of tender meat in the carapace gaps. It is these tender flesh of the sub-nest that are constantly stimulated by grass threads and cause pain.
In comparison, childbirth is not a painful thing for the queen ant, but it is like an internal emergency that she cannot hold back.
In the small cave, many worker ants were busy running around. Ants kept coming in from the entrance not far away, and soon left with an ant egg in their mouth.
This is the bedroom and delivery room of this body, and it is also her lifelong prison.
The protagonist cannot read the earlier memories of this body, but she must have left this dark underground world when she was young and went to the outside world to participate in a wedding.
If nothing happens, her fate is to be locked in this nest room for the rest of her life, never being able to leave. Until she is old and can no longer lay eggs, and after she dies, her body will be discarded in a garbage pile on the ground. See the sun for the second time.
Or in a failed defensive battle, it becomes the enemy's trophy. The belly full of ant eggs and rich in protein will be one of the enemy's favorite trophies.
No matter what the ending is, it is pitiful and sad from the perspective of the protagonist.
However, this is the fate of the queen ant. Although the protagonist implemented a new wedding flight ceremony in his territory, it did not change the situation where the queen was still imprisoned in the palace. Although the dormitory he provided to the queen was more spacious, the furnishings were more comfortable, and the food was richer.
This is also the reason why it is ultimately impossible for him and the ant queen inheritance faction to coexist. The ant queen inheritance faction also incorporates the queens into the ruling class. After laying eggs, the queen ants are completely free and can participate in decisions within the ruling class.
But the protagonist can't do it. Only he can make the decision in his territory. Neither other male ants nor the queen can overturn this.
The queen ant's memory of the last two days is lying on her squirming abdomen laying eggs, dozens of eggs a day. She couldn't move too far. Her upper body was weighed down by her bloated belly, and even turning around was extremely difficult.
Those worker ants would regularly bring nutritious food to her, either mouth-to-mouth feeding her some viscous liquid that had been semi-digested by the worker ants, or some meatballs made of tender insect meat and fat, which were almost No-chew yet nutritious food.
But apart from feeding and removing ant eggs, or occasionally anxiously tapping the queen's abdomen with their tentacles to promote egg laying, these worker ants will not do anything else for the queen, even if the queen once used her tentacles to ask a worker ant to help her move her stiffness. Her upper limbs, no ants paid attention to her.
Until the last day!
The protagonist's thoughts tightened. In the dark light, he saw a worker ant with a long parasitic fungus on its back entering the cave. The other busy ants around turned a blind eye to the parasitic ant and allowed it to approach the queen.
Under the fluorescent light, the parasitic fungus behind the parasitic queen looks like the god of death carrying a sickle, approaching the body little by little.
The protagonist feels unusual discomfort and wants to stay away, but he cannot and cannot control this body in memory.
The queen ant didn't feel anything strange at all. She seemed to think that the parasitic ants were here to feed, so she opened her mouth obediently.
The parasitic ant didn't seem to move very neatly. It staggered to the front of the queen and suddenly started shaking violently.
The queen ant had never seen worker ants like this before, and she felt a little confused. But the surrounding worker ants were still busy and turned a blind eye, and the queen didn't feel in danger.
The parasitic ant shook for a moment and then stopped moving. Behind it, a long mycelium was pulling out the body of the parasitic ant little by little, crawling toward the queen like a snake!
