As an old male ant, in order to play as much of a role in the original tribe as possible before surrendering to the Divine Envoy King, in addition to mating, Kite must also assume the responsibility of the tribe's historical memory.
This responsibility is passed down from generation to generation by male ants, and the history of the tribe and even the entire hilly area's hunting ant race is recorded and passed down in the form of information packets.
Therefore, although male ants have poor combat effectiveness in the entire tribe, they are often the ones with the most experience and wisdom. It's just that in a barren and highly competitive hilly area, this intellectual advantage is not outstanding. It cannot change the tribe's embarrassing situation of lack of food and clothing most of the time. It is far less important than an excellent warrior to the tribe.
Therefore, male ants are regarded as a drag by the worker ant warriors who can bring back food and supplies. In their eyes, male ants are parasites that get something for nothing. The only ants in a tribe that can understand the significance of the existence of male ants are the male ants themselves and the few queens who mate with them.
Without male ants, a tribe cannot reproduce and pass on its history, and the tribe will inevitably decline. Therefore, male ants are highly discriminated against, but they are indispensable to the predatory ants.
Kite was born in another tribe of indigenous hunting ants. In a year when food was relatively abundant, this tribe followed ancient traditions and the queen laid several male ant eggs.
After these male ant eggs hatched, developed, and emerged from pupae, they were driven out of the tribe and began to wander after only a few days of food.
The kite wanders among the hills according to its instinct, avoiding various dangers. When it is thirsty, it can only drink some morning dew, and when it is hungry, it can only survive on the energy reserves in its body.
Before he starved to death or was eaten by other ferocious insects, he knew he had to find a tribe that could accommodate him.
All ant hunting tribes will not raise more than one male ant, otherwise it will be a huge consumption of food resources, and may even lead to the destruction of the entire tribe in bad years.
To be able to accept a newly adult male ant like Kite into a tribe, either the male ants in this tribe have died, or Kite has to fight for it on his own.
The so-called struggle is to defeat the original male ant of that tribe by yourself, kill or expel him. In a duel between male ants, other predatory ants will not interfere, and the winner will be accepted by them.
But Kite didn't want to do this. As a newly adult male ant, he had no confidence in his fighting ability.
Especially when he witnessed at close range a brother male ant from the same tribe as himself, who was almost walking in the same direction. He challenged the male ant in a tribe. After being defeated and injured, he didn't have time to escape. The tribe's scythe-hunting ant warriors rushed up to kill and eat them.
The competition in the hilly areas is extremely fierce. This kind of injured male ant will not survive a night. Rather than being eaten by other bugs, or possibly being infected by the fallen, it is better to let the warriors eat him and exert some influence. Some contributions.
This scene frightened Kite. Although he knew about this tradition before, he had never imagined what it would be like if this happened to him or to him. What happened to his "brother" made him almost scared to death. At this moment, he even thought about why he couldn't be some other ant.
According to the stories passed down by male ants orally, there is more than just one race in the world. In some races, male ants are highly respected, can eat the best food, and enjoy the safest protection.
Why should I be a hunting ant? This is Kite's first deep reflection on his own racial identity based on his own interests.
Fortunately, Kite was lucky. When his limbs were weak from hunger, he luckily came to the territory of a tribe. This tribe had just killed and eaten its male ants because they had lost their ability to mate.
The patrolling tribal warriors discovered the kite. The kite was caught by them unable to resist and was taken back to the nest. Fortunately, it became a male ant that could "get something for nothing".
He doesn't need to go out to hunt. Soldiers will always give him some food every day. Although it is scraps, it is the least fleshy and hardest parts of the prey, such as the head and wings, but at least he can survive without facing danger. no?
His job is also very simple. In addition to regular mating, he just receives the information package of the tribe's history from the oldest ant queen, and then records the most important things brought back by the warriors every day.
When one day, he is too old to mate, he will give the information package to the oldest ant queen in the tribe at that time, and then be killed or expelled to die.
At that time, perhaps Kite had resigned himself to his fate and would no longer think about the metaphysical question of why he was not an ant of another race.
But in the current tribe, Kite has always been discriminated against and bullied by the warriors, so he thinks about this issue from time to time and imagines himself becoming a respected ant one day.
He stayed in this tribe for three years and became an "old man" in the eyes of a young warrior, although according to the lifespan of a hunting sickle ant, he was still in his prime.
However, the life of the natives hunting ferocious ants was too difficult. Most warriors could hardly live past the age of two or three. Of the dozens of ants he saw when he first came to this tribe, only one queen was still alive, and all the others had died. Become a new ant after one or two generations.
The fate of this tribe was also unstable. Originally they could occupy a small valley bottom with rich food, but were later driven away by other tribes and had to survive on the hills with poor food.
Later, when his neighbors were mysteriously wiped out, he seized a piece of the valley floor, but before he could recover, he was completely wiped out in a war with outsiders after participating in the "Holy Alliance".
Before its demise, this tribe did not even have the energy to produce male ant eggs once according to ancient traditions...
When the tribe perished, it was Kite's first time to see the legendary outsiders. Those outsiders with superior male ants were indeed as legendary, and the male ants actually commanded a large number of warriors.
When he was subdued by outsiders, Kite really did not have the fear of death at that moment, but had the satisfaction of a martyr who had been pursuing the truth his whole life and had it verified with his own eyes.
But in the end, to his surprise, the outsiders did not kill him, but just guarded him after he showed no intention of resisting.
For some reason, Kite suddenly thought of something and used his tentacles to express his willingness to surrender to the outsiders who were guarding him. In this way, he became a member of the Divine Envoy King's legion, and later helped his new tribe and persuaded a young ant queen from the original tribe to surrender.
While cleaning the battlefield, Kite had many thoughts and quickly replayed his experiences in the first half of his life.
