The entire surface of the rock was finally excavated. Due to the limited space in the ant nest, the ants were unable to dig out a nest chamber large enough to visually see the entire structure in a short period of time.
Therefore, this "rock" only has a thin layer on the surface, so that the protagonist can view the pattern on it from a close distance, but from any angle, only a small part of its content can be seen clearly. The whole picture.
But the protagonist always feels that this "rock" is a bit strange. It's not that it looks like a rock on the surface, but it has a strange texture that feels warm and definitely not rocky when touched.
But the shape and direction of this rock seems to have a strong attraction to the protagonist. Even if the whole picture cannot be seen clearly, the protagonist feels very familiar and has an urge to see it clearly.
So the protagonist climbed on this rock, with the Pythagorean Theorem and other symbolic codes of various civilizations under his feet. He walked in circles, using his feet except that the bottom of the rock had to stand on the soil to remain stable so that he could not step into it. Walk through it and "see it again."
This is how he used his own steps to describe the appearance of this "rock" in his mind. This is the specialty of ants.
As the protagonist walks farther and farther, the pattern in his mind becomes clearer and clearer, and the shape of this "rock" becomes more and more complete.
And as the answer is revealed bit by bit, the protagonist only feels his brain buzzing, with excitement and fear, doubt and hesitation, and all kinds of strong emotions continuously impacting his mind.
The protagonist must use up his willpower to ensure that he does not faint and continues to walk and draw to complete the answer he has already guessed.
The protagonist's footsteps stopped at the dot at the top of the arc of the "rock", and the picture was already completely drawn in his mind.
The protagonist already knew before, but now he just verified that the true shape of this rock is so incredible.
This is a "rock" in the shape of a human skull. As for whether it is a real human skull, a fossil, or an artificially shaped handicraft, the protagonist dare not say anything.
But just the shape of this rock made the protagonist almost faint from shock.
Humanity! This world bears traces of human existence.
Since the time travel, only at the beginning, the protagonist still wanted to find humans and return to the world he was familiar with, even if he only had the body of an ant.
But over the past few years, as he has gained a deeper understanding of this world, the protagonist has gradually accepted that this is a world without large creatures, and the most advanced life forms only reach the level of arthropods.
This is a world where only ants still have the attributes of civilization, and humans seem to only exist in the memory of the protagonist.
No matter how the protagonist uses the knowledge and experience he mastered as a human to transform his own power, no matter how he wants to still live like a "human".
At least, the concept, form, and race of "human" no longer exist. No matter how unwilling it is, the protagonist can only use the body of an "ant" to eat, communicate, move, and think.
The protagonist is already very familiar with this body, and even the external body shape has in turn affected his consciousness.
The protagonist is used to using his six limbs or hind limbs to move around, and is used to chopping up food with his large jaws and chewing it crookedly in his mouth. He also gradually regards other ants as his own kind, and does not exclude himself from the "ant" group - maybe he is just a strange ant?
Zhuang Sheng dreamed of butterflies, or did butterflies dream of Zhuang Sheng?
Did the protagonist travel from a human to become an ant, or did the protagonist, an ant, once dream of a non-existent world in a long dream? Dreamed about the short life of an individual called "human" within his race?
The protagonist is confused in his deep consciousness. Maybe both are real, but neither is real enough. Perhaps this is conscious self-protection, "rationalizing" the current existence, and avoiding damage to reason and consciousness through constant self-denial.
It has to be said that in this environment, in this world, the consciousness of "people" in the protagonist's consciousness is gradually dying out in terms of existence, proximity, and all dimensions.
One day, the protagonist will be assimilated into the world. Maybe he still retains many memories of the human period, but it will really be like the fragments left in a distant dream, illusory and gorgeous, but no longer important.
But now, a human "skull" suddenly appears in this world of ants, appearing in an ant nest, awakening the protagonist's consciousness about "people" again, just like Hong Zhongda Lu, and it is like a wake-up call.
Traveling through time as an ant, am I a human? Or ants?
This is a grand question and an eternal question in all worlds. But now, the protagonist has not thought of such a metaphysical and lofty question.
What he thought was that the existence of this human skull meant that there were people in this world, or at least there had been people in the past.
Otherwise, no species can create such a real human "skull" out of thin air. even if
The human head stone is not a real skull, but an artifact, and it must have a reference. Other intelligent creatures imagined by humans will always bear the shadow of humans themselves, and the same is obviously true for other intelligent creatures.
If this human skull is the work of ants, then it is impossible for ants to make it out of thin air. This skull is so lifelike and perfect, even the depressions in the temples, that it cannot be a product of imagination.
In this world of ants now, or perhaps in the past, humans must have existed.
Is this person a person? Are you an unlucky time traveler like yourself? But he retained his human body, he ignited the fire of ant civilization, and was eventually remembered as a god by the ants, and his head was regarded as a sacred object?
They are a group of people who once had a civilized society, but were eventually defeated and perished in the confrontation with the ant civilization. They themselves also became a symbol of the devil, and their heads were suppressed here?
The protagonist thinks of countless possibilities in his mind, but none of them have evidence to be the truth.
At least, the protagonist feels psychologically that he is no longer alone. No matter whether there is anyone else in the world now, the protagonist knows that he is no longer alone.
Man, the primate of all things, has also left traces in this world.
Judging from the "skull" in front of me, the traces carved on the surface have already been traced by time, and it will not be a short-term work. The protagonist really wants to find an ant that was originally in this nest to ask about their history and understand the origin of this human head rock.
But this is obviously no longer possible. The corn ants living here have been parasitized by parasitic fungi and have completely lost their past memories.
This ant world is not as simple as the protagonist originally imagined!
