The protagonist clearly received the message: "Destroy... ants...", a phrase message of a verb plus a noun!
After repeated confirmations, the protagonist determined that the signal came from the mysterious ball. As long as the tentacles touch the broken "thread" on the mysterious ball, the signal can be received, but it is relatively weak.
No information can be received from other parts of the mysterious ball. The broken "thread" can function as a network cable or antenna.
The protagonist looked at the mysterious ball that was gradually fading in color, thinking that this couldn't be the brain of the mysterious ant, right? It was indeed dug out of the head of a mysterious ant, but I didn't expect it to be able to speak! Thinking about it this way is indeed very similar to the brain.
But it seems that this "brain" has been away from the head for most of the day, is gradually losing its vitality, and is almost dead.
But consider that the brains of ordinary creatures cannot survive for more than a few minutes after leaving the body. After all, the brain is a large consumer of oxygen. Without the body's oxygen supply, brain cells will die quickly. Even if the mysterious ant evolves to the extreme, it is impossible for it to evolve to the point where its brain can become like this and it can survive for half a day without the body.
Previously, the protagonist guessed that the mysterious ants were biochemical creatures, so the mysterious ball is more likely to be a tool to assist the brain!
And it seems that these mysterious balls can stay alive for a very limited time after leaving the body of the mysterious ants.
The protagonist quickly pulled out all the other small, perfectly round mysterious balls and touched them one by one with his tentacles.
Sure enough, some of the mysterious balls whose shells had turned completely dead gray could no longer receive any information from them. Most of the mysterious balls would send a fixed signal of "Destroy... Ants..." as soon as they came into contact.
Can it "talk"? So can we communicate?
The protagonist simply puts the mysterious ball in the best condition over, touches it with its tentacles, and sends a message: "Who are you?"
"Destroy... ants..."
Mysterious Ball still replied to this sentence, not sure if it was a timely reply.
"Where are you?"
"where are you from?"
"What are you for?"
The protagonist asked several questions in a row, but the other person obviously only repeated the sentence "Destroy... ants...", or there was no answer at all.
This makes the protagonist very disappointed. This mysterious ball is obviously not intelligent enough. It may be like a computer that must execute specified programs, but it may also be that it has gradually become inactive because it has been away from the body for too long.
The protagonist thought for a while, made up his mind, and was ready to open a few small mysterious balls to see what happened.
In order to prevent the small mystery ball from exploding like the big mystery ball, the protagonist asked the worker ants to carry the mystery balls to a designated place in the nest. There is a small passage on the ground here, and you can jump directly to the next nest chamber.
The shock wave of an explosion generally spreads upward and in all directions, but only a small part spreads downward. The protagonist can jump into this shelter for protection before the explosion.
After driving away all the ants around him, the protagonist picked up the prepared copper hammer that had been placed aside, bit his jaw, and smashed it down with all his strength.
The first small mysterious ball, which had been completely dimmed and turned into a dead gray color, was cracked open, and a dark liquid flowed out, which was different from the blue liquid in the big mysterious ball.
But the protagonist didn't dare to be exaggerated at all, and hurriedly jumped into the shelter. After a while, he didn't hear the explosion, and then climbed up again.
He stirred the mysterious ball with a stick. It was filled with thick black liquid and nothing else. The liquid sticks to the ground and sticks, has no appearance, does not appear to be corrosive, and has no smell.
So, he smashed open a small mysterious ball that was still alive, jumped into the shelter, and came out after confirming that it was safe.
The viscous liquid inside this little mysterious ball has not yet turned black safely. It is generally milky white, but there are already signs of large blackening.
The protagonist stirred again, but there was still nothing else.
Because these mysterious balls are dug out from the heads of mysterious ants, it may be for psychological reasons. The protagonist feels that the viscous liquid in the small mysterious balls looks like brain matter...
There is a faint blue liquid inside the big mysterious ball, but because of the explosion the protagonist does not know its internal structure, while the small mysterious ball is filled with nothing but viscous liquid.
From a physical level, the protagonist cannot understand more secrets of the mysterious ball, but the mysterious ball itself in the body of the mysterious ant is the biggest secret. How can any living thing have such two things in its body? One can explode, one can talk...
There are many mysteries surrounding these mysterious ants, and as the leader of a force that has a huge conflict of interest with the mysterious ants and will definitely be hostile in the future, the protagonist feels it is very necessary to understand the secrets of the mysterious ants.
Thinking about it from another angle, what does the little mysterious ball's repeated "Destroy... ants..." mean?
Is this the name of their race?
The protagonist already knows that ants of different races can actually communicate directly through tentacles. After all, ants do not rely on vocal organs such as vocal cords to express thoughts like humans. There is a translation process from the meaning in the brain to language, and language Just tools.
There are many kinds of tools, so there are countless languages in the human world, and it is difficult to communicate with each other without translation.
But the language of the ants is the thoughts in their heads, which is called "brain language" by the protagonist. They can communicate directly without the need for translation and conversion tools.
This is the fundamental reason why ants of different races can communicate.
There are three ant races in the protagonist's legion of the Envoy King: Big-headed Ants, Pavement Ants and Scythe Hunter Ants. The protagonist often deals with them and knows that in the "brain language", these three races have special feelings for themselves and each other. Lexical reference.
But this kind of racial-specific vocabulary cannot be translated in human language. After all, when free translation is not possible, humans usually use transliteration instead. For example, Paris means Paris, and the brain language of ants has no pronunciation...
But after getting familiar with it, the protagonist only needs to remember that these three words refer to big-headed ants, pavement ants and sickle-hunting ants, and there will be no mistake.
Now, the message "Destroy...Ant..." that appears in the mysterious ball is different from the specific nouns of the general ant race. It is a phrase. "Destroy" is a verb and "ant" is a noun. Both of them are brains. a word in the slang, but now grouped together.
Is this phrase, which is different from the names of other ant races, really what the mysterious ants call themselves? Anyway, other ants have a unique vocabulary for the mysterious ant.
However, mysterious ants are very special in nature, and it is normal for them to have their own independent clan names.
The protagonist decided to call the mysterious ant "Destruction Ant" from now on, which is very appropriate and easy to remember.
To put it simply, you can call it a "destroyer"!
