The life of ants is generally boring. Apart from foraging and working to make a living, and the once-in-a-lifetime marriage flight ceremony of male ants and queens for reproduction, the most important thing most ants do in their lives is Fighting, either fighting, or waiting for war.
Although other creatures also have battles and wars, including humans, they are not peaceful creatures. But there is only one species that is as aggressive as ants and spends most of their life fighting.
Some even assert that if nuclear weapons were given to ants, they could destroy the earth in one day.
And winter is the most boring season in the boring life of ants. In this season, the war has kept most of the ants away. They can only huddle in their nests, not daring to go out, doing nothing, eating and sleeping. Eat and wait until the spring of next year before they can continue to engage in their favorite war career.
The same goes for the protagonist. It has been several years since he came to this world, and he has almost forgotten what humans can do in winter.
Starting yesterday, the temperature dropped sharply again with the arrival of cold air, and early winter turned into cold winter.
This time, the falling snow quickly covered the ground with silver. The last time it snowed, the ground was still warm and the snow melted quickly, but it also took away a lot of heat. This time the snowfall was no longer disturbed by the earth's atmosphere, and finally succeeded in turning the winter world into white.
Covered in white snow, the main structure of Linshui City is divided into two parts: the tree hole part under the surface of the big banyan tree and the underground hole part under the island rock plate.
As the temperature dropped sharply, the temperature in the tree holes dropped very low. The ants moved to the warmest holes in the ground and crowded together.
The combustion chamber, breeding farm, and most of the warehouses are also in the burrow area, and every nest room here is crowded with ants, beetles, and supplies.
Although the protagonist has a separate small room, he is also bound to the underground of this small island with a radius of only a few dozen square meters and cannot go out.
Because the temperature dropped, the connection between [Linshui City] and [Bridgehead] was also interrupted. Before the snowfall, the Destroyer still didn't attack, leaving the protagonist confused.
But he could no longer receive any new information. He could only hope that the weather would be warmer and send the pavement ants around him to act as messengers to learn about the latest war situation.
The protagonist now lives a very regular life, waking up naturally around sunrise every day. This is a perfect sleep that is difficult for him, a workaholic, to enjoy in seasons other than winter.
After getting up, I had a simple breakfast, mainly porridge cooked with various grass seeds and boiled mealworm eggs.
Then, he would go to the underground training ground to watch the soldiers train.
There are 5 big-headed ant legions, 1 sickle-hunting ant legion and 1 pavement ant legion stationed in [Linshui City], as well as a garrison legion that is forming a new legion. With so many warriors nesting together, they need to move around.
The largest nest room in the cave was emptied and used as a training ground. Except for the Beetle Legion, which was unable to participate in the training, the other legions took turns using it, and each legion used it for half a day.
But this nest room can only accommodate a thousand ant warriors.
The protagonist struggled to squeeze into the nest. This morning was the training time for the Hunter Ant Legion. They liked to fight alone. There was also a small open space in the middle of the training ground, where two Hunter Ants were fighting.
Watching the predatory ants fight is much more interesting than watching the stereotyped training of big-headed ants or pavement ants.
The protagonist squeezes into a good position, and Kite, the commander of the Scythe-hunting Ant Legion, is also here. He is already very old. Although he can still follow the troops, he is a male ant who is not good at fighting, and he has obviously shown his age.
The protagonist feels that it is necessary to find a candidate for the legion commander. But he didn't show it.
Kite used his tentacles to respectfully salute the King of Gods. Deep in his heart, he was both fearful and grateful to the King of Gods.
He had seen with his own eyes how the coalition of ant-hunting scythes was wiped out by the Divine Envoy King's army, and his own tribe was slaughtered. But he survived and was reused. Stockholm Syndrome also applies to ants with simple minds, so he was grateful to the King of Gods for all this. In his original tribe, he would have been a mating machine who could only eat scraps.
Kite stands with the protagonist watching the gladiatorial fight.
In the middle of the arena, two predatory ants were fighting each other. Soon the stronger one suppressed her opponent. She bit her opponent's head with her jaws and pressed it down to the ground. .
Then her body climbed up and pressed her opponent under her. She took the opportunity to release her big jaw, then stabbed out like lightning, biting the opponent's fragile neck. Then she moved away, raised her big jaw with all her strength, and lifted the opponent to the ground. Mid-air.
According to the rules of the gladiator fight among the ants, she won in this way.
After her opponent was put down, he ran away in despair. Another ant warrior hurriedly jumped into the battle circle to challenge the victor who had just won.
The Scythe Hunting Ants don't care if the defenders don't rest. Their rules are simple: if they win, they stay, if they lose, they leave.
Because there is no rest system, no matter how brave and strong the warrior is, it will be difficult for him to cope with the wheel battle. He will be defeated after holding on to the ring for at most three times. But this also gives most of the ant-hunting warriors the opportunity to participate in at least one gladiatorial fight to stretch their muscles during the boring winter.
The defeated ant-hunting warriors left the nest, and there were many warriors who had not participated in the gladiatorial battle waiting in line outside.
These scythe-hunting ants, who were originally loose by nature, are now gradually adapting to large-scale collective life under the organizational constraints of the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
After watching the fight for a long time, the protagonist felt bored and left the arena with Kite bowing his head respectfully.
There was still a short time before noon, so the protagonist simply put on a blanket and walked around the tree hole area of [Linshui City].
Most of the tree hole area was rebuilt by the original big-headed ants using borer tunnels, and part of it was dug out bit by bit by the ants using their big jaws.
The passages and nest chambers in most tree cavity areas are close to the surface of the tree, separated from the outside world by only a thin layer of bark. Therefore, it is much colder than underground, but warmer than outdoors. After all, the trees themselves will maintain a certain temperature. temperature.
Other ants don't dare to come here when it's cold, but the protagonist can move freely here wearing a felt.
When we first moved underground, we moved in a hurry. It was at night, and the ants had a premonition of snowfall, so they moved in a hurry. The protagonist still has some small things left in the original nest room in the tree hole area.
