In the afternoon, the sky became cloudier and the wind picked up, but the rain never fell.
On the construction site, more and more corpses are being carried out. Under high-intensity labor and poor working conditions, all Argentine ant slaves are like consumables, and their life cycles are measured in weeks or days.
On average, each Argentine ant added to "A Sheng"'s command lasts about one month. At present, the oldest worker ants have only lived for 3 months, which is far from the age they can live to. These Argentine ants died early.
The employees of Ant Alliance will not be responsible for such high-intensity and life-threatening labor.
Ants are considered to be very hard-working creatures, but in fact, they are very calculating creatures and will not sacrifice useful workers casually.
In the human world, the lifespan of an ordinary worker ant is several years. In the early life after emerging from pupa and becoming an adult, the worker ant is usually engaged in the work of safe nesting. Only when they are older will they go outside the nest and engage in outdoor work where accidents and risks may occur. During the war, it was these old worker ants who stepped forward first, devoting their last remaining energy to protect the younger members of the same species.
There are also some ant races that have certain fatal tasks, such as blocking the nest from the outside in the wild, which are all completed voluntarily by the worker ants whose life span is approaching.
In this world of ant civilization, although the division of labor among worker ants is more complicated, workers will not be easily treated as consumables. But slaves can, especially since the Ant Alliance has many projects and must rely on these consumables. In the early days, they were prisoners of war, but now they are slaves.
"A Sheng" didn't understand all these twists and turns, but he knew simply that those ants who were in charge of paving the way didn't treat him as a kin, just like he didn't treat his Argentine ants as a kin.
Those in charge will only be arrogant and bossy towards themselves, and their occasional kindness is more like pity.
What "A Sheng" wants most now is how to blend in with the male pavement ants in the lawn. It would be best to blend in with the broad-knotted big-headed ants who are also very respectful to the paving ants. When he was grazing before, there was a male Big-headed ant who was kind to him, for which he is still grateful.
He once told "A Guang" this idea. "A Guang" was older and more knowledgeable than him. It was said that when he was still an egg, before he was sold here by the Thin-legged Ant, "A Guang" had already Coming of age.
"Aguang" is also one of the few male ants that was sold to the Ant Alliance. After the Ant Alliance told the Ants that there was no need to buy Argentine ants anymore, the Ants regretted accidentally selling the breeding ants. The ant eggs were sold to the Ant Alliance, but they had no regrets.
Since then, the volume of slave trade between the Thin Foot Ant Nation and the Ant Alliance has dropped significantly, but the Ant Alliance still purchases some slaves from other ant tribes with special skills to maintain the trading network.
As for the Thin-legged Ants, they are even more cautious about the breeding ants of slaves from other races, but it doesn't matter to the Argentine ants. Anyway, the Ant Alliance can already breed on its own.
It just so happened that the Ant Alliance felt that it was difficult to control the aggressive Argentine ants, and proposed to purchase a few adult male ants to teach the young male ants bred by the Ant Alliance how to better command the slaves. This is how "A Guang" was sold at a high price.
Once, one night, they lived in a large temporary nest without being separated. That night, "A Sheng" woke up from his nap and found "A Guang" opposite him, staring at him, his eyes full of heat!
"A Sheng" didn't know the meaning of that look, but another time, he told "A Guang" that he wanted to blend in with the male pavement ants and bullet ants and gain a higher status. A message came from "A Guang": "Your status and status are already very high!"
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At this time, a burst of noise interrupted "A Sheng"'s association, and the male pavement ants in charge and some supervisory ants were all swarmed in one direction.
Only those disabled or old guard soldiers who are said to have retired from the invincible army still stick to their posts meticulously, with a serious attitude and strict discipline.
"Could it be that some slaves resisted?"
"A Sheng" was shocked. It would be bad if one of his slaves committed a crime and deserved to be killed, but it affected the progress and had his dinner deducted.
Fortunately, "A Sheng" quickly realized that it shouldn't be the case, otherwise it would be the guards and soldiers who took action, not the stewards and supervisors who were so excited!
At this time, "A Sheng" saw a group of ants coming from the north, as well as many insects and beasts, all moving along the dug ditch and heading in their direction.
Those pavement ant stewards and supervisors seemed to have been notified by the messenger, and they all flocked in that direction. They bowed their bodies respectfully and prepared to welcome them from all the way.
What kind of ants have come to make these stewards, who usually have their heads reach to the sky, be so respectful? "A Sheng" complained in his heart, as if he had forgotten that he looked like this when he saw the steward before...
Finally, the group of ants and insect beasts approached, and "A Sheng" saw it clearly. The leader was a very huge two-pronged rhinoceros beetle. There was a golden ant sitting on the back of this big beetle, even in the haze. Under the weather, I still feel like I am shining all over, with a noble temperament and no anger or authority.
In the back, there are more ants sitting on various insects and beasts, including flies, tigers, and beetles of various colors. There are also flying ant knights flying in the sky.
"A Sheng" then remembered that he had heard the Pavement Ant in charge boast that his country's God Envoy King could control all the insects and beasts flying in the sky and crawling on the ground, and he could control all the ants of the ant tribe. He was shining with golden light. Tall and burly, powerful enough to defeat thousands of ants, he is like an ant god descending to earth.
The one who came this time could not be the God Envoy King! ! !
"A Sheng" felt hot in his heart, but he didn't know why he was so hot. Maybe, if the God Envoy Wang Gao looked at him, he could become the steward! ?
While he was thinking wildly, the car of the Divine Envoy King approached, and "A Sheng" saw it clearly. Except that the ant was covered in gold, it seemed to be no different from the male big-headed ant he had seen before.
Before he could take a closer look, a big-headed ant guard behind him suddenly came over and forced his head down.
"A Sheng" saw out of the corner of his eye that the God Envoy King was kindly tapping his tentacles to greet the pavement ants and big-headed ants in front of him, but he completely ignored himself and just passed by.
"A Sheng" felt a little disappointed, and the big-headed ant guard behind him let him go.
I saw "A Guang" appearing beside him at some point, with his tentacles stretched out: "Did you see that male golden big-headed ant? You could have been like this once!"
