Wang read the information from the panicked worker ants through his tentacles. He was stunned for a moment, but he was much calmer than the worker ants. He immediately gave orders. With the male ants in charge, the ants calmed down and dug in again. Into the hollow walnut.
Wang himself didn't go in, he just stayed outside. After a while, the ants who went in came out again and took out a few corpses first.
These are the carcasses of some big-headed ants. Some are still very fresh, and some have obviously been dead for a long time. Most of the carcasses are badly mutilated, especially the soft parts such as tentacles, joints and compound eyes have almost disappeared, leaving only missing parts. A "skeleton" with missing arms and legs and hollowed eye sockets.
Obviously, there are no walnut kernels in this walnut, but there are some dead ants, and not only these.
Wang's attention was not on these corpses. His compound eyes were fixed on the entrance and exit of the walnut navel. After a while, the last two worker ants came out carrying another ant.
That is a big-headed male ant, it does not belong to [Golden Beach City], nor does it belong here.
The male ants of Big-headed Ant seem to look similar. If other creatures look over, they will only think that these two male ants, one standing and the other holding a spare tire, seem to be carved from the same mold.
But Wang himself could see the difference between himself and the other person. For example, the other person was smaller and the body under the carapace was somewhat malnourished.
Of course, ants identify each other more mainly by smell than sight. Not only can they tell whether an ant belongs to their own race or a foreign race based on its smell, they can even tell which nest they lived in before and what their physical condition was like.
What frightened the king's men was that the smell of these ants had some characteristics of the Ant Alliance, but it also seemed to be mixed with a lot of unfamiliar scents, somewhere between enemies and friends. Among the corpses, the ants also found a weak living survivor.
The survivor was the male ant that had just been lifted out. He was in a very bad condition, suffering from starvation and hypothermia for a period of time. It was a good fortune to be alive in such a state.
Because of the familiar smell on the other party, Wang decided to save him. The other party came on a walnut, and the story of the great messenger king seemed familiar. This alone made Wang not dare to be careless.
So the worker ants carried the weak male ant to the stone platform where the miners rested, and let the strong sunlight warm his body. At the same time, the miners' honeydew was asked for. The honeydew had been mixed with water and was suitable for replenishing water and energy for the weak ants.
Wang watched as the nurse took care of the young ants, first drinking the honeydew mixed with water, and then feeding it to the weak male ants mouth-to-mouth. Seeing the male ant's mouthparts open and close, and slowly swallowing, Wang An felt relieved - it seemed that this mysterious male ant would survive!
————
The next day, the information about the male ant was delivered to Zhu Jue by the flying knight. Zhu Jue was so excited that he could not continue to deal with the affairs in the main nest, so he mounted his mount and flew to [Golden Beach City] in person.
It was just that when he arrived, the male ant was still sleeping. He had expressed some information when he was briefly awake before, and it had been made into an information package. Zhu Jue had already read it over and over in his mind many times, and some of the details in it were related to his own. The memories are basically consistent, and we can conclude that what the other party said is true.
This is really great news.
The male ant didn't know when he would wake up, but Zhu Jue couldn't hold back his excitement, so he proposed to see the floating walnut first. The king who rescued the male ant no longer acted arrogantly in front of his workers, and respectfully led Zhu Jue to the walnut in front of him.
Zhu Jue looked around outside. Walnuts from various places may be a little strange, but it is difficult for laymen to tell the difference. Zhu Jue couldn't tell it himself, but he firmly believed that this walnut must have grown on a walnut tree in his hometown, maybe the walnut trees on the shore of [Linshui City]!
The navel of the tattered walnut had been hollowed out long ago, and was later blocked with soil and ant droppings, leaving only a small ventilation hole. It had been soaked in water for a long time, so it was easily dug out.
Zhu Jue bowed and got in, and Wang immediately followed. As soon as they entered, they felt the excitement coming from the tentacles, which was a mixture of stench and rotten smell.
Zhu Jue's night vision ability allowed him to quickly adapt to the light inside. He saw the recesses of the naturally curved walls inside the walnut. There was some water in the low-lying areas, and there were many granular things silted or floating everywhere. It has been turned into dust or mixed with sewage. Judging from the smell, these are obviously ant droppings, which have been accumulated for a long time.
The smell of ant droppings itself is not strong, but it cannot withstand the fermentation in a closed environment. In addition, there is also the smell of decaying corpses. When mixed together, it is extremely irritating.
Zhu Jue simply put the tentacles in his mouth to avoid the unpleasant taste. He couldn't help but admire the male ant, which actually survived alone in such a harsh environment for several months, survived the winter, and completed the task alive.
According to the message sent by the male ant who was briefly awake, Zhu Jue knew that the task that he had to complete even at the risk of his life was to "find the God Envoy King", that is, to find himself.
Now he is here, but the male ant has not yet woken up. He has provided some important information, and his adventure can be roughly inferred. Knowing the current situation in his homeland, it can be said that the male ant's mission has been completed.
But Zhu Jue still hoped that he could wake up, not only to know more information more intuitively, but also because he felt that such a warrior should not reach the end of his life after reaching the end.
Zhu Jue looked up and looked around. It was not as spacious as an ordinary walnut ship. Instead, the natural partitions inside the walnut ship were preserved, like cabins divided into cabins.
This walnut is actually not a boat at all. When it was launched into the water, the walnut kernels inside were not even dug out. Instead, the channel on the navel was opened, 10 ants were stuffed in, and pushed into the water to complete the ten-death effort. It’s a task that students don’t know where the target is.
The voyage that the male ant and the other nine ants experienced was obviously much more thrilling than the short message he told. Zhu Jue only knew that some of these ants fell into the water and died, and some climbed up to the shore when they were trapped in aquatic plants during the drift. As a result, they lost contact after Walnut suddenly escaped from the trap.
More often than not, in winter, when the ship was trapped by ice floes, they shivered in the cold, and slowly died of hunger and cold after using up the last walnut kernels.
Only he, the male ant, relied on his tenacious will to survive by eating the corpses of his companions. He lived until spring and when he found the Divine Envoy King!
He is a true warrior!
