"Do you know about Emerald Ants?"
Prince Gao said suddenly.
Han Dongwen and Tilda shook their heads. Prince Gao smiled, raised his hand and snapped his fingers. He turned his wrist and opened his hand. Three black ants were already lying on his palm.
"This is the Emerald Ant."
His tone was like a child playing with ants under a big tree.
"Emerald ants, why are they black?"
Tilda asked from the side.
Wang Zigao shrugged his shoulders as if he was laughing. With a slight flick of his wrist, the first ant lying on his palm rose up out of thin air. Its legs crawled helplessly in the air, struggling as if calling for help.
The remaining two ants, as if they wanted to look at their own kind, actually tried their best to probe.
"People are like these ants." Prince Gao said.
He put his hand down again and snapped his fingers. Above the tiny ant in mid-air, there suddenly appeared a gray-black mud ball, about the size of a fist, spinning slowly.
"This is the food of the Emerald Ant. How do you feed this food to this ant?"
Han Dongwen and Tilda made no sound, and the suspended ants struggled harder in the silence.
How to feed?
That gray mud ball was hundreds of times larger than the ant. How could it possibly be fed into it?
"You can't feed it in, right? That's why you need this thing."
A burst of white light lit up in Gao's hand, and then an extremely weird thing appeared - it looked like a flower made of glass, with an open opening in full bloom at the top and a shrinking shape below. Needle-like tip.
"funnel."
Thinking of Wang Zigao's previous words, Han Dongwen understood what it was.
This is a funnel, the lower end is very thin, so thin that it can penetrate into the mouthparts of an ant.
Huang Zigao nodded, and then, the gray-white mud in mid-air poured into the funnel from the opening above.
For such a special funnel, the flow rate should have been extremely slow, but Wang Zigao just snapped his fingers, and the viscous mud began to flow rapidly.
The ant below the funnel began to swell visibly to the naked eye, until it grew to more than twice its original body size, and then——
The ant exploded from the inside out, and its carapace turned into fragments of light before it hit the ground.
Prince Gao shook his head and said calmly:
"Now, these are ordinary people."
Han Dongwen and Tilda looked at each other, not knowing what to say.
Isn't it natural for such a big ball of mud and such a small ant to explode?
Gao's wrist flipped again, and the second ant was suspended in the air.
The needle-like funnel pierced the ant's mouthparts again, and the mud began to flow.
But this time something strange happened.
The second ant's body also began to expand, but this time, it did not explode after growing.
Its body is getting bigger and bigger and more swollen.
The originally black carapace swelled up like a balloon. From black, it was stretched open and lightened.
Until all the mud in the funnel poured into the ant's belly like magic. The ant's entire body became as big as a fist, and it seemed like a snake swallowing an elephant took all the mud into its belly.
Its black carapace was stretched very thin at this moment, glowing with a bright green hue, and its entire body was like an emerald, slowly rotating in the air.
"What is this?" Prince Gao asked, tilting his head slightly.
Han Dongwen swallowed and replied in a heavy voice:
"Is this the carrier?"
His answer is obviously right.
Prince Zigao's tone was still very relaxed, he pointed at the "Emerald" and said:
"How many ants are there? How many ants are there that can do this?"
Carriers are rare.
Tilda took a deep breath, hugged her body with her arms carved from ice crystals, hesitated for a moment and asked:
"So, this ant that can eat so much can become a god?"
Prince Gao immediately stretched out a finger and shook it.
"No no no, that's not it."
His other palm was open, and the third ant from before was wandering peacefully in his palm.
"The smartest thing is this ant. It knows that it is risky to eat so much, so it thinks of a way to eat those of its own kind that can eat a big meal."
Prince Gao raised his wrist slightly, and the third ant gently floated up and landed on the "Jade" that had grown dozens of times in size.
The body has swelled to such an extent that under the second ant's body, the few ant legs that have maintained their original size can almost no longer be seen.
It floated helplessly in mid-air, sitting still and letting the third ant crawl back and forth on its body.
"I'll enlarge it for you to see." Prince Gao said with a smile.
As soon as he finished speaking, the two ants suddenly became huge and terrifying. The third ant was as long as a person, looking real and disgusting.
And the emerald ant under it became as big as a house, standing right in front of Han Dongwen and Tilda.
The ant's actions continue.
While crawling, the mouthparts of the third ant continued to secrete a crystal light green liquid. The carapace of the second ant, which had turned into an emerald color, was rapidly corroded and melted by the saliva, turning it into a pool of bubbling water. The pus was quickly licked clean by the third ant.
"After it eats the second ant, it becomes the god of ants."
Although it was a question, Tilda's tone could almost explain what was happening in front of her.
Han Dongwen suppressed the nausea in his heart and asked, "But if the third ant can't eat the mud ball, how can it eat the second ant?"
Prince Gao laughed: "The second ant ate precisely to extract the essence of the material, compressing the helpful parts again and again, and this third ant -"
He raised his hand and pointed at the third ant that was feasting. Its body was also expanding due to its tireless eating, but its expansion was more even and not so exaggerated. Its legs and body became equally large. It does not affect its movement and eating.
With such a body among ants, he could almost be regarded as the god of ants.
Han Dongwen understood what Prince Gao meant.
To become the third ant, you also need to be able to eat as much food as the second ant. Otherwise, even the digested essence will be enough to kill it.
"Let me think about it."
Han Dongwen pondered for a moment, searching for ideas in his mind, and Prince Gao patiently looked at him slightly sideways, as if he was looking forward to what he would say.
"What you mean is."
After a while, Han Dongwen finally spoke cautiously:
"What you mean is that special people can become carriers, and the falling objects can serve as funnels to deliver the needed food to the special people who become carriers."
"And whoever devours this overstretched carrier, another person who can be a carrier, can become a god."
Prince Gao said nothing, acquiescing to Han Dongwen's guess.
"So, what is this food? Is it really just about eating?"
Han Dongwen's tone was a little hesitant, as if he didn't know whether he should ask this question.
"Snapped."
Prince Gao snapped his fingers, and a huge mud ball as big as a palace appeared above the three of them.
Han Dongwen and Tilda looked up together, but they didn't lower their heads for a long time.
That's not a mud blob.
It was a ball of ant corpses, with the juice of the minced meat mixed with the cracked carapace, mixed with the tentacles and feet of the ants, spinning slowly and indifferently in the realm of the Seven Consciousness Heart King.
(End of chapter)
