Chapter 1 Ant Colony

Author: Shuo Feng Floating Leaves

Chapter 1 Ant Colony

A gentle breeze with a touch of warmth blew through the still yellow grass. The cold winter has passed. Life is germinating under the yellow weeds. The greenery has been rendered on the yellow roots. At the same time, there are also crickets and ants.

Grasshoppers, aphids, ladybugs...all kinds of small creatures live in this grass. Of course, there are also ants.

"What am I?"

Out of nowhere, a consciousness suddenly appeared and asked such a question.

There is nothingness all around, as if you are in the endless sky, you can't see yourself, and you can't see everything.

I don’t know how long it took, but this consciousness reacted again.

"Maybe I should have a name."

"I am - Zero."

Zero is obviously exploring this void, exploring this space, and also exploring himself.

Soon, he made a new discovery.

"Is this...an ant?"

The questions that followed suddenly came to mind.

"Why are their names...ants?"

"Why have names? What is a name?"

"Why do I know this is an ant?"

"..."

Obviously, Zero couldn't get the answer, and gradually he couldn't figure it out and stopped caring.

Soon, He was attracted by this group of little guys that he sensed.

"This must be the queen ant." He thought.

In the dark underground, in the deepest part of the rugged cave, an ant that is more than twice the size of an ordinary ant is lying there quietly. The biggest difference between her and ordinary ants is that she has a pair of beautiful transparent eyes.

wing.

She is a new ant queen who has just completed the historic mission of developing from female ant to queen ant not long ago. As soon as she gives birth to worker ants, she will gradually become a veritable king of this cave, and all ants will be her subjects.

.

When Zero noticed her, she obviously realized Zero from somewhere.

"Lord...wings...sacrifice..."

Although it was not coherent, Zero still understood what she wanted to express, and there was a trace of laughter and laughter in his hazy emotions.

She wanted to sacrifice her wings to her master.

The newly born queen ant has nothing to grow, except for a pair of wings, which are needed to breed enough worker ants in the future, and are also her most valuable "property" at present.

Not knowing how to respond to her, Zero could only tell her no in his mind as much as possible.

The queen ant obviously received Zero's response. She felt the resistance from the master and shook her tentacles uneasily.

"I don't need your wings, they belong to you." Zero told the queen again.

I don't know if she understood what Zero meant, but this time the queen ant became obviously quiet.

Zero continued to observe her. This was the first creature he saw. In fact, Zero could not see more. His perspective was locked on the ant queen.

"Perhaps you should also have a name?"

"Let me call you No. 1." Zero muttered to himself, regardless of whether the queen ant could understand it or not.

No. 1 made no other movements and just lay quietly on the ground. After an unknown amount of time, the wings on her back fell off, and No. 1 slowly swallowed them.

During this period of time, Zero made a new discovery. Originally, his field of vision was only limited to No. 1, but later he discovered that he could actually see the field of view of No. 1.

Number 1's eyesight was obviously very poor. In her field of vision, everything looked like what a highly myopic person would look like without wearing glasses. Objects in front of her could still be distinguished, but if they were farther away, they would become blurry and out of shape.

However, this also provided enough fun for Zero. Seeing the world from No. 1's perspective made him feel very novel.

Zero didn't know how much time had passed. He only saw No. 1 lying there quietly. His body shape gradually changed a little. Slowly, No. 1 finally made some movement. In the following time, she gave birth to more than eighty babies in a row.

Eggs that are as white as rice grains.

Zero knew that the eggs hatched should all be worker ants. After about 14 days, they would be able to work for No. 1. Of course, before that, No. 1 had to feed them to life.

After laying eggs for the first time, No. 1 became a little weak, but also became much more active. She kept touching the eggs with her tentacles, looking like she was taking good care of them.

For the next 14 days, No. 1 fed the larvae with food from her own body. Ling watched quietly as she took care of these little guys tirelessly, and watched as they shed their skin again and again, slowly growing longer, and finally

Turned into hard-working worker ants.

After they were able to work, No. 1 changed from the "loving mother" who took good care of her children before, and began to order these new worker ants to work.

She divided the worker ants into two groups, one group of about 60 were responsible for continuing to expand the cave, and the other group of more than 20 were responsible for going out to forage.

Zero finally had a perspective from outside No. 1. He followed the first batch of worker ants out of the cave with some anticipation.

I originally thought I would see a vast world, but the reality is that Zero's field of vision is limited to the top of a certain worker ant. It is basically the same as when observing No. 1, and the perspective cannot be changed.

So he tried to attach his vision to the leading worker ant, and naturally, he got the vision of the worker ant.

Unlike No. 1, who was motionless, the worker ants climbed out of the nest and kept moving forward. In front of them were the receding soil and gravel, weeds like towering trees, huge shadows that blocked the sky, and two moving ants.

of huge tentacles.

Unlike No. 1, this group of worker ants seemed not to feel Zero's existence at all, nor did they have any communication with Zero. But Zero didn't care. He could see the outside world instead of facing the unchanging nothingness all the time. These novelties

The feeling was enough to make Him happy.

By constantly switching the perspectives of each worker ant, Zero discovered that after crawling out of the crude cave No. 1 originally dug, they did not go together and swarmed in the same direction, but spread out in a planned manner, even though there was no trace of anything.

The orders from No. 1 still seemed well-trained, as if they were programmed into their genes, naturally.

Zero kept changing his perspective. In the process, he was surprised to find that he could not only see one ant at the same time. As long as he wanted to, he could see all the ants, including the worker ants digging soil and rocks in the cave.

He could see No. 1 in that empty space as well as No. 1 waiting for the food to return.

Just like countless folding screens, as long as he notices it, the corresponding perspective will open in his field of vision. After discovering this, Zero no longer chooses the perspectives of the worker ants, and simply goes directly in his own space

Arrange all the fields of view, just like watching a first-person movie, and have a great time.
Chapter completed!