Today is a special day for 13-year-old Chinese girl Xiaoya.
Because of a giant call, the entire human society fell into a state of madness.
The worst consequence of this prehistoric live broadcast is that billions of humans around the world no longer study, no longer work, and dig wildly around the earth with tools.
Because my hometown is located in the Loess Plateau, there is a lot of exposed ground here, which attracts many diggers.
Most of the diggers came from the city. They were well-dressed and drove expensive cars. They flocked to the countryside in groups of three or five.
Xiaoya, like other children in the village, followed these strange city dwellers and watched curiously as they turned over the ground with shovels and hoes, looking for something.
"Uncle, what are you digging in the ground?" the children asked curiously.
City dwellers who have come from afar squat on the ground without raising their heads: "Ant hole."
"Ant hole?" The children blinked their big innocent eyes, full of doubts. They were thinking, little creatures like ants are so pitiful, why do these city people dig their homes?
"Uncle, the teacher told us that ants are beneficial little creatures. You should not destroy their homes."
"Oh? A beneficial creature?" the cave digger asked with a smile: "Tell me, how is it beneficial to humans?"
The children all said: "For example, if we accidentally drop food on the ground when we are eating, the ants will clean it up for us, very diligently."
"Yes, there are also those scary bugs, and the ants will fight them fearlessly for us! Why do you want to destroy their homes for such enthusiastic little creatures?"
"Kids, your teacher is wrong. Ants are not beneficial little creatures."
The digger looked up with a smile and said to the children: "It's true that these little things clean up food residues for humans, but they also crawl into the kitchen and steal human honey and sugar. It's true that they drag away scary bugs for you.
, but they can also destroy human buildings. Such small things are dispensable to humans."
"Then why don't you dig ant holes in your hometown?" the children asked.
"Cities are full of steel and concrete, and there is no living space for ants. Only in rural areas are there large areas of land and soft soil. Ants like to live in this environment best."
As he spoke, the digger went down with a shovel and dug out an ant hole from the thick soil.
The ants who lost their homes were like a group of refugees from a sudden change, crawling around on the ground in panic and helplessness like headless flies.
"Haha, we dug an ant hole. Sure enough, there are more ant holes in rural areas. Hurry, take pictures and record the internal structure of this ant nest."
Seeing the ants whose homes were destroyed, the children felt extremely sad.
Xiaoya, who had been silent until now, asked the diggers: "Uncle, you dug the ants' homes, where will they live in the future?"
The diggers were stunned and looked at each other. Apparently they didn't know how to answer the children's question.
"Does where they live have anything to do with us? Go away, go away! Don't delay us digging holes!"
The digger impatiently drove Xiaoya and the others aside and continued digging ant holes on the ground.
Every time an ant hole is excavated, a photo will be taken, recorded, and archived with a mobile phone for future drawing work to simulate prehistoric ant holes.
Ant holes one after another were dug out of the ground by diggers, and the ants who had lost their homes crawled on the ground in panic.
Looking at these little creatures who had lost their homes, Xiaoya bit her lips tightly, feeling extremely sad.
Xiaoya wanted to help these poor little lives, but found that she was powerless.
These little creatures are so small! Even a slight movement of your own may cause them to be injured and die.
The children stood in front of the destroyed ant nest and could only watch helplessly as they crawled underground after losing their home.
At first, these diggers only dug ant nests in the woods outside the village. As more and more diggers poured into the countryside, the small woods were quickly turned upside down by these outsiders.
After the diggers dug out all the ant nests in the woods, they then moved to another place to dig the holes - the wheat field!
The wheat fields in June are at the transition from green to yellow.
In more than ten days, farmers will harvest the food in the fields.
This year, the crops in the fields are growing well, but this was not the case in previous years.
In the past few years, the fields were either drought or flooded. Finally, this year the weather turned out to be good. Unexpectedly, the crops in the fields had not been harvested yet, so diggers from the city came here.
People who came to dig holes in the countryside ignored the crops that were about to be harvested in the fields and poured into the wheat fields that were about to mature in small groups with various digging tools.
"Stop! What are you doing in the fields? Those are our crops, stop! Stop it quickly!"
The villagers ran over from the village in a hurry.
Seeing the flood of diggers pouring into the wheat fields, the villagers asked angrily: "What are you doing in the countryside! Why are you destroying our crops!"
"We need to dig out the anthills and rescue the giants!"
"Why are you talking so much to these country bumpkins? A group of country folk who farm the land and work with hoes all day long, how do they know about giants?"
These words made the villagers unhappy, and they shouted angrily: "What do you mean we have to deal with hoes all day long? Although we country people rarely use the Internet, we also know about the giant being trapped."
"We understand your eagerness to help the giants out of trouble. We don't object to rescuing the giants, but you can't ruin our crops at will! This is the food we have worked hard for for a year!"
"Yes, you city dwellers have no worries about food and clothing in the city, but do you know what kind of life we farmers live?"
"These past few years have been either drought or floods. Do you know how hard it is to grow food?"
"God doesn't want to give us farmers a way to live! Don't you want to give us a way to live too?"
"The earth is so big, where can't we dig? Why do we dig in our wheat fields? Are you still human?"
The villagers said all at once: "Besides, how can there be ant nests in the fields? Are you city dwellers all pig-minded? Isn't this nonsense!"
"Yeah, with a bunch of pig brains, how can there be ant holes in a wheat field?"
The digger retorted: "If you don't dig it, how will you know if there are ant nests in the ground?"
"Yeah, how do you know if there are ant holes in the ground without digging? Dig, dig quickly!"
The digger ignored the villagers' dissuasion and savagely dug into the wheat field that was about to be harvested.
"Stop digging! Can't you see that the wheat in the ground is about to mature?"
"If you want to dig, you have to wait until we finish harvesting the food!"
"After harvesting the grain, the giant will die!" said the digger.
"Dig quickly, don't worry about these stinky farmers, there are many of us, they don't dare to do anything to us, dig quickly, dig quickly!"