overnight evolution

I jumped over happily, held his hand, and if I had a tail, I would probably shake it twice.

The underground world, also known as the kingdom of ants, is where the largest race of Atlantis lives.Everyone walking on the streets here has a silent temperament, no matter men or women, no matter young or old.They watched the road ahead silently, rarely looked around, and rarely spoke.Everyone has their own responsibilities and their own way of life. Just like the architectural planning here, their lives also strictly follow certain rules.

I can only think of one word to describe how they make me feel-

A nation of steel.

The way they greeted was also rather silent.

Only when they sensed a familiar aura approaching nearby would they raise their heads and glance around.After searching for the other party's whereabouts, they will go up to them with equidistant steps that seem to have been precisely measured, touch the other party's forehead, communicate through the tentacles extending out of the top of the head, and complete the greeting and information transfer in an instant.

Everyone in this country, their lives overlap with each other, and then rely on these parts to tie the entire race together.So the strongest army on the continent of Atlantis comes from underground, and every soldier in the army is a community of destiny.There is no friction, no disputes between them, they advance and retreat in unison, perfect to the extreme.

The fighting power possessed by the army of the ant tribe has been longed for by successive rulers, but the ant tribe created by the gods has always refused to be loyal to any individual force.

The genes carried by them were fused by the mother goddess herself, but even this could not escape the fate of being discriminated against.In the long history, the status of the ant race is only higher than other mixed races, so they left the ground early in the morning and established their own kingdom underground.Only when it is necessary to send troops to maintain law and order on the ground will they go to the ground through the hidden passages all over Atlantis.

The supreme ruler of this race lives in the center of the underground kingdom, and every time a queen dies, a new queen will be born.She will rule the kingdom under the guard of many armies, and at the same time leave excellent descendants for the race.

In a sense, the ant queen is the creature closest to the key. With its strong reproductive ability and higher evolution rate than ordinary races, the elders have no less ideas about the ant queen.It's just that the complexity of the structure and the strict security of the Kingdom of Ants forced them to give up these ideas. Anyone who has been to the underground knows that the entire underground world is like a huge maze, with countless entrances and passages.They form three-dimensional structures as complex as proteins, daunting even the world's most intrepid explorers.

At the same time, the overall combat effectiveness of the Ant Clan should not be underestimated. Even the elders dare not take the combined force of the army from the front.So coming here to avoid the hunt of the elders group is really a very good choice.There are not many outsiders in this season, but because the underground residents don't care much about the people and things around them, we don't seem particularly obtrusive.

Settling in Sattakir, the city closest to the exit, the two stayed in a small hotel on the central street of the city.The style of the small hotel is not elegant, and it is especially out of place for Xiu to appear here, so I had no choice but to book a room by myself first.

The owner of the hotel is a wrinkled old man who sits behind the counter trimming a pot of plants all day long and never raises his head when he sees guests coming to book and check out the room.When I came to the counter, I reached out and knocked the painted wooden countertop to attract the attention of the boss, and asked him for a double room.

The boss turned the flower pot on the countertop with his hands covered with age spots, and squinted his eyes to look at the potted plant from all angles: "Eighty, one day."

"Referring to the price of the Celestial Dynasty, it's quite cheap here." I muttered as I rummaged through Xiu's wallet.

The boss nodded, wondering if he understood what I said, and just stared at the plant in his hand intently, as if it was a perfect work of art.

After paying the rent for three days in one lump sum, the old man took out a key from under the counter, placed it lightly on the counter, and pushed it in my direction: "The third floor, room [-]. Breakfast from Serving starts at seven, lunch at eleven and dinner at six."

I picked up the key and stared at the potted plant for a few times, but I didn't see anything special, so I asked subconsciously, "What are the three meals here?"

The old man finally looked up at me, my face reflected in his brown eyes.He covered his lips and coughed, and pointed to the name of the hotel on the counter with his finger: "Termite Hotel, of course it supplies sawdust."

I:"……"

The old man grinned: "I'm lying to you." The tentacles on his forehead moved back and forth as he spoke, "Just ask the kitchen to cook whatever you want to eat. There is nothing you can't eat in the Kingdom of Ants."

"... including sawdust?"

"Including sawdust."

"...Okay, thank you." Pedestrians who were used to silence and regularity couldn't adapt to the boss's jumping off for a while.

I picked up the key and turned to leave, and he began to immerse himself in the work of pruning the plants.Returning to Xiu, I spread my palm to show him the key: "Double room, 302 on the third floor." After a pause, I added, "It is said that there are all-inclusive meals available."

He nodded, his lips looked bloodless under the light: "Go up."

With a temporary foothold, the whole person finally breathed a sigh of relief.The environment of the room is much better than I imagined, the windows are clean, the facilities are complete, and there are many strange gadgets unique to the underground world-such as the tentacle polish in the bathroom (which makes your tentacles emit a charming luster).I took a good shower, changed into the bathrobe provided by the hotel, and fell asleep as soon as I touched the soft pillow.After all, the wild environment does not give people enough sense of security. Even when they are resting, they are still worried, and they are more tired than before falling asleep when they wake up.

I don't know how long I slept, but I just felt so hungry that I opened my eyes.

Xiu was still sleeping, his brows were not furrowed like when he was awake, and he seemed to be in a deep sleep.But I feel like I am facing a big enemy, because of his previous deep sleep, I am still a little scared even now.After thinking about it, I stretched out a finger to touch his dark eyelashes, but the eyes opened before I could move them. There was no sleepiness in them, which shocked me.

Withdrawing his hands, he watched him sit up from the bed with a guilty conscience: "You...are you asleep?"

Xiu replied, "Fall asleep."

I watched him throw off the quilt and get out of bed, then turned his back to me: "Then you..."

Why did you wake up so soon?

"I sleep relatively lightly, and the last time I slept the deepest." After a pause, he turned around and stroked my hair, "But it won't happen again, don't worry."

"Okay..." I also climbed out of bed, and asked casually, "What does that deep sleep feel like?"

"It's nothing special, it's just divorced from reality and completely living in a dream." Xiu thought for a while and said softly, "It's like having a very long dream. I dreamed of many people, including my mother."

I made up my mind about what Xiu's mother looked like, and concluded that she must be more beautiful than my old mother.

According to Fonster's theory, the stronger the individual, the more beautiful the appearance, so I think this dream should be very beautiful.

After washing, it was just in time for dinner. Since I didn't have time to eat breakfast or lunch, I only drank some water. At this time, the hunger finally revived in the cerebral cortex, and I felt so hungry that my chest was pressed against my back.However, whether to order room service or eat at a restaurant becomes another question.

In my opinion, even in the kingdom of ants, we shouldn't show up too much to avoid attracting attention.So I planned to have dinner in my room, but Xiu meant to eat in the restaurant downstairs.I hesitated again and again, but followed.Standing in the corridor and watching him close the door with his hand back, I was very uneasy: "Is it really okay to go down and eat?"

We must know that the group of elders has probably already chased after the underground world, and we have no advantage at all in the event of a conflict.

...Well, although Xiu looks much better than before, at least he doesn't feel weak at all.

"It's okay." He took my hand very naturally, turned and walked towards the stairs, "The bedroom is not a place to eat."

... Is this the aristocrat's obsession with the details of life?Is life safety less important than eating gracefully?

I admit that I can't understand it, but I also object that I can't.

The restaurant at dinner time is more lively than I expected. It seems that the boss is not lying. The food here also has a good reputation among the people of Sattakir.In the small space, the bustling people are families who come to dine, and behind their parents is a string of little bean diced with short tentacles.They suck their fingers as they walk between the long tables with food in the buffet area, and their dark eyes roll around, very cute.

This situation made me think of those Chinese restaurants in Tianchao, and I immediately felt very friendly, and my hanging heart couldn't help but relax a little.Perhaps in the middle of the meal, an old man in a white robe would come out and overturn the table, but that would be a matter of time, and the meal was the biggest now.

Sitting down at the dining table, I casually flipped through the menu full of strange dish names, and saw that Xiu was familiarly ordering the waiter on the opposite side to order this or that, while paying attention to the surrounding movements.The ant tribe residents who came to eat did not have the silence on the street in the morning, and they sat at the dining table like a human family while eating and communicating——

Maybe it's just because there is a dining table between family members, and it is not convenient to use the tentacles to exchange food information?

Anyway, it sounds interesting to me.

At first, the words from next door were just words like "this is delicious, eat more" and "Anlu, you are the elder brother, you have to give in to the younger brother". There was a new middle-aged man who joined the conversation.

The person who came seemed to be the elder brother of the head of the family, and he seemed to have a lot of background.He first discussed the city defense work with his younger brother, with a calm tone and gentle words. Since my back was turned to them, I imagined an image of a gentle and elegant clerk.Xiu put a vegetable that looked like lettuce on my plate, watched me listen to the corner of the wall fascinated, and put a decorative flower into my mouth without eating.Without saying anything, he withdrew his right hand and picked up the cup containing the wine.I chewed it twice and felt that the taste was not right, so I quickly spit it out, and Jiongjiong forked up the meat on the plate and delivered it to my mouth.The person on the opposite side looked relaxed and freehand, as if he was on vacation, which made me very stupid.I shook the table knife, wondering why this man was so calm.

At this time, the topic next door began to turn to the situation on the ground.I suddenly regained my energy, stopped all movements, and listened carefully, for fear of missing a word.The older man put the fork on the plate and made a slight sound: "Recently the ground is not very peaceful. Sattakir's army has been asked to raise the level to support the ground army."

The younger man also stopped eating, and said in a deep thought: "In this way, our passage is not..."

The children were led by their mothers to the self-help area, and there was no sound of other people talking on the table.

The elder whispered: "The city lord did not agree."

His brother made a surprised sound: "How could-"

The elder sighed and picked up the tableware again: "The loyalty of the guardian is suspected by the elders. They want to use our army to round up or even kill the guardian."

The younger man was not as calm as his elder brother, and his voice raised slightly: "Of course the Queen will not agree to such a thing."

"Yes." The elder paused, and then continued, "Actually, if the guardians really have the blood of the Zerg like us, it would be a good thing. After all, the Ants have lived underground for too long, and many The tribe has forgotten the color of the sun."

The two fell silent, as if they had no intention of speaking again.

For a while, only the sound of knives and forks rubbing echoed in the air.

I stared at the food in front of me silently, and then slowly raised my head to look at him after two seconds: "...So, what is your relationship with the queen?"