The Giant Ant Queen (4)
In this world, there is always a law that makes sense.
You can’t blindly kill the target in front of you just because it’s annoying.
That was something I shouldn’t have done.
Just as a society of people identifies killing as the greatest evil and bans it.
Monsters also had their own hierarchy and society.
Of course, there were no laws and regulations here. Because it was wild anyway.
However, looking down from a larger perspective, this place was another world functioning as a society called ecosystem.
The queen of ants is their mother who supports them.
The meaning of her death was the annihilation of the entire colony of ants.
What if those who have been in charge of the ecosystem of this forest all die overnight?
The result was that one day the aftermath would run through the forest, and eventually return to the werewolves.
Hundreds of ants died, the forest was shaken by the rotting smell, and the stench would become a contagious disease and spread to other organisms.
That was a negative and bad result.
Yu Hwa-rin was well aware of that, so she only sounded a possible warning.
But.
The ants did not budge from their seats.
Instead, only one of them moved.
Multiple. Multiple.
An existence that has been protected by the other ants at the very back.
The biggest and most bloated ant.
The Giant Ant Queen began approaching cautiously with staggering steps.
Until then, the werewolves did not move at all.
I just stared at his approach.
Instead, the closer the Giant Ant Queen approached, the more the wary leader Yuhwarin’s eyes sparkled.
The two eyes and fingernails filled with life were leaking light like fluorescent material.
Winter was intuition.
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What if the giant ant queen, who is now stepping forward, even for a moment expresses sharp hostility towards her mother, Yuhwarin?
She was going to act immediately.
Her blade-like fingernails cut through rocks and even the thick skin of dinosaurs without difficulty.
So, for an ant of such insignificant size, an instant would have been enough.
It was going to be horribly cut on the spot, like cutting a tender radish.
Even those who care about the comfort of the forest.
Forgive only once. Not twice Forgiveness in such a harsh forest was already enough mercy to give it once.
But.
The act of the approaching Giant Ant Queen was completely different from what they expected.
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The Giant Ant Queen let out their own short voice.
After shaking the antennae from side to side a couple of times, he quietly folded her legs and rammed her head on the spot where he faced Yoohwarin as if he was obeying her.
It was a completely incomprehensible situation for winter.
He involuntarily opened his eyes wide.
‘What……? What is this?’
A group of ants appeared out of nowhere.
And their queen body is waiting patiently, putting her head down as if to show submission.
What does that mean?
Georeum looked at the struggling Giant Ant Queen, and soon realized that the opponent was frightened.
The Giant Ant Queen.
He didn’t come here to fight.
‘Fear. Asking for help. Mercy request. I need a break.’
Fear, help, and even mercy.
The fragments of emotions felt from him were roughly those.
The Queen of the Giant Ants, who quietly bowed down as if submissive, lowered her stance.
She obviously wasn’t out to attack no matter how she looked at it.
All they wanted was just a little mercy for the werewolves.
Burrr.
Looking closely, he and the other Giant Ants were trembling.
It was as if he couldn’t control himself in the cold.
‘Ah, I see.’
And only then did Winter realize why the Giant Ants and their queen had risked their lives here.
It wasn’t just the pack of werewolves that got caught up in this monsoon season.
As the Giant Mantis was, so were the other creatures.
These ants also fled all the way here just to survive and not to be swept away by the swollen river.
‘What is your mother going to do?’
It was only then that Winter understood the situation of the ants and looked at Yuhwarin, the mother.
It seemed that she wasn’t the only one who noticed.
Already other werewolves were also glancing at Yuhwarin.
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Leader Yuhwarin.
She was silent for a while.
Staring at the queen of ants prostrated in front of her, she was simply silent.
Their group does not recklessly kill other creatures, nor is it hostile.
It would be even more so if there was a person in charge of clearing the forest in front of him.
Because soon, she.
She just turned her head away.
Surely.
Reaped the density of life in the surroundings and calmed the mana that had been raised.
‘The air……. I feel lighter.’
Winter felt that the tingling sensation around him was gradually fading.
It was a state in which the surroundings were filled with dense murderous spirits that had engulfed the surroundings before I knew it.
As if that alone was a sufficient answer.
[Kiik.]
The Queen of Giant Ant.
She shook her head as if to say thank you, and then quietly settled down under a thick old tree nearby.
[Kiik!]
[Kieack!]
As soon as the giant ant queen settled down, hundreds of ants, presumably their offspring, followed and strode forward.
‘Ha ha.’
Only then did Winter let out a sigh of relief.
Anyway, it seemed that the situation he was worried about would not happen.
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That’s how the strange coexistence with the ants began.
Contrary to concerns.
The ants lived like they were dead.
‘It’s strange.’
Georeum looked at them and thought.
That’s right.
They were really strange.
Giant Ants.
They seem to know that they are strangers.
The vigilance of those werewolves is very colorless, but they have gathered together with their queen body.
They gathered in one place around a huge old tree towering on one side of the stone mountain.
I stayed so quiet that there was no movement whatsoever.
If it weren’t for the occasional sight of exchanging the prey they had hunted with each other, even in winter, they would have been so motionless that I would have thought they were all dead.
The atmosphere of the ants was like a solemn quiet society without words.
They were constantly shaking their antennae from side to side, but no one opened their mouths first, except for the occasional occasion when a few made a noise like [Kiik.].
Only the rustling noises unique to insects with carapaces could be heard.
This is an uncomfortable cohabitation, but at the same time it was a necessary process for reestablishing the forest.
They would return to their original nest when the rainy season was over and the water in the forest drained.
Because it must have been the same for those werewolves.
Queen is also the Queen of Giant Ants.
It was also a mysterious monster that knew how to express its own gratitude to the werewolf, the top predator that preoccupied its place first.
[Kiik.]
There are so many Giant Ants that they look like black waves.
Most of them were just silent, huddled around a huge tree and queen, but not all of them.
There were several groups of ants returning from the forest, capturing their prey.
Looking at the group returning with the carcasses of prey and monsters between their thick jaws.
The Queen of Giant Ants, who was resting under the protection of the colony in the deepest crevice of the colony, lifted her head.
They turned towards each other, and about a few times they crossed their antennae or brought their jaws close together.
Perhaps that was a way of communication between groups of ants, or a welcome greeting.
Dude.
At that time, water droplets that had gathered from the ceiling of the cave fell on my nose.
Winter thought while twisting his itchy nose.
‘If you think about it, those ants, even though there are corpses of ants all over this stony mountain, they don’t react at all.’
Already on this stone mountain.
There were numerous carapace shells of Giant Ants that appeared a few days ago.
They were the corpses of ants that had appeared just the past few days.
The traces of those werewolves eating those who climbed the stone mountain.
However, those ants didn’t even react in any way even though those things were scattered around.