Chapter 5
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Chapter 5: What Is Outside the Ant Nest?
The Weak Ants are true to their ant nature, great at digging. In just a few minutes, the passage was opened.
The moment the passage was opened, a faint light shone in from the gap.
Light?
Have we reached the surface?
Lin Yu felt her heart pounding.
She felt a little excited, a little hopeful, but mostly nervous.
While she was in a daze, the Weak Ants pushed down the last dirt wall, and a hole big enough for four Weak Ants to pass through appeared, with a faint light shining through into the tunnel.
Looking out from the exit, the sky above was not a bright blue but a ceiling made of rocks.
After the tunnel was opened, Lin Yu could hear a faint "munching" sound coming from above and also smelled a slight scent of blood.
Is it someone? Or an animal?
She did not act immediately but listened to the "munching" sound for a while and then noticed that it was sometimes mixed with a tearing sound and a heavy breathing noise.
The sound did not seem to come from a human.
It seemed to be some kind of animal eating, and by the sound, it was still some distance away.
If they are eating, they probably won’t notice us over here, right?
By the way, it smells so delicious… I want to eat too…
Sneaking a quick glance should not get me caught!
Lin Yu ordered all the other Weak Ants to stay in place, while she carefully controlled this D Qualification Weak Ant to peek its head out of the hole.
So many stones, and a stone wall, is this a rocky cave?
No, that’s not the main point.
Lin Yu quickly looked towards the source of the "munching" sound.
A bear?
In the center of the cave, there was a bear with two long sharp teeth and thick brown fur.
To Lin Yu, the bear’s body was at least three or four times the size of her mother’s corpse, making it a giant among giants compared to her ant colony.
The big bear was tearing at its bloody prey with its large mouth, focused on eating and seemingly unaware of Lin Yu’s gaze.
After looking at the bloody, pitiful creature beneath the bear, which was so mangled that she could not tell what kind of animal it was, Lin Yu lost her appetite.
While the big bear was eating, she carefully observed the whole cave.
The cave was scattered with little piles of animal bones, and other than that, there was nothing else of much interest.
The cave was quite large for Weak Ant’s size, but from the bear’s perspective, it did not seem very big, with a width only about the size of four or five bears standing side by side.
However, the length of the cave was roughly ten times its width, making it quite long.
Sunlight slanted in from the enormous cave entrance, brightening the whole cave somewhat, at least more than the small underground ant nest.
Even though I had only been underground for a few hours, I indeed preferred a well-lit environment.
Hmm, it’s not because I’m afraid of the dark! If I say I’m not, then I’m not!
…
After nervously glancing at the bear-like creature tearing flesh in the distance, Lin Yu pulled her ant head back.
It was just a quick peek, but she had already gathered quite a bit of information.
First, she confirmed again that this world was a different world, not the modern world she used to know.
Next, she considered her current situation.
She would think of the cave she was in as an ant nest; the entrance of the ant nest was in a corner at the bottom of the cave wall. It wasn’t very big, but it wasn’t too small either.
The owner of the cave was that giant bear; even though she couldn’t see its Status Panel, it was clear it was not something to mess with.
She feared that even a whole swarm of ants wouldn’t be enough to take it down with just a few slaps.
The existence of the ant nest cannot let it know that the entrance must be buried again.
However, the food in the ant nest is already running low; those eggshells cannot support thirty Weak Ants and myself for long.
Well, these little ones have also grown to be about my size, and their appetites might grow too…
But there is still my mother’s body in the cave, looking fresh as she had just died recently…
I could consider feeding the kids; my mom is my mom, not yours, so you can eat. Yes, that’s right.
What? Why don’t I eat?
I can’t eat it; that’s not possible…
Well, that is still my mother! Hm, although it seems like she wanted to eat me before she died… But! No means no!
I am a dutiful daughter!
Alright, I just really don’t want to eat the bodies of insects…
Why?
Because I have a psychological block! They look unappetizing, the taste must be really strange and terrible, and who knows, it might even burst with juice while eating?
I’m thinking in a strange way… Anyway, let’s get back to the main topic.
Food is a big problem, but maybe we can explore while the bear is out hunting.
This seems to be the only way.
Finally, there is information about the ant colony itself.
Although they are ants, their size doesn’t seem small compared to me and the Weak Ants.
The Weak Ant could be about the size of a bear paw to that big bear.
If it were the ants from the original world, one ant would probably be smaller than a single hair of that big bear.
However, it is still unclear what the size of that big bear means in this world.
…
Lin Yu ordered the Weak Ants to cover the entrance of the ant nest with soil until the opening, which could fit four Weak Ants at the same time, became small enough for only one Weak Ant to enter or exit.
Then she had the Weak Ants take turns watching the big bear outside the ant nest entrance.
Watching the big bear did not require too many ants, so Lin Yu sent the remaining Weak Ants back.
The Weak Ants’ thoughts were still completely blank.
This means they are not hungry yet.
I’m not hungry either…
If I can’t go out to explore, what should I do next?
I want to play on the computer! I want to play on the phone! I want to watch TV!
I want to eat snacks while watching shows and cartoons!
If that’s the case, I can have a lot of fun at home alone! Friends? I don’t need them!
Oh, I miss the days when there was internet…
…
……
The bear creatures are probably full now, and the Weak Ants take turns watching but only see the bear lazily lying in the cave.
As time passed, the sky gradually darkened, and the inside of the cave became as dark as an ant nest.
Lin Yu felt a little sleepy.
Although there were no soft beds inside the ant nest, there was nothing she could do about it.
The world right now was not a game world after all.
After remembering the bed in her old bedroom, Lin Yu crawled on her six legs and closed her eyes.
Of course, she would not forget her children before sleeping.
She divided thirty Weak Ants into two groups; one group took turns watching the big bear, while the other group took turns guarding her.
Unlike modern cities, which have noise pollution even at night, this place was quiet and still, and the underground ant nest was even quieter.
In just a moment, Lin Yu fell into a deep sleep.