I am the rise of an empire of ants

Chapter 6: DIY Splints
Seeing Huang Huang's frown, Tangtang seemed to be very worried, so she tentatively asked him: "If you want to tie things, you can use cotton thread. There are a lot of cotton thread in the warehouse. If you want it, I can help you find it." Yes, anyway, Huaihuai inspector has already told me, if you want anything, just talk to the warehouse manager, and I will say that it arranged for you!"

Huang Huang's eyes lit up, and he really said, "There is nowhere to find it if you break through the iron shoes, and it's easy to get it." He didn't expect that he had been looking for a substitute for cotton thread, but he didn't know that cotton thread itself was so easy to get.He asked Tangtang suspiciously, "Why is there cotton thread in the warehouse?"

Tangtang gave Huang Huang a strange look. "Aren't they all picked up by us? The cotton thread has a strange taste in the mouth, and no one likes to eat it, so the warehouse manager said that he would pick it up when he saw it, and put it away first, in case there is nothing to eat during the winter." Alright, let's eat this."

Tangtang feels that Huanghuang seems to be a different person today, why can't she remember anything!
Huang Huang understood, the cotton thread must have fallen from the clothes worn by ordinary people.Cotton threads nowadays are generally not pure cotton, and are all blended with cotton and chemical fibers, so ants don't like to eat it.

He happily said to Tangtang: "Hurry up and get it for me. One piece is enough. There is also a bamboo stick. Go and find it for me. I need it urgently."

Tangtang looked at Huang Huang in confusion, it didn't know what he wanted these for, but it didn't ask any further questions, turned around and left.

Tangtang went out to find something, Huanghuang felt bored by herself.He raised his head and looked around his surroundings.

The entire training ground is a large hall, in which there are about dozens of ants lying on their stomachs. Since the hall is very empty, these ants lying on the ground do not look very crowded.

Most of these ants lost a limb in the war, some lost a leg, some lost several legs.They were the heroes in the battle at that time, the heroes of this family, and contributed their own strength to the continuation of the entire race, but now, they can't even stand up.

They seldom communicate with each other. Even if some of them talk there, they communicate with their antennae. Therefore, although there are many ants in the whole hall, they still seem quiet.There is no bed in the ant nest, and they just lie on the ground quietly, looking very miserable.

Huang Huang sighed, he sympathized with what happened to these ants.As long as there are interests, there will be struggles, and this is the same whether it is humans or ants.As a result of the battle, there will be sacrifices, "one will succeed and ten will die", no matter which side wins or loses, the sacrifices will always be these ordinary people, and these ants are the victims of the game between the two parties.

Maybe they didn't know what the sacrifices they made were for until the day they died, Huang Huang thought sadly.

He shook his head, and after thinking about it again, he felt that some things were unavoidable.The most basic instinct of humans and animals is to survive. As long as they live in the world, they are thinking about fighting for survival every minute.It is a law of nature that the weak will prey on the strong. If they do not fight, the only thing waiting for them is to perish.

War is terrible, but war is sometimes necessary. Only when the weak are conquered and destroyed by the strong, and only the last strong man remains in the world, can peace truly come.

So in other words, they are all heroes, real heroes.They fight for the survival of the species, only because of them, can there be the tranquility and peace of the ant nest now, but they sacrifice their own happiness for others, and endure the pain that others cannot understand, they are all worthy people of respect.

He looked at these ants, and when he was thinking wildly, Tangtang had already found something.It held two bamboo sticks in its mouth, one long and one short, and ran to Huang Huang.Then put down the bamboo stick in his mouth, fiddled with the two cotton threads hanging on the bamboo stick with his hands, and showed off to Huang Huang: "I went to ask the warehouse manager for cotton thread, and it heard that it was arranged by Huaihuai patrol, so I went He told me that there was plenty of cotton thread, but it was useless anyway, so he gave me one more thread."

Huang Huang nodded, everything is ready now, and the splint can be started.He stretched out one hand, picked up the short bamboo stick, and gestured at the broken arm. He felt that only one stick was enough. The bamboo stick was round, and two bamboo sticks tied together would not be enough. Not easy to fix.

He handed the bamboo stick to Tangtang, and said to it, "Come on, take this bamboo stick and tie it to my arm, the tighter the better!"

"Ah!" Tangtang was taken aback when she heard Huang Huang's words. Just now, Lu Luchang had explained that a broken arm cannot be moved casually. If he does this, what should he do if the bone grows crooked? ah?

Tangtang has always been a very cautious person, just now he wondered what Huanghuang needed cotton thread for, but now that he knew that he wanted to use bamboo sticks to fix his shoulders in a whimsical way, he immediately felt a sense of fear in his heart: this Huanghuang, he is crazy Or something, actually have such a weird idea.

It shook its head like a rattle, and quickly said to Huang Huang: "No, no, you must not do this kind of thing, your arm will be broken!"

Huang Huang saw that Tangtang's head was so rigid that he refused to promise him life or death, so he turned his face down and asked it, "Are we still friends?"

Tangtang nodded blankly and replied, "Of course!"

"If it is, tie it up for me. I know my own arm. I won't disable my arm!" Huang Huang stared at it with his eyes.He knew that if he kept begging for it, it would not agree, so he had no choice but to be soft and hard.

Tangtang looked at Huanghuang's eyes with a little fear, and stopped talking. He stepped forward bravely, picked up the cotton thread, and began to tie Huanghuang's arm with the bamboo stick to fix it.

"You should tie it harder!" Huang Huang told it, gritting her teeth.Big drops of sweat rolled down his face, every time Tangtang moved, he felt a piercing pain, but he gritted his teeth and persisted.

Tangtang pursed her lips tightly, suppressed the trembling of her hands, and firmly fixed Huanghuang's broken arm on the bamboo stick.

The surrounding area was silent, and the ants lying on the ground all turned their heads and stared at the two of them.The strange behavior of these two ants has aroused their curiosity.

Most of them had broken hands and feet, and Lu Luchang manager told them to keep the broken hands and feet still, and they would grow back in a few days.But in the end, many people's hands and feet were dislocated, and they had to be amputated in the end, and they became what they are now.Now when they saw Huanghuang and Tangtang's strange behavior, they were all surprised.

Huang Huang's face was covered with sweat now, but he still gritted his teeth and didn't gnaw a word!

Tangtang gritted her teeth and tried not to look at Huanghuang's painful face. She knew that the more she hesitated, the more Huanghuang would suffer, so she quickly speeded up the progress of tying the rope.

Finally, Huanghuang's arms were tied on Tangtang's trembling hands.Huang Huang breathed a long sigh of relief, checked the severed hand, and felt that it was tied properly, so he was relieved.The bursts of severe pain just now almost made him faint.Fortunately, he finally got through it. If he was delayed for a while, he didn't know if he could hold on any longer.

Tangtang also heaved a sigh of relief, the process of tying the bamboo stick to Huanghuang this time seemed to pass through a gate of hell, his hands were trembling from the beginning to the end.Now that it's finally tied up, it realizes that its face is covered with yellow sweat.

Both of them seemed relaxed, Huang Huang raised the severed hand and moved it, expressing his appreciation to Tangtang.To be honest, TangTang's hand is quite skillful, the splint is not loose or collapsed, it is firm and reliable.

A large soldier ant has been lying quietly on the ground, watching them both.Ever since Tangtang started to tie the cotton thread on Huang Huang, it quietly crawled over from its own position.The last leg on its right side is only half left, so it can't stand up, so it can only lean on its belly on the ground, and the remaining five legs support the ground, so that it can move slowly.

Seeing that Tangtang had finished binding the splint to Huanghuang, he walked forward with his hands on the ground and asked Tangtang, "Did you come up with this method?"

Maybe they were too nervous just now, neither Tangtang nor Huanghuang noticed the soldier ant crawling over.Tangtang looked back at the person who was talking to it, and was immediately dumbfounded.It turned around hastily, slightly bent its front feet respectfully, and greeted the soldier ant who came: "Commander Tiantian, hello!"

The commander named Tiantian didn't return the salute to it, and it asked Tangtang again urgently: "I'm asking, did you come up with this method?"

Tangtang hesitated for a moment, seeing Commander Tiantian's solemn face, he didn't know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.After thinking about it, it said to Commander Tiantian: "He thought of it, but I also participated in it."

The muscles on Commander Tiantian's face began to twitch, he ignored Tangtang, and crawled up to Huanghuang, and asked him with his tentacles, "You came up with this method, you are really smart, using such a method The simple method solved the problem. You have to know, how many of our brothers and sisters can keep their hands and feet healthy by your method. If I use your method earlier, my leg will not be disabled. It's..."

Having said that, its eye sockets are a little wet.Its emotions were very agitated, and it couldn't continue speaking in the middle of the sentence.

Huang Huang looked at the soldier ant in front of him in astonishment, he didn't know what it was.But seeing its excited look now, it is estimated that it may have sawed off its foot because the bone did not grow well after the foot was broken, otherwise it would not be so groggy.

He looked at the broken foot of the soldier ant in front of him, and comforted it: "Don't get excited, your foot is not completely broken, if you try, you may stand up again. "

The soldier ant named Tian Tian opened his mouth wide in surprise and looked at Huang Huang. It couldn't believe what Huang Huang told it was true. It grabbed Huang Huang's hand and asked him, "What did you say?" ? You mean I can stand up again?"

Due to excitement, Commander Tian Tian's hand touched Huang Huang's severed arm, Huang Huang couldn't help screaming, it twitched and covered that arm with the other hand.

Commander Tian Tian immediately apologized to him: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so excited..."

Huang Huang smiled wryly at Commander Tiantian, shook his tentacles, and told it that he didn't mind.He understood Commander Tiantian's mood at this moment, so he didn't blame it.

He just said that Commander Tian Tian could stand up, but in fact he didn't have much confidence in his heart, he just remembered the thing about human beings wearing prosthetic limbs.Since people can put on artificial limbs and stand up again, why can't ants?There happened to be a bamboo stick and a length of cotton thread here, and he thought he would try it on it.

So he said to it: "It's nothing, you don't need to apologize. What I said just now is possible, and I can't fully guarantee it. I just want to experiment."

Commander Tiantian nodded excitedly: "Okay, okay, okay, just try it, if it doesn't work, I won't blame you!"

Since it was amputated, it has been lying in the training ground for more than a year. It either eats or sleeps every day. It is so boring that it wants to die.Thinking that he used to be an astonished leader, but now he is reduced to a waste that can only walk on the ground, which is too big a psychological gap for him.So as soon as Huang Huang said that he could make it stand up again, he would try it even if he risked his life.

(End of this chapter)