“Strange to say, from the time this egg was born, it was unusually strange. This egg is fiery red in colour, and when the queen was born it was only the size of a grain of rice, but in just three days it has grown to the size of a goose egg.”
“The most important thing is that it is unusually hot.”
“How high is it? It could almost burn at the touch.”
“At that time, our clan wanted to throw it away, but then everyone unexpectedly found that the egg was writhing with life. That means that it was alive for our clan, and also, the queen ant remembered that b*****d dragon and believed even more in that b*****d dragon’s bullsh*t that once the dragon ants were out, the ant clan would rise, so how could she bear to kill it.”
“So the ants took good care of it, and to lower the temperature of its egg, they moved to the edge of the giant river, using its water to lower its temperature, so that it could have a relatively safe place to wait for its egg to break out.”
“The people of the ant tribe built their dwelling by the river to guard it, and later even developed it into a small city. And the giant river was also burned dry by it during the years of cooling, and gradually withered and formed a swamp.”
Han Qianqian sniffed but sighed, “So that’s why Earthfire City was eventually erected on the land of the swamp.”
She nodded, “That’s good.”
“However, although the giant river back then was big, it wasn’t as big as this swamp right now, and the reason it has the shape it has today is entirely because the Ant Clan saw that the river was starting to dry up, and in order to avoid the river being drained completely, they tried every possible way to draw water from all around, eventually making this swamp bigger and bigger.”
Han Qianqian nodded slightly, “Even to the point where it started to pump underground water after a certain point?”
She nodded.
Han Qianqian understood, to put it simply, this egg they had laid was more like a burning water-sucking monster that absorbed bit by bit eventually causing the water level to keep dropping, and the Ant Clan constantly needed to open up the swamp deeper and deeper into the ground in order to continue to maintain the water source.
Eventually, the whole city kept poking down with the swamp, and the earth that was turned out was piled back up into mountains that dried out without water to form the continuous shape seen before ……
“No wonder the mountains out there are shaped like that ……”
It is also no wonder that all the way down, there was no trace of water around.
Now, Han Qianqian finally understood it all.
Thinking again about this such a tremendous skyrocketing change, one could not help but sigh again that the ant tribe was indeed strong.
“Now, I understand why you hate the dragon race so much.” Han Qianqian nodded his head and said.
“The Dragon Clan has kept my Ant Clan trapped here for an unknown number of generations forever, paying for his actions back then day after day, year after year, what are they if not b*tches?”
“That dragon ant egg is also his child, has he ever come to see it even once?”
“And now, to suddenly send two people to take it away, on what basis?”
In the face of these questions, Han Qianqian had to admit that the people of the dragon clan were indeed not qualified to take away the dragon ant egg.
With a sigh, Han Qianqian glanced at the Ant Queen, “From your point of view, I can understand your position, but as a middleman, I don’t know if I should say something.”
The Ant Queen hesitated slightly, but eventually nodded, “Go ahead.”
“Since this dragon ant egg has brought you all so much pain and suffering, has it ever occurred to you that it might actually be a relief for it, and for you all, if I take it away?”
“In your hands, it may never be able to hatch, and the people of the Dragon Clan have asked me to take it away, so perhaps they have found precisely the appropriate method.”
“And you, too, have a chance to get out of this city of earth and fire. As you have said, the swampy land has been sinking with the City of Earth and Fire, but one day the sinking will reach the lowest place, so that there is no lowering.”
“And what will the ants do then? The dragon ant eggs will probably be destroyed because of the high temperature, and your ant clan will also be completely exterminated because of this high temperature, won’t it?”
Hearing Han Qianqian’s words, the ant queen obviously gave a slight leap.
Had they thought about the possibility Han Qianqian had mentioned? Of course they had.
However, reason was sometimes easily overcome by reluctance, especially when the ant clan had experienced reluctance for an unknown number of years ……
After a long time, the ant queen suddenly lifted her head ……