69novels Chapter 181 His Name?
Chapter 181 His Name?
Chapter 181 His Name? (Part 2)
"Servants of Bisef are not allowed to move around the palace at will," the white-haired boy said, sounding both a warning and a reminder.
After all, Bissef himself doesn't have much status here.
"...I..." The woman's trembling looked extremely real, not at all like she was faking it.
Su Wu secretly admired the other person's acting skills, while waving her hand to signal the other person to leave quickly.
However, the woman stood there trembling like a leaf, as if she couldn't understand the meaning of Su Wu's gesture at all.
This guy... could he really be trembling with fear...?
Su Wu forced a smile, reached up to rub her forehead, and couldn't help but sigh.
"Who is this?" Neferpitou and Owlapf walked down the stairs, their red eyes fixed on the unfamiliar human woman beside them.
Her aura emanated a twisted, malicious energy that instilled fear in those around her.
"He's said to be Bisef's servant," Su Wu said lazily.
"That's... ah, that human." Neferpitou didn't even remember who Bisef was at first, but then he realized.
"What are you doing here instead of following that guy, meow?" Neferpitou approached the woman, his malice growing stronger.
It's so intense that it makes it hard to breathe, subconsciously raises your guard, and might even... subconsciously make you want to protect yourself.
"..." Su Wu fell silent when she saw the knife in the woman's hand and the unconscious Nian she was displaying.
Ants are known to regard humans with abilities as a delicious and rare food. So, what would happen if such a human appeared in front of the ants?
"It's actually a rare item..." Neferpitou's lips curled up almost to the back of his ears, looking somewhat eerie.
"It can be offered to the king for his enjoyment," said Xiao Yapufu with a smile.
Then the two men knocked the woman down and dragged her away.
Su Wu witnessed the whole thing but made no attempt to stop it.
He had already done more than enough by reminding the other party, and he didn't necessarily intend to save them, since they had only met once but had never spoken a word to each other.
At the same time, he sensed that Nob had disappeared from the palace, like a mouse frantically fleeing from a cat, disappearing into its hole in an instant.
The other party has the ability to create holes everywhere, and they have already left a hole in the palace for them to enter and exit.
Why are you running so fast? Is someone waiting outside?
With that thought in mind, Su Wu left the palace in an instant.
Outside, the rain was pouring down, dark clouds covered the sun, and the wind was howling—it looked like the end of the world.
Norb, barefoot, ran wildly in the opposite direction from the palace.
Finally, they ran to a thicket far from the palace, hid behind the bushes, and gasped for breath in the rain.
The teeth collided uncontrollably, producing a mechanical sound.
"...It's safe now..." He collapsed and covered his face in despair after he felt safe in this place.
That was terrifying; the aura of that ant was evil, twisted, and an invincible monster…
"Do you think it's safe here?" A voice suddenly came from above him.
Pang stiffly raised his head, his face covered in water, indistinguishable between tears and rain, his glasses also fogged up and dripping wet.
The white-haired boy sat cross-legged on his head, and no matter how heavy the rain was, it couldn't wet a single hair of his.
"Did the association only send you? Or two people? When I arrived, a woman had just been scratched by ants." He sat above, looking down at Nob, and spoke casually.
"What...?" Nob exclaimed in surprise.
Pum... is that you? Have you been captured? I already set up the entrance; even if you failed or gave up, it wouldn't affect the subsequent plans...
Please, please don't let anything happen to you... I beg you...
"She really was with you. She was caught by the two guards as soon as she made her move. She should have been sent to the Ant King by now. I wonder how the Ant King's appetite is today." Su Wu continued to speak in a low voice, as if talking to herself.
Nob's already uneasy mind was completely shattered by these words, and he broke down in tears, burying his face in his hands.
"I'm sorry, Pangm..."
"I'm sorry... I'm so sorry..."
"I can't face that monster..."
"Why... can you stay with those monsters?" Nob asked, looking up at the boy.
"Huh? Because they're weaker than me. To me, they're just ordinary ants. Would you be afraid of ants that you can crush with your bare hands?" Su Wu said slowly.
Because they couldn't win, because they felt they would be easily killed by the other party, they felt a deep fear.
But if we follow this line of reasoning—"Shouldn't the ants be afraid of me? They don't seem afraid at all," the white-haired boy said slowly.
He no longer had the two extra small eyes on his face; instead, he had only two normal eyes, but the color of his eyes was still a deep red, like drops of blood.
Norb even doubted for a moment whether the two eyes he had seen earlier were just an illusion.
"That's why I told you before that you should practice more. Getting scared from a distance sounds really ridiculous, hahaha." Su Wu laughed to herself, not giving Nobu any face at all.
Of course, Norb was no longer in the mood to care about that; he was completely gloomy.
It seems like he's getting more rain in his area than in other places.
……
"Your Majesty, would you like to have a meal? This is a rare catch that was just captured," Neferpitou asked the Ant King respectfully.
The ant king, engrossed in his game of chess, showed no interest in food and ignored it.
"Then can I use her as a test subject?" Neferpitou asked again.
"Go," the Ant King replied without even looking at them.
Neferpitou and Shayapov conducted an experiment that transformed humans into chimera ants with special abilities through some means.
Similar to Zazan's abilities, but the monsters Zazan modified do not have any special abilities.
It can be said that Neferbitt and Shayapov are preparing to create an even stronger being.
This experiment is not a recent development; it has been going on for some time, except that the previous test subjects were all ordinary people.
With the King Ant's permission, Neferpitou and Owlapf carried the unconscious woman away.
When Su Wu returned to the palace, the woman had disappeared, replaced by a white pupa as tall as a person.
The queen's eggs were green, while the pupae they modified were white.
It looks a bit like a silkworm pupa, probably because of Shayapov. The opponent has a skill that allows it to transform from a pupa into a butterfly, or rather, to split into many smaller Shayapovs after transforming into a pupa.
"How long will it take for this to emerge?" Su Wu looked at the white pupa and made a thumping sound.
It's not soft, it's hard. It feels like an eggshell, and if you hit it hard, it will probably break into pieces.
"Since it's the first test subject, we don't know yet, meow," Neferpitou replied, wagging his tail and pointing to his mouth with his index finger.
"What will happen after we get out?" Su Wu asked curiously. "It should be different from what you've experienced, right?"
After all, in his view, these chimera ants were just failures.
"You're a qualified soldier, meow." Neferpitou said casually.
A so-called qualified soldier is someone who has no emotions, no self-awareness, only knows how to fight for the king, and obeys the king without any bottom line.
"Oh, another failed attempt." Su Wu scoffed and didn't ask any more questions.
He looked down on mass-produced products, and he also looked down on these ants.
He never hid his disdain, after all... the guards couldn't beat him.
All I can do is get angry.
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"The Ant King has lost again." The brother and sister, who had been kicked out, said calmly to Su Wu, who had also been kicked out.
"Ha, not surprising at all." Su Wu crossed her arms, her tone knowing.
A guy who can awaken his own consciousness by playing chess, competing with his opponent in chess?
First, you also need to have an ability specifically for chess-playing awakening.
"The Ant King asked the human's name," Amy and Alice said.
"He never cared about these things before." The non-human siblings noticed the subtle changes earlier than the Ant King.
Just like the two of them, they never care about other people's names, nor do they take the initiative to ask other people's names.
Logically speaking, the ant king wouldn't care.
He had so many rivals before, but he never even asked them their names.
"Is it love at first sight?" Aimei asked doubtfully.
"It's love at first sight," Alice said confidently.
"He's finished," Su Wu said gleefully.
"Don't talk behind His Majesty's back!" The blond ant glared angrily at the three of them.
"How could the king possibly be attracted to such a being!" His tone was full of disbelief.
It looks like he's been cheated on. Oh right, this guy is a blonde.
"Loser." Su Wu stared at the other person and called out with a bright smile.
The Ant King pushed open the door and stepped onto the terrace.
"Aimee, Alice, Hill..."
"Bit, Puff, Yupi..." He called out the names of the guys he knew one by one.
Three guards knelt on one knee in front of him, their posture respectful.
The other three stood to the side, silently watching him, waiting to see what he would say.
"You all have names," the Ant King said thoughtfully.
"Only you don't have it," Su Wu replied quietly.
"...What is my name?" The Ant King was silent for a moment, as if asking the others present, or perhaps asking himself.
"Wheat asked me what my name was, but I couldn't give her an answer." He seemed quite dissatisfied with this.
Wheat told him his name, but he couldn't tell Wheat his name.
"Shouldn't you ask who named us?" Su Wu continued to complain, like a chatterbox who couldn't read the room.
"...Who took it?" The Ant King wasn't angry at all; instead, he actually asked.
He's finished, he's really broken.
"The Queen gave me the names of my three subordinates," Neferpitou replied.
"Our names were chosen by our mother, right?" Alice asked, looking at Amy.
"That's how I remember it," Amy said, looking at Alice as she recalled.
The kinship between non-humans is weak and they have little concept of it.
"That woman is not qualified to name Your Majesty. A king is a king, and he does not need any other title." Xiao Yapu said a series of words like a toxic fan.
Oh, this guy is a bit like Maro in this respect... but Maro is more self-aware and at least doesn't make decisions on his own.
"If Your Majesty wants a name, why not come up with one for yourself?" Neferpitou suggested.
She accepted it well; the king only wanted a name, and she would give in to whatever he wanted.
"...That's true." The Ant King murmured, but he didn't seem happy. "You may all leave." He waved for his three guards to leave.
"What does a name mean to humans? And how did you choose your name?" He then ignored the two non-humans and looked only at the white-haired boy, asking.
"A name is just a name, but this name represents you, and only you," Su Wu said, sitting on the balcony railing, explaining to the newborn Ant King.
"There are many humans, right? But every human is different, and names are a way to distinguish us."
"But I didn't pay much attention to your ant names at first. It turns out the Queen named them..." Su Wu said, somewhat puzzled.
Logically speaking, since the queen is an ant without human genes, she shouldn't care about her name.
Perhaps the ants that came into existence later asked for a name.
"Since the Queen has named them, she'll probably name you too..."
It's just that you were born too fast and acted too ruthlessly, and the Queen didn't have time to deal with you.
"But it's good to choose your own name too. Names usually represent hopes and blessings. You can choose a name that exudes a kingly and domineering aura," Su Wu continued.
He was born in January in the foggy city, just as heavy rains fell for nearly a month, and the fog was thick.
So the name was simply taken from the character "雾" (fog).
Even after time travel, he didn't give up on this name.
If you give up the name Su Wu, it means you give up your past.
It's as if he betrayed his former self.
"..." The Ant King thought of the Queen who was almost killed by him when he was born, and that she had not given him a name. For a moment, he felt a kind of indescribable and incomprehensible emotion.
"What does your name mean?" the Ant King asked again.
"...It's the sky." Su Wu thought of the name of the person she had told this world, "Hill," and answered casually.
"It also means sky blue, which is the color of my eyes, um, the color of my eyes before." Su Wu pointed to her eyes, thought for a moment, and then put her finger down.
They always forget that they have conjunctivitis.
"..." The Ant King's expression became even more somber.
"King is just a title, not a name. Many people can be kings, but none of them are me," he suddenly said.
He should have a name that belongs to him.
When he calls Wheat by his name, Wheat can also call him by his name instead of calling him Commander-in-Chief.
"You seem to have a name," Su Wu said with a doubtful tone, unsure of her own identity.
After all, it's a memory from two or three years ago. If I want to know it, I'll have to go through all that trouble, which is exhausting.
Forget it, the name of the Ant King is not important to Su Wu, so she can't be bothered to think about it.
"If you want to know, go ask the Queen." The white-haired boy stood up and stepped onto the railing.
"Oh, maybe she's already dead." He turned back and gave the Ant King a provocative smile, then with a slight push of his feet, he suddenly shot into the sky.
The next second, the King Ant also rushed up.
He was in a bad mood, so he needed to vent.
Amidst the raging winds and torrential rain, lightning flashed and thunder roared. As the lightning illuminated the sky, two figures could be vaguely seen appearing in the air from time to time.
Against a backdrop of gloomy, rainy days, the two people's energies constantly shifted between red, blue, and purple.
Like two silent yet swift bolts of lightning, they crashed and clashed through the clouds.
"Current progress of the Chimera Ant race—the Ant King seems to have fallen in love with a human..." Amy took out her notebook and began to record.
This notebook also records other events, both big and small.
"Whether the Chimera Ants will have another human as their so-called queen remains to be seen..." Aimei wrote down the last information and put down her pen.
(End of this chapter)