Chapter 82: Ancient voice
In a desolated land, ten thousands of ants working for the colony walked to gather food in preparation for the upcoming winter.
Because of the difficult environment, it's normal that thousands of ants died every day in colony from hard work, although the ants are distinguished by great stamina and the ability to do work that requires a lot of strength, but not everyone gets their share of food
Unfortunately, this type of ants was in the bottom serial pyramid, barely living a few days or a week at most before dying of hunger and exhaustion, this type of ants only found to be consumed and disposed of.
While hundreds die every day, hundreds are born every day
This is how the environment of ants colony are, where your status is determined from birth and there is no room for any change.
Among these workers an ant collapsed from fatigue and hunger, this is a normal sight and some other ants could be seen in the same condition a few meters away, but who cares?
Unlike the rest who surrendered to their fate, this ant tried to resist, she made every effort to try to stand up, but all her effort did not show the desired results and after she was barely able to stand she fell again and it seemed that she trembling as if she unwilling to accept her fate.
Some workers noticed that ant's condition and approached her for the purpose of helping, not helping the poor ant but helping themselves.
That ant was surrounded by many other ants, who began to bite her fiercely.
Even in this desperate state, that ant did not lose hope even though she lost many of her limbs and there are many bite marks on her body.
The poor ant tried to bite the other ants in order to keep them away, but the number of ant is large, even if she removed one or two, there was no difference.
Suddenly the ants stopped snapping the poor ant and raised their heads to see that all the ants around them had left all the work and started running hysterically towards the burrow as if they were running away from something.
The workers didn't understand anything, but their instincts told them they had to run too, so they reluctantly abandoned the meal and run as well, leaving a half-dying ant behind them.
Even with all this, the ant still did not give up and tried to crawl to escape.
Then the anteater appeared, who robbed the lives of all ants on his way to the burrow.
For ants, confronting an anteater means annihilating the entire colony because he will not leave before eatening every ant in that colony.
Even if there were some lucky survivors, they wouldn't live long.
The anteater was eating all the ants in his way, and it seemed that he had no intention of avoiding the poor ant even though she was already on the verge of death or perhaps he did not notice it and just ate every ant in his way.
When the anteater approached the poor ant, he stopped suddenly and began shivering uncontrollably as if he saw the most terrifying thing in existence.
Without delay, the anteater turned and quickly ran in fear.
The poor ant looked in front of her with difficulty, noticing the approach of a seven colors worm before the poor worm died.
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Shi Tu opened his eyes to find that he tied with black chains chaining his entire body, this was not a restraint, but Shi Tu was wrapped in black chains like a cocoon.
Shi Tu looked around to find that he was in a starry sky, but except the bright stars there was nothing else in this starry sky even the chains restricting Shi Tu couldn't see its source and seemed to extend within sight.
Shi Tu remembered the dream he had seen and remembered very well how he lived the role of that ant that refused to give up.
Shi Tu felt that this was not an illusion, but perhaps this scene really happened in the past because it seemed so familiar to him and he did not feel any distaste for being an ant as if it were normal.
But he immediately denied this possibility, according to the Heavenly Law, it is impossible for the animals that entered samsara to acquire any spiritual intelligence without a long time and proper nutrition, provided that the animal had encountered a heaven-shaking opportunity before dying like eating some heavenly treasure, but that ant is Absolutely normal with the exception of her stubbornness that will not change anything, there is nothing special about her.
With the exception of the three great treasures, nothing can break the heavenly law, but even the three treasures do not have the power to manipulate samsara.
"How do you feel when you know that you are originally just a mere ant? The lowest and most widespread kind of creature"
A strong voice rang out in Shi Tu's mind, this sound sounded very strong and majestic but ancient as if it had passed through time and space to reach Shi Tu.
Shi Tu wasn't freaked out by this ancient voice as if he had anticipated it
"There is no evidence that what I have seen is true."
Shi Tu gave his opinion directly
"Hmm, well I'll show you the rest."
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After the poor ant died, a seven colors worm approached her and swallowed her in one round.
Then that worm swam in the starry sky and reached the village where Shi Tu lived his childhood.
After the worm arrived, many children suddenly disappeared that year and somewhere a cocoon-like thing formed around the worm and after a few years the cocoon tore apart and a little kid who looked like a three-year-old came out.
The kid somehow managed to crawl towards the village and no monster dared to attack him.
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"What do you think now? Do you still think that what you saw is not true?"
The voice asked again
"I still have the same opinion. There is no evidence that these scenes are real, but at the same time there is no evidence that they are fake, because that village is the village in which I truly lived my childhood. If this is true, then this means that the Seven Deadly Sins worm has the power to break the heavenly law, and this is unbelievable, but at the same time it cannot be denied."
Shi Tu calmly gave his analysis but something was wrong with his voice
"Aren't you just trying to deny the fact that you are an ant?"
The strange voice was not convinced and tried to press Shi Tu for an answer.
A broad smile spread across Shi Tu's face and he looked at the starry sky in front of him as if he looking at an entity inferior to him.
"On the contrary, I would be happy if I was really an ant, doesn't that mean just an ant trampled on everyone in the thirty-three heavens? Just an ant that considered as the strongest and smartest, that would be wonderful to be true."
Unexpectedly, Shi Tu was not upset, rather he hoped these scenes were real
"Hahaha, you got an amusing point of view."
The voice seemed to really like Shi Tu's answer but didn't praise him.
In front of Shi Tu appeared a scenes of Shi Tu kneeling in front of blades of chaos as he was about to die
"It doesn't look like you will live long"