1 Turning into an Ant

"Shocking! The Ancient Barbarians have appeared and declared that they want to reclaim the glory of the former warring tribes!"

"Strange! A descendant of the sun appeared at a pancake and fruit stall in Nanming City!"

"Amazing! A clinic in Shunchang City is treating all kinds of illnesses. It's suspected that the successor of a divine doctor has come out of seclusion!"

"How terrifying!"

In a classroom, a student was fiddling with his phone by the window.

His fingers swiped the screen of his phone skillfully as news messages flashed past.

"It's all old news. Change to a more exaggerated title and it'll be hyped up again. Do these people really have nothing to write about?"

Although Qin Ming muttered this, his fingers were still mechanically swiping the screen, wanting to find something interesting.

At this moment, a small pop-up window suddenly appeared on the screen.

"You have a new message!"

He casually opened the window.

"Dear XX user, congratulations on winning the lucky draw. Click to redeem your prize!"

Qin Ming's face was expressionless and he did not get excited at all.

He received three to five such emails about lucky prizes every day.

Don't ask him how he got hit with them. He had been so lucky all his life.

He planned to throw this email into the trash. He had also dealt with previous emails about grand prizes in this simple and clean manner. This time was no exception.

Don't question. If I do, I'm treating money like dirt.

His nimble fingers shook as he clicked on the email link.

"System loading, please wait a moment."

Qin Ming looked at the screen that had suddenly turned dark and thought to himself that something strange might pop up.

The cursor kept spinning, showing that the system was still loading.

Five to six seconds later, the loading ended and a few simple words in golden font popped up.

"Monster login device".

Is it a mobile game link?

Qin Ming was not surprised by this. He did not think that this was a lucky prize.

Getting a mobile game link was not too bad. If something shameful accompanied by sound popped up, he would not be able to explain himself to his teacher.

He tapped twice and was about to close the mobile game when his phone did not respond.

No way. It crashed?

Qin Ming finally could not maintain his composure as a joyful mythical beast flashed on his screen.

Crack!

Just as he was about to forcefully turn off the phone, a crack appeared in the middle of the screen.

Before he could react, a beam of light suddenly shot out from the crack in the screen and entered his eyes.

Buzz!

Qin Ming felt his head sink and he lost consciousness the next moment.

…

When he regained consciousness, the first thing he felt was heat.

His body felt extremely hot, as if it was being roasted on a grill.

An extremely primitive memory surged in his mind. It was a unique memory that did not belong to him.

The content in his memory was very simple. Foraging, eating, following the group, fighting, and resting. It went on for three years.

I actually became an ant!

After receiving this memory, Qin Ming was stunned.

I was still playing with his phone in class a moment ago, but the next moment, I became an ant?

Am I dreaming? This was Qin Ming's second reaction.

However, that primitive memory was so real and detailed, and so was the heat in his body.

These seemed to be telling him that dreams could not do this.

Did I transmigrate? Or did I awaken something strange?

Recalling the beam of light from the cracked phone screen, his human memory was interrupted here.

Is it that beam of light? Lucky prize? Monster login device?

Countless questions flashed through his mind.

Although he had not completely sorted out his thoughts, he had already realized that his ordinary life seemed to have taken an awkward turn.

The burning sensation was gradually becoming unbearable, and his body seemed to be getting burned.

He opened his eyes immediately.

Yes, although he had become an ant, he also had eyes that could see.

Don't ask why. He himself did not understand what was going on.

The sunlight was quite dazzling. After he got used to it, he realized that he was in a boundless yellow desert.

The fireball hanging above his head was several times larger than the sun in the real world.

He turned his head slightly. Beside him was a huge rock. A group of yellow and red-spotted ants were gathered in the shadow under the rock to avoid the scorching sun.

He was the only one who was exposed to the fireball.

In his memory, these ants with the yellow and red spots were the race he had been following previously.

Ardent Sand Ants was the name of their race.

They were not ordinary ants. From his memories, he could tell that this group of ants did not simply rely on their instincts.

They had a certain level of intelligence, especially the leader of the group, the largest Ardent Sand Ant.

It was the leader of the group and made the top-level decisions. Its intelligence was higher than the average Ardent Sand Ant.

For comparison, ordinary Sand Ants were about the size of a human thumb. The leader was almost the size of a fist.

Unable to withstand the high temperature, Qin Ming immediately moved his body. He had inherited the memories of this Ardent Sand Ant, so it was not difficult for him to control his body.

He crawled under the rock while panting. The approaching Sand Ants only glanced at him before ignoring him.

It's comfortable… Hiding from the sun, Qin Ming felt a little satisfied. At least he did not die from the heat.

According to past experience, they would start moving when the sun set to prevent themselves from dying from the heat.

In other words, he would have to stay under this rock for a few hours, just like the other Sand Ants.

It gave him time to organize its thoughts.

At this moment, a translucent interface suddenly popped up in front of him.

[Monster Login Device, welcome!]

[Current login time is three days.]

[Mission 1: Survive for three days.]

[Mission 2: Get along well with the Ardent Sand Ants.]

[Mission 3: Obtain the submission of all the Ardent Sand Ants and become the new leader of the Ardent Sand Ants.]

[Remarks: Completing the mission will increase the final reward score. Failure will reduce the final reward score.]

Scanning the contents of the interface, he was completely certain that this was the doing of that f*cking stupid game!

Why did I click on that link!

Sizzle…

A few Ardent Sand Ants at the side were alarmed. They watched as their companion, who had just crawled in, suddenly gestured wildly and shouted as if he was having a seizure.

The leader of the Ardent Sand Ants at the front turned around and glanced at the troublesome Qin Ming before crawling over.

Its long antennae wrapped around Qin Ming nimbly.

"Hey, Boss, it's a misunderstanding. It's all a misunderstanding…" Qin Ming realized that he had been pulled up by the antenna and immediately explained himself.

However, the leader of the Ardent Sand Ants ignored him. He dragged Qin Ming, who was in the air, to the empty space at the front and placed him beside himself.

It did not do anything to Qin Ming. Instead, it used its antennae to comfort him very gently.

Seeing that he was fine, Qin Ming heaved a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that this leader would do something to him.

He immediately lay down beside the leader and stopped messing around.

The interface that appeared earlier had disappeared, but when he wanted to find it again, it popped up.

The login time is three days. Does that mean I can go back in three days?

Qin Ming felt that that should be the case. As for the three missions, it was written that success would affect the final reward score, but there was no other punishment.

In other words, it did not matter if he did not complete them. It was just that the reward score would be lower.

Compared to those crazy systems that easily erased the user's score, his login device clearly paid more attention to user experience.

Another question worthy of his attention was, where exactly was he?

An alternate world?

Or is this the game world itself?

He was not sure for the time being, but he was more inclined to think that this was a real alternate world and not a virtual game world.

After all, be it this desert, this group of Sand Ants, or the primitive memory he had received, every detail was extremely real.

He could not treat this as an illusion.

For the time being, he determined that this was a different world.

He decided to survive for three days first. After three days, he would see what the outcome was and whether he could return to his original world as he had thought.