If you look down from high altitude, in this vast mountain range and plain, there are clusters of dense mushrooms scattered all over the place. Human cities have developed around all kinds of mushrooms, which are inevitably the same as flora, with irregular distribution and different distance; Between cities, there are sometimes thousands of kilometers of plains or forests.

Where mushrooms and humans have not set foot, it is the territory of another creature.

Meijia felt itchy on her face. When she touched it, she found that she was crying - she began to feel afraid at this time: in case she ran a little slower and was hit by the soil just now, she must be dragged deep underground by ants.

"Help!" She caught a glimpse of a figure behind the giant ant and moved slightly. Knowing that it was the man who followed, she hurriedly shouted out of the cave, "there are ants, help!"

"Shut up!"

The man came out from behind the ant - the ant was too big and was filling the whole burrow well. He had to get out of its slender legs with a low waist. The unique rustling sound of clothes rubbing against the wall of insects almost makes people uncomfortable.

"Didn't you expect?" The man pointed at his fingers and his face tilted even more when he squeezed out a smile. "I specifically asked it to dig the entrance vertically... What if you find the exit? How do you climb out?"

She really couldn't climb out, but she just had to hold on until someone came to save her - Meijia thought of this and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, feeling that her calf was spinning. She has to face not only a young man, but also a giant ant she has only seen on TV before... No, no, if the knowledge taught in school is correct, then maybe she just needs to deal with brother Xiaojian

The man climbed up the mound a few steps and looked down at Meijia. Her throat suddenly seemed to be pinched and couldn't make a sound. The sky was blocked by him. Except that his hair was dyed bright, the whole low face changed shape in the shadow.

"Don't get close to me," she took out the knife she had just grabbed and shouted in the fiercest tone she could imagine, "get away!"

It's the first time for her to say the word "roll" at this age.

"Why do people always like to say such nonsense when they are in despair?" The man walked down step by step, getting closer and closer to her: "I've heard this from a dozen people. Guess what happened to them in the end?"

The giant ant tilted its head in the rear, and its long tentacles trembled in the air, as if to detect their dialogue - it didn't look like it was trying to help. Meijia remembers that ants rarely participate directly in violent conflicts. These things have always been done by the humans they feed.

"Have you forgotten that your school is in the suburbs?" The man turned a blind eye to the knife she couldn't help waving. "There's no one around here. Who do you think you can wait for?"

The strength and speed of adult men are indeed much better than themselves - Meijia's idea rushed to her forehead with blood when she was punched on her right cheek by him. The knife soon fell to the ground and was kicked away by the man; He didn't plan to pick up the knife. He probably wanted to torture her slowly.

She fell to the ground, her mind became chaotic again, and her eyes darkened. The beaten cheek hit his teeth, and his mouth smelled of blood; But Meijia was afraid, but she found that while being beaten, she was thinking about a question: Why did he hit her right face?

When they stand face to face, he hits his right face, which means he has to punch his left fist. If she resisted the pain and looked carefully, Meijia found that most of the fists that fell on her body were left fists. But he is not left-handed. Why should he use weak hands frequently?

"I feel like I'm suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder. I can paint from morning to dark, so my wrists are sore and swollen that I can't lift..."

Her body kept making a muffled sound under continuous beating, but this sentence of a man just floated in her mind. He has been painting hard since she can remember, probably for more than a few years——

There's something wrong with his right wrist, isn't it?

Meijia gritted her teeth, saw a gap, and suddenly jumped at him; Most of her vision was covered with blood, but she finally caught his right arm accurately. Obviously, she didn't use much strength, but the man suddenly cried out, "little bitch!"

She must have guessed right!

Meijia didn't have time to think. Before his left fist hit his waist, she bent his wrist hard - she didn't know what the other party's old problem was, nor did it hurt him. In short, it was just a chance. But it was obvious that she should not die. The man suddenly gave a painful cry, and even the action of beating her was interrupted. He staggered and fell back two steps.

As soon as her feet fell to the ground, Meijia quickly groped on the ground.

The man breathed heavily. When he approached her again, his right hand was hanging softly on his side, but he did not know when to hold the knife again in his left hand. "I don't want to help you get rid of brainwashing. I think... I still want to see your body turn into nourishment."

The teeth in his mouth became loose, his tongue was bitten, and the blood kept sticking to his lips and teeth. But when Meijia turned up, she managed to spit out a sentence: "you dream!"

With these three words, the stone she just found in the mound also fell on the man's face. She threw the shot put very well in school, which made him scream and fall on his back. Meijia quickly glanced at the giant ant not far away, and saw that its tentacles trembled, its slender legs swayed back and forth, as if she was hesitating whether to intervene - she quickly screamed at the hole in her head, "here I am! Come on, there are ants!"

She was bluffing, but she didn't expect this call, but she really called a string of footsteps outside. The giant ant seemed to make up its mind quickly, and its tentacles trembled slightly, and its body quickly retreated into the darkness - its world is in the underground cave. Without perfect preparation, no one dared to chase an ant into the ground.

"Meijia!"

A familiar voice suddenly rang from his head. When she looked up, she just saw a figure probe down, blocking the sky light, vaguely looking like her mother: "Meijia, we're here, I'm here, are you okay?"

"Ants!" Seeing the rescue arrived, Meijia was unable to lift herself. Cold sweat and tears came out together, and her words were incomplete: "return, and its walking corpse... It's brother Xiaojian -"

When the man got up and seemed to be rushing towards her, a shadow jumped down from the hole in his head. Almost with a wave of his arm, he was knocked down again. The man was tall and broad shouldered, and the icon of a thorn fence on the back of his uniform was particularly prominent. He was a member of the defense force.

After being fished out of the crypt by the defense forces, Meijia wrapped herself in a blanket and cried in her mother's arms for a long time. She couldn't believe that she was really saved. She was indeed taken to a very remote place; If it weren't for seeing that she hadn't arrived at school yet, the teacher called home and asked, and my mother realized something bad, I'm afraid she would be really unlucky today.

After she was abducted, it seemed that it rained; When Meijia was walking through a puddle, she looked down and found that her face was swollen and purple, with blood everywhere. It was very frightening.

In the next few days, naturally, she didn't have to go to school anymore; But after the narrow escape, the anxiety and depression that had plagued her before dissipated like light smoke.

... Meijia found her "lamp holder".

Although it looked miserable, fortunately, the man left her with flesh wounds. After her injury completely recovered, in August of the same year, she became a member of the defense force as one of the 50 recruits. As taught in the school, the creatures living between mushroom cities have always been one of the greatest threats to mushroom society. They hijack human beings, manipulate human beings, and use them to enter mushroom society to achieve their own goals; The only line of defense between citizens and ants is Meijia's defense force.

"Great, great,"

When Meijia's first day in the army was over, Bohemia couldn't help but blush. "That child is so strong... Do you feel it? After Meijia entered the army, she suddenly became so happy. Obviously, the training was very difficult for her, but she didn't complain at all..."

If he hadn't known her, Lin Sanjiu would have thought she was Meijia's mother.

"The experience you selected is also my personal favorite."

The receptionist no longer kept a gentle expression, and sighed repeatedly, Also very moved: "many people have chosen the most comfortable and satisfying experience, although those are also good... But I think that being human in life, the most important thing is to pursue what goals and achieve what career in this short life... A person decides how to spend his life, he is a kind of person. Meijia is really great, she chose to use her life to protect us all."

Bohemia nodded his head hard for a while and asked, "how is Meijia now? Has she adapted to the army?"

The receptionist chuckled and replied, "the memory she provided happened fourteen years ago. She is now thirty. When she last came to see us, she was promoted to captain. I have seen the photos, and her daughter is also very cute."

"That's good," Bohemia buried her face in her big sleeve, and could only see her long blonde curly hair trembling: "that's good..."

"Thank you," Lin Sanjiu stood up and looked calm under a bandage. "Can we go out now?"

The receptionist didn't mean to force them to stay. He didn't even ask "are you willing to convert?" and led them out of the door again. The puppet master didn't know where he had gone, but his puppet stood in place honestly; Instead, the cat doctor was sitting on the couch. As soon as he saw the two people coming out, he jumped down on the shoulders of the doll.

"The high-ranking appearance is really suitable for you." At the sight of it, Bohemia was humble and respectful again.

"How's it going?" The cat doctor asked, and then remembered to charge Bohemia: "ah, please help me sweep the hair on my couch - how about the experience? Wine, do you still want to be a servant of truth?"

"Where is the puppet master?" Lin Sanjiu didn't answer, but looked around first.

"What he said after you came out may make people sick, so take a breath first." Doctor cat didn't feel at all that he should cover up his words.

"He can rest assured," Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly, "I... I don't want to convert."

Bohemia, who was standing on tiptoe and sweeping the cat's hair on the couch with his sleeve, looked back at his words coldly: "but I want to."