"Bah! Bah! Bah!" Huge black ants as tall as one person came and went one after another, the crowd was furious, their eyes turned red, and they stared at Opal closely.

Raymond: "What about the antennae on the head?"

Opal: "This should be a greeting...wait."

All the ants stopped waving their tentacles rapidly at the same time and scattered in all directions. A group of ants actually lifted up the two spaceships! In a moment, they were gone.

Opal looked confused: "Hey! What are you doing!"

Xun: "Can you help us park the car? That's interesting."

A small wooden stick was handed into the hands of the largest black ant, which looked at Raymond and regarded him as their leader. Raymond was the tallest and had the most outstanding figure, and he lowered his head slightly.

The ants pushed aside, and the big black ant used a branch to draw several patterns on the ground.

Opal: "What does it mean."

Raymond: "It... means that the place where we landed is their altar."

Opal: "..."

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Sid: "..."

Raymond: "And he also broke their... statues."

Opal: "Xun! I knew nothing would happen if you were here!"

Xun: "How could I possibly know!"

All the ants immediately gathered around them again, showing their sharp jaws towards the four people. The leader, the black ant, waved a branch to drive them away, and then wrote and drew a line of strange things, with pictures and strange symbols on them.

Raymond: "It said, let us be responsible for repairing the statue and apologize to all 'people', so that we can have a chance to talk. Otherwise, we will not be allowed to leave this planet easily."

Opal breathed a sigh of relief. Xun wanted to say something more, but his mouth was covered by Sid.

"How do you know their characters?" Opal asked in surprise.

Raymond: "Look, it depicts several rows of ants. Everyone stands neatly, facing this sculpture, as if praying, so I understand that this is their god, or something very important. It touches the neck

, circled around the ankle, pointing to the fallen statue over there, meaning let us repair it."

Opal: "..."

The leader, the black ant, waved the branch, and all the ants retreated with a swish. The remaining four people stood in the middle of the mossy plain, as a cool breeze blew by.

Fifteen minutes later, Opal and Raymond expressionlessly began to repair the statue that was destroyed by Xun. The statue was a human, male, wearing a cloth robe, with bare feet exposed under the robe. Based on the body proportions, it was estimated that he was about the same height as Raymond.

. He should be a very handsome, simple man.

Of course, it's a different story now that this sculpture with a severed head and hands is lying on the wet moss ground.

It is simply an impossible task to put the five-meter-high statue on the pedestal and repair it, especially when the spacecraft has been moved away entirely. Raymond went to the ants to borrow a rope, and Opal went to use a long-handled axe.

He cut down a tree, tied the ax and sword crosswise, made a winch, and moved the statue little by little before putting it up.

Sid and Xun hugged their knees and sat watching from a distance.

The gravity of this planet is too great. After working for a while, Opal was exhausted and panted, and said angrily: "Don't just watch, okay?"

Sid said: "I...my physical strength is not good enough."

Sid felt tired just sitting, and he was completely wilted.

"It needs adhesive, huh...huh..." Raymond said: "Otherwise it will fall off."

"Spare me, where's the adhesive?" Opal gasped, "It would be great if it can be restored."

Sid said: "Is it okay to use mud? The mud here is very viscous."

Sid mixed some clay and gave it to Xun, who bent over and patched it up on the ankle of the statue. Raymond asked, "What was your occupation before?"

Sid said: "Plant breeder."

Opal felt a little strange, why was Xun so honest in front of Sid? The relationship between them seemed to have become very good, was it because of the previous reasons? Something must have happened somewhere that he didn't notice.

Raymond said casually: "Why are you helping Sid like this? You have no money to make."

Xun rolled his eyes at him and said, "A mercenary must make money to work?"

"Yo yo——" Opal said with a smile: "Are you considered a mercenary?"

Xun didn't answer, but Raymond nodded and said, "Plant breeder, that sounds very majestic!"

Sid moved a little to the side and let Xun sit down on his shoulders.

Neither of them commented. Sid was wearing Xun's coat and was shivering a little from the cold.

You can't even see the sun on this planet. There is only a white moon with a purple halo on the horizon. A dazzling meteorite belt stretches across the zenith. The planet's halo reflects the light of distant stars.

Opal moved the big head of the statue and pushed it to the pedestal. Raymond lowered the rope, hoisted it up and put it away. Both of them were panting from exhaustion.

"I'm talking about you." Opal always found it incredible: "How do you have such a good relationship? We have been together for dozens of days?"

"What does it have to do with you?" Xun asked alertly.

Sid smiled and said: "Just friends."

Xun immediately became unhappy. Sid looked at Xun with a half-smile, and added, "Good friends who play Fantasy Paradise together."

Xun couldn't help laughing.

Opal: "!!!"

Raymond almost dropped the sculpture's head.

Sid said: "Have you two never played that thing?"

Opal: "You...what did you say? Don't mention this."

Xun laughed and said: "Look at him, he looks like a country bumpkin, just like a savage. I don't know which primitive society he came from."

"Hey!" Opal said angrily: "You are the barbarian!"

Raymond said: "I am also a country bumpkin, I never play that kind of thing."

Opal's face turned red, and Raymond said again: "Hold the statue up and don't fall down again."

Raymond bowed and stood on the shoulders of the statue to hang his head up. This required a good sense of balance to prevent the newly glued statue from falling down.

Finally finished, Opal walked back a few steps and looked at the statue. His hair was a little long and there was no name on the pedestal.

Opal went to find water to wash her hands and walked away.

But Sid discovered one thing - the sculpture's face shape, nose bridge, brow bones and lips looked like the same person.

"That should be enough." Raymond stepped back and looked at the statue.

Sid raised his head and looked at it. He looked at the statue, then at Raymond, and said, "He looks a bit like you."

Raymond: "?"

Raymond frowned, and Sid turned around and said, "Opal!"

Opal didn't hear it and had already run to the edge of the canyon. He quickly said: "Yes, the hair is longer, but the facial features are exactly the same. Hey, are you their god?"

Raymond said: "I've never been here before. Does it look similar?"

Sid looked at Raymond suspiciously and said, "You just... communicated very naturally with the ants. I feel a little suspicious."

Raymond couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't be kidding, if I were their god, how could these guys let the gods build their own statues?"

"That's right." Xun said, "You really haven't been here?"

Raymond said impatiently: "Really not!" He packed up the rope and went to return it. The ants thought that Opal was going to escape, so they escorted him back. A black ant wrote and drew, indicating that they could follow and talk to the leader.

talk.

Ants have no vocal organs, and the only sound they make is the sizzling sound of rubbing their mouthparts. The four of them walked in the wilderness for a long time. Sid was the first to be unable to walk, so he quickly carried him across the mossy plain, led by the black ants.

Then he took them across the river to an open space and motioned them to get on the bus. Four strange creatures were placed like wheels under a large wooden board.

Opal looked down curiously. The wheel creature suddenly made a move and stretched out something like tentacles to push against the board. The four of them bounced. Raymond grabbed his collar to prevent him from falling. Everyone sat firmly and the wheel creature began to roll.

In this way, it carried people forward quickly, over mountains and mountains, and when entering the water, it could row back and forth like a propeller in the water, carrying them across the river.

Finally, it stopped in a forest full of strange plants. A tunnel led to the dark underground. The wheeled cart rolled in and stopped before going very deep.

There are illuminated minerals all around, and tunnels extend in all directions. Opal said: "This is... an ant nest."

The group of four people looked at the dense ants crawling around in the empty hall, and felt a little scared. In an instant, all the black ants dispersed, crawled into various holes, and disappeared without a trace.

A huge black ant looked at them eagerly, Opal said: "Is it the one that just asked us to build the statue?"

Raymond: "How do I know? They all look exactly the same."

There was a sand table on the ground for conversation. Opal said, "We should be able to talk now."

Sid said: "You look like their god, can you get extra points?"

Raymond's facial expression twitched and he said to Sid: "In our eyes, they all look the same. In other words, what about us humans in their eyes? Of course there is no difference."

Xun said: "Then according to their logic, the statue only needs to have a head and hands, and the face is actually superfluous..."
To be continued...