Chapter 150 Where is Mia? (1/2)
Chapter 150 – Where is Mia?
”Oh, about our deal, can you wait until I sorted out your seeds first?”
”Go ahead. I'm too tired to move anyway.”
”Thank you. I'll be back in a few hours.”
Tiny transformed back into her queen ant form. She lay down on her ant abdomen and meditated while her humanoid parts on her thorax sat up straight.
Her blue abdomen shone in blue light, and her ant stomach moved. In the next minute, an oval blue egg at the size of ten centimeters came out of her bottom part.
After the first white egg came out, several dozens of eggs slowly exited Tiny-Chan's ant bottom.
Mia gazed at how the queen giving birth with a stiff smile.
”I'm the father of all those!?”
*Mew* (Yup. Congratulations.)
Banana Mia was also impressed, [Wow, she doesn't waste any time. She's an efficient mother, right?]
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Mia fell asleep for another 6 hours. When he woke up, Tiny had already finished giving birth to her first batch of eggs, and she was sleeping next to Mia in her human form.
Sensing that Mia had woken up, Tiny opened her eyes.
She sat up, ”Do you need food? I have plenty.”
Tama helped Mia into a sitting position. Mia's face turned solemn as she looked at Tiny.
”No. I'm good for a few days. I only eat when I need to regenerate or when I'm exhausted.”
*Nom-Nom Mew* (I'll take two pieces of croissants, two sunny side up eggs, a medium-rare ribeye steak, and a bowl of salad with two red gels. Thank you.)
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In the end, Mia ate another red gel while Tama took two at once. As for Tiny, she ate a sausage of mysterious meat at the size of a bowling ball. They were from her collected food in the cave.
As they were having their breakfast, Tiny explained about her past and this base.
This colony was close to Chonburi Base, and fire ants of this colony encountered humans and mutants many times in the past. Conflict and wars between them and the base were frequent.
One day, the former queen of this colony evolved from fire ant queen into an inferno ant queen. After the race change, she could imitate human and mutant forms. Her intelligence also drastically increased, which allowed them to communicate and negotiate with the Chonburi Base.
The queen's traits and her abilities also passed down to her next generation children. All newborn ants became inferno ants instead of the lower tier, fire ants.
As for Tiny, she was born two years ago as an inferno nurse ant. She spent all her life assisting her mother by being at her side, treating the newborn children.
Once they could talk, the queen sent her young queen ant to negotiate a truce with the mutants in Chonburi Base and traded with them.
However, a few months ago, an alpha egg invaded their colony. It killed everybody and collected all ants as its food.
The former queen tried to rally her soldiers to drive back the alpha egg. Unfortunately, the alpha consumed so many dead ants that it evolved into a hydra. Now, it had three heads, and its real body size was beyond 20 meters in height without measuring any head or their neck.
The ant army was no match to a hydra with many heads. Almost the entire population in the colony became its food.
As for Tiny, she managed to escape with several eggs of her unborn siblings. As luck was not on her side, the hydra pursued her and destroyed all eggs.
Tiny persisted on living and escaped from the ordeal. She fled to this room, which all worker ants had used it as back-up food storage. As nurse ants were smaller than worker ants and soldier ants, she slipped through the hole that Mia used to get in.
From that day, she prayed that someone could come and help her. She tried to dig the room to escape, but her mandibles were not suitable for digging like the worker ants.
Still, Tiny did not give up. As she kept on living and expanding the room, she evolved into a queen ant.
And then, Mia appeared out of nowhere, which gave her hope.
Listened to the story, Mia pitied her, ”That must have been rough.”
”It has already passed. I have you and my babies now.
”By the way, back to our business, how do you know that you can help me?”
”When I evolved, my mother's memories passed down to me. I learned about souls and mind room from her, too.”
”Wait, your mother is that strong? She knew about psionic possession?”
”Queen Ants can steal memories from their victims. We can also leave our memories to our next generation or a successor, so what we had learned will never be forgotten. We continue to evolve this way without the symbiosis' help like you.”
Tiny grinned and pointed at the mountain of her eggs.
”Husband, those are our children. Do you like them?”
Mia sighed. He never thought that he would have children so soon. Still, he inquired about his primary business, ”It's time for you to complete our deal. Help me with my problem.”
”Oh, sure. But I have to wait for one of these children to be born first.”
”Does this have anything to do with the children?”
”I'll use one of them as a sacrifice to create a new body for the other soul in your body.”
Mia's face paled while Misha screamed in shock. They thought that Tiny planned to use one of her children to be their second body for Misha's soul.
[NOPE! I DON'T WANT AN ANT BODY!]
Mia asked to confirm his theory, ”Does one of my souls have to transfer into a new body?”