Lu Zhiyu took a bottle and caught ants in the yard. The painting space had time, gravity, the sun, the moon, the four seasons, plants, and oxygen, but no animals. Lu Zhiyu decided to catch some samples and put them into the painting space.
At this time, a voice came from outside the iron gate. "Lu Zhiyu? Why are you back? "
Lu Zhiyu stood up and saw a girl on a motorcycle outside the door. She was wearing a burgundy helmet and was looking at him in surprise. Lu Zhiyu put down the hoe and bottle, then walked to the door and asked, "Who are you?"
The girl immediately took off her helmet. "I'm Xia Fan!"
Lu Zhiyu felt very awkward. The girl in front of him was so pretty, and she seemed to be someone he knew, but he couldn't remember her. How could he say it out loud? Lu Zhiyu suddenly remembered a joke he had read on the Internet. When a teacher meets a student, neither of them remembers the other's name. They can only shout, "I remember you, teacher!"
"You are that, that … student!"
Xia Fan looked at Lu Zhiyu for a while, then her face fell. She took off her helmet and put it under her armpit. "Hey, don't tell me you don't remember me?"
Lu Zhiyu was extremely embarrassed. "Well, I'm getting old, and my memory is getting worse. Can you remind me?"
"Xia Yan's sister!"
Lu Zhiyu looked at Xia Fan. "Xia Yan's sister?"
Lu Zhiyu gestured with his hand. "You've grown so big!"
Xia Fan immediately said, "Of course, I'm already in high school!"
Xia Yan was Lu Zhiyu's first girlfriend. He didn't want to see any old acquaintances or relatives at a time like this. He just wanted to be alone, let alone meet someone he knew. When Lu Zhiyu was with Xia Yan in high school, she was still in elementary school.
Lu Zhiyu and Xia Yan hadn't contacted each other for six or seven years. Ever since they graduated from high school, they had been far apart from each other. Xia Yan had been admitted to Peking University, while Lu Zhiyu was still in elementary school. When they broke up, Xia Yan had been very determined. Lu Zhiyu couldn't accept it when he was young, but he had come to understand after these two years. However, that didn't mean he wanted to see her.
Lu Zhiyu nodded. "Oh, I recognize you, I recognize you. What's the matter? I have something to do here! "
Xia Fan knocked on the door, and the steel pipes on the iron gate clanked. "If you recognize him, then open the door!"
Lu Zhiyu opened the door in a daze and saw Xia Fan pushing her cart into the yard. "Your yard is so big! When I was young, I thought it was my ideal playground. Every time I passed by your house, I would look inside. I didn't expect to see you here. What were you doing in the yard?"
Lu Zhiyu put away his tools. "Nothing much, just tidying up the yard. Since you're here, come in and have a cup of tea!"
Xia Fan was wearing a pair of tight jeans and a loose tank top. Her underwear could even be seen through the cuffs. Lu Zhiyu didn't expect the little girl who used to be with Xia Yan to look like this. He suddenly felt that he had aged.
"I moved to a neighborhood nearby. If I pass by your door, I can take a detour to the back door of the neighborhood. I just went to Carrefour to buy something, but I didn't expect to see you in the yard when I came back!"
Lu Zhiyu watched as Xia Fan chattered on, then placed a plate with two bottles of drinks and some snacks on the table. "Time flies. How is Xia Yan? Is she married? "
Xia Fan looked at Lu Zhiyu ambiguously. "What's wrong? Still can't forget your old love and want to relive old memories? "
Lu Zhiyu shook his head and laughed. "It's been so many years. Even my memories of the past are a bit fuzzy. But we are still friends. Since you're here, I can ask!"
Xia Fan immediately said, "My sister is studying in England. You can't see her now. Why did you suddenly come back? Didn't you say that you were doing well in Beijing?"
Lu Zhiyu avoided the topic that he didn't want to answer. "How did you know? What do you mean by 'doing well'? I'm still working for someone else! "
Xia Fan narrowed her eyes. "Aren't you working for someone else? Do you still want to be a boss? "
Xia Fan made a fuss in Lu Zhiyu's house for a long time. She only left after she finished the whole bag of walnuts that Lu Zhiyu had given her. Lu Zhiyu felt as if the air had become fresher after this young girl's antics.
When he put the ants he caught into the painting space, they all died in the blink of an eye. It was not due to environmental problems, but natural causes. Lu Zhiyu slapped his head and felt that he had been a fool. These ants didn't have a queen. Although the lifespan of an ant was very long, and the lifespan of a worker ant could reach up to six or seven years, they would die quickly after they left the colony. In a world where time was accelerated ten thousand times, these worker ants would die within a few seconds. There was no condition for them to form a colony.
Lu Zhiyu immediately searched for such resources on the internet. There were basically no such resources available on the internet. Lu Zhiyu could only find some people on some breeding forums. After discussing with them, he ordered them.
Two days later, Lu Zhiyu received a delivery. When he opened it, he found a special bottle. It was filled with tubes, and ants were crawling all over it. At the bottom of the tube, there was a huge queen ant. It was a petri dish.
Lu Zhiyu opened the petri dish and put the queen ant into the painting space. At that moment, he could see that in the painting space, there were plants in full bloom. There were all kinds of flowers and trees everywhere. The trees seemed to have shrunk. Perhaps it was because of the gravity inside and the environment, but they had shrunk many times.
Unfortunately, there were no signs of life. If given time, Lu Zhiyu estimated that in ten million years, he could give birth to his own two-dimensional life. However, he couldn't wait any longer.
Lu Zhiyu placed the petri dish on the hillside of a hill on the island and buried it in the soil. Lu Zhiyu immediately began to observe the movement inside. Under the acceleration of time, he saw that the ants inside were moving quickly. The colony expanded rapidly, slowly covering the entire hill.
The sun and night kept alternating, making people feel as if they were watching a fast-forward documentary. In less than two hours, two or three years had passed inside the petri dish. The colony had also changed. These ants seemed to belong to a unique civilization. They had a precise division of labor, just like humans. Each ant was like a screw. If any ant left the colony, it would not last long.
"Ants are really a kind of magical creature!"
Time passed quickly. One day later, the first queen ant died, and the second queen ant took over. However, at that moment, the colony had actually split into two groups. The two queens led the different ant colonies to reproduce. Lu Zhiyu found that there were slight differences between the two groups. One group began to grow deep into the ground, while the other began to build nests at the top of the mountain. Both groups had evolved wings, and Lu Zhiyu named them the flying ants and the earth ants.
On the fourth day, the two groups had changed even more. Their forms were also different. Originally, there were worker ants, soldier ants, male ants, and queen ants. Gradually, there was a more detailed division of labor. The flying ants gradually occupied the sky, and their forms began to change completely. If Lu Zhiyu hadn't been observing them, he wouldn't have been able to tell that they were the same type of ant.
The flying ants gradually evolved into something similar to bees. The earth ants gradually became lighter in color, turning into a golden color. They burrowed deeper into the ground. During this period, the two groups began to split again, and various ant groups gradually spread across the entire island.
On the sixth day, some of the ants began to approach the sea. These ants' limbs began to degenerate, and they became creatures that could live in the water. The entire painting space suddenly felt as if flowers of life were blooming. A small colony of ants had actually given birth to all kinds of strange life forms. This surprised Lu Zhiyu.
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