It was a kind of excessive growth caused by an organism's self-mutation, taking up as much as twenty percent of the energy in a human body. It
even led to a mismatch between people's physical abilities and their size.
If you put a wild animal and a human of equal weight together, without any outside interference, the human
would lose to the wild animal.
Well... I seemed to have gotten a bit off topic.
"Indeed... I... cannot leave. Establish relations, mutual benefit..."
Tsk, tsk. If even a bug could type on a keyboard, what wasn't possible? Living things really were amazing.
Frowning, I thought it over for a while, then fixed my gaze on the bug.
"You're telling me all this. Aren't you worried I'll take my people and leave, letting you starve to death?"
But the bug showed no alarm. It even calmly turned the computer around, typed something, and turned it back toward me.
"I, unafraid... I can also eat my own kind."
Ah... I see.
"Then you're the leader of this swarm, the one I'm talking to, right? Are you the Insect King or the Insect Queen?"
"I am the Insect King. The Insect Queen is a breeding machine and has little intelligence."
A sensible way for a species to reproduce.
By directing more nutrients toward producing offspring, the Insect King could have greater intelligence to control the swarm. It was a perfectly normal biological arrangement.
Humans themselves were the abnormal ones, completely out of step with the other creatures on Earth.
"Who taught you Chinese? And why do you speak so strangely? It's really awkward, you know?"
I didn't know why, but I suddenly felt like commenting on this. The Insect King's way of speaking was genuinely awkward.
"Books... and humans..."
Books? And people?
They'd actually