Since the other secondary nests participate in the main nest's routine wedding flight ceremony every year, female ant eggs are only laid at the beginning of each spring.
If the protagonist wants to hold another temporary marriage flight ceremony, there will be no suitable young female ants in either "Dongyang City" or other nests in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
If the protagonist lets "Dongyang City" become self-reliant, that's not impossible, as long as the queen ants lay another hundred female ant eggs.
Even if there is a fear of inbreeding, it can be avoided as long as half of the queens specialize in producing male ant eggs and half of the queens specialize in producing female ant eggs.
However, after the wedding flight ceremony, a hundred adult male ants can be of great use, but the protagonist cannot handle a hundred queen ants.
Even if these one hundred queen ants are allowed to lay eggs at the lowest speed, thousands of eggs can be laid that day. It won't be long before the ant population in "Dongyang City" exceeds one hundred thousand, and then it will be famine - just rely on Collecting and animal husbandry simply cannot support so many ant colonies.
The protagonist thought for a while and only ordered one queen to lay three female ant eggs. During the wedding flight ceremony, we might as well let more than a hundred male ants (including the male ants who failed in the previous wedding flight ceremony) compete for these three female ants.
Anyway, there is a wedding ceremony program formulated by the protagonist, so there will be no trouble due to too fierce competition. Most of the failed male ants will never have the chance to spread their genes in their lifetime, so they might as well settle down and be the basic commanders of the army.
After planning these, the protagonist is ready to wait quietly for "Dongyang City" to grow in strength, and then go out again to avenge its previous humiliation.
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Reality did not let the protagonist do what he wished.
That afternoon, some worker ants operating in the south of "Dongyang City" fled back in a panic to report that they had been attacked by a large group of enemies.
South? enemy? The protagonist immediately thought of the parasitic ants in the south. Are they them? Did they attack?
The protagonist's plan was only to take advantage of the situation and launch an attack again in the future, but he did not expect that the enemy would also take the initiative to attack. The real world is never a computer game, and any opponent is far better than a highly intelligent AI.
The protagonist hurriedly read the memory of this worker ant.
Through the perspective of the worker ant, he saw that the worker ant and other companions were collecting fallen flowers for food in a patch of grass in the south of "Dongyang City".
Suddenly, a clump of grass not far away was pushed aside, and countless parasitic ants with three silk threads on their backs suddenly got into the grass, killing all the worker ants in "Dongyang City" they encountered.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the worker ant hurriedly ran away. Fortunately, the enemy did not open a surrounding net. After the pursuit was fruitless, he watched the lucky worker ant escape smoothly.
Soon, worker ants and soldier ants came back one after another to report back, and they all encountered enemy troops.
The protagonist read the information from some of the messengers and got a general understanding of the situation outside the lair at this moment.
About seven to eight hundred parasitic ants are infested about fifty meters south of "Dongyang City". Among these parasitic ants are large worker ants responsible for command.
Because of this, this army of parasitic ants appears orderly and has clear goals. Along the way, they attacked any members of "Dongyang City" they encountered or saw.
Judging from the route of travel, their goal was the entrance to the lair of "Dongyang City". At the slow advancing speed of the parasitic ant army, they will advance to the vicinity of the nest entrance in about an hour at most.
The "Dongyang City" warriors who encountered parasitic ants along the way were all very brave. Except for a few messengers who escaped and came back to report the news, the other warriors, whether they were soldier ants or worker ants, bravely charged towards many powerful enemies.
The parasitic ants have individual combat effectiveness and numerical advantages. These sporadic brave resistances cannot cause much damage to them, but the sacrificed big-headed ants have successfully slowed down the enemy's movement speed.
How do these parasitic ants know where the entrance to the nest of "Dongyang City" is? They are not like the protagonist who can fly into the sky and conduct reconnaissance.
Moreover, the protagonist has not received any information about the presence of parasitic ant scouts nearby in the past two days. With the poor eyesight of ants, it is impossible to conduct an investigation without alerting nearby patrols and workers.
The protagonist thought of two possibilities:
The first possibility is that these parasitic ants originally migrated from "Dongyang City", and it is natural for them to know the way back.
But the protagonist overturned this guess.
Although ants have general guidance capabilities, if they want to find a target accurately, they still need to rely on pheromones for guidance most of the time. It has been at least a few months since the parasitic ants migrated, and the pheromones they left behind should have expired long ago.
The second possibility is that these parasitic ants came after the pheromones and blood traces left behind by the Angel King's army when they retreated.
The more the protagonist thinks about it, the more possible it becomes. Because he did not think of such a deep level during the retreat, the protagonist did not give orders to the rear troops to clean up the traces of the retreat.
There were a large number of wounded in the Legion of the God Envoy King, and their blood and body fluids dripped all the way, forming a road of blood.
As for the pheromones left by the Divine Envoy King's legions, these parasitic ants originally from "Dongyang City" can naturally read them and understand their meaning.
There is no longer much need to look for reasons and assign responsibility. The enemy has arrived at the doorstep, and the top priority is to destroy or expel the enemy.
Although the intelligence gathered from the ants who escaped showed that there are only about 700 or 800 enemy troops outside the entrance of the "Dongyang City" nest, and they cannot capture the "Dongyang City" with tens of thousands of ants, the protagonist does not know Whether or not there was an army of parasitic ants behind him, he could only plan according to the worst-case scenario.
The protagonist immediately urgently notifies all adult Wang Fei to hold a meeting in the conference room.
Soon, the kings all arrived. The protagonist told all the kings about the attack on "Dongyang City" and asked all the kings except Lan Bofei to immediately gather their troops and go out to defend the enemy.
All the kings dispersed to gather their troops. The protagonist also brought his own bodyguards to the ground. These bodyguards all live near the protagonist's palace. Unless ordered by the protagonist, they will not leave the station easily, so they assemble very quickly.
The protagonist was the first to lead his subordinates to the ground outside the lair. After waiting for a few more minutes, teams led by other kings rushed over.
Due to time constraints, these kings did not select only soldier ants as their subordinates like last time. Instead, they captured all the worker ants and soldier ants they encountered on the road.
Generally speaking, in the teams led by these kings, the ratio of soldier ants to worker ants is roughly two to three. The later the team comes, the higher the proportion of worker ants.
The protagonist did not reprimand these kings for recruiting worker ants on their own initiative. He did not issue a specific order this time requiring all the soldiers in the team to be soldier ants.
After confirming that all twenty-eight teams have arrived, the protagonist leads the Angel King's army to march south to face the invading parasitic ant army.
