In order to answer his own questions, the protagonist can only increase the intensity of the investigation in order to find some clues.
As for the methods of investigation, there are nothing more than ground investigation and aerial investigation. In theory, both have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the protagonist first eliminated ground investigation.
With the poor eyesight of the big-headed ants, the scouts on the ground may not even see the shadow of the enemy, and will be killed by the ants with excellent eyesight, dexterity and agility, and are good at ambush.
All that's left is aerial reconnaissance, which is also the reconnaissance method that the God's Envoy King's Legion relies on more and more since the flying knights were introduced.
Although limited by the eyesight of big-headed ants (even male ants with the best eyesight have an effective field of vision of only half a meter), the flying knights must fly at a lower altitude to effectively detect. However, the coverage, speed and security of this kind of detection are far higher than other detection methods.
In terms of coverage, when the Flying Knight is conducting reconnaissance at its usual height, its field of view will cover an area close to half a square meter. If it were a human, it would be equivalent to one person monitoring an area of 5,000 square meters.
In terms of speed, the flying knight's speed is 60 times that of the ground scouts. When the ground terrain is rugged, the speed will reach 100 times. Faster speed can not only enhance the effectiveness of intelligence, but also increase the coverage area of investigation in disguise. When the flying knight's speed is 60 times that of the ground scout, its detection range within the same period of time is 240 times that of the ground scout.
In terms of safety, ground scouts often encounter dangers such as enemy ambushes and insect attacks, while flying knights flying in the air are generally not afraid of threats on the ground. So far, only a few flying knights have suffered losses due to ambushes carefully arranged by the enemy in trees and other high places. For flying knights, flying insects such as dragonflies are not a big threat, because the flexible fly mounts can always use their superb flying skills to escape.
Therefore, facing the opponent with outstanding eyesight that he encountered for the first time, the protagonist could only let the flying knights go into battle again.
The flying knights lived up to expectations. Twenty flying knights set out at the same time and conducted several dragnet searches in the areas where the ants were infested, and found many effective clues.
The protagonist carefully sorts out the information packets of each flying knight, then collects useful clues and analyzes them thoroughly.
According to the intelligence reported back by most of the flying knights, behind the area where the Angel King's army was intercepted, there were a large number of nests of scythe-hunting ants.
The average distance between these nests is only a few hundred or even tens of meters, which can be said to be adjacent to each other. It is estimated that there will be hundreds or even thousands of ant nests in such an area.
This makes the protagonist very satisfied with his decision to withdraw his troops. If so many opponents in the nest are really alarmed, the life of the God Envoy King's army will definitely be difficult.
Although ant nests are located close to each other, fights between them are rare. Because a nest of predatory ants only has dozens or hundreds of members, it needs limited food, and its requirements for territorial space are not high. A nest's territory of several thousand square meters is enough for them to coexist peacefully.
Of course, the flying knights also discovered some situations where hunter teams from different lairs encountered each other.
Sometimes the hunters in these different nests are more restrained, and even communicate with each other with tentacles before separating from each other. These may be related nests.
Others will bar their teeth and claws at a safe distance of about half a meter, just like Maori performing a war dance, both to threaten the other party and to cheer up their own side.
Most of the time, because the two sides are evenly matched, the hunters on both sides will retreat. Sometimes the numerical gap between the two sides is too great, and then the dominant side will launch an attack without mercy.
The battle between the two groups of scythe-hunting ants was particularly exciting. These black and agile assassins jumped everywhere during the fight, like a dance. Although the scale of the battle is not large, it has the charm of the martial arts scenes in old Hong Kong movies.
It seems that these scythe-hunting ants are not at peace with each other. This can be seen from the fact that three groups of scythe-hunting ants in different nests were wary of each other when confronting the Angel King's army.
However, as soon as the God Envoy King's army appears, the main energy of these scythe-hunting ants will be on them. This originally surprised the protagonist. After all, it was the first time for him to come into contact with the ants. Logically, he shouldn't have such great hostility and hatred.
You must know that the boundaries of ants' territories are not very clear. As long as the ants accidentally enter the enemy's range of activities, as long as they are agile and can escape in time after contacting the enemy, there will generally be no life threat.
However, as more and more information is revealed, the protagonist consciously finds the source of this hostility.
Among the information brought back by some flying knights, the protagonist saw a battlefield ruins.
This is a battlefield located in a pile of rubble halfway up a hillside. Judging from the time, the battle should have occurred not long ago. The recent rain and strong winds have caused some damage to the battlefield ruins, but the two warring parties can still be easily identified.
One of the parties is the hunting ant, and from the number of dead bodies, it can be seen that there are at least dozens or even hundreds of nests involved in this battle, and there are thousands of corpses left on the ground.
On the other hand, the protagonist is also very familiar with them - those parasitic ants that the protagonist has been chasing, but there are still a few remnants who have fled in defeat.
It can be seen that these individuals have strong combat effectiveness, and the parasitic ants with cunning commanders did not take any advantage in this battle. The corpses they left behind were far more than those of the ants. The casualty ratio between the two sides was roughly one to five.
However, considering that the reproductive capacity of parasitic ants is much stronger than that of the slow-breeding ants, if this consumption continues for a long time, the parasitic ant nest will have the last laugh.
There are several details in this battlefield that the protagonist cares about.
One is that among the corpses of both sides, there is a corpse of a dung beetle that is particularly eye-catching. From the remains of parasitic bacteria in the gaps on its back, it can be determined that this is a war beast controlled by parasitic ants, rather than one that accidentally entered the battlefield. Passenger.
This dung beetle was one size smaller than the ones that attacked the tree stump fortress guarded by the Angel King's legion. It was lying on its back, and its relatively soft abdomen was covered with puncture wounds. Beside it, there were densely packed corpses of hundreds of sickle-hunting ants.
The protagonist couldn't help but restore the tragic battle situation at that time: an entire nest of hundreds of scythe-hunting ferocious ants fearlessly attacked the extremely huge parasitic dung beetle war beast.
They paid a huge sacrifice and worked together to turn the war beast over, and then pierced the belly of the war beast with their long and pointed jaws, killing the opponent completely.
However, at this time, these brave warriors were also surrounded by a large number of parasitic ants, and there may even be larger dung beetles among them. With no hope of breaking out, these ant-hunting warriors all died heroically.
