The oldest king is missing, and as the information package shared by the senior brother was read by all the kings present, this fact is now unquestionable in front of everyone.
Immediately after learning that the oldest king was missing, the police and the senior brother agreed that the members of the main nest must be kept secret. The only ones who could disclose the news were the kings.
However, it was unrealistic to notify everyone one by one, so the police proposed to convene a meeting of all kings to discuss the matter.
Since the Divine Envoy King was in "Dongyang City", three other kings were ordered to lead their troops to the western region to deal with some border disputes. Therefore, after the messenger was sent, the news was not made public to everyone until today when all personnel arrived.
Based on various evidences, it can be basically concluded that the oldest king actively "escaped" from the main nest.
The protagonist couldn't help but remember that more than half a year ago, when he came to the main nest to meet the Lao Wang in front of the parasitic ants in the southern hilly area, he learned the news that the Lao Wang suddenly went into seclusion.
He was still very puzzled at the time, so he went to ask his eldest brother and the police, but it turned out that his eldest brother was not in the main nest, and the police were also confused. The police told the protagonist: Three days ago, Lao Wang suddenly disappeared and did not attend the meeting of kings. He only said that he was communicating with the gods. So all the kings and kings stopped looking for him.
At that time, the protagonist also learned that Lao Wang had never had such a retreat experience before. However, at that time, everyone generally believed that as the person in charge of communicating with God, the most strange behavior of the most powerful king was not an exaggeration.
Further back, when the protagonist came to the main nest for the first time, he once lived opposite the eldest brother before and after participating in the military operation to regain the sub-nest occupied by the pavement ant barbarian army.
Now that I think about it, the protagonist lived above the Lao Wang's palace. When he slept in the room every night, he could often hear strange noises coming from behind the wall, like a broom sweeping the ground.
The first seclusion incident is undoubtedly closely related to the escape of the oldest king, but the protagonist has no clue whether the second abnormal noise is related to it.
Other kings also described what they thought was abnormal, but there was no particularly meaningful evidence.
The escape of the Lao Lao Wang has now become a fact. The male ants present at the meeting are still at a loss as to why he did this after piecing together all the known evidence.
Since the cause cannot be ascertained, the King's Conference still needs to resolve some subsequent troublesome matters.
The first is whether to continue to recognize the identity of the oldest king.
Many kings believed that since the other party fled, he should be regarded as a traitor and his title must be revoked. However, many kings believe that the reason why the oldest king fled is a mystery, and there are even doubts about whether he fled on his own initiative.
In the end, the opinion of the Council of Kings was to freeze the title of the Lao Wang, but not to declare him a traitor. Once the Lao Wang is found, a Council of Kings must be convened immediately to question or even try him.
Now that the first issue has been resolved, the king's original proposal to let the senior brother who has received the vocational education of the eldest brother succeed the eldest king has naturally been shelved. However, the King's Meeting still made special arrangements to promote the senior brother's status from king to king, and temporarily take over the work of the oldest king.
In addition, the king's meeting also decided to announce this incident to all ants in the main nest and all sub-nests.
If it were the human world, and a scandal involving a national-level person fleeing or even treason occurred, the relevant information would generally be tightly blocked, or at least downplayed. The ants do not have this worry, and the worker ants or soldier ants at the bottom will not panic because of this. Everyone will still live and work as usual, and the King's Conference believes that there is no need to keep it secret.
Announcement of this news to all the ants in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom will also make it easier to discover the whereabouts of the oldest king. As long as he is still hiding in the kingdom, it will be difficult to hide from the tentacles of ants searching for food everywhere.
The meeting of kings also passed a resolution, with the senior brother in charge, setting up an investigation team to continue investigating the reasons for the escape of the oldest king and searching for his whereabouts.
If this strange incident does not have a final and reasonable result, I believe many kings will not be reconciled - in the history of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, not one of the oldest kings has disappeared for no reason. This is simply an insult and smear to the warriors.
——I am the dividing line——
After discussing the matter of the oldest king, since the God-Emissary King rarely returns to the main nest, the king's meeting is rarely held, so there is another important matter that can be discussed at this opportunity.
The Public Security King emphasized at the meeting:
It is now late autumn, the weather is getting colder and colder, and it is becoming less and less suitable for ants to go out. Seeing that winter is coming, after the river freezes, those pavement ant barbarian troops who are not afraid of the severe cold and can move during the winter day will move south to attack the secondary nest in the north of the kingdom. The kingdom must start defensive military mobilization now to ensure In winter, try to block the attack of the pavement ant barbarian army as much as possible, at least not to let them threaten the main nest.
The kings immediately started a heated discussion. For the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, the pavement ant barbarians have been an old enemy that has been eager to be destroyed for thousands of years. The defensive battles every winter and the recapture battles after the wedding ceremony in the next spring are unusual. Tragic. Being able to lose one less auxiliary nest in winter is a major military victory for the big-headed ant kingdom.
According to the protagonist's understanding, the Pavement Ant Barbarian Army has a great advantage in winter. They have an ability that the Big-headed Ant Kingdom Army does not have, which is that they can move freely on the cold ground during the sunny day in winter. If the big-headed ants dare to do this, they will be frozen in the cold wind and die soon.
The protagonist does not understand the reason for the racial talent of the pavement ants, but since the big-headed ants lack this BUFF, they can only engage in passive defense in a relatively warm nest.
For the defender, several sub-nests along the river and deep areas all need to be defended, so they can only divide their troops to guard them, which puts them at a natural disadvantage. However, the attacking side can mobilize the main force and eat away the secondary nests and defenders of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom one after another.
Therefore, every winter, no matter how seriously the Big-headed Ant Kingdom prepares for war, it will inevitably lose troops and territory. But as soon as spring arrived, the river melted, and the pavement ant barbarian army on the lost land of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom lost its local support. At this time, the situation of strength and weakness was reversed, and the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's army could regain the lost ground and completely eliminate the enemy forces on the south bank of the river.
In the following summer and autumn, neither side can defeat the other. They can only rest and accumulate strength until winter to continue the past process. Because of the obstruction of the river, neither side can threaten the other's main nest, so they can only carry out meaningless consumption year after year.
Will this year's war be the same?
