It will take half a day before Xiaoqing II is brought back to "Linshui City", so the protagonist can only wait patiently.
At this time, Rambotu reported another interesting news to him: In the past two days, queen pavement ants landed near the "Bridgehead" and wanted to build a nest, and they were discovered by the patrol. The fourth legion of the Divine Envoy King stationed here quickly dispatched and killed three of the ant queens. Because they suspected that there were still ant queens nearby, they had recently increased their patrols.
The protagonist thought that after the wedding flight ceremony of the queen pavement ants, nearly half of the queens did choose not to return to the nest, but flew away. The main character who was harmed was being chased by a wasp. It was such a stray pavement ant queen.
According to the practice of ant ancestors, all queens after marriage will leave their original nests, find a suitable place on the earth, develop a new ant colony independently, and spread their color genes.
However, with the development of ant civilization, large-scale kingdoms composed of several or even hundreds of sub-nests have become more competitive, gradually replacing small-scale individual colonies.
For the sake of generational replacement, these kingdoms began to restrict the free movement of the queens after marriage, and instead required them to return to their nests and become the kingdom's fertility machines.
However, the power imprinted in genes is powerful, and many queen ants are still willing to wait for the opportunity to leave the kingdom and leave the nest, taking great risks to independently cultivate a new tribe.
In the marriage flight ceremony of the Pavement Ant Barbarians, it is common to see queens doing this. Because the territory of the Pavement Barbarians is too large, the wedding flight ceremonies are held in scattered places. This causes the main nest of Pavement Ants to be indifferent to those far away from the main nest. The control of the wedding flight ceremony is weak, giving the queen a chance to escape.
Especially the wedding flight ceremony observed by the protagonist is very close to the actual control border of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. Whether the Pavement Ant Queens fly into the woods or across the river, they can escape from the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom. control.
Of course, the woods are full of dangers, and the south bank of the river is the territory of the big-headed ant kingdom. It is extremely difficult for the pavement ant queen to secretly develop a new colony.
About 90% of the queens who do this will not survive to raise the first batch of worker ants. The queens of pavement ants who are lucky enough to successfully raise offspring will have a very weak tribe and are in danger of being wiped out by the enemy at any time.
The big-headed ant kingdom has more powerful control over the queens who participate in the wedding flight ceremony. Since the wedding flight ceremony is held in the main nest located in the hinterland of the kingdom, wherever the escaped queen flies, it is the territory of the big-headed ant kingdom. In addition, the ground security force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is strong, and the Big-headed Ant Queen will be taken away by the patrol team soon after landing on the ground. Therefore, in the wedding flight ceremony of the big-headed ant kingdom, no more than 10% of the queens can leave, and it is basically impossible to develop a tribe of their own.
It is said that within the King's Conference, there are different opinions on this strict control of the queen. The missing eldest king is one of them. He has always believed that according to the oldest tradition, the ant queen is the most noble person of the entire race and is also the mother. They have the right to choose the future of themselves and their children, and the king and the king should not interfere. .
It's just that for matters involving class interests, even the oldest king cannot shake the entire male ant class's desire to control the kingdom.
Upon hearing the news that a pavement ant queen has landed near the "Bridgehead", the protagonist's eyes light up. These should be the independent queens who broke away from the pavement ant barbarian country after the wedding flight ceremony.
The protagonist told Rambotu to send more manpower to search for these lone queen ants, and not to kill them, but to capture them alive. He had his own intentions.
Rambotu took the order and left, and the protagonist took the newly tamed "Tempest" across the river and returned to "Linshui City".
There was also an episode in which "Tempest" refused to climb the rope across the river. Judging from its posture, it seemed to be a little afraid of water.
It can only be blamed on the fact that the eyesight of the Fly Tigers was so good that they could clearly see the flowing river water under the rope, which caused them to feel fear. If this were an ordinary ant, it would not be able to see what was underneath it, so it would just follow the instructions and crawl over. However, due to a lack of awareness of the dangers, many ants were not cautious enough when crossing the river and were blown away by the wind and fell.
In the end, the protagonist can only carry the timid "Tempest" across the river...
——I am the dividing line——
In the afternoon, the flying knight sent by the protagonist rode Xiaoqing II back to "Linshui City".
As expected, Xiaoqing II flew back to "Dongyang City", which was the place where it was born and grew up, so after the protagonist fell and lost control, it naturally chose to return there.
When Lan Bofei saw Xiao Qing II coming back alone, he realized something was wrong and sent a messenger to "Linshui City" to ask for news.
It's just that Rambo flies the flying knight, and the walking messenger he sent has not arrived yet, but the protagonist has returned.
The protagonist couldn't laugh or cry when facing Xiao Qing II. With the IQ of a fly, it was unlikely that he could count on it to be his savior in times of crisis. It would be better to count on the much smarter "Tempest" in the future.
Speaking of which, as a mount, the fly has too many shortcomings.
As a scarce air force, the protagonist imagined that flying knights riding flies should be able to play many roles, but in fact they are not ideal.
For example, flies fly quickly, and flying knights can be used as scouts. However, the eyesight of male ants as flying knights is not very good. When flies fly high in the sky, these male ants can only roughly see some landmarks on the ground, but cannot see details at all. When performing reconnaissance missions, the flying knights must fly very low, which greatly increases their risk of being attacked. While investigating parasitic ants, several flying knights were ambushed and killed.
The protagonist wants the flying knights to serve as messengers, but the flying knights are self-reliant and unwilling to work as messengers, so the protagonist can only use other words to make them reluctantly obey. The other kings couldn't control them at all.
In terms of air combat, not to mention the low combat effectiveness of the male ants themselves, there are currently no enemy ants with air forces that require flying knights to deal with...
As for other tasks that should be undertaken by the air force, such as transportation, the protagonist cannot expect these flies with limited load capacity to be of much use.
The biggest role that flying knights can play now is precisely the function of delivering messages that they look down upon... For example, to deliver a message from "Dongyang City" to "Linshui City", a walking messenger needs to walk for three days, but flying knights We set off in the morning and arrive at noon. This is very efficient and ensures the timeliness of the information.
Generally speaking, the status of flies and flying knights is rather awkward now, their role is not obvious, but they require a lot of resources.
At this moment, the protagonist had the idea of reforming the Flying Knight.
——I am the dividing line——
I was busy doing errands today, but it didn’t go well. My writing was affected and I had no inspiration. Here’s an update! Oh, sorry!
