Generations of ant queens have survived this cruel ritual, and some have successfully escaped from the control of the ant nest. They choose to follow their own ideals and face the unknown future.
There are also some queen ants who, for various reasons, failed to successfully break out and chose to return to their nests.
Whether actively or forced, they have become the inheritors among the ant queens. It is the inheritors from generation to generation. The experience they have accumulated greatly improves the survival probability of young female ants who learn these experiences, at least compared with those of those who have inherited these experiences. Unfortunately, I didn’t come into contact with the inherited female ant strength. They also guard the ancient secrets and inheritance that only a few queens know.
The young female ant now realizes that her life is not always safe, and a feeling of being cheated lingers in her heart.
As expected, the legendary wedding flight ceremony came soon. Thanks to the experience of the predecessors, the young female ants always avoided predators and crazy male ants, and completed mating in a relatively safe location at the ceremony site - this is sacred. Traditional one-on-one pairing.
Then, she decisively left the already chaotic and increasingly dangerous ceremony site, and flew towards the sun with the help of the cover of vegetation.
The reason for deciding to escape was not so much to inherit the tradition and the ideals of the queens, but to avoid danger.
According to the experience of the predecessors, the route to stay and return to the nest is no safer than escaping. There are many cunning male ants lying in wait on that road, watching eagerly.
And returning to the ant nest to stay with the power thief, carrying the inherited secret, this young female ant always feels very dangerous.
She just chose the path she thought was most suitable based on her instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. And she was very lucky to have a safe journey and arrived at a land where there were no pavement ant activities, and she was ready to settle here.
Instinct tells her what to do, and this is rarely recorded in the inherited knowledge. Because none of the inheritors who returned to the lair had ever had this kind of experience.
The young female ant found a suitable location: a sunny, high-lying stone, and dug a hole at the joint between the stone and the earth, extending diagonally underground. Then, she expanded the end of the passage into a nest.
If all goes well, this nest will be her first bedroom and the nursery where she will raise her first offspring alone.
At that time, the female ants will bite off their own wings and lay the first batch of worker eggs. Until this group of worker ants grows up, the young queen can be freed from the heavy work and become the ruler of the nest.
While raising her first workers, the queen will seal the nest from the inside to prevent predators from entering from the outside. During this period, the queen ant can only eat her fallen wings and then rely on the reserves in her body. Many queens do not survive this period of time.
However, the queen apparently failed to establish her own colony as planned.
Before she could seal the entrance to the cave, she was discovered by the patrol of the Fourth Legion of the Divine Envoy King, and then the previous scene happened.
The protagonist receives these messages from the mind of the queen pavement ant, and he knows that she has succumbed.
After the protagonist promised to ensure the life and safety of the queen ant, the queen agreed to live in the location given to her by the protagonist and lay eggs as requested by the protagonist.
For this queen ant, any idea of establishing a traditional colony ruled by a queen is an illusory ideal.
Living is the best.
What difference does it make whether it is supported by big-headed ants or by pavement ants that they gave birth to? I still just need to lay eggs.
that power? She has never been exposed to power or tasted its temptation! free? From birth, she only experienced a short period of freedom after her marriage. Living in the cell designated by the protagonist was no different from the inheritors who lived in the original lair and were restricted from freedom of movement.
In this way, the protagonist successfully subdued a foreign ant queen. If everything goes well, he will soon have warriors from both the big-headed ants and the pavement ants under his command.
This is not a well-thought-out plan, but more like an arrangement made by the protagonist on a whim.
In fact, from the protagonist's point of view, apart from their high fertility rate, pavement ants do not have many advantages over big-headed ants. Especially in terms of single combat effectiveness, the protagonist still prefers an army composed purely of big-headed ants and soldier ants.
However, since he was able to successfully subdue the queen of pavement ants, the protagonist began to wonder if he could subdue the hunter ant group.
The eyesight and single combat power of the scythe-hunting ants are the best candidates for the scout unit. This will free the protagonist from a lot of strategic and tactical reconnaissance work, and also make up for the current flying knights' shortcomings in reconnaissance. .
The protagonist instructs Rambotu to build a new palace deep in the "Bridgehead" and place the succumbed pavement ant queen (named "Black Pearl" by the protagonist) in it.
The palace is surrounded by military camps to prevent the queen from escaping. Twenty loyal big-headed worker ants were taken to take care of the queen. They were led by a big worker ant transferred from "Dongyang City". They were strictly prohibited from having any communication with the "Black Pearl".
The queen must produce ant eggs according to the protagonist's requirements. The first batch of protagonist's plan is to produce five hundred pavement ant workers for daily work in the "Bridgehead" area. These pavement ant workers will be prohibited from going to the south bank of the river to avoid being discovered by messengers from the main nest.
If the queen ant lays eggs without permission, the eggs will be eaten as food. At the same time, disobedient queens must also be punished, such as reducing material supplies.
In terms of material supply, the protagonist gave the pavement ant queen the same supply standards as the big-headed ant queen.
As the ultimate precautionary measure, the protagonist requires that any contact between the queen ant and her pavement ant workers be strictly prohibited, including meeting. The protagonist is afraid that some lurking ant queen guard will appear in his territory...
After placing the "Black Pearl", the other party was taken away obediently.
The protagonist is not worried about the main nest discovering the existence of the "Black Pearl" and causing trouble. The rope bridge is under his strict control. No ants except the ants under the protagonist are allowed to pass. This allows maximum confidentiality.
What the protagonist is now worried about is that there is a lurking successor among the queen ants of the pavement ants, who seems to be quite powerful and hates the male ant class, calling them "stealers of power."
So, in the big-headed ant kingdom, are there also such a group of queen ants and their followers?
What's even more dangerous is that the seemingly honest and responsible ant queens placed by the protagonist in "Dongyang City" are really as harmless as they seem?
——I am the dividing line——
I'm off on the weekend as usual, see you next Monday!
