After the wildfire, "Linshui City" and "Qiaohead" began to enter the post-disaster reconstruction stage.
Since this fire also affected several sub-nests of the Pavement Ant Barbarians, after investigation, except for the sub-nest closest to the "Bridgehead" that was completely wiped out by the Angel King's army in the first counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the rest of the nearby sub-nests were found to be nearby. Because there was no early warning, the deputy director's nest suffered heavy losses.
In this way, even if the Pavement Ant Nation still wants to take hostile actions, it will be unlikely to be ready to launch a second attack in a short time because it has no starting base and difficulty in raising food nearby.
The external environment has been improved, allowing the God Envoy King Corps to fully devote itself to post-disaster reconstruction.
"Linshuicheng" and "Qiaohead", the main losses in the fire in these two territories are divided into two parts. One part is the loss of ant colonies, and about hundreds of ants died; the other part is the long-term impact caused by the destruction of the surface ecology.
The loss of the ant colony is easy to make up for. There is a queen ant stationed in "Linshui City" now. As long as it is used at full capacity, the same number of new ants will be able to replenish it in a month.
What is more troublesome is that the surface ecology has been destroyed.
Although nature has a tenacious ability to repair, and some relatively sturdy trees did not die in this wildfire, most of the weeds, shrubs and small trees were burned to the ground.
It takes several months to a year for weeds to restore their communities, several years for shrubs, and several years to decades for trees to grow back to their original size.
Whether they are shrubs or trees, the growth cycle is too long, which means that the main vegetation in the territory will be dominated by grassland for a certain period of time.
This change in the ecological environment will inevitably cause changes in the insect communities growing there, which will have an impact on the food sources and food composition of the ants.
The protagonist is powerless to change this situation. The ants obviously do not have the ability to plant trees on a large scale. What the protagonist can do now is to use the power at hand as much as possible to improve the external ecological environment.
Under the order of the protagonist, except for half of the Legion soldiers who stayed at the "Bridgehead", all the soldiers of the Angel King devoted themselves to pioneering the land on the south bank of the river.
A large number of ants carried the newly harvested weed seeds taken out of the granary and began to sow them on the burned land on the south bank of the river.
The seeds harvested in these farmlands were originally weeds. After being sown, they can quickly germinate and grow under the current sufficient water, temperature and light conditions.
The density of seeds sown by the ants is more appropriate. It is sparser than the plants under normal circumstances when weeds grow wildly and squeeze each other's living space, and denser than the weeds that recover sporadically after the fire. While taking into account the future unit yield, we also try our best. The sown area may have been expanded.
This fire accidentally helped the God Envoy King's army expand the farmland area many times.
You know, in normal times, opening up farmland will take up a lot of labor. Opening up farmland is not a simple matter. The ants have to use their small bodies and simple tools to cut off the stubborn weeds on the ground, cut down the shrubs with strong roots and trunks, and remove large and small rocks. Blocks are cleared.
Clearing a ten-square-meter farmland requires thousands of strong laborers to work for two or three days.
Now, after a wildfire completely destroys the ground vegetation, the ants hardly need to do any more work. They only need to sow the seeds, and a natural flat farmland appears.
The ash left behind after the fire will also become a natural fertilizer for new farmland.
In this way, an "oasis" of thousands of square meters will soon appear on the south bank of the river near "Linshui City". While vegetation in other places is still slowly recovering, lush grass has already appeared here.
Maybe the farmers under the protagonist don't have the energy to take care of so many fields. They can only put their limited energy and ant manure fertilizer into some farmland. But these farmland crops are just weeds. Even without farmers' care, they can still live well. At most The yield is a little bit lower.
And such an oasis is bound to attract surviving insects to come to look for food, which is conducive to ants hunting.
——I am the dividing line——
After making a plan and watching the post-disaster reconstruction get on track, the protagonist crossed the river for the first time and came to the "Bridgehead".
Although the "Bridgehead" was also affected by the disaster, the protagonist has no plans to rebuild here.
This is because the "bridgehead" may once again become a war zone in the future, and the protagonist does not want the crops he has worked so hard to grow to become military rations for the enemy to eat on the spot.
In this way, the area near the "Bridgehead" was preserved as it was, a scorched earth, making it extremely difficult for any creature to find food here.
Only the legion of the Divine Envoy King stationed inside the "Bridgehead" can have food and clothing without worries and receive constant transportation supplies from the south bank of the river.
The protagonist came to the "Bridgehead" because King Ukiha, who was previously captured and imprisoned here, requested to see him.
After the victory of the first counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, King Fuye, who "surrendered", actually wanted the protagonist to accept the "peace" conditions he proposed on behalf of the Pavement Ant Nation under extremely unfavorable circumstances.
The protagonist did not accept it in the end, but he had the idea of subduing the other party. However, at that time, the proud King Fuye naturally could not agree to "commit himself to the thief".
So the protagonist imprisoned him in the "Bridgehead" and ordered several soldiers to guard him closely, and only allowed him to move in the internal area of the "Bridgehead".
But this time King Fuye asked to see him, and it was obvious that he had relaxed his attitude.
In fact, during the period when King Fuye was imprisoned, his entire outlook on life suffered a huge impact.
When he was captured and imprisoned, King Fuye was very worried about his personal safety. However, after a few days, King Fuye confirmed that the other party had no intention of killing him for the time being. At least, the food the other party gave him was pretty good, but in the Pavement Ant Kingdom, they would not be so kind to the captives. They would either kill them directly or use the raised young ants as slaves.
King Fuye's initial impression of the place where he was imprisoned was that the food was very good.
For God's sake, the food he eats every day actually contains meat, although the meat is dry, like earthworms that crawled out of the ground on a rainy day and then failed to hide back underground after the weather cleared. It tastes bad, but it tastes pretty good.
What surprised King Fuye was that he found that most of the ants in the entire nest, including the humble worker ants and soldier ants, could also eat meat every day, although the amount was slightly smaller.
You know, even in the fertile pavement ant country, only the king and queens can ensure that they eat meat every day! The food of most untouchables consists of plant seeds, roots, flowers and leaves.
