The protagonist's meeting with King Ukiye went extremely smoothly this time. After a brief exchange, King Ukiye expressed his personal allegiance to the protagonist and the noble Divine Envoy King.
King Fuye believes that he has not betrayed the sacred kingdom of pavement ants. He is only loyal to the true messenger of God personally, rather than to the group kingdom of big-headed ants, although this individual is one of the enemies of pavement ants - —The big-headed ant tribe in the south.
This is also a major change in King Fuye's thinking. The individual and the collective finally confront each other in his thinking. It is no longer a single individual that is subordinate to the collective.
After the protagonist agreed to some simple conditions of King Fuye, King Fuye was conquered.
——I am the dividing line——
In the following days, the post-disaster reconstruction work of "Linshui City" and "Bridgehead" continued to progress steadily, and the protagonist no longer needed to intervene too much.
In the scorched earth on the ground, the planted crops and some scattered weeds have sprouted new green buds and leaves, which makes people feel the tenacity of life.
On this day, the protagonist is finally able to take some time to go to the main lair. This was a trip that had been planned for a long time, but had to be postponed for several days.
I rode Xiaoqing II and flew southwest, passing through a large area that had been ravaged by wildfires.
Flying in the air, you can also see that the sub-nests in these areas are not cut off from life. After all, the ant nests are located underground. As long as they are not unlucky enough to stay on the ground at the time, the ants underground can always be lucky enough to escape the disaster.
But the most difficult thing is the life after the disaster. The surface is barren, the surviving vegetation is too sparse, and new weeds still need time to fill the gaps. The prey also either die or escape. The remaining survivors hiding underground are not enough to support them. The need for a secondary nest.
These secondary nests are in urgent need of rescue from the main nest.
After landing in the main nest, the protagonist is led to a nest room for a temporary rest.
Coming to the main nest again, the protagonist has already felt that the place is full of stale atmosphere. The protagonist, who is used to living in the nest that he has transformed, feels a lot of inconvenience here, as well as a vague sense of alienation.
Take this temporary small nest room as an example. Although it is hosting the most noble Divine Envoy King in the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom, it feels like a "house with four walls" inside. Except for some fluorescent fungi that emit a faint blue light on the four walls, There is nothing else but a gloomy atmosphere.
Regardless of whether it is in "Dongyang City", "Linshui City" or "Bridgehead", the protagonist has an independent living room.
There is a guard room outside the room, where Hua Mulan and several guardsmen stay guard.
There are many fluorescent bacteria in the room, bringing enough light to the entire nest.
A silk bed will be placed in a corner of the room. The silk is made of the freshest and dried ant silk. Sometimes, more delicate silk spun from collected wild silk moths or other insects is used. This bed is soft and comfortable. Comparable to a fine velvet mattress.
Although the conditions are not very good, at least there will be some stones in the house that can be used as stools, as well as some pots and pots. The latter is a tool for the protagonist's diet.
But now, the protagonist can only wait in a simple earthen room.
He stopped a few passing worker ants and asked them to help deliver the message to the king or king who stayed behind.
Soon, a young king came here, and the protagonist asked him for some information.
It turns out that the protagonist is thought to have rushed back to attend the meeting of all kings. This meeting requires the participation of all kings who can make it back in time, and the messenger sent to inform them just left the road the day before yesterday.
The messenger looking for the protagonist is probably still trying to move towards "Linshui City" on a scorched earth. It is not known whether he can reach his destination and complete his mission under the prying eyes of those hungry predators on the scorched earth.
However, the protagonist happened to have arrived at the main nest first. The patrol team that received him mistakenly thought that he had returned after receiving a message, and settled here without saying anything.
What needs to wait now is the expeditionary force returning triumphantly from the battlefield. There are also many kings and kings in the expeditionary army, including many kings with high status and prestige. Without them, this important king's meeting could not be held.
From this king, the protagonist knows that this year's war of recapture was finally won.
After the battlefield entered the stalemate stage, the protagonist had already left. The expeditionary force of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom naturally did not know the tactics of fire attack, water attack, and earth dragon attack. They completely followed the old tactics of underground street fighting, one passage after another, One nest after another, they fought with the remnants of the stubbornly resisting pavement ant army.
It lasted for less than half a month before this stubborn enemy was completely wiped out.
Subsequently, the reinforcements from other secondary nests were dismissed, while the expeditionary force from the main nest rested on the spot.
According to the established plan at the beginning of the year, this group of expeditionary troops will go to the south bank of the river, cross the river with the assistance of the Divine Envoy King, and complete the unprecedented feat of crossing the river to the north in the history of the kingdom.
This made all the kings and kings in the expeditionary army excited.
Just like the pavement ant army is willing to pay a huge price every year to continuously march south, it is an extremely glorious thing to be able to set foot on the enemy's territory and possibly conquer new land for the family.
But during the rest period, the deputy nest where the expeditionary force was located learned of the news of a large-scale wildfire in the territory before the main nest. This secondary nest was fortunately not affected by the fire, but it was very close to the incident site.
Subsequently, the kings who stayed behind in the main nest, after comprehensive intelligence from various places, made a decision and issued an order for the expeditionary force to return.
The disaster was so severe that the central, eastern and northern third of the kingdom were affected.
Now, the importance of continuing the next military operation can only take second place, and the kingdom may not have enough materials and labor to support a large-scale expedition.
What the kingdom needs more is for the All-Kings Council to prioritize ways to deal with disasters.
According to the information the king knew, one-third of the territory of the entire Big-headed Ant Kingdom was affected by wildfire, and almost half of the affected territory was turned into scorched earth. A total of more than thirty secondary nests were affected.
According to the protagonist's experience of flying and patrolling in the air, the territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is probably as large as a few human administrative villages, or the kind of administrative villages in densely populated areas.
The Pandao Ant Country is even more vast, probably reaching the size of a small town.
With such an area, it’s no wonder that a small wildfire would cause damage to a large area of land.
Now, all the kings have to worry about how to provide disaster relief and reconstruction, just like the protagonist had a headache in "Linshui City" before.
However, most of the sub-nests in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom do not have the same material conditions as the protagonist's territory.
