So that's it, so everything makes sense. Only then did the protagonist suddenly realize that all the mysteries that had troubled him before seemed to have been lifted open and suddenly became clear.
From this piece of information, the protagonist thinks of another ant, a pavement ant, and a pavement ant queen - Black Pearl.
Black Pearl grew up in the main nest of the Pavement Ant Kingdom, but under the eyes of the Pavement Ant King Conference, she received the education secretly inherited by the Queen Ant.
This inheritance believes that the entire ant world was originally ruled by the queen ant, and the queen was the orthodox ruler, and the society at that time was in order.
The current male ant rulers are a group of thieves who have stolen power, and their rule is not recognized by the queen's secret inheritance lock. Moreover, the secret inheritance of the queen ant believes that the evil male ants prevent the young female ants from receiving education in order to restrict the queen and female ants.
But the ant queens still secretly pass on their knowledge and experience from generation to generation, dreaming of restoring the tradition of queen ant governance. They can even gain the allegiance of some male ants and worker ants.
As a form of resistance, the queen's secret inheritance will encourage young female ants to find opportunities to escape and develop their own colonies after participating in the wedding flight ceremony - in accordance with ancient traditions, establishing a colony ruled by the queen. And it is said that there are already successful precedents.
Now it seems that this secret inheritance of queen ants is not only found in the Pavement Ant Kingdom, but also in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom.
The protagonist had the same worry before, although considering that "Dongyang City" and "Linshui City" were ordinary sub-nests in the past, with only one queen stationed all year round, it was unlikely that a secret inheritor would emerge.
The current ant queens are all cultivated by the protagonist themselves and should not be affected by external trends of thought. Therefore the protagonist takes no action.
But now it seems that, at least in the main nest of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom, the secret inheritance power of the Queen Ant is still very powerful. Even the oldest king with a high status in the King's Conference is with them.
Moreover, unlike the queen successors in the Paved Ant Kingdom who tried to influence young female ants and escaped from their bonds through passive means of escaping after marriage, the queen successors in the Big-headed Ant Kingdom used more drastic methods and simply fled en masse.
The protagonist sketches the faces of this group of inheritors in his mind.
This should be a small group centered on some queen ants, with some worker ants, soldier ants and even male ants loyal to them.
This small group is quite cohesive and has not revealed its existence for so many years. The Big-headed Ant Kingdom's Council of Kings may not know anything about this force under their noses.
The small group of queen ant successors has been cautiously and slowly gathering strength along with the long history of the big-headed ant kingdom. Perhaps they have also adopted the same method that paved the way for the ant kingdom before, hoping that young female ants will leave the group after marriage and flight. To build an ideal country.
However, there are always failed new queens who are forced to return to the main nest. They are the inheritors from generation to generation.
However, these queen ant successors have been exposed to new ideas and the vast and free world outside. Are they really willing to spend the rest of their lives in the dark underground, serving as wedding dresses for the new female ants that are born every year?
Now, there is finally a chance to escape again - the oldest king of this generation has become a supporter of the ant queen's secret inheritance.
The oldest king has a special status and a distinguished status. Because of his responsibilities, he has a separate bedroom located at the bottom of the entire nest. It is far away from the bedrooms of other kings or kings, but very close to the area where some queens can move.
Although the queen ants do not have enough freedom of movement in the main nest, the workers and soldier ants around them are their eyes, antennae and joints.
With the help of these supporters who can move freely, the queen ant successors can not only keep in touch with each other, but also communicate with the oldest king.
Perhaps it was during this repeated communication that they and Lao Wang perfected the final plan.
Lao Wang announced that he would start to retreat, temporarily exempting himself from outside interference.
Then, some supporters of the ant queen's inheritance began to come to the palace of the oldest king and dig an unknown passage to the free world outside.
The noises that the protagonist heard while resting in the temporary room near the palace of the oldest king should be the construction noise of these inheritance supporters.
Finally, the passage was opened by the industrious ants, and the oldest king, three queen ants with inheritance, and several supporters escaped from the main nest through the passage and headed south.
There must still be queen ant successors and their supporters in the main nest who have not left. Because this operation is of the same nature as previous attempts to encourage young female ants to escape after their nuptial flight. It is just a means to realize the queen's secret inheritance. You cannot bet everything on a plan that may fail.
The inheritance in the main nest still needs the queen ant successor to continue, so there will be inheritance forces willingly dormant in the main nest.
As for the oldest king and the queen heading south, they will inevitably be discovered by ants from the secondary nest looking for food along the way. However, with the identity of the oldest king and the aura of the main nest, this group will not be intercepted.
They rushed to the south as quickly as possible and built a nest to practice their ideas, calling it the "real deputy nest".
The establishment of this nest may be difficult. After all, there are only dozens of worker ants following the team, and there may be losses during the long journey in the wild.
With this labor force, they need to build nests in late autumn, hoard food, and survive the first cold winter without fire.
No matter how difficult it was for them, no matter how many companions they lost, they finally survived the first winter, and then began to look for food and give birth to new ones after spring.
Everything went well at first, and even the deputy nest of the neighboring Big-headed Ant Kingdom came here, believing in the ancient tradition of respecting the queen.
However, a late spring cold occurred quickly at the beginning of the year, which had a long-term negative impact on food resources everywhere.
The foundation of the newly established "real main nest" is too weak. It needs to store food and quickly expand the nest's ant population to maintain the normal development of the nest. Their ability to respond to natural disasters is far weaker than other nests.
Therefore, after persisting for half a year, the food reserves of the "real main nest" were still exhausted, and it was not even enough to sustain them until the next grass seed harvest.
A lot of the food that the secondary nest that had taken refuge in itself was taken away by the pseudo-main nest, and the "real secondary nest" was in dire straits.
At this time, they can only seek new assistance, and the prosperity of "Dongyang City" under the protagonist has become famous in the past two years.
The successors of the ant queen may have received news from their companions lurking in the false master's nest, so they sent messengers, hoping to get the protagonist's assistance, and even...loyalty!
