I was diagnosed with chickenpox and was quarantined...I lay down sickly and coded a chapter. By the way: there are a lot of foreshadowings in this chapter!
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist couldn't help but compare the legion of the God Envoy King under his command with the beetle legion in the information package.
Although the information package does not show the combat method of the beetle army, the protagonist can guess that the opponent's offense and defense must be centered around beetles.
In other words, if the beetles cannot be eliminated or the beetles lose control, then even if all the enemy's accompanying infantry are killed, victory will not be achieved.
But how difficult is it to kill a beetle.
The bodies of beetles are countless times larger than ants. Their carapace is hard and powerful. Many beetles also have weapons - sharp jaws or thick horns, making them no easy opponents.
Even some species of ants that mainly hunt are often helpless when encountering metamorphosed beetles in defense.
But there are exceptions. There are also ants that are good at hunting beetles by attacking the soft abdomen of the beetles, but they are mainly small and medium-sized beetles.
If you are facing a beetle army formation with the "legacy" of big-headed ants accompanying the infantry, then any attempt to attack the beetle's weakness will be easily suppressed by the accompanying infantry.
The protagonist has been thinking about "Guan Gong vs. Qin Qiong" for a long time, and actually feels that this kind of beetle army is both offensive and defensive. With the current strength of the God Envoy King's army, it has to gain a numerical advantage and make great sacrifices to win.
Thinking of this, the protagonist couldn't help but feel lucky that the "legacy" of the big-headed ants were now so weak that they needed external protection, and they were willing to use beetle domestication technology as a bargaining chip to obtain the protection of the God Envoy King's legion.
This is really what the protagonist dreams of. As long as you give yourself some time, you can build an enhanced version of the beetle army with the characteristics of the God Envoy King.
Thinking of this, the protagonist couldn't help but wonder again. The "remnants" of the big-headed ants call themselves "survivors who arrived in another world without disappearing with the old nest."
Why did a race with such a powerful country and a huge castle escape here because there were only a few ants left?
What destroyed their former kingdom?
enemy? If it were an enemy, how powerful would it be to defeat the "legacy" with a huge army of beetles and allow them to escape in embarrassment?
You know, the protagonist made a rough estimate and found that there were thousands of beetles and hundreds of thousands of ant warriors in the beetle army parade in the square alone. With such a huge military force, coupled with the indestructible beetles, perhaps only one-third of the force is needed to sweep away all the races on both sides of the river.
How powerful can an enemy that can defeat such an army be, and what powerful "weapons" does it possess?
Then, will a natural disaster destroy the old nest of the "survivors"?
After all, no matter how powerful the ant kingdom is, it will still be extremely vulnerable to an earthquake, flash flood, or mudslide. In the 21st century, human technology is extremely advanced, but it is still unable to resist earthquakes and mudslides. Human bodies and buildings are so fragile in the face of these devastating forces. Not only is it impossible to resist, but natural forces like earthquakes cannot even be predicted by humans.
Therefore, even if the protagonist's beetle army looks very powerful, it is still defenseless against such a natural disaster.
Whether it is a foreign enemy or a natural disaster, in short, the "remnants" of big-headed ants from another world have come to the land on both sides of the river, and they have also brought opportunities to the protagonist.
The so-called other world, the protagonist believes, is just two lands far apart.
With the size of an ant, before the invention of epoch-making transportation and communication tools, even if a short-lived huge political power like the Mongol Empire in the human world appeared, the land it could rule would only be equivalent to the land area of a human county.
This also means that as long as the two ant races are hundreds of kilometers apart, they may never come into contact or know any news about each other for eternity. To the ants, these two places hundreds of kilometers apart are two worlds. They are as remote and strange as the difference between the Earth and Mars.
The protagonist couldn't help but become curious, how did the "legacy" of the big-headed ants cross such a long distance and come to both sides of this barbaric river?
The protagonist pauses watching the information packet to pose the question to the Queen.
The Queen said that the migration of their family happened during the "Queen's period" and that it was the gods of wind and water who brought them to this new world.
The gods of wind and water, the protagonist guesses based on this, that these big-headed ant "remnants" may have drifted here along the river. The river flows from west to east, which means that the old world of the big-headed ants' "remnants" is on the west side of this land.
Indeed, it is difficult for a group of ants to overcome many obstacles just by walking: terrain, climate, enemies, fierce insects, and diseases. But with the help of currents, even the simplest piece of driftwood can allow many ants to swim down the river until they are stranded on the shore.
This is probably how the "legacy" of the big-headed ants came here. The protagonist feels that he has found the answer.
As for the gods of wind and water, this is another brand new statement heard by the protagonist. Whether it was Big-headed Ants, Pavement Ants or Scythe Hunter Ants that I had come into contact with before, these races only knew one god, which was equivalent to a monotheism.
The "legacy" of the big-headed ants proposed that there are gods of wind and water. Are there other gods, such as the gods of the land? What about the spirits of the trees?
The protagonist communicated with the queen on this issue and found that it was indeed the case. In their world, the Big-headed Ant "relicts" believe in an animistic religion:
A tall tree has gods, but its image is a thin sheet. The gods of wind and water are hard plates, and there are many other gods with strange shapes.
The main gods believed in by each tribe are different, and they often use eye-catching landmarks near their main nests as gods. However, as long as they are similar gods, their images are surprisingly consistent.
Moreover, a very important piece of information caught the attention of the protagonist.
Although the old world of the Big-headed Ant "remnant" is a very complex area with polytheistic beliefs, there is also a highest god among them. He is considered to be the god of gods and does not belong to any tribe.
Most importantly, this image of God is very special:
According to the Queen's explanation, this highest god, the god of gods, has the image of a creature that is rare among all gods. Unlike other gods, they don't look like living creatures when they are described.
The Supreme God is believed to be an ant, but with disabilities - he or she is of ambiguous gender, missing a pair of mid-limbs, and has no antennae.
The protagonist imagined this image - doesn't it look like a mammal?
