The protagonist rides Tempest, surrounded by the First Legion, and returns to "Dongyang City".
Also returning were four insect trainers from the "legacy" of the big-headed ant, two red-footed green chafers and ten different types of beetle eggs.
The red-footed green chafer is a small to medium-sized beetle, with an adult body length of 18-26 mm, green elytra, purple-red belly, and a metallic luster. Antennae gills lamellar.
The reason why these insect trainers, beetles and insect eggs came to "Dongyang City" was based on a secret agreement.
After a multi-day tripartite meeting between "Stone Pillar City" and the queen of the ant queen's inheritance faction and the "legacy" of the big-headed ant, the three parties reached a series of treaties.
According to the provisions of the treaty, the three parties reached cooperation and maintained peace with each other.
There are also many specific contents in the three types of bilateral relationships between the three parties.
For example, the God Envoy King's Army and the Ant Queen's inheritance faction reached an agreement to jointly deal with the King's Conference faction in "Qingqiu City".
Based on the strength of the Divine Envoy King's legion, the protagonist has taken the initiative in this alliance. According to the secret agreement between the two parties, both parties are not allowed to take actions against the factions of the King's Conference now to avoid the other party discovering their alliance.
Only after the Divine Envoy King Corps agrees can the two sides take the next step. As for this timing, the protagonist believes that it will be after both the King's Council faction and the paving ant barbarians have been sufficiently weakened.
In return, the Angel King Army will continue to provide food to the barren "Stone Pillar City", help the ant queen's inheritance faction survive the cold winter, and expand the ant colony.
The secret agreement between the queen ant inheritance faction and the big-headed ant "legacy" is relatively simple, that is, they promise to maintain peace with each other and not invade each other.
What the protagonist values most is the secret agreement between the God Envoy King’s legions and the “legacy” of the big-headed ants.
In this bilateral secret agreement, the God Envoy King's Legion promised to protect the "legacy" of the big-headed ants. It is "protection" rather than "maintenance of peace", which means that the God Envoy King Legion needs to be responsible for the safety of the "remains" of the big-headed ants. The treaty stipulates that when the "remnants" of the Big-headed Ants face an irresistible military threat, the Divine Envoy King's Legion must come as soon as possible to support them.
In addition, the protagonist also promises to help the "legacy" of the big-headed ants return to their homeland.
After learning that the "legacy" of the big-headed ants came here from the upper reaches of the river with the help of the power of wind and water, the protagonist believes that if the "legacy" wants to go back, they can go west along the river bank. Although the journey will be difficult, there is still a chance to return to that "world" with highly developed civilization.
The protagonist is also very interested in this "world". If the conditions are right, he is also willing to travel to this "world" and escort the "legacy" of the big-headed ants back, which is obviously a good opportunity.
In return, the "legacy" of the big-headed ants promised in a secret agreement to unconditionally provide various technologies they have mastered to the Divine Envoy King's Legion.
The first technologies provided were those of beetle domestication and rearing.
Since the domestication and raising of beetles is complicated, the queen of the big-headed ant's "legacy" gave the protagonist four trainers along with some beetles and beetle eggs as gifts. These animal trainers have mastered complete beetle domestication techniques and can help the God Envoy King's army cultivate more relevant ant talents.
As for other fermentation, textile and other technologies, the protagonist plans to send Xiao Mi and other ants from the scientific research team to study abroad in the nest of the "relict" of the big-headed ants to master these technologies.
After returning to "Dongyang City", the protagonist quickly allocated a place and ant hands for the domestication of beetles.
A newly built mealworm farm was requisitioned to hatch the ten donated beetle eggs. A group of senior mealworm farmer ants were recruited to learn how to domesticate the beetles.
There is also a search team composed of elite veterans who will search for beetle eggs in the wild to expand the protagonist's beetle team.
The collected eggs will be placed in an incubation chamber filled with fermented wood chips according to the insect trainer's requirements.
Beetle eggs in the wild won't hatch until the next spring. But in an underground incubator heated by the heat of a fire, hatching can occur all year round.
When the temperature is right, it takes about two months for a beetle to go from egg to pupa, and can reproduce six generations a year.
The elytra of adult beetles that have just emerged from the pupa are white and soft, and after a few hours they turn dark and hardened. The newly emerged adults do not eat or move, and will continue to hibernate in the pupa chamber for more than ten days, and then emerge from the soil to start foraging and mating.
Mature male beetles have a strong desire to mate and will attempt to mate whenever they encounter a female adult. However, female insects are more resistant to mating, especially those that have already mated, and will try their best to escape from the male.
At this time, ants need to create a suitable mating environment for the beetles to increase the number of eggs laid as much as possible. Generally, a well-lit, safe and quiet nest room is needed so that the female has nowhere to escape. The male will use its hind legs and middle legs to cling to the bark of the tree, and its front legs will hug the female for mating. It would be better if some food is provided. The female will be busy eating and will often not pay attention to the male behind her. In this case, mating will go more smoothly. The mating process of adult beetles can last from a few minutes to tens of minutes, after which the female can lay eggs.
After the three secret agreements between the two parties were reached, the three parties of the God Envoy King's Legion, the Ant Queen's inheritance faction, and the Big-headed Ant "legacy" formed a loose alliance.
The protagonist has had human experience and is accustomed to alliances as a form of cooperation. The "legacy" of the big-headed ants come from a more advanced civilized area and have also seen alliances and betrayals.
Only the ant queen inheritance faction is a little confused about the meaning of "alliance". In their view, when facing another race, there are only two ways of getting along: conquest and brief coexistence before conquest.
The reason why we coexisted peacefully with the "legacy" of the big-headed ants before was mainly because the ant queen's inheritance faction was too weak. Once they become stronger, they are more willing to do what their ancestors did, starting from the "Stone Pillar City" and sweeping across the south bank of the river, becoming the sole overlord and annihilating those enemies who resist. Only when the territorial border reaches a barren area will it stop its expansion, reach a balance of power with the barbarian tribes outside the border, and maintain the border amidst constant intrusions and counterattacks.
But now, the more powerful God Envoy King army obviously wants to protect these alien races, which makes it difficult for the ant queen inheritance faction to understand. They raised objections to the protagonist, believing that protecting an alien race goes against the tradition of the big-headed ant clan.
But after the protagonist became noncommittal, the ant queen's inheritance faction obviously understood that they could not do anything about this strange envoy king and the alien race he protected.
Therefore, the ant queen inheritance faction could only breathe a sigh of relief and focus on keeping a low profile.
