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——I am the dividing line——
On the eastern border of the Pavilion Ant Barbarian Kingdom, at the foot of the towering mountains, is a sparse forest that was originally silent.
The woods are quiet in autumn. In this world, there are no birdsong or roars of large creatures. The cicadas that used to chatter in summer have also stopped. In the woods, there was only the sound of the breeze and the rustling of leaves.
However, if you listen carefully, you will find a noisy friction sound, which gradually grows from small to loud, and finally covers this small piece of land.
Let’s turn our sights lower, through the still dense canopy of trees, and dive beneath the shrubs and grasses to look beneath the dead branches and leaves.
Among the fallen leaves, a group of gray-white ants are moving. There were many of them, as many as ten thousand, crawling forward in an orderly manner.
In front of the team, there are scouts scattered in all directions, like branches extending out, constantly feeding back information from the front. In the center of the team is the old camp that protects the queen. Here are the strongest and most formic warriors.
These are black-headed ants, an ant with a relatively primitive organizational structure. During the long-distance reconnaissance in the north, the protagonist once observed these ants at close range and learned that although their tribe is large in size, it is basically composed of queen ants and worker ants, with few male ants.
These primitive ants have no commanders. All warriors act according to instinct and are responsible for themselves. The queen ant only gives instructions in the general direction, such as when to retreat and when to move. Most of the time, the queen lets her workers lead the colony to potential food-producing areas.
Black-headed stink ants are actually ants that live in warm areas in the south. They don't like cold climates. But the tribe of black-headed sour ants in front of us somehow took root in the north and adapted to the cold winter in the north after living for a long time.
In the three seasons of spring, summer and autumn every year, these black-headed sour ants will wander around and hunt, plundering all the food they encounter. But when winter is approaching, they will also choose a location and dig a temporary nest for overwintering. This nest is deep underground and has good thermal insulation effect.
In order to survive the winter, every late summer and autumn, black-headed ants will plunder food frantically and store the food for winter consumption. At this time, the black-headed sour ants, which seemed extremely hungry and greedy, even dared to take the initiative to attack the territory of the overlords on the north bank of the river, the pavement ant barbarians, just to plunder food or corpses.
The protagonist has witnessed such a battle. The black-headed stink ants rely on formic acid to continuously drive away the pavement ant warriors. The melee fighting ability of the pavement ants after forming a formation is far better than that of the black-headed stink ants. In the end, the black-headed stinky ants succeeded in plundering a large amount of food and enemy corpses at the cost of the lives of more than a hundred warriors, and then fled before the barbarian army of pavement ants could catch up.
This is the first time that the protagonist sees the powerful barbarian army of pavement ants defeated in the face of indigenous ants, and it also makes him realize that the ant colonies that can survive in this war-torn world have their own unique features.
Pavement ants and big-headed ants rely on their tight organization and large number of ant colonies, hunter ants rely on their strong individual combat effectiveness and the hilly terrain that is very suitable for them to perform, black-headed sour ants rely on formic acid, and Japanese black ants rely on it. Brown ants are good at swimming and fighting.
Now, when the war is raging on the north bank of the river, and the protagonist is unwilling to join the Angel King's army prematurely, these indigenous ants are the help that can be used.
If you observe carefully, you will find that these moving black-headed ants are moving forward in a nearly straight line.
This is unusual, because the usual way of marching of black-headed stink ants is for the scouts to spread out and search like branch branches, while the main force chooses a route that looks like there is food based on the intelligence fed back by the scouts. The marching route was constantly adjusted based on the latest intelligence, and the entire team was constantly changing directions, and even had to go back a lot.
But now, as if they had received some guidance, these black-headed ants were moving forward almost straight, only turning at a few key intersections.
If you mark their movement route, you will find that these black-headed sour ants have almost crossed the border from the weakest connection of the border sub-nest of the pavement ant barbarian tribe. They have penetrated deep into the hinterland of the pavement ant barbarian kingdom, and Along the flowing stream, without any obstruction, they rushed towards the lair of "Target D" where the fierce battle was going on.
The reason why the black-headed stink ants do this is not because of any treaty reached between the protagonist and their queen. In fact, the protagonist has no contact with these primitive tribes at all.
Although the flying knights have been following the protagonist's instructions to search for these primitive tribes on the north bank of the river, and have located the wintering camps of three black-headed sour ant tribes. However, the protagonist never intends to communicate with these ants who seem to have difficulty communicating.
He just used a simple trick to make thousands of black-headed ants from three tribes move in the direction he directed.
This method is very simple to say, that is, let the flying knight drop a small amount of food on the path of the black-headed ants. The black-headed ants, eager to collect food for the winter, will follow the guidance of the scouts who found the food, as the protagonist predicts. go ahead.
These three tribes of black-headed sour ants have placed their queens and some worker ants in overwintering camps, while a few queens who have stopped giving birth are leading the main force to attack everywhere in search of food.
The living environment of the black-headed ant tribe is relatively harsh. The rich areas are occupied by the barbarian pavement ants. The black-headed ants can only share the sparse forests in the east with indigenous ants of other races.
This forest is located on the north bank of the river, on the east side of the plain, at the foot of the mountains to the east. It is very narrow from east to west, only a few hundred meters wide, but very narrow from north to south, extending in a north-west direction.
In the woods at the foot of the mountain, the black-headed sour ants are considered the overlords, but they are neither a match for the well-organized pavement ants with numerous ant colonies in the west, nor are they willing to provoke the huge mountain ants on the east mountain.
In this forest, food is not abundant, so the black-headed ants sometimes have to take risks to rob other ants. Compared with the barren mountainous areas and the equally poor tribes in the woods, the only targets that the black-headed sour ants venture to attack are the pavement ant barbarians living on the plains.
But in the past few days, the three black-headed ant tribes in the southernmost part of the forest seemed to have suddenly had good luck.
