Winter is the season of death and chilling.
This winter, the protagonist has seen too many deaths and separations, first his first mount - Xiao Qing, and then the protagonist's rare person who can communicate with a human mentality - Xiao Mi.
Maybe there will be more deaths to come...
Fortunately, life can always continue to some extent.
After Xiao Qing, the protagonist has a new mount - Xiao Qing II. Although it is almost the same as Xiao Qing in appearance, they are both silky green flies with huge red compound eyes and bronze carapace. But the two are not genetically related.
Xiaoqing also left behind his own offspring. It had mated with a female fly, and the fly eggs produced were kept separately to pass on its genes and be used to expand the team of flying knights that the protagonist plans to continue to expand.
The protagonist once expected that one day the mounts of his Flying Knight Legion would all be majestic green flies. Unlike now, there are all kinds of flies and fruit flies, which are not uniform in appearance, and also have differences in load and speed.
And Xiao Mi also left behind his own offspring. Although due to the constraints of the big-headed ant kingdom and the Angel King's army, which are not liked by the protagonist but are still powerful conservative forces, it is impossible for Xiao Mi to mate with a male ant and lay fertilized eggs. .
However, an unfertilized egg that can hatch into a male ant is enough to continue her genes and her life.
It is ironic to say that the male ants are the ruling class of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom and important members of the Angel King's legion. The hierarchical system they stubbornly adhere to makes non-queen female ants like Xiaomi infertile, or can only Give birth to unfertilized eggs. But male ants are all hatched from unfertilized eggs.
So what the male ants defend is, in a sense, the birthright of the worker ants they rule. How ironic this is.
As for the unfertilized egg that Xiao Mi gave birth to, as a male ant, his future under the command of the protagonist will be brighter than that of his mother, a big worker ant.
The protagonist instructs the worker ants to take the egg to the male ant's special incubation room and mark it well so as not to mix it with other male ant eggs.
He has already thought about it. After this male ant emerges from the pupa and reaches adulthood, he will be given the title of "Xiao Mi II". As the second generation of Xiao Mi's family, he will continue to multiply under his command forever. This is a memorial to Xiao Mi, a big worker ant who was smart but was born at the wrong time.
The protagonist is worried that the eggs of Xiaomi II will be confused with the eggs of other male ants, but this worry is unfounded. Winter is not a breeding season. The queen ants in "Dongyangcheng" have stopped laying eggs, and their abdomens have shrunk to normal size. In the entire male ant incubation room, there was only one solitary egg, Xiao Mi II.
——I am the dividing line——
This period of time is also the most free time for the queen ant.
Traditionally, when queen ants begin to lay eggs in spring, summer and autumn, they rarely leave their chambers due to their inconvenience in movement.
Only those queen ants who are ordered to move to other sub-nests will control their endocrine system, stop laying eggs, let their abdomen shrink to an appropriate level, and then move farther away with the assistance of worker ants.
Throughout the winter, the queen ants can move freely without the burden of a bloated abdomen, and the male ants turn a blind eye to the queen's behavior.
Therefore, winter is the most free season for the queen ant.
They will curiously shuttle around the nest, followed by only a few worker ants who serve them.
"Dongyang City" is changing rapidly. Compared with a year ago, there are more beetle stables, some workshops, and the bedrooms of the protagonist and male ants. Compared with two years ago, there are also more breeding farms and fly ants. Stables etc.
For queen ants who stay home most of the season, there are always unfamiliar places in this familiar nest.
These queen ants shuttle around the nest, exploring unfamiliar and interesting places. They are the most lively sight in the dead of winter.
The protagonist did not interfere with the behavior of these queen ants, but Rambo Fei was very busy during this period.
He is performing a secret mission assigned by the protagonist.
The previous incident with Lao Wang made the protagonist aware of some secrets of the ant queen's inheritance faction, and he has been wary of whether these forces are also hidden under his command.
In the past, the protagonist's time in "East Yang City" was relatively short, and he had no time to explore the affairs of the ant queen's inheritance faction. And because the ant queen's inheritance faction is secretive and powerful in "Qingqiu City", the protagonist does not dare to let others investigate easily.
This time, the protagonist stayed in "Dongyang City" throughout the winter, and he finally had the opportunity to carry out his earlier plan.
This time, he personally took charge of the plan, and Lamborghini was responsible for its implementation. Only one team of ants is responsible for the specific execution. The ants in this team are all pavement ants and cannot be related to any faction of the big-headed ants.
According to the instructions of the protagonist, the pavement ant team is divided into two parts.
Some of them were sent out to track the queen ants separately to learn where they went every day and which ants they interacted with. In particular, which males these queens communicate with.
As the absolute main force of the Divine Envoy King's legion, most of the soldiers are big-headed ants, and the commander is also a big-headed ant. The most intolerable thing for the protagonist is that there are supporters or participants of other forces lurking in the army.
In the second part, after the queen ant leaves the palace, she waits for an opportunity to enter the palace to explore and look for any evidence.
Although the ants have no written materials, most of the information is retained in the brain, and there is almost no physical evidence.
But the protagonist believes that if there are some secret factions among the ant queens, then there must be some abnormalities in their dormitories that are rarely visited by outsiders.
Such as secret passages and the like. The old king's escape from "Qingqiu City" was through a secret passage dug in his private palace. Before that, he had also contacted many ant queens of the ant queen inheritance faction through secret passages.
However, although the pavement ants are more reliable and cannot be related to the queen ant inheritance faction among the big-headed ants, their faces are different from the big-headed ants after all. Although they have the same smell, it is inevitable that there will be some inconvenience.
For example, when encountering some male ants, these male ants often bully and make things difficult for the pavement ants. With their eyesight and wisdom, they know very well that these ants with the same smell have the bodies of their own enemies.
These pavement ant workers, who are responsible for tracking the queen, also have a strong sense of hierarchy. They dare not resist at all, so they often lose track of their targets.
Finally, after Rambo Fei reported that two pavement ant workers were killed by several big-headed ant kings, the protagonist became furious!
At the call of the protagonist, a general meeting of male ants in "Dongyang City" was immediately held, and the protagonist's anger ignited the entire meeting!
