Looking at the corpse of the messenger, the protagonist stared coldly at the male ants in front of him, with murderous intentions.
These male ants, even though they have already been attacked, still dare to kill the messenger sent by the protagonist to report the news. This makes the protagonist feel humiliated.
A winner who has just won is suddenly slapped in the face. This gap will make the feeling of humiliation particularly strong.
What makes the protagonist even more angry is that although these male ants have been surrounded by groups, and the bodies of some young male ants are visibly trembling, the protagonist can still see the unruly and unwillingness in their eyes.
Yes, as the rulers of the kingdom, they have been proud for too long. They have never known what it feels like to fail, and they have never thought about what posture they should take as losers one day.
Perhaps, they still have naive illusions, thinking that the God Envoy King is also a male ant after all, and they will have to use them sooner or later. No king has ever been able to bypass the meeting of kings and rule an entire kingdom.
Perhaps, they think that heretics like the Divine Messenger King are like other male ants, they will die of old age within two years, and then everything will return to normal.
No matter what they think, at least now, the protagonist is in control.
The protagonist made a movement and touched the cobblestones with his tentacles. He was signaling the male ants to do the same. He had something to say.
The male ants also happened to have something to say, so the protagonist and the male ants entered the meeting mode just like they were holding an ordinary king meeting. If it weren't for the "loaded" guards around, nothing would be the same.
The tentacles touched the cobblestone ground. Just as the protagonist wanted to send a message, he received a bunch of noisy messages. Some male ants took the lead and accused the God Messenger King of being treasonous. Although ants do not have this word, it roughly means this. These male ants demanded that the Messenger King should immediately throw himself into the fire to apologize.
Throw yourself into the fire? Only then did the protagonist remember that the Big-headed Ant Kingdom still had this custom. This practice usually involves throwing some male ants or queens who have been selected as scapegoats into a fire and burning them to death when encountering a major famine or military defeat, so as to let God appease the anger, or to give other male ants a psychological comfort.
This practice is not common, and the protagonist has only heard from Xiao Mi that no ant has died from this kind of fire torture since he traveled through time. Even last year, when the weather was bad, the ants didn't seem to have any intention of burning one or two sacrifices. From this point of view, the Big-headed Ant Kingdom is much more benevolent than Yin Shang.
This time, some male ants actually proposed to burn the protagonist to death. Not to mention the circumstances of the situation and the degree of stupidity of the proposer, we can also see how much the male ants gnashed their teeth and hated the protagonist, wishing that he would die immediately.
Ants have the unique ability to know who is speaking from a group meeting without getting confused, so the protagonist quickly locks in several speakers. The protagonist's tentacles left the ground and communicated with Hua Mulan. Immediately, soldiers from the Imperial Guard team captured the male ants who clamored to throw the protagonist into the fire and took them away.
The meeting continued. This time, there were no male ants competing for the opportunity in a short period of time. Even the dullest male ants could see that those stupid young men just now had a bad end.
The protagonist did not speak for the time being, he was waiting.
Finally, a bold and senior male ant used his status and prestige to tentatively inquire about the fate of those male ants.
"They violated God's will and will be thrown into the fire to appease God's anger!" The protagonist's understatement made all the male ants feel cold in their hearts, and the bloody smell on the God Messenger King seemed to be stronger.
"I represent God, and my orders are God's will. You must execute them unconditionally. Do you agree?" the protagonist continued to speak.
Some male ants immediately expressed their opposition. Thousands of years of tradition have allowed them to place their hope in divine decrees on some illusory issues. They are still a secular society, and only the king's meeting can decide everything.
The male ants are not stupid. Their long-term worldly experience and the previous behavior of the God Envoy King abusing God's will make them feel that the protagonist is just using the name of God for his own selfish purposes.
They guessed correctly. But verbal resistance is futile after all
The protagonist gave another signal, and the guards immediately stepped forward and took the most powerful male ants that were clamoring. What awaited them was still the destination of the fire.
The male ants were finally afraid.
Seeing that the atmosphere has reached a level that satisfies him, the protagonist begins to speak again. He reiterates that he represents God and will be the only decision-maker in the future. He said that the King's Conference can still be retained, but it no longer has decision-making power and is only a consultative body. Male ants can still enjoy the original treatment and privileges.
This is the result of the protagonist's careful consideration before. He plans to first shock the male ants through thunderous means, and then use such gentle means to get them to agree to and accept his new power structure on the condition of retaining the male ants' privileges.
In this way, the transition of political power can be completed as smoothly and quickly as possible, and the protagonist can also identify some suitable candidates who are willing to be loyal to him from the temporarily surrendered male ants to rule those sub-nests that are beyond his reach.
Otherwise, with the protagonist's own team, even if all the commanders of the Divine Envoy King's army are transferred, there is no way to manage all the sub-nests.
Moreover, as long as the remaining male ant class can be temporarily appeased, the problem of the expeditionary force on the north bank of the river can be solved more appropriately. When the time comes, he can follow the same method and draw all the male ants in the expeditionary army into the newly established King's Council, and peacefully recruit the elite soldiers and generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
But the protagonist's idea is very rich, but the male ants' response is very skinny. The successive killings silenced the male ants. They no longer spoke easily or expressed their approval. This was their attitude. In fact, they were showing that they would never join in the rebellion of the God Messenger King.
The protagonist finally got tired of it. He finally figured out that these male ants would not agree with the envoy king who rose to the sky from the "countryside" nest at all, and they would definitely not agree with the highest authority other than the King's Conference.
The protagonist really wants to kill all these male ants. Anyway, hundreds of male ants have died in his hands. He has long been known as a butcher. At worst, he will take his time to deal with domestic problems in the future. The military power is in Hand, the protagonist thinks he has no opponent.
But he can't do that yet. The living male ants can still be used, but the dead ones can only be used as fertilizer.
What's more, the protagonist feels that the Northern Expedition Army has some uses for him, and he doesn't want to get into too much trouble with friends like the Public Security King.
So the protagonist instructs the security team to imprison these male ants in a remote nest room and be guarded by the guards.
Then the protagonist also rested. The day was too tiring. Now, the protagonist wants to enjoy the wonderful night as a conqueror.
