After the ant army invaded the hive, they did not encounter much resistance.
At this time, the smoke in the hive tree hole gradually disappeared, and the ants could bear it. However, the bees in the hive have basically fainted and are unable to organize a resistance, allowing the ants to easily invade.
A few bees hovering outside the cave tried to save the nest and launch a counterattack, but the ant army was well prepared, leaving no opportunity for these dazed aerial warriors to take advantage of.
After the ants all entered the hive, some loyal bees also landed and got in. However, fighting in the tree hole was conducive to the ant warriors, and these heroic bees were quickly killed.
The Angel King's Legion captured this hive with extremely low casualties and achieved great results.
For most of the night, the ants were busy moving the trophies from the hive back to Dongyang City.
First, bee pupae and bee eggs were collected. Some bee pupae and bee eggs were attacked by smoke and lost their vitality, and could only be used as food. But other pupae and eggs hiding in the inner layer of the hive are still alive. As long as these pupae and eggs hatch, the protagonist can own the bees.
As for domestication, it will be a matter later. With the experience of domesticating flies and beetles, bees are genetically close to ants and have similar behavioral patterns, so the difficulty should be lower.
Unfortunately, the protagonist failed to capture a living queen bee. The queen bee in this nest died in the smoke before she could leave the nest. These flying insects seem to be more intolerable to poisonous smoke than ants.
But the protagonist doesn't have to worry, he can hatch and raise a queen by himself. The eggs of ordinary worker bees and queen bees are the same. Most of the young bees eat royal jelly for three days after hatching and then switch to honey and pollen, and eventually grow into worker bees. However, if a larvae is arranged to live in the royal turret, it will have royal jelly for life. If you eat it, you will become a queen bee.
This is also very similar to ants. Whether a female ant eats high-end food and whether it is suppressed by queen hormone determines whether a female ant will develop into a queen, a large worker ant, or a worker ant.
The protagonist seized a lot of royal jelly this time, enough to cultivate several queen bees.
The larger haul was honey and beeswax, but these trophies were difficult to transport, so the ants could only flow slowly, leaving an army stationed in the tree hole to prevent the trophies from being stolen by other insects.
For a long time to come, the ants had to use this tree hole as a mine, cutting off the honeycombs with honey bit by bit and sending them back to "Dongyang City" to separate the honey and wax.
As for the thousands of bee corpses, the ants have not spared them. Whether they are in the nest or on the ground, as well as those bees that were lucky enough to survive and were treated, they can be used as food or mealworm feed.
The bee meat harvested by the ants this time is enough to feed the entire "Dongyang City" for half a year.
In "Dongyang City", the protagonist arranged for the subsequent development of the bamboo cooking hive and asked him to dig a new spacious ant nest next to the ant nest as a breeding ground for domesticated bees.
After instructing Secretary II and other members of the scientific research team to use beeswax and the information package provided by the protagonist to experiment with lost wax casting of copper as soon as possible, he hurried back to the main nest "Qingqiu City".
——I am the dividing line——
The protagonist rushed back because he received important information.
According to the report of Centipede Python's Flying Knights, when they were scouting the territory of the Western Alliance, they discovered that the Western Alliance was at war with the troops of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction.
This is an unprecedented thing. Ants that originally belonged to the Big-headed Ant Kingdom broke out in a civil war without the participation of the protagonist. This is rare in the past. The actions of the protagonist have obviously flapped the wings of butterflies.
Although I don’t know why Lao Wang and the others are at odds with the Western Alliance, which has been harassing the Angel King’s legion, the protagonist will not let go of this opportunity. He quickly mobilizes ten legions to officially attack the Western Alliance.
Of course, the other reason is that the protagonist does not want the Queen Ant inheritance faction to control the territory of the Western Alliance and pose a threat to the main nest.
The main force of the Western Alliance was attracted by the army of the ant queen's inheritance faction. The sub-nest facing the main nest was empty of troops. In front of the huge and elite army of the God Envoy King, it quickly retreated steadily. It was only a matter of time before it was destroyed.
When the Angel King's army attacked some sub-nests belonging to the Western Alliance, they sometimes encountered the army of the Queen Ant Heritage Faction. The warriors on both sides did not seem to regard each other as temporary allies, and several small-scale conflicts occurred.
The warriors of the God Envoy King, who were armed to the teeth, taught the opponent a lesson, killed and captured a group of the opponent's ants, and then took advantage of the situation to occupy the target nest.
The protagonist interrogates the captured big-headed ant, and quickly learns the information package conveyed by the ant queen's inheritance faction to their ants - obviously, not only the protagonist regards the other party as a threat to the future, but the ant queen's inheritance faction now also regards the envoy king and his The minions are heretics like the Great King's Council.
After acquiring a large amount of territory and ant colonies, the senior leaders of the ant queen's inheritance faction obviously no longer "compromised", but gradually revealed their true thoughts.
This incident strengthened the protagonist's determination to eliminate the ant queen's inheritance faction. Originally, the two forces could not coexist on the south bank of the river.
The ten legions of the God Envoy King, who have been instructed by the protagonist, are attacking everywhere. Although they have not directly broken up with the ant queen's inheritance faction, they have launched a large-scale attack on those sub-nests that are still in a neutral state. The protagonist's calculation is that even if there are not enough male ants to control these sub-nests for the time being, they cannot tolerate these sub-nests being controlled by the queen's inheritance faction.
Of course, further friction with the Queen Ant Heritage Faction was unavoidable during this period, but the Lao Lao Wang obviously issued some new orders, and most of the time the Queen Ant Heritage Faction troops retreated.
However, the ant queen's inheritance faction had expanded very quickly before, and while the protagonist was still struggling with the old-fashioned king, it had already controlled the southwest and west of the old territory of the big-headed ant kingdom.
Now he took advantage of the opportunity to attack the Western Alliance and entered the central part of the kingdom, and tried to march along the river. Fortunately, the protagonist had already made arrangements and controlled the traffic arteries, so that the other party could not get involved in the most prosperous river bank area.
The current situation is that the queen ant inheritance faction controls about one-third of the old territory of the Big-headed Ant Kingdom in the west of the south bank of the river. The eastern territory controlled by the Divine Envoy King's Legion is roughly one-third, and the other third is a neutral sub-nest.
The ant queen inheritance faction obviously doesn't want or dare not break up, but the leaders of both sides know that war is inevitable.
In the next period of time, both forces were trying to compete for control of the neutral sub-nest, and the situation was more favorable to the God Envoy King's army. Previously, the protagonist ordered to occupy several sub-nests located in traffic thoroughfares, cutting off the main roads leading to the river bank and the eastern part of the kingdom from the queen ant inheritance faction. The neutral sub-nest gods in these places allowed the king's army to slowly digest it without any worries.
But unlike the Queen Ant Heritage Faction, which can concentrate on dealing with one opponent, the protagonist must also be alert to the movements on the north bank of the river!
