The Flying Knights soon discovered that in the cold environment of late autumn, among the invading army of mysterious ants, the proportion of large mysterious ants was rapidly decreasing day by day, while the proportion of newly emerged small mysterious ants was rapidly increasing.
In sharp contrast to the stiff movements of the big mysterious ants in the cold environment, these small mysterious ants move quickly and seem not to be affected by the cooling brought by waves of cold air.
In this regard, it is also very similar to pavement ants.
Apparently, lower temperatures were the direct cause of the rapid change in the ratio of the two types of mysterious ants.
Although due to climate reasons, the Big Worker Ant Flying Knight no longer goes to the far away territories of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom and the Big-headed Ant Kingdom's Northern Expeditionary Army for reconnaissance, but instead closely monitors the movements of the mysterious ants not far north of [Linshui City].
However, according to past intelligence, at this time in late autumn, both big-headed ants, hunter ants, Japanese black ants, and black-headed ants have significantly reduced their activities. Even if they go out, they become sluggish and almost unable to move. It can only move in a small area near the nest entrance.
Only the pavement ants don't care, they can be active until the first snowfall. After that, as long as the weather is sunny and there is sunlight to supplement heat, they can still maintain their basic ability to move in the wild.
The protagonist previously thought that this was the racial ability of the pavement ants in this world. He had never seen ants that could move in winter in the human world.
But small-scale individuals among the mysterious ants also show this trait, which really surprises the protagonist.
The origin of the mysterious ant is already an unsolved mystery, and now several new mysteries have emerged surrounding this ant.
What is the relationship between these little mysterious ants and the big mysterious ants?
Now it seems that there is no doubt that the two are the same kind. They can act together without any grudges. It is not like the estranged alliance between allies or relatives, but more like the closeness of ants in the same nest.
At first, the protagonist thought that in addition to "eating ant meat", the mysterious ants also behaved like slaves. These small mysterious ants were slaves of the larger mysterious ants.
But after carefully observing the appearance of the two, the protagonist sees that the body structures of the two mysterious ants are different but have a lot of similar characteristics.
Judging from their behavior, there are no signs of exploitation or exploitation between the two.
Therefore, the protagonist is inclined to believe that the relationship between these two mysterious ants of different sizes may be similar to the relationship between the soldier ants and worker ants in Big-headed Ants, and they are specialized ants of the same species.
The soldier ants and worker ants of Big-headed ants also look quite different in appearance. One has a huge head and powerful jaws, while the other is small and exquisite. However, the physiological structure of the torso of the two is almost identical.
Although the physiological differences between big mysterious ants and small mysterious ants are more significant than the differences between big-headed soldier ants and worker ants, there are many strange things in the world. Maybe there are such different ant races? This is the most reasonable explanation the protagonist can think of at the moment.
Mysterious Ants Why were the big mysterious ants sent out before, instead of the small mysterious ants?
Maybe it's because the big mysterious ant is obviously more powerful in combat.
Just like the Angel King's army is full of big-headed soldier ants but no worker ants, perhaps this kind of military-supremacist mysterious ant has evolved to the point where it has become a professional soldier, with the big mysterious ant as the absolute main force of the army without the need for Mobilize little mystery ants in your daily routine.
But the protagonist also has to admit that there are obvious loopholes and contradictions in his various explanations.
The reason why the worker ants of the big-headed ant species are divided into soldier ants and worker ants is because the soldier ants are better at fighting, while the worker ants are better at construction, foraging, taking care of the queen, etc. The two can cooperate with each other to achieve the optimal allocation of resources. .
And the mysterious ants feed on the flesh and blood of other ants, so the war is about foraging. Since the big mystery ants can perform both fighting and foraging tasks at the same time, why do they need small mystery ants in an unnecessary way?
Even though some of the little mystery ants are needed for tasks such as taking care of the queen, they don't need to be in large numbers. But judging from the current scale of the emergence of small mysterious ants, their number is in the tens of thousands, which is no less than the total number of large mysterious ants.
Why do mysterious ants keep so many of their own kind that don't usually participate in fighting or foraging? This is a huge waste of resources, especially if the mysterious ants are really "anteaters", and food is relatively difficult to obtain.
Looking at it now, the only advantage of these small mysterious ants is that they can adapt to low temperatures, but their combat performance is not good. Compared with the overwhelming performance of the big mysterious ants against the indigenous Japanese black brown ants and black-headed sour ants, these The little mysterious ants don't take much advantage, and they win more often by quantity.
In terms of organization, these little mysterious ants are not even as good as the pavement ant barbarian army.
Of course, the big mysterious ant also has little organization and is not good at fighting in formations. But just its size, strength and jaws are enough to make every big mysterious ant a murderous god.
Therefore, the shortcoming of organization has little impact on the big mysterious ants, but it has a significant impact on the small mysterious ants.
There are so many mysteries surrounding the mysterious ant that the protagonist has no time to figure them out one by one.
But one thing is obvious. Since there are small mysterious ants among the mysterious ants that can fight in low temperature environments, winter is no longer a limitation that prevents the mysterious ants from continuing to attack.
On the contrary, the indigenous Japanese black ants and black-headed ants will face a more difficult winter. Not only will they be cold and lack food, they will also continue to be attacked.
In the past, many indigenous ant tribes were able to escape after being defeated. These two types of ants are not the kind of race that fights for every inch of land. Their fighting methods are more flexible and they are accustomed to a wandering lifestyle.
But in winter, these indigenous tribes will have nowhere to escape and can only fight to the death in their winter dens.
For the Pavement Ant Barbarians, they have also lost their home field advantage in winter. It seems difficult to use winter to regain lost ground from these mysterious ants.
As for the Legion of the God Envoy King on the other side of the river, this mysterious enemy that can move in winter like pavement ants has almost extended its tentacles to the bank of the river. Will they also cross the frozen river in winter and attack [Linshui City]?
At this moment, the Divine Envoy King Corps realized that they had to face the attack of the mysterious ants head-on, instead of observing the battle on the other side as a bystander under the protection of the river.
Because of this, the protagonist quickly unified the thoughts of his superiors and led a large number of main troops into [Dongyang City] to prepare for any eventuality!
