Based on last year's harvest and this year's feeding and sowing situation, the protagonist plans to start exploding ant colonies in every ant nest after the beginning of spring.
As long as the weather this year is not too bad, breeding farms and farmland will begin to appear in the most remote sub-hives, and the exchange of materials within the territory will become more active than ever before. The current territory and output of the Divine Envoy King's legion are enough to support about one million ant colonies.
Of course, in order to hoard enough food to deal with unexpected situations, the protagonist cannot suddenly explode the ant colony to one million.
After the protagonist unified the south bank of the river last year, in order to strengthen control over various places, he made great efforts to rectify the ant road transportation network between various places and strengthen the logistics capabilities between various places.
Special teams have been formed in all nests. On the one hand, they maintain the smooth flow of ant passages on weekdays, update the pheromones on the ant passages in a timely manner, and also open up some new and faster ant passages.
On the other hand, the dedicated transportation teams of each deputy nest are responsible for the transportation of materials within the nest area, which improves transportation efficiency.
Now, if the supplies from the most remote sub-nest are to be transported to the main nest [Qingqiu City], there is no need to organize a special team and then carry the supplies for a long journey, replenishing food and water in other nests along the way, which can take several days or even It took several weeks of round trips to get the supplies delivered.
The full-time transportation team only needs to transport the materials to the adjacent sub-nest, and the transportation team of the adjacent sub-nest will take over the materials and relay the transportation until the materials arrive at the destination.
In this way, all transport team members of the nest can return to their own nest within two days at the fastest, which not only greatly improves the transportation efficiency, but also reduces the consumption on the road, and is safer.
The transportation team organization of each sub-nest is not fixed. Nests located in traffic thoroughfares like [Sitong City] have a lot of transportation tasks, so the number of transportation teams is large, as many as five hundred. And [Hunting Ground City] is not safe because there are too many fierce insects in the surrounding area, so the transport team has to prepare a lot of garrison soldiers as guards every time.
Now, thanks to the new transportation system, in the main nest [Qingqiu City] or [Dongyang City] or [Linshui City], or even in any sub-nest under the control of the Divine Envoy King's Legion, you can see people coming from Specialties from other nests.
For example, dried banyan tree fruits that cannot be consumed in [Linshui City] are sent to other places in large quantities. This sweet fruit rich in sugar is regarded as a luxury product second only to honeydew. The abundant honeydew in [Southern City] also supplements some nests that are not suitable for grazing aphids, ensuring that all male ants can receive sufficient supply. In addition, pottery and metal tools from [Dongyang City], copper ore that can be used for decoration from [Malachite City], and salt from [New Yancheng] are all transported to various places along with the territory's original and strengthened transportation network.
The prosperity of logistics has made each nest abundant in materials and has a wide variety of materials, providing guarantee for the protagonist to explode the ant colony.
——I am the dividing line——
The first batch of Bee Flying Knights who went to the north bank of the river for reconnaissance finally returned to [Linshui City] after more than three days of long reconnaissance.
The protagonist quickly checked the information:
The dense forest area to the east on the north bank of the river next to [Linshui City] was originally occupied by scattered tribes of Japanese black brown ants and black-headed sour ants, but now it has become dead silence.
Even after the beginning of spring, you can't see a large number of indigenous ants busy looking for food. There are only a few indigenous ants still wandering on the ground, and the mysterious ants have not appeared in this area.
The protagonist determines that mysterious ants may have swept through this area in winter. Only a few lucky indigenous Japanese black brown ant tribes and black-headed sour ant tribes' nests were not discovered and thus escaped.
However, the mysterious ants do not seem to have settled in this area for unknown reasons. It's possible that they, like pavement ants, don't like the dark environment in the forest, but this is just a guess.
The flying knights ventured north and entered the edge of the original northern territory of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom, which was already occupied by mysterious ants.
Here, they once again saw large groups of mysterious ants, with mostly large mysterious ants and only a small number of small mysterious ants.
The mysterious ants were marching in a column, heading south, and the direction they were heading was obviously the direction of the main nest of the Pavement Ant Barbarian Kingdom.
It seems that after being repulsed from the main nest of the pavement ant barbarian kingdom last year, the mysterious ants are once again trying to invade the core area of the pavement ants.
While investigating the mysterious ants, the Flying Knights also had an accident and suffered heavy losses. That night, the marching team of mysterious ants captured a sub-nest of pavement ants. After evacuating a large number of corpses and ant eggs, the main force of mysterious ants stationed themselves in this sub-nest.
Since it was getting late, the flying knights planned to return the next day, so they gathered with their mounts on the high hollow of a tree not far from the mysterious ant's residence. The environment here is similar to that of a wild beehive, and it is also leeward. The bees like this environment very much and huddle together to stay warm throughout the night.
The flying knights also gathered together to rest. According to general experience, this place is far away from the mysterious ant station, and there are no ants that come out at night, so it should be safe.
But in the second half of the night, a large number of mysterious ants suddenly came in, causing the flying knights to wake up and panic. These big worker ant flying knights were not good at fighting, and they just ran away, unable to resist. What's more, the combat power of those big mysterious ants is no match for even the most elite warriors of the God Envoy King in a one-on-one fight.
Due to the rush and the enemy's surprise attack, many flying knights could not find their mounts and died miserably at the enemy's throat. There were fifty flying knights in the last group, but only half of them escaped. They were more alert and not obsessed with finding their mounts. They just jumped on a bee and flew away. Some didn't even climb into the saddle and ran away holding the bee's legs.
After midnight, the remaining flying knights finally gathered together and ventured back to the tree hole. All they saw was a pile of dead bees. The flying knights' bodies were no longer visible. They had obviously been transported away.
The next day, the flying knights hurriedly ended the reconnaissance operation and returned to [Linshui City].
The protagonist was very sad about the heavy losses in this reconnaissance operation, so he had to start to supplement the missing personnel of the Flying Knight.
The incident of mysterious ants fighting at night also alerted the protagonist. This is the first time she discovered that there is an ant race that has night fighting capabilities in addition to her own. And how did the enemy discover the temporary station of the Flying Knight, which was originally in a safe position? This is also a mystery.
There is no clue from the information package provided by the flying knights, but the protagonist has raised the threat of the mysterious ants to one level. This is definitely the most difficult enemy the protagonist has encountered since coming to this world.
